>> supervisor fewer: yes, i'll be very brief. supervisor yee, i'll be very happy to work with you on more aggressive tactics. and also, i did not hear from oewd that icon staptly hear from my small businesses is that they are having a harder and harder time getting employees to work in their stores. many of our businesses have wanted signs, and the retension rate is abysmal. they can't keep people working in their small businesses because they can't compete with the wages, and quite frankly people aren't willing to come in two hours to a job that pays $15 an hour, so i'd like that addressed at our next hearing, also. thank you. >> thank you very much. so much to say. i will just concur with my colleagues, and at this time i think i heard that we would like to continue items 1 -- actually, let's just continue item 1 to the call of the chair, and then, item 2, let ease file that one, if that's okay. okay. we'll do that, supervisor kim, without objection, okay? >> those motions are passed with supervisor safai being absent. >> thank you. can you, mr. clerk, call items 4 through 6 together, please. >> clerk: yes. i'd just like to note that we no longer have a quorum of the board of supervisors, and we are requeening asconvening as agreement between the port and china basin llc with a base rent of $55,416,000 permonth from april through september and $2,916 from october through march in direction of increasing parking demand by ballpark patron. item 5, add the mission rock district -- the marginal whafsh between pier 48 and pier 50 and -- mission rock street to the south and third street to the west. item number 6, resolution affirming the planning department's certification of filing an environmental impact report and adopting environmental findings under the california environmental quality act. >> thank you very much and thank you all for your patience on this item. i'm going to first turn it over to supervisor kim to speak on this item since it is your area. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, chair tang. this is a long time in the making, but the giants and i first really started discussing in mid2015 on this project, to 2.5 years later, it's great to have the project and city sponsor in the room. this project is something that i am really proud of in terms of working with the project sponsor because it was the very first project to commit to hitting 40% affordable and miding income housing, and it is probably one of the fee projects outside of any type of redevelopment area plan that is committing to such high levels of middle income housing, something which we as a city have not really done before. i have to say when i first got on the board of supervisors, i never thought i would fight for housing for families that made between 80 and $150,000 peryear, but that's really where we are in san francisco, which is people that make very good money and that work as nurses and teachers and entry level workers and even tech workers can't afford to live in san francisco anymore, so i just want to thank the giants for hitting it out of the ballpark and really being a team that is for san francisco by ensuring that we are building for san franciscans and that will contribute tremendously to the city. i also want to recognize that 2.5 years later, local 2 united here, united educators of san francisco, the community council housing organizations, toddco, former mayor art agnos, our former democratic chair, john burton, there were so many people who are engaged in this process to get to the project that is before us today. i wish we could have had this project come to us sooner, but there are always so many things involved in something this complex and big, so i'm really just happy that we're here today. this is really, as far as i know, the largest, i would call surplus property -- public surplus property that we have here available in san francisco, about 28 acres. and you know for me, it was incredible important that the city as a partner to this project because it was built on public land that we ensure that this was a project that meets the needs of our city, whether it was the eight acres of open spaces and parks to again the 40% of affordable housing to a mix of office retail and housing, i just think that this is the right project for this neighborhood. and it's also great to have a project where the neighborhood supports the upzoning and building and density in their back yard. finally, i just want to recognize, i do have a number of amendments that i'll be making after the presentation, but i also want to acknowledge that given the feedback that we've heard from the public -- and it's really just amazing how time changes from year to year, that we want to make sure that we maximize the housing on this project. 