Of nido avenue; lot 033 in assessors block 1112. Request for discretionary review of continuance. Item 8a, at 550 tenth avenue has been with ron. Item 8b, at 550 tenth avenue, the variance proportion is proposed for continuance to september 25. I have no other items proposed for continuance and no speaker cards. When anyone from the public like to comment on these items . Come on up. Right now we are only taking comments on the matter of the continuance itself. Wanted to say, im a resident here in San Francisco, i am the bishop. I know that there are people that are against building, and construction of Housing Units for families here in San Francisco. I just want to remind them that this sort of anti building action we are taking Public Comment on the items being proposed for continuance. This is jet this is not general Public Comment period that will come up shortly. Okay. Commissioner moore. Im sorry, moved to continue. On that motion to continue items one and two acknowledge the withdrawal of item eight a. Commissioner fung . [roll call] so moved commissioners. The motion passes unanimously number0. I will continue item eight the to the hearing of september 25. Think you. That is under commission matters for the august 27 closed session a regular hearing. Any members of the public like to comment on this . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve. Second. On that motion to adopt the minutes for august 202nd. [roll call] august 22. [roll call] so moved. That motion passes unanimously. Placing us on item for four commission comments and questions. Saying none commissioners. Item five, director announcements. Good afternoon commissioners. I understand we have offered the news and youve heard my news, i would just reiterate and let you know that i have indeed, the rumors are true, i have indeed decided to retire from my position in a few months. I will be here until the end of february, and i just wanted to say, to everyone and members of the public involved in these hearings, thank you so much for all of your support to over the years. There will be plenty of time for discussion, for further iteration. I want to invite commissioners, and i know staff would appreciate this, to, to have conversations over the next six months about the direction of the department, how we are doing, what we should be doing differently . I know staff will appreciate that. As would i, it will be great to hear how you think about how were doing, what to change . I was simply say, as i said in the media, it has been my great honor to be in this position, and i look forward to the next six months and wrapping this up, and also seeing how the department on the city move forward in the future. My sincere thanks to all of you. On behalf of of the commission, in my brief three years, ive experienced nothing but good guidance, and direction from you, at all times. I am very jealous of you. Im already counting my days to retirement. I have a ways to go. I am already counting them. I am jealous. Welldeserved. One simple thing, as an example, is the skylines very representative of what you have done for the city, and all types of industries and community groups. I wanted to say thank you, i will give the microphone to other commissioners. I wanted to let the members of the public, and the staff know, that we are going to have an actual hearing calendar for the september 19, where members of the public, and also members of the staff will be able to chime in and put their 2 cents in as to what they would like to see, in the new director. President. To will be taking things from here on out. She will be here later. As far as we are concerned, as of now, there will be a hearing on the 19th. Public comment will be available. Commissioner moore. I hope you will roll up your sleeves for the next six months, and give everything you can. You have made great contributions, and it has been a wonderful time. For me, it is particularly sad, because i was on the committee that i commanded you to our mayor come at that time. It sounds like forever, and it sounds like a day. I will not say goodbye, because i think we will be engaged in a lot of Productive Work we now and then. Commissioner johnson. I just want to add my deep thanks to you for your leadership, for your guidance, for your collaborative nature, and really just handling so much of the day and a day out of what we do. I have learned so much from you, and continue to be inspired by you, and look forward to what we will complete over the next six months. Congratulations for everything that is ahead. Im really happy for you. Commissioner fung. I dont know why you are retiring, you are younger than i am. Congratulations, we hope you enjoy your next life. Commissioner richards. I was quoted wants saying you are the right man for the right time i think you are going to be missed, you have ushered in an incredible amount of change with grace and integrity, and i was really impressed when he rolled up your sleeves to get the Mission Action plan 2020 going. He took the lead on that, it shows the kind of person you are and how much you care about the city, and by the way, my husband was sitting there this morning, reading about your retirement, and he said to me, what is wrong with you . You have three more years to go and the director beat you to palm springs. [laughter] seeing nothing further, i was simply say congratulations. Item six, review of past events by the