Balboa reservoir project. If we look at what the current status quo is swr have a massive parking lot across from a mini mart. Be spent years coming up with a proposed solution that would have over a thousand homes, half of which will affordable and subsidized. If you look at where these people may be currently living some of them may be crouc may cd make a life here. I strongly support this project. The only possible thing that could be improved is to have even more housing here and future similar projects. Thank you. thank you for your comment. Can we have the next speaker, please. hi. Im the chair of the balboa reservoir committee. Good evening supervis superviso. Theres been a lot of community out reach and workshops. Its led to a lot o of community benefits. The project is a well balanced project. Its providing badly needed homes in San Francisco for families. Tha lot of people have been sayg that its private land, the Development Team consistents of four developers. Private land
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We do as a city, as you all know, have an obligation for affirmatively fair housing. This developers have bottom lines to deliver for investors. They can be pressured to provide affordable minutes to make concessions regarding labor practices. At the end of the day it is this balance and this discussion that is at the heart of whether we are furthering fair housing or not. When we are having the neighborhood around 80 of the units unaffordable to working class units disproportionatesly available to white folks. We are taking steps backwards. I appreciate your work on this. We are in a point of urgency on so many fronts. Thank you for your time put into this. I appreciate it. This is one of the most robust discussions i have had and i want to thank Planning Department staff for signaling a new direction. Thank you, miriam and your colleagues. I want to say a couple things. One of them is a policy desire. I think it is low hanging fruit. I mentioned it earlier. Historically when we wante
Lower communities of color and we should have that in an apples to apples way. I was part of the movement to when supervisor kim threatened to annex a nearby city that was unwilling to increase the housing density on vacant land, so lets expand that conversation. So supervisor mar, and i really appreciate everything that you have, and please any closing comments for you, supervisor mar. And what is your will . Thank you so much, chair peskin and supervisor preston for your comments and engagement in this really important discussion. There is a number of very important items to get to so i will keep the closing comments very short. I did want to summarize that my goal today was emphasize the importance of data and who is the housing for and are we prioritizing and addressing the Housing Needs of residents an communities to insure the diverse and racially Equitable Society . This needs to be the core of our housing policy frame work, not just in the rhetoric and not just in theary tough
With d. O. A. In good faith. In addition, this is lawanna, if you look at the bottom of the page, there is a confidentiality notice, and there is a confidentiality requirement when the employer and organized labor are exchanging proposals. Those are not things that get sent out in public, just thats not how this process works. T [inaudible] the way it works is after you have an agreement, the documents that you argue with are private documents. After the agreement is reached, you can release them, but while were negotiating and this is not just the p. O. A. , all the other 30 unions in San Francisco, we do not release documents when were in a meet and confer process with anybody. Commissioner dejesus this isnt a contract for money. This is how were going to proceed under covid and whether its going to be in person or on zoom. I dont understand why that is confidential . I mean, you know i dont understand why we cant have a discussion with the public knowing what the issues are without