is absent. the next order of business is item 2 announcements. the next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on november 7th, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. at city hall, room 416-c. the announcement of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting, please be advised that the ringing of and the use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or the use of the cellphone, pager or other similar sound-producing electronic device. c, announcement of time allotment for public comment. please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the commission adopts a shorter period on any item and it's strongly recommended that the members of public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken and a previous closed session meeting, if any. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. there are no matters of unfinished business. the next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first, the consent agenda, 5-a, approval of minutes, september 19, 2017. mr. vice chair? >> vice chair miguel bustos: madam secretary, do you have any speaker cards for this item? >> clerk: no, mr. vice chair, i do not have any speaker cards. >> vice chair miguel bustos: hearing no, any further questions. anyone on the public here want to speak on this item? >> put me in. >> vice chair miguel bustos: >> vice chair miguel bustos: this is on the consent. >> on the consent, i will back up. >> vice chair miguel bustos: okay. so seeing none, i will close public comment. >> i move it. >> vice chair miguel bustos: and i turn to my fellow commissioners, commissioner singh. motion to approve? >> darshan singh: second. >> vice chair miguel bustos: please take roll, madam secretary. >> clerk: please announce when i call your name (roll call). mr. vice chair the vote is three ayes and two absent. >> vice chair miguel bustos: >> vice chair miguel bustos: motion carries. please call the next item. >> clerk: the number item is 5-b, selecting bridge housing corporation corporation and community housing partnership for the development of 141 affordable rental housing units, including one manager's unit, with supportive services for formerly homeless persons at mission bay south block 9, mission bay south redevelopment project area, res institution number [38-2017] madam collector? >> good afternoon, commissioners. this item is to select the non-profit developer that would develop parcels in mission bay south, block 9. back in april, the commission released the r.f.p. to seek developers for non-profit development within the mission bay south project area and in june we issued an addendum to that r.f.p. and just this summer through the selection committee made -- selected two non-profit developers, as well as c.h.p., to be partners with us in this development. and today before you is to have an act to approve the selection of these two developers. i should note that we have representatives from bridge housing as well as c.h.p. in the audience as well as the architects. and i want to thank the mission bay c.f.c. for their action recently in endorsing the selection. with that i'll turn it over to kimberly, within ocii to lead the discussion. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon, members of the commission, i'm kim obsfeld with ocii housing team. i'm here this afternoon to present on item 5b, approving the selection of bridge housing and community housing partnership with stacy architects to design, develop and operate approximately 141 affordable rental units with supportive services for formerly homeless persons on mission bay south block 9 in the mission bay south project area. your approval allows ocii to proceed with this important project. mission bay south block 9 is adjacent to the public safety building between mission rock street to the north, and china basin street to the south. block 9 will be cut into two, we're working now on block 9 which is the western portion of this site and we'll develop block 9-a in the future as a separate affordable housing project. the developers of block 9 will design and construct bridgeview way, between blocks 9 and 9-a. and block 9 is well-served by transit, including the munnie metro line on third street and is within walking distance to many amenities, including grocery stores, a pharmacy, a public library and parks and open spaces. before i go into detail regarding developer selection for block 9, i'll provide some background on the mission bay project area. in 1998, the redevelopment agency commission approved the mission bay north and south redevelopment plans and owner participation agreements or o.p.a.s. the o.p.a.s allow are if the development of up to 6,514 residential units in mission bay, with nearly 30% of that total set aside as affordable -- excuse me, affordable housing units. in mission bay north, all 698 inclusionary and ocii sponsored units have been completed. in mission bay south, 350 affordable units have been constructed in the project area and another 868 are planned or are under construction. the o.p.a.s require that the master develop more submit development plans in major phases and it includes commercial and residential developments, public infrastructure and parks. the master developer included block 9 in its 2004 major phase approval request for blocks 8, 9, 9-a, 10, 10-a and parks p18, p19, and p20. the block 9 parcel was confirmed as an affordable housing site at that time. in april 2017, ocii staff released a request for proposals or r.f.p. and selecting a team to develop, own and operate housing on block 9. the r.f.p. was widely circulated with emails list maintained by omp oci and the department of homelessness and supportive housing and as well as through advertisements. it specified that respondents should have a qualified housing developer, an architect and a property manager and services provider