Regulations should be a priority for our city leaders. The track record of the oakland location is great. They have fulltime Health Inspector and the place is very clean and well maint maintained. Im one of their biggest customers. Supporting organic stores, this type of business should be supported as well. With regards to the Environmental Impact, i am a licensed chemical engineer in the state of california and its commonsense to me there is no such Environmental Impact. Its a very Small Business as you have seen in the picture, family owned, many of the employees will be hired from the city itself. Were not talking about a huge slaughterhouse that slaughters thousands of animals a day. Its very small, family business. I urge you to make a wise decision and support this business unanimously. 100 . Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, how are you doing, hi everybody. Im the neighbor of saba store, the one in oak oakland. Its less than 100 feet, the same block. In three years i never noticed anything from them, no noise, so clean. And we have no problem with them. I want to say youre ok, come visit the place in oakland, youre going to see. Everything is ok. We enjoy every day eating fresh halal, thats it. Nothing untoward about it. Come check. My address is 807 kennedy street. Im next door to that place. Thank you for the comments, next speaker please. I feel so happy today. I waited 42 years for this. And to have the halal food in San Francisco, we are so happy. First time the halal food, no frozen food, all fresh. And cheap. We just go over there, have the fresh food. Everybody is going to be happy. I appreciate the shop in San Francisco. Its for the community of San Francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im resident of oak land. Im labor with saba poultry in oakland and im a good customer of them. I go there almost every week to buy for the whole week because i like the way they kill the chicken and how the blood go out so it will be really healthy for me and my family. So i enjoy buying the chicken and eating it and make sure where i buy my meat from, so i can enjoy it. I support them to open one in every city. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im a resident of San Francisco and in the bay area. I wanted to thank you and thank you god for being here. And actually weve been waiting for a place like this to open in the city. I used to travel to spartan, modes tow, sacramento to get fresh meat. I love the place, i love the product. Its great. Hopefully we see this place open soon. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I grew and lived in San Francisco when San Francisco, i love San Francisco. Saba life brought us a good service and i just want to briefly say that saba is not only for muslim and the word halal. When i go to saba in oakland, 80 of the customers are nonmuslims. Latin americans, africanamericans. This business supports an serves all community. I just hope that you support all our community in San Francisco and the bay area. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Ive known saba live since they started in oakland and known them dearly and the family. Since they started in oakland, as the previous speaker, it is a communitybased business. Most of the people there, like he said, nonmuslim. This is not just catering to muslims. Yes, we as muslims like the kosher meat, halal meat, we like to be clean and slaughtered in a respectable way as well as all the meat that it has, they cater for us, its not something we always go outside. People travel to all different cities. Ive been knowing them for a while. Since they opened the store in oakland, theyve been working very hard as well as they are they havent had ive never there have been no complaints, nothing whatsoever. They meet all Health Regulations as well as they meet all the standard codes. Again, they are Community Based store, a family business, and its always sanitized and very clean. We like to bring that to the San Francisco community and i hope you guys see that. We welcome that, because us as muslims, we look for, very fresh and slaughtered meat, kosher meat, that we look for. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, everyone. Im here to support saba halal meat. And the best in the store, when see people from all different countries, like different faces, not just muslim. We communicate over there. The place is clean. The meat tastes so good. Im just one of the people here to show some love and support for great quality business. And opportunity for the others. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I have been customer for saba halal meat for a long time. They are good. They are very sanitized, very nice. In oakland, i wish they have a place in San Francisco. Every time we go there, not just for muslim communities, its for all nationalities, they see a lot of people from the different nationality, so i recommend it. Its very nice. I hope you guys will be in favor and support of this business. