Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 20240712

Activity happening there currently until proper Filtration Systems are installed and thank you for your time. Caller my name is anthony and i am a multi generation San Francisco native as well as a resident of the dog match area on minnesota street. Ivory spendly need this company mow greens as well as Barbary Coast and they run a very tight ship, a professional shop and they work a lot with the community and i cant wait to see what theyre going to do in the dog patch. Caller good evening. I have been a resident in San Francisco for 46 years. My office is on cesar chavez and i just want to let you know that i am a social equity applicant that strongly supports 457 mirapos project. Its giving back to the community and to folks that were inaudible for their cannabis offense and this program, i found support. Please, give us an opportunity to have a Good Business here. Thank you. My name is inaudible . I suffer from dramatic brain injury and so therefore im cognitively and physically and emotionally disabled until cannabis was available to me. I have not found managing my disability but i do not have accessible to get to 457 would be closer to me and it would really be helpful to have more competition because i think it would lower the cost because i know longer am available and to work at this point. Thank you. Good afternoon, customers, my aim a resident of San Francisco and i lived me all my life. I am a Small Business owner and im familiar with the location in this surrounding neighborhood. Based on my analysis of this location, i think its suitable for a Cannabis Retail facility. Its accessible by public transportation, bicycle or Motor Vehicle and a developing area that needs new neighbors serving businesses Cannabis Stores provide extra lighting to security, neighborhood clean up and Community Events as well as providing a safe and clean facility with experts on staff for medical cannabis patients to access their medicine. I previously worked with tony and the Management Team for two years and saw firsthand how responsible and professional they were in managing a Cannabis Retail store. He has earned his shot to the Equity Program and i have a new business of his own to counter the impact of the war on drugs has had on his community and the Mission District and on him personally. I strongly suppose Authority Project and i am sure that it will have very positive benefits on the area. Thank you for your time. My name is henry and i strongly support this project. I believe that in a neighborhood and i believe that everyone should be in that neighborhood access of cannabis and actually by security guards that could make the neighborhood safer and they provide san it may and people on the street and provide better place for people to get cannabis and i strongly support this project. Thank you, very much. Caller good afternoon. My name is miranda and i was born and raised in San Francisco. I am raising two children close by and i am calling to fully support the project at 457. Before covid and im hoping post covid well be tending a center for many of memorable shows that you host there and would love to see a safe place to consume cannabis. I would love to see the full hours of being open for full hours to continue to provide a safe place for people to consume in the neighborhood. Its an essential business and it is creating new jobs. I would please ask you to support the project at 457 miraposa. Thank you. Caller my name is michael and im a i live in the residential building to the rare of the property in question and i have a couple concerns. Mainly, you know, im a 21 year resident of the neighborhood. We just got our parks open and the streets paved, mainly because of the chase center, im worried about what happens when this type of dispensary opens up, especially the smoking aspect of it. They have security guards there and it lends to the fact that there might be issues and who is going to take care when we have these issues. Who do we call . The police wont respond. Porter owe weve had issues with smoke entering our building. Measure a pose a. Caller this is lori mack. I live on illinois street. Im calling to oppose this cannabis facility. I can see how this business would love to benefit from the value of the neighborhood, but this business does not bring value to the neighborhood. They would just really benefit from the center there and the new park. Opportunities a good thing for the neighborhood. We could use a market and something that really does actually appeal on a daily basis to the residents that live here so thank you so much for your listening. Caller hello. My name is regina and i live in the neighborhood. Im a strong supporter of these projects because these projects you enhance the neighborhood and green much local economy for Small Business and social equity applicants. Thank you. Well close Public Comment and the matter is before you. Commissioner moore. One question and i do not exactly know who said it, indicated there was of a joining parcel or a parcel nearby where the Housing Operator was intended to buy the project site to build Affordable Housing. Is that anything you are aware of . Michael, before you answer that question, i apologize to interject commissioner moore. We should afford the sponsor and d. R. Rebuttals and mr. Bean has a twominute rebuttal. Ok. It may seem to be an underserved area, according to the project applicant, your own staff report notes that the neighborhood is hitting an effective cap for Cannabis Retailers due to the 600foot rule. Secondly, as mr. Hallahan indicated, we were close, that is the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association and were very close to establishing or agreeing to a memorandum of understanding back in april. The primary issue that kept us from completing that, were the opening hours. The applicant did make an offer for shorter operating hours for the start up phase in his business wit but we felt it was unfair to other retailers in the dogpatch who have agreed to shorter hours. And finally, i would just reemphasize the lack of parking in front of the building. Theres no parking on either side of the street and its very heavily traveled by commuters. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Hallahan, you have a twominute rebuttal. I want to mention, he is correct. We spent a lot of time together trying to work through a m. O. U. And it was very amicable. A couple of things we offered were cleaning services and we were going to clean the area and the sidewalks. We were going to send our people to clean the parks everyday. Were going to have a Community Liaison that will deal with people if theres any sort of neighborhood concerns or anything like that. We have a manager on duty at all times. The security guards are mandated by state law but theyre going to help with double parking, uber drivers pulling up to drop people off for chase center. If people ever smoking on the street, were putting people on the street that will go and prevent that and move them along. I know im not responding to the Public Comment but some of those things are thats the reason behind some of our because we are trying to give Something Back to the neighborhood and were trying to anticipate concerns the neighbors have and take steps proactively to address them which weve done in our proposal, i believe. Thank you. Im the owner of 455 of miraposa, next door, there are a couple issues that havent been addressed. One is i believe theres a clause in the sorry about that. In the condo conversion paperwork where both parties have to approve a change of use. The other thing is, we share a common water meter. How are we going to work that out . They are using more water than i use . Thats it. Thank you, very much. I do apologize for interrupting you. Commissioner moore, the flor is yours and i believe michael, if you what up the to respond to commissioner moores question now. Sure, commissioner moore. Ive never been in receipt of any indication of adjacent property being developed into Affordable Housing. I learned about that today. You first heard that being mentioned . Correct. I just wanted to have that out there. There is no answer. It would be of concern to me and i would inaudible . Thank you. Great question commissioner moore. Thank you for the answer, mr. Christianson. Based on the letter of determination, not dis qualifying the use, ill be supporting today. Commissioner diamond. Im supporting the project and im not in favor of d. R. Because i didnt hear any exceptional o or extraordinary circumstance which is the stand ar for d. R. Would that be a motion . I just have a question to the project response o sponsor or t. This is 5,000 square feet and it looks fairly large. How many people or what is the capacity of this building . The project sponsor can speak to the capacity. Clarify the proposed business is 2,500 square feet. I see, thank you. Commissioner moore. Can the project sponsor answer any question about the capacity . I dont know the legal capacity. I apologize, we would anticipate employees on site at any time and one of the things when we develop this final plan is that some of the neighbors indicated to us during our public they want larger lounge and there were issues of people smoking on the street. Were going to try to make as much lounge space to accommodate people in the Community Tuesday the space. Its 2,005,000 square feet. Its not large insofar i would say its larg its average size. Thank you for that classification. Thank you. I wanted to followup on the reduced hours from 10 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. As theyre typical for the dogpatch area. How are other commissioners feeling about that . I would be in support of the shift in hours from 10 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Id like to get the business as much hours as possible just to enable successful storefront occupation. Would anyone care to make a miss. I would make a motion to not take dr and approve as proposed. Second. Second. Thank you, commissioners. If theres no further theres a motion and second to not take d. R. And approve the project and on that motion [ roll call vote ] that motion passes unanimously 60. That will place us on your final item on the agenda number 13201901663, drp2. 375377 hurst avenue this is a discretionary review. Mr. Winslow, are you prepared to make your presentation . Yes, i am, thank you. Good afternoon, president and Vice President moore and commissioners, David Winslow staff architect. The item before you is a public initiated request for discretionary review of building mer might application 2019. To construct a rear addition and exterior stairs and decks to an exist it wouling twounit buildt 377 hurst avenue. The building is one conforming dwelling unit and one non conforming dwelling unit. The rear expansion is to the conforming dwelling unit only. This is a revision to a Building Permit application to legalize portions of the rear wall and to comply with planning enforcement case number 201901266enf. There are three dr requesters. Resident of the adjacent property to the west of the proposed project and Brett Mckinney of 371 hurst avenue, resident of the adjacent property to the east of the proposed project and lisa of 486 resident to the west of the proposed project. All three d. R. Requesters are concerned its out of scale with the neighborhood. It will block sunlight to neighboring properties, impact privacy from decks and windows, and will disrupt the mid block open space and the size of rooms and bathrooms suggest supporting house with independent single room units which is not consistent with the Single Family home this neighborhood. To date theres no letters in support and no letters in opposition. There are circumstances with respect to this proposal and some modifications are necessary to ensure conformity with the residential Design Guidelines as related to building scale at the rear, a access to mid block open space and privacy. They modify the proposal to reduce the extent of the rear extension of the upper two floors no further and three feet from the back rear wall of the neighboring building to the west while maintaining a five foot side setback adjacent to 371 hurst. Reducing the deck at the second level and maintaining five foot set backs from the adjacent property line. In addition, reducing the height of the roof to no higher than what would be required for a roof curb. Staffs recommendation is to take d. R. And approve with these proposed modifications. This concludes my report and i will be here to answer questions. Thank you. We have three dr requesters who will be afforded five minutes each the project sponsor will then get 10 minutes and members of the public will receive one minute. Mr. Mckinney, you have five minutes. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is Greg Mckinney and im getting some echo. If you have your my computer is muted. Ok. Im one of three d. R. Requesters concerned about this project at 375377 hurst avenue. In the photo, the subject properties in the middle house, my house is on the left and i run swiming and softball programs. So the subject property is shaded in orange on the map. My house is indicated with the dark border and the arrows mark the homes of all the three d. R. Requesters. The reason were here today is because the new owners of 375 and 377 hurst avenue received a permit to gut and remodel the house, keeping the original footprint. They violated that permit by removing moore than 20 of the exterior walls. They got caught and were ordered to stop work. Now theyve applied for a new permit to build a new intrusive and oust character house. Looking at the San Francisco residential Design Guidelines there are principles stated up front. Ensure the building scale is compatible with surrounding buildings, ensure that the building respects the mid block open space and maintain light the adjacent properties. Next. We analyze tax accesser data to determine what is the scale of nearby sunny side homes. We considered all the homes on the block plus those on the opposite sides of the four streets. So there are 85 properties included. The Data Confirms what we already suspected. The plan house is not consistent in scale in fact it creates a whole new size category of sunny side house. So this project pushes the envelope to the extreme and every possible way. Building depth, total living space, storage, bedrooms, bathroom, et cetera. This project is exceptional and out of the norm. The planned building will go 0 feet past the end of my house and 30 feet beyond the house at 39. The planned house will disrupt the midblock open space. Today, my deck has access to light and air. But if this overly large and crease i have edition will block sun from the back of my house for most of the afternoon. You can see how close my kitchen grown house window is to the subject property. Its two and a half feet. This window provides significant Natural Light and ventilation of my kitchen. When this edition is built theres significant negative impacts on light, air and privacy. The plan house appears to be designed as a boardinghouse. Bedroom suit suites are set up s bedroom units. All six bedrooms haven suite dedicated barge and a large roof deck party space. This is not designed as a Single Family home. The dr requesters have made several attempts to find compromise but the Property Owners would not participate in any of the meetings. We suggested that they pull back to a depth compatible for the neighboring houses. So we asked the Planning Commission to take d. R. And its too large, it disrupts open space and it reduces access to light and air and theres problems of privacy and it also sets a precedent encouraging overly large intrusive and out of Character Development in the neighborhoods. So the commission should consider three neighbors have submitted d. R. Applications and doing wide neighborhood agreement this project is problematic and 40 residents signed our petition. Thats your time. Thank you. Ms. Etchavary you have five minutes. Can you hear me . Thank you. Hi, good evening, my name is kathy and i would like to thank the Planning Commission for take our question for discussionary review on the project today. A little bit about myself. I grew up on bernal hill and attended the local schools. Im a 15 year resident and a home owner in the sunny side neighborhood. Im first generation san franciscan and my parents immigranted to this country in the late 50s and purchased homes and raised their children here. Ive served over 20 years in the United States air force and satellite and space race and when i retire i returned home to dare for my aging and ailing mother and care for my mentally disabled sister. I am a leader and participant in numerous volunteer community and Church Activity and im also a San Francisco landlord and i add that because i know what it is to own property as a resident and as a landlord in this city. I have nothing against renovations to properties in fact, i see the value in improving property that we own because it not only improves our properties but the neighborhoods in which we live. It is because of this that we are here today that i am here today asking for discretionary review for my neighbors project. Speaking of my neighbor, i lived to the immediate west outlined in the dark line. From the Planning Commission website and i focus on the words neighborhood compatibility. Design review is a process to ensure that a project meets not only the city policies but the neighborhood compatibility to include neighborhood scale and character. Really the gist of our request for review is that we feel this project does not meet the standards of neighborhood compatibility and is in fact way out of scale and charter of sunny side. This slide talks to some of the points made earlier by mr. Mckinney but the left picture is the original plan project in yellow. The picture on the right shows the basement level in red solid lines and the second and third levels in a yellow dotted line. The project started out a couple years ago within the scale of typical sunny side house and made its way to where we are today. The project adds an entire level of going from two levels to throw levels of livable space. The project grows from a 1,683 square foot home to a 3,809 square foot frac structure. The project more than doubles the depth of the original home from 35. 25 feet to 78. 75 feet. The project sponsors propose going from two bathrooms to seven bathrooms and from three bedrooms to six bedrooms. Resulting in fiven suite bedrooms. These are not in character with a Single Family home but in line with a boardinghouse type facility and not in scale and character with sunny houses. Another concern is the loss of privacy and Morning Light this over size structure will have. They propose two decks off the second and third levels. Both these decks will have direct line of sights into my propertys bedrooms and office. So im more concerned with a lack of privacy to the bedrooms. Were allowing morning su sunlit into these rooms. With decks anden suites and especially in this time of covid, it is reasonable to expect that any number of future tenants will be on the decks at any given time. It seems unfair to have to sacrifice natural sunlight to protect ones privacy. Also, the proposed deck will block morning sun both. Commissioner ball into the back rooms and backyard. Plants do better in morning sun because it pro voids required light but not as intense as the afternoon sun. For these reasons, i respectfully request you agree to discretionary review of this project. I know that this project meets the technical parameters outlined by the city, i. E. The set backs, architecture soundness and i hope it will be taken into consideration, according to the city guidelines, the neighborhood scale and compatibility are also to be taken into consideration. Bottom line, just because you can, doesnt mean you should. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our request today. Have a good date. You have five minutes. Thank you, commissioners for the opportunity to present to you today. Im lisa sully and ive lived in sunny side for 12 years. I was inaugural chair that oversaw the balboa reservoir cac and yesterday i was recognized as a San Francisco housing hero for the work i did to build community to create the parameters that now created the balance bobalboa reservoir proj. This is my home in orange. Im just around the corner. There are three reasons i request this review. As you heard already, its the wrong project scope for a neighborhood. Its going to be negative impact on our green built and it sets a bad precedent. Youve heard already about this idea that its going to be six bedrooms and seven baths . Is this really a Single Family home . Its out of character and if we go to the next slide, i did some analysis of the homes this year and as you will see, theres nothing that has been sold that has anything like what is being proposed for this site. It was the next page, you will see details. The largest is five bedrooms and two with two baths and two that have four baths. And the majority of two and three bedrooms. Next slide, please. These are houses across the street. This is one block up, these are the two new houses that have been developed in the last two o to three years and theyre four and five bedroom houses. Theyre much smaller than what is being proposed. Next slide. The second is about the greenbelt and our neighboring property. The the irony is this space in the back is our greenbelt and it is good for our environment. The city wants us to plant trees and wants us to be green but if you take up a majority of that backyard, its counter intuitive, all the morning sunlight will be blocked from my property and anything facing left and my 80yearold lemon tree is at risk. This may not sound significant but if we go to the next slide is it this is what it means in the morning for me. So the whole backyard will be in shadows and if go to the next slide, this is a close up and theres that lemon tree. Basically my entire backyard will have no morning sun. The next slide, in the afternoon my house creates shade in the backyard so that means its going to be always in the shade. Next slide. So, my garden will die out that morning sun. Given the fact that its foggy in our neighborhood, we need every ounce of light we can get. So its a negative precedent because so it is large. Were a singlefamily neighborhood and we really question what does it mean to have six bedrooms with dedicated bathroomses. Next slide. So this is my sincere request. The difference between the spirit and a letter of the law, we have concern over the integrity of the project. I was never notified when the original project was put underway. We want to protect our community and we want to make sure that what is done here sets a positive precedent for future building. Thank you for your time. This is what we think is fair. We agree with what david is proposing and we go to the next slide. Thank you and the final slide is a little slide from my backyard and our neighbors. Thank you, very much. Thank you. I dont see the project sponsor in our attendee list. Your honor, my name is an anita and today well going over the dr requesters concerns. Today well discuss the following topics. Next slide, please. Here the concerns mentioned by all three dr requesters. Its out of scale, locked sunlight, privacy and open space and the size of the number of rooms and bathrooms. Next slide, please. Its one larger window on the eastern side of 375377hearst and concerns to provide open ceiling at the deck with both sides and for davids request, we will reduce the roof line by two feet to lessen the bulk of the building and increase more Natural Light for the neighbors. The subject residents is a twofamily home in ayar muc a me with six bedrooms and six bathrooms for the three of them proposal second and first flor length would be 60 feet and six inches with five feet setback at the 48seat six inch mark and in addition the proposed basement plan will be 75 feet four inches with also five feet side setback on both sides at the 48 feet six inch mark as well. Renderings will be provided in the later presentation. The fine indicates a distance of 60 feet 6 inches which is our proposed depth. There are singlefamily homes that are exceed the proposal. Three out of the eight homes exceeds beyond the 60 feet six inch march with the seven surrounding properties the depth is 50 feet 6 inches at the second level of occupancy and it scales is compatibility. Along the block of etna street, two out otwo out of the four ho. The dr requesters on etna street almost reaches the proposed footprint of the subject residents at last, averaging the four properties the average depth is 60 feet which correlates with the proposed scale of our project. I will now address the shadow concerns using all the graphic renderings and images from google satellite. This image was provided by inaudible and shadow is already present. inaudible outlined and the roof line of the expansion is what cast a shadow prior to any construction. The rare bank wall reduce the view indicating by the whiteout line and so it shows existing obstruction of the dr requester at etna street she faces before any construction and the blueline is the depth of our proposed extension. Next slide, please. And from further research, assuming kitchen window is passed the red line, the wall stands eight feet six inches and this being said the kitchen window where the wall is located cannot experience much view in the first place due to a small opening span. However, theres more view at the balcony where fewer obstructions compared to small kitchen window. Next slide, please. Upcoming slides i will demonstrate and from this rendering off the corner of etna and the sunrises from east to west and a slight shadow begins briefly in the morning. It last from noon to 3 00 theres not much shadow that occurs as the subject resident house orientation is facing south which indicates the shadow should not be huge impact as were located in the northern side. From this rendering from 371hearst avenue, the sunrises from east to west and a brief shadow is around the Late Afternoon at 3 00 p. M. The picture was the whiteout line at etna street clearly reflects this rendering. The shadow is unavoidable but with proper set backs the shadow would be minimized. This would be the actual view from etna street and balcony. As you can see the outline of 376 hearst exists and not much is obstructed from the proposed edition. The proposed edition is within 376 hearst avenue existing building outline and not obstructing an amount of view. Im the Property Owner of hearst, this is a twounit multifamily. They worked closely to address the concerns and make reasonable compromise and yet we are unable to reach a mutual agreement. The reason we needed currently out on the approve is because we are planning to have a multigeneration to live there. I and my husband, our two kids, my mother 82yearsold and my brother plan to live on this property under the same roof. I came from china where i learned from our culture that its to take care of our parents when they get old. I do not want to send my mother to an elderly home, i need this bigger home to spend quality time with my mother and she will not rebrett it in her life. It is 75 feet long and the extension and 61 feet long and why the neighbors from the best hand side allow the long extension and we cannot that is unfair to our family. In my opinion, we are not protected from the data and it was approved by San Francisco department. Planning department and many months of back and fourth on the changes working together with the staff and any of our adjacent neighbors who wish to extend the property in the future as long as they follow the planning code. I would support it 