[laughter] i think what i heard from all the other commissioner was this report has a lot in it. But you cant take the report by itself. Theres so many other reports that can feed in to give you a more accurate picture of what is happening on the ground, whether it is racial disparity, income by neighbourhood, all these different things. The capacity. So, it is really tying all these things together that we can actually think of a path forward or solution. A couple of other points besides that is, theres also commissioner johnson raised the issue of capacity when it comes to building up to the zoning potential. A Single Family home in rh2 is not desirable. This brings me to a statement, size does matter. The average size of a home in San Francisco is 1200 square feet provided by the department 12 months ago. However, we get these applications, not only are we underbuilding, but building a Single Family house in rh2, but everything that is 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 square feet is called public housing. If an average house is 1200 square feet, if you need 3,000 square feet to survive, youre probably smoking something because we can probably fit three units in that same space. Lets not look at units but the size of the units. We can get more units in if we make them more reasonable and we should be looking at that when were definitely trying to maximize the density. Lastly, two commissioner johnsons point, i completely agree. A lot of Property Developers are looking at their proformas. The risk is the rents are justifying the risk involved given the cost to construct. If they start falling, i hope we dont have a disincentive to not build. So, it is becoming a vicious circle. A vicious cycle. Thank you. On that question, the 4,000 units that were built over the past year, do you have a sense of when they were entiets ld . Entitled . Like it would be interesting to see kind of. Because we have faced this issue a little bit. There is the one side that says we need to bill. But it would be interesting to see when those were actually entitled. I dont know if you have any sense of that. Thank you, commissioner. We do have information as to what quarter theyre built in and the date of the entitlement as well. So, we can definitely get back to you in terms of how many are by quarter or by month. If theyre entitled, they were mostly entitled in 2012 or 2008. To me this report shows a couple of things. One, if you do look at that neighbourhood page where housing is being bill, over half is built south of market. That includes goes down to dog patch pretty much. So, not what we would necessarily think of as south of market and quickly drops to number two, which is the western edition which i sense is octavia boulevard and protons there and along market street. Going up octavia market and south bay shore which is close to the shipyard projects that are being done. It shows the planning weve done in the past is paying off. That is precome fanlly where the units are being built. Which i know were having growing pains with all of these plans. That is where we planned for it and i think that is where its appropriate that it goes so it is paying off. I think the commissioners question about the gap in affordable, that is real. The units as well as existing units are way out of price range for most folks trying to buy these and two work in the city. And you have to figure out what subsidies you can do for a. M. I. And state programmes that arent necessarily geared to subsidies associated with that. But its a real issue. How we build more Affordable Housing both at the lower income levels and in increasing that to about 150 of a. M. I. I think that is the biggest question that comes out of this. The jobs issue you brought up, i think the gap in your analysis is regional. And i think weve go to look at that regionally because, you know, it is gooed to see actually i was a little surprised to see there are other counties. Even though were out in front of most building housing. And its where you would expect. It is in alameda and santa clara so its around the san jose and oakland kind of central quarters and it is a where we should see it. San mateo, where there is a lot of jobs is woefully behind and gets o its to these bigger regional issues. We should be building the majority of housing along with alameda in santa clara because that is how transit information is built. Or at least we should be having the majority of jobs and housinging should be built everywhere. And that is certainly san mateo, there is tonnes of opportunity sites to build and housing in marin, also. It definitely gets out that regional question of how we can get more housing being built throughout the region. So thank you. I think this does lead to a kind of policy questions that i think notably the regional issues and Affordable Housing. [please stand by] [please stand by] [please stand by] finally moving forward with their big first phases, right . The shipyard, parkmerced, so we should effectively see several thousand units in those projects move forward in the next couple of years, and im crossing my fingers on that because i think its far beyond time, to be froank, that they move forward with some big phases on those projects. The second thing that i wanted to mention is the job balance report had information about how people cross commute between counties. We have it between counties, and theres pretty vast numbers of people who commute between counties. But whats, i think interesting