Good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Developing this hour, President Bidens 1. 9 trillion plan is one step closer to becoming a reality. In a new excerpt from cbs news, the president giving a new insight into where key provisions like Minimum Wage Hike Stand as lawmakers work to get the bill to his desk. Its somewhere between an individual making up to 75 and phasing out and a couple making up to 150 and phasing out. But im wide open on what that is. You also want to raise the minimum wage to 15. Is that something you would be willing to negotiate on to get republican support . Apparently thats not going to occur because of the roles in the senate. Youre saying it will not be in it . My guess is it will not be in it. Today marks one month since the attack on the u. S. Capitol left five people dead. The Impeachment Trial will start just days from now. Trumps defense team confirming he will not testify under oath. Congressman
Coming next year whose spirit is stream lined, stop obstructing, delaying, build more housing, and this is absolutely the time. We need the housing. As much as folks would like, its not possible to build a wall around the mission. Somehow thats going to help whats going on there. This is a citywide crisis that affects every neighborhood. Approve this project without delay. Thank you. President hillis thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is richard hack. Ive heard these are a lot of good arguments. Just a couple of things, the architecture of this project and the one before are hideous. I mean, they look like shopping bags or boxes. Our Architectural Commission created a lot of create buildings. I wonder here what happened to the architecture. The demand to live in San Francisco is almost infinite. Its absolutely impossible to build enough units to drive the rents down. Now and then theres a little dip, because markets fluctuate, but thats not a valid argument and should be reje
Thing id like to see, a. And secondly, if you decide to go ahead with this project. It should have a component of Affordable Housing, at least 33 . Weve got that from lennar from their project on 25th and south vanness, and i think you should do nothing less than that. Talk to the community and send it back to the developer. President hillis thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi name is is vincent chao. Im a retired prince and resident of the mission. You know, weve been dealing with so many homeless kids in this School District in the recent years, so when i hear that theyre building more housing in the mission, it was wonderful. Unfortunately, i just from what i just heard, its not going to be for those homeless kids, unfortunately. But in general, as an educator, and as a parent, i think its cruel and unusual punishment to subject little kids, two to five years old to a Major Construction right next to them for all these years. I mean, think of all the things they have to put up with.
Again, this corner is highly, highly trafficked at most times of the night. Its not the kind of corner where people can stop and jump out and get back in. Its really challenging. Thats going to be it doesnt mean dont do the project, it just means theres a challenge. The last thing ill comment on in terms of affordability, i concur with the staff just to go further the project has a gray area with affordability. It gets the density decontrol it would have had with home sf which requires 30 but yet not there. Its also not at the inclusionary level that was passed this past summer or even the inclusionary level passed that was mandated temporarily through the last version of prop c. So i do think that theres some benefits being conferred here that are positive. We want to see more units but at the same time, its not giving the affordability we would have seen through home sf or if the project were subject to the affordability in the recently passed legislation so im supportive of the staf
On where the parking is. I think people will be surprised how little of an impact this has when it actually gets hit on the street. The design is vastly improved. I dont know if you did the earlier design but if you did you vastly i am improved it. It remembers of van ness. Originally it was a good design but didnt not turn out as as well as originally planned and part was materialiality. I think your balconies add texture to it which they dont have and it looked like an office complex. I like this one but i hope we dont cheapen the design. I thank supervisor farrell in working on this and getting it to where it is. Hopefully the retail will be active. It is a tough corner but youre wine shop is doing well and making it there so hopefully that retail will add to the vibrancy of whats there. So very supportive. Commissioner richards. I didnt make the motion but id like to add the condition we have carshare spaces. The planning code only requires one and i think what we would say is the