minimum established by state law provides. and i m really worried that if san francisco does not catch up on all of the housing demand created by all the jobs that have been created in your city, it s going to deeply impact my neighbors and push folks out here. you can t find a two-bedroom apartment for less than $3,000 a month. every year that goes by the area median income for san mateo county goes up and up as more of our residents are displaced. it is directly a result of not building enough market-rate housing in san francisco where the jobs are. 75,000 san mateo residents commute to your city every day in normal times. i m sure that similarly large numbers commute from the east bay as well. it is crucial that you make space to allow these folks to be able to live in your city. i take you all at your word that you care about low-income people. i think that this is the wrong approach. if you look at the resolution it talks about 49,000 residents who are rent burdened. the
given the extraordinary pressures on our fire department at the moment i couldn t justify pressuring the fire marshal to respond [indiscernible]. okay. i will continue. over the past few weeks, so i m making a motion to continue the appeal once again to september 15. both sponsor and the appellants are aware of the continuance. okay, thank you. so is there a second for this continuance? second, supervisor preston. okay, seconded by supervisor preston. madam clark, before we take that motion, let s take public comments on the continuance itself. okay. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the anticipated continuance? operations, do we have a caller on the line? operator: [indiscernible]. great, welcome, caller. weefr taking public comment on the continuance of items four through seven. this is appeal of revised final mitigation declaration proposed for the fulsome street project. are you with us, caller? if you are interested in speaking, ple
clerk: mr. president, all members are present. president yee: thank you. please place your right hand over your heart and join with me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] president yee: thank you. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record each of our meetings and make them available on-line. madam clerk, are there any communications? clerk: yes. the record will reflect that during this covid-19 emergency, members of the board of supervisors will participate to the same extent as if they were present in their legislative chamber. the board recognizes the pandemic has made the need for communication more acute and that those communities, with and without the internet, have the opportunity to participate, written and unwritten, in this meeting. we will accept your testimony via mail or public comment. you re welcome to send us an e-mail at bos@sfgov.org. if using your computer, you can livestream the mee
president yee: okay. good afternoon and welcome to the september 1, 2020 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll call] clerk: mr. president, all members are present. president yee: thank you. please place your right hand over your heart and join with me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] president yee: thank you. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record each of our meetings and make them available on-line. madam clerk, are there any communications? clerk: yes. the record will reflect that during this covid-19 emergency, members of the board of supervisors will participate to the same extent as if they were present in their legislative chamber. the board recognizes the pandemic has made the need for communication more acute and that those communities, with and without the internet, have the oppor
[indiscernable] it is between high density housing and shopping and so forth. that hasn t happened. the commercial district is taken up by expensive condos. a few units that are affordable. those would be gone. i would very much like to speak to supervisor peskin about it. i will mention the only project recently that i know of was the one that i proposed and the mayor s office of housing agreed and david baker and everybody was hot to trot. that was the project supervisor peskin tried to save by landmarking. he was no longer in office and david chu were not interested in a senior housing project. they tried to find affordable housing initially and reducing the price but didn t think there were any. operator: thank you. next speaker, please. caller: i am a research analyst and one of the things my job touches on is asking that the community evaluate what kinds of jobs is given hotel development might bring to the community and how those jobs will correlate to the ability of