100 . I respect the neighbors privacy and light. The proposed edition already minimizes the potential impact. Therefore, they do not phase Economic Loss on this project but we do. It will impact us financially. Thank you, very much. For your time and consideration. Does that conclude the presentation. We should go to Public Comment. Members of the public, this is your opportunity to request to speak by pressing star and then 3. You will have one minute. Go ahead, caller. Caller im lawrence streeter, i live at 366 hearst avenue. From the project that 375 hearst avenue. I lived here since 1972 with my wife and this is always been a friendly diverse neighborhood with families coming and going. With two schools kids, parents and great grandparents. Theres a bike lane. This is a family oriented neighborhood with the majority of longterm residents. inaudible . Im lawrence streeter. It will move forward and always make me think am i next. Will my home be the next to lose sunlight and sounds of children playing. Its not in the best interest of sunny side. Thank you. Go ahead, caller. Hello. My name is Richard Goldman and im sunny side resident at 430 etna for 27 years. I live next door to dr applicant lisa and my rear yard abuts. The sponsor violated the original permit maintaining the original building footprint and i urge you to take d. R. Review because this new permit has beeo max out the property. Its not in keeping with the neighbors and it will ruin the greenbelt in our neighborhood and set a terrible precedent for this neighborhood. Caller i took out permits that stated i would maintain the original shell of the building and the difference is that thats what ive done and its been a lot a large expense. The owner of this didnt do it, got red tagged and is attempting to building a monitor home thats out of character of the neighborhood. And i personally take offense to the approach that they are taking to side step and get the result is a home that would be out of the character of the neighborhood. Hi, im Terry Ocallaghan and i love across the street from 375377 hearst avenue. I would like to reiterate what the last caller said. We remodeled 15 yearsing andagod there was strict guidelines maintaining the square of the building and we followed those. It was very strict and it seems like this property across the street, they are pushing the limits on that. Were very concerned that its six bedrooms and seven bathroomses, it doesnt sound like having an inlaw. Thank you. Thank you. Members of the public, this is last call for Public Comment. If you wish to get into the queue, press star and then 3. Seeing no additional request to speak, commissioners, im going to go to rebuttals. Mr. Mckinney, you have a two minute rebuttal. Yes, id like to ive got that echo again. Couple rebuttal points. There were so many things wrong with the project sponsors presentation, i just cant go over them all. One was the comment about having a multi generational house and their intent to occupy that house. We have asked the project owner, the Property Owner on multiple occasion whats their plan was. From the first time we met them in january of 2019, he said were not sure, we have not yet made plans. And ive asked them on numerous occasions since then. Its always we have not decided yet. Now theyre saying theyre having a multigenerational with elderly parents there and thats fine but its not designed that way. If you have older parents, you would want to put a bedroom on the main floor, they didnt do that. All the bedrooms are downstairs or upstairs. I know for my own personal experience dealing with and caring for elderly parents, you want to be able to have easy access. So, thats just one thing that i just do not believe. Because thats not what theyve been telling us all this time. The other thing is that they have not reached out to any of the neighbors about this project. Until we got the mailing in, we didnt know this would happen and they tried to sneak this through. Ill let someone else rebut the. You have a two minute rebuttal. Thank you. I would like to echo what mr. Mckinney just said. Weve asked numerous times, not that they have to tell us but this is the first were hearing this will be a multigeneration home. In fact, when we first had our discussions with mr. Chan, the response was, we want to make sure that the tenants are going to be good tenants and he gave me his phone number to say if the tenants ever were not acting whatever, that we would be able and free to call him. So it is interesting this is a multi generational moment as i mentioned, when i reach out from the airs force, i came home to take care of my aging mother and my disabled sister so i will echo ours family home has stairs and to get my mother up and down the stairs was difficult so for them to not put a bedroom on the main floor just doesnt quite make sense. Another point id like to make is they put up story poles to outline the deck and im staying outside my window right now and even with the fivefoot offset, i can see directly right into their deck and so i suspect that anybody on that deck will be able to see into our bedroom windows also. The third thing is we keep hearing that if we, any of us neighbors, want to bilodeau buis scale they can and we will support it. But the sponsor understand is we dont want to because we respect the scale and character of our neighborhood. Thank you. You have two minutes. So, i would echo the same thing that was just said by greg and kathy. The irony is the photos that used in the presentation came from my presentation that i shared out literally prior to this meeting. The story poles that were up and were asked for werent even done properly and they dont even really reflect how high the building is and how far it comes out. The renditions by the architect are not reflective of how big the footprint of the building is going to be both in terms of length and height. Im also concerned with this idea that you know, well fern else wants to build their house this size, then we would be in favor of it. We want green in youre backyards because we think about that strategically and i do feel its very dis ingenuine and playing the sympathy card. I took care of my grandfather and my parents and i believe in supporting family and inter generational families and. Are you prepared to submit your testimony. Hello. Well, this is Greg Mckinney, i think you have me you raised your hand and were using your phone. Ok. You have a two minute rebuttal. Our project is out of ordinary and we have a legal non conforming unit in an arch one district and with everyones concern about the amount of rooms in the building, as far as i know, i am i can have up to five bed roms pe bedrooms. The amount i proposed is still compatible with the planning rules and the owner wants to Say Something too. 375377 hearst is a multi generation property. Its not a singlefamily. With the amount of bedrooms together, it is not out of the scale. We intended to live with my mother, live with my brother. I have two kids. Caregiver together to spend quality time with my mother. I dont see anything that is wrong with that. Any cut back will prevent as im settling into this house. Thank you. Great, thank you. That concludes the public hearing portion of this item. The matter is now before you. Commissioner moore. You may be muted. Thank you for reminding me. Thank you for everybody presenting the case. I have a question from mr. Winslow. Mr. Winslow, we have a very unusual case here. We have a nonconforming unit and we have a unit that is looking for expansion. We have to look a at enlargement of the building and the a joining neighbors preservation of open space, compatible building form, et cetera. Why does this project not attempt to remodel from within and make the lower unit which is basically portable size for a second unit in the building anyway and incorporate that into the Main Building . That would create additional rooms for a larger Single Family multigenerational building and why is that not approached that way . Would you explain that to us . Well, i cant answer that question. The project sponsors intentions but i will just existing im sorry. I apologize for interrupting you but you are cut north and out. You might cut your video and that way we can hear you. You would rather hear me than see me. Can you hear me better now . Yes. So, i cant answer some of those questions as they are part of the intent of the project sponsor of what they want to do with the property, however, i can give you background on an existing non conforming unit. It can remain as long as it doesnt increase in its size. This project is maintaining that unit at the same Square Footage although reallocating that Square Footage with the basement and a portion of the groundfloor level to provide for a kitchen and access down to the groundfloor or to the basement rather. Then the bulk of the expansion is at the level of the designated conforming unit. For a total of both units combined is 3,800 square feet. They could, if they so elected, merge the non conforming unit, i believe, but thats not what they had been proposing. To be sensitive to multigenerational Family Living which is not a question of any of us debates or denies, however, what is important for us to create a situation that is completely compatible and integrated into the neighborhood of where the building occurs. So even Multigenerational Families is looking for moore Square Footage than what is compatible given the surrounding environment, one would have to say that looking for another home and another neighborhood may be the answer or in this particular case, as you suggest, merging the lower nonconforming unit and creating the extra space and the ability that is needed in order for a larger family to live within a compatible building. I believe that what is in front of us is by far exceeding of what we normally would do and that the modifications suggest that by the department are those that we would normally entertain and that i would support. I think theres a good overview relative to where the building has to cut back, where the tweaks have to occur on the side set backs and reduction in deck size would be something i full eyfullysupport. Thank you. Commissioner fung. Mr. Winslow, the existing two units i assume why done without permits . Initially it was a Single Family home corresponding to the zoning, that and its its on storage. You look at existing plan and the basement is just that and its what looks like storage and not sure of its head height but not designated to space. It may not have had appropriate head height. Part of the problem reviewing this in terms of what they want, is the fact that the proposed lay outs are not done very well. Its interesting that they would enter the smaller unit which is one bedroom, through the kitchen and go down into one bedroom living space. The second unit then, which has been enlarged now, has five bedrooms and extends quite a bit. I would not speak to the obvious things i would see and then how to do the layout. However, i think that the portion of the program tha of tt bothers me is the lowest level where they he can tend out the furthest and that also acts as the roof and acts as the deck for the groundfloor is interesting that they put the bathroom and tub and walkin closet a second walk in closet at the very end of the floor plate whereas most people would have put the bed almost there. So first thought that occurred to me is i think its over built and dealing with its relationship to context. I would remove all of that portion of the lowest level that is the bathroom and the second walkin closet and they can put it into where they have an office area easily enough. And that would eliminate the deck and the issues that have been brought up by some of the neighbors reduce part of the encroachment into the rear and provide less of an i object introductiointrusion tothe mid. Commissioner moore. We could ask mr. Winslow what that means. Its hard to describe changes we desire in words so unless its drawn, i cannot basically just take the description i was trying to be polite of given how people have different ideas how they want their homes to function. Despite the fact commissioner fung agrees it was being asked far exceeds what we can do anyway. Theres a possibility for you to sketch out what will mr. Fung said or what sounds reasonable to me because it outlines and words could be more or less achieved by talking five feet from the side. If can clarify, reducing the extension of this basement level and give some jute indicatio juf that helps and ill address what commissioner fung would think. I dont have the ability to draw on this program on the fly, unfortunately and clarify this graphically. Tractortrailer groundfloor ex pension is setback five feet its somewhat at a height of about 10 feet plus or minus from grade and it puts it at the height of a sense that could be built without planning approval or permission. Thats a baseline that we use to judge how intrusive or not a groundfloor extension at the rear is. I have scuderi this with the d. R. Requesters and some level of acceptance that principal and we dont look at, were somewhat agnostic of the plan with what happens inside the plans other than to note that yes, what were recommending with the upper levels would be a small reduction in the size of the over all building but could still a com bait number of bedrooms and we just need some reconfiguration and the loss of a bathroom. What the deck proposal for the top of the this first floor was was extending out no furred than 10 feet of the revised rear second floor which is three feet from the adjacent property to the rear. To minimize the size of the deck and provide sidelines into yards and buildings. All of this is very hard to follow because we have the proposed building is zoned with the a joining building edges and you were not noticeable. If you go to the drawing im looking at has that which i. I was looking