be more dialog coming up on this especially, when it comes to housing there's a lot of residents in selma that are in dire need of the how's and i'm sure for the rest of the city this is a big project we of time to see more affordable housing for summer residents thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is a prescott a project manager for a nonprofit and employment training center over 4 years in the south of market area i'm here to speak on the development about the designing and engagement process it first of all, i understand the need for the process in the city i know the city has to deal with reducing the green house gases around transportation now the biggest concerns are looking at whos businesses are they currently living in the south of market or benefit others ii mean those people coming out san francisco this should be catalyst project and so first and foremost this project needs to be about those currently in the existing communities there's been community leaders that talked about the community that i think people are sparesly tenant and be more outreach

benefit trooe fee that the 23 he million dollars no, that's will apply to all other central selma projects to meet the public facility needs but not this project do they propose to allow the space for nonprofits no, they proposes to keep the one hundred and 37 millions for themselves oneself you know how we feel like that i've got to turn that detain don't approve that-had a of that windfall should be returned to civic benefits and that's enough to have the building space and pay the communicated benefit fee. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, commissioners i'm luis in the last few months we've seen the efforts of 5 m to engage the community and they have had workshops and discussions i have attended some in the beginning even the 5 w of the intersection for the arts and the design they had you know invited all of the components of the jobs to small businesses and the affordability in the area south of market i'd like to see have more of this discussion because of you know the community benefits, the impacts of the benefits and the community i'm looking forward to hearing more of

office here what we've done is try to illustrate some our ground floor we've taken many accuses from selma and wanting to try to create variety and a level of transparency at the ground this is just a demonstration of that through the moscone on the vertical we also start with the ground floor the ground floor plan this is a brief summary but just to give everyone a brief overview there are two residential buildings two new office buildings and the existing chronicle and the denser building will remain as part of the project and at building about the one hundred and 50 thousand square feet of active ground floor and rating now the open space this is something that's been a topic we've received a lot of feedback from the community i'm sure you're aware of the selma is skweefrt when it comes to 1347 we want to create a chain, if you will, of open spaces that will somehow link and provide something new the project has a open space on the top of the chronicle and selectively e collectively that is 35 thousand square feet or 2 haze greens if you're familiar with that scale what's unique we've f

districts in selma were identified and those related to the filipino community and lgbtq and we feel with the massive up going on for central selma that overlaps those districts interests an opportunity for the city to take formal action to recognize the heritage to make sure they're not los lost in the development south of market so that concludes my presentation. thank you, again, for the opportunity i'm happy to take questions you might have. >> thank you opening it up for public comment is there any public comment? okay none public comment is closed i want to thank sf heritage for this presentation i'm in the registry san francisco is so expensive the case studies you've pot forward from others countries that is encouraging it's going to take deep dollars so the dollar exemption is a good start but in london and our own cultural programs are great models and needed to stabilize to the department i know that this work actually, it can't stand alone in the preservation element or this presentation we have to talk about it when we do our area plan so maybe the opportunity was kind o

thank you, commissioners jim follower chair of the western selma task force the departments decision to dump 70 or 80 more cars into ralph represents another broken promise to the accept it after assurance by the planning department that additional protection would be put in place to moderate new development jimmy john john ram was represent we were pitting policies in place to enhance the quality of life the board of supervisors told us to ironically this department will destroy the intimacy that makes those neighbors popular yesterday was the first time planning staff was willing to sit down and talk with us it immediately became apparent that staff p had no idea of the comprehensive conditions and their location of the driveway would make it worse we're asking for a continuance we think you should explorer easiest locations that's completely lacking in their analysis the driveway in its current location creates for problems than it solves we also think you should take a look at the directors driveway location for new depression e extremity i thought that would be a internal docume

intention of fulsome street as grand boulevard there's a tension between grand boulevard and our western selma plan that preserving the small streets they're part of town with if i parks and provide respite for residential neighborhoods and bicyclists and our preservation of residential enclaves preserves all the things we have walkability and vicinitycy and pedestrian safety but we need time to work this out democratically and ralph street is not a service corridor and shouldn't be treated as one thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hi, i'm jerry jessica a homeownership on ralph street and thank you for hearing our comments i'm in favor of this development and i and i appreciate how the developers have worked with the community and i'm asking for a continuance because of the concerns about the driveway location i feel there are conditions of ralph street are poor for the amount of traffic and i don't feel that the planning commission has had a chance to hear all the issues surrounding that i want a continuance to understand the full issue. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. my n

