Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 20240712

Lower communities of color and we should have that in an apples to apples way. I was part of the movement to when supervisor kim threatened to annex a nearby city that was unwilling to increase the housing density on vacant land, so lets expand that conversation. So supervisor mar, and i really appreciate everything that you have, and please any closing comments for you, supervisor mar. And what is your will . Thank you so much, chair peskin and supervisor preston for your comments and engagement in this really important discussion. There is a number of very important items to get to so i will keep the closing comments very short. I did want to summarize that my goal today was emphasize the importance of data and who is the housing for and are we prioritizing and addressing the Housing Needs of residents an communities to insure the diverse and racially Equitable Society . This needs to be the core of our housing policy frame work, not just in the rhetoric and not just in theary tough we report on about not just on the narrative. We need it in the measurable data and the quantitative goals and the metrics that hold us account to believe the real people who live and work here. We can only address what we can measure. Again, i am disappointing that the jobs housing fit is not a fit and so i look forward to receiving the completed report before the end of august. I also look forward to seeing how the points brought up today will be reflected and incorporated into the Housing Element and in particular the Housing Needs in San Francisco. I look forward to continuing conversations with planning staff and insuring meaningful public opportunities for final sign off. And finally, supervisor and executive board member of the association of bay area of government, i recognize the challenge that the forthcoming regional arena allocation will have on San Franciscos response in the Housing Element. In addition to establishing the framework we discussed today, i will commit to advocating for arena allocation that aligns with the framework we discussed in a frame work that supports San Franciscos a Housing Affordability and stability needs. It will be reflected in the district and housing work including the sunset Forward Community planning process that we launched this summer and our effort to increase Affordable Housing capacity on the west side. And my policy priorities to stabilize and protect sunset residents from displacement. Thanks again, colleagues and staff at the Planning Department and to the members of the public who called in to engage with us today. And i would like to move that we continue this item to the call of the chair. And that would be both hearings, supervisor . Item four is a resolution and it has to be excuse me, you are absolutely right. And by planning code and accepted. Im sorry. Chair peskin, i would ask that the committee move the resolution accepting the housing balance report forward to the full board, and also continue the second hearing to the call of the chair. Thank god that we asked for the housing balance report to actually be put on the screen so we could have done it justice. And before we call roll call vote on that, let me also just speak to two elephants in the room before we move on to our last three items that will take several more hours. Yes, there are absolute nimbys in this town and there is a history of systemic racism as it relates to housing. It was in covenants, conditions, and restrictions. It has played out in exclusionary zoning, but there is also the exercise and i realize that planners and the Planning Department are not allowed to address this in reports. But there is also the exercise of vast power that is brought to all 11 of us and a mayor that is called the expenditure of money in politics. It happens through astroturf organizations. It happens through independent expenditures. It happens through political donations. And it is no mistake that supervisor kim and i had to take these t static percentage of inclusionary housing out of the charter where it never belonged because a handful of developers convinced a mayor and a board to put that before the voters and funded the campaign where it actually passed. So let us also remember that a lot of this is about rich people getting richer and to the libertarian, i suggest you think about that, too. With regard to item number 4, there is a motion, madam clerk, to send the resolution with regard to the biannual housing balance report number 10 to the full board. I will make that motion on that motion, a roll call please. On the motion to recommend, supervisor pes kin. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. You have three ayes. And then i would like to make a motion to continue item number five to the call of the chair. On that motion, a roll call please. On the motion as stated, supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. You have three ayes. Madam clerk, reads the next item. Item six is ordinance amending the planning code to provide an exception from the density limit calculations for all affordable units proprojects and not seeking and receiving a density bonus, permit the legalization of all unauthorized dwelling units and members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment item six should call the number 4565 a0001, meeting 1467294222 and pound and pound again. And press star 3 to line up for item six and the system will prompt us that you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted when we get to Public Comment. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Major. At the question of the sponsor of the legislation, supervisor mandelman, he has asked for a continuance to august 17. Given the unique covid19 time that were in where during the middle of august we are going to be in the middle of our budget deliberations, we may or may not have a hearing on monday, august 17. So subject to Public Comment, i would like to continue this to the call of the chair. If indeed we have a mid august meeting, i will put that on the calendar. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak to the item number six . Operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Hes noted 25 listeners and two in queue. Operations, if you could queue the caller please. A first speaker please. Go ahead, first caller. Caller hi. There is tom, executive director of livable city and just thank you for that hearing. It was great. And it highlights a loft of the issues that this legislation will directly help. This legislation does a few things. It protects san franciscans who live in unauthorized units from losing their housing. We have thousand of san franciscans who live in unauthorized units. They are not a tup of housing. Some are very old units and in any type of building and just units not approved with permits when the unit was built. Some are decades old, many are rent controlled and this would give every one of the units a path to legalization and protection under 317 from conversion, demolition and merger. It gets directly to the issue of why are we losing rent controlled and affordable unit. Lets stop that and get that number to zero units we have that are not replacing in kind. The other thing is it does is incentives for Affordable Housing by exempting them from density limits. We do have an exemption of affordable units from the citys density limits. These are projects that will abide by height and bulk and rear yard and exempts are, h1 and 2 and doesnt apply in over half the city. It caps at 25 of the total number of units. And to lower density units with the small number of additional units. And so 100 affordable projects, for example, couldnt put them in the space of a monster home. Even though they fit and could be generously sized units, but there is that cap. If you believe in dense tu equity, and if you believe and want more on site affordable, supervisor preston, and if you want Affordable Housing of all shapes and sizes in every neighborhood, this is the ordinance for you. We hope you will support it when it is written. Wanted to thank supervisor mandelman for bringing this forward. It is incredibly timely and those components are absolutely what we need right now. Thank you. Next speaker please. Next speaker. Caller i am an africanamerican retired resident of district 1 1, Vice President of the omica. Longtime learner, very opposed to the river and if it is in Affordable Housing to me maam, i dont mean to interrupt you i dont mean to interrupt you actually, i do mean to interrupt you. We are on item six. And that is the an exemption from density limits which we are about to continue. The item that you want to speak to is item 7 and 8 which were about to call so if you can just get back in the queue, we will call you or you can speak about that in just a minute. Speak about balboa in a minute. Thank you, maam. Sorry for that. Are there any other speakers on item number six . If i understand it is going to be continued, i will let this go until it is continued. Thank you, maam. Okay. There will be hopefully on october im sorry, august 17. We will hear this item. Are there any other members of the public to speak to exempt from density limits, item number six . Madam clerk . Awe caller yes. I am a district 8 resident. I have not heard about this. I dont think supervisor mandelman has done enough outreach on this or his legislative aid has provided the information and there are plenty of things to say about it, but i support the continuance so we can learn more about it and be able to comment intelligently. Thank you. Next speaker please. Caller i am milo and i live in district eight. I actually did hear about this from mandelman about six or eight months ago and it is now moving and i am really supportive and a great idea and a good, creative way to find more space to get people into homes which is what the city needs. Clearry we dont have enough places for people to live. I am not the purpose of the city is we have jobs and people are coming here for opportunities and we must build houses or otherwise accommodate people who are coming here for opportunities and for a better life. So i think this achieves that goal. Market rate and Affordable Housing grade school and on that unified enemy that we can all be against is exclusionary housing policies that favor above all else quote, unquote character and small architecture styles and with density and i hope to get to the next one as well. Thank you. Next speaker please. Caller hello. I support this legislation. Please get it through. I think that planning i have been living in sir, we are speaking to a continuance. Caller yes. I think planning code 207 is obsolete and it was obsolete 30 years ago because i basically always living in unpermitted a. D. U. S my entire life. And we should abolish the density limit. In addition, after we get this law through, i think we should start to look at how to increase the density how to relax some of the Building Code requiremen requirements that sb such as ceiling heights and things like that. Last week at the Planning Commission t Planning Commission voted to destroy an illegal a. D. U. Because it would not be able to meet the Building Code requirements. So even with this law, it wont stop all demolitions that destr destroy existing or legal a. D. U. S and we can work to do more. Thank you. Probably why less people burn to death in that you are houses in our society. New other members of the public who would like to speak to this item . Caller good evening, supervisors. This is gordon in support of the legislation and it need to be continued. That is and removing density controls is a good step in that direction. I would like to expand this legislation with the density controls across the board that were created for racist reasons and if it was rawsist when it was kree yachted, and just beyond the opportunities we could have and somebody in a mansion and like the one that supervisor peskin luvs in and wants to split up the home to three or four more units to rent out some below argument rate and remove the density controls throughout the city. This is a good first step and no reason not to take more steps as well. Legalizing and no reason they should be kicked out. If there are serious concerns about an a. D. U. That is built illegally, le sfie and natural Affordable Housing in the city. One last point and i hear that generally referring to people who advocate for market housing as libber theian. Ien am i am a democrat and have been knocking on doors six i was 16 and to engage with the name calling like a child. Thank you. Please pass this legislation. Mr. Gordon, your personal attacks are noted and unwarranted. And unfortunate and do not help your position which if you watched this committee relative to proposition e and the housing balance report, you will realize are quite unfortunate and unproductive statements. Next speaker please. Caller good evening, supervisors. Robert from district five. I want i know this item is going to be continued, but i would like to say that density controls were originally enacted as part of red lining throughout the west side in neighborhoods like Mount Davidson manor and Saint Frances wood and others near balboa park in particular. I found a planning document from 1970 that shows the distribution of existing and planned Public Housing and virtually all of it was planned for would be currently districts five, 8, 9, 10, 111 and 12 with virtually no Public Housingen and density controls are not an original idea from the fact that its been San Francisco policy to put all density in the east side explicitly in normally Industrial Areas for the last 50, 60 years. Thank you. Next speaker. Mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Okay. Public comment is closed. At the request of supervisor mandelman, i will continue this item to the call of the chair. And hopefully schedule it to august. On that motion, roll call please. