Related topics, such as project merits. While i will not be addressing these as they are not germane to the appeal proceeding, you have them in your packets. Temporary and housing would be provided. The department of hope weatherness and Supportive Housing generally has not seen an increase in the amount of Emergency Services required in the vicinity of Navigation Centres. Calls for Emergency Services in the area are not expected to increase because of the availability of and connection to services through safe Center Programmes and staff caring for the clients. Even if there were a small increase based on the needs of the population, it would not impact the calls in the area. Calls would be at the site due to one location but this concentration would not constitute a significant effect. Neighbors have expressed concern about an increase in noise from ambulance sirens. Based on date provided by the department of Emergency Services, in the five months following opening of the civic cent
This is for the proposed Navigation Centre at seawall lot 30. I will highlight why they stand by the transformatio transforma. Its a class 32 class exemption. It boils town to two main points. One, the project is consistent with the five criteria for a class 32 categorical exemption and therefore qualifies asinfill project. Our appeal response dated june 17th, 2019 covers these points in detail and i wont repeat them all today. Instead, i will highlight five of the main points. The first two relate to the projects consistency with the criteria for an exemption and the last three relate to why none of the exceptions apply. We retain nonsequa related topics and these are available for your review. The bulk of the appeal issues, in fact, relate to nonsequa related topics, such as project merits. While i will not be addressing these as they are not germane to the appeal proceeding, you have them in your packets. Temporary and housing would be provided. The department of hope weatherness an
Criminalization. [speaking spanish] translator they are part of our community and we should respect them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Public good afternoon. I too would like to thank for doing this. I have been familiar with the plaza and the area around the plaza for 20 years. And it has been the object of the most outrageous forms of neglect and has been treated as a drug containment zone without any attempt to solve the underlying injustices and problems that are generating the amount of drug use we are seeing in the plaza. This neglect contributes whether intentionally or not, to the disinvestment that is now being used as an excuse to general gent identify as people become more desperate both economically and to using and selling drugs and to other forms of behavior that have to do with getting by out of here desperation. Im grateful we are taking steps to clean the plaza and assist people with their struggles. I would ask we remain along this track and not allow this to b
Because we believe it is the most efficient way to help people experiencing homelessness. Is this a good investment . I called this hearing to understand how does the department of homelessness think about, quote, success . Success looks different to different people and i want to make sure we are on the same page and were getting a good solid return on our investment. So, im going to frame this hearing in three different parts. Im interested in three top issues. First, getting people off the streets. In particular i want to know how many people have we moved into the theyre congratulations centers Navigation Centers . How many go back on to the streets after their maximum 60day stay . Do any people return to Navigation Centers after the 60day stay . I want to understand the services that are being offered. Whats the percentage of people what percentage of people are taking advantage of services and which services are they taking advantage of . Does that percentage increase on a second
Into a site. So we have the shorterterm beds so we could have turnaround. Otherwise we would have filled up 1515 south van ness with 110 people and we would still have people on the streets. Theres no Science Behind it ak dhul there is. Actually there is a science. Based on the number of units we have turning over, we would have 300 pathway to housing beds. That would be the ideal number. That would be the right number because that matches up to everybody staying for 90 days and then you get housing. Supervisor cohen how are people selected to move into the Navigation Center . Flu a variety of ways. They are invitation only. And there is a couple of different ways people will get in. If the hot Team Identifies an individual who is a priority one client, they get prioritized for a Navigation Center bed because we want to get them off the streets. Some of the Navigation Center beds are set aside for the Encampment Resolution Team like the one we worked on that polian street napoleon stre