Reduce loading impacts as dwell times for trucks and loading times would be reduced so they could get in and out of the building. This is not sequa issue. The appellant fails to meet the burden that the record supports reversal of the Planning Commission and dpw. It did not and cannot provide evidence in support of its evidence. The records supporting the determinations is thorough consisting of multiple years of study and analysis and based on facts and evidence rather than argument and infect allegation. Speculation. This project will transform and underutilized wallofftioff tens sites with 744 new homes. , 185 affordable units for seniors, childcare uses and neighborhood serving retail and commercial uses. We ask you reject these appeals and move forward today. Thank you, supervisors. Thank you. Any questions . I have a question of the proje project, is there a reason why it was infeasible to make a family unit affordable . So this project through the Development Agreement, it was determined that was a specific need for Senior Housing and that affordable Senior Housing should be what was emphasized and the project would provide 25 of its total units a. I believe theyre affordable at an average of 59 of ami and these are affordable units for seniors to allow them to age in place in the city that they live in and that was determined to be the best use and the best approach to affordability for this project and this neighborhood. Ok, and then i guess related to family units, this could be a question to the developers. You know, a lot of times when i see these projects, they will have a lot of open space. Thats really not useable for children and their families. So the open space in this project be friendly to children and the interactive play . Yes, i know that they have designed the open space to be friendly to children. Theres a pretty large proportion, larger than typical proportion of twoplus bedroom unit expos and i think the sponr hopes a lot of families will be representativers anrenters and s for the needs of families who need to be able to use the open space. It cant just be passive. They want to do more with it. Is there, i guess, a project sponsor . Are they here . Yes, they are. So i would like to ask for examples where this is actually true. Sure. Im with the prado group and i would like to address your question. You were asking about familyfriendly amenities on the project. Correct. That includes the childrens space. I believe everybody has heard about the childcare which will serve 175 individuals, familyfriendly. And we also are planning to have familyfriendly amenities within the open spaces similar to the images that are up on the board right now, including some of the areas where were retaining the mature trees on the site or 11 specific heat trees were retaining on the site. And so there are a variety of different open spaces on the project that have been designed specifically with that familyfriendly aspect in mind and amenities base that can be included, including both natural elements and also play elements. Thank you. Im glad to see that. A lot of times the projects are concrete, open space, so i appreciate that. Any other questions . Then, seeing no names on the roster for questions from my closings, at this time, i want to invite members the public who wish to speak in opposition of the appeal and in support of the project. So please come forward and you have to two minutes each for each speakerrer and if youre speaking, go ahead and start lining up to my left, your right. Come on up, first speaker. Im speaking on behalf of our member. Can you draw the microphone close . Sure. Thank you. Im speaking on behalf of operating engineers. The members strongly support the proposed development 3333 california, which will create hundreds of construction jobs for community members. These jobs will pay living wages in a great way for local apprentices and a way in construction. The development at 3333 california would create up to 744 units allowing more people to remain in the city. This project has prioritized Community Input and is a part of the solution and a big step in the right direction and we ask that you deny the Laurel Heights improvement associations appeal of 3333 california project. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, president yi and members of the board. Allow me to speak today. My name is jewe high julio pyese in San Francisco for the last 30 years and i speak in favour of the 3333 california Street Project. The project will allow a car carpenter like me to continue living in the city of San Francisco. It will help to continue my career as a carpenter working towards retirement and will provide me with the necessary benefits and income to provide for myself and my family. I am full support of 3333 california street and i ask you pass this project, allowing the group for the opportunity to have a responsibility general construct for this project. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im marcy glacier and im the ceo of the screwish Community Center of sanfrancisco. Forel 86 years, we have served the people of San Francisco from the corner of presidio from the project site. Im here to speak in favour of your approval of the project and denial of the appeal. Jcc sf provides a vibrant Community Space for people of all ages and backgrounds to gather, explore, connect and flourish. Perhaps many of you learned to swim, played basketball or otherwise have taken advantage of our services. As a nonforprofit, were proud to provide emergency selfse sers and safety respite with our repeated heat and smoke emergencies. The jcc sf believes the 3333 will create a more vibrant neighborhood with more housing, activity and on space and will benefit the proceed community we serve. We understand the need for more housing, especially Affordable House and we are pleased this an element of the proposed development. The project stitches together the neighborhood and this is particularly important to us that the open space enables us to continue to have an emergency evacuation location nearby, which is critical to our communitys serving purpose and support the inclusion of social services and philanthoropic development. Im here to support and talk in favor of this project, giving you the opportunity to just work and also the opportunity to live there. And we represent members, apprentice, community and work with various community entities, city build and one other thing that i want to make sure that is clear up there, we got one of the best companies. They always work with our friends, city build, work with the various unions. Im here to encourage you to move forward with this project. