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. >> commissioner richardson: we can exercise leadership. so we have all these decisions and agencies, and again, some of ours, we where other hats. and we are part of the discussions on the other scale. i would like for tighter teamwork. now that we are here. at some point, we would like to hold a conference and invite everybody in. this is where this project, the treasure island development of its kind in the entire country. what we are doing here is actually setting a precedent within transportation and infrastructure and everything that we are doing. we are talking about that right now. and because of the nature of the work, we have the assets and all these players that are in there peerk it is about leadership. we can exercise that leadership. the vision here is let's plan on having everybody here. we want to have everyone here so we can all be on the same page. rule out the plan that they have when they're talking to the port and talking to all the other stakeholders. let's see where we are here. that way, when we come into the supplem
. >> commissioner richardson: we can exercise leadership. so we have all these decisions and agencies, and again, some of ours, we where other hats. and we are part of the discussions on the other scale. i would like for tighter teamwork. now that we are here. at some point, we would like to hold a conference and invite everybody in. this is where this project, the treasure island development of its kind in the entire country. what we are doing here is actually setting a precedent within...
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richardson. >> director richardson: the timing for the presentation, i can tell you, i've been going around town. the san francisco board of directors promoting housing. i made it clear to them that i would appreciate they could be helping with funding. that's the bottom line. i have a series questions with regards to the construction cost. this is stunning. i'm looking at your contribution. even the average is 627k. that is astronomical. help me out here in the projects that are ready for production now, construction you listed the project one, two and three. what are the differentiation. the average project for three is almost a million dollars per unit. what kind of housing is this? can you give me profile why all the abbreviations. >> sure. we hope that project will be outlier. i'm concerned it may not be as costs continue to increase. we're seeing 5% to 10% escalation per year. part of that higher cost is a matter of time. time has passed, cost increased. that particular project, it was a very high land value. it was a project. there was political pressure to buy a particular pa
richardson. >> director richardson: the timing for the presentation, i can tell you, i've been going around town. the san francisco board of directors promoting housing. i made it clear to them that i would appreciate they could be helping with funding. that's the bottom line. i have a series questions with regards to the construction cost. this is stunning. i'm looking at your contribution. even the average is 627k. that is astronomical. help me out here in the projects that are ready...
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safai: sorry commissioner richardson. i was scrolling down too quickly. >> thank you. good afternoon. congratulations on the italian heritage. a great day for san francisco. i am linda richardson. i wanted to gratitude for allowing many me -- me to serve. i want to thank the board of supervisors for always helping us with the development of treasure island and the other islands. a little background, i have an extensive background in land use, planning, transportation, sustainable development over two decades. i was privileged to serve on the san francisco planning commission. a lot of the projects that you see today in the city i had the privilege of implementing policy and making sure those projects were implemented on time and according to the rules and policy that the board of supervisors have laid out. i also served on the bay conservation development commission, a state agency. i was honored to be appointed by the governor of california. we oversee the nine bay area counties. that experience there, members of the boa
safai: sorry commissioner richardson. i was scrolling down too quickly. >> thank you. good afternoon. congratulations on the italian heritage. a great day for san francisco. i am linda richardson. i wanted to gratitude for allowing many me -- me to serve. i want to thank the board of supervisors for always helping us with the development of treasure island and the other islands. a little background, i have an extensive background in land use, planning, transportation, sustainable...
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and for the infrastructure community, linda richardson. and members of that committee will be linda richardson, sharon lai and myself. on the infrastructure committee. there is is a resolution. >> i move. >> second. >> president tsen: moved and seconded. all those in favor, say aye. opposed? the ayes have it. next item. >> clerk: item 8. timma update on transit service, toll policies and affordability program. >> project manager for the toll program will be making a presentation. she and the team from the transportation authority, eric cordova, eric young, as i said in my comments, they had two workshops that were very well prepared on the island last month. >> president tsen: welcome rachel. >> thank you. thank you for having us back. we've made a few presentations and hosted a few events since the last time we were here in september. we were at the community meeting on september 19. and then we had two timma-hosted events, end of september-beginning of october, and then presented to the timma committee the past thursday, the 4th. what we
and for the infrastructure community, linda richardson. and members of that committee will be linda richardson, sharon lai and myself. on the infrastructure committee. there is is a resolution. >> i move. >> second. >> president tsen: moved and seconded. all those in favor, say aye. opposed? the ayes have it. next item. >> clerk: item 8. timma update on transit service, toll policies and affordability program. >> project manager for the toll program will be making...