about that is its constantly changing because people move their residences more frequently than they change residences. That whole thing is in a state of flux, because people are changing jobs so frequently, and in the my lennial generation, their preference is milennial generation, their preference is to live close to where they work. Theres this constant maneuvering and job changing in our environment that was quite different than what it was maybe 15 or 20 years ago. Thats also causing housing numbers to change as we think about this housing and jobs issue. I do think that the regional issues are really important, and i was struck also by commissioner hilliss comment that essentially two thirds of the housing in the region are being built in three places, essentially, and sort of by design by also where the housing is being accepted. Commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson hi, yes. So i just want to put a couple other data points behind this. I did a study on this job housing just a few months ago, and so looked at some census data, and looked at new jobs in the nine bay area counties actually exceeded new net migration. It just so happens that those jobs tend to be centered in just a few centers, both San Francisco now and also in the south bay, and its also the case that those people would trade smaller units with a with a shorter commute over a longer commute, so they are doing their best to move closer to where those jobs are. So i dont know that that should we should still have those policy discussions, but just in the context, its not people coming from mars to the bay area, its people in the bay area getting those jobs and wanting to live closer to work. And the other thing is San Francisco by far it has the most net in migration for commuters, so more commuters come from the nine boundary areas than any other bay area for jobs. You put on top of that i think its 159,000 people every day net come to San Francisco to work versus going out somewhere else. I guarantee you some good percentage of those 160odd thousand people would wish they didnt have to do that and would want to live there. So even though it is a regional issue, we should still continue to think about how we can continue the housing in San Francisco even as we put pressure on our other sis center cities. You look at mountain view, google has expanded their complex, so we need to continue to put that public pressure and be the leaders, but we still have a lot of net migration into San Francisco every day, but ill bet a lot of those people wish they didnt have to drive a car or cross a bridge or tunnel and just bike to work. Thank you staff. That will place us on item 10, the excelsior and Outer Mission neighborhood strategy, informational presentation. Commissioners, we have another new staffer to introduce you to. Rachel tanner started with the department in july of 2016, and as im sure you will be able to tell, rachel was born and raised in michigan, where she also attended the university of michigan, so shes wup of our rock stars. She directed a Community Based organization in her hometown for several years before she attended m. I. T. Where she got her masters in urban planning, and she comes to us by way of long beach. She started in religion and worked her way to Northern California so welcome, rachel. Im very happy to be here commissioners and share a project that im very passionate, my career since ive been in San Francisco. Im going to ask some sue sand saul from supervisor safais office can come forward and share a little bit about the presentation. Good afternoon. Supervisor safai sends his apologies for his absences. I do want to extend my gratitude for all of you. I want to thank Rachel Tanner and jose leivas from oawd for th their work. We look forward to continuing the conversation and happy holidays to the rest of you. Ill be sitting over there and hand it back to our dynamic duo. I also want to recognize jorge rivas whos here from the office of Workforce Development, as well as planning staff, james pappas and others, whos been helping us overseeing this project. Weve been really fortunate to have collaborative works from the office of economics and Workforce Development. If i can have the screen, please. So what were going to do today is really just Start Talking a little bit about the excelsior outer neighborhood, talk about the neighborhood strategy process that weve undergone to date, and next steps what you can expect to see from us next time that we come before the commission. So this is a map of the project area here in yellow. It is bounded by the 280 friday on the north and on the western boundary. It goes all the way down to the daly city boundary on the south, and on the right is mclaren park, and sunnydale housing projects immediately to the east. This area is almost entirely within d11. There is a little bit that is a part of district 8, but its south of the freeway, but we wanted to include it because geographically it makes sense as part of that area. In this map, you can see the orange line that represents where the compel yes, sir and Outer Mission commercial district is. It is one of the longest districts thats named in the city its about two miles long. It is mainly on Mission Street but also has branchs on geneva avenue, which is an eastwest route. In this next map on slide five, you can see the neighborhoods that surround that commercial corridor. The neighborhood boundaries can be a little bit fungible, i suppose, but weve worked with