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Im crisis not filipino japanese and im queer too ive been working in soma for quite a bit the year after the earthquake i started working here as a Security Guard as an Affordable Housing director and as a planner if a communitybased now access to housing coordinator for bmr as well as Affordable Housing im here to tell you this i think the diversity of soma is beautiful i love soma since the first day i started to work there and the people the diversity of people and especially 6th street it is in a terrible departments time but love the way that people Work Together and the filipino communities was very accepting of me mainly because of way i look but because of the enlists i was able to bring Japantown Task force they were spooird and member of mac in the mission and those gifts that that ability to see what is happening in the rest of the neighborhood to bring that and talk about the way that people are treated in a different way and different standards and bring that up to try to have solutions is it really important and this is the diversity of soma i am someone that work beed on the south of Market Family zone that was our opportunities to try to carve out 80 a place with the craziness of rincon hill and mid block and created the youth and family to remain the character of this area i believed in this project here is something that is going to destroy that character i want to be clear how does that work and fifth street are an important part of community i believe in stooeshl youre saying the eir and says you can going if to 4 hundred and 40 feet in the block and in Environmental Impact very little there were responses nothing you can do about it you can sit there and say this is i think adequate and see the open space that is provided they have two hours of sunshine 23 hours of shade thats no a gift to the neighborhood you can say that the im here to talk about this this is a Community Vision would weve presented and the same amount that provides luxury housing that wont industry this neighborhood thank you. 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Good evening board of supervisors i live and work a few plain clothes away from in project as a resident in the communities ive met filipino families and clients to express is 5 m will nostril help to sustain the residents income especially for the Filipino Community right now dozens of families im working with cant afford to rent an apartment in system central selma it has consistently transcribed to the you think affordable with the eviction and displacement and workingclass residents and increasing those impacts are real a responsibility of the city to advance the 5m saying this project will include the central selma and impact it presents a greater risk for the soma residents if 5 m project is approved does that impact the surrounding impact and will have a displacement of the filipino communities soma is a place where filipino or so starter their america dream please dont take this communities and trust and approve the 5m because of the impact this project will cost thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im chris a film maker here i walk around it looks a giant construction site i dont want that to happen to soma because i kind of want to see the culture that is built around this still intact i sucks that it really is a bummer that stuff has to happen about the 5m project the city and the developer has mislead the public claiming the special prauchlt for the community that the Community Benefit will not happen if at the explicit get the special approvals you know as also known as an art im kind of tired of seeing a lot of good people leave this awesome place and as it turns anti into take away something by the way, yeah recycle please dont approve this this is really awful it is bad for the community i care im only speaking from my heart i care about my community the diversity and everything you know i care about that place so thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im Robert Marquis living in district 5 work at market and 7 since 2001 and evicted and to Market Street but krment soma is my home for the filipino communities i came from Florida Group white that washed if a similar cultural and when i came in here he took a little bit of wine cultural in soma i ran into people that became part of my community and marble arts in the south of market part of sharing the art my experience i want the Filipino Community to participate in the chinese new years parade and participated in the citywide books it was apple i Congress Place im here to you of the on twitter tax break committee about one million square feet we saw what happens with the million square feet so this special zone it is about one million zone were talking about high luxury condos and high resale and highend office space to quote splendor someone from the transportation or transportation genocide i dont have to make this up rather than talk about that 15 years from now what are we are doing to do to address this well be proactive and address it now get the vision to what the space is supposed to look like i dont know how housing happens in this city i was on tndc has double credited for the 67 is avenue, i heard this property was ready to go in 2009, this citys budget has increased like 2 and a half billion dollars i dont know what it takes but what you Start Talking about avenue, i think this is the opportunity to slow down and look at the leadership to look at up and say what do we want to do this a million skis u skews in the most valuable square in the world right now it is valuable and magical you guys can approve it i ask you to take youre showing time to get a real Environmental Impact report done. 