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richardson. >> director richardson: thank you. great presentation. we were having a great time looking at the slides. so doing well. i like the emphasis on intersections. we know from the conversation that came about and i'm looking through all the slides and how you have dealt with them in all the areas. my question has to do -- and i raised this before, the signalized intersection. and i was looking at your diagram. the issues i have is basically what i have now. i don't want just another anotaiton. san francisco mainland is heartbrok heartbroken. we're having accidents by people that are disabled, visually impaired, seniors. and also implications with what we're talking about, commissioner tsen is talking about, with the wider street. how are we treating this? i don't want to just have a signalized intersection, but something that we can have because the technology is there that can be there to help facilitate the crossing of, you know, for the a.d.a., especially the visually impaired. i have not seen that. i can't find that here. maybe you can gu
richardson. >> director richardson: thank you. great presentation. we were having a great time looking at the slides. so doing well. i like the emphasis on intersections. we know from the conversation that came about and i'm looking through all the slides and how you have dealt with them in all the areas. my question has to do -- and i raised this before, the signalized intersection. and i was looking at your diagram. the issues i have is basically what i have now. i don't want just...
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i'm here to support the reappointment of linda richardson. you have three fantastic candidates that bring their life experiences and background and stellar credentials including linda richardson as president of adr continental group, a full servicewomen-owned company. she has expertise in land use planning, workforce training and as a board member of the african-american chamber of commerce and on the southeast alliance for environmental justice she has really brought an important voice to the table. i hope you will approve for reappointment. thank you. >> commissioner safai: thank you. any other public comments? seeing none it's closed. thank you commissioner richardson for all your commitment to serve again sand your wonderful qualifications. so can we entertain a motion? i think it's your turn commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: sure. i'd like to make a motion to amend -- approving to state that we support for approving the mayor's nomination for reappointment of linda richardson and pass it on the committee with a positive recommendati
i'm here to support the reappointment of linda richardson. you have three fantastic candidates that bring their life experiences and background and stellar credentials including linda richardson as president of adr continental group, a full servicewomen-owned company. she has expertise in land use planning, workforce training and as a board member of the african-american chamber of commerce and on the southeast alliance for environmental justice she has really brought an important voice to the...
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and then, -- ok ith global and my questions there. >> commissioner richardson: thank you. i want make sure that this is an important issue, as you can see. the enthusiasm and the questions that the commissioners are asking. also, commissioner dunlap, do you still want to ask questions? just one. go ahead to. this is an opportunity for everyone to speak. >> commissioner dunlop: thank you. it is less than a question. it is more of a comment on getting a bike lane from the islands to san francisco. you know, it is understudied now but it is very possible the study might say no, we cannot attach this wait to this 75 or 80-year-old bridge without having some really bad happenings on the structure of the bridge. because the wait is just so -- the weight does not really allow for a lot of extra weight on one side. i'm not even sure if that will be an option in our lifetime. but you never know. well, my lifetime. >> commissioner richardson: you also know that our director also would like to speak. i have a lot of questions but i will depart and make sure everyone gets their questi
and then, -- ok ith global and my questions there. >> commissioner richardson: thank you. i want make sure that this is an important issue, as you can see. the enthusiasm and the questions that the commissioners are asking. also, commissioner dunlap, do you still want to ask questions? just one. go ahead to. this is an opportunity for everyone to speak. >> commissioner dunlop: thank you. it is less than a question. it is more of a comment on getting a bike lane from the islands to...
