Pick and choose the businesses, but unfortunately, we dont get to choose what goes in. What we do is choose whether the businesses that want to do business can. There are spaces for smaller retailer and wed love to have them. There is spaces for restaurants and wed love to have them. There is a business saying can i be in this space, part of this neighborhood, and i cant see why we would say no. President melgar next speaker, please. My name is brian springfield. I live one block from the location of Sterling Bank. Ive lived there 21 years. And i live across street from a vacant commercial space zoned for restaurant use at 2175 market. Its never leased. Its sat vacant for three years now. 2175 was also the location of a Business Venture called myriad, like a food hall concept, multivendor. That struggled for a while and eventually failed. I support their application to move next door to the Current Location because im really concerned about the vacant store fronts in the castro. Ive se
This block. So this is not a normal air and light situation. This is one where the building was specifically designed with purpose and access. It talks to the design intent and design characteristics that makes coxhead such a significant architect. And i believe that requires more deference, and it disturbs me that i have not heard that addressed in the pmnd as a historic character issue. Its not just the views out, it is how the light comes into the house and plays with the interior design, which was a very purposeful part of the architecture. Thank you. President melgar thank you. Next speaker, please. Honorable commissioners, my father president melgar i think you are youre part of mr. Kaufmans team. Yeah, so i cant speak. President melgar yeah. You can speak during rebuttal. Hes mr. Kaufmans son, but he does not live at the property. Therefore, hes a member of the public living at a separate address. President melgar City Attorney, what do you think . [inaudible] president melgar o
Examined or we ask the pilot be dramatically reduced from the 15 or 18 months it is now to a maximum of three months with concurrent Weekly Survey of the impacted neighborhoods nearby. And a systemic study of the impact on the neighborhood. We ask the board immediately direct relevant departments to conduct a study of the traffic and situation on haight street and surrounding neighborhoods and recommend changes to quickly alleviate an already dangerous and unlivable situation. Thank you. Next speaker please marcell patrick, kendall. Can i use the overhead, please . This is currently looking uphill page street completely dominated by a car parking lane, a car travel lane a car travel lane, double parked car and another car parking line. So drivers asking for more driving. My name is marcell. Im a sf resident and a student at uc berkeley and member of the bike coalition. The design of our street convey the value systems of our government and transit agency. Given that, too much of San Fr
Clothed and happy. For each of these contributions, i am proud to honor ina deerman. [applause] now, shes brought a good chunk of Ashbury Heights down with her. Among the folks we have here is kelly deerman, her daughter. And colleagues, you may know kelly as executive director of the ihsf public authorities since 2014. Prior to that she was president of the Human Services commission, ran her own small law practice and in 2008 founded sf urban c. H. C. , a nonprofit buying Financial Literacy for low and moderate industry. I think kelly was going to say a few words. President fung supervisor peskin. Thank you, i apologize for popping up. When youve been on this board on and off for 20 years. I remember ms. Deerman when i used to go to the planned marks reservation board before it was a commission. And ms. Deerman had a profound sense of figuring out who was cheating and speculating and who was doing the right thing. Ive never forget what she said, i like your blue eyes, i do not like yo
Because the controversy of the day is the notion that the bureaucracy and the input is slowing down the building. I wanted to say for the record, what is slowing it down is not community input. Everybody saluted the fact that neighborhood input made to the project back better. It is the lack of actual funding that is why i am affixing my name to this measure today because 600 million, over half a billion dollars of the public s money that we will all pay for it, that we will all work to get past this november, that is where the rubber hits the road, that is where we actually build Affordable Housing. And given that it takes a long time to raise those funds, we have time to have Good Community process and Good Community input , so lets not wreck what makes projects better and lets fund what builds these projects. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to add my excitement about the bond and i want to thank president yee for working so closely with the mayors office, but a