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin . Aye. You have three ayes. Could you please read item seven and eight together . Item 7 is an ordinance amending the general plan to revise the balboa park station area plan and the recreation and open stays element and amending the Housing Element in with regard to the design of families with children and adopting property findings. Item eight is an ordinance joining the planning code and zoning map to rezone the balboa reservoir basin site generally bounded by the city college of San Francisco. And numbers can call that number at 4156550001. The system prompts will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted when Public Comment begins and you may begin your comments. You will only need press star 3 once to stay in the queue. Thank you. Thank you, madam clerk. We are joined by our board president and district seven supervisor, supervisor yee. The floor is yours. Okay. Thank you, chair peskin and supervisors preston and safai for and thank you for the robust discussion and i was listening to to the whole discussion and there is a good connection between those items four and five and these items. The balboa reservoir project started in 2015 as a proposed site and this has been a long journey. One that i want to reflect upon as we consider the project as a whole. The funny thing about this sprojt as a student during the 60s and talking about housing that is not a new concept. Tirm initial meetings years ago and there wasnt a real Engagement Community process and to see the discussion dissolve and a few times i looked to create what ended up to be the balboa Reservoir Community advisory xhiet and College Trustee and Business Owner and along portion avenue and Area Plan Committee and representative from the p. U. C. Community Advisory Committee and representative of one of the high schools and and to make sure we had voices from all the elements around the neighborhood. They spent two years Gathering Community input and to create principles and parameters to inform the developer selection roars and ultimately the process that is. You today. It seems common sense now but to be hon and the city had a deep level of participation before a project was even proposed. Members of the public have contributed significant time to help shape this project. And this is located on p. U. C. Land and would propose a project of 50 of the 1,100 units and total of 550 affordable units and with the huge take for the community and 150 units and the city First College of preference. Nearly four acres of publicly assessed space and with the development of the Child Care Center. I am most proud that what a child friendly San Francisco could look like and to attend the Housing Development for housing with children. And also the child friendly San Francisco sort of element that we would like to put in there. Several years ago we tasked the Planning Department to work on a policy paper and recommendations on how housing and even those in multiunit buildings could be more child friendly. Today you will be bordering on what defines housing and that will send a strange signal and Family Friendly for families with children in San Francisco. It is about shifting our entire worldview and culture. And with what the spaces and neighborhoods look like designed with children in mind. And director rich hillis and many Planning Commissioners who supported this including commissioner moore and to where it is today. With quite a few city planning Staff Members that were involved in helping us define what it really meant and this includes sheila and others. And notice they are all women city planners. And maybe that is what it takes in the city and county department will also embrace this. So thankfully the balboa reservoir project heard us loud and clear from the Community Members and will be a reflection of the desire to retain, attract and nurture the next generation of san franciscans. The project will have two and three bedroom units and other amenities including open space play areas a child care facility and indoor and outdoor common areas for events. Overall i believe the project is thoughtful and includes many of the elements and that the community is able to see if two acre park that will be central to the project and pedestrian walkways and bike lanes connecting the neighborhoods to ocean avenue corridor. Complimentary design to reflect the existing neighborhoods and to promote existing businesses and with the commercial district and we are work on fine details of the neighborhood and Community Stakeholders to improve the project further and to have clarity. And the Transportation Management plans and management of the open space. This will be discussed in the budget and finance on wednesday and with regard to the special use and there is concern about the maximum height for the tallest building and the original parameters set at the maximum height of 65 feet and the possibility of going to 78 feet with additional height allowance from the other rooftop and with the closest to a high school and find out different opinions and highings and sections. And we dont have the exact amendments today as we are still revealing what we will have. And we will have them by the time we go to the full board. With that, colleagues, i want to extend my gratitude to the hundreds of hours comment members have spent to design this project. The staff at the office of economic work force development, the Planning Department and the City Attorneys team for all the work they have put into this. I hope that i can count on your support and hand it off to chair peskin to call up the presenters at this point. Thank you, president yee and with that, wee dont we turn this over, i think, to the office of economic and workforce development. And there are a number of individuals and i believe from city planning so we will start with you, lee. Yes. Thank you, chair peskin. Thank you for that introduction, president yee. Good evening, supervisors. I am leah and i am with the office of economic and workforce development. And we have staff cable from the Mayors Office of housing and sfmua to develop and answer questions. And to Bridge Housing and avalon bay is also present. I have a presentation that i will take you through. Please stop me if you can not see the slides. In todays community, we will be hearing two items from the balboa. Can you give me a sense of how long this presentation is . I am not in any way trying to truncate or compress, but i just i have to go get some food in the next room. It is about i would say 8 or 10 minutes in total. Perfect i will be back in about a minute and a half and the speaker is on and i will hear you from 15 feet away. Sound good. Thank you, chair peskin. In todays committee you will be hearing two items from the balboa package, the general plan amendment and the map amendment ordinance. Two items will be before the board and the project today is the proposed development of balboa reservoir. The site is owned through the city through the sfpuc and is in front of ocean avenue at the intersection of a number of residential neighborhoods including sunnyside, engleside and City College Main Campus is directly to the east and the balboa park bike station is about a half mile walk. There are a number of bus lines and lite right running nearby. Balboa reservoir site was the first identified through the public land. Policies and past proposition k and the Surplus Property ordinance. The si city to convey and redoppler an understood utilized site with housing that could be heavily affordable. In particular the balboa reservoir project will bring new housing to the site and provide new family of all incomes the opportunity to live in the transit and amenity rich neighborhood. The reservoir is currently 1 spaces and a portion of which is leased to city college as overflow space. It implements keys a peck of the citywide equity approach in a transit richard among longstanding with Great Schools and driving business corridor. And it allows you to go to a neighborhood that is not a community of concern and on a site with no displacement of housing or businesses. And enables the provision of the high level of for a wide range of households. This project is unique in that the package of community benefits, namely the 50 Affordable Housing, originated with the community process. As supervisor yee mentioned in 2015, he and which has held over 50 meetings and has been the key forum for Ongoing Community feedback and have continued to be active during covid. The p. U. C. In 2017 created the development, principles and parameters document attached to the developer r. F. P. The parameters outlined the Key Community priorities for the site and whether it be 15 affordable, that the new housing was geared to families at a ang and that it was created to form a new neighborhood among other topic. They collected the Developer Team, Reservoir Community partners and joint second which you are of Bridge Housing and avalon bay community. The Developer Team has worked in concert to shape the communitys priorities into a successful project. The proposed project builds 1100 new homes across the range of building types both for renters and homeowners. 550 units or 50 will be affordable at a range of incomes. This approach creates broad opportunity for diversity of new residents. The new neighborhoods mixes thoughtfully into the surrounding community and supports children and families with large usable open spaces with play areas and 100 seat Child Care Center a Public Community room, a new connection to city, college, and ocean avenue. To contribute to the nearby open transit improvements. The project key benefit is 550 units of Affordable Housing on site. The housing will be available for households earning between 30 and 120 of a. M. I. Meaning for house holds who work in health care, the service industry, education, public safety, and all of the people that complete a neighborhood. The units are family sized. 