'cause 40% is great whether there's a lot of housing units that are being built. i know that there were certain parcels that were zoned initially for residential or hotel, and i just want to thank the giants for working with us and my office to ensure that all the residential parcels will be solely residential, and that we've moved the hotel option purpose to the commercial sites inkraed. and we hea -- instead. we heard from our housing ad covats that covats -- advocates, so we have a number of presenters today, so i just want to recognize them in the order that they'll be speaking in. we have phil william son from the port who will be presenting, and matt snyder, senior department of planning, along with matt vander water. i know that we have a number of other stakeholders that are here today that will be speaking in public comment, but i just want to acknowledge the port, of course for your work, because this is on port property, our city attorney's office, public works, mohck, sfmta, and of course our ballpark transportation coordination committee and just the entire team at the giants. so i believe folks are speaking in the order that i presented, but i've called up all the names, so really in any order that you'd like to come up. >> thank you, supervisor. madam chair, it's an honor and pleasure to be here before you today for this project. as supervisor mentioned, it's been many years in the making, and we are very, very proud of it, and you'll hear that today in our presentations. and we seek your recommendation today for the items on the calendar, items 4, 5, and 6, and i will be giving a brief overview of the project and touching on some highlights, and then i will be passing it onto jack behr to go into it a little bit more details. some of the mission rock site to give context to the area. i think -- [ inaudible ] -- to fruition and add the vitality and vibrancy that we've been working on for the last 11 years. and speaking of that timeline, you can see on this slide that we have been working for a while together. we appreciate the board's cooperation and assistance and advisement over the years, we started with a community outreach program over ten years ago, and from the beginning, this praj has benefited from the community i didn't know put and evolved and become a better prong over time with that input. the team has been seeking a collaborative team work in the project. both the port and the developer, working with other city agencies has mentioned, and with the community from the central waterfront advisory graep, cwgroup, cwag, to the various other groups, as well. so this is the site today, and then moving forward, the build out, you can see the parks that we talked about, the eight acres, the commercial and office space, and the how doesin doesing -- housing, and you'll hear more about that today. in looking at the proposed heights as approved by the recent proposition in 2015. and then listing some of the benefits of the project, the eight acres of parks, the residential units, 40% affordable, and a range of ami's as mentioned. considerable amount of office space to activate the site and provider workers for those units. retail, we have a very solid retail approach that will activate this site and make it a true neighborhood, and you'll hear more about that later. pier 48 is included in the project, as well. i'm sure pier 48 will exist in its current condition and current usage in the next fiesk to ten years until the giants and team working with it can identify a use for the site until that's feasible. not to leave out parking, the site does involve a structured parking facility to replace the surface parking that the site currently provides. briefly mention phasing. this is a depicktion, starting with phase one on the north side of the project, four of the parcels in phase one would be developed, and importantly, mentioning earlier the community outreach. one thing we heard loud and clear was it's important to build the open space at the beginning of this project, the substantial open space at china basin park. so phase one does include that china basin park expansion and improvement, so that when phase one comes on-line, it will have that parka menity to add value to the parcel, of course, but also to add value to the site and to the community. we slipped this slide in. we'll be at the gio on wednesday, but we also wanted to give this committee kind of a feel or why the port's doing this project, is that it does promise significant revenues for the port's deep needs up and down the waterfront. on the far left of the slide, you can kind of get an idea of where we are, the revenues we generate from parking. it's been a very successful parking lot, but you can see the different funding sources for the project really performs well for the port and the city and therefore the state for the long-term. and my last slide is just to give you an overview of where we are today and the upcoming next steps that we are going to be attempting to complete today. of course we're before you, the land use committee. wednesday, we'll be at the gao, and then next thursday, we'll be at the full board for consideration of the project. so i'd like to introduce jack behr to continue on with the project. >> thank you, phil, and my name is jack behr with the san francisco jients development team. good afternoon, supervisors. for more than ten years, we have worked in partnership with the port of san francisco and our neighbors to develop the land use plan before you today, and as a result, it's inspired, weaving parks, retail and housing in a way never done before. our proposal received 74% of the vote citywide and more than 80% of the vote in the surrounding community. we look forward to kratransforg a huge surface parking lot into a collection of parks, an eclectic array of shaps aops a cafes. we will make mission bay a more vibrant place to work and live. the parks are front and center. our waterfront park will be one of the most celebrated open spaces in the city, with views back to the ballpark and the bay bridge. the square in the heart of the project will become the social hub for not only mission rock but also mission bay. the streets are small, intimate, and carefully designed for pedestrians to gather and linger and enjoy a coffee, a meal, an art exhibit, and an overall sense