Transcripts For SFGTV Commission On Community Investment And Infrastructure 20240713

Mayor london breed and governor gavin newsom have declared that the coronavirus is a Public Health emergency and have extended the order for people to shelter in place. This meeting is being held virtually with all members of staff and commission participating today via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of everyone is well taken care of. The Mayors Office has determined that the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure has an urgent need to take action on the matters before us to ensure Public Health and safety and has authorized the commission to meet for these matters. Madame secretary, please call the first item. The first item of business is role call. Respond when i call your name [roll call] all members of commission are present. The next order of business is item two, announcements. Announcement of Public Comment procedures. 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Everyone must account for the time delays and speaking discrepancies between last coverage and streaming. Its best to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio to avoid audio feedback. The next order of business is item three, report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next order of business is item four, matters of unfinished business. There are no matters of unfinished business. The next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. First the consent agenda, 5a, approval of minutes from your regular meeting of january 21 and april 7, 2020. Mr. Chair . Madame secretary, do we have any speakers willing to speak on this item . Operator your conference is now if question and answer mode. To summon a question, press 1 and then 0. At this time, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 8885578511. Enter access code 7500645 followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. When prompted, please press 0. You will be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. Our phone moderator will let us know if there are any callers on the line. Madame secretary, i have no speakers on the line. Well just give it a few more seconds to ahow them to call in, to make sure. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no more members of the public on the phone. Wishing to comment on this item. Ok. Hearing no request to speak on this item, i will close Public Comment. Turning to my fellow commissioners for their comments or questions and i will start with commissioner scott. Do you have any questions or comments . No concerns or questions at this time. Thank you. Commissioner brackett . Do you have any comments or questions . No questions at this time. Thank you. Commissioner vice chair rosales, any comments or questions . No, but i do offer a motion for approval of the minutes of january 21 and april 7, 2020. Great. Thank you, vice chair. Do we have a second motion . Commissioner brackett seconds the motion. Please take roll. Please announce your vote when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Thank you. Please call the next item. The next item is the regular agenda. Agenda item 5b through 5g related to the proposed plan amendments for the redevelopment project area will be presented together but acted on separately. 5b, adopting Environmental Review findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act related to the approval of the amendments to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project t Mission Bay South owner participation agreement, the design for development for the Mission Bay South project area, the mission bay blocks 29 through 32 major phase application and the basic Concept Design Schematic Design for Mission Bay South blocks 29 through 32, including findings concerning the implementation of the threshold of significance for evaluating transportation impacts based on vehicle miles traveled. Mission bay south redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution number 52020, 5c, approving the report to the board of supervisors on the amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment promise in connection with a hotel and a Residential Development on blocks 29 through 32, adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act and authorizing transmittal of the report to the board of supervisors, Mission Bay South redevelopment promise area. Discussion and action resolution number 62020, 5d, approving an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project in connection with a hotel and Residential Development on blocks 29 through 32, recommending adoption of the redevelopment plan amendment by the board of supervise source and submiting the recommendations, including the redevelopment plan amendment to the board of supervisors and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution number 72020, 5e, conditionally authorizing a seventh amendment to the Mission Bay South owner participation agreement with focilmb, l. L. C. , a delaware limited liabilities company, and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution number 82020, 5f, approving an amendment to the design for development for the Mission Bay South project area in connection with a hotel and Residential Development on blocks 29 through 32 and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution 92020, 5g, conditionally approving amendments to the major phase application and the basic concept Schematic Design for Mission Bay South blocks 29 through 32 to add a mixeduse building consisting of hotel, residential and associated retail uses and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution 102020. Madame director . Thank you, madame secretary. Im excited to present to you today the redevelopment plan amendment that allows for a range between 129 and 230 hotel rooms and between zero and 21 residential units. The plan amendment will also increase the amount of retail and would also allow for the flexibility for the project to aggregate some of the small size of these spaces. In addition, we are also proposing an increase in height and staff has been working with our partner, Golden State Warriors, for the last year and working through the kinks and making sure that the project we have before you is sound and we on ocii staff are recommending approval of this item. What you hear today from richard he heckman and the Development Team is the benefits of the promise and the commitments that come with it that the developer has made in consultation with our office. In addition, theyll talk about next steps and were thrilled to be before you today because of the amount of work thats been done and the partnership with the warriors since the completion during the construction of the arena and since then. So looking forward to hearing your feedback. With that, ill turn it over to Gretchen Heckman to present on this item. Thank you, director. Good afternoon, chair bustas, chairwoman rosales. My name is gretchen heck man and im a Development Specialist in the mission bay group at ocii. Today im joined by the Development Team consisting of peter bryan, the Vice President of construction and development at the Golden State Warriors and eugene lee, a senior associate who is the architect for the proposed project. There are six items before you today regarding the Golden State Warriors hotel and residential project, which is proposed within the existing chase centre site on blocks 29 through 32 in Mission Bay South. This project requires an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan and associated plan documents ton the already approved design documents the major phase and basic concept or Schematic Design for the chase centre site. All of these actions together require environmental findings, which are also before you today. Please note that in your files for this item, you have an updated version of the redevelopment plan amendment and the commission