Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Legislation. As you all know, we have the first educator Housing Project in our district. So were really excited by the results of prop e the overwhelming support to streamline both educator housing and 100 Affordable Housing. In the past year, weve been working really closely with mid penn, the Affordable Housing developer, and really closely with the community. Weve really seen a cultural shift and really support for this kind of housing thats just gotten so urgent. We are also, you know been following the lead of educators and trust in the educators that they know what kind of housing is needed. So weve been in close communications with uasf particularly on this project. We really support this legislation. We want to ensure that this Francis Scott key project qualifies for this prop e streamlining were excited to bring the Housing Projects online in many months, if not a year earlier. As my colleague ian mentioned well continue our commitment to find the funding to secure the funding for this project and the future project for educator housing. This really does represent a big turning point. So i urge you to support this legislation. Thank you very much. Thank you miss kwan. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. We represent over 6500 educators throughout the district. I believe that i speak not only for not only educators about you for san franciscans, with overall the most recent elections in which 70 of voters said that Affordable Housing needs to be a priority. And this is really exciting for us exciting for uasf. In particular that were moving into the next phase. Were meeting with potential partners throughout the at the state level to bring in funding and develop Funding Sources to ensure that this project happens. And that we do have educator housing. The approval as i said, was overwhelming. And what it means also for us and what it means to our community, this community in San Francisco they want educators not only to teach, but they want them to lead in this community. Because we understand if we dont have a stable working force, we understand the cost that it will happen at the school level, the instabilities that it would have. We see it happening day in and day out. And in terms of the effects of the affordability crisis that has impacted ourseducators and our schools. We want to be able to stabilize we want to make sure that our schools have stable schools, so our teachers can be able to provide a good, quality education. And to this we ask you to support this trailing legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners with the council of Community Housing organizations. In support of this legislation. Its a great moment coming out of the elections. And with the overwhelming support that voters had for proposition e 75 of voters not only supported proposition e but i think showed san franciscans that the city as a whole the west side, the entire Richmond District overwhelmingly over twothirds supported proposition e supported increasing density, supported seeing educator housing in their neighborhoods. This particular piece of legislation allows a little bit of greater flexibility. I think one of the things thats important as background one of the first projects that were seeing as educator housing Francis Scott key was metropolitan to be a project to attract new teachers to come to San Francisco and to become educators here. That particular project has a lower amount of threebedroom units than i think what many of us contemplate in the longterm. One of the things i wanted to thank the city for having such great open data. I love going into the open data s. F. And finding out, you know, what weve actually built in San Francisco as affordable, Family Housing. So when you look at that data set and commissioner melgar probably knows some of this from her o. C. D. Days. Over 60 i think its 65 of the units built as affordable Family Housing are two bedrooms and larger. 35 of the units that weve built are three bedrooms and larger when were talking about families, when were talking about wanting families to remain in San Francisco, we have to look longterm and not just design those smaller buildings that, you know, frankly often times make sense for marketrate developers who have a different agenda. So i think its important to both be flexible, but also think about what were trying to build in the longterm. Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Martine. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. San francisco Labor Council. On behalf of the Labor Council im happy to say we strongly support this legislation. Working families are getting squeezed out of San Francisco every day. This legislation will allow for real Affordable Housing to be built in San Francisco. And it will be built for the union. We absolutely support this legislation and encourage you to support it as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Cory smith on behalf of the action coalition. Officially obviously in support of this legislation here as well. And i think the thing that were most excited about is how much the conversation usually shifted really over the last two or three years specifically about the density in this case on the west side of San Francisco. And what it actually means for every part of San Francisco to do their fair share. And so for all of the people that were involved in this, not only this piece of legislation but Everything Else in just increasing that conversation, making people more aware and making sure that everybody understood what our current zoning actually allows us to do and not do in San Francisco. So, you know we want this to be successful. We want to continue to look for more things to make equity density the other way around maybe. Yeah. You mean what i know, across the city. Were just enthusiastic about it. Thank you to everybody involved. And to supervisor fewers office for their leadership. Thank you. Thank you mr. Smith. Any other Public Comment on this item . Hello commissioners. Peter cohen, Council Community housing organizations. Since fernando came up, i feel i need to come up, too. We really are excited about the passing of proposition e. You heard from folks in the labor Community Housing sponsors, from the Supervisors Offices. This is this is a whole new opportunity. I know were here talking about a very, very specific piece represented just to educator housing. But taking a moment for you all to consider in many ways how your jobs just got easier. Because all of the rezoning foresight throughout the entire city for Affordable Housing has been taken care of. [ please stand by ] when we find the opportunity sites we match that with money and we have projects coming forward. I hope we are going to have Commission Rooms full of people who are wanting to push these projects forward over the line in their neighborhoods. Very confident that is where we are headed. And this measure makes it easier for us to do. I know you are big champions of this measure. Im talking to the choir here. But thank you for that. And there will be more coming for sure. And thanks for supporting this little fixit legislation. Thank you mr. Cohen. Any other Public Comments on this item . With that, Public Comment is closed. Thanks very much to the Supervisors Office and thank you very much to supervisor mahrs office. I make a motion to approve. Second. Seeing nothing further. There is a motion that has been seconded to approve this planning code amendment. On that motion. [roll call vote] so moved. That motion passes unanimously 50. Item 14 for the plan bay area informational presentation. Good afternoon. Joshua with planning staff. Im here to give you a brief informational presentation on plan bay area and more specifically potential updates to San Franciscos designations for Priority Development areas priority conservation areas and Priority Production areas. So if i could have the slides up. So just in brief plan bay area is a longrange regional plan. It covers a span of 30 years. It covers the entire nine county bay area. Its conducted by agencies that San Francisco is a