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 associati
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
With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate 9 50 a. M. Beyond the chair now recognizes the entleman from illinois, mr. Shimkus, for five minutes. Mr. Shimkus thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise again this thank my boys, now young men, for the love, support, and understanding during my time as congress. F as i stated yesterday when i was sworn in for my first term in 1997, david was 3 years old. Joshua was 1 years old. In 1999, daniel was born. After completing this term, i 24 years. 21, ns will be 28, 25, and respectively. So their entire lives have been of ng their dad as a member congress. I always joke that in the early packageable. Were in the district we just packed them up and hauled them around. Changess meant diapers, of clothes, lunchables. Well, you get the idea. They had a chance to visit county and state fairs. They also had to sit thr
We do as a city, as you all know, have an obligation for affirmatively fair housing. This developers have bottom lines to deliver for investors. They can be pressured to provide affordable minutes to make concessions regarding labor practices. At the end of the day it is this balance and this discussion that is at the heart of whether we are furthering fair housing or not. When we are having the neighborhood around 80 of the units unaffordable to working class units disproportionatesly available to white folks. We are taking steps backwards. I appreciate your work on this. We are in a point of urgency on so many fronts. Thank you for your time put into this. I appreciate it. This is one of the most robust discussions i have had and i want to thank Planning Department staff for signaling a new direction. Thank you, miriam and your colleagues. I want to say a couple things. One of them is a policy desire. I think it is low hanging fruit. I mentioned it earlier. Historically when we wante
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