150 of the units will be designated for affordable educator housing, among the first in the city. The affordable educator building will have a first preference for city college which will allow the college to attract and retain diverse faculty and staff. The developer is obligated to contribute gap funding for 43 of Affordable Housing and will contribute gap funding to reach 50 affordability. And it is expected that the city funding will be al activated to affordable buildings e, a, and b for low income house holds and the sources of city Gap Financing will be identified and appropriated by the board closer to construction start to make feasible 5050 units and and turn it to the colleagues and to continue the presentation, i turn to my colleague. Good evening, supervisors. One of the concerns that we heard expressed from the new project is how residents would get to the site. The community was concerned with increased traffic congestion, Pedestrian Access and the loss of parking. We have worked with colleagues at m. T. A. , city college and the sponsor to develop a comprehensive response to these concerns. First, with city college, we work to develop a transportation Land Management program and proposed improvements on the north side and to advance the q line quick build project to improve access and the intersection approval to ocean avenue. And lastly we work with the sponsor to contribute about 10 million in train station sustainability fees and mitigation measures and provide a Public Parking garage. Next. We wanted to reiterate the Family Features as outlined by supervisor yee. This product is centered on creating a neighborhood for families and all address the needs of families. The housing there have 30 two bedroom and 10 three bedrooms including town homes and living alleys and indoor space in the multifamily buildings for gathering and birthday parties and initial space in the garage for oversize cargo bikes and bikes with child seats to encourage biking and waub walking to insure these are safe modes of travel. And another was the child care facility at 50 of those 100 feet to be reserved for low income families. As outlined in the c. A. C. Principles and parameters, the design site was intended to insure that the surrounding context and scale of the neighborhoods is respected. The developer is lower and increases in height as the site slopes up to meet the Institutional Uses of city college. Next. Supervisors, before you today, there are planning code and map amendments from p and public zoning to a special use district. And to reck late the height in bulk and open space and the guidelines and documents and to be used for minor and major modifications. And to discuss the detail of the buildings and the open space. Next. Also before you today are the general plan amendment. The amendments to the general plan are in keeping with the existing general plan and update it to reflect the specifics of the project. And note that the project is generally consistent and the balboa park stationary plant calls for a mixed use development. There are changes to introductory text and there are changes to some maps in the general plan. And finally we want to outline the stages of construction. You will see here in purple phase one is anticipated to begin in late 2021 and phase two in yellow is anticipated to begin in 2025. And the project received unanimous approval at the Planning Commission, the m. T. A. And the sfpuc and today the land use and the general plan amendments and on wednesday the Budget Committee is scheduled to hear the Development Agreement and the sfpuc purchase and sale agreement. Staff are here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. I guess who is the vice chair . I am back. So mr. President , supervisor preston, should we open this up to Public Comment . Mr. Chair, we have an Economic Impact report first. We do. Okay. Lets get the Economic Impact report. Good afternoon, supervisors. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay. Good evening. This is at the Controllers Office for Economic Analysis and the balboa project released on friday. And some of the key details of the project and some of the key items in our report. About 15 points and does not contain any permanent structures right now. And 1,007 parking spaces. And the main goal of the project is the underutilized reports and as supervisor yee mentioned, identified among the first slide slated for the San Francisco Public Housing awareness. And despite existing zoning and which is public and most of us are on the project side and existing and except for the small force which is 2. 2 acres on the eastern portion which has 65 height limit. And depending on that block and to go to seven stories. And 1. 8 million square feet. And the majority of the use and about 1. 3 million and to propose 1100 units and for public use and 7500 square foot of neighborhood with retail. And as mentioned and in several spaces. 50 of the units will be affordable and as speakers mention and approximately two acres of a reservoir park. This slide will show you the development o. Buildout and there is nothing on the site and no boundary structure. We need to see your slide. Share your screen. It is not showing . Hold on. We dont see your slide. You dont see my slides. Hold on. I apologize. I thought i shared them. Let me try one more time. I apologize for that. Can you see it now . No. We will pull it up for you. Can you let us know what slide number you are on . Slide six right now. Okay. We will pull it up. I apologize. I dont know why i am having the technical issue. I thought you guys were seeing it. You can see now . Yes. So my apologies and as i was mentioning as a difference in the Development Capacity at buildout, the total will be 1. 3 million square feet of space. Which is mostly residential. I am not in 1. 3 million square feet and roughly about 400,000 square foot. And next slide please. And i will go with the key economic factors and the proposed development. And from the prices in terms of the city and there will be a modest increase about 30 jobs in labor and child care based on the size of the proposed development. And an increase in the number of subsidized development and modern system household with high housing burden and high income household in the city. And 550 additional affordable units by as much as 3. 8 million for the household to occupy the units. This is roughly 6900 subsidies from the units on an annual basis. Next slide please. These are some of the simulations and propose zoning and the development of the agreement and with that area and go down 5. 4 and from the values and with the size of the development. Yes please . Do you want to go back to the last side where there is a note at the bottom with regard to the overestimate. Yes please. And may be 3. 8 million and what we are estimating and based on the subsidy and the housing bound and modern and the income and with the project and 20 a. M. I. And as we know about 36 of the housing affordable units will be low income unit and 30 of the affordable units will be low income units and will occupy between 50 percent of a. M. I. And the remaining 30 now. And the reason i put that note there was to to consider the subsidy a little bit and every estimate and the upper limit. And to take into account with the a. M. I. And that subsidy may be lower. That was the point that i hope to answer your question. Thank you. Do you have any modelling as to how much lower . At this point i cant comment on that and that involves land and go to all the units and how they will be distributed. I dont have that distribution and i cant estimate that. In terms of the modelling that subsidy wouldnt change the Economic Impact as easily. That is not one of the biggest factors to drive that simulation. With the please advance two slides forward. Result of the random simulation with the employment population and the g. D. P. And the annual change is 556 jobs. And you would expect from the goal of the project. And the population change is 892 people. And that impact is 100 million and housing prices will change 4. 5 . That is what we are around roughly 1. 4 million house and average house. With about 6,000 to put this in perspective. Next slide. I guess that next slide. And this is basically the project has quite a bit of positive impact on the local economy and add parking and jobs and to the local g. D. P. That concludes my presentation. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Member preston or president yee, do you have any questions for mr. Kahn . I just want to see you clarify when you say retail space which is a little space. We assume based on maybe i apologize. Based on my understanding of the draft of the Development Agreement, there was 10,000 square feet retail space was mentioned. we wouldnt have any retail. So we could support businesses. We need some clarification on that. yes i mean, that was my understanding, that was part of the. the Economic Impact was minute mouse. Its an economic land use matter ill refer to the district supervisor. In reality that is a handful of spaces at the most. If the instrumentsthe range of instruments before us, mr. President what is your will. it was just for clarification. I didnt think it would have that much impact in terms of economic a sisment. thats not a huge impact. Its a very small space, you know. That was mentioned, it may or may not be benefit. It wont change anything. thank you. okay. Seeing no more questions. Mr. President , do you mind if we open this up to Public Comment or do you have any additional things you would like to say . Seeing none. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment for items seven and eight. thank you. mr. Chair, im try to go see if theres any callers in queue. there are certain items for this committee relative to the land use and other items that are in agreement for the budget and finance board of supervisors. I do have some suggestions relative to the Development Agreement particularly as it relates to making sure that where this happened in other large scale developments such as this, that we know these exist, the levels of affordability at least not in a downward way. I do believe the developer is willing to stimulate in the Development Agreement that they will not come back and retrade to lower levels of affordability in the case of treasure island, as happened in the case of ship yard as it relates to ownership and mix, that will be coming in the Development Agreement. That is not before this committee. Im also interested in what we cloacolloquially refer to as ust or lose it. Thats not before us today. I just want to say that before we open it up to Public Comment. First speaker, please. thank you. We have thirty eight listeners and twenty in queue. please proceed. hello. Im a long term resident of district 11. Opposing dpreup groups should be allowed equal time to approve a plan. This is long lease plan of eeo c. It should be wu 100 affordable development. Not at all a market rate project. What private developers are proposing is inconsiderate, corrupt and i inconsciousable especially for my African American community. These plans forare not 100 affordable. They should remain Public Domain ownership by providing access for students, faculty, African Americans and other minority communities. Please reconsider these plans. There is Much Community opposition. thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two minute it speak. Youll be notifies that your line is unmuted and you may begin. good afternoon, chair, and supervisors. My name is stewart, i represent the appellants on the eir certification. Thats not what im speaking about today. I sent a letter to you folks earlier today. Its a short letter. Basically what the letter is really im ised dispr what youro with Affordable Housing is not working. Youre trying to piggy back on market rate housing. Not all of that is being paid for by the developers. Once its given away, you cant ever build on it. Youll do far better to do a phase 100 a fortable project a. Thats a far better deal for the people of San Francisco. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker. Youll be notified that your line is unmuted and you may begin your comments. good evening. My name is jane. Im urging you not to privatize the reservoir. In view of the proceeding present aigs its itsironic the before you today to ask you to continue to use the ocean campus to grow and thrive. The economic benefits youve just heard say we cannot allow voters to make our housing decision. When the need for Affordable Housing is so desire theres so much enthes enthusiasm for thisl guided project thats designed to line the pockets of the developer. It will allow city college to use part of the lan. This is a win for the city which we desperately need for the city. thank you. We have forty listeners and twenty four in queue. San Francisco wants to address the Affordable Housing crisis the same way it addresses the climate crisis. Its located close to bart even during the pandemic and ocea mie auto use. Five hundred fifty units will be below market rate. It will make a major contribution to addressing the citys affordable Housing Needs. Provides desperately needed child care Housing Needs for low income children. The low income market helps to benefit the project. The site is under use use underd areas. The failure of the bay area governments housing such as this is a major disparity to San Francisco as well as the bay area. hello. Im a d1 resident, parent, and former commuter student to the ocean campus. Depending on my car to be able to work and attend school at night. That said, the reservoir is public land and should be kept publicly owned. The city should see that this land stay in public hands so Nonprofit Developers can build 100 Affordable Housing through a land leap. The way its structured the for Profit Developers get ownership to build anything. They can sell all or portions of the property. Therefore the lands should be sold to the p c to see the land is publicly accountable and guaranteed to serve those most in need in our city in the long term. As this property sits right next to city college one of the most important institutions in the city for achieving equity, we must have a different deal. One that supports students, future students like my son. As we are in a time of awareness of inequalities in our city and country, selling this land to a private developer is not a solution. Its part of a system problem. Thank you. Please build in the future with equity and fairness and keep this land in public hands. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hi im speaking in strong support of this strong. Our region desperately Needs Housing in all market levels. That means both affordable and market rate. This adds much needed density to an area that hasnt seen that much development. It will be god knows how long before development actually breaks ground much less have People Living in these inhabitable units. Please approve this project now. thank you. Neevmennext speaker, please. this is jennifer. There are many positive components of this development. However, Student Access will be broken by the current time line of simultaneous construction. Both developments are planned from 2021 to 2024. This massive amount of simultaneous construction risks sutting up thriskscutting up pae college. Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety havent even been approved. It will be greater than after the City Developments are operational. In combination to cuts Community Lines planning simultaneous with serious reduction of e educatiol opportunity during the pandemic and beyond. The very Diverse Community around the reservoir including my neighborhood is nothing something we can ignore. We must recognize the Economic Impacts. Air quality means fixing, not allowing sig simultaneous construction. An issue that was not addressed in the feir. As we emerge from pandemic, we need to bring large numbers of people back to work. At this critical time put city colleges first in the pipeline. Let city college complete its long awaited construction to complete buildings that have been long awaiting completion for decades. thank you. Next speaker, please. good afternoon supervisors. Im president of the west ward park association. West wood park has submitted its written comments and im sure you all have read them. I want to thank president ethese are not given as a member but as president of West Wood Park. We metaphor four o met for four. The real problem is the Purchase Agreement. The Purchase Agreement was submitted a few days before they met and never submitted to the c a c. The c a c never review logos thied thisPurchase Agreement. West wood park requested a copy of the appraisal to determine how it was possible that the fair market value was only four Million Dollars. We assumed that the valuation was accomplished by one of the three methods of valuation and devoting some value to what the developer was contributing. The developer is not contributing all they thought it would contribute. When it has to, under the law, pay for two hundred twenty units. Its seeking public money not its own money. Therefore, the infrastructure and parks are being paid by the public not by the developer. An the contractual terms are really advantageous to the developer and have to be changed. For the first five years they have no obligation to do anything. The bottom line is, this has to be changed. Our Home Owners Association and we support 100 Affordable Housing. Thats the illusion. Thatthe solution. Thats what s. We submit that this should not be approved. They should look for a better deal for the city. Thank you for your time. thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. supersizors, good evening. My name is frank. I first moved into the neighborhood about thirty nine years ago in district seven. I am in support of this propos proposal. The committee was in support of housing and homes for the site. Politics killed those homes. Here we are again with the great housing design. Its been a long long time. Building housing is tough in San Francisco. Please help by approving these homes. Back then it was a majority black neighborhood. It resulted in the depopulation of black families. The more barriers and desegregation we create. Theres always a reason to delay. Theres always a request for a better deal. This is a Family Friendly design. As the father of an educator myself and father of two kids in the School District please build these homes. The public parks and Community Center is perfect for kids. No more delays. Please get this done. Thank you to all of you. Thanks. thank you. Next speaker, please. thank you. Earlier on today, supervisor talked about the el frant in the room. That was the powers of the developers. Thats the Big Marketing staff. Theyve been very successful in marketing the reservoir project as Affordable Housing. In reality whats really happening is that its actually a privatization exam. Back in 2018 the bos budget and anlist report assumed that the sixty three developer responsibility for affordable units out of the five hundred fifty with the quote funned by developer equity and project revenues. Now this is the assumption, however, it is not true. Eps did a feasibility memo for the developers and it shows that they are expecting to get seventy nine point five million in state grants. Why the cost for the Developers Share of three hundred sixty three affordable units will cost one hundred twelve point five Million Dollars. Essentiallythey are only paying for a small proportion of the affordable units. Once again its privatization exam. Far from the market rate units subsidizing units. Public zoning needs to be retained. The only thing that public zoning needs to be changed to an sud is deprivatization. send it along so developers wont develop it at all or negotiate the deal. The city applies for state grants to cover the cost for infrastructure. 5 more on average for the low income units and 10 on the moderate income units. It sets up segregation in terms of the development. So the developer can maximize its profits. Pupublic land should stay in public control. This creates a guarantee that the Affordable Housing stays affordable. We shouldnt be privatizing public land for housing developers. If we sell our public landswe need to keep public lands in public control. We need to make sure that were building 100 Affordable Housing especially utilizing our resources such as public land thank you. Your time expired. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes to speak. Youll be notified when your line is unmuted and you may begin your comments. hi. Im a San Francisco resident. I strongly urge you to adopt te Housing Development project p. It. Its lobinged next to bart d surrounded b by Single Family homes. Were in a housing crisis today. People are getting priced out of San Francisco. The developer give aways and muspublic land should be public. Affordable use that comes in five or ten years. It places all states inthe best time is today. The best time to house our residents was twenty years ago but the second best time is today. Housing delayed is housing denied. Thank you very much. thank you. Next speaker please. Youll have two minutes. good evening, supervisors. On behalf of the housing coalition. I want to thank all of the ea c members. What you have in front of you is a consensus project. thank you. Next speaker please. Youll have two minutes to speak p. Youll be notified when your line is unmuted and you may begin. good evening. My name is john ring and i live just a few blocks away from the proposed development. Mim descented from irish immigrants. My youngest son currently attends city college. Im sure many of them have taken that same depressing walk. As a fifty two year resident of the city i also want my grand kids to call San Francisco home. They wont be able to do it without more Affordable Housing. Developments like the ones being considered can make neighborhoods safer. It it it will be good surrounding the college. The open space thats being considered is surely more attractive, safer and Family Friendly than the reservoirs i described earlier. Eve seen the successful thf sucs developer elsewhere. The area near whole foods and in closing we need more housing for people of all backgrounds and incomes. This will help solve that problem. The status quo is an empty reservoir. Please get this done. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. good evening supervisors. I live in district seven. I applaud and support the bal bothe rez reservoir development. Its 50 affordable. Five hundred fifty units. I support building more homes to help San Francisco to remain an acceptable place for our current ricountry. I support building more homes to continue the extensive work needed for people in our city experiencing homelessness. I support more neighbors. I urge you to approve this project. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. supervisors, i respectfully your committee not approve these files. They are created to facilitate the proposal of the project. I have a tenned man attended maf the project. This is public land. It was very much on the fast tract and im grateful for requesting that this be fr formd for more transparency. Some parameters have not been followed. I disagree that it was a total consensus. It was not a total consensus. I was disappointed that they didnt bring up the city college element and the parking still has not been addressed in the development plan. Even though the Development Process has been going on for way too long, several years, the most important use of this public land has not been consideration. The most important fact in the project question is, i believe, that this is publicly owned property. As a long time San Francisco resident, public property is too precious to be told thank you for your comment. May we have the next speaker please. i support this rezoning. Its a good idea. This has been decades in the making. Its been a huge missed opportunity. Were getting five hundred fifty Affordable Homes which is huge. People keep talking about they only want Affordable Homes. They only want social housing but most of the housing in San Francisco, most of us live in housing that was built by developers who are making money. Building houses is not easy and someone has to do it. I dont really care who does it. Were going to have five hundred fifty people paying below market rate and five hundred fifty at market rate is fine. The stity stil city still has ty some of these homesim all for creating more space for people to live. Doing it in a smart way thats kind of friendly. Attacking our homeless problem p. This is a long time coming. Thank you supersizo supervisor g this. I doan know the density number on this but its not anywhere near on the east side of the city. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for listening for everybody. Im looking forward to seeing this come to fruition. thank you. Your times expired. Thank you for your comments. May we have the next speaker, please. supervisors, let me tell you something that nobody has said before. Before the accreditation of city college was planned. The plan was to take the entire city college for housing. Please stop it. The City Attorney stop it. City college was saved. A lot of effort went into that fight. This project has been shady. Anyone canif this has been on the market for eleven point four Million Dollars. This is public land. First and foremost housing should be built for city. How about the physically chal challenged who have difficulty attending city college. Teachers, students, some mentioned about classes linked to work for at city college, supervisors, wake up. This private developer should go to hell. This is racis racist city. Dont rubber stamp this project. Thank you very much. aim a renter in district one. I think this is a comprehensively well thought out project. I think its a really considerately planned. It presents a lot of affordable eupts iaffordableunits in a pri. A lot of services that help build a sense of neighborhood. Im in support of this project. Thank you for listening to these comments. I hope it encourages more Affordable Houses a encloses the city. thank you. Next speaker, please. good evening. My name is steve. I live in district seven. Ive live right across the street from the proposed development. Im calling in support of this project. When i first learned about the development of the re reservoir reservoir,[indiscernible]. id like to express support for this project. I wanted to talk more about the impact of these units. Theres a lot of talk about whatthe developer who owns the land. Lets not lose sight of the fact that more than five hundred low income families will soon have a place to live. The kids who grow up in the units will get to live steps from Public Transit and the ocean. Lets think about the maximum number of people who can oan joy living ienjoyliving in the new. Five hundred low income families who have an amazing opportunity at a new life in San Francisco. Lets focus on how to make it bigger. Instead of have it be five hundred out of a thousand lets have it be a thousand out of two thousand. The people who grow up in these units dont care about where the funding came from they care they have a home. Lets make the funding happen. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, you have two minutes. thank you for taking my comments. Im calling in strong support of rezoning. Im looking forward to welcoming new neighbors to the affordable neighbors that will be replacing this empty parking lot. Close to transit access and safety. Weve had a Model Community Engagement Process and we should respect that process. I want to thank supervisor lee for extending this to ensure the Community Gets all the benefits that have been proposed here. We need to continue the transparency and Community Engagement that brought us this far. Please amend the general plan and move this forward. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker. This is item number seven and eight on the agenda. hi. Im an engineering professor at city college. It serves communities that would otherwise not have access to higher education. In the environment consent report consider the impact of these students access to education. I think not. The current proposal re removes access to education. I think its important to note that this project began when city college was under political attack under the guise ofis the city of st. Fran sis public land should stay in public hands. The price of the land is one of the biggest hurdles to building Affordable Housing. It makes no sense to sell this to a private developer. Any housing bistlethank you. next speaker. You have two minutes to speak. good evening. Thank you supersiz supervisors. The public demands more housing. One of my long time friends left the city last week. Families live in Housing Units and not percentages. I urge you to think big and think about the small people who cant afford to live in San Francisco. thank you. Next speaker, please. good evening, supersizors. I am in support of the project. When i here people talk about the low price that San Franciscohow much would it cost if we were to develop all of the housing that is proposed instead. I believe the cost would be around five hundred Million Dollars all in. Which i believe we do not have considering we now have a deficit of similar north of one billion dollars. I koant think were going t dono come up with 500 ow 500 billio. Most housing that comes with 30 affordable or above is office space. Office space is generally not going to go on thethis is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Once in a decade opportunity. We should not wait another decade. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. supervisors, this is jesse calling from district eleven. It has taken some time to get to this point. We would be remiss to not take the necessary action to get it right. Make sure the publicly owned seventeen acre becomes a Development Project that responds to the community needs. In 2016 we urged publicly owned land through the development of Affordable Housing. The Public Utilities commission passed up to 100 affordable. A council of Community Housing organizations also developed a proposal to reach 100 affordability. It would set the parameters froi noted on my comment comments hos already out of reach, this project makes these units more expensive. Instead of being priced at sixty and 80 ami. They are eighty and 100 ami respectively. One of our most important public institutionsthere was little recourse for community to address central concerns to maintain Public Ownership at the site. thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. good evening commissioners. Thank you. My name is sarah. Im a d9 resident. Im in strong support of the balboa reservoir Housing Project. There will be accessible child care. Parents will be able to drop of their children to affordable child care. 50 of the spots are reserved for low and middle income families. The economic infrastructure and recovery here. This will bring much needed housing and jobs. We need to approve projects like these to push us through the economic crisis period. thank you for your comments. May we have the next speaker, please. hi. My name is sam. Good evening. I live in d8 in San Francisco. Im in strong support of the balboa reservoir project. If we look at what the current status quo is swr have a massive parking lot across from a mini mart. Be spent years coming up with a proposed solution that would have over a thousand homes, half of which will affordable and subsidized. If you look at where these people may be currently living some of them may be crouc may cd make a life here. I strongly support this project. The only possible thing that could be improved is to have even more housing here and future similar projects. Thank you. thank you for your comment. Can we have the next speaker, please. hi. Im the chair of the balboa reservoir committee. Good evening supervis superviso. Theres been a lot of community out reach and workshops. Its led to a lot o of community benefits. The project is a well balanced project. Its providing badly needed homes in San Francisco for families. Tha lot of people have been sayg that its private land, the Development Team consistents of four developers. Private land for 100 affordable, imagine if we had to pay seven hundred thousand dollars for each affordable unit. thank you for your comments. May we have the next speaker, please. good evening. My name is pam. Im a retired instructor. Long time city college student. Member of Richmond District and San Francisco resident. A proud citizen who helped launch the campaign to launch San Francisco bank. You have the power to help keep the land public. So in the future it will always serve hello . Aller . Caller . mr. Chair, it looks like we may have lost the Public Comment line. It looks like the Public Comment line is disconnected. while were waiting, if i could just ask the developers to explain something. yes, of course. theres been a lot of talk about the affordability piece and who is paying for what. As weone of the issues is the cause of everything. I also want to clarify that at the end of the day when august is done, 50 of the property will be gic given backs back toy to control. In terms of what is needed to fund affordable units, theres many mechanisms that would help pay for it. This project just like any other project would utilize all the avenues for that. Theres gap funding thats needed. In particular the 33 percent of the units versus the 17 units that the city is going to sup or. Casupport. Can we get an expraings o explaf what that means in terms of gap funding from the developer. sure. I can speak to that a little bit. Youre just asking about the gap funding for the Affordable Housing and the amounts. i think part of it is for people to understand the financial set up for Affordable Housing. You could mention where some of the funding comes from and what else is left over. Gentleman sure. I can start offi dont know if my colleges at bridge are on the line. They are some of the people who do know how Affordable Housing comes together. which is the nonprofit that is going through the units. bridge and avalon bay are the 50 partners sm th partners. Four of those is 100 funding. A smaller piece of the project by habitat for humanity. the comment line has gone done. I will attempt to reestablish our connection. We still have about 12 callers remaining. as were waiting, maybe somebody from staff from h cd orthey do this all the time. Is there anybody there . we have people here from mohed. thank you. Ill juf explain the overall jul approach to the project. The project is structured paced on the bub lick lands for housing framework which says that the Enterprise Department must receive fair market value for the land. In 2015 when this was put forward by the city. Pe percent funding, the developers ab ligation i obli p funding for 17 percent Affordable Housing. Affordable housing is funded through a meud teud o meult te. as you know we have a number of local sources available for Affordable Housing development which includes our local Housing Trust fund, imfact fees that arimpactfees that are. We havent committed to what source were using. Gap funding closer to 2022. Well bring our loans have to be brought to the board of supervisor approval. We need several layers of funding. Our Development Agreementthe future boards will have to make that proatio appropriation at te they approve the gap amount amo. we have the Public Comment line available for the remaining 12 that we had. thank you for answering the question. is it the speaker that was cut off in the middle. operations is going to queue the line in a minute. i will try to find my place. Im not quite sure where i got cut off. I was talking about the east west access road. They have written and passed a resolution asking that the board of trustees ask that the safety of students the board of trustees may be taken out of the conversation completely fending on complete dependingon a vote. I dont know where i cut off. It isit has been a frustrating experience to feel like the valid safety concerns are being ignored and are being pushed aside for this thing that is going to go across no matter what. If it were at least 100 affordable on the public land it would be easier to follow. The idea that its going to a bunch of market rates that the Home Owners Society that is going to run the open space is going to make the rules of the place, its just really yet another slap in the face sm the botto. The bottom line is the coe is in danger. The things we have said at the meetings slb ignored and dropped. Please look at your original surplus land presentations. You talk about accessing public agencies for land and it isnt a picture of the balboa reservoir. Its a picture of the science building. There was another way to have done this at the beginning. Put the voices were not listened to. They put a lot of information out there and it was just ignored and it just keeps plowing forward. City college is going to get hurt. It really needs to help. I dont know what to say. Thank you for putting me back on the line again. thank you for your patience. thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. im quawling i calling in f the reservoir project. Im a member of a number of organizations and were all in support of this project. I understand its not interest but the city has owned this land for many many engineer years ant nothing has happened. We understand that this is probably a very good compromise. Its extremely well thought out. Child care, community spaces, homes, and education. I understand that it might inconvenient members of the college but also i dont think their safety is has to be sacrificed. I dont think people who live in this development will necessarily be opposed to people of safety in the college. Thats all vi t i have to say. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hello. I go near the reservoir frequently. I comeetl completely support ths project. They created safety and Affordable House thag wa that wt there before. In addition to the housing, hope space, the child care is really needed. I also appreciate how this project including a lower parking ratio. Ocean avenue predates cars and is not great at carrying cars. Public transit including students and educators. I travel between my home city college an job b using bicycle. I look forward to how this will support active housing an transz transportation. They are planning to keep the hopes long term. I urge you to vote today to advance this project to the school board of supersizor supe. Speaking in favor of this im the only one leftlivin. For the last decadeempty land whether publicly owned or not five minutes from bart station. We have a chance to develop 17acres of land where half is Affordable Housing. I think we should take it to allow neighbors like mine to stay in this city. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hi. Im a San Francisco resident. Bring it back to the idea that theres five hundred fifty below market rate housing, hows of folks who have been displaced or in precarious situations right now have housing near transit, bart, college, high quality schools and beautiful parks. I agree when the conversation started when the program was presented he wanted a use it or lose it amendment for this project. I agree. A lot of the oppositionwe do these these housing now. Theres tons of Public Benefits for this project. Thirty years of planning around the empty parking lot. Theres a parking garage. I believe theres a transit rich spot. We absolutely need those five hundred fifty affordable units. They are not needed in five years, they are needed now. Approve it as it is. Anymore delay is housing denied. next speaker please. hello. Im a member. Im alling in support of the reservoir project. I cant believe its been six years of the inception and weve been talking about imposing project housing. It doesnt matter to regular people. Regular people like the woman who attended a meeting on january 23 of a community conversation, she came to that immediating and talked tmeetinge to welcome more people to the city. I urge people to be excited about this project. Over a thousand homes for people. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hello. Can you hear me . yes. You may begin your comments. Preeplease proceed. ive been attending the meetings for five years. I was a short walk away. The house i was renting is estimated to have increased to one point two Million Dollars. A 60 increase. San francisco desperately needs more housing. I height limits are based on aesthetics and not due to parking. I do have some reservations about this development. The wish the development contained retail. Let wish the deal had had instructions on Long Term Land deal. I disagree with anyone who said we should make it 100 Affordable Housing. Please approve the project for ththe Public Benefits. Please approve these amenments. thank you. Nts. Next speaker, please. i live right around the corner of the project. Im excited to see this project close to getting off the ground. I go by the lot quite often. I go there on sunday with my three year old son. Ive been wondering why its in the middle of such a big city where zero people can live. I have followed from afar the a development an t. Thank. Thank you. thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. hi. Can you hear me . yes, please proceed. my name is rustl russ davi. I wish to add my voice to those who want to see this project be 100 affordable. Whatever density is approved should be 100 affordable. As another matter one person mentioned that the increased tensity will increase the traffic on Public Transportation. That assumes that the Public Transportation infrastructure exists to carry those extra people. The city puts the cart before the horse. We need transportation infrastructure to carry the people who moved into San Francisco. The parking issue has not been finalized in the proposed agreement. If its not West Wood Park as a neighborhood will be crushed by thousands of City College Students looking for parking. That issue needs to be addressed in the final agreement. Thank you for your time. thank you. Next speaker, please. i encourage you to approve this project eleven hundred units is no small deal. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hi, supervisors. Im a member of the action. I just cannot believe that weve been debating this project for longer than ive been alive. Its absolutely shameful that this parking lot is not yet housing. You know, i dont blame you. I blame your presiden predecess. next speaker please and well return to that caller if they didnt hang up. my name is marry harris. Weve been participating in the. we are specially supportive of the housing and thank president lee for additional county input and accountability. thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im calling to voice my strong strong support and really urge you guys to plan the proposed project. I think especially during a housing crisis in San Francisco in sal sa california at large, compounded with covid 19, its unconshennable we have 26 listeners and six in queue. im calling sadly to remind people we are in a time in cat cliz mic change. This is a groa a grotesque chan. We need to press pause sm thank you ver. Thank you very much. thank you very much. Next speaker, please. hi. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. My name is sarah. Im a district seven resident. Im a member of the sunny press location. I live within a half mile of the site. I see it many times walking by. Thats an under utilized space next to city college. Gent fictioi strongly support r. Ofthe development. I hope that you move this project forward. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hello, again. Thanks for bringing me back in due to the technical difficulties. As i was saying before the call dropped before. I dont blame any of you that this project isthis park r parking lot iparking lotis not. Its your decision now. Its up to you to right the wrong of previous supervisors and maybe hood busy bodies who have said no. Its beyond time to say yes to more housing. And just jumping back to the commenter before last. Im so tired of housing secure People Living in Million Dollar homes. She cited black lives matter as a reason to say no. Ive never been so offended by a Public Comment in my life. Dont just give us thoughts and prayers. Imif ugive us housing. Thank you. thank you. And thank you for your patience. Next speaker please. Looks like we have three in queue. it should be a slam dunk. I hope you vote to a approve this housing. Thank you again. thank you. Next speaker, please. good evening. Thank you. Let me get rid of my Television Screen here. Ive been waiting for a long time. I am a former five year Planning Commissioner and have dealt with these issues of Affordable Housing that is just sohas been so important all these years. My Home Owners Association was a park association. A Home Owners Association from the west side. Lets have an Affordable Housing plojhousing. Theres been concerns about th thisits proposed that this enormous parcel. This is a bad deal for the city to say the least. Why not lease the land to build the land for teachers and working class people. Ive been in this game for thirty years. Its time for city hall to break the hold. Lets break the mold. We own the land. Lets find a way to use this land that we own. Thats the most expensive part of building is the land. We own it. When the pu c says oh, rate holders. We have to consider the people who are paying for their infrastructure. Im sorry. Everyone cares about the city. Its time for the city to break ththe mold. thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. good evening. This is annette i want to register my strong support for this project. I have to say its very seldom that you see this amount of affordable in an inclusionary deal like this. Five hundred fifty units out of eleven hundred yo in total is extraordinary. I think thats tremendous that developers are willing to do that sm bridge house p bridge ht developer. We really need the Affordable Housing the teacher and educator housing is a great boost to this. I hope that the supervisors will support the project and get this moving after twn twenty three lg years. next caller please. please ask him to explain his comment. 50 of the lan will be deeded back to the city to control. The parameters were included in the rfq. They were supposed to be observed. They called for permanently Affordable Housing and perp petd perpetuity. The lapping waw language was tr. Its happened in foster city when the properties became a forrabilitaforrabilitypropertieo waive the height of the western port of the property. That was not vetted by anyone. The alternative road that goes through the campus that the developer and the city want. That was not vetted in the process either. I received information from the Real Estate Division that on november ninth of november 16th the Real Estate Division put out surplus city property. I was told that the Real Estate Division who funded city college did not receive a copy of that written notice. They should have. thank you. Next speaker please. im very saddened to think that someone that claims connections with city college would show such disregard to the community of San Francisco. There was a study commissioned yiers agyears ago that shows the value the city college provides comes to thirty one million per year. Its scheduled to be a siphons e building. It was meant to be for parking so people can access this. Improvements and construction to renovate city college if nobody is going to be able to get to it. Theres seven years of dust an noise an intense traffic pollution to the area while all this traffic is going on. Theres no respect to the will of the voters that are rurnlg uy needed. thank you. Next speaker, please. We actually have four in quow qe now. yes. This is equity for older students. This project reminds me of a character of pop eye who said ill gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. City of san is in dire straights. The forty plus older adult programs. Campuses closing. P iis there to be another cut to potential growth including afford tbl housinable housing f. I would like to mention two letters that were sent to the committee and budget finance committee. One is the july public lands for public good and defend applian appliance. Both of those letters are carefully argued and presenting a great deal of fact regarding this project and the many reasons why it should be rejected. I hope you will read those and keep in mind that public land should be kept for public good and not private. thank you. Next speaker, please. were having an issue with the Public Comment line. It should be up and running in a moment. caller, please make your comments. im calling to support the housing billing at the reservo reservoir. Theres a lot of proposal that are lack of housing that we need in San Francisco. Two to three bedroom homes. The proximity due to the park and community stations. Thats exactly the kind of project we need to improve our housing crisis. thank you. Next speaker, please. im a resident of district seven. Walking distance to the site. Lets break the mold. Lets build something. This Housing Project is the best use of this site. Now it the time to build it. Over the last years, its has been carefully planned with the interest from stake holders and development. Extremely high portion of affordable units. Access to transportation, shopping, services, this is a good urban planning example. Im sure that Detailed Planning phases and safety for all pedestrians and bicyclists can be taken care of. Im in favor. Thanks for your consideration. thank you for your comments. Can we have the next speaker, please. hello. Im a city college student. I think im most excited about for this project is the urban spaces and the public parks. Having an open space for us and the entire Community Within that area is very beneficial. To address our affordability crisis in the city, its crazy. Not only am i able to stay in the city. Folks of color and my friends and folks who have an attachment to this city. Great transportation amenities. Parking for our students who are considered lifelong learners. Very excited to support this project. Thank you. thank you for your comments. May we have the neevmen next sp. good evening supervisors. Im a resident in district two. Im calling in support of this project. I wish we could build even more homes here. Ill take what is on the table. This is has been a long process. This is the project that has come out before you. Its not going to please everybody but i think it has a lot of great things going for it. Affordable housing is very expensive to build in the city. Its hard to find the money for fund it. Its a great use of land and subsidize housing to get something for everyone. We know that we have reallywe need to be building more housing. Low Income Housing and this is one examine m o examine m examp. mr. Chair, that concludes the line of Public Comments on this item. okay. With that are there any questions or comments from my colleagues or the sponsor of item number eight . i think supervisor presston might have some comments. i want to make sure i understand some of the comments on the value of the land. Is theis it accurate that the land is being sold for fair market value or less for exchange of Public Benefit for the project. the property ordinances which advise Enterprise Departments to consider high levels of Affordable Housing in their Surplus Property. This was a fair market value appraisal with the thirty three percent affordable residual val autvalvalue was eleven point for Million Dollars. The difference in detail is simply that the actual proposed project is 50 affordable. The difference there is that they will be providing the gap for that 17 percent. The policy background of proposition k and property ordinance does allow for the fair market value to be based on 33 percent. They must get fair market value for their land. i dont want to belayer that. Belabor that. You take into account 33 percent affordable. How would that violate. I dont understand how prop 218 locks in that value. Im trying to understand. Theres nothing about prop 218 that would prevent one from running the same number. You have a lower fair market value with the value for that marketability. Right . yes. Using a Development Approach and the way land is valued under real estate everything is factored into account that has a cost. Affordable housing has a cost that effects the residual land value. whatbecause this is land that the Enterprise Agency and because they have a fie fiduciay duty to the landbased on certain assumptions land value has been diskowne discounted atc good. Right now anybody in the market would have to assume our inclusionary rates. The rate is higher. Residual land value is less. That assumption of 33 percent is consistent and comparable with other projects of this size which