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im charles ferguson. I am speaking to you on the presaipresidio heights neighbd and we are by boundary from the presaipresidio line to center d to the center line of arguello, so the presidio gate to the arguello gate. We are, in my opinion, the largest neighborhood available for eligible for Historic District status at the state of california. Most of the homes we are the oldest neighborhood around this project and most of the homes are class a homes that are end titleentitled to be separately eligible for inclusion on historic preservation. We support this project entirely and i want to point out that our neighborhood has 8 hub residents in it and this project in its alternative form is almost the same size. When you add the 3700 california Street Project, which you will be facing pretty soon, which is in our neighborhood, we will have fa far more residents constructed in our neighborhood than we have right now. And we are willing to endure this kind of densification because we think it adds to what the city needs in this particular area. I want to thank and point out to you the developers have voluntarily followed the obligations that have been imposed on the 3700 california Street Project in meeting with the neighborhoods and in getting their input for a long time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Thank you for having me here, soup stores supervisors. Im Phil Fernandez and have lived in the city for 47 years. Ive been a taxpayer all that time. Ive lived in this neighborhood for ten years. I currently live in another neighborhood. I think that this proposal i think this proposal is a strong plus for the city. And i strongly encourage the board of supervisors to deny the appeals that youre hearing today. Because i think that the project meets the goals that have been set by you supervisors to provide more housing to the city. And especially to families and to seniors like misease thank you very much for this opportunity and i encourage you to deny these appeals. Thank you, networks speaker. Next speaker. Im here as a 15year San Francisco renter and im a father of two young children, a Business Owner and employ 40 people of middleincome jobs in the bay area. I mention my 15 years in this city, appears to be a form of currency and other residents when discussing neighborhood issues. I can appreciate how Life Experiences and time can enhance our decisionmaking ability, i think we should be also weary the status quo and our lack of challenging it can have us face these problems indefinitely. It often seems like the ones here the longest are the most likely of wanting to keep things exactly the way they are. So im here to try to challenge that thinking a bit. For San Francisco, the west side and Laurel Heights, in particular, we struggle with the lack of Affordable Housing projects and indeed housing projects in general. When we focus on the concerns of residents that have been here the longest, we fail to look into the future as to what our city will become or is already becoming. Im sure you all know a recent census report notes in San Francisco and in morin county, we have the same population percentage of children under the age of five. In morin, the percentage for 6 to 18yearolds is double and thats not by accident. Theres a lack of housing. I would just like to say that this project appears to be moving us in the right direction and also has affordable Senior Housing which we desperately need, as well. Thank you for approving this project. Next speaker. Good to see you. I am a neighbor in the Richmond District. I represent a group of neighbors called richmond and a member of u. N. B action and i speak in support of the project against the appeal and i strongly urge to approve the 744 homes. I know many have talked to a lot and its great to see you here. Ill be basic. There are people who arent being evicted or maybe they are, but there are people in my neighborhood, people in the city that i know you all have had conversations with time and time again, where they lose their housing situation for whatever reason and they cannot find anything in this city. Were not building enough housing and we have not been building enough housing for decades just because weve met our quotas for market rate, even though rena is below where it should be, we have not built enough housing where my friends who get an eviction notice, who get a rent increase, this the city and my neighbors and your friends and your neighbors, all of them are running into the same situation where they open that craigs list page and see nothing. Building this will not solve anything, will not solve the regionwide shortage but it is step. I have one thing for the overhead, if you please. I have and attending these meetings for years. This process has gone on for years is the following picture is a tweet from a Community Meeting in 2017 that i attended where the appellants made it clear before the eir was published that they intended to raise money to fight it. Please reject the appeal, approve the housing