I will also stand in solidarity with them too. Thank you. Thank you, is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor walton. Thank you chair ronen. Ms. Diamond, i do have a couple follow up questions if you dont mind coming back up. Thank you, what Nonprofit Developers have you previously worked with . Family house. The Jewish Community center of San Francisco. The San Francisco campus for jewish living. Temple emmanuel. The blood bank of San Francisco. And then you heard some testimony about not necessarily having a track record of working in certain impacted communities, what would you do to build a significant rapport with margin n marginalized community . I was listening to all the concerns that were expressed concerning my qualifications on equity, communities of color and how theyre affected. I will say two or three things about that. The first is my decision to leave private practice representing for Profit Developers was a statement about what i thought was important going forward. Its why i, you know, worked with nonprofits, where i felt using my particular skills, i could have the biggest impact on helping the tens of thousands of low income people in our city everyday. No, i havent worked directly with any of the people or the organizations who spoke out against me today, but i will be the kind of commissioner who has an open door. Not all commissioners take calls. I will be one of those commissioners who wants to hear from all communities ahead of time. Im particularly concerned as is evident by the work ive done as a volunteer and professional in the last decade, actually since 2003, particularly concerned about those who dont otherwise have a voice. While my particular way of manifesting that has been to use my skills in ways that i can make the biggest difference for those groups. As a commissioner, this is a different role. I believe that i bring a willingness and eagerness to focus on the importance of making sure that our community is accessible for people of all income levels. People who are doing fine, they dont need me, its the other people that spoke today, those are the people who need to make sure they have a commissioner thats open and understanding of and promoting those goals. Yes, im very attentive to that. Thank you. Thank you. So, im going to make some comments about this appointment. It concerns me that i hear from many of the organizations that i work with everyday that i respect deeply, that have been at the forefront of citing displacement and for low income communities of color and that theyre united in opposition of ms. Diamonds appointment. Thats worrisome. If ms. Diamond is appointed, i would urge you to have an open door policy and proactively reach out to these Community Groups. They are extremely knowledgeable and have worked for decades fighting for the city and for their communities. I think you can and should develop those relationships and that it would lead to positive results. I would be frank. If i were the mayor and making this appointment, i would choose one of the Community Activists that spoke that spent their career looking for creative ways to allow for development, but to allow for development in a way that doesnt further gentrification. I do think that type of experience is what we need more than anything else in the city right now. But im not the mayor. I didnt make this appointment. What i would ask for an appointment from the mayor is someone who has integrity, who i believe has a mind of their own, and will listen to all sides and look at the issues without political interference. Its not a theoretical issue. I do believe ms. Diamond that you are that person, and that you will be unbiased and you will look at the matters before you in an ethical way. I do believe you will reach out to these communities and i do belief you wont be improperly influenced politically. We had those conversations and i was impressed with your answers. I also know that underlying this discussion today is a real fear on who will be our next planning director. Quite frankly, that is going to make a big impact on which way our city goes. The charter allows the Planning Commission to forward three names to the mayor and theres a lot of fear that one or more of those names wont be someone who is have this equity lens and this antidisplacement lens at the forefront of his or her mind. Thats a concern for me as well, but once again, we have a very strong mayoral city. If the mayor doesnt like the three names sent to her, she can send them back until she gets the name she wants. We can all, you know, pretend thats not the case, but thats the case. Thats how these things work. So i dont know how much, quite frankly, the person that we appointed the board of supervisors that will impact that. I think its incumbent on the entire community, if youre looking for a planning director that Will Champion working class communities, communities of color that have been displaced in alarming numbers from this city, that you need to make your voices heard and put that pressure on. I dont know that who we appoint today will radically change that situation. So, you know, i will also close with saying that ms. Diamond will replace mr. Hillis on the Planning Commission. He is one of the more moderate voices on that commission, so i dont think ms. Diamonds appointment will lead us into that direction. I think you will have an open mind and look at the issues based on the facts. I am prepared to support your appointment today and i do really look forward to working with you ms. Diamond, but i will be calling you often because the voices that you heard today that are concerned about your appointment are people that you need to get to know very, very well. Their deep, deep