and it established that the site would be developed as affordable housing with on-site services for formerly homeless persons. the r.f.p. did not specify a unit count but asked for furnished studio units and very limited park asking community spaces and amenities to support the population. we also required conventional and modular construction scenarios. this request was based on conversations with the mayor's office about how city agencies can complete affordable housing for formerly homeless persons as efficiently as possible. just a quick overview of the selection criteria as it's spelled out in the r.f.p., a total of 45 points are based on the actual concept for the site, including proposed massing and financing, the remaining 55 units are based on the experience and the qualifications of the applicant team. we received two submittals in response to this r.f.p. and one from a team led by bridge housing and community housing partnership or c.h.p. and another from a team led by mercy housing and episcopal community services. proposals were reviewed by an eight-person evaluation panel that included a representative from the mission bay advisory committee or c.a.c., and representatives from the mayor's office of housing and community development, and the department of homelessness and supportive housing, and representatives from ocii's design and housing and mission bay project management teams. both proposals were well thought out and two very different approaches to the project. ultimately bridge and c.h.p. received the highest total score and while individual panelists scored differently, the panelists were unanimous in awarding the bridge c.h.p. proposal the highest number of points. a few key elements of the bridge-c.h.p. proposal, they proposed 141 total units, including one manager's unit. in the past the redevelopment agency and ocii have developed projects that serve a similar project in the hays valley and the trans-bay neighborhoods and 141 units is a bit more than that are included on those sites but the unit count better utilize this is site and allows for an on-site live-in manager and seven-day-a-week case management rather than just monday-friday as would be typical. the full team includes leddy stacy as well as health right 360 to provide nursing and on-site medical supports and c.h.p. will serve as the long-term property manager and the services manager. having a single entity provide both services and property management has proven to be beneficial in other similar projects, in ensuring close planning and ongoing coordination. the building amenities include a community courtyard and community rooms and a services suite, bicycle parking and a bike repair station. the design responds well to site conditions and really max nices the natural light in the units, along corridors and throughout the site. just for comparison, a few highlights of the mercy episcopal proposal and also very strong but with a different approach. the team proposed 233 units in two separate buildings and one that serves homeless seniors and another that serves formerly homeless adults. episcopal would be the long-term owner/operator and work as property manager and coordinate the services among several entities. a thoughtful design with a large garden between the two buildings and a health clinic, roof decks and other resident serving amenities. the evaluation panel highlighted several compelling reasons for recommending the bridge-c.h.p. proposal and among these are the strength and the experience of the team. bridge-chp and l.m.s. all have significant and relevant experience in building for and serving this population. in addition, the estimated costs in ocii subsidy were lower on a cost-per-unit basis and overall the team had a thoughtful plan that responded well to the r.f.p. and meets design requirements. while we'll be back later in the development process for a comhencivcomprehensive design rd like to highlight a few. it's hard to see in that site plan, but in the site plan in front of you the team proposed a u-shaped building with a central resident courtyard as well as a community garden that connects to the future bridgeview way. this is the elevation along china basin street with the public safety building on the left. the building is four stories and it aligns with the height of the existing wall of the public safety building. and this is the view from bridgeview way with the community garden and resident courtyard at the center. and, finally, this is the view from mission rock street, with the public safety building to the right. we have heard many questions and concerns about this project from the community. ocii staff has made presentations at several mission bay c.a.c. meetings and we also attended an evening meeting organized by the community in may. it was a large meeting and there was strong opposition to the proposed program for block 9. in response and to better help residents and other community members to get a sense of the project we organized several tours of similar housing completed by the redevelopment agency and ocii and those tours were held in june and july. while there continues to be opposition to this type of affordable housing we're not aware to any opposition of the selection of the recommended developer team. engaging with community will continue to be a high priority as we move forward. if approved, c.h.p. and bridge will begin reaching out to the neighborhood and the greater community and they anticipate holding meetings with h.o.a.s to address concerns and to work through issues. we expect that those meetings will happen later this year and early next year. james tracy at c.p.h., who is here today, will lead the community outreach and be the primary contact for arranging those meetings. we anticipate returning to you early next year for approval of a predevelopment loan and to enter into an exclusive