Supervisors board of agenda, otherwise stated. Thank you, madame clerk. Call items one, two, and three together. Yes. Items number one, two, and three are ordinances amending the general code and zoning map to add the 1629 Market Street special use district and approving a Development Agreement with stratta brady l. L. C. With various Public Benefits including open spaces in support of Affordable Housing and making appropriate findings. Thank you. This project has been a long time in coming and we are delighted that it has got ton the board of supervisors. I want to thank the mayor and his staff, of course, the Plumbers Union local 38 and the cosponsors of this legislation, supervisors kim and sheehy. I want to thank the folks from stratta for the briefing that they gave me together with city staff a few weeks ago. And thank mr. Sullivan for all of his work on this project. That is going to bring Affordable Housing and Community Benefitss to this area of mid market. And with that, should we start with somebody from the Planning Department or ms. Topier who wants to start . Richard . Good afternoon, supervisors. Department staff. The item before you is for the project approvals for 1629 Market Street. On october 19, the Planning Commission considered a series of actions in support of the project at 1629. Included in their actions were recommendations for approval of a general plan amendment to the market activity plan, to amend the plan in support of the project that is before you. A series of planning code text amendments and zoning map amendment to basically realign the zoning map toward new parcels that will be created as part of the project. As well as to increase the height limit for one of the parcels in support of the Affordable Housing parcel for the associated project and to establish the 1629 Market Street s. U. D. In addition, the Planning Commission considered a recommendation of approval for the Development Agreement as well as the conditional use authorization and planned unit, all of which were affirmed by the Planning Commission. Id like to introduce Michael Cohen, the project sponsor, to provide information on the project. Mr. Cullen, good afternoon. Good afternoon, supervise sorts. For the record, Michael Cohen, im a principal developer of this project. Well throw up a very quick presentation for you. Yep. Thank you. So, our site is a 2. 25acre site which is on the eastern edge of the market octavia plan area near van ness. The property is owned by a local 38 plumber and Pipefitters Union and their Pension Trust fund in stratta has a 99year lease of the property. Current uses on the site, moving sort of east to west, Market Street include the Civic Center Hotel, which is an aged s. R. O. , local 38 hall, a small retail frontage along Market Street and then what is one of the largest assemblages of surface parking lots in downtown San Francisco. The site was zoned under the market octavia plan primarily for 85foot residential buildings with ground floor retail along market and 12th street. And a large central open space. And our Development Plans respect and meet these requirements with 584 residential units in five different buildings with none higher than 85 feet. 13,000 square feet of retail, mainly along market and 12th street. 23,000 square feet of Public Open Space and gardens, plus a 30,000 square foot new stateoftheart union hall and the renovation of the Civic Center Hotel. In addition to meeting the requirements of the market octavia plan, our project exceeds the plan requirements in three important ways. [sirens] first, upon completion, approximately 27 of all the residential units will be affordable and lower than usual but average area meeting income levels. And because we knew from the beginning that our plans needed to include a thoughtful approach to the Civic Center Hotel and its residents, we have committed to construct a 100 Supportive Housing project on site with our Partners Community housing partnership. And the project will be phased such that the c. H. P. Supportive housing building must be complete and ready for occupancy before we can even begin renovating the Civic Center Hotel and this will ensure that the existing residents can move into the new building without being even temporarily displaced from the site. To our knowledge, this is the First Time Ever if San Francisco that supportive Homeless Housing has been included as part of a private project and perhaps even more uniquely no city money from the Mayors Office of housing or otherwise has been used to construct the c. H. P. Building. We are donating the land and paying for the gap financing. Second, well preserve the project center hotel and excellent retail frontage along Market Street near brady. Indeed, were planning to seek millsac treatment for the Civic Center Hotel and thus will be adding the building to the National Register and look forward to coming back to the board of supervisors early in the new year. Third, the project privately funds and delivers what was one of the most important open space aspirations of the market octavia plan which was a center piece publicly accessible open space that would serve the entire area. The extensive input from nearby residents, weve designed and will build an immersive garden that will be activated on all sides that also includes a decorative art piece that will screen the existing structure. Interestingly, in meeting the challenges of the e3 Public Policy issues Affordable Housing, open space and historic preservation, we were pushed and ultimately embraced a pretty wonderful, diverse, and finegrained urban design while unlike more monolithic glass towers that you might see further down Market Street, this project is comprised of six different buildings and they have different heights and massing and materiality and here are a few other vantage points. You can see this is looking up Market Street and this is across the street from the cafe. Were very proud of this project. But were even more so of our partners and i do want to acknowledge just a few, first and foremost, local 38 and the Pension Trust fund. When it comes to supporting supportive Homeless Housing, local 38 is really walking the walk here. Because we are building them a new home that theyre going to occupy forever right next to the new c. H. P. Supportive housing building and i think they deserve a tremendous amount of credit for giving us the freedom to try to make that happen. I also want to acknowledge the community, especially the brady street neighbors. We had a really wonderful dialogue with them throughout this process. And, of course, there are some issues that people have legitimate concerns about like construction impacts and what does it mean for traffic and the like. But not once in three years of meetings did we have anyone in that Community Say we dont want supportive Homeless Housing in our backyard. And that is not something that you often see and i think they deserve a tremendous amount of credit. And frankly a big reason that both local 38 and the brady neighbors were comfortable supporting a Supportive Housing project here was because of c. H. P. They have an impeccable track record, both building and operating Supportive Housing. So with that, ill turn it over to anne topier and then well be here to answer any questions that you have. Ms. Topier. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, supervisors. Anne topier, project manager in the office of economic and Workforce Development. I just plan to take a couple of minutes provide an overview of the primary elements that make up the Community Benefits package in the Development Agreement. Unlike d. A. S for projects that require significant up zoning, the city is entering into this agreement with strada brady l. L. C. Whose project is largely code compliant to secure all the Community Benefits, fees and requirements identified by the market octavia plan as well as a significantly enhance the Affordable Housing program in large privately owned publicly accessible open space, all of which will be located within the boundaries of the privately owned proposed project site. If exchange for a 15year vested development right, the city receives legal assurance that these additional benefits will be delivered in a timely manner in accordance of the time with the d. A. For this project, the d. A. Primarily focuses on the delivery of the colt canon street 1 un hundred affordable Supportive Housing parcel. It will provide 100 units of deeply Affordable Housing for formerly homeless tenants. The first tenants in the building will be the longterm residents of the Civic Center Hotel who, upon completion of the building, will provide relocation to the brandnew units on colton street. The d. A. Incentivizes the developer to deliver the colton Street Building early in the term by restricting access to construction permits into a market rate residential building until after colton street is completed and ready for occupancy. Strada has entered into a joint venture to construct a new building and the developer is funding 100 of the gap. Relieving the city of any financial commitment to the development of the building. In addition to this new onsite 100unit Supportive Housing, the project will deliver inclusionary workforce units throughout much of the four market rate buildings on site. In total, the project will contain up to 584 units with 27 affordable at an average of approximately 50 of the median income. This essentially doubles the inclusionary requirement for the site under the market octavia plan. The 57workforce units will be delivered at units not exceed 100 of a. M. I. As you know, when originally approved the market octavia plan recommended Public Open Space at this site but did not provide a mechanism for delivering a park on privately owned land. The second key benefit provides a new network of public accessible open spaces throughout the project site, including a 13700squarefoot privately owned publiclyaccessible groundlevel park to be known as the joseph p. Mazzola gardens. It uncolludes childrens play equipment, seating and recreation areas all built, operated and maintained at no cost for the city. And approximately 7800 square foot portion of the gardens will constitutas inkind contribution to the Community Infrastructure impact fee. Providing a critical public space in further to the market octavia plans market space goals and policies. In total, the project features 23400 square feet of publicly accessible open space. Prior to obtaining certificates of occupancy for the a and b market rate residential blls, the developer is obligated to provide mid block open spaces. And finally the develop her enter into a agreement with o. E. D. And establish a hiring goal by the contract monitoring division. This concludes my summary of the Development Agreement and im available for my questions if you have them. Thank you. Any questions from members of this panel . Seeing none. Are there any additional comments from staff from planning or the office of economic and Workforce Development . Ok. This is an extremely controversial project. [laughter] [inaudible]. And supervisor kim may have some comments after Public Comment. Mr. Mazzolla, i think i saw you. Lets start Public Comment with you. Thank you to you and local 38 for participating in this. And i have a number of speakers ive also neglected to acknowledge, Community Housing partnership in ms. Gilman and mr. Tracy for their work at the Civic Center Hotel. This has been kicking around since my first term in office. Im delighted that 1629 market is finally here. The floor is yours. Thank you very much. Thank you for allowing me to speak today on behalf of this great project. Were very excited to be at this stage. It has been a long time coming, as you said. Supervisor peskin, local 38s had its headquarters at 1629 Market Street for over 50 years and were proud neighbor in the community and Work Together with strada. We interviewed a bunch of Different Developers over the years and strada came out by far and above the best. Theyre well qualified and have a great team design with c. H. P. And with the david baker and associates. Its a great team. And theyve been reaching out to the Community Like you said. Theyve had countless meetings and they have been doing everything on the up and up and have gone over and above where they need to be. We couldnt have picked a better partner. This goes without saying that the project will be 100 union. With good paying jobs. Good benefits. And its going to create a lot of great working conditions for the people that work on that job. With this project, local 38 and its members remain a key part of transforming Market Street neighborhood for a longterm and we think this is a great job. Like i said with great benefits for the community. Were very excited. We hope that you feel the same way. Thank you . For your time. Thank you for your time. Thank you, and thank you to the members of local 38. I have a couple of speaker cards. Mr. James tracy and dwayne sears. And if there is anybody else, please come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy, im standing in for gail gilman, our c. E. O. Of Community Housing partnership whos out of town for the next week or so. When gail first contacted me by text and said, hey, i need you to come to a meeting. Were going talk about tearing the civic center down and building it up, i said oh, my god. Have we got ourselves into . Quite bluntly. But once we met with strada and realized their commitment to making sure that the Civic Center Hotel was rebuilt just around the corner and stayed in the neighborhood, they werent trying to pull any type of shenanigans that are quites common in other proceedings. And they really became trustworthy partners. Its been a been an honor to talk with the community members. Again especially the brady street neighbors who have always asked the real questions. The questions of keeping people out of their community or pushing people out and never became part of the dialogue which is very appreciated on our part. Were excited to see this new building. Were hoping that it becomes step up housing for people in some of our other buildings that no longer need intense services that are ready to move on and we look forward to partnership with the city and all the other stakeholders as that dialogue progresses. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Tracy. Mr. Sears. Im with the Community Housing partnership. Excuse me can. This building has been there for quite some time. I lived in this building 20 years ago. And i think it changes like [inaudible] and ill support it. And im i think it should be approved. Ok. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify . Please come forward. Hello, committee members. My name is lisa dunmaier. Ive lived at 67 brady street for over 17 years and im speaking in support of the 1629 Market Street project today, representing three other neighbors who were not able to attend in person. There are other 100 of us in the neighborhood that have been eagerly working in support of this project. We first met Michael Cohen and will goodman in 2015. April of 2015 at supervisor kims neighborhood meeting at the red cross building. And since then, they have, as mentioned, met with us over 10 times as a gr