so i ended up in selma. before i got there, i did a lot of research on literacy materials taking i could snatch up a few books and take them down, and we will start working. literacy materials at this time were children's books that were morphed into adult texts. they all had pictures of white middle-class families baking pies, dad coming home from work, all this kind of stuff. i am thinking this is not going to work. with the help of some people i met in new york when i was doing this research, we put together a project where we would recruit afro-american students to come to selma for the summer of 1964 and we would begin working with local people in terms of how what was going on with voter registration, and their desire to vote, and what that could do for selma. out of those words, create reading texts that may help in growing literacy. about what was going on with bob moses and out loewenstein planning this huge summer project because i am stuck in selma with instructions not to go down to the atlanta o

so i ended up in selma. before i got there, i did a lot of research on literacy materials taking i could snatch up a few books and take them down, and we will start working. literacy materials at this time were children's books that were morphed into adult texts. they all had pictures of white middle-class families baking pies, dad coming home from work, all this kind of stuff. i am thinking this is not going to work. with the help of some people i met in new york when i was doing this research, we put together a project where we would recruit afro-american students to come to selma for the summer of 1964 and we would begin working with local people in terms of how they expressed what was going on with voter registration, and their desire to vote, and what that could do for selma. out of those words, create reading texts that may help in growing literacy. i knew nothing about what was going on with bob moses and al loewenstein planning this huge summer project because i am stuck in selma with instructions no

we have to management changing the problems of traffic congestions thought the city particularly in selma so to start i want to just through up a couple of pictures i took this was on opening day of giants season of traffic congestion there it is and also the impact it has to muni to supervisor cohen sdrusz discussed in her opening rangers and pedestrians trying to cross with the crosswalk is blocked and also for cyclists and truck drivers it's hard to navigate a transacting truck through the gridlock and bicyclists that went to the other side of the street i wanted to introduce it in this way this problem of all the cars on the street is one that i don't think is going to be revolved but don't block the box the reality a lot of people want to go home by crossing the bay bridge how quickly a car can get on the bridge not to mitigate by car or by walking or transit that being said i know i wanted to frame the issue in context of the set of tools in the toolbox to manage congestion and in the context of the supply and demand side strategy on the supply side san francisco is a congested city

appreciate the variety of materials i think life in selma is in it's alleys tests important last time when i was there 0 no one was hang anti under the tunnels only on marching street i have a concern about replacing one bad tunnel with one replacing one blight with another that's my insight i found myself 1789 and i look at kind of trends and styles in the buildings and office spaces and things i sat in absolve fields and in selma valley i wonder how long you know offices are going to be in style i look at that and sitting down there they're not as greener there's a battle between the air conditioning on the infringes of the building and the air conditional use variance in the middle and people don't want to be on the inside but near a window how are those things going to be in fashion we have a similar formula retail where people try to should you horn into the city and silicon valley is doing that and folks are embracing that i'm concerned about the small building being demolished i support the housing 33 percent we're almost there we talked about pdr whether they're a zoning or pd

provide a few of the initial finding and caucasian to the public hearing in a few weeks focused on selma and the waterfront area where so much of our growth is planned and the two key outcomes would be a target of peak hour trips by corridor by mode that accommodations you'll the trips and two getting to the scale of investment into other modes of transportation needs that make it work so i - here are a few of the things we've learned so far we'll have admonish in a couple of weeks the first how much we've approved now we call the baseline everything this is in the cue under construction or coming down the pipes this is itch more substantial than the focus of making our based on in the future work awhile also accommodating the needs that exist on the grounds is important on the roadway capacity side in the transbay corridor we're pretty much at capacity that makes sense if you think about it people trying to get on the bridge and supervisor kim when our initial remarks you mentioned the study 26 percent more our finding was in the future we need 267 percent less vehicles to not face the