negotiations agreement. we then anticipate going to the mission bay c.a.c. for a discussion regarding the concept design and will then move forward with a full schematic design. at that time the team will be prepared to make a recommendation regarding construction time, specifically the extent to which the use of modular units might result in time and cost savings on this project. that concludes my staff presentation and i do want to introduce a few members of the recommended team, if you would just stand or wave when i call your name. from c.h.p. we have gail gillman, the c.e.o. and david schnerr with housing development. daniel potter, project manager. and james tracy, director of community engagement. from bridge housing we have smitha, the vice president of real estate development and kevin griffith, director of business development and richard stacy, principal. and thank you very much for your time this afternoon and we are excited to get going on this project. thank you. >> vice chair miguel bustos: thank you. madam secretary, do we have any speaker cards? >> clerk: yes, mr. vice chair, i have 14. >> vice chair miguel bustos: 14. so i have a question of the audience here, who was here, by show of hands, and wants to speak on this particular item? and who have not submitted a card? all right. so i'm sure we'll have some more. i would encourage everybody to fill out speaker cards. so if you have not done so, please fill them out for this particular -- or any other item that you would like to speak on. .>> vice chair miguel bustos: okay, ladies and gentlemen, for fire safety reasons, obviously, with this being a packed house, or a packed agenda, we would like to ask if our commission secretary could read the 13 speakers that have signed up to stand on this side and if you are not hear to talk about this item we would ask you to step outside because we have to have all of the aisle way clears and then when the item comes up we'll let you know. the sheriff is actually trying to find another room for us to have an overflow where you'll be able to see proceedings as they go forward. so, madam secretary, announce the 13 names and we'll ask those folks to stand up and then everyone else if you could just move outside until we get to your item. >> clerk: [reading of names] coming through.ing of names] is that good? >> yep. >> ok. great. all right. so, want to call the next -- >> corinne woods. >> good afternoon, commissioners. madame chair -- director. my name is corinne woods. i chair the mission bay citizens advisory committee. mission bay c.a.c. has had three presentations on this project. the opponents of the project also organized a separate meeting in may to address their concerns. at our september 14 mission bay c.a.c. meeting, staff presented the recommended draft proposal. this was an informational item and the c.a.c. did not vote on whether to formally approve it. or support it. in general, members of the c.a.c. and the public attending the september meeting endorsed the support of housing proposal. the mission bay community has always welcomed affordable housing into the neighborhood. concerns were raised about the quality of the design and how it would fit into mission bay, particularly if a modular building approach is used. what the staff report doesn't mention, but the staff did hear, is that there is some impassioned opposition. to this project from several different perspectives. there are some who are opposed to housing for the formerly housing. some who are concerned about house ago high proportion of people with mental health issues and others who are concerned about the quality and adequacy of supervision by the supportive services provider. safety and security are the biggest concerns. several c.a.c. members and neighbors went to renee cousinov and richardson apartments. they were not happy with the community relationship. they want to be sure that there is a good neighbor policy and ongoing communication between the providers, the developers and the community about how this works because that is going to be critical to success of this project. >> thank you, ms. woods. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> toby levine. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm toby levine and a member of the mission bay c.a.c. obviously you have -- well you haven't really chosen yet, but you will probably choose a very fine team and i think that most of us are satisfied with the team. the questions that corinne raised are the relevant questions that are moving around the community and should definitely be paid attention to. i'm afraid -- is it mr. tracy? his work is cut out for him. in the next few months, we should be having meetings to organize the good neighbor policy, meetings to make sure that the neighbor's questions are answered, particularly with the issue of how the residents, that is the residents of the project are going to be treated and how they are going to be introduced into the mission bay community. another little point of understanding is that the mission community has been under a lot of stress lately. particularly having to do with the traffic and the warriors coming. so, there's been a lot of sort of general uproar. so it's understandable that people may not be happy with having another change in their lives. i think obviously with this team, if they work hard with the people in the neighborhood, they will be able to bring together a fine project that suits everybody. thank you. >> thank you, ms. levine. >> richard lee. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is richard lee. i'm a resident at mission bay. and as corinne and toby have brought up, there is a lot of concerns about the project. my main concern, or amongst all of our concerns, is the approach and the decisions that have been made throughout this entire process, has not been very transparent. we feel like we've, you know, bought our residences, it was not communicated to us that this was going to be a supportive housing. initially on the map, it was listed as affordable housing for sale and then when the project came about at the beginning of this year, those representives as supportive housing. that's one. moving forward, we're just hoping that we're listened and our feedbacks are taken into consideration. especially when it comes to the design and the security aspect of it and the maintenance of it. we really want to just have our voice heard and taken into consideration. thank you. >> todd david. >> good afternoon, commissioners. todd david on behalf of the san francisco housing action coalition. just want to say that we are 100% in support of this project. we're very pleased that bridge c.h.p. and l.m.s., all members, were chosen to lead this project. we think it is great. as far as concerns from the neighborhood, understandable. you know, i just want to say that it is not just homeless people who have mental health issues or who have problems and that we don't always get to choose. you know, we don't do a screening of people who are buying houses and so i think that we need to be thoughtful and not treat anyone with a different level of concern. and that, you know, that certainly people need to -- everyone should be a good neighbor, regardless of how much money they earn or don't earn or what their situation s. i just want to be careful about set ago precedent that we're setting different expectations, depending on what your income is. like i don't think of that as necessarily really great policy. once again, just wanted to say that, you know, we have the fullest confidence in this group. that is leading this project and we're in full support and any way that we can helpful in outreach to the community or anything, we would be happy to roll up our sleeves and get to work. so, thank you. >> thank you, mr. david. >> corey smith. >> good afternoon, commissioners. corey smith. i'm going to read a letter from a neighbor in mission bay south. dear commissioner, my name is f. ron bycker. i live in mission bay south across the street from the proposed supportive housing development. i'm unable to attend the upcoming meeting in person, i'd like to register my support in favor of item 5b. i can speak to the merits of the recommended site plan and design, but i'd like to speak more broadly about thisened pro. i believe supportive housing on block nine. helps facilitate multiple policy objectives that bring to light values i hold dear. for one thing, supportive housing is a provesen approach to addressing the homelessness crisis we see on our city streets. second, supportive housing in mission bay contributes to the ongoing development of a renowned mixed income community that can serve as a model for other neighborhoods across the city. third, by locating supportive housing in mission bay and not -- and not an already low-income neighborhood, we take one step forward to combating the further concentration of poverty in our city. the mixed income nature of our neighborhood, combines with the services offered at the supportive housinging development, will be crucial to residents receiving their best chance at getting back on their feet. often times highest and best use refers to the financial gains that can be made on a parcel of land. too rarely it is used to describe what a project like this can achieve. a transformative impact on the lives of struggling san franciscans. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> arlene singer. >> hello. my name is arlene singer, i'm a resident across the street from lot nine. i just want to reiterate what was said earlier about my personal concern. i'm fully in support of puttinging the housing there. and having as much support as possible. i want to encourage c.h.p., not only to have ongoing conversations with the direct neighbors of the housing project but also to have ongoing communications once the project is completed and people are living there. that we want to maintain and i'm sure that the residents of the new housing are going to want to have the same kind of neighborhood we have now and so i really encourage the folks at c.h.p. to reach out on a very regular basis with the residents in the immediate area. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> peter cohen. >> good afternoon, commissioners. peter cohen with the council of community housing organization. we were here in june, it was informational. and saying now what we said then, which is your staff has been doing an excellent job in working this project through the process, to this point. so, we are here in full support and supporting the commission, the staff and the work. mission bay is a long-time vision. a lot of folks weren't around when it was first imagined. but 30% affordable at the time was a very visionary, very ambitious goal and it certainly included affordable housing scattered throughout the community. as part of how neighborhoods should be built from scratch in support of housing for formerly homeless is part of it. you know, i think it's sort of easy to say that the long-term solution to homelessness is homes. and that is what we do. our coalition is building permanently affordable housing for a whole variety of populations and in this case supportive housing is one of the ways that we provide homes for formerly homeless folks and we have a lot of confidence that it will be done very, very well at the highest professional standards. in tomorrows of some of the issues that have come up in the online petition that we heard in june, at the c.a.c. meetings and elsewhere, they're understandable. most folks are haven't experienced an affordable housing project coming to their neighborhood so there is a learning process and that is frankly what c.h.p. and bridge and all the organizers and all the