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Asking all these socalled rich people that, please, Pay Attention to those San Francisco an who contributed a lot to San Francisco but who just happen to be lowincome and no income. ~ san franciscans and im asking you representatives to give us three minutes to express ourselves because yall run your tongues and you know you can run your tongues because the tongue has no bone. Thank you very much. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak . ~ apart of this hearing . Please step up. Roberta [speaker not understood] ucsf, campus planning. I just want to submit for the record letters from the mission bay citizens advisory committee, nomad Mission Hiring Hall and [speaker not understood] services. Duly noted. Next speaker. Board of supervisors, [speaker not understood] open government. Just as i spoke earlier, it does offer an opportunity for consolidating 8 campus he and putting them in one location which in the end will provide reduction in parking problems. When people have to go for appointments and they go from one place to another place to another place, that causes extra traffic, pollution, and also is a parking issue. Consolidating in this way is a very effective way of getting parking not in control, but at least in a better stance. And opening up taxable property at another location or other location is something the city obviously can use during the discussion relating to the wraps over the buses. You know, were quibbling over half a Million Dollars and here were talk about many, many millions of dollars. I would, however, agree with the prior speaker in the sense that when he we talk about Affordable Housing, this seldom ends up to be Affordable Housing. It ends up usually very expensive housing which people of moderate or lowincome cannot afford and people who are retired on Social Security or whatever can definitely not afford. We do need to talk about no income and very lowincome housing because thats the real need for this city. Were forcing longterm residents, some people who have lived in the city their entire lives get to the end of their life and are on Social Security and as a result find themselves unable to stay in the city. You know, we talk about the history of San Francisco. The history doesnt go away at one fell swoop. It disappears one piece at a time. And each individual who is forced out because of economic reasons diminishes our city. Any other members of the public wish to speak in this hearing . Okay, seeing none this hearing is now closed. [gavel] and items 21 and 22 are in the hands of the board. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I want to first of all thank the Budget Committee for their really detailed review. I think its really important that we have a lot of eyes on the deal that came before us. It is a deal that does bring us less dollars that would have normally been for another entity per se or even for ucsf under pilot. But i think its important to evaluate what the benefits of an up front payment would mean, particularly towards accelerating the production of Affordable Housing in Mission Bay South. Bringing it to fruition in five years versus 10 i think is a huge benefit. But i think looking at ucsf properties citywide and looking at the benefits of freeing up properties in other cities to be taxable in the future is really important. So, i really appreciate the lengthy discussion that happened at Budget Committee. I certainly feel more confident supporting this deal now after its gone through the process that it has. Supervisor yee. This is an appropriate time to ask for a clarifying question of the city staff . Sure. I just wanted to make sure i understand the statement of returning these properties to the tax rolls which generate general funds revenue of 16. 2 million. My question here is in the analysis alh economics and their analysis, what year did they start calculating the return of the portion that uc is running now to the tax rule . Are they basing this on 30 years of revenues from that potential or is it since ucsf is still occupying these spaces . So, im just curious, where does it start . Christine maher, [speaker not understood]. The calculation would start in 2018 which is when [speaker not understood] would be given up by uc and they run it to 20 45. Its that time frame 2018 to 20 45. Can i im a layperson. By 2018, then were assuming that ucsf would have built a building to accommodate all these people to move in . Yes. The construction will start in 2017 on the first phase in Mission Bay South. So, yes, thats the assumption is that when [speaker not understood] are up, uc would be able to move those employees starting in 2018 and then again in 2022 when the next round of leases is freed up. I guess the question is whether or not there is any guarantee. It doesnt seem like it, that ucsf will actually move out of those other buildings. As i mentioned in my presentation, there is certainly no guarantee. However, ucsf has indicate and had they can speak to that if youd like, that they are paying below market rate rents in these spaces and anticipate the rents are going to go up. The reason for acquiring this property in Mission Bay South is to be able to move those operations out of those lease space into mission bay. Makes sense, i dont even know if its appropriate at this point since it went through the Budget Committee and so forth, that if ucsff ucsf cannot move out for a few years beyond reasons we thought, is it possible for us not to exempt them, then, from the property tax piece . Ill try to address that. Ken rich again from oewd. A couple of points. I really dont have the ability to reach forward in time and [speaker not understood]. The reason were comfortable is the property that uc has indicated they would move out in 2018 and 2022 would put about twice as much funds back into the general fund as were foregoing through the pilot. So, even we have a margin of error of 100 . Even if only half those properties were released and we think it will be more, we would still come out ahead. Not to mention you may have noticed in the newspaper covering the last few days, on large lowell heights property, ihop i dont have the number, many numbers of more magnitude of tax money potential. Uc has reached an exclusive negotiating number with two local developers to go ahead and develop that property. And, so, Laurel Heights would put many order of magnitude more back on the tax roll and thats moving forward. We dont have a guarantee, but we have a lot of room for error. Even if some of the properties didnt go back on the tax rolls, we have a lot of room before this would even come to an even deal. Thank you very much. Supervisor breed. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor yee, for your questions and pointing out the particular situation. I think one of the challenges ive had as a former Redevelopment Agency commissioner is oftentimes we talk about good faith. We talk about good faith in hiring. We talk about good faith in terms of development. We talk about good faith in terms of being a good neighbor. But, again, there are no guarantees. The reason why i didnt support this particular item is because there isnt any guarantee. And i do understand the business side of thing as it relates to receiving a large lump sum up front and discounting that amount and instead of the annual revenues that are expected to receive and taxes from this particular property because uc is exempt from taxes, but the taxes are tied to the particular property. The reason why i didnt support this is because we dont receive taxes from ucsf. And unfortunately we have a significant amount of work that we need to do, whether it be infrastructure at mission bay, whether it be Transportation Needs at mission bay, whether it be housing in mission bay and i do realize there are limits to where this funding can go. But i just think that they should be paying the entire amount up froth or paying the entire amount over the duration of the 30 years. I dont see why it should be discounted because the city is not collecting property taxes in any other instance from ucsf and in this particular case our one shot, our one chance at collecting some level of significant revenue is basically turned into a deal. I think they should pay the full amount and thats the reason why because there are no guarantees that theyll move out of the space. And the fact that thats even introduced in any way to make an argument is just i dont support that argument because we cant force them to do that. I think over the years the agency has had a great relationship with ucsf and working with them in the mission bay. Its taken on, just really become this incredible neighborhood. But now Transportation Resources are being redirected from other neighborhoods that are further on the outskirts of San Francisco in order to serve employees and residents of mission bay. No, i dont necessarily have the data, but clearly we have to make sure that we are serving the entire city of San Francisco and i think that every who is doing the development throughout San Francisco should have to pay to support an increase in Transportation Needs so that various communities dont suffer as a result of an increase in the population whether living or working in a particular neighborhood. So, its the main reason why i didnt support this project. I think as a good neighbor, as a good faith effort that ucsf should have given the entire amount, whether its over the course of 30 years or its within one lump sum. I think that that shows good faith, especially since theyre not obligated to pay the city any taxes nor are they obligated to contribute to the infrastructure outside of what they need to do to build their buildings. And i think thats what my big heest issue is about. I did not support this item in committee and i dont plan to support it today at the board. ~ supervisor wiener. Thank you, mr. President. So, i also had expressed concern similar to supervisor breed relating to the fact that ucsf is not paying any transit Impact Development fees on this project. Colleagues, youll recall i carried legislation a few years ago to close or start closing the aye. Gigantic loopholes in the tidf because we were seeing projects coming through because they were residential which has a blanket exemption or because they were nonprofit which has a blanket exemption and these projects with Significant Impacts were paying nothing in terms of transit Impact Development. Were willing to try again to fix that when the transit Sustainability Program comes back to the board after the eir is done. In the meantime im very skeptical about any project that comes forward that has been negotiated that does not include transit Impact Development fees because there are projects that require extensive negotiation and tidf can be negotiated for a budget city team. So, when i first saw this i was concerned about that and considered joining supervisor breed in not sub poderthing the project. As i learned more about why the fees come forward the way they are, i am convinced that we really are not able to extract tidf from ucsf that, in fact, the only reason ucsf is paying the fees that it is paying, the 32 million in discounted net present value, is because ucsf stepped into the shoes of sales force and because these fees were effectively reported against the property. So, you know, i dont think that there was a way to get tidf from ucsf if i thought that we could. I would be insisting that we do, but i think this is a very unique situation and, so, i will be supporting the project. Colleague, any additional questions . Okay, i understand we need to take a roll call vote separately on items 21 and 22. So, on item 21 roll call vote, madam clerk. Supervisor yee . Supervisor yee he . ~ yee . Item 21 is to separate the project, correct . Yes. I just want to make sure im voting on the right one. Yes. Yee aye. Supervisor avalos . Avalos aye. Supervisor breed . Breed aye. Supervisor campos . Campos aye. Supervisor chiu . Chiu aye. Supervisor cohen . Cohen aye. Supervisor farrell . Farrell aye. Supervisor kim . Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Mar aye. Supervisor tang . Tang aye. Supervisor wiener . Wiener aye. There are 11 ayes. The resolution is adopted. [gavel] and on 22, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call . Roll call vote. Roll call vote. Aloe on item 22, supervisor yee . Aye. Yee aye. Supervisor avalos . Avalos aye. Supervisor breed . No. Breed no. Supervisor campos . Aye. He campos aye. Supervisor chiu . Chiu aye. Supervisor cohen . Cohen no. Supervisor farrell . Farrell aye. Supervisor kim . Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Mar aye. Supervisor tang . Tackv aye. ~ tang aye . Tang aye. Supervisor wiener . No. Supervisor wiener no. The item is a doddthv. [gavel] i think we need to call items 23 through 30. Item 23 is a public hearing of persons interested in the march 24, 2013 decision of public works approving a personal tent i have map for subdivision located 38 Mission Street. Item 24 is motion approving the decision of the department of public works and approving the tentative parcel map for a 4lot subdivision located at 738 Mission Street, assessors block no. 3706, lot no. 277; making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1. Item 25 is a motion to disapprove the departments decision and disapprove the tentative parcel map. And item 26 is a motion to prepare findings associated with the decision to reverse the approval. Item 27 is a public hearing of persons interested in the decision of the department of public works dated april 28, 2014 approving a vesting tentative map located at 863rd street, 700 Mission Street, 706 Mission Street and 738 Mission Street. Item 28 is a motion to approve department of public works decision to approve the vesting tentative map. Item 29 is a motion to disapprove the department of public works decision and disapproving the vesting tentative map. And item 30 is a motion directing the clerk to prepare findings associated with the decision to reverse the approval. Thank you. Colleagues, we have in front of us today an appeal of the tentative map for the project at 738 Mission Street and the vesting tentative map for projects at [speaker not understood], 706 Mission Street and 738 Mission Street. Because these two appeals involve the same project, related transactions and the same appellants, i propose we consolidate the public hearings today. For this hearing well consider whether the tentative map for 738 Mission Street and the vesting tentative map for 863rd street, 700 mission, 706 mission, and 738 mission are consistent with the general plan or any specific plan that applies. As we usually do, well first hear from the appellants who will have up to 10 minutes to describe the grounds for the appeal. Well then take Public Comment for individuals speaking on behalf of the appellant with each speaker having up to two minutes to present. Well then hear from representatives of dpw and the Planning Department who will have 10 minutes to describe the grounds for their decision to approve the two maps, following the departments presentation well hear from the real parties in interest who will have up to two minutes to present. Well then hear from individuals that wish to speak on behalf of the real parties and then the appellants will have up to three minutes for rebuttal. Unless there are any questions why dont i recognize supervisor kim as the District Supervisor ~. Thank you, president chiu. The items as articulated are the appeal of the tentative map for 706 and 7 39 mission. These map appeals are related of course to an item we are familiar with 706 mission and the Mexican Museum project. The project entitlements historic appeals and ceqa appeals have already previously been heard by the board. This appeal relates to the subdivision map prepared by the department of public works. And i do watch to thank mr. Storrs for the detailed report prior to the meeting. Very helpful explaining how the subdivision is essential and novembering forward with the project as plaidction and why the decision worked the way they do on these various parcels. That being said i am looking forward to hearing from both parties on this appeal hearing. ~ moving forward with that, why dont we start now with a presentation by the appellant. Good afternoon, members of the board. Im tom lippe, i represent the appellants. We are here now because the tentative subdivision maps, both the nonvesting ones, project 7 65 and the vesting map under project 79 70 were not approved last summer ~ when this board and other agencies of the city approved a whole bunch of approvals for the 706 Mission Street project. So, the planning zone agree on one point. Those cited in support of this pa peel, the board has already seen. This board has an opportunity to make a different decision on a number of those issues. There are also a few new issues. First of all, the vesting map, you cant approve that unless the other map is approved first because the vesting map a tents to subdivide a parcel that doesnt exist yet. And thats in the previous number on the project number is 4, 79 69. A second issue thats new is that if the eir which is in litigation at this moment on the approval issue last summer is found to be inadequate under ceqa, this neir that you would be basing the decision to approve these parcel maps would also be inadequate. Theyre kind of an ipso facto, if it didnt work there, it wont work here. Now, the Planning Department assumes this is a third issue that your time period after certification by the eir, the only issue is whether there is new information, changed circumstances, or a change in the project that would require a subsequent or supplemental eir. And i disagree with that. Even if its