That i consider part of the community as well and they are my neighbors, too. I know it sounds like a small thing, but that shadow would block one of our few nice little sunny areas in the neighborhood. As everyone has said, we have hardly any open space . In soma and i ask you to vote no on this. We would like to preserve what little sun lit spaces we have during the day. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good barely afternoon, commissioners. My name is Deborah Benedict and i live within a very close proximity to the victoria Manalo Draves park. I am a tenant representative for south of market soma residents council, which represents about 600 people in the south of market area. I also a member of senior and disability action and take my dog, lulu, to the park on a regular basis. Im also a former plot holder at victoria Manalo Draves, so i have a really intimate knowledge of this park. I can tell you from first hand experience that shadow is a huge problem. As a former plot
Billion industry, up there with sex trafficking and drugs and guns of its calling for the Obama Administration to institute a moratorium on domestic ivory sales. Ab 96 will empower the u. S. Fish and wildlife to enforce the law. Please join San Francisco zoo and stop the killing and stop the trafficking and stop the demand. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This was discussion only. It is starting to get a little crowded in here and i know were running out of seats. So if there is any staff that can move into these seats, so we can allow the public to be seated, we would really appreciate that. And after this item, i will go pull some chairs out of the back. Thank you. So we are now on item 7. Commissioners you lost a few commissioners. Should we wait . We probably should. Okay. Lets do item 8 and come back. Okay. Were now on item 8 eugene friend Recreation Center agreement with tr
Proximity to the victoria Manalo Draves park. I am a tenant representative for south of market soma residents council, which represents about 600 people in the south of market area. I also a member of senior and disability action and take my dog, lulu, to the park on a regular basis. Im also a former plot holder at victoria Manalo Draves, so i have a really intimate knowledge of this park. I can tell you from first hand experience that shadow is a huge problem. As a former plot holder i had to move my plot because of the shadow created by the very dense im guessing ficus trees that were growing. I have called numerous times to have trees trimmed because of the problem of shad i dont know. Anything that would create a problem with shadow in this park would be a huge problem. As a result im asking you to please not allow this project to go forward in its present form unless the builder is willing to install permanent and pay for permanent lighting of Broad Spectrum in the park and pay fo
Anything involving the ellis act please continue your conversation. You will notice there are a number of supporters here, as well as opponents. The opponents are wearing stickers that say dont evict the sunlight from the park. We believe the opposition is really about unrelated eviction issues and we ask that you focus, please, on the issue before the commission today, which is a negligible shading impact on the park. This project is about creating housing, including Affordable Housing. The project sponsor should not be penalized because of his unpopularity. To the extent that some of the people that we were instructed to negotiate with, actually showed up and held a protest and evictionrelated protest in the project sponsors shoe store. We are excited about this project and were disappointed there is opposition completely unrelated to the issue here. Were confident and hope that the commission will take that into account. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Paul an
Translator i will be translating really quickly. So mr. Juanita said he doesnt want the victoria Manalo Draves park to be shrouded with shadows because its the one and only park in their community. Its the only place where they have a space to walk around, to rest and to get sunlight. So he is saying that if there is a shadow cast coming from this one development proposed development, others may soon follow and this park may soon be totally in the dark. So he is asking that you dont allow the proposed development at 190 russ street to proceed as planned. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning commissioners. You can speak on this. Good morning, commissioners i volunteer at west Bay Community center and student at the university of San Francisco. Im here to ask you to say no to the proposed development at 190 russ street from the center that helps student and seniors. The family and friends use the victoria Manalo Draves park. Its the one park that we have in th