at the basement on a2. It indicates the adjacent walls of the adjacent neighbors as well. And you can also get a similar indication of the side elevations as well. It takes a little bit of piecing together but eventually all the information and. The modification you have proposed are not drawn up as anywhere and difficult to follow should what are saying and. Let me try if that helps and bear with me. Can i share my screen. Can you see my screen . Yes. As i was mentioning, its below what could be a height and it is setback five feet from adjacent property lines and we move up the first floor plan. This is the alignment of the building to the west. This is the building to the east where mr. Mckinney lives in the proposal is that an extension extending thro three feet beyons line would be allowed and go to this wall that is already setback five or six feet. And on the third floor, three feet out all the way across. Its really losing a bit of space at this second and third level, for all practical reasons. Its also recapturing some space. Would that be the enter of the building . That would be the edge of the beck would be the new building wall say the second flor it would be here, right. And this wall at the living room moves back to somewhere along here and three feet out and the adjacent neighborhood and the deck would be allowed as recommended would be 10 feet out from there so that would probably be where this dotted line is shown so you would still have sight lines from that deck which is still plus 10 feet above frayed and somewhat back into windows but if you look at the windows, the sitelines, i dont believe its private to the neighbors. Am i allowed to Say Something else. Commissioner moore. I thing i would say is, in fairness of the commission, i would like to see what you are suggesting to be fully drawn so that everybody can rediscuss whether or not this is unacceptable and i do not quite see why the building should pro cute i would like it to see the building and its entirety. I guess i could be fine taking d. R. With the modifications as proposed by mrr motion was asking for this to be moore asked if it should be continued for a week but in general im fine, i think there are exception alex tory dial. Is that a motion commissioner diamond . Im going to move to take d. R. And subject to the continues proposed. Second. There is a motion that has been seconded to take d. C. And approve the project with staff modifications on that motion commissioner chan [ roll call vote ] its still above grade the final portion an unto not exist to have the basement be a deck and its large and i want to make sure theres not any kind of miss perptation without having drawings, just describing something in words is something we normally do not know and the devil is in the details. To not im prepared to support the modifications by the department and i want to see drawings by the intent. If i heard correctly commissioner moore, you suggest the deck be removed . The portion of the it is unoccupy able because mr. Winslow specified the depth that i do not want to be exceeded. Im sure mr. Fung will agree i prefer drawings to be the record of what were proving and the devil is in the details and you can slip into final drawings and i would final to have a final drawing set to be the basis for our approval. Is the maker of motion willing to accept the amendment . I would prefer to have it done today and if she wants to ensure beyond 10 feet of the deck it indicates its occupy able space, im fine with that. Every part of the drawing, because of the building will be shorter and it requires revisions and we should see what is proposed and its very much in line with us taking the r and changing the building and we normally see drawings when the r is taken and so we it see what were getting. Second. Yeah, the let me just throw in my two cents formally they are occupy able unless noticed so commissioner moore wants to insert the unoccupy able area and im ok with that. Commissioner imperial is recognizing it be recognized. Go ahead, commissioner. I can hear you. You are audible. Commissioner imperial, you are audible. I keep muting myself. At this point, actually i was going to say, i would go for the second there although i did i would like to say i would like to prefer the drawing but if this is what we plan i would rather take the d. R. With i would like to see the drawings. If theres nothing further theres a motion that has been seconded to take d. R. And approve the project and with as amended by staff and limiting the depth of the depth to 10 feet creating whatever remainder as you kno as you uno. On that motion [ roll call vote ] that passes 60 and concludes todays hearing. We are adjourned. Thank you. Good night skbl. Hello. Im shawnna loghorn with the league of women voters. Along with the league and sfgovtv, im here to discuss proposition b, a proposition that will be on the ballot and before the voters on november 3. The city has three departments tasked with cleaning tasks. The city administrator oversees the department of public works and appoints the director with the mayors director. Proposition b is a Charter Amendment that would create a department of sanitation and streets which would take over some of the duties of the department of public works. This new department of sanitation and streets would be responsible for sweeping streets and cleaning sidewalks, providing and maintaining sidewalk trash cans, removing graffiti and illegally dumped waste and maintaining city buildings, public rest rooms, and street trees. The department of public works would continue to provide all other Services Required by law. Proposition b would create a fivemember sanitation and streets commission to oversee the department of sanitation and streets as well as a fivemember Public Works Commission to oversee the department of public works. The mayor would select the directors of both departments. If you vote yes, you want to create a department of sanitation and streets with oversight from a sanitation and streets commission, and you want to establish a Public Works Commission to oversee the department of public works. If you vote no, you do not want to make these changes. Im here with honey mahogany, a legislative aide with supervisor haneys office. Were also joined by lari m larry marso, an opponent of the measure. Were going to start with some Opening Statements, and well begin with honey. Thank you so much for having us today. I think that as a native san franciscan, someone who grew up here, and a Small Business owner, its become very clear to me that San Francisco has really failed at keep our city clean the clean. There is trash all over the streets, some streets are covered with feces, and sometimes you cant find a bathroom when you need one. Weve been working on how the city can better address this issu issue. What we found is the system that we have in place is broken. No matter how hard the workers at d. P. W. Work, theyre unable to get the streets clean because the system is ineffective. D. P. W. Is too big, there isnt enough focus on the streets, and especially during the time of covid19, sanitations now more important than ever, so we are putting forward a new department of sanitation to effectively keep our streets clean, wash our sidewalks in our most busy corridors and also to establish commissions overboth d. P. W. And the department to ensure that both departments are accountable to the public. The commission will also set baseline standards for cleaning, something that really doesnt exist now under the Current System. Thank you, honey. Now, larry . Hi. Please vote no on proposition b, which takes a 400 million San Francisco agency and needlessly cuts it in half and politicizes what remains. Its the case chaos and paralysis that will worsen the squalor on our streets. San francisco has the political will to clean the streets. The board of supervisors does not. Proposition b creates two new bureaucracies and injects politics into the department of public works. This is a failed model of oversight. We have over 100 boards and commissions in San Francisco already. Proposition b sets no clean streets standards. Theres nothing in here that says we are going to deal with the needles, the syringes, the feces on the streets. Its not there. Matt haney writes in his argument that theyre in proposition b. Theres nothing in proposition b that sets baseline standards. We need we need we need to address the fraud and waste in the department of public works. Thank you, larry. Thats 1. 5 minutes, so were going to go into questions now, and the first question will go to you, larry, and then honey, youll have a chance to answer it. The question is the amendment would create a new department of sanitation and streets to perform duties thats currently performed by the department of public works. If thats the proposition, whats the argument for creating a new department . The city controller says its going to cost upwards of 6 million a year. Thats over 50 million in ten years. Thats a lot of money. But if you look at the paid arguments for proposition b, you see a long list of Public Sector labor unions. The seiu and the San Francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. Theyre talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. They believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. And nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the San Francisco people that this is a major spending increase. Will it address any of the core issues of cleaning San Francisco streets . Not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and Mental Illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. Thank you. The same question to you, honey. Why create a new department . Well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. One, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. We want to hold Community Outreach to set those standards. There is a metric to address that. Also, i do want to correct that the controller report says the updated controller report says this will be closer to 2. 6 milli 2. 6 million in costs to create this new department. The reason we have to create this new department is the Current Department is broken. There is not enough oversight over cleaning and sanitation in the Current System. It is less than a quarter of what d. P. W. Does. D. P. W. Is a department with 1600 employees, and like you said, a 400 million budget. Less than a quarter is dedicated to cleaning. We feel like a metro city in San Francisco where tourism is its number one industry, we need to have a focus on cleaning with metrics that are created in a very transparent manner, a method for us to have feedback, and for the public to have feedback, and again, really providing some very close oversight and accountability for a department that, up until now, really hasnt had any. Thank you, honey. Our second question, and itll start with you, honey, is again, about the cost. The office of the controller states that this amendment, in the report that i read, ranged from 2 2. 5 to 6 million annually. Honey corrected that it will be just over 2 million. Do we think this is the right way to spend the extra money on sanitation or is there another way that is perhaps more beneficial . You know, 2. 6 million is a very small its less than a percent or a fraction of a percent of the citys current budget. Its a small amount of revenue that the city would generate through improvement to its business districts. It has been very public how weve been criticized by all over the world, really, for our filthy streets. The travel industry has been impacted, our Hotel Industry has been impacted, so those are our Biggest Industries for our city. So for the city to spend 2 million on an issue that we havent been able to fix in decades is nothing. I will note that the legislation actually also reduces duplication in terms of staffing by putting some of the staffing as shared with d. P. W. For the back end, which larry referred to earlier, and it also required city administrator to also provide that support. So the additional hiring is really minimal. There is some costs for the commissions, but again, the controller actually the f. B. I. And the scandal recommended that supervision be placed over d. P. W. , so it is good governance. Itll put a commission over d. P. W. , and itll also put a commission over the department of sanitation and streets to oversee them. Okay. Larry, same question to you. Since 2014, the portion of department of public works spending on cleaning our streets has doubled. If you look around you, do you see that our streets are cleaner . Spending money is not the solution to cleaning our streets when we have significant significant endemic root causes of drug abuse and Mental Illness on our streets. The department of public works, if its split in half, its going to generate more costs than simply what the controller has documented. There are duplications of bandend services backend services. Okay. But why are the biggest unions in San Francisco pouring money into this measure . Theyre doing so because theyre looking for higher pay and more hiring. Sorry. I have to cut you off there as time is up for questions, but were going to move into closing statements, and we will start with honey. Thank you so much. Its funny because i think larry and i agree that weve been pumping money into d. P. W. , and things havent gotten any better. In fact, things have gotten worse, and that is why were establishing the department of sanitation and streets because the Current System is broken. Were going to be providing accountability, setting baseline standards. I have to say the reason why so many labor unions are behind this is we figured out a solution that would work for everybody. Its not about raising salaries for anything like that. These are hard working san franciscans, people who really care about their city and want to be proud of their city and the work they do, and