commercial or residential builds as much residential housing as possible. we have huge crisis here not just in san francisco but throughout our region. we need to make sure we re not just building faces for more jobs but housing for our existing residents and new residents as well. i just wanted to take a moment to thank a number of people that helped bring this decade to fruition today at the board of supervisors and first, i want to start with our community. i want to recognize those that were, i think, in our 5:00 a.m. session with the giants, the council of community housing organization, peter cohen and fernando, teresa imperial, ian lewis and mike casey of local 2 who brought the lollypop rings so we could have our own world champion rings at the table and united educators of san francisco and finally, she s no longer with us today but april from my office who spent quite a bit of time working on the negotiations and this deal. i also want to thank our residents that h
opportunities for san francisco businesses all while delivering these important public benefits to the city as a whole. before i turn if over to mark who ll touch on the ocii elements of the approval before you today, i would like to acknowledge and thank our incredible team. over the last decade, hundreds of dedicated and talented individuals have committed their time and energies to shaping the vision that you see before you today. so a giant thank you to all the mission rockers who have made this possible. with that, on to mark. good afternoon, president breed, supervisors. project manager for mission bay. the item before you today is an amendment to the mission bay south very development plan. we are amending the plan to remove an 18-foot strip of open space that is within the southern edge of seawall lot 337. this 3/10 of an acre parcel is p20. it is a map of mission bay south and the thin red line is where p20 is. here s a zoomed up like. p20 is a port owned parcel. b
most excited about and why i coauthored the legislation is the amount of affordable housing and middle income housing that s being created. 40% of the units will be affordable, and they will be affordable to a wide range of income. this is exactly how we should be developing affordable housing in san francisco. it will be for low and middle income residents earning up to possibly 150% ami. this range captures, as supervisor kim has stated, so many people. i m hoping as a result of this project, that many of the people who are members of local 2, who work at the ballpark, can actually qualify for the housing that s right next to the place that they work. so we have, along with our neighborhood preference legislation, along with the opportunities that will exist here for affordable housing of all income ranges, we are hopefully not just going to create a new opportunity for housing. we re going to make sure that residents of this city, people who are part of the workforce in th
only the community of south beach and mission bay, but also new residents on site. the retail within the neighborhood will be small shops and affordable spaces and we have worked hard with neighbors who have lived around the site for many years to identify the needs that this neighborhood would like to see, including child care, coffee shops, small scale markets, production space, and other neighborhood serving uses. as with our comprehensive approach to the retail planning, we have also taken a holistic approach to addressing some of what we see as a city s most pressing needs here at mission rock. 40% of the homes will be affordable to low, moderate, and middle income families, including two and three bedroom units. 2 4 apartments will be permanently get aside for youths transitioning out of the foster care system, a model for integration into our city s community. together with many city agencies, we have also established an extraordinary program for environmental sustaina
significant opportunity to transform an under utilized portion of our waterfront into desperately needed housing, parks, and new job opportunities. i m excite to be a coresponse or and look forward to seeing this project completed. one of the components that i m most excited about and why i coauthored the legislation is the amount of affordable housing and middle income housing that s being created. 40% of the units will be affordable, and they will be affordable to a wide range of income. this is exactly how we should be developing affordable housing in san francisco. it will be for low and middle income residents earning up to possibly 150% ami. this range captures, as supervisor kim has stated, so many people. i m hoping as a result of this project, that many of the people who are members of local 2, who work at the ballpark, can actually qualify for the housing that s right next to the place that they work. so we have, along with our neighborhood preference legislation, a