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im here to support saba livestock because its an opportunity for us to buy our kosher food. Its the same as every culture we know it doesnt sound good, but its nice and healthy. I go to the one in oakland and i see customers from asia, all over the world. We would appreciate it if you give us this opportunity to have it here close to us in San Francisco. So we wont have to travel far. And i thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Board president. Im with the ciu local 87, i represent the janitors in the private sector. Im also tsecretary treasurer, members in the room, stand. [laughter] thank you. So, for us, in the 21year history of my career, ive never had to get up before any board of supervisors or any Commission Meeting to talk about meat and the accessibility to it. Our members and our obligation to them has never just been the contractual obligations we have for them. Shhh. But also, it goes beyond how the communities are affected, both immigrant and the inclusiveness of the communities everywhere. The comments we heard earlier, we were sitting we have a whole other group of members, 50 folks . In the other room, being here in support of saba live. We hope you understand that the Environmental Impact is none whatsoever, its a Small Business, familyowned. Its created a lot of jobs in oakland and other cities as well. But the accessibility being about having halal meat in San Francisco has been nonexistent and the signs people see, its not fresh meat. Im asking everyone here in the board of supervisors to vote yes in support of saba live and allowing members and our families to shop in the city they live in, to have access to halal meat. Thank you. Ill just remind the public that if you are in support of what the speaker is saying youre welcome to give supportive fingers but no audible sounds of support, please. Good afternoon. Im here to support the saba live poultry. The main reason im here is i work about 5060 hours in San Francisco and it would be more convenient to have a location here and shop my meat produced from them rather than going to oakland. I live all the way in the north bay. San francisco will be more convenient for me. Thank you. Thank you. Before mr. Duffy speaks, ill ask if there are any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition to the appeal. Im mr. Duffy. Could i get two minutes . Thank you. I hope you will all consider this item independently and not rely on one supervisor as the law provides. I hope you will consider what the law provides and go where the evidence leads you. Thats the strongest way to support pluralism. Thank you. Madame president. President breed thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition of the appeal . Supervisor, for 33 years, i am here fighting for the homeless and community activist. I wish you open your eyes and hear my muslim friends talk about, we dont accept any discrimination against any one of us. And i said that to let you get wake up and understand that we are strong and were going to fight until our death for no discrimination. Enough is enough. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition of the appeal . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will have up to three minutes for rebuttal from the appellant. Thank you, supervisors. Christina again on the behalf ott animal Legal Defense fund. I would like to repeat the points and echo some of the Public Comments. Id like to emphasize that the project sponsor here has misstated the legal standards that apply. I explained in my presentation. Like to emphasize that we support consumers having stronger connection to the food, as discussed earlier, just to dispel the implication there are dubious alternative motives. Our appeal was limited to environmental effects alone and most of the comments you heard in support of saba today regarded the merits of the facility, which were not addressed by the Animal Defense Fund and the merits of the facility are not at issue here. I would like to emphasize that. The scale of the facility, 146,000 animals are killed annually. I should say are transported, confined indoors and slaughtered, which breaks down to an animal per minute being slaughtered. This is not the extremely small operation that the project sponsors would like you to believe that it is. I would like to emphasize that ceqa does complicate effects on animals as agriculture resources and i appreciate supervisor cohens questions, but i would emphasize two things. First that the again the proper forum for those questions would have been in the ceqa process before the conditional use permit was granted and i would submit that nothing that we heard today addressed the concerns with regard to animals, the animal Legal Defense fund raised in the appeal. Those are still unaddressed on the record. Lastly, i would like to say that the projects sponsor attempt to reference other businesses that it seems none of us have ever stepped foot in and using letters from residents in oakland that purport to know how the San Francisco facility will function, is exactly the type of speculation that cannot form the basis of a ceqa determination and using the states own records from state inspectors of the oakland facility, they have documented issues, like excessive moisture and sanitation problems. I would urge you to use those records as the basis of or to demonstrate how the oakland facility operates. And so again, we urge the board to remand this project to the Planning Commission to the environmental effects can be considered before it is granted a conditional use permit. Thank you. Thank you. This hearing has been held and is now closed. This matter is in the hands of the board. Supervisor cohen. Cone supervisor cohen just a few closing comments before the vote. I want to thank everyone who