they know best how to address this problem because theyre dealing with it every day. So were proud to have worked with them, to provide this measure of accountability to provide safer, cleaner streets, trash cans that will work, access to more rest rooms. More Green Infrastructure which has been sorely lacking. And, again, public accountability and a real focus on street cleaning. So im very proud of the measure, and i implore san franciscans, if you want to see our travel industry be reinvigorated, our children and familied supported by the picking up of needles and keeping our streets clean, then please vote yes on proposition b. Thank you, honey. Closing statements from larry, please. Proposition b will politicize the department of public works. Thats why i and a number of centrist politicians and organizations are opposed to proposition b, on the board of supervisors, supervisor sandra fewer voted no, raff vel mandelman voted now, more man yee, voted no, catherine steph he knee voted no. The Ed Lee Democratic Club says no. The sfgop says no. You have people across the political spectrum who recognize that this is going to increase costs significantly while at the same time inducing chaos in Public Services, paralysis in the cleaning of our streets. Uncertainty at a time that San Francisco needs to be smart and focused in how it spends its money, how it raises its money, and to address the real causes of what we see going on in our streets. Matt haney does not represent a common sense approach on homelessness, drug abuse, or Mental Illness. I have tried to bring these solutions myself to a citizen ballot measure on the regulation of Navigation Centers. The entire ballot youre seeing was put together by the board of supervisors. No one could even collect signatures under shelter in place to propose alternative measures, as i tried to do. Thank you, larry. Thank you very much both for your comments and for your time. We hope that this discussion has been informative. For more information, please visit the San Francisco elections website at sfelections. Org. This year, every person in california will be mailed a ballot starting on october 5. You may drop off your vote by mail ballot in person starting on october 5 in the City Hall Voting Center located outside of bill graham City Auditorium 8 00 a. M. Through 5 00 p. M. You may drop off your ballot at your Voting Center for the two weekends before voting day, 8 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Good evening and welcome to the forum for the 2020 district one San Francisco board of supervisors election. Im the president of the league of women voters of San Francisco. And im also a resident of district 1. Im very excited to be here with my neighbor to hear from more candidates as a voter. The league of women voters of San Francisco is a nonpartisan, nonprofit that encourages informed and active participation in government. The league never supports or opposes candidates, however, we do take stands on issues. This years election presents new and unprecedented challenges for voters and were committed to providing the resources that voters need to exercise the most fundamental rights of our democracy and be assured that the votes will be counted. Please remember that you must be registered to vote by october 19. All registered voters will be mailed a ballot in early october. Options for inperson voting will be available both early and on november 3rd. Please visit our website at lwvsf. Org vote where youll find all of the voter resources we offer. The league of women voters is a nonprofit organization. If youd like to support our work and free events like this one, become a member or donate at our website. Im now pleased to introduce lia edwards, our moderator for tonight. Lia currently serves a treasurer of the league of women voters of the United States. She previously served as president of the league of women voters of San Francisco and has served on the board for almost six years. She believes that participation in government is critical to the success of the nation and is excited in creating a more perfect democracy. Professionally, lia works in the Investment Management industry in San Francisco. Welcome, lia. Thank you, alison. Welcome to the candidates for San Francisco district one board of supervisors. The candidates will have a chance to present their views on issues affecting San Francisco. First, id like to remind you of our ground rules. Responses to questions should be on the issues and policyrelated. Candidates are expected to be respectful of other candidates and asked not to make personal attacks on other individuals. Here are the procedures. The candidates will have the opportunity to make oneminute opening and closing statements. Opening statements will be in alphabet cal order by first name. Closing will be in reverse alphabetical order. Each candidate has one minute to answer the questions. Any rebuttal can be included in the closing statement which is one minute. The first question will be directed to three candidates. The second question to the remaining three candidates. This process will be repeated with rotation of the response order. Each candidate will have the opportunity to answer the same number of questions. There will be a lightning round where all candidates will be asked the same question with the responses being yes, no, or no response. The final question will be directed to all candidates. A countdown timer will be displayed with visual indication of the remaining time of the response. Every aspect of the forum will be equally fair to all candidates. Thank you to the attendees tonight. Youre in listenonly mode. The chat features are not active. Please do not use the raised hand option. This will be made available on the website, our youtube chan and sfgovtv cable channels. You have many important decisions to make on december 3rd. Tonights forum will give you an opportunity to learn before you vote. Lets begin. We will start off with oneminute Opening Statements in alphabetical order. Welcome, candidates, and thank you for participating in the forum. Please introduce yourself, tell us which neighborhood you live in, why youre running and what would be the top three priorities for your first year. Well start with andrew. Id like to thank the league of women voters of San Francisco for holding this forum. And inviting all of us to speak to you this evening. I think its a most critical time for our city and obviously the country with the covid19 pandemic. Im running for district 1. Ive lived in the city for 15 years in the Richmond District. I met my now fiance here in Richmond District. So this neighborhood means a lot to me. Over the last 15 years ive seen the city of San Francisco, but particularly our drk district here, deal with the issues when it comes to trash in the streets. Weve seen increase in unhoused individuals and that is of particular concern to me as a member of the community and obviously for my fellow neighbors, particularly with the covid19 its a Public Health and Public Safety issue that we need to address. Im running to make sure we can restore some type of order in terms of cleaning up our streets, making sure we adequately fund our police, because we do have an increase of property crime in our neighborhoods. And ultimately, you know, helping our elderly, our lowincome families and working families to be able to have a prosperous living environment. So thats why im running for district one. Again, i appreciate you hosting this and i look forward to hearing questions from your committee. Thank you, andrew. Next, connie. Connie, i think youre on mute. Hi, good evening. Im connie chan. Im running for district 1 supervisor. Im a first generation immigrant. I came here when i was 13 years old. Now im 42. Youre welcome to do the math. And my mom still live in the same rent controlled apartment i grew up in chinatown. Today with my partner who is firefighter in the city, were raising our second grader. A 7yearold at lafayette. The last 15 years ive spent my career in Public Service in City Government, aide to board of supervisors, District Attorneys Office when District Attorney was Kamala Harris and city college of San Francisco and rec department. I want to use my experience to fight the gap in the city so everyone can sit here in a house safe and healthy. Thank you. Next, david. Im david lee. I live in the Richmond District. Im a San Francisco native. I lived most my life in the richmond. Went to high school in the neighborhood. And i guess in the mid 90 fz i was on the board of league of women voters and did these debates. So this is a great job youre doing, lia, and the team here, and alison, in getting everybody engaged. I am an educator. I teach at San Francisco state. I also work in the Community Colleges supporting english second language program. And ive worked to register voters through a Civil Rights Organization for many years. Im running to, one, bring bart to the Richmond District. Two, to support Small Business. And three, to help address the homeless crisis in our district. Thank you very much, david. Hi, good evening. I was born here in the richmond. I grew up on the peninsula. 14 years ago my husband and i moved back to the richmond. Made a conscious decision to buy our home in the Outer Richmond where we have three kids and live with my motherinlaw. I run a Small Business here in the neighborhood, but i have 30 Years Experience in government at the federal, state and local level. Ive also run a Strategic Communications firm here in San Francisco. You know, this pandemic wasnt anything any of us expected. I think running a campaign in a pandemic is not anything any of us planned for. I think the backdrop of the pandemic has highlighted where we could do better as a city. Im very concerned about homelessness. About housing. About supporting our local economy, meaning Small Business and the very delicate ecosystem between our small and larger businesses and keeping our streets safe and clean. Thank you. Great, thank you. Next sherman. Good evening. I live in the Richmond District in San Francisco. And i also work at a store in the Richmond District. And im running because the basic things that we all see every day just are not getting taken care of in our neighborhood. That means making sure that the streets are clean. Making sure that the trash cans are emptied. Make sure that our medians are maintained. All these basic functions that government is supposed to take care of are put on the back burner in favor of other issues that elected officials believe are more important. I think there is nothing more important than making sure that the basic functions of government are taken care of. Im running for supervisors because i want to make sure the streets are clean. Make sure that traffic lights are installed on the missing blocks in the neighborhood. And that we have accessibility from the supervisor to its residents. Thank you. Great, thank you, sherman. Next, we have veronica. Good evening. Im a longtime resident of the Richmond District. I went to the public school. And im a graduate of you know, im a single working mom to a 10yearold and a 21yearold who attended city college of San Francisco who benefitted from free city where he played baseball and football. I live in the home with my parents and understand the issues that seniors are having. I own a Family Restaurant in San Francisco, but i have two decades of state and local government experience. I want to San Francisco that works for all, not just the selected and privileged few. Our priorities, economic recovery, Public Safety and housing. Those are the three issues we hear about and we need to start taking it. The first question is, what approaches do you support that encourage the building of new housing in district one . How would you balance housing density with keeping the character of the neighborhood . And the first person is veronica . Thank you for the question. As far as you know, im a huge supporter of senator wieners bill to build housing in unused land, but also huge support of the bill that brings in funding for Affordable Housing. I think we need to hold our elected officials at the state level and the city level to bring in funds to be able to build housing here in San Francisco. We need the state and federal level to come in. Statement at the same time, we need to look at what Affordable Housing means to the average san franciscan. Our teachers and First Responders do not qualify. We need to what below market rate housing is. Im a supporter of all income levels of housing in San Francisco. We need income level of housing in San Francisco in order to build 100 Affordable Housing. So thats where i stand right now with housing. Next we have david. Same question. What approaches do you support that encourage the building of new housing in district one and how would you balance housing density in keeping with the character of the neighborhood . I strongly believe in investing in public transit. I think bringing bart to the richmond will help us create transit hubs that can increase 100 Affordable Housing provided that local community and local control is maintained. I think that is very important that the community and the neighborhood are at the table and consent to density. However, i do believe that transit is really critical and we have to do transit along with building Affordable Housing. Thats why i support bringing bart to the richmond. We passed a 3. 