memorandum, which were redistributed with corrections. In addition your files and our online posting were also updated to include the technical studies for the addendum. Next slide, table of contents. Here is an overview of todays presentation. First we will cover the six action items before you and will understand the context around them, then the warriors and gensler will review the project. Well they think talk about community out reach and the status of the warriors work on this project in meeting ociis contracting and workforce requirements and finally well end with a summary of all the actions that will happen after this hearing, including a schedule for the Planning Commission and various board of supervisor sessions. Next slide is, approval action summary. Resolutions five through 10 are before you today for approval. Ing to, the amendments approved through these resolutions create new land uses for the existing chase centre site on blocks 29 through 32 and they set parameters that match the specific proposed design for the hotel and residential project. Next slide proposed promise. Project. The warriors have submitted a design for a 160foot building with 129 hotel rooms on the lower floors and 21 residential units on the upper floors. While the project is specifically designed in their Schematic Design package, the plan documents allow forability in programming in the event the warriors need respond to changing Market Conditions in the Residential Market and thus must pursue a higher hotel room count. The whole set of planned document amendments does four things. It allows for the submitted bcsd design to move forward, the document language allows for potential changes to hotel room and a residential unit counts, up to as many as 230 hotel rooms and as few as zero residential units. The document three classify retail entitlement on the existing chase centre site and increase the entire retail entitlement in the project area in order to do so. And finally the document amendments define the fee amendments that are required to build the project. All of the approval items will go before the ocii commission today and then various agencies will review and approve a subset of them. For instance, the board of supervisors will only review the redevelopment plan amendment and the Oversight Board will only review the owners participation agreement or what we call the o. P. A. Next slide, proposed project location. This slide orients us in the Mission Bay South project area and shows us where the hotel and residential project is planned on the chase centre site. Currently within that footprint stands a threestorey retail building which will be demolished once the warriors are ready to Start Construction. Next slide, neighbourhood [inaudible]. Mission bay is near completion. The project area is wellserved by Neighbourhood Retail Services and transit as shown in this amenities map. Next slide, site plans. This slide is a site plan for the chase centre site, shown looking down from a birds eye view. It shows the existing arena, the existing two Office Towers and the proposed hotel and residential project. As you can see out of the four blocks that comprise the chase centre site, the hotel stretches across two of them, 29 and 30. There is a building in that Northeast Corner that will again be demolished once the warriors are ready to Start Construction on the project. The next few slides will cover the proposed changes in the redevelopment plan to. P. A. And the design for development document. Next slide, redevelopment amendment. The redevelopment designates the boundaries of regulates land use four and defines general controls and limitations on development in the project area. Overall t plan amendment increases the number of hotels and hotel rooms as well as the amount of retail entitlements. These overall increases are restricted to block 29 through 32 and specifically for the hotel and dwelling units they are restricted to blocks 29 and 30. This is the third redevelopment plan amendment since the plan was adopted in 1998. Next slide, blocks 29 through 32 after plan amendment and design approval. This slide shows the land use summary before and after the hotel and residential project entitlements for blocks 29 through 32. The leftmost column shows the applicable land uses on the site and 18,000seat arena, hotel, residential, retail, commercial, those are the two Office Towers and the arena and finally open space. You can see that the hotel and retail are being added to the site and that the retail Square Footage appears to be increasing. This is more akin to a reallocation which we will discuss further on the next slide. Finally, youll notice the open space decrease slightly to accommodate the footprint of the project from 3. 8 acres to 3. 6 acres. This decreeds amount is still above the 3. 2 acres of open space originally approved by ocii in 2015 during the arenas entilements. Next slide, blocks 29 through 32, retail summary. This slide breaks down the reclassification of alreadybuilt retail space. The 15,000 square feet of the top of the slide is the amount of retail entitlement provided to the warriors at the time of their arena entitlements at the time of 2015. The redevelopment plan calls out certain exclusions for retail space, one of which is for spaces under 5,000 square feet in size. Such space has been and is currently excluded from the retail tally in the redevelopment plan. But as long as it is considered exempt, it is restricted to a size of 5,000 square feet or less. The warriors had requested more flexibility in these spaces so they can freely move [inaudible] walls according tenants needs. This currently excluded space that is already built tallies to 54,000 square feet on the site. In addition to the previously exempted space, there are a few outdoor terrace spaces attached to alreadybuilt retail that require flexibility in their level of enclosure. O country, i is proposing to add those tariff bases to the retail entitlement to redesign screens and coverings to indraoes comfort of future patrons. Next slide, south o. P. A. Amendment. The south o. P. A. Is a Development Agreement between ocii and through an assumption of rights and responsibilities, to match the developer focils. It has been amended six times in the past. This proposed seventh amendment authorizes hotel and Residential Land uses on blocks 29 through 30 and specified development range of up to 230 hotel rooms and between 0 and 21 residential units. The amendment also lays out the fees required in order to build the project as well as augmented housing fee and additional contribution toward open space. Next slide, public and fiscal benefits. This slide shows the impact fees required in order to build the project. The first section shows all the onetime funds that would flow through ocii in the city. These funds mrafp whats in the planning code with the exception of the inclusionary Housing Programme which is an augmented fee. Over 1. 