the neighborhood residents to come up with these Mission Terrace Outer Mission terrace a terra terrace and then cuyaga terrace. This is going to give you a little more texture to this landscape that weve just gone over in the project area. These neighborhoods have a really dynamic history. You can see in the upper lefthand photo kind of a photo from foote and allemany in 1986. You can see there was a lot of open neighborhood waiting to be developed. You can think early 1800s, turn of the last century, and then after the earthquake, developments started to pick up. We saw immigrants coming from all over the world to this part of the town. We saw a lot of italians moving to this area of town, and then, also subsequently immigrants from south america and immigrants from asian countries, so youll see theres quite a diverse array of folks that live in the neighborhood. The diversity is something that the neighborhood really embraces and is proud of and really wants to maintain, but it hasnt always been that way, so thats a little shot of a street sign, the excelsior district. The eastwest streets are named for countries, and the northsouth streets are named for capitals. Just to say that even though this neighborhood is very diverse, it hasnt been without its controversy and its challenges, but its still a very is vibrant neighborhood. You can see theres a plaque on Mission Street to jerry garcia. Youll find the house of former mayor rolle, and even the house when patty hearst was found all those years ago, so a very diverse neighborhood with a lot of San Francisco history. When you look at demographics, again, picking up on the theme of the diversity, youll see that 52 of the neighborhood is foreign born, versus 35 citywide, again, a lot of people coming to live in the compeller and Outer Mission neighborhood. Out of the 17,000 households in the neighborhood, 76 the families are family households, and you see a higher than average 64 of households own their home versus 36 that rent, which is a complete opposite of the city of terrific, so really pret San Francisco, so pretty awesome aspect in that regard. Makeup of the neighborhood, 20 households that are two or more races. Youll see 31 is latina and latino over that, and then, a lot of folks that are linguistically isolated. But do have to think about what does that outreach mean for planning, but what does that mean for their job prospects in the city if theyre not able to speak english. Age direction in the neighborhood, you know, a good number of people in their middle age and also seniors, as well. Moving onto the slide about income, you can see that the household and Median Income trail the city average, and then, going all the way over to the right, youll see the education, so 46 percent of the neighborhood residences have High School Education or less, compared with 26 citywide, and youll see on the other end of the education spectrum, youll see that 27 have a college and education degree, versus 21 citywide. There are a number of bus routes that crisscross the neighborhood, and you can see in the neighborhood of general he have a, there are many routes that intersect, so again, very busy, transit rich neighborhood, but within that, we still see a lot of challenges. You can also see in yellow the high injury network, so that talks about where people are having vehicle and pedestrians and bicycle collisions, and you can see the dots where there have been fatalities. We think about public institutions, also very wealthy neighborhood. You can see in blue the schools. There are about 12 private, public and Charter Schools around the neighborhood. An array of parks and recreational facilities, a library, lots of parks and open spaces, about 15 churches and other religious organizations, that can provide some continuity as well as Child Care Centers right on the corridor. When it comes to housing, we can see theres a little bit of a boom of Housing Development in a neighborhood that hasnt seen a lot for a while. The yellow are developing housing units, and the 2 blue dots are 100 Affordable Housing development. We have about 900 units in the pipeline. About 500 of those are market rate, and almost 400 are affordable. When we look at the rest of the housing stock, we see about 18,000 residents about 90 is singlefamily homes. On the next slide, we see a little bit about the cost of housing, and so as you can imagine, the cost of housing here is also high, so even though its a high homeowner neighborhood, a lot of kind of stability in that regard, we still see very high median rent and land values. Rent of about 3800 a month, and you can see how thats affecting people. If we look at the charts, theyre about cost burden for homeowners, and cost burden for renters. So looking at these, we can understand how things begin to change or continue to change in the real estate network, with you can see that people are affected and will continue to be affected. Even though its an outer neighborhood, it still faces the same housing pressures that neighborhoods in San Francisco face. If you look at the table, it shows the affordable rental and sales rates for a family of four, so even at the low, the moderate and affordable rates, those rates are still lower than what the median rate is in the neighborhood so people will still be struggling to pay their rent. The neighborhood commercial district is a very vibrant and active place. If you havent been there, i encourage you to spend some time there. Youll find really a lot of foundational