true, i think there is such new information and ill get to that. I do disagree with that. I think this board has an opportunity to reconsider the adequacy of this eir under ceqa at this time because this approval involves a vesting tentative map which could have been approval last summer with the other ones. For whatever reason the project sponsor decided to delay it. And a vesting map that grants fundamental rights to develop. So, this eir should be judged on its own merits at this time. Rather than simply looking through the lens as section 21 16 of ceqa looks at, where there has been a change in information or circumstances or in the project ~. Now, the fourth issue is that even if the fourth issue i want to speak about today. Even if that lens of section 21 116 applies, ~ or new circumstances, change in the project, changed information, there are new there is new information. That does trigger the need for a subsequent eir. If you recall, this Board Certified the eir on may 7 of 2013. On may 8th, one day later, the project sponsor came out with a Economic Analysis of its project and the financial feasibility of the reduced shadow alternative that was done by its consultant eps. Now, the reason this is relevant is because the project was found in the eir to have a Significant Impact on shadow on union square. Under ceqa, that requires that you adopt all feasible mitigation measures or alternatives that would reduce that significant shadow impact on union square. So, this project was 5 20 feet when it was subject to the eir certification. What the eps report said was the 5 20 feet if financially feasible, there is a positive project residual over and above the developers profit and the reduced shadow 351 feet is now financially feasible. But what it did not do is pinpoint the place between 5 20 feet and 351 feet where you have a reduction in impact of shadow reduction of that significant shadow impact, but you still have financial feasibility. So, translated what that means is there is some height between those two numbers that is financially feasible and that reduces the shadow impact that was significant and, therefore, this board has an obligation to adopt that height. Well, the project sponsor eventually reduced the height of 480 feet. But without any information suggesting that thats, in fact, the height that is the lowest height thats financially feasible and, therefore, this is new information after certification that require a subsequent eir. I made this argument to you last july because at that point we were looking at other approvals and you did not agree at that time. Im giving you the opportunity to reconsider your decision on the exact same information that was submitted by eps. Now, the other piece of information was the consultant that i hired, mr. Eric sussman and he critiqued the eps report in great detail and found that its deeply flawed. And what he found is the 351 reduced foot shadow alternative is financially feasible. Whether it need to be reasonable, return on investment to the developer, it is significant reduction in the shadow impact on union square. And, therefore, it is a trigger for a subsequent eir on the issue of what is the right height that will reduce the impact and still be financially feasible. Now, the other consequence of those information is the board cannot make the finding required by ceqa that you in fact have adopted all feasible mitigation or alternatives that would substantially reduce this identified Significant Impact. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions to the appellant . Let me ask if there are members of the public that wish to speak in support of the appellant . Sometimes you start feeling lost and so city lowly then youll find the mass is on your mind because you cant tell where youre at when you dont have a map sometimes you can only think of one thing and it brings though all the lines youll find cow you cant tell where youre at without a city parcel map next speaker. Tom gilberti. The president said a couple of like to say that this everything is on the table. And in this casey would like to see a Planning Commission that goes to somebody and say, we cant make enough money building 100 yards up in the sky in San Francisco and, so, we need to go 200 feet higher in order to make money. I would like to see the Planning Commission say to that developer, since you cant make money at 350 feet, we dont think you should handle this job at all and go to the owner of the property and say, excuse me, we recommend that you find a new developer and a new project all together. There are aspects of this city that is up for grabs, and greed is in the pocket of many. Again, if they cant make money at 100 yard in the sky, Million Dollars condos, again, they might not be the right developer for the project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in support of the appellant . Okay, seeing none at this point, why dont we now hear from oh, yes, you can speak, sir. Good afternoon. My maim [speaker not understood]. I am holocaust and world war ii survivor. I am 40 years in San Francisco in united states. I have proclamation from mayor newsome, from mayor lee and board of supervisors. And what i wanted to tell, i wanted to tell that mayor lee, racist, fascist, antisemitic. You evicted me on the street. I am 82 years old holocaust survivor, sleeping on the street and couldnt get Affordable House because you dont do anything. I apply to many of you. Again, i say you are fascist, racist and anti semitic and board of supervisors, too. Thank you. Any other members of the public wishing to speak on behalf of the appellant . As i mentioned before, whoever is clapping please stop clapping. We have a rule in the chamber that we dont interrupt our proceedings against either applause or hissing. So, with that, any other members wish to speak in support of the appellant . At this time why dont we

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