board of supervisors. I have nothing from the board of appeals on there was no Historic Preservation commission yesterday. The board is back in session, for the first hearing, they finished up some old business, passing on second read the mayors Small Business streamlining ordinance, and supervisor maddow mens building ordinance. A second read, but was re referred back to the Land Use Committee was a conditional use authorization for employee cafeterias. The chinatown mixeduse district reorganization was part of the code reorganization project. The hearst building ordinance, also passed its first read. The appeal for 6,554th street was withdrawn. For introduction, supervisor mandleman introduced and drowned controls that would require conduce conditional use authorization. They will not come to the Planning Commission for your review and comment. Any permanent controls will. That concludes my report. Thank you. Very good. Commissioners, we can move onto to general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission that are within the subject at her and jurisdiction of the commission, except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity will be be afforded when the items are reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I have no speaker cards, if the gentleman who had a general comment would like to come up and speak now, that would be the opportunity, unless its about a specific item already on the agenda . Very good. Seeing no general Public Comment, we can move into your regular calendar, commissioners. Items seven a and 7b. Item 7a, 2015010192cwp. And item 7b, 2017011878gpa. Potrero power station the area generally bounded by illinois informational presentation and general plan amendments. Good afternoon commissioners. I am john francis, Senior Planning Department manager for the mixeduse project. The 29acre Master Development site on the Central Waterfront south of pier 70. This project was before you in april of this year, for an informational presentation to review the draft design for the development document. Prior to that, for its draft eir hearing for november 2015. The revised design for the development was on august 202nd. Ellipsis august 22. August 22. At todays hearing, the project sponsor will provide an informational presentation highlighting recent project updates and key elements of the benefits package. I will then introduce the project, excuse me the proposed general plan amendments for initiation. Before the project sponsors presentation i would like to introduce my colleague from the office of economic and workforce of element who will Additional Information on the drops of Development Key terms. Thank you, john. I am here with ken rich, the manager of our section, we will be happy to engage in a conversation, that you need to after the presentation. It is very good to be back in front of you, on this project. A project that i have described, at its core, as a transformational one, one that had been a negative presence on the neighborhood for decades in the form of polluting power plant, when the neighborhood had worked for many years to close. Which we finally achieved some years ago. It takes that negative presence and turns it into a vibrant new neighborhood. One that is rich in Community Amenities and Public Benefits. If i could go to the slides, im just going to quickly touch on a couple of concepts that we have in the past, the first being a reminder, this is one project and what we would call the southern day front framework, which is a whole sweep of projects on the southeastern shore, as you can see together contributing a great deal of jobs and residential units to the city. We have kept this in mind while negotiating this package. Secondly is that this is a Development Agreement project. As such, we memorialize through a contract between the developer, and the city, that will all go into some highlights in a moment. Essentially a contract which ensures the city is getting benefits with the Development Rights that we are investing through said contract. Going to a few highlights about the da, we have obviously progressed in our negotiations since last time we were before you. I will touch on some of the highlights in the project team, youll see more about what that looks like, later in the presentation. So, the centerpiece of the Public Benefits package really the core of what we are delivering in this Development Project is the Affordable Housing component. We have been able to negotiate a package with the sponsor that delivers 30 of all residential units in this project at below market rates. Which is quite remarkable when you remember this is an entirely private development. No public land to utilize in the provision of those units, nor significant amounts of public dollars. To put this in perspective, 30 affordable rates is essentially what the help sf projects are achieving. Admittedly with a much deeper levels of affordability, because the city is investing a considerable amount of money, buying deeper levels of affordability, with those funds here, it is entirely cross subsidize with other components of the project. Being able to achieve a 30 affordable rate on an entirely private deal. Two thirds of that would be provided onsite, and the levels of affordability are consistent with section 415 of the planning code which is of course this citys Inclusionary Housing Program is codified. Excuse me, in terms of Workforce