Model. Let it was figure out what the state can do to help, not hurt. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. George wooding, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. I support Affordable Housing, and i also am in very much agreement with the board and supervisor mars resolution. I object to the false choice that scott weiner presented the board of supervisors saying if you are not for sb50 you must be antigrowth. I think that was a terrible position to put you in because i know that you are doing the best for the city. As peter just stated, i dont think one size fits all, and definitely the amendments have to take care of different aspects of the city and the character of San Francisco. I think sb 50 billions the market rate housing much more so when you look at arena than it ever did build Affordable Housing. There is no profit in building Affordable Housing so it forces developers, even wellmeaning once, to build a market rate. Rate. It is a massive give away to deve
The committee to continue this item. Next speaker. Good morning. Now it is afternoon. Peter cohen. The pdas at a technical level, i would like to step back and think about this item in contrast to the last item sb50 and the conversation about local community planning. It is very encouraging to hear your Planning Department staff and i am thinking about supervisor browns comments early about the staff being helpful. It is not a technical resource. You didnt see the Planning Department staff taking a position opposing sb50 based on the amendment the board put forward. Frankly, that is what a Planning Department should be doing. Unfortunately they were silent and it took the board to do that technical work. Now the Planning Department is coming forward with a pda proposal saying this is not dictating zoning or telling you your process is taken away from you. This is the short of music to a lot of folks ears about doing the planning right. Of course, all of the details matter much. It seem
Is needed. So weve been in close communications with uasf particularly on this project. We really support this legislation. We want to ensure that this Francis Scott key project qualifies for this prop e streamlining were excited to bring the housing projects online in many months, if not a year earlier. As my colleague ian mentioned well continue our commitment to find the funding to secure the funding for this project and the future project for educator housing. This really does represent a big turning point. So i urge you to support this legislation. Thank you very much. Thank you miss kwan. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. We represent over 6500 educators throughout the district. I believe that i speak not only for not only educators about you for san franciscans, with overall the most recent elections in which 70 of voters said that Affordable Housing needs to be a priority. And this is really exciting for us exciting for uasf. In particular that were moving into the next phas
[gavel] good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. We will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton, who is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it righ
Phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it right, im more surprised than anything. Im laurie green awe girardin. Im in district 9. Thanks for this opportunity to be considered for the league of women voters seat on the Ballot Simplification Committee. Im a selfemployed Communications Consultant and writer. I help nonprofits, foundation and others share their stories and engage their communities. I have 20 years of experience in communications. In my work, i use plain language to make ideas and information more accessible to more people. I specialize in legal, c