, central selma, transit center how close and what overlap on this plan the second thing i want you to pay attention to transit and traffic what mechanisms happened last night there was a major ball park in the entire south of market and in the financial district on transit going to the bridge blocking all the intersections all the way around wherever those covets backs up happen the first one is the victim is transit circulation is there any proposal or any mechanism roadway there's a debriefly of what happens when traffic comes to a grinding halt muni lost runs that's i don't understand that the area around this project has been totally bunker because of the combination of the salesforce and the oracle stopping of traffic open howard street as well as fourth street what mechanisms do we have and should we have to correct traffic studies and projections all the traffic things in the eir and every other eir have infancies because they're not real the real world of fifbt of market they'd my experience where the office has been and the demolition is it's gridlock so we need to have real

kind of trends and styles in the buildings and office spaces and things i sat in absolve fields and in selma valley i wonder how long you know offices are going to be in style i look at that and sitting down there they're not as greener there's a battle between the air conditioning on the infringes of the building and the air conditional use variance in the middle and people don't want to be on the inside but near a window how are those things going to be in fashion we have a similar formula retail where people try to should you horn into the city and silicon valley is doing that and folks are embracing that i'm concerned about the small building being demolished i support the housing 33 percent we're almost there we talked about pdr whether they're a zoning or pdr zoning i mentioned to the forest city folks if you have an office pdr drops about fourth of them are in food so sitting in the office we consume a lot of food so to get jobs in the neighborhood food service is a great a way to go i saw the page there's a lot of data i want to meet with you, sir it look like we dropped a pencil off

author of vision zero she supports the south of market residential on classifies prioritize by the selma plan and as the primary author of vision zero she also understands the prioritization of pedestrian safety and bicycle safety and examining this cord as west and south selma and pushed for the environmental study including the situation widening and protecting bike latent prints and the potential to wave a reduction of car lanes and push for a pilot after the tragic death of a person last summer in addition to even though concerns of the ralph street i know that the boarder communities are interested in knowing in how to protect and enhance the unique residential enclaves the south of market and residents want further discussions will the driveway i want to thank the project sponsor and planning for putting together the driveway locations for redevelopment and i know the the planning staff in which susan has look at the site conditions in this project and area i know that the memo articulates the preference is to have the egress for the alleys rather than fulsome street i everything t

about i agree with commissioner moore you have a 40 acre island how does this sdrbtd segregate with the selma plan. >> thank you. >> commissioner hillis. >> thank you for your presentation i want to picking i didn't back on some of the comments like the tunnel or whatever the bridge cross the street it's great we're experiencing the street and alley infrastructure but i agree wherever you introduce or continue on with the you know buildings bloef above it it never feels the same no matter how high and that's a design concern i like the general design direction the building to feel look at bulky especially the office building in the residential or larger one that is situated open the site we get the design theory they feel bulky already and then i guess a lot of the details we're getting getting is in the dna what the value of up zoning is and the value of the city is getting all the public benefits what's the status and when will we laser that those get complicated we're not following the up zoning pretty massively or i imagine this is going to be a discussion. >> good afternoon kevin with th

this is a selma-like moment around the country. when you go to city to city, state to state, you see young people black and brown and pour and outside and as a consequence of being young, black, poor and outside, ferguson happens every 28 hours. the question is, it doesn't happen in this way at this time. >> it's happening -- >> kevin, quickly, to you, you said you don't agree with congressman john lewis said. what do you attribute the rising up of the huge amount of people in ferguson after the shooting. what do you attribute that to? >> look. we've been trained to have this political correct idea that we're supposed to rise up when something like this happens. the atrocity that it is, it isn't -- i would defy anybody, i would doughfy mark to tell me who's the last kid killed in chicago or l.a. or d.c. we don't know. but when something like this happens we raise it to a level it should never be at, and it's unfortunate. but the thing that mark doesn't want to talk about is in every one of those instances, it's controlled by democr

really take a board and anymore comprehensive look at this juncture i don't think that the central selma plan can pass which indeed address what was presented as you're looking across the city the one neighborhood you didn't mention was chinatown the closing of the empress of china with no mitigating idea yet presented it will fall within a legacy registering rather than considering building replacement that is inphantomable and chinatown as a co-he has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that the empress of china joins the registration of cultural importance and i hope that you and other presentations will mention chinatown because while they're still many living owners probably generational changes go as much in the making we need to help to address this and front on and overall possible techniques for this to go throw the proper process. >> thank you for appointing the empress of china it's one of our legacy bars and restaurant and sadly one the businesses that is most enthusiastically about the initial