3 million by increasing the percentage of gross floor area assessed from 20 to 30 . The part of the slide shows a Park Maintenance fee intended to offset the Maintenance Cost by patrons of event centre utilizing park 22, which is direct across from blacks 29 through 32 in the chase centre as you will see an up coming rendering. The amount of the fee was determined in conjunction with the Management Company that maintains parks in Mission Bay South and is used for cleanup after giants games at oracle park t. Fee is an annual fee and acrews upon opening of Bayfront Park, which is currently under construction and is expected to finish next summer. Next slide designed for development amendment. The Mission Bay South design for development is the government earning document for design controls for each land use type specified in the redevelopment plan and is care out through the south o. P. A. It is also referred to as the d for d. As we go through the amendments on the next slide, one thing to keep in mind is that these amendments are restricted to blocks 29 through 30, specifically in order to meet the needs of this proposed project. Next slide, designed for development amendments. The main proposed changes to the d for d have to do with height and bulk. As we saw in the site plan slide, the footprint of the hotel and residential project within the existing built conditions on blocks 29 through 32 are quite constrained. In other words for the warriors to fit in all the necessary programming, staff recommends allowing an ib crease above 90 feet to allow the residential portion of the building to increase up to 160 feet. In addition, the proposed d for d changes show an increased plan length from 200 feet to 240 feet. Allowing for additional length for the Hotel Portion of the building. Again, to create a feasible project. Vument of the height and bulk increases, the tower developmentable area for the block and that is for the height zone also increase slightly. There are a few minor additional d for d amendments that the warriors have requested. These include a change to the percentage of the buildings rooftop area that a recreational structure can occupy and this change was meant to create a comfortable amenity for the residents of the dwelling unit and then the final amendment is for a larger projection in the form of a canopy that will help mark the hotel entrance. Next slide, major phase amendment. The final of the six actions a conditional approval of an amendment to both the existing major Phase Development and the bcsd for blocks 29 through 32. The major phase document provides the Overall Programme and infrastructure needed for the 2015 event centre and mixed use project. This proposed amendment incorporates at a high level the new hotel and residential project into the site. Next slide, basic concept and Schematic Design overview. The proposed hotel and residential project amends the 2015 event centre bcsd as well to allow for the replacement of an existing threestorey retail building in the Northeast Corner of the site and to make changes to the retail entitlement open space and parking counts. The project includes 129 hotel rooms, retail and use associated with the hotel, such as meeting rooms and a ballroom, as well as 21 residential units on the upper floor of the massing. And now im going to turn over the presentation to peter bryan, Vice President of construction and development from the warriors. He will speak in more detail about the project, its programming and the Development Team. Thank you, gretchen. Good afternoon, chair, vice chair, commissioners and director. Its a pleasure to see many of you again, albeit remotely today. We are excited to present to you our Hotel Project blocks 29 to 30. We believe there is a great need for hotel rooms as envisioned in the original plan to support the area today. With an ultimate plan area buildout of over 6500 residential units or 4. 4 million square feet office, an 18,000seat event centre and active hospital complex and ample open space, we believe and have heard from many neighbours during our outreach efforts that having a hotel at blocks 29 to 30 would be a tremendous asset, not just to the redevelopment area, but the city as a whole. You have been provided with several letters of support from some of these neighbours. Including local business in mission bay and surrounding neighbourhoods, residents of mission bay properties, residents of nearby neighbourhoods. We at g. S. W. Are confident in the long Temple Health of our community and intend to be a vital contributor to the Mission Bay Community and San Francisco as a whole. Im joined today by many key members of our project team to assist me in presenting our project and a in answering questions you might have. S. H. Hotels and resorts our management and operating partner. And will operate this property under their one hotel brand, which is wellsuited to San Francisco. One hotel focus on being environmentally consciousness and a member of the local community. From sourcing locally to reducing the use and environmentally damaging materials and to bringing nature into the interior spaces, one hotel is a brand we will be proud to have operating at blocks 29 to 30. Gensler is our exterior designer abarchitect of record and jones la salle is the Development Manager for the project. Next slide, please. Gretchen already gave you an overview of the programme for the project. And this is a bit more detail of that programme. Of the 129 hotel keys, there will be 115 standard rooms and 14 suites. Ott 21 residential unit there is will be 13 twobedroom units, two threebedroom penthouse unitsful supporting this will be a ballroom and meeting room spaces, a fitness centre, utility spaces and around 12,000 square feet of leasable retail comprising of a spa and three restaurants, two of which have exterior terraces above ground level to take advantage of the views of Bayfront Park and the bay. Next slide, please. The proposed project does not change the current pedestrian and bicycle paths of travel for visitor and workers that the chase centre, thrive city and the Office Buildings. We believe this project will help to activate warriors way and the Northeast Corner of the property. Next slide, please. This is a rendering of the entire site and includes the proposed project shown at the back right of chase centre with the downtown skyline in the background. We have attempted to be conscientious and considerate of how this project faces Bayfront Park and the waterfront. We have designed the portion immediately adjacent to terrier francois boulevard to be the lowest at 84 feet and step it up to a proposed height of 160 feet on block 30, which is one of the action items in front of you today. We have worked extensively with your staff to make sure that the fencing and roof designed a to the architectural character of mission bay while being sensitive to the plan area. At this point, i would like eugene lee to walk you through some of the design components of the project. Thank you, peter. The proposed mixed use hotel needs to be blended really well with the neighbourhood. As Mission Bay Community is an important, vibrant neighbourhood for San Francisco, new massing has to represent other mission bay massings. First, top massing is at 160 feet in height, which is at the same level as other mission bay massings. And it steps down toward the nature bayside. Step down massing and the 84 feet in height and it is well integrated with other lower massing a along terrier francois boulevard. Because of stepping down terrace massings, new massing fits well between urban in nature. Next slide, please. It is also very important new proposed mix. Mixeduse Hotel Architecture creates a great relationship with marine architecture. We apply arena architectural curvature lines to create a natural gateway for people. There will be a lot of people on new Bayfront Park to enjoy community and nature. With the arena, new massing will invite people up to arena level where there will be new programmes that say restaurants and cafe amenities will enhance peoples experience. Next slide, please. This view is taken from warriors way. Currently, warriors way is not excavated because there are either backside of retail at upper podium level or garage louver system at ground level. But new design will activate the street with a special Hotel Amenity programme such as ballroom and meeting rooms at upper podium level. And condo Hotel Lobbies at ground level. New massing with a new programme will activate the warriors way for people. Next slide, please. We also like the share four elevations with you. First one is north elevation. Which is the warriors wayside. Dynamic facade design will bring transparency and texture to the community. Youll stephane dionsinger fa . Ad many different ways. From right to left, it gradually changes from urban fabric texture to nature