Development, we have programs aimed at construction jobs, generated by the development and user focused programs tailored towards getting San Francisco residents into the companies and tenants in those future buildings, the particular opportunities in this project are given the amount of office, likely that we will have in this project, creating some specific opportunities to get san franciscans to work in those fields, in the general arena. In terms of open space, about 7 acres of net, new, open space, critically we are connecting the blue greenway and the trail through the area of the Central Waterfront. There also be considerable Central Green in the middle of the development. We think significantly the project is improved a set of port on the properties on the waterfront that have never been open to the public. We are very proud of that, as well. In terms of other facilities and amenities, the developer will be constructing an Onsite Community center. Right now they are in conversations with the ymca for being the provider of that, but of course if that conversation does not evolve into more specific arrangement, it will be available to other operators as well, along with childcare onsite and space for a fullservice Grocery Store. In transportation obviously we are generating of course the 70 million in fees which will be spent on a wide range of local, districtwide transportation improvements. Lastly, the public that has received a lot of attention in the neighborhood, the Development Agreement will commit the sponsor to retaining the walls of the existing stationary complex which is portions of former buildings that remain Industrial Buildings that remain on site. Those walls will be retained and integrated into a new commercial development, the sponsor will also be placing Community Facilities district on their property, which is a mechanism through which we will be allowed , or able to collect assessments and spend those on infrastructure onsite, and in the nearterm years, and then the out portion of the project, the city will be able to collect those funds and use them for sealevel rise, adaptation measures, along with other infrastructure related items. It is a 30 year term for the agreement. The first 20, of which, we freeze the development fees, any development is subject to the full freight of the fees at the time. I think the project team will get into more detail on all of these points, ken and i are both here to discuss afterwards. Thank you very much. Thank you. Project sponsor. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Henrique, project sponsor. It has been five months since we have been before this body. Today we would like to give you an update for the changes we have made since we have met with you and refinements you have made of ongoing conversations with the community. We would like to give you an overview of some of the other project benefits coming along with this project. Today that we would like to start with a bit of history. We enjoy history quite a bit in our project. This is kentucky street now third street as it was 108 years ago. To the right you can see station a, which at the time was the largest power station west of the mississippi. That was just after it survived the 1906 earthquake. It has proven to be quite resilient. The image provides an experience to us the spent time driving around the city, roads were not much better back then. We are very excited that the team to build that road is deserves a big congratulations. It is great. This is the plan that we provided to you guys when we published our draft. The project, that. Featured a 30e some key features of this plan. With that, we began our Community Outreach process. My colleague tells me we have held 169 events that 82,000 people have attended. We have done monthly tours, workshops, quarterly Onsite Community merely meetings. Through that we have learned an awful lot. Over the past year, we have heard comments in six areas. 30 Affordable Housing was something we heard loud and clear from the community. We work very hard to do that. Keeping transportation fees in the district was very hard. We also heard heights that were different to the stack. We heard loud and clear the demand for your saving station a. We heard requests to explore water transit, and the plan we propose to six month ago had a lot of those features, including station a and lower heights along the site. It also came with it less units, we heard loud and clear from this commission that you are unwilling to see a reduction in units. My team and i spent the last six months creating a plan that proposes not only the preservation of station a, 30 Affordable Housing, without public subsidy. Now 2600 units. To some extent we figured out how to balance the program, without losing units, we are excited about this plan. There was an overview of the public benefit, for this project. The project itself is true, since the civil war, this portion of the citys waterfront has been unavailable. No one has been able to go on it. We encourage you to come to the site, and see, this waterfront will really be a terrific portion of the dogpatch neighborhood. Our Affordable Housing program is something we are also very proud of. Getting to 30 Affordable Housing with out public subsidies is not an easy thing. We are excited to do that with two commercial covers of our community. We are excited to announce a new program today, a partnership of