came out, the people that met with myself and the staff in the office. Takes a lot to come out and part pate in this process. I want to close the hearing by saying that i took the allegations of the environmental injustice and evasion of necessary ceqa considerations incredibly seriously. We are talking about the Bayview Community which experiences disproportionate levels of harm with quality of water, air pollution, there is no doubt and no mistake. But there is one thing i definitely want to correct on the record, that is that San Francisco in the southeast, dog patch and baby was known as the slaughterhouse. It was butcher town because thats where these types of businesses that served the city and county of San Francisco and yesterday, were operating. And over time, community began to buy into and build up a neighborhood around these types of industrial and Light Industrial businesses. So i dont want the record to reflect thinking that people have been living here and these industrial businesses popped up. It was quite the contrary. The businesses were there first and then people, because of the land being cheap, because of red line and because of racism and people racism that prohibited people from getting large loans to purchase a home, they had to go where the land was the cheapest. But to say that you will, i stay to say i take all of the Health Outcomes extremely seriously and want to be sure that any business that we consider placing in the neighborhood would not compound any of the already existing health issues. And i believe that this would be the case with the proposed saba poultry butcher facility. Ladies and gentlemen, i have truthfully not learned anything new from the presentation today, nor through the work that my office has done over the past few weeks that would compel me to overturn the Planning Commission decision to approve the conditional use and stop this butcher facility from moving forward in the process. Frankly, im happy to outclient reasons. The project site is outside of the area pollution exposure zone. You heard comments about the freeways, and about particulate matter. The bottom line, this site is isolated and it is outside of the air pollute ant exposure zone for district 10. There is little to no debris that is projected to go into the sewer. We heard from the expert over the puc, thank you for being here, to share your expertise. In fact, the waste will be hauled offsite to a facility less than two miles away. At the end of the day, were talking about replacing a towing company, a towing company that had far more adverse impact on the environment. It yield would a substantial amount of emissions and instead of bringing free ainge and organic poultry options into district 10. The bayview, many of you already know, is a food desert. That means access to healthy food is very difficult. And so, i believe that this project, would be an added benefit to the neighborhood. Not only to our muslim neighbors who can only eat halal meat, but to the hundreds of residents who prefer to buy fresh poultry over chain retailers. The halal meccaed is different, not method is different, because of the how the waste is collected and disposed of. The majority of the work is done manually. Of the machines used, saba uses electric, not dieselfueled machinery. Lastly, i want to be clear this is not just a this was not simply expedited permit for approval and want to assure people this was not that thoughtful consideration was given, but this project must go through must still go through additional review and get more approval beyond this conditional use. San francisco is a Culinary Destination from farm to table, where many of our restaurants pride themselves on the freshness of their food from the produce, to the meat. The i believe this business gives additional options to neighbors and restaurants alike. I like to see there is a true benefit to the city. I want to say on the record im truly reticent that some of the things im hearing with regard to the effort of the appellant. Im concerned because i think there was attempts to mislead constituents. I was told that aldf made attempts to seize on peoples fears Walking Around talking to people, knocking on their doors, telling people their Property Values will be halved if they dont oppose this facility. I want to assure the constituents in the southeast that are going to be the near the facility, that Property Values will not be disrupted. If this were a traditional slaughterhouse with diesel machinery and more variety of the animals being slaughtered, i might feel compelled to challenge the ceqa exemption, but this is about poultry, processing operation, located in the correct industrial zone. So with that, colleagues, i ask that you join me in supporting the Planning Commissions decision. Id like to, madame president , make a motion that we approve item 25 and table items 26 and 27. President breed supervisor cohen has made a motion to approve item 25 and table item 26 and 27. Seconded by supervisor safai. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame president. First of all, i want to associate myself with the comments of mr. Duffy, which is that this should be decided as a matter of ceqa and not as a matter of halal or as a matter of animal rights. I believe a category one exemption has been correctly issued. The primary argument from the appellant is really an argument around transportation. And i dont believe that there is any evidence in the record that could lead this board to actually come to the conclusion that there is an unusual circumstance or that there are transportation impacts. Quite frankly, if this were before us as a conditional use appeal, it would be an entirely different matter. But as a ceqa appeal, i believe that a categorical exemption as a class 1 exemption was properly issued and agree with supervisor cohen and will vote in the affirmative on her motion. President breed thank you. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, madame chair, president. I would like to associate myself also with the comments of supervisor cohen. For a community that doesnt often come out, one that is working often in the late hours of the evening, many of the folks in the audience are januaitor janitors, they dont often januaitor janitors, they dont often present in the hearings. I want to first recognize them. I understand the frustration on resident when they hear arguments that are based on traffic and flow, and waste and so on. But at the end the day, this is a Land Use Decision and this does not rise to the level of ceqa. In terms of the categorical one exemption. So id like to commend supervisor cohen for balancing out the issues at hand. But also addressing what is real and that neighborhood and it is a food desert. This is a healthy option. And this is something that i fully support and agree with her argument wholeheartedly. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Supervisor tang thank you, colleagues, i felt compelled to speak, because i often associate myself with the comments and thoughts of the animal Legal Defense fund and really appreciate their work. So i did want to explain that you know, today b the core us, ceqa determination that we are voting on and, yes, as supervisor peskin said, if this were a conditional use permit appeal before us, i would be voting a completely different way. That standard would be whether this is necessary, desirable. And i think here as supervisor cohen articulated and the Planning Department, i dont find any basis wdes they shouldnt be exempt from this. But this is me saying that im not in this decision, passing judgment on again the use that is being proposed here, but solely based my decision on the Environmental Review criteria that we have here today, because personally, im a pescatarand ri dont even eat the animals available here, but basing my decision on the Environmental Review standards, so i wanted to explain that to the many advocates that i typically alipw with. Thank you, supervisor tang, and seeing no other names on the roster, on the motion to approve 25 and table 26 and 27. Supervisor safai aye. Supervisor sheehy aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Tang aye. Yee aye. Breed aye. Cohen aye. Fewer aye. Items 29 is the motion to affirm the determination. Item 30, condition lee conditionally colleagues, as requested by planning and with the support of the appellant and the project sponsor, i move to continue the hearing of the appeal of the proposed project. The continuance will allow for the project to be further evaluated to determine if potential significance of the historic resource. We do not know for certain how long it will take, but we think four to five months. I ask the clerk to reschedule or to continue this hearing to the june 19th board meeting. Second. Supervisor ronen has made a motion to continue this to june 19th, 2018. Seconded by supervisor peskin. Colleagues before we take that motion, i will need to open it up to Public Comment. If there are any members of the public who would like to comment on the continuance, please come forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, on the continuance, can we take that same house, same call without objection, this item will be continued. Madam clerk, lets go to our next 3 00 p. M. Special. I would like to call item number 37 first out of order. Okay. Item 37 is a resolution to affirm the Planning Department certification of the final Environmental Impact report and adopt environmental findings under the California Environmental quality act known as ceqa, ceqa guidelines and the administrative code chapter 31 including findings of fact, findings regarding significant impacts and significant and unavoidable impacts, evaluation of mitigation measures and alternatives, a statement of overriding considerations and adopt a mitigation monitoring and reporting Program Related to the approvals at lot 337 and pier 48. Okay. Before we move forward with the hearing and the other items, we will need to approve item number 37. So we will only take up item number 37 at this time. Supervisor kim. Actually, president breed said when i was going to say. Im going to save my comments regarding the mission rock project. When we hear the committee and all the underlying ordinances. Colleagues, item number 37, can we take that same house, same call without objection . The resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call the remaining items for the 3 00 p. M. Special. Items 32 and 33. Yes. Thank you. I apologize. Sitting as a committee as a whole call items 32 and 22. Items 32 was scheduled and approved on december 12th, 2017, continued from january 23rd, 2018 for a public hearing of the board of supervisors to convene a committee as a whole, to consider the following amendments to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan which is the subject matter of item 33. The ordinance to approve amendments to the redevelopment plan to remove a. 3 acre parcel known as p20 and make the findings. Lets open up this hearing. I will turn it over to supervisor kim. Thank you so much president breed. This is the First Committee as a whole hearing on the beginning of a number of different ordinances that well be hearing before the board on the mission rock project. So i want to call up and i saw he had already started coming up Michael Martin from real estate and development for the port. We will also be hearing from a couple others, the project sponsors with the San Francisco giants and a senior project manager from oci, to give a presentation on this redevelopment plan amendment before we hear the mission rock project area plant. Thank you, mr. Martin. Thank you. Good afternoon, president breed, supervisors. Mike martin, Deputy Director for the port of San Francisco. Im here on behalf of the president and the Port Commission and executive director elaine forbes. Shes staffing our port Commission Meeting, so i have the honor of being here before you today. I know she wanted to be here very much to see this very significant day on a very significant project for the mother port. The project began with the approval of senate bill 815. Sb815 created an innovative bargain structured around port property for things like housing and office in exchange for the increased revenues from such development. I think that sparked an opportunity to move from what is currently an under used surface parking lot and turning that into Housing Units, office and retail space to serve the neighborhood and open spaces will serve the neighborhood and also the city at large. On top of that, hopefully realizing operating revenues for the port to address the maintenance needs and the on coming challenges of Sea Level Rise and shoreline protection. Unlike other projects of this time, which address the restrictions by swapping property into and out of the public trust, the prom remains the landowner and this makes us a partner now and as the transaction moves forward and this new neighborhood comes to life. From there, from the approval of sb815, the port volumitiitied a volumitiitied a partner. D. D. Solicited a partner. They found a partner with the city as well as the growing Mission Bay Community and the project site. The San Francisco giants replied to the rpf as part of a joint venture and as that evolved over the years since the rfp, the giants commitment to the project has not waferrers. We appreciate the perspective as an existing and successful port tenant and neighbor of the site who brought that together with their vision. We appreciate their ability to stick with the project over its Long Development period and in particular their success in seeking vote era approval when that requirement was established midstream. We at the port also appreciate the array of Public Benefits that have been negotiated with the help of the office of economic and Workforce Development and many other city agency thats participated in this transaction over the years. Now, when we have the opportunity to take a step back and look at the entire package, we at the port feel very optimistic about this project on several levels. What it will deliver to the people who live, work, and visit here once it is built, the improved waterfront that will benefit port property in the Mission Bay Area that continues to grow around the site, and the benefit to the ports financial position as it looks ahead to the challenge of the seawall project and the historic assets. We ask you to approve this and help us move forward to the next steps. With that, i will hand this off for a brief presentation, but before i do, i wanted to highlight city staff in attendance wholl be available to answer yours question. My colleagues from the port, from the office of economic Workforce Development, from the Planning Department, from the workforce division, from ocd, and from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. We also have city attorney. We have the ports thanks not only for their collaboration but their with that, ill hand it to have to jack for a brief overview of the project leading into your discussion from here today. Thanks very much. Thank you, mike. As mike indicated, this project is a team effort. A collaboration and a partnership with the port of San Francisco. With our community of neighbors and stakeholders, who have helped shape the plan that is before you today, one of the reasons the port chose the giants to be their Development Partner on this project is because we are in it for the long hall. We are not going anywhere. With the ballpark sitting just across the china basin channel, we have a unique interest in doing an exemplary job. The neighbors know this and trust in us, and because and they do so because we are also members of the community. Mission rock is the product of years of hard work and thoughtful Community Planning, public workshops, open houses, Community Planning sessions, and other gatherings with neighbors and stakeholders were held frequently and in an open fashion. We work with members of the Central Waterfront advisory committee. The mission bay citizens advisory committee, the Neighborhood Association and frankly, with anyone who was interested. In the audience today, our representatives of the community that have been actively