terraces will where you will see more horizontal shadows. Next slide, please. South elevation also highlights massing the curvature. Roofline is also very dynamic and it is well integrate with the massing below. Next slide, please. If elevation is very transparent with horizontal terraces to maximize the experience of nature. Next slide. Less el will anchor the urban side with a texture that reminds you of the city grade. Next slide. Please. And peter bryan will walk you through the plans again. Thank you, you gene. At the ground level, we want to activate warriors way as you hear from eugene. The next slide up. Not yet. Ok. Give it a second. There we are. Perfect. Hopefully everyone can see that. So at the ground level, activating warriors way has been a critical component of this proposed project, given its current state. What you see here is the ground level. The blue being the main lobby reception areas that serve the proposed building and spaces within it. And on the right side in pink is one of the three restaurants. This one having, you know, direct connection to the public rightofway, Pedestrian Access and across terry a. Francois boulevard to Bayfront Park. Next slide, please. One level above grade, we begin our ballroom and meeting Room Programme space that you see in the pinkish colour. Next slide. Level 200, this level not only has a continuation of the ballroom and meeting Room Programme from below, again the pinkish area on the middle to left side of the drawing, but also a cafe, restaurant and terrace overlooking Bayfront Park on the right that you see in the lighter pink and the yellow colour. Next slide, please. Here you can see a typical hotel floor with the mix of standard rooms and suites. Next slide. At level 700, this is our primary amenity level. It sits 84 feet above grade and consists of fitness centres, spas, hotel rooms and a restaurant with outdoor terrace overlooking Bayfront Park in the bay. Next slide, please. And finally this is a typical residential floor showing five units with a mix of two and threebedroom units. Now id like to turn the presentation back to Gretchen Heckman of ocii and thank you for your time. Thank you, peter. Again, commissioners, this is Gretchen Heckman with ocii and im going to continue on with our Environmental Review slides. The sxhition required to make environmental findings pursuant to California Environmental quality act or ceqa as part of its approval of todays actions. On november 3, 2015, the Commission Certified the final Impact Report that covered the event centre in mixed use development at Mission Bay South lots 29 through 32 as required by and in compliance with ceqa. As part of the commission to consideration of the proposed project and todays actions, which are also refered to in the ceqa finding resolutions as the 2020 actions, ocii has prepared the first addendum to the event centre at sbir. The first addendum evaluates the environmental effects of the 2020 actions and makes conclusions that we will recommend the commission adopt. In compliance with state law, addendum number one uses a vehicle miles traveled based threshold for measuring significance of transportation impacts due to vehicle trips. Next slide, Environmental Review continued. To determine whether an environmental effect is significant, ceqa now calls for agencies to transition from using thresholds that are based on what is known as levels of service at roadway intersections to whats based on the vehicles miles traveled methodology. Next slide. Environmental review, continued. Staff recommends that the commission adopt v. M. T. Standard for purposes of analyzing the warriors related 2020 actions as recommended by the states technical guidance and as supplemented for vehicle impacts by the planning departments guidance. Finally, staff recommends that the commission, consistent with the conclusion of addendum number one, fine that the environmental effects of the proposed 2020 actions are within the scope of the project analyzed in the event centre sfbir and will not result in any new, Significant Impact or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects that would alter the conclusions reached in the sfeir. Next slide, community outreach. The proposed project in action were presented to the mission bay citizens advisory committee, or c. A. C. Twice, once in december of 2019 as a workshop and then again in january 2020 as an action item. At the workshop, warriors invited questions and feedback on the project. Some members of the mission bay c. A. C. And the public requested that the warriors provide more information on thing like staging during construction and any potential traffic impacts. Many expressed support for the project. In january, the mission bay c. A. C. Voted on each of these actions separately and, while the votes in favour differed for each action, all actions passed by majority. S the warriors also did significant outreach work to other neighbourhood organisations as shown in the list on this slide. As peter bryan mentioned earlier in your packet i dont say can reference letters of support for many of these organisations. Next slide, Small Business enterprise and contracting programmes. As you are aware, the warriors have worked closely with ociis contract compliance staff on the chase centre and dont do so as the team moves through its professional Services Hiring for the project. This project will comply with the south o. P. A. Programme in diversity and economic development, which includes can ocii Small Business enterprise or s. B. E. Programmes. The warriors are on track to meet s. B. E. Participation goals based on the teams recommendations and selections thus far in its professional Services Hiring. The warriors have also agreed to apply the requirements of the s. B. E. Programme to their hotel tenant improvement work. Which, unless performed by an owner as part of owner improve. S, it is currently excluded from the requirements of the s. B. E. Programme. Next slide, workforce programme. Once the project nears construction, the warriors will work closely as they have done with the chase centre with ocii as first source and local hiring for construction and permanent jobs. The warriors have also worked very closely with the office of economic and Workforce Development and workforcerelated nonprofits such as Mission Hiring Hall and Young Community developers and will continue utilizing those relationships for local placement on this proposed project. Next slide, summary of amendments. Here again is a summary of all of the changes for each planned document before you today which allowed for this submitted project to move forward but the flexibility in case Market Conditions change. As a note here, if the warriors choose to pursue a different project than is proposed in the bcsd submittal, they will need to resubmit a bcsd submittal that shows a higher range of hotel rooms and that will come before the commission. Next slide, next steps. Finally, as mentioned earlier, there are more approval entities that review the planned document changes after ocii commission and this slide lays out all the planning, board of supervisor and Oversight Board hearings as well as the final mayoral signature, department of finance determination and Effective Date for the redevelopment plan amendments. Next slide, conclusion and Team Member Updates or introductions. Sorry. That concludes the presentation and we can answer any questions you may have. Also, on the line for this item and available for questions from ocii are sally orth, jose campos, director of planning and the Environmental Review officer, george bridges, contract compliance supervisor and laura scheifele p associate planner and urban designer. And if the warriors have any additional speakers they would like to name, they can do so now. Thank you, gretchen. Yeah. We do have several members from our team here today, specifically we have yoyo chan from governmenttal affairs and the president of s. H. Hotels and resorts. And adam lutz and other representatives from our entilements team and gensler as necessary. Great. Well, thank you so much for the presentation. Madame secretary, do we have from the public wishing to speak on this item . Operator your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press 1 and then 0. At this time, members of public who wish to provide Public Comment on these temperatures should call 8885578511. Enter access code 7500645. Followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. When prompted, please press 1 and then 0 to be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. To withdraw your question, press 1 and then 0 again. Our phone moderator will let us know if there are any callers on the line. Well give the public a few moments to call in. Great. Thank you, madame secretary. Do we have any callers in the queue . Operator you have six questions remaining. Great. Hello, caller. Are you there . Caller yes, im here. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is jeanette and im a resident at the radion. Were a 99unit condominium building within three blocks of the chase centre and about three or four blocks from the Giants Stadium as well. Im in favour of the project. I think that its adding value to the community here on many different levels. And really my only concern Going Forward with any public space that is being developed that we acknowledge and support public restrooms. We seem to be at a deficit in our area. We have a lot of public urination going on all around our building on a regular basis. But in terms of the hotel, i think it is a great idea and i support the warriors. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Operator you have six questions remaining. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Caller ok. My name is deborah and my husband michael, we are residents at the madrone building which is just down the street from the chase centre. Unfortunately we object to this hotel and i sent a letter in with our comments. But i would just like to reiterate that there are several hotels in the area. The marriott that is being built just down the street, the via, the hyatt. So, to say that there are no hotels in the area is really inaccurate. We very much object to the height of the building, the hotel. Its just add aing more density to our neighbourhood thats already very dense and so we were really would object to the increase in the height and, you know, i just really feel that its so much easier for Large Companies to pay fees rather than to actually provide the things that the city really needs. Such as more Affordable Housing, more open space. And we still get lots of litter and lots of garbage from what is already occurred in the last year from chase centre coming in. I cant imagine that were going to have any cleaner parks, unfortunately, with more people and more traffic coming in with regards to a hotel of people coming and going, etc. We have very tight streets and the traffic is always abominable and so this just makes me feel that there is going to be more. Just one thing about this nature is the building is coincides with the nature of the neighbourhood. Well have a 16storey white wall from 16th street to the cove when this whole project is finished. And theyre looking at an artificial plastic with chemicals floating around. Its just theyll destroy nature. Thank you. Caller thank you. Thank you. Operator you have six questions remaining. Caller hello. Good afternoon. Im keith goldstein. I am president of the cherry dog patch association and the chair of the eastern neighbourhood c. A. C. , although neither of those entities has had the opportunity to take a formal position on the proposed project so right now im speaking as an individual. I think the proposed hotel seems like real benefit to the neighbourhood, to the waterfront and to the city. I think its going to bring new opportunity to those of us who live, work or operate businesses in the southeast segment of the city. Im confident the warriors will go out of their way to provide Employment Opportunities to nearby residents in such areas as they have done at chase arena. And the hotel, i think l help to invigorate a section of the city that has been so adversely affected by a virus. Firstly it will provide construction jobs in the short term and then it will, im sure, provide many long lasting employment opportunityings as weve seen at chase arena. I think the warriors will go out of their way to partner with locally owned business. They have done that in a really exemplarly manner with chase arena, hiring many locallyowned business as vendors there and even hopeful that some hotel guests might be adventurous and patronize our businesses beyond. I think the whole loyalty design is evocative off the waterfront and fits the neighbourhood. It looks anything like chase, it will be spectacular. I feel proud of our city when i walk along warriors way and it will be great to show up at that wonderful mission bay waterfront to our out of town hotel guests. Thank you for listening to me and i hope youll support this project. Thank you. Operator you have five questions remaining. Hello. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Caller ok. Great. Well, good afternoon, commissioners. My name is vivian lee and im the principal of etmans and me architect, a small womenminority owned business that is pa h part of the projects team. Were the architecture and interior design firm and our role on this project is the designer of the condos and also acting as the associate architect for the building. While the project is still very in its early stages, the warriors and the project team have demonstrated theyre committed to ensuring Small Businesses like ours are fairly represented on the project team. It started by participating in one of the public solicitation meetings a couple of months ago and have been working closely with the project team on this effort. While we are very much in this Uncertain Times of the pandemic. But we believe that projects such as this will help reopen the economy and the city and frankly were very proud to be a part of this team. Thank you and i hope you will approve the actions before you today and support the project thats proposed. Thank you. Operator you have four questions remaining. Caller good afternoon, chair, commissioners, executive director. My name is bruce aggad. For identification purposes, im a native san franciscan, 11year resident of mission bay, a board member and transportation rep of the south beach Neighbourhood Association. Im speaking in support of the Golden State Warriors proposed hotel mixed use project outlined in items 5b through g in the agenda today. As a resident of mission bay for the past 11 years, i believe this project in its proposed uses are much needed in our neighbourhood. Where hotels and hospital amenities are currently lacking. This proposed project will also complement the existing activities at the chase centre and help to create additional public activation and retail opportunities that will benefit our neighbourhood. I have a few comments regarding the warriors and the chase centre as neighbours. During the planning and construction of the arena, we in the community were engaged on a regular basis, learning about specific aspects of the project. Community impacts regarding design, lighting, sound, etc. Outreach to neighbourhood stakeholders and general next steps. Specifically during construction, contractors were sensitive and took immediate action to resolve any complaints or areas of concerns identified by neighbours and community. Our confidence it will be replicated in any efforts Going Forward. Since the opening of chase centre in september, ive been impressed with the Ongoing Operations and warriors collaboration in communications with the surrounding community. As a member of the Neighbourhood Association board and the Mission Bay Transportation Improvement Fund a advisory committee, ive had the opportunity to engage in very detailed conversations with the warriors team. It has pleased me to this point as their commitment to not only execute on what is required by their development and related agreements, but go above and beyond to engage the community, incorporate feedback, bring on resources to ensure deep dives into operational matters, and be proactive in managing all aspects of operations. As a result of their efforts has the Community Talking about the wonderful entertainment and experience associated with the centre and not about impacts on the neighbourhood. I hope you will support this item. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Operator you have three questions remaining. Caller hello, commissioners. My name is dana himmel and i work with urban Design Consulting engineers. Were a small, local 12yearold company and we work in urban Civil Engineering storm water and joint trench. And were an 11person, small local, minorityowned business as l. B. E. For this project, we were selected to work with joint trench and dry utility coordination which involves working with pg e to get the gas, permanent power, temporary construction power and also coordinate services from comcast, at t and other Communication Companies that will provide service to the project. As vivian, the associate architect previously mentioned t warriors and the project team have demonstrated their commitment to include Small Businesses, like urban Design Consulting engineers on this project team and were also very honoured to be a part of that. So i would also ask that you approve the actions before you today as we also believe that this would be a very important project to help open up the opportunities in the city as were recovering from the pandemic. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Caller good afternoon, commissioners. My name is alex lanceberg. Im a director with the San Francisco Electrical Construction industry. Im calling in here to lots our industries and really the entire building trade support for the warriors project. Theyve been operating under the they built their stadium under the project labour agreement that weve had at mission bay. They will be continuing to build this hotel under the project labour agreement that they have on mission bay and continuing to work with really all of labour, both from the operational side and local from down to the Building Trades to ensure that this project is entirely successful. I myself personally am a resident of southeast down in bayview hunters part and india basin. My family and i go through mission bay all the time. And its going to be great to see to see the progress happening. I think we need to embrace the fact that were in a dense city and people do want to come visit here and give them the funds to do so. We want to make sure that we capture those economic benefits of their visits and we want to make sure that we direct those to our community folks, whether its local construction workers, local contractors or the local employment through the operational use of hotel. So, looking forward to seeing you approve this and have it move on to the board of supervisors. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Can i remind folks if you have any [inaudible]. Operator you have one questions remaining. Caller my name is ralph hannity and im a resident of the madron building near the arena. Im opposed to the development on the basis that the height is outside the boundaries of what was the original plan for mission bay as well as the approved 130foot, which was a concession to the warriors. 160 feet is well beyond what was ever conceived on these blocks. Which are kept at 90 feet. My second point is that the hotel may be in addition to the neighbourhood, but the upper floors are actually luxury condominiums and everybody is glancing over it, but the only reason to have these upper floors are is to put luxury condominiums and im opposed to that. I have another opposition and that is that the warriors have made commitments to open stores and restaurants that would feed the neighbourhood needs and unfortunately most of these are shuttered and closed, not just because of corona, but because they have never really made an effort to meet the needs of the neighbourhood. Therefore, im very opposed to the variance on the height and the addition of these condos. Thank you. Thank you. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no more members of the public on the phone wishing to comment on this item. Ok. Hearing no further requests to speak on this particular item, i will close Public Comment. Ill turn now to my fellow commissioners for their pending comments and questions they may have. And id like to start with commissioner brackett. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Id like to say that in the few years that the warriors have been active with ocii and producing projects that ive been impressed with the commitment to Small Businesses, especially providing opportunities to bayview firms as well as womenowned businesses. To me that is one of my big highlights as seeing this project moving forward is that we have a lot of support going back to our Small Businesses who really need that support, especially postcovid. Three other points that i want to naention take me over the top to be able to say i would like to support this project is increasing in Affordable Housing amount, which is the 1. 3 million that far exceeds the city minimum requirement as well as preservation of open spaces. So not just having open spaces but additional investment and dollars to maintain any public space as well. And lastly, the workforce participation. I would like to see a little bit more increase in terms of Public Participation from People Living in dog patch area as well as bayview. Other than that, i dont have any questions at this time. Thank you. Id like to go next to commissioner scott. Do you have any comments can or questions . Comments or questions . Commissioner scott . She may be on mute. Yeah. If youre speaking, commissioner, we cant hear you. Ok. Im going to jump to commissioner vice chair rosales for any comments or questions until we get commissioner scott back. Chair bustas, good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for the presentation. And also the commentary by members of the public. Certainly the warriors are a tremendous organization, pretty much the chase centre and all in my memory, all of the agreements, the negotiation, the efforts were definitely in good faith had, i think, [inaudible] [garbling] there is room for improvement on the transportation side. You know, people coming and going from the arena. I think that comment by commissioners and staff are [inaudible] so i [inaudible] support this project. And actually id like to [inaudible] [audio garbling [ just want to understand a little bit more your your sounds like youre under water so i would just speak a little bit slower and so we can capture what youre saying. Ok. Yeah. I have technical difficulties here. How about now . Sounds good. Ok. Ill talk slower. So, one question i have is about more recent outreach. From what i understood, there was outreach to the Mission Bay Community, the latest i believe i heard this correctly in january. Do we have any kind of postshelter in place feedback other than the folks who have written to the commission . Have we gone back to the c. A. C. Postshelter many place orders . Thank you for that question, vice chair rosales. This is Gretchen Heckman with ocii. So, when we went to the commission in january, there was still one outstanding piece of the o. P. A. That was not yet finalized with the warriors and that was the specific amount of the Park Maintenance fee and we have updated the c. A. C. Members on that specific amount obviously since january. And