and say yes to my more housing. Thank you. Next speaker. Thanks for listening. Im carly carla, a member of the board, im here on behalf of phra. We support this project and the Development Agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and Laurel Heights partners. Phra urges you to deny all appeals and to approve this project as currently proposed. And its a significant property that will change the neighborhood to some degree but its size and location underscore the importance of successful development. As proposed, this site will bring desperately needed housing appropriate for the setting, the neighborhood and the significant transit corridor on what it is located. Im a neighbor and i live on broderick between bush and pine, three blocks from the project. Ive lived there over 20 years and in the city longer. Not only does this project provide needed housing but will return access to this large parcel. This tenacre site is walled off and rarely visited by any but those who work there. I walk all over our neighborhood and in 20 years, ive only been inside those walls two or three times. I look forward to the pedestrianaccess on the eastwest and north routes on the project. When my husband and i married we found an apartment in the Richmond District we could afford. Likewise, the first home we purchased in the sunset district was affordable. My two youngest children just graduated from college and they live in utah, where they can afford an apartment. The city needs this housing, Senior Housing and a childcare location. Its a beautiful project. I urge you to approve it. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im Terry Mcguire and i live on california street near ovtavia and ive been a member of the board for eight years and currently the board president. We submitted a letter of submission and yesterday we sent a letter to the supervisors supporting this project. Or organization has been following the progress constantly. Its not within our boundaries. Presidio is the western border of our service area or our member area. But any project that is the scope and size similar to this that is close to our boundaries, we monitor its progress and we provide comments and we meet with the sponsors to learn more and to find out how we can possibly improve and shape them. Now we did that throughout the last four or five years with the prado group in this project and every time we met with them, they were responsive and they listened and when we would have the next meeting, we would see change. And the project has improved as it has evolved over the last four to five years and it is time to approve this project. We support it. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Supervisors responsibl, im l representing spur. We strongly encourage you to deny the appeals before you today. A full and consistent outreach has kept the neighborhood and the public informed. The project has evolved as a result of listening to all parties. Results are increased access to and through the property and far more actually useable open space, major modifications to the amount of retail space, an increase in the number of units, parking reductions, attention to both Senior Housing and childcare. And there are several different architects and landscape architects, so that the feeling of a neighborhood built over time will be there rather than as a single master planned development. As a past president of the Planning Commission, ive looked at a lot of eirs and have seen a lot of plans. I have looked at the alternatives from the appellant and they do not pencil out. Spur finds this project to be an appropriate mix of land use in an exceptionally suitable location. We are emphatic that the projects eir is fully certificatable and stand by our testimony to that effect at the Planning Commission please encourage the project to move forward. It wa. We urge to you affirm thel eir and approve the associated items. Next speaker. Good evening, president , members of the San Francisco barred of supervisors. Im the lead field representatives of the local 22 in sanfrancisco. Represent approximately 4,000 carpenters in San Francisco and approximately 40,000 in Northern California. And the Carpenters Union is excited to be here in full support of 3333 california street development. This is a Smart Development that once approved will be a win for the city, the expect and labor. Community and labor. Smart development with a responsible general contractor who pays area standard wages and benefits and who participates in statecertified apprenticeship programs which the supervisor was speaking about, creating an opportunity for individuals to work in the trades and have a head of household and advance their career as apprenticemen and journeymen. These are workers who can give back to the community by continuing to live and shop right here in San Francisco. Thats my job speech but idont think its insignificant to mention this is 744 units and that is not creating displacement. Ive been here for a long time and have seen a lot of oppositions to a lot of projects and nine times out of ten because its creating displacement. So thank you for your service in considering this development and we ask you deny the Laurel Heights approval Association Appeals in order toen sure to ey can enjoy the many benefits. Next speaker. Good evening. Im caroline and im a neighbor in Pacific Heights and have worked in Laurel Heights over 30 years. Im familiar with the prado group, wellrespected developer living up to a production and welldesigned project. We need housing on the north side of the town. This is a perfect location for Senior Housing and its easier walkable and accessible. The need for childcare is great, as well as the continued need for retail. Thank you. Next speaker. Supervisors, i have lived in the neighborhood 25 years and my husband and i raised our four children here and im support of the project. First because we need housing in the city desperately and this is one of the best places to put it without any displacement. Every neighborhood needs to participate and we have a wonderful opportunity to to that. Do that. This activates a spot where this is a creepy place and inned ins, we have a project thats porous to the neighborhood, engage with it and thats a gift to the neighborhood. The third reason is retail invigoration, having a project to participate and connect the Laurel VillageShopping Center to the city center off on masonic and gerry is an expression of local retail which we all appreciate. Im here to encourage you to move it forward. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. Im ron blatman. Im here as a neighbor and i have lived here 26 years, a native of the city and a fan board member. I used to be director of Business Development here in city hall for the Mayors Office a long time ago is im here to support the project wholeheartedly. Its not everyday we get a project that in a sense is out of the becomes compare box. When the prado group and sks came to the neighbors, they brought forth a vision. When most people would have said, this is highend, we know et cetera highend, we will gate it and put a barrier around the 11 acres, they said just the reverse. From the getgo, we want to open this up and provide people to hang out and places for kids and we want places that people can walk through and this is not a normal occurrence in the real estate world. I want to give them a lot of credit is the principles of both of the Development Firms live not too far away and this is people who have personal stakes beyond the financial stake. The retail component is absolutely essential. Its a dead zone on california street. You do a project this big without retail, just walk around the blocks in mission bay and see what this city has done recently for how good we are at creating schedulcreating dead z. The fact they want cure the curd retail is important. Parks and open space, somebody brought up the presidio tunnels project. The trust went to new york to get jim corner and Field Operations to do the tunnels. These guys have brought corner and Field Operations to be their landscape architects. Theyre trying to do something a cut above. I urge you to go forward. We shouldnt be sandbags everything that comes town the e make. Thank you. Hell lope. Hello. Im gail star. Im a resident for over 26 years and im here because im repeating what everybody has said, the city needs housing, especially on a transportation mode. Im here as a mother and daughter. In fining Senior Housing for my father, it was difficult in the city, especially anywhere somewhat close to us and finding housing for my son, he wanted to be a neighbor he grew up with and theres very little housing. I know that this development wont help my father whos passed away or my son, because its going to be a few years before its here, but it will help the neighborhood and it will help the area given the transportation node. Im i in support of the retail. As it is now, off can do is the bank and market. You have to walk down to philmore enjoy vibrant retail. I urge you to support this development, thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors, staff and members of the community. Im the director of organizing for the Northern CaliforniaCarpenters Union and here to talk on two issues. One is housing. California is short 3. 5 Million Units of housing. We build roughly 100,000 units a year. Were falling behind. Yet we put on hold 744 units, of which 187 of the units are affordable to seniors. Half of those units were designed with a familyfriendly design and 15,000 square feet of childcare, five acres of open space and it also has efficient and Renewable Energy systems and Waste Management that will minimum highs in the projects carbon footprint. The use of green roof, storm water capture systems, solar panel to improve the ecofriendliness of this project. So how can this appeal stand . Second issue, jobs. We have a chance to find jobs, job for apprentices, jobs for women and minorities, good head of household jobs with healthcare for whole families. The gc on this job will be web core. This is a big user of city build. Its an organization that you helped to establish. You see, there is to worker shortage, only an opportunity shortage. And we, the construction trades want the opportunity to build this project. As the do, i meet with directors from all over the country and we are blessed here in San Francisco with the Development Dollars and capable of construction hands, leaders that get it and all eyes are on us. Lets not scannedder this opportunitsquander thisopportund quality homes. Please deny the appeal on 3333 california, california future rests in your decision tonight. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good evening. I realize im probably toward the end effort comments so ill be quick. Im on the board of northern neighbors and we are a district 2 organization, lively, walkable, safe and affordable throughout our district and we are out here to support this project whole heartedly. We think that more people building more housing is a great thing and it enlivening the neighborhood and its safer and it increases the businesses and creates a Great Organization like the jcc and we think that the shopping and the open space and the walkability will be greatly improved by having this project here. We urge you to approve this project without any further delay and also approve the 186 Affordable Homes for lowincome seniors which would be a great benefit because district 2 has built no lowincome Affordable Housing in the past ten years. Lastly, thank you, supervisor stephanie for your leadership here. Thank you very much. Thank you, next speaker. Im eddie seagel. Ive lived here my entire adult