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richardson. >> supervisor richardson: thank you so much. we need to remind everyone, and even before i remind anyone, i want -- mr. wallace your patience, you started in 1999 and you sta stayed true through all the situations and community engagement going back and forth and back and forth. this commission it should be noted for more than 18 months we sent the sailing center and mr. wallace to go back. we care about what we do here, our responsibility is to uphold public/private partnerships. treasure island has to be developed. sometimes th all of us have to come to the middle to make things work. in fact, almost about nine months ago the village center agree with the negotiation and they came back here and said we can liver with it live with it and it was appeared by the sierra club. at some point pau all of us will have to get together wit in the interest of the city. we have heard from the other stakeholders that are looking at this marina from people with big boats and people who wul subsidies this and small boat owners. i am comfortab
richardson. >> supervisor richardson: thank you so much. we need to remind everyone, and even before i remind anyone, i want -- mr. wallace your patience, you started in 1999 and you sta stayed true through all the situations and community engagement going back and forth and back and forth. this commission it should be noted for more than 18 months we sent the sailing center and mr. wallace to go back. we care about what we do here, our responsibility is to uphold public/private...
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in a supportive housing environment with wraparound services, as i said, the richardson apartments is a perfect example of how it could work. this bill also provides us with another tool in order to address those issues. sb1045 creates a conservatorship provides housing with supportive services. under the bill, the department of public health, the sheriff's department and general hospital can recommend that a person is conserved who is chronically homeless and suffering from serious mental illness or substance abuse disorder, which results in frequent visits to the emergency room, attention by police under a 5150 hold or frequent psychiatric evaluations. if approved by a judge, the individual would then be compelled to stay in supportive housing and receive wraparound services for up to one year with the opportunity to petition every month for review. this bill will give san francisco more tools to actually make a difference for those we see who are suffering on our streets every day with the most acute mental health and substance abuse issues. sb1045 is currently moving through the s
in a supportive housing environment with wraparound services, as i said, the richardson apartments is a perfect example of how it could work. this bill also provides us with another tool in order to address those issues. sb1045 creates a conservatorship provides housing with supportive services. under the bill, the department of public health, the sheriff's department and general hospital can recommend that a person is conserved who is chronically homeless and suffering from serious mental...
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. >> director richardson: thank you. and know this process is moving forward, so that's very encouraging. earlier, i had to ask for a graph. i seldom go anywhere in san francisco with someone trying to misrepresent this process. they're saying they don't know what is going on in the development, and that's expected sometimes. here we are with all these exercises going forward, and consultation. again, i want to reiterate, it's easier, it's to comprehend things when you see chronologically what we're doing here. i would like to see a graph what i'm sayg later on, like because it will be presented when 10-15 householdst the end of the project show up and they have not been given the opportunity to something like that, and that's what a lot of the public, some of them are going to do and then we'll have a headache. let's look at your consultation report, which is really great. what would be great is to have the universe. the first obligation is to the pre-dda. that is first and foremost. our obligation here to satisfy them.
. >> director richardson: thank you. and know this process is moving forward, so that's very encouraging. earlier, i had to ask for a graph. i seldom go anywhere in san francisco with someone trying to misrepresent this process. they're saying they don't know what is going on in the development, and that's expected sometimes. here we are with all these exercises going forward, and consultation. again, i want to reiterate, it's easier, it's to comprehend things when you see chronologically...
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. >> director richardson: thank you. just some questions and the staff can help. where are we with the relocation program that we have, the status on that, for people that are hearing for pre-d.d.a. household that was mentioned in the presentation? we have an ongoing series of programs to do outreach and get them prepared for the presentation that you have just heard today. so my question is, the status on the last commission meeting. we know we've done a lot of outreach households. my question is, just the status for the record on where we are with that and then we have some other questions. >> as background, we conducted interviews last spring. we met with better than 85% of the pre-d.d.a. and mixed households and letters have gone out to the majority of the households, some this week, as well as letters that have been prepared for the households that were not interviewed. and i will let karen speak more to those letters that will be going out. >> we were really excited about the turnout on the island of people that will meet with our team. we have a pretty big
. >> director richardson: thank you. just some questions and the staff can help. where are we with the relocation program that we have, the status on that, for people that are hearing for pre-d.d.a. household that was mentioned in the presentation? we have an ongoing series of programs to do outreach and get them prepared for the presentation that you have just heard today. so my question is, the status on the last commission meeting. we know we've done a lot of outreach households. my...