organizations do. they hit the streets and they're end indicating and they're winning minds and hearts in the projects that they do and i'm very confident that by the end of this process, not only will we have a well-designed project, but folks will actually understand the value of having well-managed, affordable housing in their community. and that is why affordable housing nonprofit organizations spend so much time on community engagement. it is not just a check box. it is part and parcel of doing good work. and lastly, very happy that there is a widespread support for this project by many organizations beyond our typical affordable housing movement. so, good luck. thank you. >> thank you, mr. cohen. >> bill brozzy. >> commissioners, bill brozzy. i'm a resident about 60 feet across the street from this proposed development. and i think i can speak for a good 100-and-some people that we're opposed for various reasons. we understand and appreciate supportive homeless and affordable housing. we thought we were getting more affordable housing in our area. however, our district, including the mission, mission bay and all the surrounding and including the tenderloin, we've goten the bulk of all the affordable housing and homeless housing. we have several other homeless projects in the formerly homeless neighborhood. and this one came as a shock as richard said, nobody advised. who decides this stuff? it came at the last minute as a shock and nobody -- now we hear that there is another one going to be developed just down the street. similar to this one. so, the horse has probably already left the barn. by toured the four other -- three other comparable units, buildings of supportive housing and i must say i found people in each that said night with everything you can, including some people in the police department. so it is not like we're against homeless. supervisor kim had a meeting recently. they were going to try to spread the wealth around the rest of the city. nothing like this exists anywhere. in the north, west or other parts of the city. we did expect affordable for sale, but that didn't happen. it was changed. nobody ever -- unlike any other neighborhood with this is a long-approved community. we had no option -- there were no neighbors in the beginning. i've been there for 10 years. we never had an option to say we liked this, we hate it, we didn't even know it was coming and changed at the last minute. >> thank you. >> so, i thank you for your time and we still hope this works out and some of the neighbors -- >> thank you. >> neighbors in the neighborhood are with us as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> tony roblis. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is tony roblis. i work at senior and disability action. we are in support of the mission bay block nine supportive housing project. we know that the numbers of homeless people have risen drastically. many, many homeless are seniors. people were, you know, once housed, who had housing, but were, you know, were displaced because of evictions. there are folks who do have physical, mental disabilities that need to be housed. from our perspective, you know, we hear the words safety and security. and from our perspective, you know, safety goes a long way in being housed. if you have a home, that's a part of safety. ok? if you have a home, that's a part of security. so those are very, very basic things. and frankly, you know, this affordable housing, this supportive housing is much needed. you have people who do not have homes and that are in dire need of homes and in dire need of supportive services. i know that there are concerns of community and that's healthy. that questions, you know, have been raised and those questions i know will be -- there will be a discourse and those questions will be answered. but we're in support of that on part of our organization. thank you. >> thank you. >> teresa flanderi. >> good afternoon. i'm also with senior and disability action so i won't repeat what tony's just said but a lot of our work has been around trying to keep people in their homes, especially seniors and people with disabilities and so to try to stop evictions that we are lose so many people in our different neighborhoods. i live in north beach and we would love to have affordable housing complex there. especially to bring back those who had been viktd. we don't have a whole lot of space. north beach is pretty densely built out already so i'm glad that mission bay has an opportunity to have something in place that will also deal with the transitional process that people are going through in being homeless, having once been housed than being homeless to having a stable housing situation, to be in a community. we grow organically where we have people with mental health issues, who have gone through different struggles at different times. in creating a development, it is so great that this is a mixed income and diversity. at c.h.p. there will trou my be a supportive housing situation there. we really support this. thank you. >> thank you. >> david elliott lewis. >> greetings, commissioners. i'm a 32-year residence of san francisco. i work for the san francisco police department as a crisis intervention team trainer. we teach police to deal with people in mental health crises, teach them to talk, not shoot. we believe that we're saving lives. the reason i mention this is this would not even be possible for if it weren't for the community housing partnership. in the early 2000s, due to untreated mental illness, i found myself homeless and traumatized and going downhill fast into the darkness. community housing partnership gave me a hand up. they gave me housing at their iroquois hotel and that allowed me to rebuild my life and turn my life around and start volunteering for the community, start helping out and here's also what i noticed. i'm a supportive