part of called the San Francisco association. The regional plan is a requirement that meets its required to meet various state and federal laws and must be updated every four years. And it basically has to project how the region might grow over the 30year period in terms of housing and jobs and specifically to meet state mandates ab32 to address Greenhouse Gas reduction targets and how we are going to do that by linking land use and transportation and accommodate the Housing Needs of the region over the next 30 years. And so from a land use standpoint, the premise of this plan is the goal is that we probably all share is to make sure the region doesnt sprawl outward further doesnt gobble up more greenland and open space and continues to consolidate around the part of the region. We ask for three designations to support the efforts. Priority development areas, which are areas that are good at a local level for additional housing and job growth. Priority conservation areas the flipside of that wild lands areas the region auto to prioritize at a regional scale for conservation and recreation and a new category they introduced this year called Priority Production areas which really reflect a lot of the work weve been doing to preserve pdr areas as important places to continue to build blue collar jobs where they pay good wages and support the regions economy. Heres a map showing as it stands now the Priority Development areas and priority conservation areas around the region. The map on the left, the dark gray areas are the areas that local jurisdictions have submitted as Priority Development areas and the flipside you can see the conservation areas are the large slots of open spaces around the region. The Priority Development areas are concentrated around the inner bay. This is a map of San Franciscos currently did i go nateed Priority Development areas. The map hasnt changed much over the last couple eight years. The designations are nominated by the board of supervisors and then forwarded on by the Planning Department to the regional agencies. As you see our current designations basically cleave clearly to an eastwest bifurcation where the east side is designated Priority Development and only the southwest corners around sf state is designated as a Priority Development area. These largely follow where we have adopted plans over the last 20 years. But it also includes other neighborhoods that have not been rezoned. You can see the Northeast Quadrant is designated pda as well as the Mission Corridor all the way down to the county line there. So what is a pda . Its an urbanized area thats good for housing growth. The region created a couple distinctions areas that are transit rich that have the best transit access but a new emphasis that the region is highresource areas areas that have grown a lot of jobs, have a lot of jobs, maybe havent built a lot of housing. And also have good access to good schools and parks and other neighborhood amenities that people ought to have the opportunity to live. But first and foremost they are a local signal to the region that we are having conversations about planning that we are taking local action to think about housing in these areas. We are not a topdown imposed designation by the region. The region has no land use control over any local jurisdiction. The way this is implemented from the plan is through incentives primarily. The regional agencies provide grants to support planning in these areas. They provide grants for transportation investment. And they generally structure the regions Financial Resources around supporting housing these areas. This is a good segue from the previous conversation around finding money to build housing and support housing in all parts of the city where we think its important and these are the kind of resources we want to be able to tap into. And with these designations we can do that because its a signal that we are supporting housing in these areas but pdas are not an override of local control. Its not a decree about what zoning in certain areas should be issued and shouldnt be. And it doesnt bind the city to do any particular thing in an area that the board and the region recognize as a pda. Specific growth targets for pdas and there are certain mandates. We can plan as we choose to plan. As long as we are showing a goodfaith effort to accommodate housing growth to some extent in these pdas thats what the region wants to see. All zones treated equally. Whats good for one part of pda doesnt have to carry across the entire pda or even between different pdas. So the region is trying to get local governments to step up more and recognize more of these highly accessible parts of the region in terms of transit and jobs for pdas. This map is something the region produced showing which really transit parts of the region have been designated as pd as and which have not. San francisco has the largest acreage of any city that is transit rich that we havent recognized as pdas. You can see part of the south bay and San Francisco, we have a lot of jobs in these parts. We have a lot of good amenities. They are places of opportunity that arent being recognized as good places for housing, and the region would like to see more housing equity across the region and across San Francisco. So why extend pdas . Just to reemphasize some of the points i just made it provides us access to funding if we want to support housing growth in all parts of the city it gives us access to planning, to transportation money. And theres not a lot of downside to that. Its also a signal that we are having these conversations. We are taking local action, we are doing ground up planning and not waiting for the state or someone else to give that to us. And lastly equity, this is something youve been talking about a lot today in both the previous items. All parts housing is an interest we all share and is a responsibility all parts of the city share in finding the right solutions to meeting our Housing Needs. And right now the map we have in San Francisco shows its only the east sides responsibility. But that is changing. Attitude is changing. And theres an awakening to the responsibility that all parts of the city all supervisor districts all quarters have a responsibility to figure out a housing story that works in those neighborhoods. And so the map before you is a proposal to expand the pdas in San Francisco that will come before the board of supervisors in the next couple months. For their consideration. It shows expansion of pdas to include significant parts of all supervisor districts including the three or four that arent included today include pdas in district two district one, district four that include areas near all the major transit corridors in the city. But again these boundaries arent binding to us and where we might adopt plan or zones theres a signal that these areas generally of the city are places that we are going to be having ongoing conversations about housing, and we can tap into resources to support the planning conversations and ultimately housing growth and transportation investment. The priority conservation areas we dont have a lot of priority conservation areas in San Francisco. We are not napa. We dont have large slots of undeveloped land but we have regionally significant open spaces we ought to recognize and need investment. Theres a number of areas particularly along our shoreline both the bay and ocean shoreline the city is looking to invest and increase open space and at a significant level including along the Central Waterfront india basin lake merced, Golden Gate Park is going to be an ongoing investment as we build housing. Golden gate park is the open space on that side, as well as planning opportunities to increase connections in parts of the city that maybe dont have a lot of open space like the southern parts of the city. But weve increased better access to the park. This is a map of where those priorities might be. Lastly Priority Production area and sort of buried on this map. The area around the creek and just south of that thats colored blue on this map is the Bayshore

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