Some of this can reach over to the other side of 6th street. Park and rec in this plan, i frankly have more faith elsewhere than the soma plan. The rec center has not had hand towels since may. So there are issues when we talk about renovating the rec center and creating parks, what it means for now . How can we creep eight new when we dont take care of what we have . And i feel theres disproportionate investment in structures, not people. There are people in crisis that need the support and putting it into a building or a set of activities doesnt meet the need where it is. I dont want my kids to have to see that on the way to school. Its a huge issue that we hope can be taken as a whole and not just within that footprint. Thank you. Seeing no further comments on item number 3, i request that we close Public Comment. Public comment is closed. I want to thank all of the staff and members of the public and supervisor kim and her staff for the long road its taken to get to here. In the first hearing i raised some questions about whether or not there are studies that could allow for more housing and we discussed that offline, and also talked a little bit supervisor kim, havent talked to you about it, but the initial propk notion of metering and to see if there were ways that we can meter the amount of housing as offices being developed. I think thats a conversation we should be having. Before i got back on the board, supervisor kim attempted to do that and ran into some opposition from the other side of this building. But to get the plan forward, it has to get out of this board. It may be an opportunity to insert metering in, so we dont end up with office and then housing way later. You guys can take a crack at that as you would like, but also a way to communicate with my colleague as were supposed to do. Noted. Well come back to you. And i know that weve had conversations and i know first of all, i know through watching some of the Planning Commission meetings, theres been a lot of Public Comment about the balance of housing and office and theres been requests to examine where we can adore add or convert within central soma. Can you go into that a little bit . Yes. The plan has 7,000 Housing Units rebuilt. I. E. R. Assumed 8,000 or so Housing Units in the area. So there is margin to move that around. That said, since we started the conversation, we identified a few locations where we have additional housing. The Planning Department was not considering use of the state density bonus in this area. Supervisor kim, we looked at that, so its resulted in about 600 more Housing Development units. And weve identified a few office sites proposing to carve out space for Affordable Housing, so that adds to the total. There are not many more moves up our sleeves to add units altogether, unless some of the sites that are slated to be office somehow switch over to be residential and that moves the needle, recognizing you want to move that within the bandwidth of i. E. R. Or else we have to start that over. So we discussed this previously and the 30,000, 40,000. Right. Its abstract, but to make it a jobsoriented district, were requiring large parcels to be jobsoriented and the threshold is 30,000 square feet. If it moves to 40,000, it will be several hundred other units built in the neighborhood. Thank you. A number of things i want to know one additional question for mr. Wartheim. One member of the public talked about height and shadows. Yes. We would not allow any building to move forward with a shadow on south park. That is built in and thats why heights around south park are around 45 feet. And well make sure any building would not. So none of the heights being contemplated in the central soma plan right now would add additional shadow to south park . No. Thank you. I just want to acknowledge the members of the community that came out today. And for talking about the priorities that the community would like to see in terms of how we distribute the benefits of the central soma plan. And, first of all, to acknowledge that we have a community thats accepting of density and growth and height and i think that says a lot about the neighborhood that the south market is. But ensuring that as we accept growth and we understand that it is a role to build more housing in San Francisco and the bay area that we want to ensure that the benefits or the value that private developers are building upon, that it be shared with the community and how we would like to see that value shared. And to reiterate to be sure that were supporting our Small Businesses and our legacy businesses and those communities with the leather lgbtq community, as well as filipino, and making sure its more than historic districts, that were able to support them to live and continuing elements of south of market community. I also heard a need to ensure that we are supporting our tenants and allowing them to continue to live there with support services and Legal Support in languageappropriate services and that we are ensuring preservation of Affordable Housing and building new housing. I had just heard about a site grand aurenti, singleroom occupancy hotel units that have housed philippifilipino Members Community and the city is working to acquire the 22 units, but i had a heart attack when i heard about the 10 million in deferred maintenance that is coming with that site. And so theres a lot of work to do to preserve units and not build new ones. Finally, i think its important to note that were able to articulate the list of priorities that we have under the different buckets of benefits. And i did want to just, again, support some members of our public that spoke about air quality. I think its incredibly sad when we hear about, you know, all the particulate matter that people see on the leaves and our trees in the other open space areas. I see that in my unit where i live when i open my windows, but we want to be sure as we grow this neighborhood its safe neighborhoods for children, families and seniors to live in. So im very excited about the plan of the portion of the plan that will be dedicated funding to improve air quality and greening the district. I think thats just vital. We need to make sure that people are living, thriving, and were doing what we can to mitigate for the negative environmental impacts in the neighborhood finally and most importantly, what i walk away from, we need to think about how the governing structure of the fees as they come out through the multiple buckets, Affordable Housing, residential, environmental, pdr, open space, schools, childcare and cultural preservation, that as much as we can that we set our priorities with the soma plan and we have a longterm governing structure that can ensure that fees 5, 10 years down the road still reflect our community priorities. We heard mention of the cac through the former Redevelopment Area plans. I should note we have the Soma Stabilization Fund that looked at how to distribute infrastructure and community service, looking at it as an option for some of the fees as well as the eastern Neighborhoods Advisory Committee as well. So michael is to work with the community as well as planning to set up a governing structure for how we disperse fees in the future. I think theres a lot of work to do and i ask the community to help us to develop our list of priorities as well, as we think about what the Priority Services are, im struck by, you know, hearing the staff at betsy carmichael, in terms of the readi reading level scores, its hard it hear, but sacramento does project spending needs for prison based on 3rd grade test scores. There is a nexus between when children succeed in Elementary School and the likelihood of ending