Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Of combinations of units, unit configurations to satisfy the legislation on the code, we pushed the number of twobedrooms and threebedrooms above the 40 percent minimum. And if you are to count the one bedrooms plus dens that we are also providing which is a new unit type we were able to provide by eliminating a substantial number of studios while maintaining the total unit count, we would be at a45 percent of our total units that would have twos and threes. The team is committed and we have repeatedly shared this as part of our outreach to ensuring that the housing that we are delivering is completely accessible. We recognize that the district is a very diverse district. Its a multilingual district. And in recognition of that have committed to posting workshops leading up the one year leading up to the opening of the building, every month, to assist with local residents who would like to enroll and apply in the bmr program to have their applications interpreted and translated and submitted to ensure access to the housing that we are delivering for the residents. As i mentioned yesterday, it was the first time we received the green light from the City Attorney that we are able to provide neighborhood preference. Thats something that we are very excited about. It was something that up until yesterday we felt was not legally permissible. Job creation is substantial. We are committed to 100 Percent Union construction on the project. We anticipate 500 or so construction jobs over a twoyear period and an additional 30 fulltime jobs once the project is stabilized. Well also be working with Mission Hiring Hall and other local nonprofits to ensure that local residents have access to both the construction and the full time permanent jobs as well. In consideration of the time limitations, we didnt have the ability to go through all of the Community Benefits in detail but ill quickly touch on the remaining items. The project sits atop of the creek. And theres a significant concern amongst the community, immediate neighbors that the building and building into the creek and floodplain would create an unnecessary burden by discharging or surcharging the stormwater system. We actually worked with planning staff and were able to raise the building 5 feet outside of the 100year floodplain, such that we would not be burdening or surcharging the system. We are also providing significant street scape improvements, a public art program. Time. They may have questions for you later. We did grant organized opposition if those numbers of the public could make their way to room 400, you have ten minutes. Sf gov, can you see the computer . Good afternoon. My name is fernandez. Im the Program Manager for cuhd, Communities United for health and justice. Its a strong united voice mooning lowincome, working class, people of color youth families and elders to advance Community Based solutions, foster a just local economy and promote equitable development. We engage Community Members to put into practice communitybased solutions for healthy neighborhoods. Since the inception of this project cuhj oh thats the wrong. Since the inception cuhj and our base of activists have articulated key concerns with every iteration of the proposed development at 65 ocean. In the spring of 2016, we recognized the increase in Development Pressure in district 11 and we led a neighborhood Mapping Initiative to articulate a vision for a development that meets the needs of our deeplyrooted yet highly vulnerable community. This is a visual of that map that was created the better neighborhood document. 65 ocean was then identified as a project with harmful impacts to our community. Today we maintain that all Housing Development in district 11 should be affordable so people that live here now today. In february 2017 we held the First Community hearing in collaboration with the Homeowners Association and lack of notice to community organizations. It was held at a local Police Station a contentious institution with a turbulent history with communities of color. Still Community Members mobilized and delivered clear testimonies and comments regarding lack of affordability and Community Serving space. In august of 2017, the city agreed to present at a Monthly Community meeting which aims to cultivate leadership among working class communities of color. They showed neglect to address or incorporate the central concerns voiced at the february 2017 Community Meeting instead offering a sweep of aesthetic revisions and in september, they returned to present focusing only on the 55 percent ami and below units. Over the course of the year, after the initial Meeting Community leaders took it upon themselves to raise awareness of the proposed development and demonstrate an Overwhelming Community opposition to the 65 ocean project. This opposition was manifested in the largescale Community Action earlier this september a call for a Community Hearing that remains unanswered from this body and by over 1,000 petitions designed in person, demanding this commission deny permits to this project today. The developer attempted to divert attention from key concerns by asking families from the crayon box preschool to support the project. My name is sarah wilson. I live three blocks away from 65 ocean avenue. My fiveyearold attended crayon box spanish immersion preschool but attended the school two miles away after it was displaced along with little bear preschool from the 65 ocean site at its