Office to present. Our ballot measure today is intended to provide some guidance around i think what is an issue for San Francisco as a city. There is much concern about the loss of space for jobs, particularly for working class jobs and maker jobs. There is concern about the loss of nonprofit space and there is also a concern about the loss of art spaces and these are the types of uses in San Francisco that makes San Francisco so great and so unique. It really is the character of our various neighborhoods and i think these are the types of uses that we as members of the board have been trying to identify ways to help support and subsidize through the nonprofit displacement program, through arts, Community Arts stablization trusts and some other initiatives that have come out of supervisor cohens office to crosssubsidize pdr space so we can have affordable pdr space. So its not just space for these types of uses, its space that it would be affordable and these are the types of uses tha
Office and the Mayors Office is the right way to try to figure that out. The notion of having commissions over mohcd and oewd are not new ideas, these ideas have been kicking around as long as ive been kicking around this building and maybe its time has not yet time. Maybe we should take the baby step that the mayor is suggesting but why dont we continue that conversation in the days ahead. All right, i would just say in response to that, i mean in an ideal world, having that process play out and again im focusing my comments on oewd, really, great. If it was fast pf paced moving we could have that Commission Oversight and the funding could be doled out in a timely manner, great. But we all know thats probably not going to be happening and i think jeopardizing a lot of Great Community projects that come as a result of that flow through at oewd, im not willing to jeopardize. Supervisor pes pels. I also want to add theres one function within oewd and that is the Development Agreement fun
Francisco or protective housing through acquisition offer low and moderate income households. No we build an additional percentage for middle income house look at the voters are demanding an action plan, not just a goal and doubling the current Affordable Housing is part of the plan. 25 inclusionary Housing Ordinance is doable. It again instead of pain are low income and middle Income Housing needs against each other this measure addresses both needs adding a second here to the inclusionary housing requirements in the form of the 10 for middle income households. This moderates inclusionary promise just like Construction Costs developer fees Interest Rates and any other cost to build here in San Francisco gets factored into the cost of land. Over time, the market and financing will adjust to these new requirements. As we confer value to the land is still in San Francisco we wanted developers to share this wealth and value back to the community by building as much affordable and middle I
We were to have a Third Party Consultant because of the proposed building a potential contributor we are working closely with the team and very please line up on the screen side of the room pleased with the final design we feel it is a strong proposal are more conceptual with the fabric of the existing neighborhood the project present logic challenges a muni elevators on the premises and a muni escalator the tunnel in addition weve agreed were feasible to widen the 14th street sidewalk and setback our building 7 feet from the corner that adds better pedestrian assess around the building is an actual corner with the Church Street as well i have presented to numerous neighborhood groups including getting the support of Castro District and castro merchant and the coalition we presented twice to theyre not currently supportive we fully supported the properties on the immediate west they wrote and letter and support the project in any historical of history it is unusual and jeff mentioned o
Numbers, people are out there in San Francisco six, in pain and dying. I am a senior. Im 73 years old this year. I live in San Francisco over 50 years. Longer than some of your ages. Ive lived all over in every district and this is now the 10th year that ive had to endure this terrific housing crisis could 10 years. First i was convicted in 2006 from my home, my rentcontrolled home of 21 years. I was so distraught i developed cancer in the middle of this move and i almost given up on finding anything affordable after year of looking. Im a local way. Ive written for some of the major magazines and newspapers here. That Small Businesses in this town. I currently now, because my age im on Social Security of 618 a month. I would like to know which one of you people here could live on that anywhere. Not even in detroit. I have 10 pages worth. How much longer can i do . Ive taken housemates to make the rent because now i am beingim getting evicted by the market rate increase. By landlord has