5 billion bart bond in 2016. There is 10 million for a study to bring bart to the richmond. Its time to Start Talking about it. As supervisors, that will be one of my top priorities. Thank you, david. Next up, marchand. Same question. So i dont think creating homes for families and working people and maintaining the amazing character of our neighborhood are mutually exclusive things. I think that we can plan together, which is part of having a supervisor that is engaged and in the neighborhood, and having these conversations even in years that arent election years. I do believe that we absolutely need 100 subsidized Affordable Housing. Where that subsidy will come from, i think, im a realist about that, we dont have the money from the federal or state government. Given the kicking the can down the road mentality on housing, not just in the richmond, but all over San Francisco, we need to ensure that the housing is being built in an environmentally mindful way in transit corridors, in the merchant corridors, while creating housing for working families that dont qualify for 100 Affordable Housing. I think thats a conversation and action plan that a supervisor is very well suited to lead. Thank you. Next well have the second question. That goes to the remaining three candidates. What will you do to provide more Affordable Housing in district one . Do you support programs that encourage the building of more accessory dwelling units, known as granny flats and inlaw units . Andrew . Thats a really good question. So building out more inlaws, again that is something that youre going to have discuss with the Property Owner and i do support that, but again, you have to have buyin from the Property Owners in order to do that. And whether that is something they want to have built into their properties. Again, thats something that needs to be discussed also at the local level with the other board of supervisors and you have to come to some kind of consensus in how we want to approach that. But we definitely need obviously more Affordable Housing in district one and the Richmond District. One of the things as an aside, there are availability in terms of Affordable Housing in our district, but some of those available property spaces are being used as airbnbs, so thats one of the things we probably need to look at and change. Thank you. Thank you, andrew. Next well have sherman. Same question. So i think for housing, i think one of the things we can do is make it easier for the people who want to build in the city to build, is very expensive, and it adds to the cost of building in the city, reducing some of the red tape would, you know, will encourage builders to build in the city. I do think adus are helpful. Anything that adds to the Housing Stock is helpful. The other two aspects that i think that need to be addressed is shortterm like airbnb. Those should not be allowed. Also, our colleges and universities, i think if they are going to bring in people from outside the area, we should require them to build appropriate units to house the people that theyre bringing into the community. Thank you. Thank you, sherman. Finally, connie. Thank you. I definitely support the development of Affordable Housing. When i talk about Affordable Housing and 100 affordable, it is between 0 all the way up to 120 , and that is below poverty rate up to 160,000 annual income for a household of four. And i think that is a solid middle income housing. That can actually house our workforce. And its also the reason why i supported prop a in 2019, which is 600 million Affordable Housing bond and prop e, Affordable Housing for educators and workforce. That allows us to rezone and upzone for any public land and private land. I find they build 100 affordable. The gap is how the incentive for Property Owners to build them, so we need to continue to push forward. Thank you, connie. Well move on to the third question. How will you address the issues a in the richmond of homelessness and crime both shortterm and longterm . Will you prioritize Homeless Services . And if so, which services . If not, why not . This will be answered first by david. I do not support building a Navigation Center in the Richmond District, however, i do support extending a Homeless Services, particularly a Mental Health crisis counselors, reallocating funding from the Police Department to provide and hire more crisis counselors to address the Mental Health crisis that we find on our streets today. I believe that we should provide more Services Rather than police as a response to addressing homelessness. I also believe that we should be moving the Homeless Population into hotel rooms. They should be sheltered. This is a Public Health crisis. We have hotel rooms that are already paid for. And we should be moving the Homeless Population from the richmond into hotel rooms where they can be sheltered and services provided. Thank you. Thank you, david. Next question is answered by connie. I think that we at this point that homelessness is obviously a symptom of a problem and that problem is lack of equity for generations of working people. The lack of equity to health care, education and Food Security and housing security. Lets address those issues first because the best way to stop homelessness is to prevent it. However, for the existing homeless problem, we should make sure our city has coordinated services to provide individualized approach. Lets not just do the count of who the Homeless Population, but also to know who they are so we understand their needs and help them to get their feet back back on their feet. I think that also, that you know, with recently there is a report about the gap, about providing permanent Supportive Housing for homeless and we need to do a better job with that. Great, thank you. Next veronica. I absolutely agree that we need Homeless Services here in the Richmond District, but i am in support of a mobile Navigation Center here in the Richmond District. We have Navigation Centers here in the city. Theyre expensive to build and maintain. So the reality is we need the services, but how do we get them to the Homeless Population . The reality is this is an urgent manner now. It is a Public Health issue. We need to treat them with compassion. One person at a time. My focus has been on the foster youth. We start with our foster youth who are at higher percentage rates of being unhoused when they turn 21. To give them an opportunity to finish college degree. With regard to the Homelessness Services now, hotel, we have to look at Mental Health services and housing these individuals. Thank you. Thank you. Next we move to the next question for the remaining three candidates. What would you do to address Substance Abuse and Mental Health issues with residents . So many of our people who are on the street do have mental and Substance Abuse issues, for that reason i supported that the first thing we have to do before we do anything else, we have to get people off the street. We have to have a safe place for them to go so that we can tell them you cant be out on the street anymore. My suggestion is to use the city garages that we already have that are owned by the city, so they dont cost us more, and put up temporary housing temporary type of housing in there that everybody has their own unit. And while theyre there, we can treat everybody who needs help. Find out what their situation is, what do they need and have all of the resources in one place. I believe that is the best use of the resources. But we cannot get a handle on how to help people when we dont have them in place where we can interact with them and help them. Thank you. Thank you, sherman. Next. So, when we talk about an issue like homelessness, i think we need to recognize the different needs of the unhoused populations because there isnt one single solution. I think weve heard a lot of that in different candidatess responses. Yes, the housing shortage must be addressed. We need to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. Enforcing the laws on the books about sleeping on the streets, but also being able to offer our unhoused residents a place to stay. We need to increase Government Accountability and transparency so were enforcing metrics to eliminate duplicate programs. With regard to Mental Illness and drug use, i got to tell you, we cannot talk about homelessness without talking about the Opioid Crisis and the fentanyl that has been on the streets for the past two years. You have to look at what is happening in the tenderloin and what is starting to happen in the richmond. We have to prosecute the drug dealers so they can stop killing people and its affecting our Homeless Population. Finally, andrew. Yeah, thats a great question. So it is a twopart problem. We have the issue of homelessness that continues to rise in the Richmond District and its been a problem in the city of San Francisco for several years now. We spent upwards of 300 million on this crisis and we still dont get anywhere. Our approach needs to change. Specifically, when you look at homeless, the answer is not building Navigation Centers in Richmond District, because, one, they cost up to 70,000 per person to house a person in Navigation Center and hundreds of thousands of dollars to build. One of the things we have to do is we do have to we do have to get tough and realistic and we need to first and foremost get the unhoused individuals and again we cant treat them as a monolith, because we have homeless veterans, we have young people within the Lgbtq Community that are, unfortunately, unhoused. And so we have to treat everything on a casebycase basis. Thank you, andrew. Sorry, time is up. Okay, sorry. Thank you for your response. Well move on to the next question. Which is according to San Francisco police statistics, crimes against persons have decreased, burglaries have increased. What actions do you propose the city, the police and administration do to handle the property crime . Well start with connie. From my experience working at both starting as a Community Organizer for the San Francisco and the District Attorneys Office, i think property crime is in terms of the crime pyramid, it really does impact a lot of people. And from my experience, is that there are ways in technology and that is not invasive. And without involving Law Enforcement directly, that our residents can use to either prevent it to prevent the property crime or deter it from happening again. I think that another part of it we can make it more efficient is about crime reporting. That is a lot more convenient for the victims of property crime so that also that data can be provided to our Law Enforcement in realtime when they can track it and hopefully come up with a strategy to either prevent it or be able to reduce in certain area. [please stand by] [please stand by] i believe nonny vase i have surveillance and Technology Say great ally in our efforts to curb the increase in property crime. Were seeing that automobiles are having monitoring, in their parked vehicles. I think that we need Police Resources are scarce. I served on the Richmond Community Police Advisory board for a number of years. We only have so many police and a very large geographical area for them to patrol so, its going to be incumbent on all of us to Work Together to bring down property crime. The reporting is another very important piece. We should report property crimes year and consistent so that information data can be used and shared. I think also that we could be doing a lot more as a neighborhood. Thank you, david. Next question for the remaining three candidates. Many residents are concerned about the impact of crime and homelessness on the quality of life in this city. What will you do to ensure that all residents feel safe in their neighborhoods while also addressing Racial Justice and Law Enforcement concerns . Well start with you. I always say that Public Safety and Police Accountability are both core responsibilities of local government. Not only cant you play one off the other but you shouldnt. You can do both. Thats why i support investing in our black community and ensuring the way we look at Law Enforcement and we look atri store tive justice, theres equity. Three hours ago someone was stabbed five blocks away from my house. This morning, a neighbor, who has a public bench and a ferry garden on the corner, it was completely vandalized and thats heartbreaking for our neighborhood. I think that police need to solve crimes and we shouldnt layoff police officers. At the same time, we can invest and. They seemed to have moved from gary. We cant just move our population from corner to corner and district to district. It affects quality of life. The realities our kids shouldnt have to walk to ocean beach and see someone urinating on the corner. Its unacceptable. Statement, we have to see that we have to treat this this issue with compassion and we have to invest in Mental Health services. I do agree. We need more data so we get appropriate funding. We have to reinvest in our communities and shift away from leaving policing. But theres a role for police to play in our community. Property crime is people are saying home and for theres a role for everyone to play in our community. Thank you veronica. Well have sherman. The short answer to your question is we have to enforce the laws. The reason we have laws on the books in San Francisco, is to keep everybody who lives here safe. I want those laws enforced. Not necessarily to punish people but we need to enforce the laws so we get people maybe we can do diverse. Does it mean putting people in jail . It might be some other form of compensation. That being said, Police Department has problems. I understand that. But the solution is not to reduce their budget or to defund them deters crime in the first place and thats what we want. We want the crime to be deterred before it happens. Thank you. Thank you. Now were going to move on to a quick lightening round. So, please answer these questions with only yes, no or no response. The questions will go to all candidates. So for the first question, the lightening round, do you support the San Francisco School Board Decision to remove the murals of George Washington high school from public view . Connie . Yes. Sherman. No. Andrew. Im going to say no. Marshan. No. David . Yes. Veronica. As alumni, i wont answer. Next question. Still the lightening round. So yes, no, or no response answers. Its a current legislatio legisd Short Term Rentals acceptable or should more restrictions be in place . Sherman. No, more restrictions. Andrew . No and there needs to be more restrictions. Marjan . I think there could be more restrictions. Its strict. I guess that is whatever that answer is. David. There could be more restrictions. Investor on veronica. No. Connie. More restrictions. Do you support the expansion of bart or muni to the Outer Richmond . Andrew . No, because the last thing was a disaster on van ness. Just yes or no. Sorry. Sure, if theres money. Yes, no, no response. David. Yes. Veronica. Yes. Connie. Yes. And sherman. No. We dont have the money. Next question. For the lightening round. Do you support prop b split off all public work sidewalk maintenance and sanitation duties into a new agency while the Current Department handles engineering, design, project management and other work tied to San Francisco public infrastructure. Marshan . Could you repeat that . Absolutely. So this is still lightening round no response. Do you support prop b which would split off other street cleaning and sanitation duties into a new agency while the Current Department continues to handle engineering, design, project management and other works tied to San Franciscos public infrastructure. Yes. Andrew . Yes. Ok. Next question in the lightening round. Will you commit to providing your district one constituents with rapid, easy and responsive methods of communicating with you . David. Yes. Ver tonic a. Yes. Connie. Yes. Sherman. Absolutely. Andrew. 