life. Like the previous speaker, im a board member at northern neighbors and i love living in in neighborhood and in strong support of this project and hope you deny the appeal. I along with many people in this room who arent homeowners in sanfrancisco face the progress inspects of increasing affordable rent and buying something to ensure longterm stability, we can forget about it. I have the privilege of a good job and housing security and district 2 has not just built no Affordable Housing but experienced a net loss because weve destroyed some of those units, a necessary loss. Snet loss. I know many supervisoe concerned about the concentration of Affordable Housing in your districts. Please help us to do our fair share. Theres 186 units from seniors. Almost nothing is better for putting people in the environment in carbon secularization. I take the 38r to work is and i hope to see my new neighbors on the bus with me and if we dont build this, there 744 worth of humans commuting in San Francisco via car. I look forward to meeting my new neighbors and hope you support this project. Thank you, next speaker. We neednt look further than one week ago for a proposition a e. And we also have a homeless crisis here in the city. Its gut wrenching to read stories about hardworking construction workers that find themselves homeless. If this bill starts today, its too late that they might find themselves homeless but how long will we delay projects like this when the people are calling before its too late for more and more people, thank you. Next speaker. Im so excited 3333 california has gotten this far. We have not done our fair share. In district 2, we are the most affluent district, the highest incomes of the entire city and put all of the growth in supervisors ronan and haineys and that means if my Property Value goes down, thats ok because we are in a housing crisis and so many people are struggling because we have a 4. 3 million housing deficit that we need to make up because we didnt allow this earlier. We didnt allow this 30 years ago. I know that these units off the bat will not be affordable but when my child who is 2 years old now, when shes at the age of potentially owning a home, perhaps they will be affordable. I hope we have many more projects like this in the future and i would like to see us doing more in district two and thank you, supervisor stephanie. Next speaker. Im nico nagel. Im representing the San Francisco housing coalition, for all homes of affordability. This organization was creating 20 years ago because we had this problem 40 years ago, which is that we delay housing and dont build enough of it and suddenly were surprised when we have a resulting crisis in displacement and a lack of affordability. These are ecentral to be building. 744 units is nothing to laugh at and a 25 affordability rate is brutal to build in this city. This project is doing it and they cant do it if we delay it too far. I want to address one thing that we heard from lots of folks which is that do trees have rights . Fair enough. Its a fair question. Trees are beautiful and theyre certainly a resource but this project addresses housing as a human right and i think that is the crisis that were seeing. Beyond that, a little more specifically, the site already has a large section that is paved. So i think that as an argument is ineffective and to an even greater degree, a lot of that pavement is a parking lot. The national se sierra clubs ags the best thing to do to mitigate our climate issues is to create housing dense housing near transit. Again, this project does that, 744 units worth of it. I thinks tha think thats all ir you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors. Im robert fruckman and i would like to mention that district 2, where i think most, if not all of it is considered a high opportunity neighborhood by california which means the people have the highest cancer e of receiving quality healthcare and this is an area where we should prioritize housing. I would like to say one name to you, tracy. Its not the name of a person but it is the name of a city and i would like you to consider that there are 120,000 super commuters in the San Francisco bay area and that means theres 120,000 people who commute three miles or more per day and i want you to consider how far away that is. Maybe 55, 60, 70 miles away and now consider Greenhouse Gases emitted by all of the cars on the freeway everyday of the week. And think about 200 trees compared to 120,000 super commuters, many of whom are driving alone in their cars on the freeway, spewing Greenhouse Gases out of their tailpipes. What is the action to our Climate Emergency . To insist the status quo of people commuting from tracey and from north bay is the right answer . We are underbuilt home for decades and our Greenhouse Gas crisis is a result of that. I would like to ask, is a threehour meeting to approve dense infill with Affordable Housing a good solution to answer our crisis, because we have multiple crises. As far as im concerned, the longer we wait, the more feet we put in the grave. Thank you. Networknext speaker. Im owen. Im a sophomore student at the bay school and i am here to provide support for the approval of this project and the rejection of the appeal. This semester i have been working on researching the housing crisis we have in San Francisco. My biggest take away from the interviews i have conducted and studies i have looked at is that San Francisco is currently and chronically under building housing for years. And demand for housing far outpaces supply, which is why we have seen price increases that have pushed many from their homes and made San Francisco a city which is increasingly less successful. To solve this crisis, we head to build significantly more housing at all income levels. This project allowed muchneeded housings to the housing market. All