of community. the smart mixture of office and housing allows for a vibrant place during the weekdays, week nights, over the weekend, and of course before and after giants games. the housing is integrated and in every building. with 40% of the units affordable to low and moderate incomes, ceo's and empty nesters will live alongside families and youth transitioning out of foster care. a great deal of creative thinking and collaboration went into this plan. from our neighbors who insisted that the waterfront park be bold and come first, to our supervisor, jane kim, who insisted that we push hard to achieve higher levels of affordable housing. so many smart, engaged, and talented people have helped shape the corrective vision for this important corner of the waterfront, and many of them are here today. speaking of smart and talented people, i'd like to introduce my colleague, fran weld, who will drill down on a couple of additional points. >> ic concur with that comment. thank you, supervisor kim, madam chair. we're really happy to be here with you today. we wanted to just touch on some of the design aspects that make mission rock so unique within the city of san francisco. jack mentioned the views that we have from the grand park to the center square, and what we've done with our design team, including urban planners, transportation experts, landscape architects is to make sure that the streets and the buildings themselves actually help to enhance the design of those parks. each of our streets will have a slightly different feel, depending on the location within mission rock and particularly at the ground floor. we spent a lot of time looking at the ground floor design, and it was really enlightening to listen to the discussion that preceded around retail because we -- [ inaudible ] we commissioned a neighborhood study that actually went and looked at the best of streets in san francisco and all of the great main streets of neighborhoods in the city in order to inform exactly how much retail we should have, how it should be sized and placed within the site. we studied the sizes of the shops from how many different -- the range of the sizes of the shops, how many were on each block, what is the difference between a corner store with a restaurant and a midblock shop, and we looked to emulate these features that were really consistent across the city in mission rock, which we believe will be the main street of mission bay. we actually went so far as to introduce an entirely different chapter of our controls. just to preview it, we've had the urban design team and the architecture landscape team work together to ensure that those retail spaces on the ground floor of each of our buildings is really working to activate and enhance the public realm along the streets themselves. we'll also be looking at a siteside programmisit siteside programming for all of the retail, so we'll be taking a holistic approach to look at where the restaurants should be, where the markets should be, and also to ensure that these uses will always be present going forward, and the port's been a great partner in thinking about that with respect to the long-term planning of the site. to each time so each time we have a phase up for approval, we will look at the how it fits into the overall merchandising and the neighborhood. similarly, we've taken a similar approach to the question of environmental sustainablity, and we've had some really unique design come out of this with respect to shared water recycling across the buildings. you'll see here an image that shows the residential buildings contributing to a recycled water system that then goes out to the commercial water buildings on the site. we're also looking at district energy so that we can share thermal energy loads between the daytime and even between office and residential uses. so again, the theme of looking at the community as a whole and coming up with solutions that are only possible because of the scale of this new neighborhood. of course, we all know that one of the biggest environmental sustainablity issues facing our city today is the challenge of climate change and sea level rise. we've taken a very conservative approach to this, and we're planning to withstand up to 66 implgs of sea level rise. that's at the highest end of the ranges that are being projected today. we believe that by elevating the site from the center and raising up from the edges of the bay, we can protect the site and create additional amenities and recreational resources. in addition by raising the site, we will actually be able to pile support, all of the infrastructure in the streets themselves. so going down to bed rock to make sure that we're making long-term sustainable investment in our city's infrastructure for the future. this shows just an example of how you can integrate sea level rise goals with really unique design opportunities, and we're adding the recreational component into our flood and fo stormwater management gardens, and then along the working waterfront, it's allowed us to support the production uses that are long the industrial fronts by having the loading docks double as a sea level rise barrier along the east edge, as well. so just a few highlights of the really, i think innovative and unique design that's gone on at mission rock over the years that we're really excited to implement, and more on this is matt snyder from the planning department who's been our partner on this for many years. >> thank you, fran. good afternoon. madam chair, supervisor kim. i'm ed snyder of