100 yes. Marshan. Yes. Sixth question and final question in the light eping rounlighteninground. Are you willing to increase taxes on Tech Companies in order to support infrastructure, environmental and or job training projects . Veronica. Yes. Connie. Sure. But its really about the billion dollars or Million Dollars and what tax category they are. Yes, no, no response please. Sherman. No. Andrew. No. Marshan. No. David. No. Great. Thank you, everyone. Well do three candidates at a time. What will you do to support district 1 businesses, especially minorityowned businesses, as they struggle with the challenges of covid19 both now and in the future . Veronica . This issue is very personal to me as a Small Business owner. If we want to get through this economic pandemic that were going through, we have to invest in Small Business and making sure they survive this pandemic or it will change the dynamics of our community. The reality is Small Businesses are the number one employers for women and undocumented, for students, and if we lose that were going to have a lot of more unemployment individuals here in San Francisco so its crucial to our economic recovery that we invest in supporting Small Businesses, making sure we provide grants, if not low interest loans so that they can survive this pandemic. Were seeing this issue, if you cant tell right now, ter ants are looking like theyre going to get evict and it will change the culture of San Francisco. We want to maintain our Small Business and diversity and we have to reinvest in our Small Businesses, especially those businesses of color. Thank you, veronica. Next well have david. We need to make it easier for Small Businesses to get permits, streamline the process. We need to make language accessibility a priority to make sure that all businesses have opportunities including those owned by immigrants or immigrant owners of Small Businesses that are not aware of the opportunities there are to apply for grants and loans and assistance. We also need to help Small Businesses support them by providing more grants and loans so that they can recover from the crisis. I also believe that the Small Businesses need help with understanding the government regulations and the health codes. It changes every few weeks with the covid19 announcements and as to what is open and what cant open. And that requires out reach from the city, which isnt happening in multi langs. I would make that a priority. Thank you, david. Next well have marshand. Its too hard to started and operate a business in San Francisco. Were losing 10 of our businesses a month and thousands bay area wide. I think that we need to support measures like proposition h, which is on the ballot this november, that will streamline the permitting process so you dont have minorityowned businesses paying rent on a space for four years to open an Indoor Dining establishment, which is happening here in richmond. I think we need to make it more flexible for businesses to kind of reinvent the services they offer so that as they weather this pandemic and move into a new reality where they cant have more people in the business, we cant penalize them for that. I think for the next several years, were going to have to alleviate the fees that were charging our businesses so its not so confusing and not such a gun burden and we need to work with blackled organizations to recruit Business Owners of color to come to our neighborhood. Thank you. Next question. Which are the three candidates. How will you address the looming Economic Situation that may result when the current Eviction Moratorium expires. Well start with andrew. So, regarding the Eviction Moratorium, i believe at the federal level that that is already passed. And people are going to be starting to get eviction notices from their landlords in the beginning of november. The city needs to step in and provide protections for renters and folks and folks that are leasing homes for their families. Again, thats something that is going to take a collective effort from the board of supervisors getting together and figuring out a economic plan where we can protect these people and at the same time we have to consider the fact they have mortgages to pay and it has to be a equitable relationship. Its a very unfortunate situation were all in right now. Unfortunately, i dont know what the supervisor or City Government can do to stop that situation and if the business snow squalls not doing they cant afford the rent and unfortunately, the landlord has a mortgage can pay. What can they do . Its a very catch22. The on thing i can think of would be that if the city chips in and they say, ok, we will allow the occupant to pay half the rent and the Property Owner will get a tax credit for the other portion of the rent on their property taxes, its the only thing i can see City Government can do to help private businesses in the situation. The question doesnt specify and you can answer either way. Definitely. For the crime existing at Eviction Moratorium that was authored by dean preston and approved by the board of supervisors, came in just in time for the San Francisco so i definitely support and we can push forward for that and i also think that its good that we continue funds and free legal representation and free Legal Council for tenants so that in the case in the coming months that they would have to deal with hand lords and they have Legal Assistance and we export the expansion of commercial Eviction Moratorium which expired on september 14th. We need to push forward with that and i think that we need to consider how toen deal with that similarly what we do with residential Eviction Moratorium. Well move on to the next question, which is the Richmond District helping a population of rats following the closure of geary boulevard restaurants and staff productions at Golden Gate Park. How would you deal with this environmental issue and increased trash at ocean beach . Starting with david. Supervisor, we have to hold dpw accountable. And i would make sure our Health Department is held accountable to alleviate pests and garbage pick up, especially. It is a travesty that our Department Head dpw has been implicated in a scandal. I think that the board has not been doing its job by holding the department accountable and thats why scandals have been allow to persist. I think its really time for supervisors to come in and ask questions about the department and what is being done for the Richmond District. The Richmond District has been ignored next well have connie. I have learned this during my time as the staff and San Francisco recreation and Park Department and that is about integrated Pest Management and that is really finding ways to do rodent control without poison and there are messages that we can implement and we need to continue town vest and that is an environmental friendly way to do pest control and Pest Management and that we need to continue extending that program not just for City Departments and also for our everyday residents and for our Small Businesses we just have that and its one of my personal favorite activities to do with my son is beach clean up. Those are the everyday residents can participate and thats what we can do. Then again, it is really about how do we, as legislature, to find policies solutions to do so. Thank you, connie. And finally for those question, well have veronica. Again, these are one of the things Small Businesses and familyowned businesses did until thin thecity. They actually paid for the rooting control and it helped our city stay rodent free. We have to support these Small Businesses and get through this pandemic. The reality is the Richmond District, they took a lot of our trash cans with the campaign of what you bring in you take back home. We need more gosh age cans so people have a place to throw their garbage and we need to hold dpw accountable and make sure they pick up the cityowned trash. We need better relationship with recology so they educate the public of how to use the Free Services of picking up this we need the city cleaned and we need to hold d. P. W. Accountable for that. Full ton street turns into a rice track, what will you do to protect pedestrians and make cycling safer in our district . Starting with sherman . We need timed traffic lights on those streets. Thats how we take care of that problem. If we do that, it makes it safer for pedestrians and we can add a bike lane on full ton. The first thing that needs to be done is we have to have traffic lights at all of the intersections on fullton in the district and gary and california also. Thank you. Thank you, sherman. So, i live eight houses down from fullton so i know what you are talking about and that is our how we get to Golden Gate Park. Who goes to the park, right . Kids, seniors, families, people walking their dogs and its intimidating to cross full ton and when you try to teach kids Traffic Safety you cant really do that on fulton. Not even people running the stop signs. We need to time traffic lights and especially the entrance on 43rd and fulton to the park. You cant tell if its sidewalks, street or dirt. Thats a death trap. We saw a toddler get hit there many years ago. Were seeing it now during the pandemic when the streets are more clear. A lot of speeding, dangerous speeding and i think that time traffic lights are the way to go. Finally for this question, we have andrew. So, obviously all the major corridors in the Richmond District, we need to have more traffic lights. We probably, if were able to do that then we can reduce the amount of pedestrians and bikists in danger of being hit by cars. Just on sixth and balboa, i remember talking to a Small Business owner there and the traffic stop sign is not even visible and its covered by trees. We have to increase the visibility of our stop signs and we have to have time traffic lights in the area on all the major corridors. Thats the answer that were having in our district. Thank you, andrew. Moving on to the next question, considering there may be a large budget shortfall, what will you do to make the San Francisco budget process more transparent . Starting with connie. Just last year, that supervisor sandra lee fewer and norman yee had a legislation mandating there are public and Community Events and gatherings and meetings before the budget goes to before the mayors announce or mayor, any mayor announced their budget. I think that that is the critical piece of it that we actually need to continue to make sure that we have where they think and how we should spend our budget and i think that it is about having the eight i had of City Department and how theyre spending their money before they decide on the budget. While we do at board of supervisors do the hearings except theyre always jammed in one month of june and its very challenging so we need to do it year around. Next well have, andrew. Can you repeat the question. My feed got kind of chopped up there. I didnt catch the question. Considering mr. May be a large budget shortfall, what will you do to make the budget process more transparent . The first thing thing is just, yeah, the idea of transparency is that if im on the bos for district 1, i want to have an understanding from each of the different departments what were spending and why wore spending it and bring that informatio informatio the community so they can understand where their money is going. We can come to an agreement in terms of how we should move forward and on that particular budget because we are facing a 2. 