housing redent. i've been treated very well by community housing partnership and i've seen how they interact with their own neighbors so we're surrounded by a number of market rate buildings, including 8880 farrell, across the street. i've gotten the know the residents of other community housing partnership projects. they have quite a few buildings. and they also live in well-run buildings that are respected by their neighbors. this is an organization that not only knows how to develop and really quality properties and really help people who are homeless rebuild their lives but they know how to get along in a market rate environment that is all around them. they're respected by neighbors. they're good neighbors. and any neighborhood that has taken them in has been glad to have them as a neighbor and proud to say they're a neighbor. and i'm proud to even be a resident of this organization. and i hope you approve c.h.p.'s application. thank you. >> ramon conterro. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm the community organizing supervisor at tnbc. and i just want to say that in regards to this project, 100% of supportive housing development was always part of the mission bay plan prior to any market rate development and the other concern we have in terms of tnbc's projects is that we need to do more to distribute the construction of low-income housing developments. all throughout the city. not just in the tenderloin or the mission bay. so that is the biggest concern. i think it is -- we are also in a crisis of housing and people are displaced every day out of the city and as we produce more high-paying jobs, we also produce a lot more jobs that are low-paying and we need to think of those people, too. and the other concern i have is the increasing number of people of color that have been displaced out of the city. and this is not to assume that all people of color are low-income, but the fact of the matter is that there is a correlation between market rate development versus low income and the displacement of people of color. so, we need to support this project and many others in an effort to keep the city diverse, keep actually the city -- that builds housing for everyone. not just for a few people that can afford it. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> dina cehan. >> hi, there. excuse me. my name is dena country, han and i'm a resident and the supportive housing will be built literally in my backyard. i just wanted to share my experience as a nurse practitioner working in substance abuse and mental health and with people who a large portion of whom are homeless. i have patients at the renee cousinov and patients at the richardson. when my patients get into those buildings we're overjoyed because we know that they'll get a new lease on life. we purchased our home in 2011 at that building. and we knew from day one from blueprints what was going to be on the lot next door and we supported it then and we support it now. ahem. i hear a lot of fear from my neighbors and, as we know, fear can be quite irrational and i hope that, you know, as this gets built and we all become one community that fear will go away. i hear my neighbors most often say that they support diversity and affordable housing, just not here. there's an acronym for it, i'm not going to say it. but i'll say it build it in my backyard. it is a great concept. great implementation. wonderful opportunity for people. we need it in every neighborhood this city. thank you. >> thank you. madame secretary, before we move on, if there is -- the overflow room is in the north light court. if there are individuals in the north light court that would like to speak on this item, we ask that you come up now so that you can be heard. madame secretary? >> laura foote-clark. >> la you are ra clark. i'm a representative of the yes in my backyard and we're in strong support, of course. and i think that some of the neighbors have one small point, which is we're not seeing projects like this happen in other neighborhoods. and that is not a reason to not do this project. that is a reason to look for other sites, especially on the west side. especially in some of our more quote-unquote residential neighborhoods. where we could see a lot more housing go in. and a lot more low-income housing and a lot more supportive housing. that is how we get integration and that is the unfinished work that we need to be doing right now. low-income people should be living in every community. we have, for too long, let many off the hook from equity of development and that means that we need to be looking at places like st. francis wood, which is on a muni station and is single-family home detached. we need to be talking about upzoning those. assembly member phil tang really passed a great piece of legislation that will expedite our ability to produce a lot more shelters and supportive housing and we need to be a san francisco and the whole bay area lookinging at ways to utilize that legislation to get a lot more projects like this built as quickly as possible. i just moved into district six and every day on my walk from my apartment, which is under the highway basically to my office, i pass by people living in tents and people who have no other options. and that is not acceptable. our society needs to be creating a lot more housing for people and we need to be looking for ways to do that faster every day. thank you. >> thank you. >> ace washington. >> keep can game, y'all. because i have a few people in the back that look like me. excuse me if i talk and i'm not a racist because i got white folks in my family. but right now i am here representing the black man. the black woman. whose population is way down. we are in a state of emergency. at this agency, you had the other name, redevelopment, is responsible. and right now because of the supervisors and all unanimously