Its vacancy rate, it is competitive with the districts that have low vacancy rates for low retail spaces. Retailers are willing to come in. And when they succeed and theyre looking, maybe i can move here and do well. We have enough businesses and residents to lob love drop people in. Do have a sense of white is more favourable . I dont think it is more favourable. A lot of the spaces, our developers are owning it and they will get top dollar. Excellent. Those are my questions. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Thank you for your presentation. It is awesome to see as you were going through the different projects here. I was taking myself back to those conversations when we were voting on these projects. It is awesome. But it also shows that there is a lot more to do and i think for us, as a commission, we benefit by putting some of the standards that we have that have allowed us to be successful and i just hope we can continue to up the numbers with minority businesses and construction hours for San Francisco, especially mission bay, bay view Hunters Point residents. It is always important that people who live in the Community Benefits everybody. It is very impressive. I think we still have somewhere to go. We will be continuing to push, not only staff but also the developers to do the right thing i appreciate all your help on this and thank you so much. Thank you for the Community Members that came to speak. This is a workshop so we dont need to vote on this today. I am sure we will have conversations about the remaining projects and things coming down the pipeline. Thank you for keeping us in forms informed. The next order of business is agenda item five c. , workshop on the current status of development in zone one of the transbay redevelop much project area. This is a discussion. Madame director . Thank you. Through the chair, similar to the transbay area, we wanted to give you an update. We do have a busy spring 2020 coming up with some action item. But what is uniquely different different here, the city activates that role. We have multiple different developing sites, and in terms of the infrastructure, rather than the developer in mission doing all the infrastructure, we are partnering with the contractor. So shane hard, what he will do is give an update as to where we are in the project and what it was and where we are and what the future looks like and what upcoming actions you see and how we get to the end of the life of the development area. Congratulations. Congratulations. Commissioner scott, good afternoon. My name is shane hard and im the project manager for transbay we have jeff white, raymond lee and ben brandon. We will discuss the background of transbay, the transbay successes and 2020 Commission Action and next steps. The transbay Redevelopment Area was created in 2005 to generate funding for the salesforce Transit Center. The redevelopment project area is split into two zones. His own one is under landuse authority of ocii. The redevelopment plan and state law required that 35 of all new units built be affordable. This is a mockup of the redevelopment project area. Our boundaries are Mission Street in the north, Second Street to the west, folsom street to the south and main and spears street to the east. As a mentioned, his own one is under ocii landuse authority and it consists of 12 blocks, seven of which are located on folsom street, three are in the temporary Transit Center site and one block is located north of howard. Block 12 is located at the southeast corner of harrison and Second Street. The remainder of the redevelopment project area is zone two. The zone will consist of 3200 residential units, 767,000 square feet of office, 73,000 square feet of retail, 3. 9 acres of open space, and improvements to a five block section of folsom street. To give you an idea of how the buildout of transbay will affect the city, this is a rendering of transbay in 2015 and this is what it will look like in 2024. Most important, Public Benefit of the redevelopment plan is housing production. And forms partnerships with nonprofit and forprofit developers and provides funding to build housing on nine of the blocks. Of the 3200 residential units, 1400 will be affordable. There are 1267 units complete and 929 units under construction 930 units in predevelopment and 80 slated for future development the blocks that are complete are boxed in red and include blocks six, seven, eight, and 11 which are all housing projects. Block nine will be complete in january and consist of 537 units block one will be complete in march and consist of 392 homeownership units. Blocks in predevelopment are blocked two which is 100 affordable projects consisting of approximately 250 units, block four is a mixed income projects consisting of approximately 700 units of which nearly 50 will be affordable. Of the 1400 units within zone one, 70 4 will be affordable to low income households and 26 to modern income households. You can see in this slide the buried households that are served in the zone one b. M. R. With the majority of affordable units housing families. As a mentioned at the beginning of the presentation, state law requires that 35 of all new housing built within the entire Redevelopment Area be affordable this includes zone one and zone two. His own two is subject to planning code, which has a lower inclusionary housing requirements. As a result, the ocii zone one blocks have to make up the shortfall from the zone two development. You can see in this table that zone one projects will be 40 3 affordable in aggregate to meet the obligation. Block five is the only Office Project in zone one that consists of 767,000 square feet. The entire building is leased to facebook. Nearly all of the projects contain a groundfloor retail totaling 73,500 square feet. 38,000 square feet of retail is complete and 37,000 square feet is leased or preleased. Improvements to folsom street and 3. 