department staff, and today i'm going to talk about the actual legislation that is before you, the planning code map and southbounding amendments. but before i do -- and supporting amendments. the over yaul land use program is in sync with surrounding districts, and it is appropriate citywide from a planning perspective. it has a broad range of mixed uses. it both has sizeable amounts of residential units and jobs, and this is particularly important of its location to regional transit, including the caltrain station and several of the muni lines. we worked with the giants and the port in looking at the urban form modelling arrangements with the city, both to aassure that that form creates a pleasing addition to the skyline, but more closely looking at the building massing and how it relates at the pedestrian scale that the heights and the bulk are well considered. a k -- at key street and open space locations. so back to the actual southbounding maps and planning code text that is before you today. the amendments will largely take the form of a special use district or an sud which essentially will encapsulate all of this into the planning code. it addresses both general terms land use and design. from a land use perspective it takes a very jex approach, but also wants to emphasize housing and office uses on -- on different blocks to ensure mixed across the site. in terms of building size and design controls, it provides a broad overview, but it generally then refers to design controls document, which is a separate document that fran referred to, and the design controls document in turn provides not only controls for building, but it also provides controls for open space and design regulations for the street, their width, their quality. and the three of those design considerations work together to assure that it's creating this rare, very livly and unique place. there is an emphasis on creating unique specific places for different streets and for different environments. for example, i think getting back to the frontage requirements, one of the best examples is the frontage requirements for the land uses on the ground floor. the sud and the design controls are very prescribed in terms of the design of ground floor uses, in terms of their actual uses, their size, their lineage, and they work together with the open space. when they're against an open space or with the street when they're against the streets, ensuring appropriate width and proportion for people passing by, encouraging people to spill out onto the open spaces to create an integrates sense of the inside and outside. and here, you see that as fran had mentioned, specific controls for different portions of the site. a high retail street which will probably be the core of the street, but then other environments, and then, a mix of other environments throughout for residential and more flexible retail and commercial use. the design controls -- i should say the sud along with the -- the proposition that the voters passed regarding heights and bulk and the design controls work together to assure again, that as i said, we have a livly skyline for mission rock. but that also -- but with a design controls, having more specific controls for character and modulation of the building. finally, the regulations and amendments before you will call for further design processes as these projects -- as the buildings become ready for actual implementation. there will be a phase design review process that is actually something that the port will take the lead on, the design review of vertical or a building is something that the planning department will take the lead on and is outlined in the special use district before you. that concludes my portion of the presentation, and i'm now going to hand it over to adam van der water who will talk about the southern bay front strategy. thank you. >> thanks, matt. gamp. adam van der water from the office of economic and workforce development. i won't belabor this, but we did present the concept of a negotiated waterfront stretching from bay front to the brisbane border. we'd be happy to come back and present under more detail. generally speaking, there is an area of growth in san francisco, where we have about 36,000 exiting residents and 23,000 existing workers, but it's experiencing change. our office is engaged in a number of major projects along this area, from mission rock at the north through the chase center arena currently under construction in mission bay, pier 70, which this body recently considered, the potrero power station which will be before you later this year, through to the former hunter's point plant, india basin, executive basin and candlestick park. these projects, in and of themselves on top of any smaller projects that are occurring in these neighborhoods will represent approximately 20,000 new how's holds, a third of which we are aiming to be affordable, about 38,000 new jobs, and not aarea of oparea -- an area of open space equivalent to the park today. you heard phil, jack, fran, and jack touch on a number of these when we negotiate these are our private partners, we are looking to maximize a basket of public goods that include housing affordablity, transportation integration, sustainablity, sea level rise protection, community facilities, open space, workforce development, and if there is existing use on-site, historic preservation. when we look specifically at mission rock, you see that they are meeting or exceeding a lot of those targets, and provide a set of public benefits that we're extraordinarily