during shelter in place, we have not received any direct comments or remarks about, you know, changed opinions on the project, from shelter in place from the c. A. C. And i dont know if yoyo chan of the warriors or peter bryan have any other anecdotes to share about outreach, you know, since quarantine. Absolutely. This is yoyo chan on the line. As gretchen mentioned t last opportunity we were at the c. A. C. Was in january. However, we have been meeting oneonone with different members within the Mission Bay Community as well as the [inaudible] and Bayview Community and continued to meet for oneonone on zoom post shelter in place, some for folks who may not have been completely brought up to speed. So that outreach is still continuing as were here today. But we have done a couple of individual meetings withle immediate neighbourhoods and shelter in place, namely about two weeks ago were be the dog patch business association. A number of other folks along [inaudible] in terms of getting them up to speed on the latest as youve seen today. And we will continue to update folks as needed. But that is the latest since shelter in place. Ok. Thank you for that. The other questions i have concerned the impacts of the project on not just mission bay, but this part of mission bay, the impacts for instance on the park. The park will have been open to the public for the schedule that i have in my mind and how this is Going Forward. So aye like to hear about construction impact, neighbourhood impact and and park use impacts as a result of the construction process, if you will. Yeah, commissioner, ill take that. This is peter bryan. Just so youre aware, we have been working extensively on a site logistics plan that actually doesnt impact the park we intend to stage the construction from the sidewalk of warriors way. Obviously with an active event centre and Office Buildings and the other retail that will be open on our site during construction. You know, we need to maintain that access, too. We looked at the end of every work day, how theres adequate pedestrian flow to allow people to travel west and east along warriors way to keep that connection to Bayfront Park if theyre coming from west of Terry Francois boulevard. Its something weve been conscientious of today and our neighbours have reminded us also we have a loading dock across warriors way that gapold navy uses so weve been in coordination there, too, on how we minimize the impact during construction. But the goal is to keep the park open, to keep our closet areas open and to have this really be more of a downtown construction site you would see in areas like new york city or even here in San Francisco where life goes on around or the impact of the spronl really not noticed as we ensure all the right Safety Measures are in place to keep everyone safe and open. Thank you. I dont have any questions at this time. Ok. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner scott, are you here . I think you can hear me now. Yes, we can. Comments or questions you may have . Yes. Comments, i do, definitely. Again, as i was saying, thank you so much to gretchen and peter and eugene for this presentation. Im listening to the community. Im listening to the residents there. I, too, am native here, resident and live very close to your community. Were not in a Perfect World and i do hear all of your concerns. But we are in a world and a city and metropolis that has great needs and post corona, when we get there, well need the jobs, we will need the eateries and i didnt know we need help with continuing to better our transportation and the things around our parts. But i believe if we continue to keep the warriors feet to the fire and to keep an eye on their commitment, this is an organization that i am watching and may not be perfect and what is in our world today perfect . But i do see them as an organization moving toward perfection. I believe that they will stick with their commitment and work hard to try to make sure the concerns are met and addressed and that the Growth Development will happen. Im pleased that theyre still working with and commiting to our Small Businesses. Im pleased that they are with y. P. D. And the job and all that are possibly opening up. So, its something i am for and believe will be a great asset to the city of San Francisco. Thank you, commissioner scott. Thank you, commissioners, for your comments. You know, i i had an opportunity and ive been i think weve all had an opportunity to sort of, while weve been sheltering in place, you know, going for walks. Of course, at safe distancing and masks. And ive gone down to the warriors location many, many times as someone who grew up in the city, in the Mission District and that whole area was empty for a long, long time and i hear the concerns from some about nature and about density and the fact that anybody who lives in that area has contributed to the density. Because remember, i it was an empty space so we are a growing city. And were all contributing to the density and to this city. So, i just want to acknowledge those concerns but also we need to be very honest that there was nothing there before and there was a dream to build out that area and the dream is coming alive and so im really proud of this commission and this agency for its work towards that. But im also qualify proud with the partners who have many, before the buildings were built, you know had to sort of take a leap of faith that the city and the community would come along and the warriors were one of those partners that came to us a few years ago, asking us for their for our support for their dream and, as i mentioned, when the arena was being built or before the approvals, im not a sports fan. And thats not why i wanted to approve that project. But it is because of how they did the outreach and how they committed to local hire, how they worked with us to make sure that some of the Concession Stands were of local longterm businesses, restaurants that were here in the city and that partnership has actually bourn a lot of fruit. And not just the chase arena itself, but outside. So im really excited about what they want to do. I think that its going to bring more jobs. Its going provide more benefits to the community. And, you know they have been a very good partner thus far and there is no reason why i think we shoildened support this project. So i just hope that the warriors have heard some of concerns about litter, about traffic impact and i know that, because youve done it in the past, you worked with the local community and thats something that i know youll do because youve done it and youve really proven yourself as a good partner with the community and the city. I want to thank you for that. We have several votes before us that we have to do one in a row and so i would like the ask was someone going to Say Something . Ok. So, i will need a motion and a second, if there is one, for each of the items. Madame secretary, youll call item individually. But just to move this along, i will ask for a motion for this particular item and a second. If there is one. Actually, if i may, and with maybe we need councillor morales to chime in, it sounds like we had additional callers that didnt show up in our telephone queue and they wish to provide Public Comment. Would that still be allowed if we provide them a couple of minutes . Because i think there were at least a couple of item who somehow didnt get queued in and they submitted an email and they wish to speak. I dont know if we can do that. City attorney morales . I think the prudent thing to do would be to allow the speakers to give their testimony, given the possibility that there are technical difficulties in getting through. Since were not at a public hearing venue where you can see individuals who might want to speak so i would recommend that you allow them to speak. Ok. So, madame secretary, what well do we wont accept any motions yet until we