Homeless Prenatal Program, to provide 36 units of deeply Affordable Housing to prenatal clients. It serves homeless families, and parents, and we will provide housing to their candidates that are receiving job training assistance or seeking Higher Education so they can be housed unsecured on our site. Besides that, will make almost a quarter Million Dollar of infrastructure investments, bringing a power station and turning it into a part of our city. Miles and miles of sidewalks, streets, none of us will ever say to allow the public to have access to this property. Beyond that, there will be a full sweep of workforce developing programs and we are about partnering early on, later on with workforce programs to bring great jobs to the site. The project, as mentioned before, will have not only a community center, but an expanded community center, feedback to community requests, extending it to 25,000 square feet, working with the ymca bringing a facility to the power station. A Grocery Store is key. As well as to onsite childcare facilities that we will build along our parks so children have access to safe childcare without having to cross the street. We are increasing the dogpatch in areas appropriate. Providing 7 acres of open space. The area has been reworked. It will be more cohesive, featuring a park along the waterfront, Central Green, power stations that we are preserving into an amazing part. Beyond that, the project is making 64 million of Transportation Impact fees available. We are in conversations with the community in the district, and the Supervisors Office on specific projects that these will be spent. We have a robust plan on the site, we encourage members of our site to have as much access to Public Transit to reduce load load on our city streets. Beyond that, the project is around the 55 dogpatch and the bus line, will always be laid over on site. We will provide a shuttle bus to caltrain and smart lines. What we are excited about is the Pilot Program to bring water Transit Service to San Francisco. World cities use their waterways to provide transit, we think it is about time that san franciscans are able to travel within San Francisco. We are using part of our peas y exciting. [reading notes] the project, along the waterfront, can make environmental resiliency without raising its own sea level which we will do, as well as producing improvements to our seawall and providing funds for ongoing seawall improvement to this end other parts of the city. Finally, Historic Preservation. It has been one of the most challenging portions of the site, so people have mentioned, this site is producing a large amount of Community Benefits, plus Affordable Housing without public subsidy. The three things before you today, unit three and station a, incredibly compelling, wonderful preservation targets. Also costing a huge amount of money. Being pushed by the community, we found a way that all three will be preserved and will be part of this project. What you see before you today will be transformed into a stateoftheart adaptive reuse building and reserved to the public for a very long time to come. Finally, the project overall, it will be making nearly 900 million of public investments, in Community Benefits. We are incredibly excited about the project we get to present to you next we look forward to meeting with many of you, if you have any questions. Now i will turn it over to john francis from the San Francisco planning department. As far as ongoing thats fine. John francis from San Francisco planning. As noted in my introduction, our intent is to introduce the general plan Amendment Associated with the power station for initiation. The power station project is on balance, consistent with the general plan as it advances many city goals, priorities, and policies and in the plan. Opening up new areas of the waterfront for public access. In particular, it should be noted that the Central Waterfront area plans to identify the potrero powers site as an opportunity for mixeduse redevelopment following a planning process. A few amendments to the general plan recommended by staff to ensure that it remains current. The proposed amendment generally fall into three categories. First, they are intended to reflect the communities Planning Efforts related to the projects that have brought us here today, and to align the plant with the proposed projects. They reflect to Community Resources that are being proposed by the project and lastly, they provide Planning Guidance for industrial areas. [reading notes] staff is proposing an amendment to the Central Waterfront area plan, the industry element, the urban design element, and the land use effects. The amendments update objectives, policies and maps to align with the general land use, building heights, and Building Controls of the proposed project. Updates to the Central Waterfront plan reflect the process between the city, community and project sponsor that occur over the last 2. 5 years to plan for the sites feature. I would make one note, is that the amendments submitted for map one, of the commerce and industry element, in the case report for this hearing has been updated to reflect the proposed project. Im submitting an updated version for the map for your consideration which is included in the materials distribute it to you at the beginning of the presentation. Amendments to the maps on the recreation, open space and transportation elements are intended to reflect immunity resources that are proposed by the project. This includes 6. 