is what an appraiser would base a fair market assumption on. Those are the groundings that were established early on in 2015. The 33 percent that would be considered part of the fair market value assumption. i think theres a policy decision, thats one thing. Im not seeing there would be3m required under prop k. The code allows for pu c to sell at less than that. Its explicit the administrative code on costs. It can be cold for less than the fair market value. Im trying to get clarity. I understand theres a policy choice, charge the money, sell the property, or discount that and sell more affordable units. Im not seeing what the legal restriction of 218 would be to do with making that policy choice. ill turn it over to our City Attorney. Ill invite the po c to contribute as well. deputy City Attorney. supervisor preston. Thank you for the question. There are charter and state restrictions that the state get fair market value s. The ordinary administrative codes conveyed for less than fair market value is restricted by that. What wein this project, we determine that 33 percent is a comparable development in the market. Thats the basis for this determination and the a raisal anappraisal. Thats the reason ft and therefore the prays of the e property isthe land doesnt bare the dmishment of th the di. in the court cases, you i assume theres no appraisals done at other assumptions. I would also add, supervisor preston, that we have spent the last four years conducting additional economic feasability analysis to show you the package of Public Benefits in the project. And just the level of Public Benefit, the costs associated with those benefits, that the developer will bear really also further indicates that the 33 is an appropriate value to make the project financially feasib feasible. Supervisor preston thank you. One other clarification question. Just on the parking and i recognize my district is very different than the terrain here. So, you know, we are obviously trying to push down the parking levels as much as possible and some of the stuff that is served better by transit. So i recognize that its apples and oranges. But im just curious to see a thousand parking spots like how much is residents . What is the ratio with the residential units and i understand that some of this is for city college sort of reclaiming some of the parking for city college. Is there a breakdown of that . Sure. Stu, do you want to discuss the parking breakdown . Sure. The site for residential parking is parked at 0. 5, so half of the you know, of the parking spots are for half of the units, right . Im sorry, im getting so tired that i cant even do my math anymore. But for the 1,100 units theres 500 parking spots for residential parking. And theres also a Public Parking garage that will be on the site. And that will allow up to 450 spaces. Supervisor preston thank you. And then the last question i had im trying to just understand i understand that its pending ceqa appeal and theres a few other documents referenced. So the Development Agreement, im assuming that is before the budget on thursday. So that hasnt been finalized yet. And then i understand that theres an m. O. U. Maybe the developer can address this. I just want to know what the status of this is, and i know that between city college and the developer i think that its going to be negotiated and i dont know if that is finalized. But neither of those are documents that i think that are before us for approval. Or up for review, right . I dont think that either has been finalized. I will just clarify that, yes, the Development Agreement is going to be heard by the Budget Committee due to the fiscal impact of the gap funding. Alternative to the developer to speak to the m. O. U. [broken audio] so its not a city acti action. Sure. Kiersten, this is joaquin to claim in as well. And we have been working for however long that it has been that we have been selected for the project, 3, 3 1 2 years now. We have made a number of commitments in the d. A. , so with our grant with the city, to fund many of the the things that we have heard that are important to the college, and the parking that you just talked about. We have been working on a parallel track to grean on an an m. O. U. With the college and were waiting for a draft from them. We have been working back and forth with the Prior Administration for a couple years. That effort stalled last year when the administration left. And the board of trustees has picked that up. We are really excited they picked that up and they had a meeting two, three weeks ago to say this is a priority and they need to get it done. They plan to hear something on thursday, we havent yet seen the draft so were excited to see what that is and hopefully were moving that effort forward very quickly as well. Supervisor preston already, so the thought of the m. O. U. And the d. A. Both done by the time that it hits budget, is that the goal . The d. A. Will definitely i mean, the d. A. Is done. And and, you know, the commitment to city college in there are you know, are set and its been negotiated with the city and, you know, as much as we can with the college. Our desire would be i mean, budget is wednesday and the city College Hearing is thursday. I dont, frankly, know what the college is intending to propose on thursday so its hard to say if well be finished. But our process has been to have the city college m. O. U. To be completed in time for for the boards approval. Supervisor preston all right, well, thank you. Those are all of the questions. I just want to say thank you. This is, obviously, has been and, president yee, im sure, an enormous amount of work to move to have this level of neighborhood consultation and this many different parties involved in such a complex development plan. So i look forward to when the whole package is before us at the board and thank you for indulging the questions at this very late hour. I appreciate it. Thank you, supervisor preston. While the d. A. Is largely done, i would like to suggest that there are still some accommodations that could be made between the parties in the d. A. , including but not limited to a representation that there will be no going back in the future on affordability and the reopening of the d. A. Will never go to that issue as well as the involving conversation around timely performance, the quote unquote use it or lose it. So those things are still in play as is the issues with the m. O. U. Of city college are but i do want to thank the Development Team, and the public and particularly president yee and his staff for a long, long haul and were not done yet. And given the pending ceqa appeal, colleagues, if there are no i see supervisor safai, so ill recognize supervisor safai, but then if its acceptable i would like to make a motion to send these items to the full board without recommendation. Given that there is a pending ceqa appeal. Supervisor safai, the floor is yours. President yee and before you do close it up let me of course, mr. President. Thank you, chair. I just wanted to say from the perspective of the neighboring supervisor, this particular project straddles both districts. Its clearly in district 7 and i just want to give a special recognition to president yee for all of his hard work and leadership on this, to jen lowe on his staff. And i know that the president will be thanking his staff but i just want to thank her for her constant communication with our office. Bridge housing and Mission Housing and avalon and the Planning Department of the economic and workforce development, and very importantly the leaders and residents of district 11 that reached out to our office and were involved in the process, many of whom spoke tonight. This is not an easy endeavor and i think that president yee will tell you that district 11 and district 7 have not had family Affordable Housing built on any type of scale. They have a couple of projects in the pipeline but a project of this magnitude and impact is significant. And, again, you know, both to the ballot matter and when we passed the Affordable Housing bond last year with the leadership of president yee and the mayor and many members on this board, including myself and others that were involved in that campaign in fact, all of us, but some of us were more deeply involved than others. That then is going to help to fill the gap and to keep the commitment to building 50 affordable which, by the way, there arent, you know, i have been very fortunate to have a 50 affordable at 116 units. This is 50 affordable of over a thousand units, which is significant. There will be agreements made on local hire and outreach and community. Supervisor peskin talked about some of the amendments thattee asked for, lose it or use it and some of the other things. We worked with president yees office and everyone to ensure that the neighborhood preference radius would have real impact in this part of town. I want to thank supervisor yee for working withous that. Were going to be making that through his support, the budget and finance tomorrow. That will ensure that the communities concerned, those that really need and have the ability to qualify for that will be able to do that in this process. So i just wanted to say thank you to the residents of district 11 and district 7 that have been involved in this process. And i think that this is a this is a project that will have Significant Impact for our part of town. And understand why some people asked the questions they did, but wanting to see 100 affordable, but understanding that that that is a significant, significant Financial Investment on the part of the city to build a thousand units. So 550 units is a Significant Impact for those in need during this housing crisis. So just wanted to thank everyone for coming out today and giving their Public Comment. And we look forward to moving this forward today. Thank you, president yee. President yee so, can i take the microphone . Yes, mr. President , of course you can. President yee all right. I want to thank the public for coming out and you can see how passionate people are one way or another. Its been my experience that ive seen this for the last five years where people have tried to articulate what they feel are what would be best for this city or in this cases for city callers and if many cases for people around the neighborhood or a few blocks from there. But to date, you know, i want to make a couple of comments we have for those that arent familiar with city college, sometimes it makes it sound like were taking away some of the education buildings or something from city college as people are saying that they wont have access to it. In fact, all were looking at is the the land that belongs to p. U. C. And always has been part of p. U. C. And theyve been gracious to allow for city college to borrow on that parcel for student parking. Once upon a time student parking was much more needed than it is today, but it is still needed. And even if they build the center there, i dont know when theyd ever do that, but we have remember that city college outside of the slot that were talking about that is going to build over a thousand units of housing, they have 2,000 other parking spaces. So, you know, its not going to hurt parking. And then the developer will add on more that they think that is needed to mitigate some of the impact. And as already mentioned by my colleagues, today in landuse, what were really talking about looking at the general transit amendment and also the rezonings for special use district. Those are the things that weve been looking at today. So i actually didnt go into the Development Agreement that much because i know that were going to be talking about that in two days. And my staff and my office have been working on putting in more amendments that, of course, it wouldnt be right now, wed introduce those amendments on on wednesday. And a few of those things have been alluded to. Supervisor peskin has been championing this use it or dont lose it, and i totally agree and well recommend that amendment. I work with the supervisor safai in understanding that this city college is really part of district 7, that there are a lot of people around both of our districts that can benefit from it, from having sort of a neighborhood preference. So were going to put in that amendment. And then we also i know that i mentioned that the new developers were 50 of the new property for the city to control. When it comes to park inclusioniffity and Housing Affordability, a whole bunch of other things. So well be introducing that amendment that the Developers Already agreed to. And the other thing that weve been talking about, i didnt want that to get lost in the discussion, is the we felt that it was important to put language in there, for the use it or lose it, that the affordability piece that were talking about, that some people felt we might lose it in 50 years or whatever. We will put language in there that will make it in perpetuity. So i just wanted to respond to some of the Public Comments that were made and they were made in good faith because they might have not known that we were pushing for these amendments. And, again, i didnt want to mention too much to take up too much of the land use of the committees time because i know that were going to talk about it on wednesday. So, again, i support supervisor peskins motion to go ahead and get it out of Committee Without any recommendations. Thank you. I want to thank all of the members of the committee for having patience with this item. I know this item was passed at 9 00 p. M. At this point. So ill stop at that. Clerk okay, if there are no other comments on the motion that i made earlier to send these items, item 7 and 8 to the full board without recommendation, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated for item number 7 to refer without recommendation. [roll call] you have three ayes. On the motion to forward number 8, 200422, as stated by supervisor preston. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Safai, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. You have three ayes. All right, that concludes the business before this committee after almost eight hours and we are adjourned. See you tomorrow, everybody. I had to put a sweater on like president yee. We are adjourned. Good night. Good night, everyone. We have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of San Francisco so they can share that history. When i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. We started doing this as a fundraiser. Since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. The Scholarship Programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a winwinwin situation all around. The Scholarship Program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. I was not sure how i would stay in San Francisco. It is so expensive here. I prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in San Francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i dont know where else i would have gone to finish. The scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [ ] [ ] you come into someones home and its theyre private and personal space. Its all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their Outdoor Living room. Why are you here at this garden core . Its amazing and i volunteer here every year. This is fantastic. Its a beautiful day. You walk around and look at gardens. You meet people that love gardens. Its fantastic. The portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. Mark your calendars every year. You can see us on the website we broke ground in december of last year. We broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. Its really great to see the silence that we experienced then and weve experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. 321, okay. [ applause ] the park was kind of bleak. It was scary and over grown. We started to help maclaren park when we found there wasnt any money in the bond for this park maclaren. We spent time for funding. It was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. A lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didnt have any grass. It was that bad. We worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. We worked hard collecting everything. We had about 400 group members. Every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. There is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now its safer by utilizing it. Maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. Whats exciting about this activation in particular is that its the first of many. Its also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. But also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. We are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this citys open space. When we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. I always point as this sight as a model for other communities. I hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. There are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. We hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. Its a really hidden jewel. A lot of people dont know its here. Announcer youre watching coping with covid19. Todays special guest is dr. Steven getnick. Hi, im chris man us and youre watching coping with covid19. Today my guest is the director of the Behavior Therapy Center of San Francisco and Professor Emeritus in counseling psychology at the university of San Francisco. Doctor, welcome to the show. Thank you. Lets talk about managing anxieties during this pandemic. What types of issues are people facing at the moment . There are a number of issues and i really want to point out that this is affecting everyone and has come on very quickly. So it is normal. If you are not experiencing some anxiety, something is a touch off because this affects us all. I think some of the main ones are our health and worried about getting the virus and our developing serious complications. I think for a lot of people who are single, living alone, in isolation, has been very difficult. I think being in close quarters with people who we normally have some space from now are together 24 7. Thats produced a lot of stress and anxiety. That loss of connection with others. We already addressed. And having kids home. For a lot of people. Yes, absolutely. What are the other problems that they might have . I think without that dynamic, the good things are not a problem. It is the difficulties we have. And when were together 24 7, again its like hooking everything up to an amplifier. So, what kind of problems could be created from working home from home, perhaps for the first time in your career . A lot of people are not used to working at home and a working at home just isnt the same. For one thing, there is a lack of social interaction. Some people find that that affects them greatly. Some people are actually finding theyre getting more work done at home without distractions from work. The lack of structure is probably the most common. We see it here with work at the office. People are kind of watching. We know that our schedule is, suddenly youre at home and you are on your own. Absolutely. If those are some of the issues people are facing, what are some of the techniques people can use to overcome their anxiety . Caller i think there are many. One of the first is how managing and keeping track of your thinking, we think and talk to ourselves a lot. Thats normal. We have a dialogue with ourselves often and we need to monitor that a bit. People tend to ruminate versus problemsolve. That is they tend to worry about all the things that might go wrong. And what i suggest is, look, there are things that can go wrong, but ruminating about the worstcase scenario is not going to be very productive. Sit down, figure out what the things are that you have to deal with and try to problemsolve. I think any of the selfcontrol techniques for anxiety can be helpful. And there are dozens of them. The common ones are meditation, relaxation techniques, yoga, for example and another is diaphragmattic breathing. If you google that, you can learn diaphragmattic breathing in about 10 minutes online. Its incredibly simple and it is a really nice way to reduce anxiety in the moment. Selfcontrol procedures, exercise. Whether if youre fortunate enough to have equipment at home, thats great. If youre not, get outside and go for a walk, keep your safe distance, of course. But you need to be active. Thats helpful. I think people marry be dealing with information overload at the moment. How do you suggest people manage that . I was just going to say that. I think it is really important to kind of limit the information you get. Not in terms of accuracy. I think in terms of accuracy, you want to identify a few sites where people are coming with evidencebased information and scientific information so you can form yourself well. Once youve informed yourself, you need to not be watching all day long. Ive talked to people who are mesmerized from the tv and a it keeps that anxiety going so you need to limit your viewing for sure. This can be stress for people who have economic concerns and worried about their family and friends and loved ones who are essential workers. What would you suggest they do to help manage anxiety and stress . There is a number of things. One of major ones for depression is behavioral activation. Simply, it really means that people will tend to not be depressed as a number of reinforcing activities to engage in. Whether it is hobbies, you read, you listen to music, you crochet, you whatever. These kinds of things are very important so you want to make sure that youre engaging in activities that literally make you feel better as opposed to sitting around ruminating, worrying about the worstcase scenarios that might happen. What about trying to do some selfdevelopment . Yeah. Its a very interesting time. Ive talked to a couple of my own clients who are finding, in a very positive way, that this isolation, while at first can generate a lot of anxiety, particularly if youre just not good at living alone. For a number of people, its giving them a chance to sit back and really think about what is important in their lives, what are the priorities. I think that maybe if there is any Silver Lining in this epidemic, its really forcing all of us to kind of rethink whats really important. Indeed. You know, though, at the same time, there are people who are feeling very lonely at home. How would you encourage them to overcome that . You get online. Facetime, skype, zoom, like what were doing right now. You can stay connected. Its very possible. Most connections are important. We are social critters and we need that connection. I think for people who dont have those options, pull up photos, take a look at pictures of family. You need to stay connected. And its very important. And finally, do you have any suggestions that are specifically for families . Yeah. Well, again, i think one of the interesting things thats come about from all of this, is i talked to families on video is theyre obviously spending more time together. While its a bit awkward, particularly for parents who are in the house working a lot. Its a chance to really deepen relationships and spend more good, quality time together. I think parents really need to step back and kind of plan their day a little bit. Not micro manage it, but have some ideas. Can the family play games together . A lot of people i talked to, theyre even together as a family for the first time. So i think there are a number of things that people can do. I think it is qulaouzful for the families to take five, 10 minutes and say how did the day go . I talked to someone in the phone book before we started who said they noticed what time of day all their anxiety kind of comes together and they start sniping at each other. Now theyre taking a few minutes at tend of the day to say, ok, how are we doing . I think they need modeling good behavior, something you can do within the family, too, to try to thats right. I think thats relevant. Very relevant to how children are going to do. Most of the research from crises, particularly things we cant control showed that children do as well as their parents do. So i think it is important for parents to think about how theyre react aing and they stay calm because whatever they do is modeling, coping for their children. So, that can be very useful. It can also be problematic. When we talked earlier, you mentioned that acknowledging that your kids are afraid is important. Yes. I think that ties to your last question. I think modeling you know, its not incompatible with saying, yeah, you know, mom or dad is a little nervous, too. It means a lot of stuff is going on, but were going to be ok. Were going to stay together. We have our time together. Were going to be safe. Well fill in the blank. So you can do both. You can reassure but in a realistic way that once the kids know its normal to be anxious in these times. Thank you for coming ton show, doctor. I really appreciate the time youve given us. Youre welcome. Thank you for having me. And that is it for this episode. Well be back with more covid19 related information shortly. You have been coping with covid19. Thank you for watching. Hello im San Francisco mayor london breed i want to thank everyone in San Francisco. Thank you for your patience, for your resilience and listening to our Public Health leaders. I know the last several months havent been easy for anyone. They certainly havent been easy for me. Everyday i hear about the struggles people are going through from friends from family members and from the community. While San Francisco has been a leader in the fight against this pandemic, everyday we