pleased to present to you today. you heard much discussion about the 40% standard for affordable housing. we have transportation, and i'll be turning it over to karly payne, mta, to discuss it in more detail. you heard fran about sea rise. there is an option to provide up to 15,000 gross square feet of community serving facilities, the eight acres of open space. and then what hasn't yet been mentioned is a very robust workforce development program with local business enterprise access, first source hiring, administration, citybuild jobs, and a commitment by the project to fund a number of trapiining programs to get pile drivers for these pile supported streets and landscape gardeners to provide ongoing maintenance that the site will fund. happy to answer any questions or discuss this further, but wanted to link this back to a broader conversation that our office has been facilitating for the last two years, and before doing so, wanted to turn it over to karly payne from the sfmta. >> i'm sorry. before we transfer to sfmta, before we go back to the previous slide -- i'm sorry. maybe i have the wrong copy. before that one. the first square should be 33% will be affordable below 120% ami. >> so these tenants are throughout the southern bay front, and they are targets for all of the nine. >> oh, not just including mission rock. >> mission rock is for a phase of ami's between 80 and 150%. >> okay. so this is regarding the entire southern bay front, so i misunderstood that. >> that's correct. >> okay. >> so the front front has no housing on-site, but there is a totali totali total -- this is a totality of all the nine projects. >> okay. got it. >> good afternoon, chair tang, members of the committee. karly payne from sfmta. just want to provide a little context for the transportation framework component of this particular project. so to remind you, this project is right in the middle of an area a number of long planned and now on the verge of being delivered transportation projects that's really going to transform the transportation options along the southern bay front but definitely and very intensely for this future new neighborhood. the central subway and the associated increase in t3rd frequency. as they projects come together and build out the greenway, elect 2k4 electrification of the bike way. what we see in this neighborhood right now in terms of transportation options is not what the future residents and employees and visitors to this site will experience. it's going to be a quite different landscape. so as adam mentioned, one of the components of the southern bay front transportation -- negotiation framework is transportation. when we look at transportation, we're really looking at four things. first is site design and as you've heard from the project team, the site has really been designed with a lot of attention to modal hierarchy, supporting people walking, bicycling, taking transit through the design. we also looked to make sure that the design principles don't end at the design, but the site is being designed, and the site is being enhanced to the existing surrounding neighborhood. the second is transportation demand within this project. there's a commitment to not creating or reducing 20% of auto trips that otherwise would be estimated from a project of this type through different amenities and offerings within the site to the future visitors and residents and workers of the site to really support them in making sustainable trip choices. the third is something that we expect from every project in the city which is to mitigate any impacts on the transportation system. and for this project, the kinds of mitigations that are expected are things that enhance pedestrians safety. for instance on 4th street through creating new traffic signals or addressing cueing -- or preventing cueing along the t third line to prevent delays. and then, the fourth is looking at the fees that the project pays. now this project because of its initial application dates was grandfathered to a lower transportation fund, and they're paying the full transportation sustainable fee equivalent, and we at mta with our city partners have agreed with these revenues along with the pier 70 development which has already been approved will be reinvested in this area as opposed to distributed citywide, and the reason we feel really comfortable doing this is this neighborhood and southern of this area are really aware where the majority of this effort is happening and do deserve concentrated investment. the kind of investments that you'll see is building along that network that i described earlier, so really looking at the t third line. exposing and concealing gaps in our bicycling networks, and funding improvements for bus transit in the area. so with that, i'm going to turn it back over to phil, from the port. >> supervisors, that actually concludes our presentation today. we are available to answer any questions that you may have. thank you. >> great. thank you so much. 1k3 and so i want to call up members of the public who wish to speak. >> -- people flock to these different neighborhoods in saech search of something novel and different. yet where i live, people drive through on their way to a different destination. those that live in the area leave to go to other neighborhoods. mission rock will create an inviting, inclusive, vibrant neighborhood drawing on the residents of mission bay, mission rock and south beach. mission rock will bring about new friendships and relationships, the very essence of community. neighbors supporting