Of that work, its very important as we wind down the responsibilities of the successor agency. So again, happy to move forward Theo Ellington for seat 1, merily mondajar for seat 3, i want to thank all the member s of the public who came and also waited to speak. We really appreciate that as many of you as possible tried to consolidate your comments as well. Its very clear there is broad support for the 5 commissioner appointees here before us. So we have a motion and a second and we can move forward these items. One thing i wanted to add. Im sorry, supervisor afl loels. You just reminded me in your comments and i think its important for some concurrence from members of this committee about public input. There were some members who came here who spoke for Public Comment and thought there were parts of the community that werent necessarily consulted, this project is moving a little too fast. I listened to it but i also feel like the disappointed candidates today but it speaks to the nee
Four of these candidates are profoundly impressive in their qualifications for this type of work. But there is a problem and that is with public process. Its vital to remember that the reason we made sure that some of us fought so hard to make sure that neighborhood representatives were on this commission is that that is right of pa process of appointing them was supposed to entail going to those neighborhoods in depth and getting their input on who these appointees should be. For this to be noticed a few days ago at holiday time is very problematic to that process. Just to show an example of why this is so important and why we need to wait until the second meeting in january to nail down these appointments, as impressive as they are, none of the appointees when they stood up said one word about the fact that the bayview Hunters Point Development Area is a federal Super Fund Site. 30,000 people in the bayview Hunters Point signed a petition to put a measure on the ballot because of the
Successor commission, have a meeting and no one shows up in the meeting is canceled and then you come here and you see people being nominated and the community have not been involved in it other than within their little close circles and i say to you that we look forward to them being on board but we question, we will question the decisions that they make because the decisions that they make will affect the community and since we did not have any input up front, we will question them and we will want to know why and who developed, who there in the car with in terms of who they make these decisions for. And thats what we have been missing in the community. We have not been missing representatives but weve been missing some type of tangibles that give the community some type of hope. Right now, like i said before, you have been whistling past the graveyard for so long that the community have not been, the communitys not dead yet. And i say to you watch the decisions that are made and how
Community gardening opportunities for low to moderate to affordable income residents, the keeping of upper Market Street at least as a sunshine corridor so that the building, the new growth and developments occurring along the Market Street corridor dont overshadow the upper Market Street. I have been quite concerned with two years ago there was a lot of holes in the ground, to put it plainry, walking up and down Market Street and throughout the marketoctavia corridor and boundaries, most of those holes have been virtually plugged up. There is not much vacant land level for development. This has occurred in the last 24 months, its very easy to see, the disappearing vacant land. In any event i would like to also, i am also very interested in pedestrian safety, developing pedestrian amenities along Market Street, increasing decreasing vehicular traffic and increasing bicycling opportunities and im also very interested in generally not only the development of low income and very low Incom
People, im interested in either preserving what we have or developing new housing projects. This is now of course within the scope of the committee. However, a number of project applications will come before the committee which involve components of Affordable Housing, as well as a matter of fact theres a develop. Occurring at 55 laguna for senior lgbt housing which is being put forward by mercy housing, a fairly well known Supportive Housing corporation within the city. And in general i really would like having been a life long resident of San Francisco and the city of San Francisco overall, especially downtown, except for some of the new skyscrapers, has retained a lot of its old character. The Mission District has not been developed that much, its retained a lot of its character. However, i see a lot of the Development Going on right now where theres mixed use with commercial retail and upscale condominiums. I see this occurring throughout the boundary areas of the marketoctavia cor