up in our prison system. So whatever we can to do strengthen our communities in the long term, i think we should certainly be focused on that. Finally, i mentioned this in the beginning, but really thinking about our cultural districts and how we support that through the central soma plan as well. So this is the second of three hearings that ive called on the central soma plan. I want to thank all the departments for being here. Weve didnt ask all of you to come up and speak today, but think its important for the departments to hear from the board and members of the community. So, chair peskin, i have no further comment. I make a motion to file this item. Councillor peskin happy to file the item and look forward to the third hearing and hearing both from members of the public as well as continuing to work with supervisor kim and Planning Department staff on the notion of metering. With that, well file the item and adjourn the hearing. Good morning, everyone. My name is todd rufto of the Workforce Development program. Its great to be here at the San Francisco museum of ice cream. I want to thank the entire team here for hosting us for this event. This is a special day. We are doing the Fourth Annual launch of the mayors shop and dine in the 49 local shopping campaign. This is a really big deal because it is a partnership between a great many members of the Small Business community and the neighborhood throughout the city focused on helping san franciscans spend more money in our local commercial corridors and at Small Businesses in San Francisco. But it is also an opportunity to celebrate the entrepreneurs that are making that keep San Francisco strong, that are keeping the city thriving and vie brand. One of the things that im really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in the office of economic Workforce Development launched this program to do exactly that. To encourage and challenge san franciscans to do more in our Small Business community. Mayor lee has done more than any mayor that i know to invest and support in Small Businesses, directing more money and investing more money than any administration in the citys history to support Small Businesses through the invested neighborhoods program, by launching a Small Business portal, by meeting constantly with our Small Business leaders and as a tireless advocate for the issues that they care about most. It is my honor and privilege to introduce mayor lee. [applause] thank you. Thank you, todd. Good morning, everybody. Let me correct todd because i want to make sure you understood the challenge. I challenged him to find me more ice cream. That was the real challenge. And im really happy to be here. At the Ice Cream Museum. This is one of those innovative ideas, very unique to the city and, of course, theyre getting booked up like crazy and were in the heart of our shopping and union square and, of course, the chief and i already have enough chants. We need some opportunities to smile and, of course, were about to jump into this speckle pool. Forgive us if we have too much fun. The holidays are beginning. Were going to have lots of fun. I want people to not just come to the city but take advantage of really supporting the backbone of our Business Community and Small Businesses and people here, karen fled knows union square is at the heart of a lot of things that we do during the holidays. You have jeffries toys, my favorites. Theyre a legacy business in the city. And keep supporting them. [shouting] well have all of the different Business Associations that are working together with us. But the experience is all about fun. Safe fun. And that is why the chief and i will be doing a lot of things over the holidays to make safe shopper programs, to provide the safety level that people have. Reduce the Harm Reduction program on our streets. Make sure people, as many people can get off of our streets. While work on those hard things. In between those difficult, challenging things, we want to work with our Business Community to provide safe fun for the kids that will be here. Thousands of kids over the holidays, families. People from all over the world that are taking advantage of this wonderful city that we have. And were doing this with programs, yes, that we funded but we want to make sure that Everything Else is working for folks on the longterm. Small businesss are so important to cities like San Francisco. More than the backbone, they provide the innovative, the Cultural Diversity all over our neighborhoods. This is one big area. But listen, shop and dine in the 49 is about shopping in all of our neighborhoods. Allow them to give you cultural innovation, Small Business innovations, shopping small innovation because when people put their entire lives behind their Small Businesses, you should see the innovation that comes out of their ideas, their service, their good patronages of products and designs that are locally sensitive and culturally rich. Wanted to say thank you to this museum for starting out their innovation. I think kids already have ice cream in them because they are jumping up and down before they come in. To our restaurants, our Golden Gate Restaurant Association will be very full this year. Probably hard to get reservations. But persevere. Use every app that you can or, like i do, walk in with a 5 bill or something and hand somebody. Then they will give you a seat. The oldfashioned way. But i know mark is excited because Small Businesses really are our engine and creating even more and they not only love our support, we love supporting them. But i want to emphasize shop and dine in the 49. Go to that app. If you really want to have a lot of information about those stores. And well be on the streets to make sure everybody is safe and enjoying themselves. Of course, this is thanksgiving. So, were going to, just after this, well be handing out a lot of turkeys to people if their need. We have fire victims up north that are in need. We have people on the streets that are in need. I want to make sure that the spirit, the principles that we operate on, are right in front of us. Right in the front of everything that we do, that we support, everybody that needs that help and thats why these this is so wonderful because they are often the untold, unknown heroes that come out and do a lot of gift donations and support that never gets covered and i want the media to cover them. Cover all of our Small Businesses as they really are the help that we want to have. So thank you very much, everybody. And shop and dine in 49. Happy holidays. [applause] thank you, mayor. As the mayor said, this Holiday Season is about shopping local and shoppinging safe. It is my honor to welcome our fantastic chief of police, chief scott. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everybody. I couldnt have said it better than mayor lee. [kids shouting] and this place is fun in here. Im not a big ice cream eater, but my entire family is. Im sure i will be here many times during the holidays. This is my favorite time of year and it is my favorite time of year because the Holiday Season, thanksgiving, the Holiday Season, it brings out the best in communities. It is a time where were selfless, we give, we come together as a community. And definitely shop and dine in the 49 is, i think, the way to go. This time last year, even before i got hired by mayor lee to be the chief here, we were here during this period last years and i remember Walking Around, basically Walking Around this area and just going to the different businesses and it was an experience. For those of you who have lived here all your lives, when you come here from another city and experience this great city, it is really so