Member in minneapolis minnesota as they began their conversation about eliminating Single Family homes that said something that resonated with me that there are a ton of places that it makes sense not to add density. There are rural communities. We have farmland we need to protect. But to expect San Francisco california, to be that place it just doesnt make any sense. And so while conversations will continue to happen at the state, i think the reallocation process going on now is fascinating. Its fascinating what happened in Southern California when you have bedroom communities having allocations going from 15 to 1500 over the next cycle. What that means for people who havent done their fair share, because this is not a San Francisco problem. This is a bay area problem, a california problem, frankly its a problem we have in our country. I know some of you are excited to see the housing was asked during the debate last time for the first time something we need to talk about. We are excited this is progress. And we will absolutely be here trying to emphasize the urgency with it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I know some of you a couple of you i have seen 2015 through 2017, i was here frequently with a bunch of artists. We were trying desperately to get the commission to acknowledge that there was almost a complete wipeout of artists from the mission. And our governments were being illegally occupied by office space. And they still are. We repeatedly reported them to enforcement. And nobody was able to do anything to stop the illegal displacement and the replacement of many blewcollar businesses and Artist Spaces with offices in the mission in turn and a result of triggering mass displacement of families who have been here for generations. And San Francisco is a city of communities as we all know. I hope you all live here. We have to. Those of us who live here live here because of our communities and because of our local businesses. And offices filled with people who are transient and single and not intending to make homes here in terms of displacing the people who are here to make a life here seems like a bad use of resources. And if anybody has looked on craigs list or any of the listing services, there are plenty of available marketrate housing in this city. Theres a lot. If you drive through, youll see a lot of for rent for lease, for sales, and nobody i know can afford them. My husband is a professor at San Francisco state. They cant hire people, because they cant afford to live here. The students are living 25, 28yearold students who come back to school are living six to an apartment and they are living in their cars. My new studio space, which i was able to create one few new Studio Spaces near a transit hub is going to be next to the site of People Living in their cars area. You cant just stick pdr and Blue Collar Work over in areas of the city that are barrel served by transit. I dont have a car. You guys dont want everybody to have a car. We need to start keeping moving people back into the mission into soma who can afford to live there. You have to start moving these blue collar businesses and small local businesses and artist group studios. Thats what makes communities right . And we cant say let people from the outside say build taller whiteout communities of small longstanding neighborhood communities that are served by transit. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. Im with the council of Community Housing organizations. Back when mta and planned bay area were originally looking at Priority Development areas they also looked at what they called communities of concern. And they like to remind me it took us two years for those agencies to actually create a map that overlaid the two together. They were very resis tent to doing that. And lo and behold what happened was the Priority Development areas and the neighborhoods of communities of color that were facing displacement were exactly the same. And so as you look at these maps, i would ask you to ask your staff to also look at the maps of where evictions are happening, where displacement is happening, where people of color are living. So one of the things that i see in the map that is provided, the draft revised pda september 2019, is that it covers most of the city. It doesnt cover the marina. It doesnt cover Dianne Feinsteins house in pacific heights. It doesnt cover Willie Browns house in the cliff house area. Seacrest. It doesnt cover the house in parkside. Doesnt cover parnasas heights or Diamond Heights but it covers a bunch of other areas. It leaves vernal heights off. So who is this impacting . You just came from an equity discussion. So i think its very important for you to analyze how these two things Work Together how does sb50 and how do these pdas Work Together and how do they Work Together if there is a planning process for these neighborhoods that sb50 or these pdas are going to be affecting or whether the entire planning process for those areas are signals, because that is i think what we are talking about unless you the Planning Commission and the planning staff and the board of supervisors decide that the way that we move forward is through a planning process, be it for the richmond or the sunset or other districts that are seeing the expansions of these pdas. The last thing i want to say is its really cool theres now an analysis of Priority Production areas. Those of you, and i believe director ram was around for the eastern neighborhoods they were very explicit in creating those plans that there would be areas that were pdr, protection areas and there were areas that were going to be the mixed use areas, a lot of conversation as to how successful that was. Those pdr areas were supposed to be production areas and should be considered here as well. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello. Good afternoon, commissioners. And welcome to the public realm discussions commissioner diamond. I hope that your name will be indicative of the quality of your work and your contribution to the public realm here. [laughter] your background ive read your resume, mit, harvard and stanford so i hired quite a few people myself, mit people who were planning people as your background indicates. So best of luck to you. And i hope you still have a head of hair. I started with a head of hair 30 years ago when i started coming here. [laughter] but at any rate im here to speak about the issue in front of you these pdr issues. I guess there are three or four important points that need to be made. Number one, i dont think you should feel that it might trickle down from sacramento are going to compel you to not do good planning. You get a nickel or dime for infrastructure needs. If you want to work with sacramento, our senator up there Assembly People should be sending us hundreds of millions of dollars for Affordable Housing. Every time, unlike the gentleman who spoke a minute ago, any time you commit to allowing land to be used for market rate housing, you are allowing our city it might be too idealistic to say we should be doing 100 percent Affordable Housing. We should not have brought in tens of thousands of new jobs without having a jobs housing ratio indicator but that policy was led by giving away all kinds of tax breaks to socalled startups amongst them the white houses favorite, twitter right here on market street. Weve had people watch you on channel 26 doing calculations about how many tens of millions or even hundred millions of dollars was given away to those folks who brought in the jobs we could not aforward to squeeze into the sardine can of jobs where we have more than 700,000 job. Why do we have a housing crisis . There are a lot of issues here. Why do we let sacramento tell us how to run our city . We dont. Its important you send that message. I know your planning director will soon be moving onto other fields. And i wish you good luck. Thank you for quite a few years of service. I didnt think anybody would break the record but you did in terms of years of service. But please consider what happens to people who call themselves its not their backyard. Its not their backyard. They use their own possessive adjective. Other people live there and there was a quality of life. That quality of life and in a testy tess necessity to serve. The western side of the city should not be raped in order to somehow or other accommodate sort of an ideology that says those folks arent doing their fair share. Ive been involved for years in the eastern neighborhood. Supervisor peskin is slugging it out. It was important to have the kind of balance we have over there. And as a result the idea of Housing Options is very important for one particular piece of the demographic picture i want to speak to consider thats children. Next year we are going to get another census and see what is the population of children in this city. What is the quality of life for children in this city . If you destroy the housing in order to pack in more people in the sardine of our Housing Stock if you are going to pack them in and have an opportunity to push out families as the Mission District got destroyed please consider that you dont want that to happen would you . Please consider the effect on children. Thank you. Would you please, on the western part of the city is one part of the city i want to speak for. Im sorry, i didnt wear my hearing aid. Im sorry. Thank you very much. Take care. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon commissioners. Im with neighborhood counsel and San Francisco coalition. On top of Everything Else my colleagues who are pushing for equity and what has already happened in some of the gentrification areas some of the areas that have been subject to extreme gentrification what i would like to add is how you know, this is my question to the planning and of course our lawmakers and commissioners, how are we going to actually implement these pdas without having any plans for transit . Particularly when i see areas like the sunset and the western part of the city that have been earmarked the question i cant escape this question how are we going to actually service the people that are going to be living in these additional homes . Our Transit System is broken. And unless we are going to put transit first, we should not think about having more areas earmarked for further densification. And the thing that is so special about the sunset and the richmond the west side in general is thats where the families live. Thats where the children the families with children thats where the young people, thats going to be the next generation of San Francisco. So how could we be so unfair to these people, to these families, to these children, by not thinking about them and how they are going to be getting around. They need schools. They need hospitals. Its not just a matter of earmarking certain parts of the city and say oh, this is going to be our new pda. So thats what im hoping that you would consider and the Planning Department, you know should actually look into. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im chris. Local native san franciscan. And i wasnt going to talk on this, but im a surfer a kite border a city worker. And ill tell you what if people who surfed at ocean beach saw the plan, i would have this room filled. You wouldnt even be able to fit people in this hallway. Im a kite border. And a guy told me a story, his name is gather he used to be the warden and he said the governor duke said Northern California is not doing their part. And you know what . He was like too bad. They wanted to build a big concrete structure so the tourists could come there and check it out. They fought it tooth and nail. It never happened. The guy bought Martins Beach down there it didnt happen. They threw him out. Theres a lot of people that want to do a lot of things but we say no. Thats the way the west side of the city says no. So you can say and do whatever you want but the west side of the city says no. Thanks. Thank you next speaker please hello again commissioners. Carolyn kennedy from Dolores Heights improvement club. I dont think i can top chris comments. Surfer and kite border. Thank you chris. But i am very impressed by the conversation thats been happening all day today. I think this commission has an openness to listen and to do things that are in the best interest of our city, not easy. Its not easy to figure out what the future of our city will look like and how we will get there. And i would say to you that in addition to identifying the priorities i think we also have to think about the how we get there. I was fortunate enough to be at a Community Meeting last night in district 4 in sunset. And among the other presenters, the supervisor stood up and talked about district 4s Community Planning process. And i think its something this commission should really look at. Youve probably had things, i understand the planning is putting together some resources to help with this. But how we make change happen in this city, how we help it to happen is so important to ensuring that this is a place that Everyone Wants to live and its a place where we can live, where we have equity, where we have the opportunity, where we have the housing and the resources that are needed for citizens of our city today and in the future. I grew up in the richmond district. Richmond district and sunset have a vast mix of residents, many of whom are going to be leaving their homes. What should that look like . How do we get there . I would advocate the communitybased planning gives us a good chance to really ensure weve heard the voices of all and we are coming up with a plan that best meets the needs of everyone. So thank you very much for hearing us today. Thank you ms. Kennedy. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Bruce bowen from Dolores Heights. I apologize for taking up the time and speaking out without having been at this presentation and having heard everything so ill make it very brief. This may have been brought up before but i was otherwise engaged within city hall. My concern about the process leading to the development of pdas and how this will be implemented is twofold. One is will the development of pdas we place the need for communitybased planning process, which is something that was being addressed and i hope this came up earlier. And also the interaction with the development and implementation the use of pdas, interaction with sb50. Will pdas be used to help manage the effect of sb50 were it to pass . Or will pdas be used as an accelerator and targeting function for sb50 . So the ways in which pdas are being defined could seem to me to be a way to target San Francisco in the way sb50 has been targeting San Francisco and i would like to avoid that being the consequence of this implementation. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Okay. Commissioner richards. So i think hearing this putting it in context its really strange, the titanic is going down and we are fiddling on the deck and why is it going down, we have all this stuff going on at the state level thats not resolved yet, mainly sb50, so we are talking about throwing our hat in the ring, is this a deal with senator weiner . Who is the person who said no on the west side . You folks voted for senator weiner. He carried all of your districts and hes got the guillotine over your head so just remember that. Is this a local alternative that we need the senator weiner . What is all this about . Have we had conversations with senator weiners office . This has been the third version of this. This predates senator weiner and sb50. The reason im mentioning this is mr. Switzky was reported saying to the council this could be a sb50 alternative. Thats been reported. I said reported. I can clarify. I think thats a little mischaracterization. I think the question was posed will this, quote unquote, protect us from sb50. And the sort of apples and oranges this has no relation to sb50. What this what pdas would do is provide essentially provide the city opportunity for funding to do planning in these areas or provide funding for transportation investment or other things. Who knows what sb50 will look like or whether it will pass. If it does come forward again and has some sort of local plan alternative, we will be wellpositioned to be ahead of the game and be in conversation with the region to fund local planning to do that. If it doesnt come to pass, then we are still we still have opportunities to do so the board would express the desire to include these areas but it would be the boards responsibility to do the up zoning with the Planning Commissions . Yes. As i said, it doesnt try suppose any specific zoning changes or any mandate any land use changes. Okay. Then i heard wrongly. And i apologize. The question i have i mean, with sb50 looming, you know we need to be very judicious around up zoning anything at this point. I dont think theres anything in the works right now like before january we are going to be up zoning. But my fear is sb50 may not pass. We may go through this process. And then another sb, some other sb50 comes and we already up zoned and we get the 3. 5 times when our up zoning turns into a monster. So thats one of my worries. The other thing is lets take a look at the stock of what weve already got in zone capacity for these yet to be determined pdas.