assets of a 20 minute neighborhood. Youll find cuisine from every part of the world. It also has essential things, like post office, laundry, dry cleaner, urgent care, things that let people do the things they need to do within their neighborhoods. Theres a lot of salons, a lot of car repair, and for some reason, a lot of dental and optometry businesses tend to be out there. It has some vacant spaces that weve loved to see filled. When we did our study, we asked people do they do most of their shopping on the commercial district, and about 35 of the residents said yes, so can we have a better mix of retail that fills in those gaps so we can have more people answer yes to that question. So a neighborhood strategy there we go really is thinking about what is the vision for the future of the neighborhood. How do we have goals that allow us to realize that vision, how do we Design Strategies that we can implement on the ground that will lead us to those goals, and the most important thing, implementation. We have lots of things we want to see, but what can we move forward to actually implement. This takes ideas from the Mission Action plan 2020. So a timeline of activities that were undergoing this year, its really starting with relationship building, meeting oneonone with community leaders, attending community meetings, so using those as a spring board to start the process. Not starting from scratch, but there are a number of plans, ideas, processes that organizations have led and weve built from their work. In may, we had a kickoff meeting with 150 folks there and city agencies, talking about all the great things that are happening in the neighborhood. We took that workshop on the road and in total we were able to talk to about 250 people through our workshop, and then also led a survey where we had about 970 responses to the survey from the community. In august and through the summer, we had an intern who worked on existing conditions report, some of the data you heard today. She gathered that and that will be part of our published strategy. Finally, in the early 2018, we hope to have some focus groups as well as publish the first phase of the neighborhood strategy. So the working group, working group is a new kind of technique that we used for Community Engagement with this strategy, and really, the idea was that wed have a group of folks who were working on establishing a future goal for the neighbored, prioritizing the goals that can help to align on strategy. The reasons to establish this group were to make sure we had some consistency. Often times in community meetings, different people kind of show up every time and that were starting from scratch, so we can have a body of people who are committed, we can create some consistency, and talking to really talking to their neighbors, and realize its not about negotiating or compromising with the city, but thinking of compromises that will work for their neighbors and work for the entire community. About 31 people were selected in the summer to be part of this group. Weve had over 20 meetings tours and walks since july, so weve been very busy, and its really helped to have open dialogue. Its open to everyone, so its not exclusive, but again, to try to have a core group of people working with us. A few people are here. Theres jason, who is an avid bik biker. Hes a father of two, and his wife is a native, and theyve been in the Outer Mission since 2013. Hes excited to learn about this process of planning and what this neighborhood process can do. Theres katey. I love her story. Shes there with the pink flowers in the middle, and those are her parents. Her dad is 101. They still live in the neighborhood on her own, and then she and her husband had two kids, and they still live in the family home. So again, another retiree from the epa, actually, and she just wanted to give a positive contribution to her neighborhood through this process. We have ulysses. Hes 25. He and his mother live together. Hes fortunate enough to own his own home at a very young age. Hes right now in the sfpd academy, and hes passionate about having a plan for the neighborhood with all the changes happening in the city, and thinking about how he can correct old residents and new residents together. And then, we have susan. She and her husband live in the Outer Mission area, and their daughter who was just born earlier this year. Shes interested in how she can have a neighborhood where her daughter is excited to grow up. This is a list of the full working working members and other city staff, so if youre certainly interested to learn more about them, thats something we can make map. So what has all of this led up to . Lots of meetings, talking, surveys. Its led up to a little bit about thinking of assets and challenges, and how do we leverage the assets to rise to the challenges. So this is what rose to the top when we talked to people about what they love about the neighborhood. They do have a wide variety. Again, maybe we could do better, but there are things thats there. The culture and the Community Came through, and also community groups, so people really love the people that live in this neighborhood. That came through very loud and clear. We also asked people what could best improve their opinion of mission and jenngeneva. Clean came to mind. People want to have a clean green experience when theyre w walking down the street. More housing, people thought they needed more housing for every group. Safety and security, again, and also being