these 744 total units, including 186 onsite affordable home for seniors wont serve or crisis alone but will be part of the solution. We need to stop demonizing developers and holding up new development for periods. This is necessary to make housing more affordable and accessible. This helps no one except to establish homeowners. Sanfrancisco has been definedded for being diverse, inclusive and welcoming to all but the housing crisis we have is threatening that reputation. Planning commission and all of you, do you care about these defining values, give your support to the approval of the project. If we dont build more housing, this problem will worsen, driving out more people and threatening the access to the city of cute and future generations. Thank you for listening. Thank you, next speaker. Each new housing unit created may open an existing housing space to a new resident speak ag vacancy and i hope everyone present will consider the possibility of either requesting that a tree be planted in front of their residence. Residence or volunteer with an organization and continue doing so or that they might plant appropriate trees in their backyards if their yard is presently absent such growth for their personal and responsible enjoyment, and also, subpoena environments are highly apprized by prospective tenants. Any other Public Comments . Thank you very much for the public for making comments. Ill now close Public Comments on this issue. Supervisor stephanie, theres five minutes for the right buttal. I would like to ask a question of staff before the rebuttal takes place. Go ahead. Through the chair, there has been a lot of comment about the trees and i just want to get very clear on it because, of course, its very important, so i would like someone from the city to come up and clarify this and based on our discussions, ken from the office of economic and workforce development, if you could please speak to the tree issue. Supervisor ken rich from oed. Weve been working closely on this project and i want to go back over and put into a Good Organization and context what youve heard and then bring up some more information, as well. So lets talk about the trees in groups. So first of all, there are the street trees and we understand from miss short that there are 15 street trees currently on the street at this site. Those are under this jurisdiction of the department of public works. To the extent those trees need to be moved because of the construction, they will be replaced by 88 new street trees under the direction of public works. The project sponsor will work with public works and get those planted and you heard from miss short some of the species considered. The second group of trees are what are called significant trees as miss short explained. The definition are those on private property within ten feet of the public rightofway and meet size qualifications. Currently, there are 18 tree expose 17 are in faiand17 are id there will be 49 new trees and those are the first two groups. The third group, which i think weve heard a bit about in the public testimony and iity i thik theres confusion is the site as a whole. What i would do so youre fully informed is ask the project sponsor to comeup and describe his plan for dealing with the rest of the trees on the site and then miss short will come up with one final thing to add to the conversation. As mr. Rich said, on the lefthand side of this image, those are the trees that weve been discussing that were within the jurisdiction of the city, the 15 street trees along california street and then the 17 significant trees. On the righthand side, you can see a few different colours. You can see the street trees around the site that will be installed with the proposed project, which total 88. And then you also see the dark green areas with the larger circles and those are 11 different trees that are on the site that are what were calling key trees that are being retained. And then the gold, which is inside the center of the site are the additional trees that were adding to the project will total over 500 trees and were more than doubling the number of trees on the site. This is an image of key trees. You can see there are large oak trees, cypress trees, monterey pine tree at the corner, at the top of the euclid green and the redwood trees that are on the east end of the site where were going to be adding a exhibit number of redwood trees. This is the overall site plan and you can see a significant number of trees and over five acres of open space and open area and just to be clear, the trees are incredibly important to us. We incorporated the existing trees into the initial Landscape Architecture of the project to design the buildings around those trees and also make those key areas publically accessible points. The current site, as you know, is really a walled off island. To give you an example of one image of what the project will look like when its completed, we are providing a large number of trees, more than two times as i mentioned and bio diversity and sustainability are designed into the project hav and have bn from the beginning. Thank you. Im carla short with the sanfrancisco public works. Its rare that we have a project that works with an arborist before the project is designed to identify which trees are considered noteworthy and important to preserve. So i feel like they should get some positive credit for that. 11 trees that theyre calling key trees and theyre all california native trees. There are native oaks, cypress and pine and i think working with an arborist to identify which trees are worth retaining is something we would like every project to do this San Francisco. But these trees are particularly important because theyre california natives and the oaks are San Francisco natives from a habitat perspective so they worked to try to preserve those significant key trees. Thank