9 acres of new parks on the site, and the new recreational loop that will line its way along the shoreline of the power station. Lastly, staff is proposing amendments to the commerce and industry element by updating objective for, then adding a new policy 4. 12. These amendments were drafted after the case report for todays hearing was published and are you introduced today for your consideration. The general plan amendment is been updated to reflect these addition and is included in your materials as well. The proposed objective and policy language is highlighted in orange text on the site. Commerce industry element objective for would be amended to read, and prove the viability of existing industry, in the city, the equitable distribution of infrastructure and the attractiveness of the city at the location for an industry. 4. 12 would read as obsolete or underutilized our decommissioned, consolidated, or relocated. Ensure that new uses are on site, excuse me, new uses on such sites complement the adjacent neighborhood and address environmental considerations while reflecting water contemporary city priorities. The priority is to acknowledge the shifting distribution of infrastructure uses in the city. Due to the increase urban land values and technological advances and to encourage Land Planning that reduces Environmental Justice burdens on communities that have been disproportionately impacted. This concludes the summary of the proposed amendments. Planning staff recommends adoption of the resolution, initiating general plan amendments. Recommending setting a hearing for the adoption on or after october 10, 2019. Just to go to the next steps, assuming adoption of the resolution today, the special use district and zoning amendments proposed for the project will be introduced at the board of supervisors on september 17. The project will be back before the Planning Commission on october 10, to seek improvements including the design for the development, infrastructure, master plan and develop an agreement. Board of supervisors approval hearings will follow later in the fall or early winter. This concludes the presentations we remain available for your comments and questions. Thank you. We would now like to open this up for Public Comment. I do not have any speaker cards, at the moment. Please line up on the screen side of the room. Come on up when you are ready. My name is susan, ive lived a in dog patch for over 23 years. I have been an active member of the community. The developer of the power station has done an incredible amount of Community Outreach, not only with the association, but for the General Community over 2. 5 years. They have listen to the community needs, and the co project reflects that. The opening of the waterfront, preservation of the beloved stat, and other historic buildings, a Grocery Store, neighborhood serving retail, and much needed Community Facilities like the ymca, and childcare, and 30 of auto housing, as well as key transportation Investment Options for land and water. All of this reflects community priorities. While the details are still under design, and discussion, i am comfortable with the current direction of the project plan. Priority and the commitment by the developer to continue to work collaboratively on these details, and to confirm each step of the Development Process with the community. The project will be yet another reason for all of San Francisco to visit and enjoy the eastern part of the city. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is peter, i direct the potrero archive project, we are having our 20th annual history night, in november. I hope you can come. I want to thank associate capital for their openness, responsiveness and continuing outreach to the community. Their preferred plan shows that they understand the unique status of the stack unit three, and station a, station a being the impressive rick welding which is our only link to the power plant, which rebuilt the city, after the disasters of 1906. Preserving that building, and other buildings is a huge public benefit. Because of station as significant, significance, i think the development should be limited on office space. Also, because station a is fragile, i think it is adapted for use should be included in phase one of the development. If station a cannot be included, in phase, the building should be reinforced so that it cannot be lost, during a weight which could be many years. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am president of the potrero neighborhood association. You heard about the benefits of this project. We are excited about those benefits. We are currently working on with the city on the project sponsors is making sure the risk, of such a Long Duration project, effectively managed so we are sure to get those benefits in the future. Im going to run through a list of things we are working on. We are very optimistic when we come back, we will have them all taken care of and be able to speak in one enthusiastic voice. First, we are making sure that all of the housing, including the a part of housing, on the site, has an adequate unit that reflects the familyfriendly character of the neighborhood. We are eager to make sure that the Transportation Sustainability fees stay in the area. This area is challenged, we will find out tomorrow night at the metallica