able to get around, so you can see how all those things go hand in hand to creating an active, healthy vibrant commercial corridor. As our neighborhood changes, we support, sustain and enhance what makes our neighborhood special. I think this aspiration drive that fine line between embracing change and also trying to weather change and making sure we dont lose whats great as we change. So we had foursub groups from that large group, and what theyre doing right now is really coming up with what are the goals that we want and what are the strategies we want and what are the priorities to implement. You can see a snapshot of some of the topics that have come up. Under land use and housing, you can imagine affordable is huge, as well as housing design. How do we ensure the design of the buildings coming forward really matches the neighborhood and really fits in. Under public realm, again, cleaning, greening and creating some spaces along the corridor for people to gather and spend their time. Pedestrians safety as well as pedestrian connections to and from the corridor. For business support, its a lot about filling vacant storefronts to make sure that those missing gaps are filled in. Thinking about how Small Businesses survive, do they need support or loans or lending programs, and then also how do we have more Job Opportunities on the corridor for residents, but then do have more opportunities throughout the city. So what well be doing in the coming months is prioritizing our strategies, and have target groups to focus on groups that we havent heard from as month, publish the final strategy and then begin phase one, and then, of course, theres phase two which looks at the larger neighborhood surrounding the co corridor. So that is the end of my presentation and were happy to take any questions. We may have some but were going to open it up for Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Hello, commissioners. My name is gilbert williams. Im a resident of district 11. Went to high school and Junior High School there, so i know the neighborhood pretty well. Im also chairman of ace action, and you know, sitting here and listening to everything, its really hard for me not to think about whats happened to our city. Weve lost 8,000 latinos from the Mission District, which is our neighbors to the north. Our African American population, when i was going to high school, was 17 . Its now down to under 3 . As a Planning Commission, you cant feel good about that. As someone whos grownup in this city, i feel very its actualli actually enraging, you know, to me, to see this happen. Im hearing all the arguments to affordablity. To me, im not a housing expert, but i do deal with a lot of my neighbors that are going through evictions and crises around housing. Unfortunately, theres been thousands and thousands of evictions throughout the city. Im sure you guys are very well known about all of that stuff. But im very concerned about a couple of things. The you know, one of the things that this this group has has or the Planning Department and this working group has brought forward is upzoning the Mission Street corridor to build more dance and higher buildings. Okay. All i have to do is look towards the Mission District and see what has happened to that community. Given that weve lost so many people, i really think its time that we as a city and you guys as a commission, really think about where weve failed. We have failed, you know, thousands of people. My concern is that when you upzone stuff like that, its going to feel more speculation and add to more displacement. There are hundreds of seniors that live on this corridor, and you know, im really concerned that the issues of displacement should be first. Weve lost way too many people to put that to the side. I think that has to be front and center as you, a commission, and you know responsible for the planning of this city. I think weve lost way too many people, and i really think that the whole this whole conversation needs to shift and and end right there. How do we keep the people in their homes that are struggling, and how do we not cause gentrification or miss placement in our neighborhoods . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is sai. Im a member of the working group, but im also the coordinator of Communities United for health and justice, cuhj, which is an alliance thats based in the excelsior, and we are five organizations. Not going to name all of them, but im going to name filipino neighborhood center. I came here in september to speak before you because we wrote a letter when this neighborhood trot gstrategy be we were concerned about the type of seeds that came forward, and the actual makeup of the group not having enough immigrant families and youth and students in that working group. And here we are now. I heard that theres going to be a second phase to it that will have a focus group that will have more of those integrated in the strategy. But for me, if were going to have a plan to propose to the focus group, it would have been nice to have that beforehand and have really integrated the young people that currently lives and go to school there and use it and stuff. Weve been trying to really work hard to come up with solutions. Cuhjs been around for almost ten years now, and a lot of our work is around immigrant communities, youth empowerment, and now recent equitiable development, and we have been doing the community mapping, doing the better neighborhoods map. Weve even been doing a tour