experience working on these issues in the community, i dont think is often appreciated enough because their experience and their ideas and their willingness to think outside the box is the type of thinking that we need to be paying attention to in the city because were certainly not going in the right direction. With that, i dont know if supervisor walton wants to make comments. Thank you chair ronen. I want to say appointment decisions are very difficult and sometimes contentious and no one up here takes that lightly. We understand the responsibility that we have. When it comes to making decisions about appointments, i look at the track record, i look at the experience and expertise when reviewing appointments. I also look at the integrity, connection to community, and the purpose of the appointee, what is their purpose and of course i listen to the Community Supporters and dissenters and other people that do the work. Most of you in this room know Community Voice is major and very important to me. It is very important to me and when i listen to my community and their concerns about appointments, naturally my antenna goes up. Nothing points to ms. Diamond making decisions that have negatively effected our communities. I know how it is to be in the fire and how it is for people to think they know how you would make decisions before youre given an opportunity. In so many cases, ive been misjudged in what decisions i would make if i was given a certain opportunity. I think some of you know that. And you know, i believe ms. Diamond is qualified and prepared to serve with dignity due to her work within a nonprofit builders and within the community. Some of these builders we all support and want to make sure they receive the same, if not more opportunities than a lot of our for Profit Developers and so with that said, ms. Diamond, i hope my gut is right in supporting you. I do believe you will be a voice that will listen to all sides as you make decisions and i definitely echo the sentiments of chair ronen and make sure you get a chance to know the community and have conversations because they bring valuable voice to this work and with that said, i definitely will be supporting this appointment and please make us proud. Supervisor mar. Thank you chair ronen. I wanted to share my thinking on this and comments and i wanted to make a motion. So, ms. Diamond, again, i deeply appreciate your willingness to serve our city and your extent of experience on land use matters because these matters are at the heart of the crises we face as a city. Our intertwine crisis of affordability, housing, and the role youre considered for is an immensely important one in providing oversight over these core questions. What do we build . Where . How . And for whom. Recently we released the job housing fit report that showed how grossly imbalanced our growth has been and what kind of housing we biuild with moderate and low wage workers left behind as we construct market rate luxury housing thats unaffordable for the average worker. Weve done this for years, as the cost of rent and mortgages sky rocket and we done it without looking at this data. Until i commissioned it, this report has never been done before. The fact is that the planning department, over the past decade has promoted market rate growth and failed to manager manage it properly or think creatively or make tough choices or invest in Public Housing, infrastructure and transit, that could prevent the displacement of working families and anyone that isnt super wealthy. Gridlock streets, a crisis in traffic violence and fatalities and the list goes on. These crises didnt happen in a vacuum. They happened following decisions made in this building on the Planning Commission and in the department you seek to oversee. This is a critical moment for our city and for the Planning Commission. This is a chance for us to turn the page on the policies of the past, to think creatively and differently about how we ensure a future for working people and the middle class in San Francisco. To move beyond a reliance on the market and inadequate Community Benefits to solve problems that the private market helped to create. For me in this moment, its essential that Planning Commissioners bring the perspective of those most harmed by these crises. Its important that we hear new voices, new perspectives, and new experiences. We cannot afford to continue the status quo. Working families cannot afford it. The middle class cant afford it. Low income communities of color cannot afford it. We need a Planning Commission that shares the experiences of those being displaced and look like the communities were losing and most importantly we need a Planning Commissioner thats accountable to the many, to the hard working people in this city who are barely hanging on. I am concerned about the representation of our neighborhoods, in the front line communities most impacted by the work that most impacted by whats been playing out in our city in the last decade and frankly i think its essential that perspective that continues to be overlooked to further the status quo. So ms. Diamond, i really appreciate your work, especially over the recent years in the Nonprofit Sector and your willingness to be here. I deeply appreciate the perspective shared with us by the public and Community Representatives today. Given all these factors in front of us, i dont feel this committee should be making a recommendation on the appointment today. I would like to make a motion that we forward this item to the full board without recommendation as a Committee Report. Do you have any remarks about that supervisor walton . Are you okay with it . Okay, sorry, so you would send this forward, you just wouldnt