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Tom the government of the people for the people how about a city with those standards another neighborhood another neighborhood courthouse fighting for its Neighborhood Housing not being built for filipino for 8 percent of the people in San Francisco changing events and changing times and changing values it is california we run other out of gold in the gold rush maybe the hours needs a new system magnificent profits for healthy neighborhoods and growing and maintaining them and letting people grow old and letting the babies be born and kids growing up what if up to date change our housing evaluation success isnt a developer massive profit can we continue growing a healthy neighborhood people fighting in the mission tenderloin is going different neighborhoods not for this people of San Francisco government of the people by the people for the people something is amiss what if new developments all new developments get thirty percent open to the market what happens if we pull 10 percent of the old folks from the local zip codes 15 percent of People Living in those local zip codes around the development and i. And pulling the society up its time for a change what happened 5 percent for the people from San Francisco long term elderly to move into any new project condo or apartment what happens if we can get 10 percent of the people of the units in each building for the teachers, police are fire, sewer road, electrical and muni workers and thirty percent left for people that are less fortunate seniors that could a have an income ive lived too long and people that have a home but theyre being they cant maintain have to move out and veterans integrated foster kids people in the Community People in our healthy we can raise everybody im for change thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello good evening supervisors im andrew im a resident of soma and i wish to urge you to not rush to approve that project lets reexamine it an adequate eir lets take a step back and send this back to planning so we can further see the impacts on the communities i moved here 11 years ago with the thought of a vibrant community now joy fully in the midst means it should be perpetual threaten no matter the composition of the new Companies Taking up office what we or will be eir vocally tossed by the way side how Many Community centers and affordable units and other promises sway not the bottom line what grew over and over combaveng on its own displaced by the persons thereof hugh how far where will it go next and how much blur the lines of character between one neighborhood and another before everyone realize and wakes up up with no motivation what we unwitness employee created together please dont approve that project and send it back to planning thank you. Thank you. 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Im tin i cant with gabriel i work with San Francisco immigrant and migrate women im speaking in support of appeal and not ask the board of supervisors to rush to approve the 5m project were relying on the Corporate Investment without the regulations is not the solution to the affordability crisis 40 in San Francisco the voters asked for thirty percent affordable for low income it puts us farther and farther behind without the housing goals and causing further dam in the Soma Community were not here for youre showing sympathy for the evictions and widening income disparity happening in the city youre considering a project that contributes to the worsening of racial and i think equality if this socalled sanctuary city not just the contemplation of fm filipino but the chinese and black communities were here to seek a fannie in genuine planning moments with the victories for the community happen because of the overwhelm punishing for whats right we need Genuine Community planning that will rather looking for the wellbeing of the Community Take for example, at the rosemarie shes lived with the extends family if the soma with the little income manages to send people to the filipinos and to the social fabric of soma works at a hotel as a housekeeper ambassadors come to stay here fell workers work with locals and tourist cbo shopping and received an eviction notice and here neighbor got one thousands of rose maries outlining throughout the city the city of needs to do a better job of protecting rose marie and the city needs to ask the community what kind of planning to will a dignified life but rosemary are displaced and many more like her not talk about the great contributions of filipino building and making this city and country great without talking about what makes them struggle make the rights decision by accepting this and sloin the project progress and make that more inclusive for the phone please not contribute to the mistakes by contributing thank you. 