that we hold, the Community Members actually holds, which im inviting every commissioner to come and do with us. But i wanted to share this document called the better neighborhoods same neighborhoods proposition that we actually shared at the [ inaudible ]. We actually shared this as one of o at one of our meetings, and its really bold. One Affordable Housing to one market rate housing that comes into the neighborhood. Super wild dream, but for us who is facing a lot of gentrification, this is not a lot for us. Its bold so we can guarantee our survival in the city. So i want to ask everyone to look at this, and we are going to work hard to integrate this in the neighborhood strategy, and even beyond, but again, i want to call the Planning Commissioners in to really take the lead of the most vulnerable communities, when it comes to planning about communities like the excelsior that has historically full of immigrants and families, and its home to a lot of older and younger folks. Im going to end here because thats my time, but some other folks from the alliance will also be speaking. Thanks. Next speaker. My name is robin navarro, and a past resident of the excelsior district. Working with children, youth and families, some concerns are the plans for the excelsior. With few youth and Family Voices in planning and accessiblity to meetings like these for working class families, i would like to highlight Mental Health concerns around displacement and trauma that it entails. Youth are being pushed out and many of them are commuting out of San Francisco. Even our own sf foster youth are being gentrified, where adoption and foster families are out of sf and unable to stay in the city that they love. I urge the Planning Commission to listen to the community who shaped the 11. 100 Affordable Housing is a must. To support the youth and family in the area. A question that is asked in the community to the youth is, do you see yourself raising a family and having grandchildren here . Many of them say no, and many of them are triggered by this question. Due to the lack of opportunities and the rising wealth of San Francisco, their neighbors are changing, and all that they be or become with changing. We ask you to invite the young people in sf and learn from them on the ground. The development of the Excelsior Outer Mission districts will be a true testament of the San Francisco Planning Commission serving poor and working class families who already have numerous barriers to succeed in this city. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is sunshine rokei. I am a teacher an lincoln high school, and i have grownup and still living in the excelsior neighborhood, and i am here to share my fears about the process and planning and development thats happening in our neighborhood. My first fear that when we talk about the excelsior, you dont really know our neighborhood. We are working class immigrants, multifamily households, right . I love in a household of 15 people, and thats one out of the three households in my block alone, so i saw a slide that said we are singlefamily homes and thats where that fear sprung from. My next fear is when we talk about demand for housing, were not talking about the families and friends that i grew up with. I fear when we talk about demand for housing, we are talking about inviting outsiders with money into our neighborhoods, and i know we need money, but that money that were talking about is fleeting. What is not fleeting is the families that have proven time and time again that despite mechanisms that work against them, that they will live and stay here. Their roots in the excelsior that i think in the process of development that we are not looking at, and these are deep rooted with mothers that pick up their sons and daughters at one of the 13 high schools 13 schools in our neighborhood, right . So next thing i want to point out is that ive come to a few of the meetings and what i also see that a lot of these people that i grew up with are not at those meetings, that we are not represented, so i think when we talk about development in the excelsior, we really want Genuine Development for the people already living there, and that its not enough to open the door, i think, and maybe we can talk about it later on, but i really feel we have to step outside the door and reach for the community. Again, i saw a slide that said not many of our Community Members shop in the mission area. I dont think youve been in our on our block around 3 00 p. M. It is crowded, right . Ca casa lucas, yung chi market. Its crowded. I hope we dont create development for the sake of time and making it look good on a powerpoint. I hope we take the time to look at longterm answers to these questions that we have and to include the community that is most suffering. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is thierry. Im the director of the filipino center, and weve been around for about 11 years. We work closely with south of market, and this is what weve been doing is activating our community that hasnt been at the table for a long time to work on these particular issues. Folks have talked about the neighborhood. Its working families, its recent families, and thats who were engaging. What commissioners talked about, the differentiated impact in particular in district 11, the families in the household are there, the racial demographics, and district is 1 has the highest rates of owner evictions and moveins. As sunshine and others mentioned, not just about building housing for the folks that are coming in, but pushing other folks out. By engaging folks in this community, its an acute crisis and problem in district 11. Thats why this particular planning process is very important for district 11. It will potentially reshape the entire neighborhood. Through our organizing efforts, but mobilizing youth, we got them to transfer from mta to mot housing. Thats a public site. Theres a provide site we worked on, the valencia funeral home, where we had 85 affordable. Some condos on the allemeny side. This is the imaginative possibility when communities work together. We had those projects with the San Francisco foundation, we were we were [ inaudible ] were people are engaging limiting super efficient recent immigrant low income folks who cant access a lot of the job markets, invested in the sf foundation, and theyre continuing to invest in many of our other projects to really hold the community there thats there, thats being pushed out. Folks are going out to the tricity area, vallejo, and they come back. Thats the community were trying to hold you, and were looking forward to working with you, come out to the neighborhood. We really need to do more than what we have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. Four years ago when i started talking about the alterations, my boys played a lot of sports, and they went out to these neighborhoods and played in these playgrounds, both Public School and cyo, so i know these neighborhoods from that. Its a real quick bus ride on the mission bus out there from noe valley. I imagine its a quick uber ride, too, from everywhere. I worry about this, i worry about the next phase, i worry about these blocks with these are things you wont see because no one will dr them, and youll lose housing, and itll become very expensive. I dont know if you looked at that sfcurved website, well, they have a little poll there comparing some with excelsior. This is a great neighborhood with great housing, and very right la vulnerable. I hope youll tighten it up so we wont see this really wonderful area of the city go away. Its not just the housing, but its the people that live there and what it represents. And ill say one more thing, the ted egan talk at the land use committee, i mentioned that report, he said the rents are across the board the same. So it used to be where some neighborhoods, you could go gee, i could go there and it would be a little more affordable. He said thats not the case, and i would imagine that unfortunately thats happening with the housing crisis and the pressures in noe valley and the mission are coming there, and i think theres something that has to be done, even if its a mo moratorium, but to protect that housing of Mission Street, because thats the last basstion of afford object housing in our city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you, commissioners. My name is david hooper, and i serve on the working group, and i live in Mission Terrace. I lived there for over 30 years. I was raised in the mission. What id like to say, id like to thank supervisor safai for getting the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development and the Planning Department to convene the working group. Id like to say that at the groups, members of the public have attended and have contributed. Sometimes what you think you know, another member of the working group is talking about, when another member of the public comes in and starts adding a perspective that makes the whole idea more valuable. Id also like to thank Rachel Tanner and jorge rivas for their effort in trying to corral us month after month for these meetings and make something come through. As for the mission commercial corridor itself, rachel did touch on the fact that there are vacancies, there are a lot of vacancies. A lot of buildings on the Mission Corridor are typically one story high. In the future, its understood that this kind of development is going to exist when the buildings get developed. When something starts happening, they will be units above particularly newly built is seneca and mission, the sites at 65 ocean and adjacent to it. 915 cayuga, the upper yard. Were looking at 1,000 units that are coming in, and a sizeable portion of those are going to be affordable. In the meantime, design counts. This isnt vanness avenue. This isnt the inner mission. We know its going up much higher than what weve gone now, and id really prefer if not the marshall plan. Were going to have to make a real effort because the community thats there has to be able to take some pride, not just living in the buildings, but being part of the community where that is the commercial corridor. The other thing id like to say about development is it isnt just housing, its jobs. It isnt just the construction jobs. If we can find a way to get anchor tenants to come in and be with employers. For example, the market at canyon and glen park, i was there a month ago, and i said out loud, how many people work here, and the manager who was standing behind me said 106, almost all of them fulltime. You dont need a big box in order to have effective, active tenants and provide jobs within a community. So i want to thank everybody whos participated in the working group and for the people who led it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. How do you do . My names mel flores, and im here representing myself as a member of the excelsior active working group. Im present in the excelsior District Improvement association, as