hear these speakers and then get back to regular proceedings. Thank you. Ill pull up the Public Comment screen again. Ms. Nguyen, if you can activate the question and answer portion one more time to allow the callers to queue in again. Operator your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press 1 and then 0. For the members of the public who were unable to get connected to our Public Comment line earlier, if youre still on the line, or if you still wish to call in, well allow you a few moments to call in and provide your Public Comment. If youre listening, the phone number to dial is 8885578511. The access code is 7500645. Make sure you press the pound sign and pound sign again to enter as a participant and dial 1 and then 0 to be placed in the queue. And when youre prompted, it will let you know when it is your turn to speak. Again, that phone number is 8885578511. And the access code is 7500645. Do you have any participants on the participant list that may not have queued in or may not have dialed 10 . I dont have anybody queued for question and answer mode. Well allow them a few seconds in case they logged off. Thank you. Ms. Nguyen, is there anybody in the queue . No. Callers, can you please dial 10 if youd like to be queued in, please. I do have one on the call now. Operator ok. You have one question remaining. Caller hi. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is pete barmer, National Association of community contractors. Im pleased to see that you opened the phone line for Public Comments. First of all, thank you. Thank you to Golden State Warriors for the beautiful arena they had built and dont build Great Projects in the city of San Francisco. Personally, i would like to thank the warriors leadership, peter bryan. His engagement with our association National Association of minority contractors provided jobs in the community, created Contract Opportunities contractors, small contractors and also some of the bigger contractors and suppliers. This was a wonderful project and i hope that the commissioners approve this project and move forward so they can create more jobs in the community. It has been a great benefactor and a great leadership that warriors bring to the city of San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Are there anymore . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. Chair. Ok. So, we are now closing Public Comment for sure. And we are looking at item 5b and i will need a motion and second if there is that. On b . I move that we adopt the environmenttal review findings. Can you hear me . Yes. Ok. Thank you, mr. Chair. I move that we approve and adopt the Environmental Review findings purchase student the California Environmental quality act a. Great. Thank you. Is there a second . Yes, i second. So we have a motion and a second. Madame secretary, please take roll. And mr. Chair, just to confirm, were taking one motion for all items that act on it separately . Yes. With all the votes. Got it. Ok. So, the motion for all action items. Wait. No. I think you need to get a vote on each item. Each. Right. Ok. Yeah. Thank you. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5b when i call your name. Commissioner brackett. Yes. Commissioner scott. Yes. Vice chair row salless . Yes. Chair bustos. Yes. 5b passes. Id like to call for 5c. May be use the same house . Commissioner scots and commissioner rosales first and seconding . I move that we move the report to the board. Commissioner, are you seconding that . Yes. Ok. So, we have a motion and a second and madame secretary, please take roll. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Motion passes. I would like call the vote for agenda item 5ds. There somebody else who would like to motion and second . Mr. Chair, i move that we approve the amendment to the redevelopment plan. For the Mission Bay South redevelopment project. Thank you, commissioner scott. Is there a second . Ill second. Ok. Madame secretary, please call the roll. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5d. When i call your name [roll call [ mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Ok. Motion carries. Calling the vote for agenda item number 5e, may i have a motion . I move. Go ahead. Yeah. I was going to move item 5e. Thank you. Additionally authorizing the seventh amendment. Si second that. Ok. We have a motion and a second. Madame secretary, please call the vote. Commission members, please announce your vote for 5e when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Ok. Motion carries. Id like to call the vote for agenda number 5f. May i have a motion, please . Mr. Chair . Yes, commissioner scott . I move that we approve an amendment to the d for d for the Mission Bay South project area. Thank you, commissioner scott. Is there a second . This is mara, i will second. Madame secretary, we have a motion and a second. Please call roll. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5f when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ay irks. Motion carriesful id like to call a vote for agenda item 5g. May i have a motion . Mr. Chair . Yes, commissioner scott . I move that we conditionally approve the amendment to the major phase application and the basic concepts and Schematic Design for the Mission Bay South lots 29 through 32. Thank you, commissioner scott. Is there a second . [inaudible]. Vice chair seconds this motion. So we have a motion and a second. Madame secretary, please call the roll. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5g when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair, the vote is four ayes. Ok. Motion carries. Thank you very much for the presentation to the staff and to the partners and thank you, members of the public for your comments. Please call the next item. The next order of business is item 6, Public Comment on nonagenda items. Mr. Chair . Madame secretary, do we have any speaker cards for this item . Your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, 1 and then 0. At this time, members of the bhoubl wish to provide Public Comment on nonagenda items should call 18885578511. Enter access code 7500645, followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. When prompted, please press 1 and then 0 to be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn tom withdraw your question, press 1 and then 0 again. Again, that number is 8885578511 and enter access code 7500645. Followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. And then enter 1 and a then 0 to be entered into the queue. Ms. Nguyen, just let us know if there are any callers, please. Thank you. Madame secretary, there are no callers on the line. Thank you. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no more members of public on the phone wishing to comment on this item. Ok. Hearing no further requests to speak on this item, i will close Public Comment. Madame secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is report of the chair. Mr. Chair . There are no reports. Please call the next item. The next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. Madame director . I dont have knowing report at this time. Thank you. I dont have anything to report at this time. Thank you. The next order of business is item 9, commissioner questionses and a matters. There anybody wishing to speak on this item, commissioners . Ok. Hearing none, madame secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 10, closed session. There are no closed session items. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment. Mr. Chair . Thank you. Fellow commissioners, thank you so much for being a part of this meeting today. I would need to motion to adjourn. Mr. Chair, i move to adjourn. Moved by commissioner scott. Seconded by mutual fund i second the motion. Commissioner brackett. Thank you so much. We are adjourning at 2 31 p. M. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, of the public and of the staff