new small businesses. it will friday more affordable housing, presently in short supply, and with eight acres of open space, it addresses a desperately needed facet of urban living. it is important to recognize then in the undertaking of this project, the giants held numerous workshops and open houses. it was commendable the hard work and dedication exhibited by local groups such as south beach rincon hill mission bay neighborhood association and the mission bay citizen advisory committee whose voices helped shape this project. with their input and commitment to a better san francisco along with civic leaders, social interest groups, and other political leaders citywide, the mission project is a model development. it is a win-win for all. the reverend arnold townsend said something at the port commission hearing january -- >> thank you. and as the timer comes up, you're welcome to finish your sentence, so if we can allow people to do that, thank you. thank you. >> hi. my name is stephanie mueller. i'm here to represent delancey street neighborhood. i agree we've been friends and partners of the giants with at&t park and the entire building of the community, and we are so looking forward to the possibility of jobs, the possibility of some affordable housing. just as an aside, you know, as you know better than anyone here, delancey street's dedicated to helping people change their lives, and they spent two, three, four years in this neighborhood. when they graduate, looking for jobs or housing in san francisco, it's impossible, so we are so supportive and so excited about this project. and i just wanted to come here to be able to say that, so thank you. >> thank you, and we love delancey street. >> good afternoon, chair tang, supervisors kim, safai. my name is bruce, and i'm speaking in support of the items associated with the mission rock development. i'm involved in the community, serving on the board and transportation rep of the south beach, rin son hill neighborhood association, however, my public comment today is being provided specifically as a native san franciscan and a nine year resident of mission bay. over the past six years, i've had the opportunity, along with my neighbors, some for up to ten years being involved in the process fof the planning of the mission rock development. this included providing feedback on a variety of public documents and had numerous community outreach meetings and wosh shops. nod to current residents and local businesses, the developers of mission bay were also involved in the process. this is good for us as neighbors, our community and ci city. as i mentioned, this helped shape the project we see today, striking a delicate balance on the amount of parks, waterfront access, housing, neighborhood serving retail and restaurants, preparation for sea level rise and office space. i'm not an expert in the financial aspects of development, but this project brought together an amazing and diverse group of stakeholders and experts to find the optimum mix of land uses while providing some flexiblity to ensure success of the project. there were some land minute discussions, thank you, supervisor kim to agree that this project could raise its affordable housing from 33 to 40%. with that, we have the parking along the waterfront, and please provide the necessary approvals to allow the mission bay waterfront to move forward. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor kim and supervisors. my name is vanessa, and i'm here to show my support for the mission rock. i'm a proud san franciscan and living in dogpatch for over 14 years, and this community is my family. i lived in various neighborhoods, but this dogpatch is my really connect -- close hearted people. that being said, as board of -- member of the dogpatch association, i've seen amazing changes all around dogpatch community, the bayview district, mission bay, and mission rock. this is exciting. we are living in exciting i am times because our city is growing for the best. here's why i ask you to support the mission rock project: mission project will address the need of affordable housing which is desperately needed. as we all know our population is increasing, and having affordable housing now is key. mission rock project will support area median income which will support low to middle income households, include public servants such as nurses and teachers. mission rock will have units for transitional age youth, and i'd like to share with the last 30 seconds i have here how important transitional age youth is because i used to live in a group home. ward of court of san francisco. i did not have those services after i left the group home, and i think what the giants and mission rock are doing is great to support transitional age youth from foster and group homes. i ask that you please approve the mission rock project and let's keep the communication going. thank you and have a great evening. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is karen alschuler. i'm a resident of san francisco. i can't stay away from the excitement of the edge of a city -- of a great city or working to find the best role for that edge in the city or reaping the benefits of the investments we and private people -- city and the private people make in those areas, and taking leadership because it's so visible. it tells the story about a city. in that experience, i think mission rock stands out for me. i've been engaged since day one, jack, on the project, and i think it's really stayed true to its values, open arms and focus on the public first. i'd like to emphasize the way in which the community has played a significant rollover ten years, and in ten years i have to stay engaged, nimble, and inventive. we have made partners, partners from the local community, partners around key issues, environment and energy, and focusing then, inviting them to be our partners and making decisions are what this committee looks at, land use and transportation. we invited them to be our partners in order to get down to specifics. the neighborhoods and particularly the local neighborhoods where people have grown to create a mission bay community in those years have been invited to the table to make choices about what is needed, what fills the gaps, what needs to be programmed, so that it will be rewarding for all. there's no back door to mission bay, mission rock project. it's open to all of its neighbors, and i invite you all to come to the table to discuss, live in, and enjoy it. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name's corrine woods. i've been involved in this project for more than ten years and in mission bay for much longer. i'm also a close neighbor to the mission rock project and at&t park. i wanted to thank the giants for the collaborative way they approached this process. we've had many, many meetings, many, many workshops over the last ten years, and the giants listened to the community. i get my park up front, which is really important. i want to thank all of the other city agencies who have cooperated on this. this has been a tremendous interagency cooperative effort: oewd, mta, planning, public works. everybody has worked together on this to get to a project that i hope will be better than mission bay, and i urge your support. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. good afternoon, madam chair and members of the public. my name is maya aguilar, and i serve as the manager for the san francisco parks alliance. we are over 200 community groups leveraging -- every year, we try to raise millions for or parks, playgrounds and open spaces. i'm here representing the parks alliance in support of the mission rock project. i served in the parks alliance for two years and ever since completion of the big trail has been a huge priority for us. we believe that opening the waterfront and making connections to reconnect the waterfront to the population, it's a really important piece of this project, and we applaud the mission rock's efforts on planning eight acres of new open spaces and revitalizing th the mission for san francisco residents. the parka lines believes that giants have been extremely in addressing the city needs for more active recreation opportunities. we are truly thrilled to see the san francisco giants commitment on prioritization of parks by the first phase of their plan. we're particularly pleased with the considerations that have been made to address sea level rise, the creation of open waterfront and investments towards the use of alternative methods of transportation such as bike connections and bike share stations. on a personal note, on the parks alliance, we have been trying to inform and engage community members from all the waterfront to the big front projects that are happening on those areas. it doesn't matter in f we had groups of five or 50 people, the mission rock project was always open to receive people who were here on those projects. >> thank you so much. >> i'm here today -- okay. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm alice rogers, and i'd like to comment through three different lenses. first as a neighbor, i'm going on a quarter century here in san francisco. here from the sausalito waterfront and now on this waterfront. as a neighbor, i did participate in the many workshops and hearings on this project, and i can't say highly enough how extensive the outreach was and how engaging all of the visuals so that neighbors could really engage in a thoughtful way. i'd also like to mention i'm a director or an officer of the south beach rincon neighborhood association and mission bay. we do engage in policy levels, and this development team was very generous in meeting with us on the retail and public realm component, and they, over the course of their development, shared the information that they were cultivating, and they really are a beacon for us in terms of retail and public realm. we have a failed retail and public realm at the moment, so we are very looking forward to this. and lastly, i'm a director on -- of block san francisco, and i would like to commend this project in terms of its pedestrian safety. it again is a standard bearer on that level. it addresses our values of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and after that, we hope that you won't see mission bay on the map as a data point because they've instituted so many of the better streets and safe streets standards. thank you. >> thank you, miss rogers. >> good afternoon, madam chair, supervisors. my name is ken tray. i'm a retired 25 year social studies teacher in san francisco, and i'm here representing the united educators of san francisco. we're the 6,000 plus folks who keep our public schools running day in and day out. so the first thing that uesf wants to note here is that we are in full support of this project and in fact, if i was wearing my hat, i'd tip it to the giants, to supervisor kim, to the neighbors, to our labor partners, local 2, the hotel workers and others, who reached the 40% affordable rate of housing, 40% affordable rate of housing in the city of san francisco. so