Sacramento they lost their japan town. So i hope were stronger and will allow japan town to prosper for this and future generations. In fact, i think its the most important thing we have a basis we are cognizant and i urge you to adopt the dhs. Thank you good afternoon, commissioners and director ram. Im karen. Im a member of the japan town organizing committee ive been cochair of the land use and built Form Committee and ive served on all the committees. Youll heard about our process its been collaborative its been open and its been arduous. I mean, we get in their we fight, we try to educate he each other and Work Together we check things we go over and over wus we have a process but a its produced a good document. The same thing goes for the resolutions that are before you. We worked on those we thought about the language what was included and not included and its very disturbing that yesterday we had a member of our committee blind sided us what a proposed amendment. The preservati
Was something similar that happened to seattle and sacramento they lost their japan town. So i hope were stronger and will allow japan town to prosper for this and future generations. In fact, i think its the most important thing we have a basis we are cognizant and i urge you to adopt the dhs. Thank you good afternoon, commissioners and director ram. Im karen. Im a member of the japan town organizing committee ive been cochair of the land use and built Form Committee and ive served on all the committees. Youll heard about our process its been collaborative its been open and its been arduous. I mean, we get in their we fight, we try to educate he each other and Work Together we check things we go over and over wus we have a process but a its produced a good document. The same thing goes for the resolutions that are before you. We worked on those we thought about the language what was included and not included and its very disturbing that yesterday we had a member of our committee blind
Town. Im here as the executive director from the expansion in terms of all of the 13 years invested in this resolution to write an endorsement. Ive sent an endorsement but also want to make it very, very clear that the center does support and asks for your endorsement as well as the dhs. Yesterday when we were here i talked about the japaneseamerican customarily to senior seminar so most of the constituents came from japan and particularly produced a Good Environment until we all they were evacuated in 1942 to those different contraction camps. This meant life stopped for us. In terms of that when they concluded and came back to San Francisco our Community Came back to San Francisco and had to rebuild their lives. This resolution commissioners is the first time historically through a Community Process of 13 years plus a one hundred years before that has any kind of direction to go forward for things we believe in. This could not have happened without the planning staff beyond a agency
Detrimental to future japan it up. First of all, i want to thank many people involving the commission. Because which this came to the commission the commission realized it was a plan that the community really didnt agree b upon and the community really didnt have a chance to respond to the original plan of japan town. So with the Community Process it took much longrange than anticipated i think it was about 4 years. We were told and thanks to director ram he allowed us enough f t es to carry on. I want to thank all the planners that were part of this and paul was hes made this so the community can grasp. Steve really become very valuable to us even in the 11 hour so steve earned his keep and shelly thank you for your efforts of the heritage portion. So thank you to all of you. My greatest fear when it first came out i was afraid the result was something similar that happened to seattle and sacramento they lost their japan town. So i hope were stronger and will allow japan town to prosp
You that you will support that. Thank you very much. One second, supervisors mar. I want to thank those for that piece of legislation. I will make sure as its scheduled well do this at a youth friendly time. This is a great example at 445 45 p. M. That we can also engaging us and helping us to make the best policies for you for the interest of not just youth, but the whole city. Thank you. Again thank you for having us here at 430 30 p. M. Today. We have youth in the audience which is something that will hope with more legislation in the future. That concludes priority nose no. 2 and i will pass it to commissioner web who will discuss priority no. 3. Good evening, board. Im trisha web. Im also on the Youth Justice Committee and today i will be talking to you about priority no. 3 which talks about investigating the needs of and expanding support services for youth with incarcerated parents. Throughout the duration of the 20132014 term, the Youth Commission has been working with the Yout