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
Years im here to support the legislation for 3rd district ems housing is an issue if San Francisco if youre homeless and go inside and are hows your not homeless anymore thats that that simple as we looked at our map to put shelter there are opportunities in 3rd district as and i went 80 up the district the other day theyre not going to be coming from all over theyre there Portland Square theres a great need ive gotten people off the streets and the wafer and embarcadero there theyre there are and thats not going away its all over i see a huge need weve gotten 3 hundred people into housing a e and that impacts unus on Washington Square i hope you support the protective and is there any additional Public Comment. Hi my name is Susan Rebecca im going to reader from is prepared statement i work to Youth Alliance we i did u uses to run a facility in the hate ashbury until we lost the lease because of the neighborhood resistance from the homeless we cannot secure another location in the hat
Courage people to counseling communicate with the shelter first many problems are solved that way a longstanding sort of urban belief about shelter not being safe we may be address older stories we try to look at those we have a system that attempts to respond to my concerns of the people urging our shelter system when we do our up to this point in time count which well be doing again in january of 2015 looking people of their couch suffering in a park or in a shelter or incarcerated weve lost shelter beds because the providers of shelters said they no longer want to be sherltsd and its hard for us to find replacements you have to find knows that meet codes this legislation helps to address the fact beven said that well, the entire Community Needs to be responding to San Francisco its a city and county of San Francisco issue and National Issue is but our system does attempt to respond to the concerns of people as they come up we also over homeless storage to people that are looking to
Cash and lovely as the diversity that happens on the streets living on the streets particularly when you watch what happens in the evening is dangerous i dont courage anyone, of course, the early stories im used to hearing im seeking an alternative we have to come up with more alternative thats a challenge thats why all the entities are working to find creativity and more combooift was i want to say to beven keep coming with the ideas no idea is to the r50ek9d whether helping people getting out of inebriate ration or getting the psychological support or giving them a respite or homeless connect and the constant 24hour service we have now for now the Navigation Center is all a continuance of into the weeds ideas to written people we want and desire us you kick with our sframz a true home or connect up with you to provide a level of services to get it a point where you can make a reasonable decision and at the end of the Navigation Center well have a long term housing opportunity for peo
Center is all a continuance of into the weeds ideas to written people we want and desire us you kick with our sframz a true home or connect up with you to provide a level of services to get it a point where you can make a reasonable decision and at the end of the Navigation Center well have a long term housing opportunity for people now were talking about hundreds of unit obey identified we already have in our spemgs a hundred units backing up this center and working with our Residential Hotel providers who are Business People in their own right and offering us sfunt to work with n them as well the Enforcement Community building our housing i say weve spent billions of every year to insure that people get services whether their transitional or senior ever veterans or families or single mothers and weve had creative programs whether calling them healthy San Francisco or Housing First a or project homeless connection i made the announcement of project 5 hundred were trying to reach both