concert, exactly how challenged. With the addition of, you know, 7,000 units in the Central Waterfront when you count the two large projects, you know, we are getting deeper behind, in terms of our ability to move around the great part of the city. Open space is a tough one, in large part because the soccer field on top of the garage structure. We are taking that garage structure again, because the structure can be repurposed. It cannot be repurposed while keeping the soccer field, we want to make sure and think creatively, about how we can get recreational resources, one of the few areas of the Central Waterfront that can happen, and how we can strengthen the existing recreation structure and systems in in the greater part of the neighborhood. A lot of the benefits are scheduled away out into the future, including on sites that the sponsor does not have control of. Making it more likely that the substation stationery gets developed we would be in better shape. Right now they can go through a conditional use a process to not fall under the Development Agreement. We strength into a large project authorization process. So there is more process around that should pg e decide not to do the thing we expect them to do, and build under the Development Agreement, provide the housing and public facilities that are located that site. Again, we are in the weeds again, fun part of the process where we are looking at every line, and we optimistic with the alignment that we have on certain topics with the city, and with the alignment that we have with the developer, when we come back we will be able to speak positively about this project. Thank you very much. Hello. When we were here, in april, the massing of the power station matched more closely at pier 70, that its mission bay street could be modified to have finegrained development, reduce shadowing. The parking garage be eliminated to reduce impacts from cars, and for more and better openspace. Unfortunately, our design recommendations were not incorporated, but we are encouraged by the inclusion of station a, affordability. It is critical that all promised Community Benefits are viable and that they are binding, as currently drafted, much remains uncertain and a little enforceable. The future of the pg e parcel is unclear. It is really just another property. Frontloaded, and interior spaces no housing built on that travertine, with nearly all of the commercial development already in place, will be skewed, increasing demand for housing while the neighborhood suffers an impacts to transit traffic, and air quality. With a Significant Office space added to the project, to pay for station a, we are understandably nervous over the hints at retention is uncertain. We recognize that Something Like a major site could then occur, the d4 d offers passage in the front with some public use, and high quality design which is wholly subjective. Since that portion of the project is an expected to begin for ten years, efforts june mean to be made now to show up the protective structure, particularly if construction is delayed further by an economic downturn, obtaining , project sponsor lew d, are also going with the issues we have raised, we sincerely hope that they can be resolved before entitlement hearing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I have lived on potrero since 1974, which you can tell by my accent. I worked for 40 years as a masonry repair contractor, in San Francisco, until i thankfully retired three years ago. I have looked at building a from a perspective, and i told the developer is probably going to cost way too much money to restore the building, i make it structurally sound. It is a huge undertaking, im really surprised and very pleased, that they have committed to such a complex and costly undertaking. As you have heard previously, very keen to see the preservation of our architectural history. This is a great move on the part of the developer. [inaudible] im not sure what to call that anymore. There is genuine excitement, the opening of the waterfront for public uses, and the numerous other public benefit, plus of course the badly needed housing. They listen, and as you have heard, with these changes, they have acted forcefully on the community. See this project get going, not ten odd i hope it gets enthusiastic approval from you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is don lerner, on the long time homeowner and resident of dogpatch. Ive phoned my home for 18 years , which is just over three blocks from the site. Im very excited to see this happen. Two sites that are six blocks from us, as evidenced by that, i am obviously highly invested in the success, growth, and development of this neighborhood. I have to say, i recognize this developer, a friend of the neighborhood. Ive said it before here, i see this team as white hat developers, the good guys. Doing what i think is necessary for our neighborhood to grow and develop. What they are trying to do, with this iconic site with an effort to save these historic buildings, and create something iconic here will only enhance an amazing neighborhood and began to book end what is happening on the east side of the city, with oracle part, and chase center, in the middle, and then the smoke stack at i think it will draw people down to live, shop, and enjoy the neighborhood. The opening of the waterfront, again, the saving of the stack. These are commitments that have been shown