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. >> commissioner richardson: thank you for the update. every time we talk about housing and making a presentation, it also would be great to give maybe one sentence or two about the preamble. the pre-d.d.a. household that we're living on treasure island before the city actually embarked on treasure island development. and they're not displaced. the city through its generosity wrote that those pre-d.d.a. will be given opportunities to help them. i think it's always very important because not everyone is knowing what we're doing here. and so having said that, i have some serious questions. right now, so the universe is 204. that's the pre-d.d.a. household, right? the universe is 204. >> yes. we have 204 pre-d.d.a. households consistent with what you mentioned in terms of having this conversation, making sure that we set the framework. we also have the 251 treasure island households that will be relocated to replacement housing as well. >> commissioner richardson: the pre-d.d.a. are a priority here because it's tied to treasure island and th
. >> commissioner richardson: thank you for the update. every time we talk about housing and making a presentation, it also would be great to give maybe one sentence or two about the preamble. the pre-d.d.a. household that we're living on treasure island before the city actually embarked on treasure island development. and they're not displaced. the city through its generosity wrote that those pre-d.d.a. will be given opportunities to help them. i think it's always very important because...
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and could the following speakers come up in this order: linda richardson, marcus hart, michael spencer. >> hello, madam chair, hello, ladies and gentlemen of the commission. my name is ray horn of r and i glass works. i've been a union member of the glazers local union about 16, 17 years, and i decided to start a company, and so i started out at the construction -- contractors' assistance center, and that led me to the renaissance center with -- under the leadership and guidance of mr. marcus hart. and from there, ran into a miss vickie flamba who introduced me to the strategic partnership program. i just wanted to let you goes nye that it was very instrumental and critical to me becoming a union member and a glazing contractor in the city of san francisco. i'm proud to say i'm the only african american glazing contractor in the city, and clark was very instrumental in getting me started, because they took a chance on me, and giving me an opportunity to work on the project at uc berkeley when i had no construction experience as a owner, and i think that turned out very well for us. i w
and could the following speakers come up in this order: linda richardson, marcus hart, michael spencer. >> hello, madam chair, hello, ladies and gentlemen of the commission. my name is ray horn of r and i glass works. i've been a union member of the glazers local union about 16, 17 years, and i decided to start a company, and so i started out at the construction -- contractors' assistance center, and that led me to the renaissance center with -- under the leadership and guidance of mr....
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. >> commissioner richardson: thank you. you always give a great presentation. i'm going to challenge you. here we are, a golden opportunity. the board that supervises your agency or the board of supervisors. treasure island, as the commissioner says, is becoming the laboratory of all the innovative transportation and technologies and everything. we're doing it here. but we have an opportunity to show our leadership to the rest of the country and we do not take advantage of that. this beautiful presentation that you gave here, yes, for people that are watching, but it really belongs out there. so hope fulfully have cibd. when we have the opportunities and signatures to present what we're doing here, needs to come out of the box and make sure that we're presenting treasure island -- a lot of people can learn about what we're doing here. the fact that you went out and competed with different agencies across the country and got this grant is significant. what we learned from here and doing here and all the other subsequent opportunities we bring to treasure island
. >> commissioner richardson: thank you. you always give a great presentation. i'm going to challenge you. here we are, a golden opportunity. the board that supervises your agency or the board of supervisors. treasure island, as the commissioner says, is becoming the laboratory of all the innovative transportation and technologies and everything. we're doing it here. but we have an opportunity to show our leadership to the rest of the country and we do not take advantage of that. this...