i have been involved in many negotiations over too many years, and this out come is superlative. it represents san francisco values. one thing i want to note, and i'm sure the follow through will be there is that in the plan, there is the space to make sure that san francisco educators find their homes in the mission bay project. and so i know that in a few years there'll be a number of teachers and other school staff with the other thousands of neighbors who will be enjoying the incredible open space, the livable breadth of the roads and the retail shops will be enjoying that space and also will have a number of teachers and school staff who will be able to walk to teacher night at the ballpark. >> thank you, mr. tray. >> thank you, madam chair, members of the committee. my name is amy lemley, and i'm the executive director of john burton advocates for youth. we work on behalf of homeless children and youth and children in california yaez juvenile justice and foster systems. the good news is california's system has improved considerably in the last ten years. the majority of young people will be safely reunified with their family or to adoption, however, there's a significant number of young people who don't progress to that, who actually remain in our foster care system until this's no longer age eligible. within 24 hours, one in three will experience homelessness. long-term, it's even worse. if we really care about long-term, public homelessness, this is the opportunity to intervene, and i'm very happy to report, that's exactly what this project does. it has set aside these beautiful units for san francisco's former foster youth and integrated those units into the mainstream housing, which is just spectacular. so we know that with this foundation, former foster youth in san francisco will have the opportunity not just to stay in their community but also to get a leg up in higher education as well as have economic security. so i urge your support, and thank you very much. >> good afternoon, madam chair tang, supervisors kim, safai, and peskin. my name is henry kanilowicz. i'm the president of the san francisco district of mer kmants associations. i got your names right, right? thank you, supervisor. it is a really fabulous thing that the giants are doing. not just building a place for housing, for shopping, but scm village, and a vehicle tack lar project it is. here they are, and as she just said a second ago, 40% affordable housing, however do we get that? i commend the giants for what they do for this city, and what they're doing for this part of town. i look forward when they're finished of going into the shops, be it a grocery shop or a cafe or barber or whoever is going to be there. the open land, fabulous project. it's great. go giants. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm todd elberling of toddco. this project does not provide enough housing for all of its future workforce that will be in the offices on that site. it does not achieve 100% jobs-housing balance. it's clear tho everybody in this ro -- to everybody in this room of the expansion of the technology jobs in our area. it's no fair to promise other housing that's going to be built on treasure island to meet the deficit that this project will cause. from now on, these large projects like pier 70, india basin, this project, the power plant site and maybe others, need to be completely self-sufficient with a 100% jobs-housing balance. this is a great housing site. it's a great site. there's no problem with the economic feasiblity to build the housing here. there is a way to not solve the problem but do a lot to lessen the deficit. this project includes flex sites that could be either housing or office development in the future. what should be done is this agreement should be modified so that those sites will have to be housing sites. that'll bring it pretty close to full jobs-housing balance, just like pier 70 achieved. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kristin hall. i'm a san francisco resident, and i work in the neighborhood of mission rock, but i'm here to discuss my experience working on this project over the past five years and share that it's such a model for development in this city. it's especially a model for how to collaborate with many city agencies, make them partners for development, really working collaboratively with the city. it's also a model for a walkable urban environment to create a really wonderful exciting waterfront experience with many paths to the quarter front. it's also a model for how to commit and create a retail environment that is supportive of small businesses, and a lot of that information we learned by working with the mission bay rincon hill association. it's also a model for how to move bikes through the neighborhood along the waterfront. it's a model for designing for sea level rise and adapting to changing conditions, and as an example of that, we started by looking at 55 inches of sea level rise, and over the ten years that we've been working on this project, the projections increased, and we adapted our responses to make sure that we were still at the highest level of 66 inches of sea level rise. it's also a great example of how you can use ongoing conversations with neighborhood groups and city partners to really continually make sure that it will be a model for development in the city moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. supervisors, very quickly, i support this project wholeheartedly. it is

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