1 billion deficit going into 2021. Next well have david. Look, i talked to hundreds of voters in the last week who have all told me that they dont trust what city hall is saying about our budget and the budget deficit has ballooned. At the same time, the board of supervisor has increased salaries for city workers. At the same time, the board of supervisors have increased their own salaries by 12 . Yet, they want to increase taxes on our voters. Theres taxes that theyre asking voters to pass in order to close the budget deficit and they have not shown city hall has not shown it can be fiscally responsible itself and the leaders at the board of supervisors have not done so so we do need more transparency and i oppose the tax increases i support accountability and i support transparency and i think a supervisor i would call for hearings. Thank you david. Moving on to the next question. San francisco has a significant deficit in the upcoming budget, which due to covid19, will likely persist in the future. What specific policies will you champion to address the likely and current and future issues related to budget decisions. Starting with marchand. So, that question also folds into the last question you asked. I think that we do need more transparency and Community Engagement in how we determine the budget. Its very important to acknowledge there are many folks in our neighborhood who dont have time to go to city hall and to be part of these budget decisions. Its not because they dont want to and they dont love the richmond but theyre working and trying raise families or running a business and we really need to look at how we communicate, right, and how we become more relevant as government leaders to our constituency and as i always say, if were not relevant to the constituents we serve then thats not a failure on their part and thats a failure on our part and 100 applies to the budget and how were reaching neighbors and we need to meet them where they are and be transparent and open about the process and genuine about getting their input and it doesnt Mean Community meetings during working hours. Next, veronica, same question. We need a genuine conversation with our constituency. The fact is, a lot of for those who take the time go to city hall and test the fire regarding the budget or any issue, they do so knowing this decision has been made. That should not happen in a democracy and its happening now. We needed this office here in richmond and of course we need transparency and accountability and we have to hold every elect official and Department Head and department accountable for what is happening at city hall and each department. We have to reevaluate Government Spending and budget cuts and it has to be done without hurting those who are already hurting. Our low wage easterners eastern. To start with, we needed to really make tough decisions an and thank you, very much. Next we have sherman. So, having transparency in budgets or anything in city hall without a way to disseminate that information in our local area doesnt do any good. We need a District Office for the supervisors so that residents can come and we can have on going discussions about what cost there are in the city and what our expenses are in the city. More importantly, what past legislation. I know this is not an easy t. S. X. For a lot of peopltopicbe have passed in the past, legislatively, either through the board of supervisors or us as voters add a lot of cost to government. As supervisors its my responsibility to look at those issues and bring it back to the neighborhood and say, this is costing us ex amount of money, is this what we want to do with the limited resources we have and as supervisors thats the way we would have approached this. Thank you, sherman. We will go into our final question. This is going to be answered by all candidates. So, the final question is, if elected, you will serve for four years. In 2024, what do you want to be able to say was your single most significant accomplishment . Starting with connie. That we have kept our tenants and homeowners on fixed income house. That our Small Businesses are able to stay home and some new ones were able to open too. In that the fact that our 38 geary, hopeful like at some point, brt but probably in 2024 at least run better and more reliable and safer and that Golden Gate Park is able to make it safer for everyone, including the possibility of keeping jfk car free and bringing accessible to everybody all across the city. I think those will be great and they will be really some of my priorities in the coming years when elected as supervisor. Thank you, very much. Next well have sherman. In four years i want to see that the neighborhood is cleaner and safer. I want all the traffic lights and all those corridors in and i want to see the streets clean. When we walk out the door, we dont see trash on the street. A lot of the questions that we have discussed today get back down to the basic thing, you know, are the streets clean. Are the responsibilities that the city hall is supposed to do, are they being done . I would tell you they are not being done. If you go out your dor tomorrow, and you see gash an on the streets and government has failed you and i want to change that in the next four years, thank you. Next well have andrew. In the next four years if im fortunate to be elected as the board of supervisors for district 1, my biggest priority will be making sure that everybody in our community here in the Richmond District is safe in terms of hopefully we have a vaccine by then where we can vaccinate all of the people in the neighborhoods starting with our elderly and those with immuno compromised systems. Secondly, its to make sure that all of our unhoused individuals have a place to stay and were addressing the Mental Health crisis and the Opioid Crisis that is a continuing, growing concern in the Richmond District. Lastly is obvious low to make sure we have Affordable Housing for all of our residents here in the Richmond District. Next well have marchand. So over all, if im elected, i would like to see and i would like our neighbors to see and feel an improvement in their lives in the marries most important to them. It does mean safe, clean streets and with regard to our unhoused residents that weve moved many into treatment and it does mean weve created an environment where opportunities an option for folks to be walking into wall groans and clearing the shelves, which is not safe for anybody. I would like to see more neighborhood engagement and regular input. This is how i can tell because people are talking about these issues. Well i dont think theres a Campaign Season . I think we should talk about these issues all the time with neighbors and coming together like we just did in my neighborhood summit last weekend to tackle these problems tonight. We wont change them overnight but in four years id like to see a marked improvement in those issues. Thank you. Next well have david. First off, the tax increases on a November Ballot that hurt our middleclass and Small Business this is richmond, second, gary brt built and we should be well into our way and were completed as supervisor of shepherd that project and makes sure it happens and hague the groundwork which 10 milliondollar has been allocated for planning and we be fully engage and supportive of that process and build a fort able transit where part is successful such as coliseum connect which has built 114 units of Affordable Housing. Thats what i would focus on as supervisor. And for this question well have veronica. Thank you. Im fortunate enough to be elected, first that no one here in the richmond feels like they were excluded from government process. Their supervisor was held accountable to them and only to them in that special center or corporate america. To make sure that we held every City Department accountable to do their jobs which means making sure our streets are clean and making sure our unhoused population has become an issue during these four years and only during the Campaign Season and making sure streets are safer and slower for our children. Making sure, first of all, making sure our kids Mental Health that theyre going through right now through this pandemic, is in the longterm respect as they go back to school. I think what we want to see is more ethnic businesses here in richmond, safer streets, cleaner streets and you know kids happy and playing in the cities again. In four years, thats what you can see if im elected. Thank you very much. Now we are going to move into candidate closing statements. We are going to do reversal tibet careverse alphabetical ordinary. Order. Thank you to the women voters for in inviting all of us this evening and inviting us to your living rooms today. My name, again is veronica and im a candidate for district 1. This race is personal. I live in a multi generational home with my senior parents and i understand the issues our seniors are having with cuts in their healthcare and issues of Public Safety and i also have a son who has a preexisting condition and has not left home since the pandemic, maybe left four times and understand the struggles of working families and working and paying the rent and educating their kids. I will bring a new voice to city hall for Small Business owners as someone who is dealing with the crisis of Small Business and how we make the tough decisions if im going to close or stay home but i also have 20 years of experience in local and state government. Im a can dat and wont be held accountable to any special center but the voters of San Francisco and the residents of the Richmond District so please visit my website. Thank you. Next well have sherman. Thank you for sharing your evening with us and trying to learn about where we stand on these issues. You know, the most important thing any elected official can do is give you faith that government is working in your interest. So, im going to focus on those things we see everyday when we go out our door. Are the streets clean . Is it safe to cross the street . Do we have those traffic lights in all those intersections. Are the garbage cans empty . Is this trash piling up on the corner. These things should not occur. Theyre a failure of government when they occur. If im elected as supervisor, i will focus on those things. Theres a lot of big things, a lot of big issues that come up every four years that supervisors have to deal with. We need to deal with these first. We need to give our neighbors faith that government is looking out for their supervisors an ini hope to do that as your next supervisor. Next marchand. Thank you for having me tonight. Every four years we have these conversations and you know were running political campaigns and things turn political. I think when it comes to this seat, we forget that San Francisco is a city and county. Were running for supervisor and were City Council Members and they need to focus on the needs of our neighborhoods and delivering those service that are services that are relevant and we talked a lot tonight around homelessness and San Francisco and ensuring that neighbors feel safe and are safe if their neighborhoods and thats really going to require a supervisor who is going to roll up their sleeves and work 24 7 to deliver for all neighbors and not just those who supported him or there in this campaign. Im committed and we will work hard everyday not just in this campaign and beyond to come together as neighbors and ensure that we get through this pandemic as healthy as possible and really rebuild and business and ensure that were keeping families and working people in San Francisco. Next well have david. We have a rare opportunity in district one in the Richmond District to elect a new supervisor. There isnt an incumbent running this year. And were seeing the divisions within our city has led to gridlock either the mayors camp and the progressive camp and they seemed to be fighting and with richmond losing and he has a chance to elect and who has a people and powered campaign and it has kept pace with the front runners through the donations of small donors, small San Francisco donors and through the Public Finance program i am an independent voice for the richmond. Next well have connie. Thank you. Thank you so much for having us tonight. From my years of experience in city hall, i have learned a lot. I have learned from shutting down the marine power plant and okin organizing theorganizing as and grants and fund in our park system and advocating for Free City College and i hope to bring my experience and skills to the table to really help us to close the income gap that we are experiencing and it is threatening our tenants and homeowners to be evicted and our Small Businesses being displaced and its theyre my priority. I will want to work to make sure that they will be housed and stay in their homes and our Small Business stays open and workers can return work in a safer Work Environment and we have a more bike able and walkable richmond and people can still drive safely. Thank you, connie. And finally we have andrew. Yeah, i want to start by thanking the league of women voters of San Francisco for hosting this forum and allowing to us give our ideas on important topics effecting our district. If im elected for bos, for district 1, im going to be focusing on a couple of things. First and foremost, is making sure that we make it out of this pandemic in a stronger position to be successful. That means making sure that all of our residents have access to a potential vaccine. When that happens, so that people can return to some sense of normalcy. Our elderly community, our working moms and dads, our low income families and secondly, i want to make sure obviously that we keep our streets clean and we continue to strive to help our unhoused populations find housing, find Mental Health, lastly it would be to make sure that were protecting our Small Business owners and helping to keep them in business as they continue to recover from the loss during this covid19 pandemic in the closures. Thank you, andrew. So thank you. On behalf of myself and the league of women voters in San Francisco, our thanks to the candidates for participating this evening and wed like to also thank all of the attends for taking the time to inform yourself about your choices on november 3rd. Please, remember to register to vote if you have not already registered and to urge others to register. Registered. If you changed your name or moved you need to reregister to vote. If you will be voting by mail, please be sure your vote will count by ensuring your ballot is mailed or dropped off at a voting place early. Thank you all for being here this evening. As always, i will ask the presenters and the commissioners and the speakers to mute themselves until called on and ask members of the public, ill ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spe