decided they want to push their name from their justin herman and my name is ace, dam mit and i've been on this case. as far as this development, we bridge. the bridge got to burn. i got a question for bridge. and then i want them to give me the answer and they can do it outside. would they deny a senior citizen, would they deny a handicap person? and would they deny a black man in one of your developments? which you're ready to be the biggest developer in the city in public housing. and i dare y'all! to come up here and ask for more money to do one in mission bay in which i've been telling y'all. mission bay, they don't know. my sisters and brothers. it was a black man who tell us hire jim jefferson! i was there 20, 30 years ago. it was a black man! so everybody, in all these developments, i told y'all. i was waiting for the proper time. all of the developers, all y'all big-time money, y'all going to have to do something for the black man simply because we gonna erase justin herman and that is right by mission bay. jim jefferson name need to be mentioned before he build anything else. i was reading in the paper about a development of drop box within the city now. dammit, my name is ace. ha ha ha. i'm on the case. and all this stuff y'all used to do is not responsible and get in my way right now. and particularly bridge. we don't have to talk outside. >> thank you, mr. washington. you did it to me. denied me housing over there in bayview. >> thank you, mr. washington. >> disabled. we had a surgery. you denied because i'm ace! >> mr. washington, thank you. very much. >> up here to -- >> hey, ace. come on, man. thank you. thank you. >> it's personal against -- >> i know. i know. but -- >> the black people -- >> but we got other folks that want to speak, my friend. >> i had to let it be known. >> i know. you always do. >> kale gilman. >> ok. >> hello. >> good morning. i'm the c.e.o. of community housing partnership and i want to express how excited we are today to be before you for block nine. for the last 27 years, community housing partnership has helped homeless people secure housing and become self-sufficient. this is all we do. we do know affordable development. the 17 properties throughout san francisco that we own and operate support for only homeless families, young adults 18 to 24 who exited foster care, single adults and seniors. we decided in three nontraditional neighborhoods and have successfully been running those properties for numerous years. we own property in the maria, on lumbard and scott. we own the richardson apartments. we view ourselves as a good neighbor. we understand that we need to engage in the community. we need to build those relationships. our residents want the same things as the residents of mission bay. they want a safe, secure home. they want a thriving neighborhood where they can integrate and be part of it and they want to contribute back. through our intensive service intervention, our residents reach a level of self-sufficiency where they're going to back to school. many of them actually, after a period of stabilization, move out. we currently have 57 residents in our portfolio who are doing housing searches with portable vouchers in the market because they no longer need our intervention. we help stabilize health outcome. we help stabilize income and we know that with the proper community outreach, we can build a thriving neighborhood. our neighbors in the marina, hayes valley and trans-bay, many of them would tell you that we're active neighbors with them. we've brought in great commercial spaces, particularly in trans bay and we have integrated so much into the dmaunl they no longer have any other concerns and many of our good neighbor agreements have expired and not been renewed because we've done such a great job being that neighbor. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> ms. shahsaudry? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is natessa and i'm with bridge housinging. i'm going to keep this brief. as kim mentionedier, bridge has partnered successfully with c.h.p. and a successful supportive housing development in the trans bay which is operated and maintained by c.h.p. ocii put out an r.f.p. and want to thank staff for recommending our team to the commissioners. we're looking forward to working with the c.a.c. on developinging another successful development in mission bay block nine. thank you. >> thank you. >> ostra jane? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is oscar james. first of all, i'm in support of this senior homeless housing that's going to be built down in mission bay. i want mission bay homeowners and people who are down there now understand one thing. that particular property was a part of our model cities that ran from geneva street all the way to the drawbridge in mission bay. when the supervisors came up with the idea of bringing the [inaudible] and doing all those other development down there, they split it, the districts. ok? and they took that out of our area. our area, the model cities area, we covered all of that, dog patch. a portion of federal hill. all the way down to, like i said, the drawbridge. any development comes down to mission bay, we're going to make sure our peoples have the opportunity to go down there in homeless housing. we want to make sure our certificate holding and murder they have first preference down there. we want to make sure the people for who's in bayview hunter's point have a prefrnls of moving down there. those who are in dog patch have a prefrnls of moving down there. those are all of our 50 peoples. in the 40s when they first laid off all of our brothers and sisters in the shipyard, most of the fathers who were denied being at home with their families and stayed in those boxcars down there at mission bay. they were homeless. they are not allowed to go to their homes up there. but that is the