Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

One of several housing bills approved by the state Legislature Earlier this month. This bill, sponsored by senators , mandates many elements in the planning process and forces by right approval for many projects. It has been amended many times. I have given up on trying to read it, and understand it. Your work here looks like, you know, planning for dummies, so clear, so understandable when compared to the state legislature and the bills. It is unbelievable. I am asking you to help us understand what this means for the city of San Francisco . Ive had to appeal on planning of projects, that have been proposed. I have worked with other neighbors who have wanted to help shape a project where there is elements that are impacting them personally. I know you see these every week, and i appreciate the time you take to listen to these, and resolve them. If we are subject to very mandatory deadlines and no slippage, we will not be able to, i think, achieve the compromises and changes that are so desperately needed when these projects come forward. There is a lot of other things that i believe impact San Francisco that are going to be higher value impacts, and have more systemic changes in our city. Im not going to go into them. This bill is beyond me, and that scares me. I would ask you to have planning update what they have done. They do excellent work and we would love to see, and i will eagerly await reading this impact of sb330. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I have handouts. I am here ask the officers to please set the hearing date at november 21. If you have the advanced calendar, which i had, it shows planning november 7. A lot of cases on it already. Staff has told me they are going to put it on the seventh. But, we have never had an honest hearing on the academy of art. We have had academy of art hearings, particularly at the Planning Commission level. They never filed a master plan. They were required to do so. Now that hillis is off the commission, we have two Planning Commissioners who sat through the e. I. R. On the academy of art. Commissioners moore and commissioner richards. The rest of you came on to have a bunch of other hearings. We have five new hearings, five new commissioners. The planning director the Planning Commission should respect to the public enough. There has been no hearings, no outreach at all, for the impaired length of this project coming through. Here is my own list of when the academy of arts starts. They have 43 sites right now. The overhead is really screwed up, it doesnt show the entire page. But, they have been required to file the institutional master plan in 1991 every Single Housing building has been acquired after they were required to file. The Planning Department staff has not had the hearings that you had. You conducted hearings for central soma, 3333 california. You conducted them for all of the sites [inaudible] you have another case coming up today. I am asking for a couple of things. One, set the date at november 21. Two, require every report to be available in month in advance. There is thousands of pages of documents, and even commissioners have not seen them. Three, staff reports, three weeks in advance. It is respectful of the public, what is happening above the academy of arts, dealing with. [inaudible] we need a hearing that basically allows the public. [bell ringing] to speak. I have written comments for the record that ask that they be submitted to the mayor. I wish i was more coherent. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I just want to followup on actually this state bills issue. Because i am not aware of precisely what the charge that commissioner richards submitted. I do want to say that we have had prior conversations, but we are very concerned about what impact bills 330 are going to have it in our Community Stabilization programs. We know 330 disrupts two of our Mission Action plans 2020 stabilization programs, in the way we currently conduct business, often working with meetings, or for example we know it disrupts the way, that quatro build out their Design Guidelines coming through. For the new cultural expansion, is now disrupted and needs to have an entirely different framework. But we would ask of the commission is can we please have a charge forward to make sure we are iodine things that are also specifically, and immediately, disruptive. The department is putting in a plan. That is only the mission, right . I dont know how many things are disrupted in other neighborhoods. Can we put a charge in place that we are assessing quickly, and put equitable discretion back in place in different areas. We know you are going to have less say some of these bills start to roll through. Is there still a mechanism that puts back in place, the equitable discretion. Maybe starting with our Community Stabilization programs a quick action plan so we dont lose ground while we shift gears. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I echo carolyn kennedys concerns about sb330 which is on the governors desk. Especially in concerning the impacts to tenants. What i read is that tenants will be asked to leave six months prior to the developer beginning a project. They will have very little relocation benefits. They will be allowed to return, whenever that will be at a socalled affordable rate. I would like to know more about the impacts. This seems like a recipe for tenant displacement. Thank you. Next speaker, please. With that, Public Comment is next now close. Commissioner richards . Two things. An issue just came up again, and yet again another house. We still do not have a definition on demolition. Going on Public Record to request supervisor mandleman to do controls to stop [inaudible] we need to have everyone of those come here. I am so sick of seeing this. Two, sb330 passed by one vote. Its at the governors desk. Why am concerned about how it affects tenants, as we have become the backup rent board here. When landlords want to use constructions to update tenants. We actually stop them. These are the kinds of things that i need in terms of the actual impact of what this bill does. Not skipping five hearings, we dont have any discretion anymore, Planning Commission, to do the right thing. Thank you, commissioner moore i have a question for the city attorney. You dont have to answer, if its too provocative. We see a lot of actions from the federal government, towards the state of california, and towards states in the united states. My question is, is any city entertaining or discussing with each other, including sacramento kate stacy from the city attorneys office. Commissioner moore, you are aware that our office has worked independently, and with many other cities and counties in the country to sue the federal government on various programs that have been initiated. I cant comment on whether we are considering suing the state, but the city has certainly done that, in the distant past. The reason why i am asking, if some of the consequences of sb330 are indeed coming down in a way that the public fears, that may be an interpretation and i think the city cares. For that reason it is a self protective measure that some cities may have to consider that kind of step. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, briefly on the point of sb330, commissioner richard you mentioned earlier in the hearing, that there was a report on that and what it would mean for San Francisco sometime time ago. There havent been complex amendments to that. We are in the process of updating that memo with something that will hopefully provide greater clarity for all of us on what sb330 will mean and how it will Impact Review for the city. Thank you, mr. Snyder. If theres nothing further, we can move on to your regular calendar for item nine 2019003627pca, for the south of market Planning Community advisory committee. These are planning code and administrate of code amendments. [please stand by] the south of market Planning Community advising community and amend provisions for the citizens advisory committee. We have engaged both the Soma Stabilization Fund as well as the eastern neighborhood in several meetings and received their input to make sure their voices were heard throughout the entire process. We work closely with planning as well to consider the amendments before you today. Since the current sitting members were closest to the issues within their respective grants we will incorporate their feedback as we move forward. We honor those amendments and believe the version before you incorporates that feedback. Some proposed modifications raised by planning in the composition of the membership regarding residency status and seat requirements were addressed and will be incorporated with the Planning Department. Thank you so much. Thank you. I have a couple slides to guide us through the legislation. The first is looking at the map of the existing jurisdiction of the eastern neighborhoods cac. This is five area plans comprised of these neighborhoods 2200acres, and, of course, is the location of a very significant portion of the new development in the city. I should also mention separate from that, we have a soma stabilization cac and to remind you that cac is charged with helping to Program Funds from the Soma Stabilization Fund. This was created as part of the hill plan to specifically address or mitigate impacts of that High Residential density on the neighboring soma neighborhood. The cacs would be divided in two. The new cac has jurisdiction over soma with the three area plans in that. The eastern neighborhoods jurisdiction would be reduced geographically to the mission showplace and the Central Waterfront plans. I have the next couple charts i wont go into every single cell in these charts. I will provide overview and highlight the aspects of these different cacs. South of market it would be 11 members, of which seven would be appointed by supervisor and nominated by the district 6 supervisor. The legislation requires some more specificity as into areas of expertise. There are seven areas required. Planning has suggestions on amending the ordinance before you. I will go over that at the end of my presentation. The Supervisors Office is in support of those changes. The revenue for the new cac they would prioritize projects from revenue from the eastern neighborhood fee for that portion from south of market, but also they would have a couple new sources available to them for project identification, specifically the new central soma infrastructure fee and the Community Finance district taxes also created from the central soma plan. As such, some of the types of Infrastructure Projects to prioritize would include those always coming to you and reporting on the other area plans do, but would also have additional types of projects in which they could identify projects for in the areas including cultural and Historic Preservation and environmental stability and resilience. The duty would be similar to eastern neighborhoods. This does enumerate some of the duty