development. Recently crayon box families were asked to support our beloved preschool and it really is. By supporting this housing project. This is a false choice for any crayon box parent who wants to keep our mostly lowincome and working class neighbors from being pushed out of the neighborhood. This isnt whitewashing and its not green washing, i dont know what you call it, maybe preschool washing but whatever it is, its not right. To see a stable home for our preschool and our neighborhood, we shouldnt have to accept an explosion of unaffordable units that the intergeneral racial intergenerational families cant fit into. Weve already los lost two preschools because of this development. The developers have asked crayon box parents to make a false choice in order to push their project through. Thats why 36 crayon box parents have submitted this petition which each of you should have received via email earlier this week, asking you not to approve a project at 65 ocean unless its 100 percent affordable and has a longterm home for our preschool. The Developers Want you to make the same false choice they want us to make. And we are asking you to refuse that choice. Most of my neighbors are workingclass immigrants of color. My partner our family our extended family, our working class immigrants of color. Some of my neighbors are working class immigrants of color who are teachers at crayon box my sons teachers. So we are thinking about the whole picture here not just a narrow slice of it. We need childcare in excelsior and we need truly Affordable Housing in the excelsior. Commissioners, according to American Community survey data from 2012 to 16, district 11 is the only district in San Francisco with the majority foreign born population at 51 percent. They have the largest average Family Household size the highest percentage of Family Households the highest rates of households with seniors highest population of limited English Proficient residents and second highest population of youth. A 2017b bla report comparing the average rent paid by san franciscan residents by neighborhood showed all district 11 neighborhoods listed as among the seven most rentburdened neighborhoods in San Francisco, each experiencing 36. 5 rent burden or higher. Additionally the district retained the Lowest Per Capita income of 28,590 and Median Income of 75,276. Despite years of communicating a Clear Community position with the developer and a painfully clear need for Affordable Housing in the neighborhood, of the 193 proposed units only 19 units would be accessible to low income earnses. Only nine would be multibedroom units suitable for families. Units built as Workforce Housing at 40 percent ami including janitors nursing assistants and healthcare workers only account for 15 of the units. Only a fraction of which would be familysized. Additionally there are significant design concerns with the project as propose ed. Though Building Codes require five percent of units to be ada compliant it also requires they be located on the ground floor and all the ground and garage level units appear to have stairs. There are multiple units in the proposed project that appear to be violating Building Code requirements for access to light and ventilation. We have questions about whether the Square Footage in some of these units is large enough to satisfy the requirements of home sf. These are factors that would likely affect the quality of life of the proposed units and appropriateness of the entire project. And it doesnt appear the inkind agreement has been approved by the City Attorneys office, which would be comprise the Largest Community benefit for this development. Apparently if you vote on this project today you may be voting on it without that agreement. As you know, the displacement project utilizing race, gender income and others have designated district 11 as at risk of gentrification and displacement. This finding urges preventive measures to be taken to ensure Housing Development provides stability for existing residents. But you know this and you are familiar with this map. This map illustrates projects recently built or proposed for development in just the neighborhood. They claim it will increase the available bmr but they fail to address the broader context of development in the neighborhood. We know firsthand the neighborhood has been underresourced and its why our alliance has played a pivotal role in ensuring the Development Projects slated for development as well as the premier inneighborhood small site acquisition which is also the largest acquisition to date. But of the 209 recently proposed market rate units in this slide the 45 ocean market rate units account for 54 percent of those units. When accounting for the Affordable Development units acquired through the Small Site Acquisition Program and other bhr units in the pipeline, 65 oceans contribution of units falls to 12 percent. We know market rates are inaccessible to current residents. Both residential and commercial space at the recently built Development Remains vacant a year after opening due to inaccessible rent. Thank you sir. Your time is up. We will be taking general public comment. As stated previously, each member of the public will have up to two minutes. We have Translation Services available to you if needed. If those members of the public in room 416 who wish to submit their public testimony can start making their way to room 400, please do so. Hello. I am trained as an urban planner and architect here in San Francisco. I develop