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is it okay if they go, miss richardson? >> sure. we'll go right after. >> okay. >> good afternoon, commissioners. linda richardson, former san francisco planning commissioner, long time bayview-hunters point. you all need to know that this particular site was where the city and the state several decades ago were trying to build a power plant. yes, the vocal minority -- no, really, the entire community came out and the entire san francisco. after we defeated that with the board of supervisors and just about everybody in san francisco, you all asked us, planning commission, to go back and plan 18.5 years, 18.5 years has now boiled down to your resolution. we came to india basin. you know what, this here, lots of housing. we are the only one building housing. when you see me hear, i am instrumental in building thousands and thousands of houses in my city. when building came to bayview, call me and the rest of my neighbors, i encouraged him, called the a.p.r. we work with them. but what you're about to do then, that zoning of that area
is it okay if they go, miss richardson? >> sure. we'll go right after. >> okay. >> good afternoon, commissioners. linda richardson, former san francisco planning commissioner, long time bayview-hunters point. you all need to know that this particular site was where the city and the state several decades ago were trying to build a power plant. yes, the vocal minority -- no, really, the entire community came out and the entire san francisco. after we defeated that with the board...
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we're also part of the opening of this -- richardson. we know that people with addiction do so much better with housing. so this important combination of housing and treatment i believe will be the success, including the changes of the law. treatment, support, care, and housing are critical to need to reduce the suffering and to save lives, so we support the reform. particularly because they add addiction, and we know that we see the results of the shortfall of our current system every day. in psychiatric emergency services, this is our psychiatric emergency room where half the patients also have an addiction problem, and more and more of them, because of our methamphetamine epidemic, and that means in 24 hours, they look much better, but what you see on the streets looks like mental illness. and in street medicine, we have a street medicine team that goes out to serve people, particularly the chronically homeless that cannot make progress on their own towards health and well-being without being housed and without treatments. so in san f
we're also part of the opening of this -- richardson. we know that people with addiction do so much better with housing. so this important combination of housing and treatment i believe will be the success, including the changes of the law. treatment, support, care, and housing are critical to need to reduce the suffering and to save lives, so we support the reform. particularly because they add addiction, and we know that we see the results of the shortfall of our current system every day. in...
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i'm moved by the continued support, especially from director beck and director richardson. it is a really unique program. i've been doing local hiring for a decade. and i can assure you that it's not a competition but i can assure you that this program is outperforming every program that's out there. we haven't scaled it yet. it seems like that's coming down the line, but in terms of the impact we're having on the candidates that come through the program, the retainage rate, which was 69%, 70%, it just doesn't happen. it's something that all of us should be extremely proud of. for as long as we can do it, i hope that we continue to do it. our commitment to it is unwavering. it's a sort of tremendous pride. i know our new mayor is extremely proud of it and ismael is an incredible case of it working out or a case study of it working out, but more than that, he's an incredible human being that validates the program for all of us and the efforts that we're doing and the support that you all are giving us. all that to say, thank you very much and we look forward to continuing th
i'm moved by the continued support, especially from director beck and director richardson. it is a really unique program. i've been doing local hiring for a decade. and i can assure you that it's not a competition but i can assure you that this program is outperforming every program that's out there. we haven't scaled it yet. it seems like that's coming down the line, but in terms of the impact we're having on the candidates that come through the program, the retainage rate, which was 69%, 70%,...
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the room had part of these conversations and certainly think through the working group, through linda richardson as the chair of the transportation sub committee and through the advisory teams, there was robust dialogue about so many different things. i've taken part in a lot of different public planning processes, and to see the room fill day in and day out, and to hear folks say, i watched you on sfgov tv, and i'm like did you? that's incredible. thank you for pushing the port and pushing the public to be involved. i think that certainly happened. secondly and last thing i'll say, my day job is i'm the advocacy director of the san francisco bicycle coalition. i know that can be -- the bike coalition evokes different feelings in people, so it was particular for me to be able to be a part of this process. and what i've learned is i didn't know much about the water taxis. i didn't know about all the ways that the port really is multimodal, and certainly, you know, when we were talking before my time in the 80's, when there was a double decker freeway in the embarcadero, we could never have imagin
the room had part of these conversations and certainly think through the working group, through linda richardson as the chair of the transportation sub committee and through the advisory teams, there was robust dialogue about so many different things. i've taken part in a lot of different public planning processes, and to see the room fill day in and day out, and to hear folks say, i watched you on sfgov tv, and i'm like did you? that's incredible. thank you for pushing the port and pushing the...