to provide input on proposals private and city owned. They could provide input on open space. They would also, of course, have a hand in helping coordinate with the soma stabilization cac since they have similar geographic boundaries. The eastern neighborhood cac would remain as it is. The membership would beeryduced from reduced from 19 to 11 members. It would have the same duties to help Program Projects for impact fee spending. This legislation does include text amendments proposed by the cac members just regarding sort of the how their recommendations are provided to the city and to epic and how they would be reflected back, also a little bit more expanded jurisdiction over in kind monitoring as well. The soma stabilization cac would similarly remain as it is. It would include seven members, expertise would be expanded to include a member with expertise in youth organizations. Because funds from the central Soma Community facility fee, which is a new fee created along with the cfd revenue would be provided for input on how to spend and per the central soma Public Benefits program. Some duties would be expanded to provide input on possible Infrastructure Projects around the Community Facilities they would have a more formal relationship with those agencies and coordination with the newly created soma cac. This concludes my presentation along with myself and abbey, josh is here to answer any questions about central soma along with claudine, the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development staff and staffs the soma stabilization cac. Thank you very much. I see supervisor haney here. Did you want to say a few words . Okay. We will open up this item for Public Comment. I dont have any speaker cards, but please come on up. Afternoon, we have been waiting down the hall. I am john. Funny wrapping up the central soma plan. It is a year after you voted to send it out. We are now getting through the important details, and the cac is one of them. You may be aware we are wrapping up the legal matters right now this week actually. I think, you know, we are in the final phase of getting this altogether, and this the cac is an Important Community public process component we always wanted supervisor kim introduced it and they have been supportive and worked hard to get it to here. In case you are wondering how the two different cacs work. Stabilization fund is a grantmaking body working with mocd with the Stabilization Fund that came from the hill. Based on that rezoning over 10 years ago. That grant making and monitoring responsibility takes work and is very important. They largely focus on Human Services in the neighborhood. The new cac will be the classic planning focused type body planning and development issues. It is monitored. I had experience with the redevelopment project area committees which had a comparable role. South of market provided constructive engagement with the then Redevelopment Agency for the south of Market Redevelopment area. I think that the two are definitely will be closely related but have very distinctive roles, and each one will be a fulltime job. I certainly hope the amendments proposed are good. They are practical amendments to make things work better. We definitely urge you to proceed to support this today, and the board will finish the job next month. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners and future supervisors. I am allen simpson, the current chair of the Soma Stabilization Fund cac, and i have had the honor to serve for a little over eight or nine years now. I want to talk about the accomplishments of the cac. I am proud of our community and community process. We have gotten a lot done in the 13 years since the Stabilization Fund was created. As you know it was created to represent the voices of our south of market families, residents, nonprofit organizations, Cultural Workers in making decisions how we spend the funds to make sure that we do remain in this community that we are deeply rooted in. Highlights of our work include seed funding for bishop Housing Project which to this date placed more than 400 households in homes. We piloted the first small size acquisition project and save would a couple of families there that were living in a house that was about to get evicted. We funded development of a new Child Care Center at transbay terminal. We had funding to create and to administer the Soma Community action grants, which are these amazing mini grants that our neighborhoods can actually apply for to really create and nurture our cohesiveness in our community through different events. We also had seed planting money for the cultural district. Then also, the acquisition of the building for united players clubhouse. We are so happy to help them find a home and own their place and their stake in the neighborhood. We introduced and funded a trauma system over at Betsy Carmichael schools. I urge you all to have this go through. Our process has been working. Our Community Voices have been heard so i urge you to do the right thing and push it forward. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners, i am Heather Phillips on the eastern neighborhood cac. I am part of Soma Community for the last 16 years, and i am just so excited to see the work between the community, Supervisors Office and planning staff to come together to look at what it takes to really direct these funds well to make sure there is Community Voice and appropriate accountability, and i really think the plan in

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