Affordable Housing with my firm. And i had looked over the package. And i have seen that the developer has not done their Due Diligence in the sense they have not done the 2019ivc to see what the requirements are for ada accessibility as well as lighting and ventilation. And i understand the city is going through a housing crisis. I understand because i am also being displaced myself. And i am supportive of development but not at the detriment of the quality of life for residents here in the city of San Francisco. I was also displaced from the ocean district over to the bayview. And im probably going to be displaced again. Seeing developments like this where they are abusing the home sf density to create more density for units and pocket more moneys in their development is really harmful to the city of San Francisco. We need to think about the fact the design doesnt even allow for lighting and ventilation. And it reduces the amount of quality of life for people. And how do we address that as planners and architects . I have looked through the drawings and there are no units that are considered for ada there are no units they have bedrooms within their actual, one bedrooms that have sliding doors. And thats not to code. And they cant do their Due Diligence in design, i have no faith they will do it as they go through Design Development and construction documentation. So i am opposing this project for the people of San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker please. Let me call some more names if someone is in the overflow room, please make your name here. [calling names] good afternoon commissioners im a Community Organizer with poder. I will be continuing to organize opposition. According to the page 2. Unfortunately you cant do that. We gave the organized opposition ten minutes. Its mandatory of three speakers. You are one of those speakers, you cant continue the organized opposition during this time. Okay. So can i just speak then. Give you one minute. Okay. It is not applicable sorry. Its out of touch and out of reach for the district. Maybe in a different district where the Poverty Level isnt where it is for our district our Median Income is not affordable. I guess the Median Income in our neighborhood is all below market rate. Okay. Not going to be affordable to the community and i really want you to understand that. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is tony rodriguez. Im the local 43 fire union. And i want to say real quick im a board member of the San Francisco housing and Action Coalition that endorsed this project. Im an officer of San Francisco Building Trades that endorsed this project. But anyway, i was born and raised in the excelsior. Growing up, i thought this project was going to be when i went to Balboa High School we used to stop there and eat hang out there, that was a record shop, that was 40 years ago. The city changed the neighborhood changed. And right now theres a shortage of housing in the city. This developer once developed 193 units 25 percent would be below market, you already know that. The developers guarantee the construction workers would be paid a Living Standard wage, benefits you already know that. The fight would really help with the shortage of houses. The developer says they would replace a preschool with a new school. I feel the developer has gone way above what theyve had to do. And i ask you to approve this project. Some projects dont fit. You all know that. But i think this project really does fit the excelsior. My dad my sister still live there. Im in that neighborhood all the time. I was just in there a couple days ago. Now i live in heights like i said. I dont understand how a project like this would push residents out of the neighborhood. And i ask you to approve this project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon commissioners. Danny sheet Metal Workers local 104. Im an officer as well with San Francisco Building Trades council. You have a long day ahead of you. We here support this project. The project sponsor reached out to us very early committed to building this project with construction workers playing good middle class wages with healthcare and Retirement Benefits that allow them to build this project. But more importantly to have a chance to live in these units with the onsite below market rate and affordable units this project is going to offer. Theyll be able to many of the members i represent will be able to afford these units. First project that im aware of that is utilizing home sf, i think speaks volumes what this developer wants to do. As he said they kind of went with the state density bonus didnt do that, stay they stepped up their game, went with home sf, i think thats applaudable. We do wholeheartedly look for your support to pass this project today. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon commissioners. Thank you to allow me to speak today. My name is april at kins. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I was born and raised here until nine years ago i moved out. I went to the Apprenticeship Program finishing in 2000. Im here in support of 65 ocean avenue. It is in need of new housing. The project will provide 193 rentals which will be available to our available to our very Diverse Community including Seniors Students and family. As looking excuse me, as working in the field as a construction worker, prior to becoming an organizer i look forward to helping workers who work in the communities especially those with kids. I am encouraging you to move the 65 ocean avenue project forward as quickly as possible. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello commissioners. I actually live in district 11. Im here to let you know that i want this project to go forward. Im an apprentice and member of local 22. Im speaking on this project like theyre saying, its going to be a very beautiful project keeping the kids in the community when theyre building that, giving us our jobs that we need. Its providing me the opportunity to finish my training so i can become a journeyman carpenter and keep building towards my retirement and future apprentices. Its providing me with the benefits i need and income to provide for my family. I still want to continue to be a San Francisco resident, and i think you should push this project forward. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im a Union Carpenter worked 25 years as a carpenter. I live here now. Ive been here back in the 70s and then other side then over here. 193 new places, thats great. I support this project. They need to keep the political stuff out of it and just build the housing. And you need more, tougher rentcontrolled laws like berkeley has. That is really tough. That would keep people in their homes and would slow down these people that are buying up these houses and jacking the rents up. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im also going to call up some more names. [calling names] hello, Planning Commission. I am Michelle Leonard bell. I work with Mission Hiring Hall. Mission hiring hall has worked for almost 50 years to connect San Francisco residents such as the residents in district 11 to training and not just jobs but careers. And our goal is to train and get people to careers that can sustain them living in the city. We are in support of this project. One main reason we are in support is because the developer understands the commitment to the community and the commitment to workforce especially. We are working with them in recruiting and training residents who have not looked at career paths in this district, which is a district that sorely needs outreach for Career Training and planning. Theyve made a longterm commitment to work with us on that. So we are very excited for this project. Another reason that we are excited about the project is the Community Revitalization that it will provide. Of course the jobs, of course the 48 Affordable Housing units folks that we train and place can live in. And thats it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi commissioners. Im davis turnbull. Ive lived in San Francisco my whole life. If im going to be a house its going to be in sacramento because it costs too much to live here. But anyway, building Affordable Housing and more housing in the ocean area, which is a great neighborhood which ive been to a lot. I think its a good thing. With the city, the density the population, we need more housing we need more housing for all the people that live here. So i think this is a good project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi. I am adrian. Im sorry. If its too loud it interferes with our ability to hear. We have sheriffs on hand and they are trying to do their best i believe. I am the founder of the crayon box preschool which is a Spanish Immersion School that started in the excelsior in 2003. And im here to support the project. I left 65 ocean avenue after being there for 11 years. I left prior to presidio bay acquiring the property. I think its necessary to clarify that, because there seems to be a belief in the community that i was displaced. I was not. In fact, they are trying to bring me back to the community. And their offer couldnt come at a better time. I am currently where my lease expires in three years. So once my three years are up, there is no location for the preschool. Working with presidio bay, ive seen that theyve been incredibly generous with us. They have offered a lease between 10 and 20 years. Initially they offered 3,000 square feet. But once i told them that we needed more in order to be able to serve all the families they increased that to 9,000. Theyre offering below market rate rent. And assistance with the buildout. I think that speaks greatly about their commitment to the community to families and to education. As for us, we are a highquality preschool we started in the excelsior and we want to go back. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Ive called all the speaker cards for now. [speaking spanish]. Do you mind waiting one second . Well bring the translator up. Okay. Teacher good. Translator good afternoon. I have been working for the crayon box for ten years. I support returning to the excelsior district. This way i could walk to work. Right now i have to drive every day to my work and i have problems parking. If my work is close to my job, i could walk to work. And i would save time and money. I am proud to be part of the community. And to be able to work and to support in this place. I can offer my passion and my profession in working with children. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. I have four more cards that im going to call. [calling names] hi. My name is maria. Im the director at the crayon box preschool. Ive been working for the crayon box for more than ten years. Im also speaking as a parent of an exalumni. My group of teachers and staff are 15 women who are of hispanic heritage. And we are really proud of the preschool. And i loved the neighborhood and the excelsior. My parents had a house in the excelsior and i grew up in San Francisco. So im very fond of the area, and i know the area very well. So i support the project. Im excited to be back and be closer a little built lit to my commute from bit to my commute from home. We provide jobs for women in the community and open our doors to a lot of families in the community. So i am all for this project. Im excited that we got a house and hopefully for many years to be there. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is lundford, im a construction manager. I had the unique opportunity five years ago to work on a project with presidio bay and their team. I think the best word i can use to highlight their approach and it is different than a lot of developers ive had experience with is they are very collaborative. And not only with the community but with every agency we encountered in delivering the project. The project was a lead certified gold project. They didnt bend any rules to get there. The Building Department had a wonderful relationship with the project, didnt have to bend any rules for that. They collaborated in every way right down to collaborate ing with immediate neighbors while trying to build a sixstory building over the process of a twoyear construction cycle with several hundred apartments within a few feet of the project. We had accolades from the hoa boards and many of the neighbors approached me as i was out in that street every day thanking us for how we did the work. And it was all because the tone and tenor of the project was set by presidio bays team from the getgo and to make it work for the neighbors and lets have some fun doing it, and lets deliver a good project to San Francisco. Im certain theyll do that again. Theres no doubt in my mind. So i urge you to go forward. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is john corso. Im a member of local 38, plumbers and steamfitters in San Francisco as well as the San Francisco Building Trades. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. We would like to voice our strong support for this development at 65 ocean. We appreciate the outreach the developer has done to our union. We think this job this project will create jobs before, during and after in construction. And we strongly support the project and we hope you do as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello commissioners, im a Community Organizer with poder. Ive been organizing in the excelsior for over 15 years. And im here because i think its important we follow due process specifically that developed by the Planning Commission. So im not necessarily here to say that we shouldnt pass this project but i feel like at this time, we havent had enough Community Engagement in the way that you yourselves have laid it out. And theres a lot of concerns. And theres a lot of things that havent been properly addressed. Also i just want to say that im the proud daughter, i was born here in the city, im the proud daughter of a dad who retired in the Laborers Union a mother who retired in the bakers union. And i feel like this type of project pit us against each other because we want jobs for everybody too. Everybody in San Francisco is suffering with this crazy cost of living, and we want to work here, but we want to live here also, because most of the people that are going to work on this project for what, two, three years theyre not going to be able to afford it. Maybemaybe eight nine units. So then what happens. Who here lives in tracy or vacaville or sacramento and has to community . Who has to go on the bridge at any time of the day . Thats horrible. We are creating horrible traffic not just across the bay but we are separating families where dads have to come and work in the city and then have to go live somewhere else where we can create projects where people who work here, because all Affordable Housing the union labor, we want it to be union labor and also live here. A lot of the people here are from the city and want to live here, but how do we Work Together and not against each other to really have Community Participation and planning . I think thats really, really important. And i really want to say that because my family was in unions, i was able to have health insurance, i was able to not go to sleep hungry and i want that for all these families too including Affordable Housing. Truly affordable. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. I am finished calling out the blue cards. If any members of the public are done speaking we ask you make room for the people that havent spoken because the sheriffs wont let in anybody else unless theres room for them. I talked to the sheriff and let everyone in the hallway know that with or without a blue card everyone will get a chance to speak no matter what. [speaking spanish] translator my name is yolanda sanchez. I come here to support the change for crayon box to the excelsior district. Excelsior is in my neighborhood. Ive been there more than 20 years. I come to support the families that want their children to learn spanish. I love my work. I like working with children, especially children that want to learn spanish. I enjoy them i enjoy the children, listening to them learn spanish. And when they dont understand, i repeat it again in english. Where we are working right now we dont have a sure place. Thats why im supporting here to come back to my neighborhood. I love i adore my profession. I adore my neighborhood. And i wish from the bottom of my heart continued proud teaching my spanish roots from where i come from. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [speaking spanish] translator. Good afternoon. My name is olivia. Ive been working 16 years with adriana. I work with her. I live in that neighborhood. I live in excelsior. And so i would like the school to be there so i could go to work there walking distance. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is jose. Im a president for labors local 261. I know you have a long day ahead of you so ill make it short. Im here on behalf of close to 6,000 members to support this project. I urge you to pass it to go forward. Just to remind you to echo my Union Brothers and sisters, that this is not going to cost our taxpayers any money. You dont have to make any excuses for that. Its all private. And its a lot of pluses. Work, we need the housing. A lot of people, we all need to cooperate. We need that housing. Please pass. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. My name is raphaela. Im the Deputy Director of youth art exchange. Youth art exchange is an excelsior based nonprofit. Through our work, High School Students and the surrounding Community Get access to vital free arts programming. We have a space on the corner of mission and the excelsior on mission street. Its an art center that offers free arts programming to primarily San Francisco public High School Students as well as the surrounding community. We believe that access to the arts transforms lives and builds community. Over the last few years, after presidio bay entered to do this project has offered support through donated and shared spaces, engaging youth and families, hiring bay area artists and funding our work to increase access to the arts. They have demonstrated a commitment to supporting youth and arts in the neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon members. Once again im here, coming from the people, i am the peoples of San Francisco, 40 years to live here. I love this city. Im here, i feel awkward because really i dont have no beef with nobody, not even with you guys but i have to post what i feel, this exercising my right as a citizen. And i got to give it to cyrus, its very clever, but hes a liar. Now hes using the kids. So my question is what about if a household like the head of the household happens to have a job here but cant afford the rent where those kids are going to go, my grandson, for example which im supporting right now. So its like everything is nice and good, yeah, come here, we need the jobs, but thats temporary. When you are done with that building, all the people got to go back to tracy. They are good people too. The people they are using to build these buildings i know they come here because they dont want to lose their job. I understand that. And thats how they use people against the people. But they know. I took a couple outside and they just laughed because it is true. We are the people, we dont need that building. I mean we do need a building but affordable to us, to us. Please. I mean its really, what i can ask anymore, this is my third time. I respect you i dont have no beef with anybody. But like i said again im exercising my right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. [speaking spanish] translator good afternoon. My name is miguel hernandez. Ive been here for 33 years in the excelsior neighborhood. Im living there for a very long time. But i see right now its very difficult. I cannot find a place to live with my family. My salary is not enough to come up with the rent here this high rent that is right now in the city, i cannot afford it. Im here to ask you to put your hand and humbly request from you to prevent and to allow not to allow this apartment because we dont make enough to make we dont make enough money to pay for this apartment. Those are my only words to you. We dont want luxury buildings that we cannot afford. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [speaking span i object]. [speaking spanish] translator good afternoon. Ive been living here for 20 years. Ill continue to come here to ask for the same. We dont want 65 ocean to be built there. Because out of 192 units, only 9 would be accessible. The rest is luxury housing. And we cannot afford it. Aside from that, the units are in such a way that our family will not fit in there so its not fair that they continue to build. However, they want to build another luxury building on seneca and mission would have one building. If you ask me how many units for low income are there its incredible that there might be three, four, five. But not even a salary even i were worked from when i wake up to when i go to sleep, i would not be able to work there. So please, work with your heart. I told you last time to think about the humanity and the people that have nowhere to live. Because we are you are taking us away from our neighborhood. So im going to be here as long as its needed. And thank you. [speaking spanish] um thank you. Next speaker, please. [speaking spanish] good afternoon, everyone. My name is maria louise. I am here advocating for just cause. We are asking to not build luxury housing. I am here because i am the mother of three and i am worried about their future. [speaking spanish] i cannot pay for luxury housing because i work two jobs and it is not enough with my salary. [speaking spanish] that worries me because my children im not going to be able to afford or pay for university. [speaking spanish] if i dont have housing i can pay, i will not be able to send