fact. most of our grandfathers and fathers are do unthere. they were homeless. the grandkids have the right to be able to move in mission bay. i don't care who comes down there. no one wanted to be at bayview hunters point before. and now with all this new development, they want to come in and dictate to us what is going to happen down there. we say no no. thank you very much. [applause] >> mr. vice chair? >> many dam secretary? >> mr. vice chair, i have no speaker cards. >> oh, wait. oh. >> this young lady right here. >> he told me i didn't need one. who he working for. he told me i didn't need a speaker card. good afternoon. my name is joanne abernathy and i am an advocate in the bayview and also sit on the board for my housing complex where i live at. so i got up here to speak on behalf, i did some work with c.h.p. years ago, volunteer work. and it is a good service for the homeless community. but i haven't heard anybody come up here and talk about the real issue. if you're going to build some houses in the mission bay, for the homeless people, are they going to stay in there and how long they gonna stay? first of all, we need to be talking about how we going to physically and mentally fix those homeless people before we place them in some homes. out on the street. because they got mental issues that they need to fix. you just can't move somebody into a place and they haven't fixed their mental issue. you not protecting the community. sos if you are going to move people into these places and you got these places set aside for the homeless, now should be the time that they have a lot of mental health services running do unthere in the mission bay underneath where them people sleeping with tents that i don't see. so, the city needs to first thing of prevention. before they think about moving somebody into a house and they got a mental issue because i wouldn't want somebody living next door to me knowing they been homeless for 15 years or 10 years or five years or how they gonna react to having a place and not having their mental issue, concerns fixed. so that is my concern. my second concern is all this stuff that y'all doing in the mission bay and y'all got one main line that is going down there. you know, i catch the t and a lot of times i have trouble with it stopping in our community. so, now it's already impacted and packed at 5:00. so now you're talking about more people in the community that have to catch this train. how is that going to work? in the mission bay? >> thank you, ms. abernathy. >> mr. vice chair, i have no more speaker cards. >> is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak? hearing none and seeing none, i close public comment and i turn to my fellow commissioners for questions and comments. commissioner singh? >> we have lots of projects down by the bridge and i just want to know a couple of questions. do we have the list of this 1916 units and who's going to get it? >> we don't. the units will be unique in they will be refered to any residents coming into this project will be refered to the project by the department of homelessness and supportive housing and will be working through the coordinated entry system, which is a new system that the whole city is movinging to, wherein all of their remote service sites will log -- or residents and people that they interact with into this system and it will prioritize people for housing based on a number of factors including need. and if you have specific questions, margo antonetti can speak to that. >> are the units for sale? >> either rental units, yes. >> and we don't haves a list of those people who will get it? >> we don't, no. not yet. again, yeah, those will be on -- for the initial lease up and then an ongoing basis, any vacancies would be filled by the department of housing. >> and do you know the completion date? >> i'll pull up the schedule. we are still working out the specifics of a schedule. but we are currently anticipating construction start in 2019 and depending on the construction type and how the actual development plays out, probably a year to 18 months for construction. >> ok. thank you. >> sure. >> any further comments and questions? >> i have a question based upon what joanne said. so, as you mentioned, there is a process of ratinging the need of the individuals to get into the home. what is the process of that evacuation in terms of ready to be seen if they're to live on their own and day-to-day case mansionment. >> i'm going to refer that question to margo antonetti who works on these issues every day. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm margo antonetti, the manager of the housing program for the department of homelessness and supportive housing. so we already have a coordinated entry system in place. for our federal subsidies. and we're currently implementing it for families. the one for adults in city supported housing is just in the process of being developed. we are building on the tools that we have been developing before and so that tool assesses peoples' needs as well as their time homeless as well as what they're interested in, in terms of housing. the coordinated entry system is go to change the way that the currency works within the system's homeless programs. currently there are ways if which you come in through all kinds of agencies. the coordinated entry system, and i wish i had a slide for you is really going to filter and streamline the way that people go into the one system, which is where everybody who's homeless will be registering themselves in and we already have 10,000 people that are registered in that system. and then the tour will prescreen people in terms of whether or not they need permanent, supportive housing. then there will be a deeper assessment and after that, the application still goes to the development and the development

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