engaged in this process. And as mike referenced, mission rock is also the product of a collaborative planning process within the city family itself, including the Planning Department, mta, dpw, the puc, ocii, the Mayors Office, and the board of supervisors, particularly our District Supervisor jane kim and president london breed. Unlike most projects that come before you for approval, mission rock also sought and received the support of the voters. The voter responded overwhelmingly approving the project with 74 of the vote citywide. Support in every single neighborhood, supervisory district and voting precinct throughout the entire city. It received even greater support in the neighborhood itself. In many local precincts in south beach, south of market and mission bay, residents voted in favor of the project at a rate of more than 80 and in some precincts, 90 in favor of mission rock. This is a remarkable feat given that they mostly receive negative i am put. We are ang cut to get started anxious to get started. We worked hard to achieve the objectives. This project doesnt displace anyone. But replaces a giant surface parking lot with new parks, homes, jobs, and helps bring a greater sense of community and vibrancy to mission bay. And, of course, it builds housing, 40 of which is affordable to low and middle income families fighting to remain in our great city. The foundation of our planning process has been rooted in public spaces. Excuse me. Can you please identify yourself. My name is fran weld, im Senior Vice President of development for the giants delighted to be with you all today. Thank you for having me. The foundation of our planning process has been rooted in public space and creating 8 acres of parks and open space. This network will connect a neighborhood to the waterfront. China basin park by you see here will benefit the entire east side of the city and be a central Gathering Place for all of San Francisco to come enjoy the waterfront. Mission rock square will be a vibrant urban center park with buildings fronting the park. So as to create a safe and walkable pedestrian and neighborhood experience. With its small scale walkable blocks, wide sidewalks, and network of bicycle paths, mission rock is designed to be a center for neighborhood serving retail, which will support not only the community of south beach and mission bay, but also new residents on site. The retail within the neighborhood will be small shops and affordable spaces and we have worked hard with neighbors who have lived around the site for many years to identify the needs that this neighborhood would like to see, including child care, coffee shops, small scale markets, production space, and other neighborhood serving uses. As with our comprehensive approach to the retail planning, we have also taken a holistic approach to addressing some of what we see as a citys most pressing needs here at mission rock. 40 of the homes will be affordable to low, moderate, and middle income families, including two and three bedroom units. 2 4 apartments will be permanently get aside for youths transitioning out of the foster care system, a model for integration into our citys community. Together with many city agencies, we have also established an Extraordinary Program for environmental sustainability, including site wide energy and Water Systems and a 20 reduction in single use automobile trips. The site will be raised to accommodate up to 66 inches of Sea Level Rise which the highest projection today for the year 2100. In addition, will pay special taxes into a port wide program for shoreline protection and stablization. 40 million will go towards transportation investments for the surrounding area. Finally, we are proud of our commitments to the local Economic Investment with 30 local hire, 20 lbe and hiring throughout. Were also generating 1 million to build city build capacity, half of which will go towards community organizations. Mission rock will create jobs for local residents and opportunities for San Francisco businesses all while delivering these important Public Benefits to the city as a whole. Before i turn if over to mark wholl touch on the ocii elements of the approval before you today, i would like to acknowledge and thank our incredible team. Over the last decade, hundreds of dedicated and talented individuals have committed their time and energies to shaping the vision that you see before you today. So a giant thank you to all the Mission Rockers who have made this possible. With that, on to mark. Good afternoon, president breed, supervisors. Project manager for mission bay. The item before you today is an amendment to the Mission Bay South very development plan. We are amending the plan to remove an 18foot strip of open space that is within the southern edge of seawall lot 337. This 3 10 of an acre parcel is p20. It is a map of Mission Bay South and the thin red line is where p20 is. Heres a zoomed up like. P20 is a port owned parcel. Back in 1988, when with the plan was originally designed, the intent of p20 was to be a buffer between Mission Bay Development and the ports then industrial uses on lot 337. Now that we have this great project going there, we no longer find the need for a buffer. So we are proposing this amendment. Back in september 14th, 2017, it was presented to the mission bay advisory committed. They recommended plan amendment for approval and adoption by the board of supervisors. On october 17th, 2017, the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure adopted resolution 402017 approving the amendment. On october 17th, the Commission Adopted resolution 39201 7 which was approving the report to the board. Oci, asks the board for consideration of this plan amendment. If theres any questions, i would be happy to answer them. Thank you so much. So seeing no questions at this time, madam president would ask to open up for Public Comment on this hearing. Okay. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this hearing . Public comment is now open. Just to be specific, we are having a hearing on mission rock, the project. If you would like to speak on the project, that is the next hearing. This is specifically on the amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is denise mccarthy, and i am a former Port Commissioner. I operated a cbo in San Francisco for many years, and im currently cochair of the Giants Community center. Excuse me. Community fund. I had a long history with the port in the past including waterfront Planning Issues as well as being on the commission when Key Developments such as the Ferry Building and the giants ballpark were developed. Today, the port has chosen the giants as a partner on the mission rock project. It envisions really something that we put together in the very early stages of waterfront planning. So i encourage you all to support the project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Tom gilbert. Im a neighborhood at South Beach Marina apartments. Thank you. Im going to go outside the line here because i believe this is for this little strip, this amendment. I said before that i was againsn probably in the city against the giant probably executive mostly because theres 900 units of market rate rentals, and a market rate rental is a cavity in the tooth of a healthy community. I said that about South Beach Marina. We need seniors, but seniors cant stay if they get a 600 rent increase. We have families that they want to have a child or two, and they can do that, but at market rate rents, you cannot. Below market rate theres 40 . I have to compliment the giants on doing that and raising it and doing all the nice things they are doing. But we have seniors that need places to get into from our city, and we cannot build it. We built a 90unit, 9story building on cesar chavez for seniors, and the response was we need 900 more. So we dont expect the giants and all the other big developments on the eastern block that are building bold new neighborhoods to observe all of it. They can start helping by taking whats on the ground in reality where we need transitioning housing. Im grad theyre doing that for the glad theyre doing that for the graduated foster kids, but we need help for the kids coming out of what do they call that when youre coming off the streets. Thank you. We need bigger help here. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. When i hear this, i get scared. You ask yourselves why i get scared. I used to live in mission rock with the pardon me. This is the mission bay. The mission rock is next. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak to this specific item . Public comment is now closed. This hearing has been held and is now filed. We will reconvene as the board of supervisors. Thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you, madam president. I would like to move item 33 sorry we can take item 33. Oh, the house has changed. Madam clerk on item 33, please call the roll. [ roll call ] there are nine aye. It passes unanimously. Please call 34 through 36. Comprise the board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole. These items were scheduled and approved on november 30th and continued from january 23rd, 2018 for a public hearing to consider establishing project area i and project area i1 through i13 there in of infrastructure financing district number two and ordinance establishing project area i and sub project areas i1 through i13 of infrastructure financing district number 2 and to affirm the Planning Departments finding. Item 35 is the ordinance to establish the project area i and to affirm the Planning Departments determination and make the appropriate findings and item 36, the resolution to approve issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed approximately 1. 3 million for the project area i. Also known as mission rock and sub project areas i1 through i13 of the city and county of San Franciscos infrastructure financing district number 2 to approve the indenture of trust and pledge agreement and other matters in connection therewith. Were sitting as a committee as a whole to discuss the project area 1 mission rock and the sub project area l1. I1. Thank you. I1 through i13 infrastructure financing discussion. Lets open up this hearing. I will turn it over to supervisor kim. Thank you, president breed. In the ten years that we have often engaged on the development of this project, the giants have brought home 3 championships, and we want to thank our team for making our city proud, but i really do view this as the fourth unofficial championship where the giants are truly bringing home an unpresident dented project. They are the first project sponsor ever to commit to 40 affordable and low Income Housing. Whats distinct about this project is their commitment to middle encloses housing, something we havent done to a great extent before. What