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. >> i have shayla richardson and carlos ramos. sha'nice patterson could not be here. she had a family emergency. >> good afternoon. i'm shayla richardson, i'm at u.c. irvine. i completed my seventh summer with project pull. i've had the privilege of working with many city departments. starting in summer, 2012, i worked at the human rights commission, which was my first job. then i worked for public works, followed by the police department in 2014. from the summer of 2015 to the summer of 2017, i worked at the port of san francisco. and finally, this past summer i had the amazing opportunity to work with the san francisco public utilities commission. [applause] >> good afternoon. i would like to thank all of you for providing me the opportunity to speak upon my experience with project pole. my first summer was in 2014 as a college team leader. it was my very first job and as a first-generation college students, it was truly an eye-opening experience. it was through project pull that i was able to envision the future that i wanted for myself and for my family. i remembe

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

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

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