my children to university. [speaking spanish] that is what worries me the most because that is the future. [speaking spanish] just like those of us that are so many families in the community. [speaking spanish] i have three jobs, for jobs even and it is not enough for rent. [speaking spanish] that is why we oppose housing that is very luxurious and costly with this bill. [speaking spanish] we want to have more low income housing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [speaking spanish] hold on, please, one second. Can we take turns alternating. Its hard to hear you both. [speaking spanish] i feel very sad. [speaking spanish] every day i lived listen to the same people every day passing by telling me. [speaking spanish] [inaudible] [speaking spanish] each of these persons have two or three more jobs and all of them pay their taxes. [speaking spanish] they all work because one the tourist industry cleaning they have beautiful jobs and they work very hard. [speaking spanish] that is one thing that we have not been able to provide to them is Affordable Housing in San Francisco. A place with dignity. [speaking spanish] each of them. [inaudible] [speaking spanish] since ive been having this job more than 300 people have been applied to be able to afford one of these houses, and none of them are affordable to them. [speaking spanish] if you guys allow this project to come to San Francisco, rents will continue getting higher and higher. All of the families will not have a place that they can afford to live. [speaking spanish] i am very that we have to use the union of the people on the children. I just want to request there is some sort of balance with these proposals. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I have three more speaker cards. Good afternoon, commissioners. Alex landsberg. I am a San Francisco resident. I work with allied mechanical crafts and im here in support of this 65 ocean project. Before coming here i took a look at what housing costs are like the neighborhood. As you can see, someone can zoom in, its virtually all Single Family homes over 1 million. You know, first i think we need to commend all of the folks that are coming here to tell you about the needs for Affordable Housing in the neighborhood. It is clearly there. Theres no question about it. As the same time we heard in the early part of the presentation today, there has not been any construction in the neighborhood for years and this is the i live in bayview Hunters Point try to have a house on the street for me that is being rented out for 9,000 a month. This is Something Like one of these. Continuing to reject projects like this one that are on effectively vacant land that are replacing and providing space for a childcare facility that are creating a real Career Opportunities for Union Construction workers. No construction worker is being used to come here to support this project. They are doing this because this is their career and their profession. Providing the affordability, as well as, lets remember half of the rooms here are for families in this project. You know, as everyone tells you they need, i hope you keep that in mind. I hope you do what you can to promote 100 Affordable Housing projects and neighborhoods. You cant stop the stuff. You have to enable this project to move forward. I hope you support it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening chair and members of the San Francisco Planning Commission. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak this afternoon. My name is daniel greg i represent over 4,000 members here in San Francisco at approximately 40,000 here in northern california. We are excited to be here tonight to support the project. Committed to the use of union labor on this development and the general contractor. Sixtyfive ocean street will bring approximately 500 construction jobs to San Francisco and provide an opportunity for local apprentices to begin or continue their career in construction. Just to speak with the previous speaker spoke about that the jobs only last 2 hike three years. All of our jobs last about that long. That is the life of a construction worker. We also know that not all students who graduate high school have the resources or have decided to go to college. That is becoming more clear every day as a community is starting to realize that. A career in construction is a good career where you can provide for your family grade you can afford to live in a nice home. That is becoming popular every day. That is why we need to support Construction Projects like this that support that type of career. A project like this creates a situation where workers who are able to earn a living wage can give it back to the community by continuing to live and shop right here in San Francisco. Additionally it is significant that the Ocean Development will create 193 new rental homes and 48 of them will be below market rate. Increase units in district 11 my 240 . In conclusion the support system element and we hope the Planning Commission supports it as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am the president of local 87 here in San Francisco. We represent janitors in the private sector. Im also the highest ranking officer of the secretarytreasurer of the San Francisco labor council. I just want to be able to say ive heard all of the speeches they have been very moving. It is terrible we are being put in a sit position where allies are being pitted against allies. The reality is what you have on your shoulders