facing our selma moment right now. for folks who are interested in the hunger games or read the books or liked the movie, you're starting to hear this state violence being affected on the community. i think what we're going to see in ferguson is going to be a mode of choice that america has to make. are they going to stand on the side of the community, or are they going to stand on the side of oppression? >> dante, let's leave it there for now. >> hard to leave it there. >> yes. >> boy, you tell it. >> jamie, thank you. i'm going to keep you around here for as long as i can. on to different news. secretary of defense chuck hagel announced his resignation. in announcing his departure, the president had praise for hagel. >> when i nominated you for this position you said you would always give your honest advice and counsel, and you have. behind closed doors in the oval office you always gave it to me street. i appreciate your knowledge. >> now he will replace of secretary of defense, that search comes in the midst of isi

oh, sure >> good afternoon, commissioners almost 8 years i served as chair of the western selma planning process now the department seems to be in the midst of adapting a new facility for parking garages to be in the alleys this is counter within the western selma plan and the board of supervisors resolution 731 dash 4 requires we quote provide a buffer between the residential on and on calculated district and areas where the camp development might be the planning department and discouraging automobiles into our alleys because of conflicting priorities within the some plan one in pales in comparison with paul wrote the western community plan this is non-since the plan begins with a commitment to preserve the quality of life in the residential enclave district of alley and everything that follows it in respect to the quality of life if the planning department that is confused in their understanding of the streetscape network included in the plan they seem unable to wrap their heads around the streets fulsome is our neighborhood corridor we droeft a numerous amount of time show me one succ

oh, sure >> good afternoon, commissioners almost 8 years i served as chair of the western selma planning process now the department seems to be in the midst of adapting a new facility for parking garages to be in the alleys this is counter within the western selma plan and the board of supervisors resolution 731 dash 4 requires we quote provide a buffer between the residential on and on calculated district and areas where the camp development might be the planning department and discouraging automobiles into our alleys because of conflicting priorities within the some plan one in pales in comparison with paul wrote the western community plan this is non-since the plan begins with a commitment to preserve the quality of life in the residential enclave district of alley and everything that follows it in respect to the quality of life if the planning department that is confused in their understanding of the streetscape network included in the plan they seem unable to wrap their heads around the streets fulsome is our neighborhood corridor we

we're marching twice the distance of the selma to montgomery march. we are reaching out to the length and breadth of not only the country but the state. because we believe that nonviolent protest is not only morally purposeful, it is also strategically effective. in other words, we can speak to the conscience of the country. we can convince people that there's more to be gained by our lowering barriers of race and class, there's more to be gained by our police departments engaging communities rather than operating as occupying armies in the midst of communities. >> reporter: when you talk about being effective, i think the image of you guys walking past the burned-out buildings and the destruction is not lost on a lot of people i think. >> our challenge is this. when buildings burn, not only represents a loss of property, it also represents a loss of trust. a loss of moral credibility. and we believe that we're 99.9% of these young practitioners of democracy have protested for over 100 days nonviolently. we want to make clear that that's the message.

oh, sure >> good afternoon, commissioners almost 8 years i served as chair of the western selma planning process now the department seems to be in the midst of adapting a new facility for parking garages to be in the alleys this is counter within the western selma plan and the board of supervisors resolution 731 dash 4 requires we quote provide a buffer between the residential on and on calculated district and areas where the camp development might be the planning department and discouraging automobiles into our alleys because of conflicting priorities within the some plan one in pales in comparison with paul wrote the western community plan this is non-since the plan begins with a commitment to preserve the quality of life in the residential enclave district of alley and everything that follows it in respect to the quality of life if the plan d

. >> selma. >> fulsome is a thoroughfare for san francisco i think the traffic conditions are not going to get better in my opinion keeping the veins and arteries in san francisco is important when we have a chance to duck off and not block a thoroughfare when we see whole foods an franklin and trade joe's it makes things up and keeping the author fairs and dedicating those streets automobile movement all of p them going by directional it's invent for the folks in the city but taking ralph it is for the flow of the city. >> commissioner richards. >> so i need one more vote for a continuance i think to us the memo that come out yesterday probably makes sense but put ourselves in those folks shoes that are sophisticated or have the experience the 10 page memo that came out they ended up at 4 o'clock and in the rain i'll get into in a minute puts them as at a disadvantage the second one over the conditions i had a difference of opinion with the gentleman on what the issue is i was told one hundred and 34 cars across the street as i shadow there in the rain with the neighbors there was a ca