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Hello, im karen smooth im a 6th district generation coming from the chineseamerican with solidarity with the residents speaking convince the 5m i came to speak out against the mayors proposal for the 80 Million Construction of the state of the art jail project that came before the board youll probably familiar with several the members of the board opposed did jail for the serves as part of jail are part of disproportionately brown and black communities should have access without being bokdz into jail and how it is recommended to the issues of housing it is 0 objective u obvious but needs to be restated jails are not the kind of Affordable Housing theyre asking ignore 100 percent building theyll be and their gentrified with the increasing calling for the criminalization the ill and the others if you approve that Luxury Development that that pathsic with no low Income Housing youre showing sending a clear message house people behind bars if the 5 m project were 100 percent truly Affordable Housing that would be a true statement including jane kim and will have alternatives to incarceration thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening from San FranciscoRising AllianceSan FranciscoRising Alliance an Alliance Coalition of long term coalition offer people that live in the south of market the bayview and in the western edition and the mission in the Outer Mission in the o m ion on behalf of the members of just cause of kohlman advocates and others organizations we urge the board to support the appeal and reserve the certification the Environmental Impact report were joining the real eloquent course of voices youve heard and so for all the manifold reasons of justice of inequality the displacement please, please, please sends this project back to planning thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Im andy blue if the plaza 16 coalition were that here in solidarity to reject this project in 5 m were in a crisis city and world not a moment we needed the elected leaders to foresight for or fight for the people now we need over elected leaders to fight like hell against corporate greed who needs to go over the family zone who says it prioritize the needs of people over the profits of the hearst kormth in forest city who can say is is not driven by greed the up zoning is a generous gift to the Hearst Corporation and forest city at the expense the exist community why will the up zoning and who benefits if the up zoning you simplely caught up build this without severe consequences for the residents we know that the plaza 16 and mission developed when they heard about the monster in the mission by max must at 16th street and mission the folks in the mission knows exactly what happened when luxury is built it is happening to them theyre being displaced 18 thousand latinos from the mission since 2000 what would happen to the filipino the unaffordable bmrs on site not for existing residents therefore when did cost of housing skyrockets people will be displaced forever you kabts say youre showing hands are tied we dont have to keep accepting the crumbles uniforms u criminals that they through us for the arts spaces we have to say no to austerity there are alternatives and the communities has come up with a fantastic vision for the space this alone is reason to reject this and send it back to planning look at it meets the needed of zoning and it is within the current height that stands for the project and three hundred units of Affordable Housing and tons of office space there are alternatives and youre showing hands are not tied not take the crumbs from the Hearst Corporation we need you to fight the city is in a crisis the would world and the scared duty make the right decision thank you very much thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Were evicted i remember the phone leaning and walking the streets to a revolution somewhere within the israel of mini in a and significant and the dirt past the condo for the next 20 years well planning the life of this place she says where will they go the families, planting children like rice along the streets and behind the warehouses until theyre paying the days when their Social Security check arrives is there a zone for it to refugees and those is city planning theyre planning another location for the 21st century with the city free for those who have awkward back cards with the relocations of you and me this time not a barbed wire fence to stand behind that was written in 1989 1989 and it is so relate today there is a vision for the city. I started working at the south of market in 2004 after college and now a youth counselor there here so right down the broke this project is you know basically take over the filipinos were displaced if manila town adjacent to chinatown and then if yerba buena through the redevelopment the 5m project proposal in south of market is the latest attempt to drive out for purposes from their homes and neighborhood the up zoning in the proposed 5 m sud will accelerate the displacement of thousands of filipinos and other workingclass families youth and seniors in soma those developers have never understand here and had their roots they dont know the this will not help the if that families and residents instead approvals will impact the following residents and the massive displacements of filipino communities based on the urban project the Action Initiative in collaborative with the researchers at ucla communitybased organizations and the statistic resource where do the south of market is if its advanced stages of displacement and gentrification the 5m project will accelerate the displacement and gentrification documented by the report i know longer than recognize this soma and recognize San Francisco i recognize when is happening please, please not the 5 m. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Im a Youth Program yoerd at the Filipino Community as an usher born if the filipinos and actually used to live off bryant street light one of the folks that actually thousands of people that have been displaced and live in the east bay now so when we say displacement it is a real thing for so many people for the by the way, and so many people in the country and this world we live in filipino are displaced at t alarming rate of 6 thousand filipino looking for work in the phone number