Goals for market rate and thats been particularly its more specifispecifically producing co buildings at the higher end of the price bracket. In local six were leaving the city and its alarming. Every year were losing 20 of our membership in the city. And so over ten years, if you go 20 , thats almost zero. And so, more often than not, i will be the one guy speaking about the middleclass because its often forgotten because there arent the same structure belowmarketrate Affordable Housing. Im sorry, were having a hard time hearing you. Could you please repeat the last five sentences. We have done a good job approving lots of units. Look at pier 70, the trail power plant, the giants power plant and that alone is a huge amount of units and, you know, how are we going to equ ec equitably do. I want to look at Worker Protections which are equally as important. And so what ive noticed over the years is that instead of, you know, forcing everyone to go eight stories and up where they dont want to, and thats an extreme case, but certain people are looking at extreme cases and what ive seen and kind of figured out, i think th richmond did it a little better, less of a singlefamily home model and a ground floor lobby where there are three full flats and a lot of the houses are zoned up to 4e family homes and so without raising any height limits or getting into anything too drastic, if we just looked at slightly expanding the density controls in a house of rh2, maybe if they were allowed to go to their height limit and have flee fulthreefull flats and thee large enough that you can have a small family. I wont say you can have a large family in a 1400 flat. Its doable and will hit the price point need to stay here. A lot of us are from here, we live here and our kids are going to school here and we spend our money in the restaurants and we want to keep it that way. Thats just an idea instead of jacking up the zoning heights. Were talking commute and more Carbon Emissions and im always a big fan of staying local and using local contractors and a local workforce and keeping our money her here in the city. Great, thank you so much, commissioner kop particulapel as for your leadership on the Planning Commission. Chair ronen, i dont have any other questions. I want to echo both of my colleagues in thanking you for all of your work over the years and i will ask the same question i asked miss diamond about your race and social equity resolution that i was really excited about and im hoping you can also explain what that means to you and how you intend to apply the commitments and the resolution to change the real life impacts of communities of color, lowwage workers, as well as small businesses. Absolutely, this has been a point of passion for me throughout my years in the trades and i dont know of a more maledominated field than construction and i will tell you that i know a lot of women electricians who are amazing workers and i honestly, i dont know how they do it. Just in a regular workplace, theres a lot of unfair situations and i have to tell you, on job sites, its multiplied and so, its been a huge deal to me, very selfishly looking at my own members, my friends, my coworkers that show up to these jobs and they have to put up with a lot and so im proud to be a part of a union thats been paying women the same since 1895 and thats a huge deal a lot of people dont remember. And weve been exhibiting Wage Equality as long as we have. And also, ive been very involved we have an electrical workers minority caucus within our trade and also a renewed group to stimulate a younger generation, new workers and another point of pride is that weve had our own float in the gay pride parade for three years in a row now and no other trade has pulled that together and im even more proud of our group to showcase weve been accepting a lot more women and theyre amazing workers and a lot of the apprenticeship classes, i still go down every semester and speak to the classrooms filled with San Francisco residents for the city classes and i tell them the same thing, look at me. I was just a city kid like you trying to get into a trade and dont give up, keep after it. It took me three years, actually tub tactually, to get in. I had to apply and interview three times and i tell those kids and see them in their 49ers hats and giants hats and warrior hats and its a big deal because i used to not have this opportunity and i want the kids in all of the neighborhoods all over this city to have the opportunity to become electrician or a plumber or any other trade that will give them a wellpaying career for the rest of their lives and theyll be able to have the help and welfare to take care of their families and put a good meal on the table and hopefully stay here in the city. And thats just what ive been doing through my position working in the electrical industry, but also, ive just got to give some more kudos to our department, Claudia Florez and mariam, seeing us with both hearings weve had to date and im proud to say we only have four women of color but we had five and im confident that with the new commissioners and the existing staff and director that well do a good job. And well pretty much let people know way ahead of time thaw wont bthat youwont be able tod and well want to be wowed to see how theyll handle it. Its happening all over the city. Some people are a paychec paychr two away from being homeless and a lot of people dont realize that. Market rate buildings go up in the districts that are undersieged where over 10,000 latino residents have been displaced and so, the impact of these developments, you know, on communities of color in neighborhoods is nuanced in different and so the onesizefitsall laws that are coming out of the state in sacramento, they really dont allow for nuance, of impacts on communities of concern and communities that have been displaced. I couldnt agree more. And ill take it one step further, sometimes the citys block is a block because within certain neighborhoods, you turn a corner and that whole block is different and every single item ive ever heard, ive gone to that address and did as much of a walkaround as i could because you have to know. You have to know how much space and what you may or may not be getting blocked. You have to see what youre dealing with and be there, literally in front of that address to know what youre really talking about, to see whos walking by you on the sidewalk and what the Current Situation is. Thank you so much and lastly, were hearing from teresa imperial and i wanted to ask you before you make comments because i have an emergency to attend to in my district real quick and i was going to ask Vice President stephanie to i wanted to ask how you would make the resolution real. Yes, thank you. First, what it means to me, as well. You know, i was thrilled when we passed the resolution. I could never thought it would pass in the Planning Commission coming from a community and also being a part of the philippino community with the passage as well to open a heritage district, which our community advocated on that was really its just very historical, i would say. As to how it would be implemented and this is going to be a lot of discussion. Its going to be a lot of work and as i said in my letter, passing the resolution is one step, but having to implement this, its a lot of steps more and, first of all, when were looking into