9 acres of new open space are planned and will be funded by ocii. Folsom street improvements are from Second Street to spears street and they are currently under construction and being funded by ocii and when it is complete, it will include widened sidewalks with decorative concrete, granite bands, double rows of trees on the new sidewalk, new benches, streetlights, and landscaping. Under ramp park will be located under the fremont offramp from i. A. T. And the salesforce Transit Center bus ramp. Semantic designs are complete in the project is under review by the landowner which is tjpa. Transbay parkas located in the middle block of the temporary Transit Center. In early 2020, we begin public began Public Outreach for the design of the park. A 1. 3 billion total contracts have been led to date in transbay. Twentythree of the contracts are with Small Businesses and it has been very successful Small Business participation in the prevention professional services section. As the area has been built up and more retail and family amenities have come into the neighborhood, which will only continue as the parks get built and is more retail tenants occupy the ocii block developments. Next steps for the commission, block two, an r. F. P. Will be issued for a developer partner in early 2020 with developer selection in late summer, and in late 2020 or early 2021, there will be a frugal predevelopment funding. For block four, made 2020, coming before you will be a Real Development plan and moments to increase the building heights. Semantic design, d. D. A. , and redevelopment to the plan of block four. With that, we are happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. No speaker cards. Is there anybody wishing to speak on this item . Oscar james . Oscar james again. Im sorry i didnt put in a speaker card. When i heard about housing, i knew i wanted to speak. What i want to say about the housing in mission bay and on soma and that area is a lot of people who has been relocated out of those areas that didnt get a certificate of preference and i think they should have a preference to get some of those housing down there. Will they have a school that they can go to in that area or something that shows that they had originally come from that area . They should have a preference. I also think they talk about Homeless Housing. All these projects that are coming about do not speak of Homeless Housing. We need some Homeless Housing to go in some of these developments people are making amends are making millions of dollars in their people who dont have any source of income. The opportunity to even have a job should have housing in the city and county of San Francisco from being a little boy growing up in this area, there has always been homeless peoples in our community. When are we going to start watching out for those peoples who are homeless and give them real housing on some of this development that is coming in . All these people are making all this money. They should care about people who are unfortunate and who do not have the opportunity. At least give a percentage of those houses to Homeless Housing and also people who cannot afford to pay 4,000 a month, give belowmarket rate rentals to some of these peoples. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. James. Is there anybody else wishing to speak on this item . I will close Public Comment and turned to our fellow commissioners. Any other comments . Seeing none, this is the workshop. Once again thank you, mr. Hard for your diligence and keeping us informed. We appreciate that. Thank you very much. Please call the next item. The next order of business is item six, Public Comment on non agenda items. Are there any speaker cards . We have one card. Oscar james. Mr. James . I just want to say on item six, i want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, happy new years, happy hanukkah for those who are jewish, in any other religion. I wish them a merry, Merry Christmas and a happy new years its been a blessing this year that we came this far. From the grace of god. But like i said before, we need to watch out for the least fortunate peoples in the city and county of San Francisco. And our mayor is doing a good job with the homeless and all those people down there on embarcadero. I remember when redevelopment built all those buildings and nobody was down there. Now they are down there and it is paying big grins and they dont want the homeless to be down there. They were there before they came so, you know, what is up . Thank you. Thank you, mr. James. Madam secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item seven, report of the chair, mr. Chair . There are no reports. Next order of business is item h. , report of the executive director. Thank you. I just wanted to acknowledge the grand opening of the transbay Child Development center. Mayor breed has and supervisor yee and supervisor haney went on december 4th to celebrate the completion of the transbay Childcare DevelopmentCenter Located in the ground floor of the commons affordable Housing Development that is within the transbay project area and commissioner scott and the bracket where there in attendance. The center is one of over 30 early care and Education Centers in the high need neighborhoods. The Construction Cost was funded by citys childcare facilities in collaboration with office of early care and education and community development. This is one that is a true publicprivate partnership. We helped fund it and other city agencies saw it and develops them and built out the development center. This space has received license over 60 children ages 18 months to five years old. At least 50 of the childcare space is subsidized and is being operated by the south of market childcare. First preferences go to residents within the building. We thought you guys would appreciate that. There are a few that are still on the waiting list. I just wanted to share that. Thank you. Are there any speaker cards for this item . No. Does anyone wish to speak on this item . Seeing none, closing Public Comment. Thank you so much. The next order of business is item nine, commissioners questions and matters. Mr. Chair . I just