Thousand 4 hundred and 37 total shelter reservations were made in 2013 ranging from one, 3 and thirty night reservations the wait list for a 90 days shelter pains in our lobby and as of today had over 6 hundred names on it each night people are sleeping in the doors San Francisco, california do better we need Affordable Housing and places for people to sleep its a moral obligation were all responsible for our Community Challenges and guides has always good for dignity acceptance and love for all if accident community please support in legislation and thank you for your attention. Thank you good afternoon, commissioners thank you for holding this hearing im beginning listen from the United Council as long as mother browns dinger room we provide Homeless Service to the southeast section of San Francisco which is really off the pathway were not in the tenderloin or south of market we have a Small Community but a large number of Homeless People ours is a drop in Center People stay from 7 0
Memorial church im in support of the definition of controls for homeless shelters you cant mall and curtis and yolanda and james and dominique and ramona and charles a small number of the glide members who have been or are still homeless that im here to remind i behind the rhetoric is human beings someones fathered and mom san franciscans can for whatever reason call our city streets their home as the largest shelter in the city we experience heartache to turn people away its hard to turn someone out into the dark into the cold into the rain as all we can do well see them in the morning housing is a basic need we all require in order to thrive as long as we limit the citys ability to have shelter we limit the opportunity for people to have a better life were willing to embrace our neighbors even the ones who the rest of the world render invisibly this is one way or another what happened when we give our resources we all are enriched we can do this in words of st. Francis start by doing
And staff visit a few shelters and finds the proposals of this ordinance was reflecting their current practices of Operation Staff supports the proposal to exempt the homeless shelters for bicycle fee requirements the purpose of the shelters to maximum mess their capacity Glen Eagle Golf Course the life and Safety Standards this appliances with the purpose and lose the occupancy limit without additional indenting density elements and lastly it defines Good Neighbor policy those are policies regarding reps with the neighbors and including the security plan for the hours of operation sidewalk maintenance and signage and on Site Management that concludes my presentation. Id like to introduce mr. Duffey. Commissioners, thank you for having me here i want to note at 5 oclock well be vice chair our homeless folks that died on the Streets Program were talking a life or death situation there are 6,000 plus Homeless Individuals if San Francisco 34 hundred living on the street 18 in street progr
Homeless streetcars good afternoon planning staff staff before you today is American People organization amending the distinction for the homeless strerlt the mayor has been working with that introduced by mayor ed lee i want to acknowledge dusty the mr. Mayors of hope that will present after my presentation today San Francisco planning code into compliance with the state law shelters meaning without a public hearing as in one Zoning District this legislation is a part of the 2014 housing update that will come before you if a few weeks currently, the San Francisco planning code didnt include a definition for planning code which those are Group Housing is a hotel use theyre not allowed in a Zoning District in San Francisco therefore in the few cases that homeless shelters are out of planning with the stale the planning code in compliance with the state law regarding homeless shelters it creates a definition in based on on new operations it also allows this as a use of right in the Zonin
Anyway, sour grapes is to be expected. Why would you praise your opponent after he wiped the mat with you and thats the problem with these politics even when theres good news country its been used for the party and theres a lot of good news on jobs, ices, economy all good but we could do better. The Democrats Remains our. Schumer looks like hes the penguin from batman. [laughter] trying to pass a softball sized gallstone. [laughter] and pelosi looks like that gallstones is about to hit her in the mercedes. [laughter] the rest of the democrats all look like they shared the same hemorrhoids. What is the problem . First, that speech wasnt for them. It was for you. I thought it was too long but for you its not long enough. Its 90 minutes of positivity about this great country after
eight years of moaning about america his speech was a water cooler in the desert. For democrats your good news is there bad news but also their bad news is your good news. In the future, heres a handy measuremen