well as on the board of the Excelsior Action Group where i serve as vice chair. I just would like to say i have concerns about the progress of this project, specifically around the purpose project and conclusions of the working group, and ive also heard these same concerns voiced by other members of the working group. Ive been in attendance at many meetings, including the small working meetings and various meetings of the public realm. I felt uneasy about this process for some time, especially after meeting with thesub group liaisons, of which i am one. During the meeting, we were presented with a document that outlined the strategies for us to review. In reality, that was not what thesub groups had vetted upon or agreed upon. When this was brought up at the meeting, there seemed to be a defensiveness about the methodology of arriving at theet strategies. When a new idea was presented by me about parking, i was told that as a city worker, i could not record that suggestion because i know it would not be approved. Another person pushed back, and then my suggestion was recorded. I have a sampling of other strategies from other folks. The Community Business District Housing density and Building Height are being pushed down our throats. That was a General Community member. Only the voices of a few voting members are being heard. I have some others as well in my letter which id like to submit. While i wholeheartedly submit supervisor safais desire to have a document to follow with regards to growth and improvement and developments in the neighborhood, given the circumstances, i find it hard to wholeheartedly endorse this process. Id like to request that the process be slowed down and made more representative and reflective of the community needs. I would also like to request a more thorough and careful area plan for our neighborhood. I believe that this current process does not adequately reflect the values we have fostered within our community. Thank you for your time. Thank you, mr. Flores. Any additional Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, well close Public Comment and open it up to commissioner comments and questions. Commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson thank you to staff and thank you to everyone who gave Public Comment today. Th we are not at the end, and im hopeful that the concerns were heard. Particularly, i want to point out a couple things. Concerns around cultural competency and language. We talk a lot about language up here sometimes, but particularly for an area like this, i think its really important that cultural competency go beyond that. We do have a lot of multigenerational and multifamily households. If we were to do some sort of magic wand and have a study, probably equal only to maybe chinatown or to sunset, and so i think that we need to be taking that into account when we look at how are we what are we wanting this neighborhood to look like . I think that the physical feel and look should reflect the cultural competency of the people who are living there, so thats thats slightly different than when we talk about making sure that theres, you know, interpretation and different languages. I think thats a little bit of a step beyond. So i think a couple things one, im really sorry. I hate when i do this. Staff, on the demographic profile, you had the Unemployment Rate at 8 in the excelsior district, 7 citywide. I thought it was like 2. 6. You know, ill have to take i look at that data again, but this is a little outdated level. Its hard to get the granular data on a neighborhood as current as the citywide. I hate to call you out, but the only reason its important is if 9 is accurate, but 7 is not, the difference between 2. 3 or 2. 6, thats kind of a big jump, so i just wanted to mention that. Great. Well figure out what it actually is. Another thing couple things i want to say. You know, looking at this plan and again, how does this area differ than other areas where you may have other neighborhood plans. I would guess and maybe staff, you can jump up here if you have it. This area has a higher percentage of primary homeownership than other districts in the city. Yeah. So more households own their homes than do households in other areas. Absolutely, yes. Okay. So that gets to my next point. When we talk about [ inaudible ] all right. For just a moment. When we talk about how can we use a neighborhood plan like this to broadcast, again, its not just the Planning Department that will have to call it with so many strategies. Its also our sister agencies, Planning Department does not do everything. How do we prevent displacement what do you mean, we dont do everything . How do we prevent displacement even as we look at this neighborhood in the future, and i think technically, when you look at an area, we need to focus on what are the tools for people who are cost burdened for Home Ownership . I think we spent a lot of time thinking about rentalsubsidy or figuring out tools to figure out displacement for people who do not own their homes, which is a different set of tools, but we dont talk enough about how do we prevent displacement for people who do own their homes, and that is actually problematic. I think people tend to think if you own your home, youre all good, but if youre cost burdened, and the data we have here says that 40 of people who own their homes are cost burdened, meaning they pay more than 30 of their Household Income towards their home costs. Ee
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