want to wish everyone a happy holidays as this is our last meeting for 2019 and 2020 will be a good year, a very busy year on many levels. So i just wanted to say that. I dont know if theres anybody else who wants to speak or anyone has any questions or comments. Only to say, since my time on the board from last year, in my opinion, we too have accomplished so much and as ive said again and again, i have been in tears just reading the material, going to the sites, talking to the people, and visiting some of the retail around there and i am just amazed with what San Francisco is doing and im grateful to ocii. I cannot thank nadia enough. Are illegal, mr. Morales, and ocii team. You just are amazing. I thank you. As our chair says, we have come such a long ways. We do have more that we need to do, but you were doing a lot. I am grateful to be part of this arrow to witness it and to be able to tell my family and the generations to come. I have been here since the forties and so ive seen change after change after change and there seems to be now such a greater efforts made to be more inclusive for everyone and to be more thoughtful for us. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Well, said. Thank you. Well, said. I echo the comments. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas. [speaking spanish] thank you. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for being here today and i just wanted to say, at the opening of the childcare center, i actually ran into one of my childhood friends who was displaced from San Francisco and from the fillmore area and im proud to report that she is now back living in San Francisco and working at one of the ocii sights. That is just a testament to the work that you guys have done and the outreach that you have done towards hiring people who, you know, are from the community and getting them back here with us. I just want to say a big thank you. Merry christmas, happy new year, happy kwanzaa, happy hanukkah, and everything else. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Madam secretary, called the next item. The next item of business is closed session. There are no closed session items. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment. Do i have a motion . I move. I sec. It. We have a first and a second. We are adjourned. Thank you so much. Now it is time to introduce our two emcees, our two little elves, sam and jess. Where are you . Hi, everyone. Dont you all look great. We are so excited to be here. We are so excited. It is my very first Tree Lighting ever. We are from the north pole official Tree Lighting committee my name is pippin i have been working for santa for 313 years. And today, this is blues very first christmas Tree Lighting. It is anybody else first christmas Tree Lighting . Oh, my gosh. Your first one, too. This will be so exciting. Are you ready . [cheers and applause] before we start anything, we have to do our if you want to do stretches with us, you can go ahead and stand up and follow along. We have to do our stretches to prepare for the christmas Tree Lighting. You can go ahead and stand up or adjust to it while you are sitting down. Whatever works for you. Here we go. Snowflake. Stir the cocoa. Stir the cocoa. Stir the cocoa. Candy canes. Toboggan. Finally, sugarplum fairy. Christmas. That was good. We are all warmed up. You guys were great. I feel ready. Do you feel ready . Wonderful. Before we begin tonight, a big thank you to the civic centre c. B. D. Off the grid and the Parks DepartmentParks Department for planning tonight s event. [cheering] and to our artistic director and his amazing lineup of performers [cheering] and a big special thank you to the Christmas Fair. The Christmas Fair runs every weekend now until december 22nd at the palace. Enter the winding lanes of victorian london and immerse yourself in the world of music calls, theatres, pubs, dance parties and charming shops overflowing with holiday treasures. Discover holiday revelry for the imagination of Charles Dickens and the saucy world of the victorian stage. It is a fantastic journey back in time celebrating the most magical time of the year. Christmas oh, boy. Im so excited. Are you . Yes. All right. Wow. It is really pretty here. It is. It sure is. Where are we . We are in beautiful San Francisco. It might not be as snowy and white as the north pole, but it seems like people around here get into the holiday spirit. In fact, hit it. [ ] [singing] [singing] [singing] you look great. [ ] wawa. Wow. [ ] oh, boy. [singing] [singing] [singing] thank you. Wow. Thank you so much. How do you say we get this Party Started . I think we should. It is time to introduce our very first performer tonight. Get ready. The tap dancing Christmas Tree will show us some moves. Over the past 29 years, the tap dancing Christmas Trees have performed in americas holiday parade, the nile parade, the napa valley parade, the Hollywood Christmas parade, and will be returning once again to the palm springs festival of lights parade. Their fifth appearance in may sees parade in new york in 2016 featured them with the muppets. Wow. Welcome them to the stage, the Christmas Tree tappers. [cheers and applause] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Merry Christmas [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] i beg you, open your eyes. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] wow. Wasnt that phenomenal . Lets give it another round of applause for the Christmas Tree tappers. They can really dance. Before we keep going tonight, we would like to give a big special thank you to tonights sponsor. Redwood credit. They have a beautiful new branch a few blocks away from here. And we have a number of redwood folks here tonight, as well as the banks mascot. Thank you for sponsoring tonight s festivities, especially santas maker village and our next acts are the poet athletes of america scores. These students usually come to civic centre in their soccer jerseys to play in their weekly soccer game, but not today. Today they are wearing their finest holiday sweaters. They made them themselves. Our young poets come from americas scores program. The Civic Centre Plaza is there homefield. They usually play for gold, but tonight is all about poetry and spreading christmas joy. Please welcome america scores [cheers and applause] my name is elin and i am from reading elementary. My name is hannah and im also a fourthgrader. My name is jordan and i am in the fifth grade. We are poets from reading elementary. [cheers and applause] we wrote personification poems. It is a type of figurative language. It is when writers turn non human beings into life forms. With these poems, we become emotion. Two emotion say or do if they were human . Let us show you. I am guilts. I wonder if people will ever forgive themselves. I hear your regrets and your doubts. I see you hiding your tears behind a fake smile. I am sorrow. I wonder if i can be cured like the flu. I hear your tears dripping on the floor as loud as ocean waves crashing onto the shore. I see you trying to i hang on to your heart. I am empathy. I wonder what would happen if i did not exist. I hear with whispers but feel them for myself so you dont have to. I am guilts. I keep you up at night. I pretend to be fine but i am not. I feel your embarrassment coursing down your veins. I touch your sorrow across your heart. I worry if i will be forgotten. I cry for you. I am sorrow. I feel your misery every second. I touch the broken heart in your body and it feels like a cracked phone bone. I worried you will abandon me just like grief. I cry because you might replace me. I am empathy. I see your cries as powerful as the ocean. I feel like i will absorb it. I hear laughs seeping into the air and you breathe me in. I want tears but smiles as well. I am guilts. I fester in your body, spreading slowly and control your being. I will not stop you from feeling me. I try to tried to stay but i cant. I am sorrow. I know you dont like me, but try to understand me. I say you should focus on sadness as much as happiness. I dream i am loved by you. I try to make myself part of your life. I am empathy. I care even when you dont. I feel your pain through the toughest times. My hands trembled when you are disappointed and my heart bursts when you are excited. My eyes widen and people grow when you feel love. I hope you remember me, but secretly i want you to let me go so you are free. I understand that you dont like me, but i will always be with you. I am sorrow and i want you to know that you need me to feel alive. I touch your sorrow and try to transform it into happiness. I cry every time you lie. I am empathy. I understand how you feel and i know how you feel and hope you depend on me for everything. We are love and we live inside each other and each of you. Emotions make you feel deeply and we make your hearts fuller. Happy holidays. We wish you to embrace this. Love, the season, and spread us all around. Thank you. [cheers and applause] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [singing] [indiscernible] the twin going twinkling lights on the tree type of lights. They filled our streets. Once we get hit, let the fiesta begins. Food and family, culture, everybody wins. [speaking spanish] those are the lyrics to the city jingle. Can you hear it . Can you hear our song . It sounds like babies laughing and joining along. [indiscernible] bay bridge to golden gate. Everyone saying our song. Can you hear us . Like the sound of cars honking. From one block to the next, we sing with everyone from everywhere. [indiscernible] whether you wear an apron, a brown hat or a hardhat. Come on and sing with us. The city jingle will have you jingling and mingling. Can you hear it . It is pretty catchy. [indiscernible] the city jingle makes you move. Can you hear it . You can. Singalong. This city jingle can never go wrong. [cheers and applause] lets give another big round of applause. They play soccer and write poems how cool is that . All right. They are hosting an event this friday. All are welcome. For more info or to rsvp, go to their website. And now we are pleased to introduce six fabulous performers from move school. The theatre education program. They perform a medley of timeless holiday classics by classics by ervin burling. I love that one. Now playing through december 22nd at the gateway theatre. Welcome to the stage. [cheers and applause] [ ] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [ ] [singing] [singing] [singing] [cheers and applause] lets give another big round of applause for moon school. [cheers and applause]. Werent they wonderful . They were so wonderful. I love all of those songs. Our next act has appeared on national and international television. They have toured internationally to england, argentina, and mexico. Ages seven, 10, 11, and 13. Here they are. The most musically talented siblings, stars aligned [indiscernible] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] all right, it is a very, very special time of night. Are we ready . I think we are ready. Oh, boy. Time to light the Christmas Tree . Are you ready to light the Christmas Tree . [cheering]. We have to get some special guests up here tonight. Are special guests include phil ginsberg, general manager of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Department, Naomi Campbell and walking torres. And our San Francisco mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] [ ] [indiscernible] all right, everyone. It is time for a christmas countdown. Here we go. Loud and proud. We have to get our special christmas Tree Lighting plunger. It is my first time. I forgot about the plunger. Thank you so much. Dont drop it, dont drop it. There we go. For you, miss mayor. [cheers and applause]. All right. Lets get a countdown started from five,. Here we go. Do you want to come up and help . We need some people to help the mayor. Come on up. Oh, boy. We are all here. We are ready. You have to help me now. Are you ready . Are we starting from 10 . Weve got it. Lets do it. Countdown from 10. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] [ ]