service. for the people that work at the health center to know the community gets to that site so we share the same experience and for those reasons i am supportive of the clinic at this location. >> commissioner antonini. >> i am too are in support of the clinic and in reading over the materials and listening to the commentary it's well established that flooding is not documented there and the gas station was there and it was determined to be clean and there are site for market rate housing and just because a gas station was there as long as it's cleaned up properly and tested. one thing that i think is important is the sewer treatment plant if it's a fact that 80% of the raw sewage and 100% of the wastewater comes into that plant it's important that something be done. i understand new digesters are being put in but if that isn't enough we have to get rid of the smell from the plant is important to do in the future and follow up on that. but the important issue is the problems are going to be there such as the sewage plant and whether the wellness center is there or not and it brings the services about this in one place and many speakers said there is a problem. we identified the problem. we had put them on a waiting list for some of the services and that doesn't make sense. you have the health wellness and mental health and violence and everything under one roof. you have accesses to police services from bay view station and all of the things can be done at one site and makes sense this should be approved and we should work to remedy any other problems in the area and i am favor of the plan. >> commissioner sugaya. >> thank you. i think commissioner borden started off to stay we have a fairly specific duty in front of us and that is to consider the two issues that the dr is filed on, and not that other things aren't important. i think everybody expressed that fact -- at least the other three speakers before me and i am sure the two after me will elaborate also but in terms of the legality of the rezoning i don't see anything here that makes me feel that was an issue, and also with site contamination we had lots of discussion about that on both sides, but also i think up here with the commissioners and for me i don't think the evidence was presented for me to be able to take discretionary review. with that i will make a motion to deny discreation review and approve the project. >> second. >> commissioner hillis. >> yeah. i don't think i have much to add. congratulations to the project sponsors and those that put a ton of effort in getting to this stage and getting built so i echo what my fellow commissioners said. >> commissioner moore. >> dr. jackson condolences to the passing of your daughter. i think this commission is completely receptive and in tune to the concerns expressed. however i think commissioner borden expressed these things and i would like a call to the treatment plant to give you an update about incidences of emissions which exceed the normal at high rainfall and high sewage flow. the plant sometimes doesn't operate as well as it needs to and not just the southeast plant. the city falls into two major districts. one is the ocean plant and the other is the southeast treatment plant. both difficult locations to be near. it doesn't matter. living next to a sewage treatment plant is difficult no matter what you say. however, the devil is in the details and how is it operated? and i would like the department to restate my request and call the plant manager and are there incidences and observing and report back to us and that by the director by calling the manager of puc. he's the boss and between the two of them i would like an update and have that communicated to the community so that was the best of all efforts. we are supporting the opening and realization of this clinic which we have talked about for a very long time but also the health impacts through air and odor is kept to a minimum. those are my requests and i am in support of the project and not taking the dr. >> thank you. call the question first. >> on the motion as proposed. antonini. >> aye. >> borden. >> aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> wu. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> commissioner president fong. >> aye. >> that passes unanimously commissioners. >> folks i would like to remind everyone we have additional items on the calendar that we would like to get started if you don't mind leaving quietly please. >> we have housekeeping under the calendar. the request for variance must also be continued by the zoning administrator. the director of planning will act in the zoning administrator in this case. >> i will continue the variance to april 4 as well. thank you. >> commissioners at this time you have two remaining items, both informational. the first is 13, the city wide growth item informational item. >> good afternoon commissioners. john ram with department staff. >> if you will indulge me one second i forgot to mention this is bill's last day on the job. bill is retiring and i was remiss for not honoring him today. there will be other events and i ask that the commission adjourn in his honor today. as you know bill has been with the department for 27 years and before that was a muni bus driver so has worked for the city for 30 years and deserves recognition which hopefully we will give it to him. today i want to have a discussion about growth. there is a lot of interest and concern expressed about the growth projections and how we're trying to accommodate them in the city and i would like to have a discussion with you as we best can about this issue of growth and how we are trying to accommodate it, particularly in the context of the center corridor plan, so if i could have the overhead we will get started on this. as you know first i'm going to start with regional projections and talk about the projections for san francisco and how we're trying to accommodate some of that growth. as you know this was developed for a sustainable community strategy and implements these things to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the regional projections are here. they project that the bay area which is the nine counties that touch the bay will grow by 2 million people and add 1 million jobs and housing units and that is about 2/3 of the city of san francisco -- no, more than that. that is double the size of san francisco and while they have projections by county it's clear that number is coming to the bay area and whether they will go to each county the way they project it's clear about that number is coming whether we plan for it or not. so the regional growth strategy that has been projected by a bag and amc the priority development areas which are primarily along transit facilities will absorb 80% of the housing and 66% of the jobs. the second bullet is important even with the urban centric scenario that we call it and focus the growth on the three big cities and that is 15% of the regional growth. medium cities also contribute to that growth so our role is accept 190,000 jobs and 200,000 new people and 90,000 housing units. that translates to 65,000 jobs every year and 3,000 units annually which we not in the past met, and that's an issue obviously that we need to address. the regional growth projections are here with the city at the bottom and the region at the top. you will see the actual rate of growth while it jumps up in this time frame really is not significantly more than it has been in the past. you will see in the bottom the city's growth is projected