i also appreciate about this project is that we are covering such a wide range of household incomes. Normally, in many of our Affordable Housing projects, we will build for one type of income, whether its working class or middle class housing. This will cover a broad range from ballpark workers to nurses and teachers. It was involved through a very i would say, a sophisticated tightrope dance that took place in negotiations over several weeks and over one very long night at the giants office where we were able to put something together that we all felt truly proud of and that would be able to welcome and keep many of our families and residents here in San Francisco. This is one of our largest Surplus Properties owned publicly by the city and county. For me in particular, it was important that we as a city also achieve a high rate of Affordable Housing on this project as well since were building on public land, we should absolutely be building them for our city as well. And this project not only includes high levels of affordable and i had inle Income Housing middle Income Housing. It includes a park and a commitment to ensure we have retail, manufacturing, and pdr that will create jobs but also serve the needs of our residents and i know ive talked about this several times at different hearings, add board committees. Many of our residents are frustrated that the mission bay neighborhood, while beautiful and new, often doesnt have the types of stores, restaurants, amenities that they see in other San Francisco neighborhoods. So we really appreciate the years of outreach the giants have been engaged in working with our mission bay residents to ensure that we are building a neighborhood that works for our residents and also helping to complete this completely new transformed neighborhood in San Francisco. I also want to thank the project sponsors for implementing a robust workforce Commitment Program to encourage local business participation and partnering with groups like sf and including a local higher participation level of 30 . For the vertical developers, meaning those that are going to be building up the projects, not the infrastructure, will also contribute 1 million to office of economic and Workforce Development to ensure parcel by parcel installments to support our Community Based organizations. Finally, i also want to acknowledge the project sponsor over the last couple months, in committing to us that they would be maximizing Residential Development on the site. 40 is great. But we want to make sure its 40 of as many Housing Units as possible, and in the original proposal, the residential parcels had a flex option of hotel. Through negotiations and discussions, the giants have agreed to move that hotel flex option off the residential parcel and move them to the commercial parcels where they will be Building Office and other types of spaces. So this just maximizes residential. As we move forward, because this project will happen in four phases because its a large project, we also hope that over the coming years that well be able to work with the port and the giants to ensure that the final phase, which is flex for commercial or residential builds as much Residential Housing as possible. We have huge crisis here not just in San Francisco but throughout our region. We need to make sure were not just building faces for more jobs but housing for our existing residents and new residents as well. I just wanted to take a moment to thank a number of people that helped bring this decade to fruition today at the board of supervisors and first, i want to start with our community. I want to recognize those that were, i think, in our 5 00 a. M. Session with the giants, the council of Community Housing organization, peter cohen and fernando, teresa imperial, ian lewis and mike casey of local 2 who brought the lollypop rings so we could have our own World Champion rings at the table and united educators of San Francisco and finally, shes no longer with us today but april from my office who spent quite a bit of time working on the negotiations and this deal. I also want to thank our residents that have been actively engaged in this process over the last ten years. The Central Waterfront advisory committee, the south beach rincon Neighborhood Association, and their chair, and the advisory committee, alice rogers, toby levine and of course i want to recognize the project sponsor, the San Francisco giants for really truly committing to a project that works for San Francisco. Their very mucher that lives in san in developer lives in San Francisco. Theyre going to see us every day. I think it really matters a lot to have developers that are committed to working through very Difficult Conversations to figure out how we can come up with a project that works for all of us. Of course, i want to also acknowledge the port and our director along with the office of economic Workforce Development, the Planning Department, the Mayors Office and the city attorney. I will hand over the presentation to the port. I saw supervisor, before we move into the presentation, there are other members of the board that would like to make comments as well. Before we bring up the port to speak, we have members of the board that would like to make opening comments, and i know there will be a number of questions from Board Members about this project. But i do want to just acknowledge that the board knows, we have three more