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parks are community places. i am glad there will be another. the environmental justice issue is so important in the southeast side. we do not have golden gate park or the beach. we do not have open space, ponds, and lakes. if there is an earthquake, we may have more streams coming out. i want to emphasize the affordable housing. i am hoping that with this part will come the affordable housing, because there is such a screaming need for real affordable housing in san francisco. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. my name is amy. i am the interim housing director at the bernal heights neighborhood center. i am happy to be talking in support of this project, or this initiative. as you may know, bernal heights neighborhood center develops housing throughout the city. we also run programming in many parts of the city and are engaged with our colleagues in the mission. we have project in mission. we have done work in soma. we are developing another example of taking unde ....
another our children and families in san francisco who have had to leave because of gentrification. the park will help. there a child care centers in the immediate neighborhood. parks are places people can support each other, get ideas for jobs. there is somebody giving out food on sundays. parks are community places. i am glad there will be another. the environmental justice issue is so important in the southeast side. we do not have golden gate park or the beach. we do not have open space, ponds, and lakes. if there is an earthquake, we may have more streams coming out. i want to emphasize the affordable housing. i am hoping that with this part will come the affordable housing, because there is such a screaming need for real affordable housing in san francisco. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. my name is amy. i am the interim housing director at the bernal heights neighborhood center. i am happy to be talking in support of this project, or this initiative. as ....
remarks about the proposal. good afternoon, supervisors. i am the organizer of a community group. the only thing i could really and, that will not take away from the passion and comments you are going to hear from community members we have come a long way. to us, we see this as the way community planning and community engagement should be like. this is the way it should be done in the city. we went from 10 years ago fighting project by project, site by site, challenging the planning department that we need to do pro-active, comprehensive planning. we need to use social justice as a marker. it should be the same way planners have tools where they look at square feet and incompatible uses. we also should be incorporating health-based planning, community-based planning. to me, this is a proud moment. we have come from having these adversarial roles living in the planning department. one project come, you have two sides of the aisle that are clearly going at heads. it ....
affordable housing, lack of open space, lack of living wage job opportunities. the communities approach was to reach out to city hall to the planning department and initiate a community planning process. over the course of those 10 years, we have young folks, adults, 70-plus-year-old elders that have stepped forward as community planners themselves to complement the great work that has happened at the planning department, the recreation and parks department, the puc and other city agencies. we have a community that has really taken ownership over this particular project and is reaching out to you to develop a genuine partnership to create sustainable open space and affordable housing opportunities for the community. we hope you will step forward and enter into the partnership with the community. thank you. [speaking spanish] hello. my name is alicia briseno. i am also a member of poder, and i am here because of my connection to the mayan communities. we are in need ....