here like it has in the past. the issue of course is where the growth happens in the region and that's what we're trying to grapple with this and the overall priority development strategy. this slides give you a. -- and this coincided with the national movement and companies to the suburbs. and very large quantities, where the biggest demand is. and i think that is more than, just the technical things, there is a growing interest in that kind of space, for a broader range of companies that we have to address. finally, i just want to say, at again, we think that this office product type would happen, and obviously we are great in the traditional jobs in downtown and 30,000 in the creative industry and the 37,000 in the campus environment and the same number. each of these types can be shifted a little, but this is our rough guess that where each of these submarkets if you will, will actually want to go. so, all of that is to say, that, i think that we are in a period where we are going to see substantial growth, whether we plan for it or not, particularly on the job numbers, i think that we are going to see a shift in what has been happening over the last several years, or i should say over the last 30 years. and now some people have said to me, it might all grow up again like in the late 90s. i think that this is different, one is i think that we have lost the industrial jobs that we are going to lose, there is frankly very few left to lose and we are seeing a slight growth in industrial jobs and pdr jobs and secondly there is a very strong trend nationally, toward a move to the city with both jobs and housing, this is for the first time since the depression the cities are growing faster than the suburbs. but the rate of growth, in cities is now out pacing that have the suburbs that is a trend that has reversed from 100 years of the other way around. so i think that for those reasons, we feel strongly that we are going to see a change in the increasing demand in the city and frankly this department at this point feels that it is the right thing to do for the city to accept the share of regional growth which is modest when you look at it compared to the rest of the reason we, have staff that has presented all of this material, i am happy to take any questions and i am anxious to hear your comments and hopefully we can have a discussion about this, thank you. >> thank you. >> opening it up for public comment. i have one card, john oberman? >> thanks very much commissioners. i'm john oberm an, we really welcome this strategic overview of the growth in the city, 109,000 jobs and 30 years sounds like a lot. but actually, when you look at the given numbers it is only a one percent average annual growth rate compounded which is a modest number and it makes sense we. have one huge problem with this department's report and the problem is so bad that unfortunately it (inaudible) the projections of the report. if you look on the page and the department is assuming that 75 percent of the net new jobs will somehow be office jobs. there is no foundation and fact for that. they don't have any, it is a height number. if you look at your chart, which is the historic trends, which tells you what actually has happened, the real growth, the fastest growing sector has done educational. the office sector has slowly grown from the 30s into the 40s but then so has at an equal rate the retail and entertainment and hotel, there is nothing, nothing, in the data that supports a projection of a 75 percent allocation of new jobs to office, nothing. now, if they had said 50 percent i would not argue with it, it is a bit more than the history that it has been but you could be optimistic. and of course when you translate these difference of 25 percent of 190,000 into office space, it is a huge difference. i want to, but you see there on the hand out, it is asked you to connect this issue to the pipeline of office space you have today that will be coming to you either and it has been entitled or coming to you for entitlement in the next two or three years, 15 million square feet of office space, 15 million and that is enough for 66,000 office jobs. that would be a 20-year's supply if office is 50 percent of the growth. a 20-year supply, you need to realize that this would have left the market. what we have here today, pending in front of you is a classic double, we have an office bubble where the developers are all rushing to you to entitle projects because the market is hot right now and they think that is a smart thing to do and there is no way that space could be leased and actually be signed will takers and so many of those projects would... and some of these buildings fail. why does it matter? it is their money? it matters now because the city has connected really important (inaudible) like the cal train extension, like the port self-sufficiency, like the hunter's point shipyard project to successful development of office space that helps to finance those goals. so, if those projects fail or don't get built, the civic goals that you have won't get achieved, you have to think, what we suggest is that as time and it is office projects have a proposition and allocation contest next year and use that to prioritize that directly advance civic goals and also, the hearing on this, because no one is to listen to it today and need a chance to given you a formal written analysis and response, thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is tanika moss, planning director at spur and thank you for indulging me i would hope to speak on the center corridor and i would like to combine my remarks to this because i think that the context that the director has provided to you makes a great deal of sense in terms of why we are supportive both of the department's desire to accommodate the regional growth that will be, that san francisco will be receiving and certainly that the central corridor plan is a place where that growth should go. we believe that this is a place in the city where intensive job growth will happen shs it is debatable in terms of what percentage of that growth would look like but we spent a great deal of time looking at employment growth and i think that the central region corridor provides the opportunity to focus in on the growth and i think that the department is heading in a great direction with this plan and we are optimistic and working with the staff to make sure that we not only accommodate the growth but we maximize the potential and it is a transit-rich area with the insensety of the employment and we want to make sure that we are maximizing this opportunity with the central subway location as well and that the context of regional growth for the central corridor plans to specifically makes a great deal of sense and that is consistent with what we will be working on in the future. thank you. >> good evening, my name is jamie whittiker i was excited about new development and more residents, it is nice to have the jobs for the residents, from a residents' perspective i think that the city needs more time to maybe digest the system, up coding and entitlements, the planning department has been doing a fabulous job running full speed ahead, i think some of the other... (inaudible) if you will, sfmta in particular is not, it is about 20 years behind in my opinion. and you know, transbay, and we were about to plan to get 20,000 total residents and most recent change to our transit is the 12 fulsom and it was rerouted to go north on second street and no

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