by their efforts, and choices, their support of local event like the street Food Festival which is coming up next month. We are participating as a volunteer restaurant, to support my business, and i have supported them for many years. It shows their commitment to art, and community, and culture. Things that we need in dogpatch. It will bring more people to our neighborhood, support my businesses and all of the other local businesses that are invested, and want to thrive. And, i see this as a great thing for us. I see these guys as people that are wellintentioned, and like the speaker before me said, i would like to see this happen soon. I look forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is darren klein, i am with pacific gas electric. I am here to speak in support of the project. First off, we do remediation currently, on this location, and the developers associate capital have been great to work with. They have given us access to the property. Worked with us to ensure we cleaned it up as quickly as possible. Thats one of the reasons and allowing our property to be part of the entitlement. We see this area changing, that there is a lot more changes to come, not just this. There is currently, an outdoor substation, and knowing that this area is changing, that substation, right now, is at full capacity for distribution. We can add low to that, but finding more distribution circuits as a challenge. It is our plan to replace that substation in the near future, sometime over the next number5 years. At that point, we will be able to shrink the size of the substation and look for places where you can go, in the community, where it makes sense. We have looked across the entire community. We have looked at what we feel is the future low growth, somewhere around where the current substation is, is probably where it will have to end up. We want to be a part of this process, so we can talk to the community and make sure there is land available, since we will be reduced the size of that substation. I wanted to come today, and tell you we do have plans, we do have to do this work to increase reliability in the city, and also make sure that all of the new projects you have, not just the associate capital projects, but every thing else has enough power to grow into the future. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Representing the ymca of San Francisco. They have been serving the city of San Francisco since 1853. Located in every neighborhood, including district ten. Our bayview Hunters Point ymca located on main street, not too far from the dogpatch Community Addresses the most Critical Community needs. Which include health and wellness, housing stabilization, academic achievement, youth development, Workforce Development and family strengthening. Specifically, in the dogpatch neighborhood, we have been an active supporter since this inception. Providing healthy kids with activities. We have been active in supporting local merchants, for a merchant walks and. The ymca of San Francisco is in full support, the development of the potrero power station project. We are excited to share our expertise, in community development, health and wellness, youth senior and family programming, specifically operating Child Development centers. The trusted brand come of the ymca, also lends itself to Safe Community spaces, for community gathering, social connections, and community buildings. It will serve as a Bridge Builder for community support, and is our priority, to ensure that all Community Voices influenced the development of this project. Specifically the community spaces. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is martha ryan, i am the founder and executive director of the Homeless Prenatal Program here, in San Francisco. I have been working with homeless pregnant women, family families with Young Children for 30 years. Our mission is to end the cycle of childhood poverty, and break the cycle of family homelessness. What you need to break the cycle of family homelessness, is housing. Housing alone is not enough. Families need opportunities to be able to get education come and get job training. We are partnering with the developer on this project from dogpatch, and we cannot be happier to do so, to have Housing Available to our families, and allow them to get deep subsidies, very low rent, Affordable Housing, and to be able to get the families to have opportunities to get education. To have jobs so that they can do things, so that they can provide for themselves and be sustainable on their own. It is something that nobody is really doing now. We are looking forward to this. We are looking forward to being able to have our families, in a safe environment and a beautiful environment. [please stand by] next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is vincent corda. I have a business in the petrura hill area and we have 35 employees that work in the area and so this project is of interest because many are not able to live closer to where they work and theyre commuting far distances and this is something as i look at it to provide more housing which would benefit not only the community but employees, many employees that would be able to work and live a little bit closer to home. Just looking at some of the details beyond that, it seems like its a project that would beautbeautify the neighborhood d provide more of some of the retail and Community Benefits that this