as were looking into the access to housing, i think we also need to look into, as well, access to parks, access to Health System and into the quality of life. We need to highlight were rebuilding for. Those are the things weve been talking about from the group, as to how do we make sure that we really highlight the voices and, you know, the really paying attention to racial and social equity. One point of what supervisor mar is looking into, as well as the housing balance. And we know in the arena, San Francisco is behind when it comes to building lowincome housing and the question is that, as well, is the revenue. As of now, the way we see revenues is through the partnership with private developments, as well, but i believe theres a hearing before into the housing by the Land Use Community and that was the main comments about that. And so this will be, as we are going through a discussion of strategies, as to what are the revenues coming from. I mean, im thrilled there is a property transfer tax into the ballot, but there needs to be more than that and i think there needs to be a discussion about ththe vacancy tax. There are things where rent control housing are also theres a lack of protection in that and sometimes, theres a disconnect with the Planning Commission and the board and i believe commissioner melgar proposed a budget for a liaison to the rent board and i think thats one thing, as well, that how do we also protect the rentcontrolled Housing Units as we are talking about density and when were talking about density, i think we should look into the design equity and when we mean by design equity, the ability of people, as well, not just the number of units that were passing. As of now, housing is like a lot of projects that comes in into the Planning Commission, where we also base its on our decision. Theres a lot of things that need talked about and when were looking to the racial and social equity, its really going down to the strategies. And how were looking into that strategy and, again, the main question is who are we building for . Appreciate that, thank you so much. And im so sorry. Ill be back really soon. If vice chair captain stephanie can share the meeting and feel free to share your opening statements, but thank you for answering my question. I appreciate it. Ill be right back. Thank you, chair r portion r. You wan good morning, superviso supe, and thank you for having me. Last february, i was appointed as a Planning Commissioner and you also all supported me. Now that im seeking for your support for my reappointment for the next four years. The work of the Planning Commission has continued and land use and planning will be ever increasing as the composition and population of cities are showing signs of the significant change in the horizon. Voices of the most vulnerable will be more important than ever. While my time as a commissioner has been short, ive been a conduit for voices and i have talked with Community Members and Community Organizations throughout my service. Ive taken consideration comments from the public and as the executive director of the housing program, access to Affordable Housing has always continued to keep me in touch with the most vulnerable population. And i believe ive shown myself to be thoroughly prepared under the materials for each meeting. I paid close to the project sponsor. Im very proud that my fellow commissioners and i have passed the resolution that will submit our Planning Department to racial and social equity framework. And the impetus of my service with racial and Service Equity emphasis. While this is one great step ensuring that resolutions will be implemented, it promises several steps more. I would like to continue to serve so that i may ensure that the mandate we envision will slowly materialize and i hope that you and other commissioners, commissioner diamond and koppel will be reappointed an. Supervisor mar, would you like to start in with your comments. Thank you. Im really impressed by your thoughtful engagement and the important decisions youve been making and bringing such important depth of understanding and commitment to lowincome communities and communities of color to the Planning Decisions and i think its been appreciated that i really appreciated your a side resident, as well, and bringing those perspectives and my question that i posed to your colleagues was around wanting to hear your thoughts on housing balance or housing imbalance in terms of production of market rate versus Affordable Housing in our city. You already touched on that in your comments and i just wanted to see if you had anything else to add to that important topic. Yeah. The planbay area 2050, as well, the west side, along the Marina District is being for planned Development Area under the plan bay area 2050 and that will definitely be Planning Department. please stand by . When we talk about, you know building housing for low income and especially for middle income, what are strategy thats we need to implement or highlight on that. Theres a lot of talks in having more rez knews for the acquisition preservation. For the city of San Francisco to rethink how we he look into housing. We need to rethink how we look into the trans oriented development. I believe the city was only prepared for earthquakes and fires but not this type of virus crisis. That also includes designs and transportation and raising transportation during these times as well. We had a discussion about thewhen the hub was being put before us. That was a big discussion. That was something that i brought up during that passing of the hub. When we talk about the city, we need to rethink how we talk in terms of design and quality of life and in terms of transportation to look into. Thank you, commissioner. I really appreciate and thank you to all of your commitment to the Planning Commission. Thank you. Yes, thank you. I really appreciate your contributions as well. Thank you for your perspective and contribution. The time youve been appointed has been remarkable. Heard such good things. Although you and i did not get a chance to meet in person. I did get the letter you sent. You mentioned that the voices that are the most vulnerable in San Francisco will be important especially during this Public Health crisis and resulting economic crisis. I know were all in agreement on that. Youve answered a lot in terms ofi dont have anymore questions. I was going to ask a question around this. Just to keep in mind as we look at that priority and with the understanding that the citys budgeted issue thats were looking at even private developers and ever tightening budget and how to deliver on that goal. Those are issues that come to mind for me but again thank you for your service, im happy to support your reappointment today. With that i think we have no further questions from committee members. I believe we can go to Public Comment. Were going to take Public Comment on all three appointees at the time time. Each person will have two minutes. Whether clerk, if you can let us know how much are in the queue, we can then proceed. Yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number. The meeting i. D press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, please press star three to line up to speak. The system will indicate you have raised your hand. Last count we had five callers waiting and four callers wait to speak with five in the queue