make a recommendation either way. Okay. That motion has been made. Can we have a roll call vote. On that motion, vice chair walton. No. Member mar. Yes. Chair ronen. Yes. Motion passes, the motion is to refer the matter as a Committee Report to the full board without recommendation. Yes, and just to be clear what that means to everyone is that there will be a vote tomorrow at the board of supervisors that what the committee is saying that there are so many differences of opinion, that we want to leave it to every board member to make their own choice on whether or not to support your candidacy so were not giving a recommendation one way or another. This is so important that Everybody Needs to decide for themselves what theyre going to do. So thats what just happened. There will be a vote tomorrow at the board of supervisors. So thank you everyone that came out today. Appreciate it and well see you tomorrow perhaps. Madam chair, i did note that the title on the agenda did not list the number of years in the terms. If its possible, i would like to make that amendment to know that its a four year term. Okay, sure. Motion. I will make it a motion to make that amendment thats the a four year term and that motion passes. And without recommendation to tomorrows board meeting. Thats right. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 4. Before i continue, i would like to state that we have opened up an overflow room. If you do not have a seat, we ask that you go to the north side court to watch this meeting as we cannot allow people who are not sitting in the seat to remain in this room due to the fire code. Thank you. I wanted to say a short statement before we leave. I want you to look at the board pictures you have. Excuse me, sorry. Were going to leave now because its a fire hazard, but we came down to get a little voice on this. You will be invited to come back for Public Comment once we get to that point. Okay. Well let you get back to work. Were sorry. Thank you so much. Would you please read item number 4 . Number four, the right to Affordable Housing unit in a revitalized housing development. If you are remaining in this room, please have a seat in one of the remaining open chairs. Thank you for your patience, good morning mr. Miller, how are you . Good morning. Begin. Fantastic. Its a tremendous day and im honored to be here. Im here on the backs of dozens, if not generations of residents who are putting this forward on behalf of supervisor walton and mayor breed. Ill be brief because i know many of our residents want to speak and have to get back to work. Very quickly, before you is an amendment to the right to return legislation for hope f. S. S. F. , its the largest Public Housing and Reparation Initiative designed to transform our Public Housing neighborhoods into racial equal communities. We use reparations intentionally to say we as a Public Private partnership are trying to repair what bad Public Policy has created in our communities. With hope s. F. , we are for incredibly strong communities. This is west point, folks call it hunters view. Folks use to call it double rock. You have the multimillion dollars views and down to the swamps, so sunnydale. So we have worked hard to repair broken promises across our four communities and all of you have supported the funding to replace the dilapidated housing. Were on the way. Before you is historic legislation that positioned San Francisco at the forefront of Public Housing transformation to ensure the three things happen. We are building this housing and in many ways, our families, some families are able to benefit from the housing, but not all families. We have seen over the past several years, 80 return rate at hunters view, but were concerned about sunnydale. We want to make sure that as we build this housing, as we build this Affordable Housing in communities that have been left behind for decades, that the families that live there, that the families that raise their kids there, that the families that waited and waited, that this is the housing for them. So this legislation does three things. Number one, it ensures that current households have a right to return to the brand new Public Housing in their communities. So whether you move to an off site, you move to an r. A. D. Unit or staying at auntys house, this beautiful housing is for the current families. Secondly we want to ensure that all hope s. F. Household members have a preference for the affordable. So the tax credit. For our 18yearolds and 19yearolds that are making tax credit income, we want them to have the first right. We want them to have the preference for the Affordable Housing. Were tired of our babies sleeping on couches, on cars, and we want them to have a unit of their own to raise the beautiful children that theyre building in their community. Then lastly, before you at the board is a process of transfo transforming the Housing Authority. They have tried for years, but they have failed our residents, so many, many former Public Housing families have been evicted, have left, have vacated, have abandoned less than stellar circumstances. We want to ensure those families who moved, whos been pushed out to pittsburgh and atlanta and baltimore can come back home. As we build these new communities, they know home is waiting for them. These are the three categories that mayor breed and supervisor walton have drafted. I would be remised if i didnt give a shoutout to chair ronen as well. I thank you on being here on behalf of the residents of hope s. F. Thank you so much. Supervisor walton. Thank you, and first of all i definitely want to thank director miller for your work on this. Of course all of your work with hope s. F. , and you said most of how i feel. T