project can deliver. As the last speaker and others have said, if it wont get done, it cant deliver some of those things. Many of the employees that work for our local business, a business that works with Property Owners in the neighborhood, all around San Francisco, in many cases live further away in the east bay, oakland, who has a city managed to make more units or create more units than San Francisco has and im sure you all have seen the reports about that. So this is just an opportunity to create a live, work, play environment that would be a benefit to many of us and the folks that live here. Thank you. Anyone else like to publically comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner moore . Im sided to see the project has shaped itself up in the last few months and that the surrounding community is in strong dialogue with the developer and it is very exciting. I think it starts to blend positively with pier 70, which we all have spent a lot of time on. The one question i would have is, i think its a question if i may, the uncertainly regarding pg e and them moving to bankruptcy, obviously, would make this site a part of that calamity and since this site is such a see site and key use, how will you be certain to steer us over the rapids . Commissioner john loue with the we. The area thats described in the planned documents, the physical, improve the benefits associated with that subarea, the agreement will provide those elsewhere. So that would be the Community Centre thats been discussed today and similarly retail space would be provided in the project. The open space that we provided on that block, unfortunately we dont have room elsewhere to provide and that is something if we dont have that portion of those parcels, we cant develop on them. Theyre not in ownership by the sponsors. So some things, obviously, we dont provide if we didnt have the land. The percentage of Affordable Housing remains the same. So theyre not getting a reduction in the requirement in that sense. I dont know if that answers the question. It does answer the question. I hope you can manage this and that this site is extremely important to the overall success to particularly how it properly presents itself to the street and a connection to the rest of the community. That would be Larger Community connecting uses. Speaking about the Community Facilities, the Grocery Store, including some of the belowmarket rate housing, antiopen space and im looking for you to stay strong on the helm to do so. I have one additional question, if i may. Im delighted seeing that the dialogue with you and the community has really taken a wonderful turn. I think the project has light use for what it did a couple months ago. The questio. The question i have of phasing. You have a deep side in comparison to other sites. How will the project be realized in terms of construction phasing . How will you build into from the waterfront or the waterfront out . Because the physical realization of the project will have a great impact on how the community will connect to it over the years during which it will be in construction. Thank you, commissioner moore for that question. This is constrained for several reasons. Number one the project of remediation. Weve been working with pg e to make more of the suit available. Currently, the site is intended to be developed from the southeast corner out towards the street and partially thats due to the Infrastructure Requirements need to be made and because when the site is available for construction based on the remediation. Weve heard loud and clear they would like station a brought into an earlier phase. If the project would be able to did so both from a remediation location of construction and prop m allocation for that space, we would welcome that into an earlier phase and so, were starting with the waterfront first and working through to the street. Would you be able for the final hearing to have some diagrams that show it . Because ultimately, the physical reality is what we respond to, the technical constraints, and theyre important to the issues we have at Treasure Island and many other sites. But for us to physically see how it develops would be a great see defense osequence of events. Absolutely. Thank you. Commissioner fung . The plan as proposed is quite comprehensive and i was quite excited to see the components there were there. One of the project sponsor comments made, however, i may disagree in the following sense. For those of us who lived at one time in Hunters Point or the southern edge of the hill, and as kids who didnt have anything to do, we wandered passed site. In fact, many of the industrial sites. So some of us do know about it. But i have two technical questions for the project sponsors. One is when you discuss resiliency, is the project sponsor in the seawall modifications . So were community our site is hiris higher than other site. We will both be lifting our site and working with the port of San Francisco to rebuild the seawall and waterfront. The second question is related to what you have listed as sustainability and green elements. Given the history of the site and the fact that it was a major source of pollutants, did you folks consider looking at creating a passive house here at the site . We did. Theres a pasive house a passiv. We have looked and would commit. Were in ab 900 stewardship and we have committed to Greenhouse Gases and as far as specific ourus