you. Anything else, supervisor stephanie . Then, lastly, i would like to invite the appellant to present a rebuttal argument. You will have up to five minutes. Thank you. Our expect alternative does not destroy over head, please does not destroy the california street tree. We keep the development within the Property Line. And here are the trees. Theres not a shred of evidence that theres anything infirm about these trees and i dont believe the arborist report dealt with the street trees. Theyre very, very robust. We had to raise money to determine whether the site was eligible for listing and to nominate it and thats why we raised early money. We obtained 800 signatures on a petition of residents against the rezoning supporting all residential use of the site and retaining green space. And the project is not transit oriented because it has four passengerloading zones on the perimeter that will attract uber and undermine the loading goals. They should be removed from the perimeter and theres no evidence that the developer demonstrated a need for these in the normal application process should be follo followed. When a project has been changed, case law makes it clear its not an excuse if a shifted project has the same footprint, location and environmental impacts. Because you need know the nature of a project to for formulate alternatives. A shifting project is an omission of law, which is a question of law. It is only factual issues that are determined under these substantial evidence rules. Sequa obtained many legal issue, such as is the evaluation of the significant effects adequate . Or is the range of alternatives reasonable and the court can review those. The misstatements of the Community Alternative were made by an employee of the developer who was not an expert and whose credentials are not in the record and this report was then taken to public works and they relied on it and their report expressly says that they relied on his report. Weve explained why it was a completely inaccurate misstatement. So here, you see has been renting the property for 5 million a year from the developer and also during their occupancy, he did not have to pay property tax. So he was not in any hurry to develop it. That accounts for some of the time, as does the historical nomination. To me, its very disturbing that the destruction of the street trees is symbolic of the wanton and unnecessary destruction of the historic site. So we hope that youll send this back to the drawing board to revise the project in accordance with the design standards. And as our expert explained, you used all of them that apply and many of them apply. You dont necessarily evaluate them independently as the city argued. Also, theres absolutely no evidence that the california street sidewalk needs to be widened. I measured it, its 15 feet wide. The better street only requires 15 feet at that location. So the construction can be kept inside the Property Line and doesnt need to be b widened whh was a justic justification for g down the trees. Bulldozing the trees is not sufficient justice cas justificr removal of the trees. I would like you to consider changing Development Agreement for the Planning Commission and board to approve the Development Agreement instead of planning are director. And also, at the Planning Commission, commissioner richards voted no on the statement overriding sequa findings and that was not unanimous. The omission of an analysis in sequa is an emission so the measure analysis is legal issue. Its was incorrect any use of the design guidelines. Is that it . Yes. Ok, i want to say these pub pubc hearings for 22, 26 and 30 have been held and closed. We are now reconvened as the board of supervisors. We will take up the items related to the exemption from Environmental Review first and that would be items 23, 24 and 25 and we will be making an analysis of the adequacy, act accuracy and completeness of the environmental report, certified by the Planning Commission for the project at 3333 california street. Again, this requires six votes of the board of supervisors. Do we have a motion on items 23, 24 and 25 . Supervisor stephanie . Thank you, president yi. First of all, i would like to start by thanking everyone who came out today to give public comment. I do take these appeals very seriously. Here at the board of supervisors we sit in a semijudicial role when voting and we have to act on the merits of the information presented to us and the confines of what is actually in our generation. Jurisdiction. With that said, i were like to take time to specifically address president yi, should i talk about the sequa first or all three appeals . Probably easier for us to follow as we call out the numbers. So in this one, the review. With reregarregard to sequa,t to be clear that the grounds for appeal of an eir center on this question. Is the eir adequate, accurate and objective, sufficient as an informational document, correct in its conclusions and reflects the independent judgment and analysis of the city and whether the Planning Commission certification findings are correct . The appeal of the eir certification includes 18 claims which you have heard about, not all of them, but weve heard about them, read about them, from the appellant and planning staff and many centered around questions about what is and is not covered in the eir. What we heard was that the sud, special use district amendments, the Development Agreement and clarifications, construction enhancements, parking reduction and tree removal were adequately covered by the eir. And i want to specifically address some of the claims made about the historic nature of the buildings currently on the property. The eir comprehensively evaluated and determined the project would have a significant and unavoidable impact. Thus all alternatives were studied in the eir and rejected as infeasible in the