Okay, good afternoon, everyone.

Uh this meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the April 15th, 2024 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Mirna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Petkin.

In Vice Chair Dean Preston, the committee clerk today is John Carroll.

I also like to uh acknowledge Matthew Now from MSFGUB TV for their support in broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcement?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

Please ensure that you've silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices you may have brought with you into the chamber today.

If you have any documents to include as part of the file, you should submit them to me.

You can do so by bringing them forward to the rail.

I'll meet you there.

Public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda.

When your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak along your right hand side.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways.

You may email your comments to me at J-O-H-N, period C A R R O L L at SFGO V dot O R G.

Or you may send your written comments via U.S.

Postal Service to our office in City Hall.

The address is one Dr.

Carlton B.

Goodlit Place, room 244, San Francisco, California 94102.

If you submit public comment in writing, I will forward your comment to the supervisors on the land use committee, and I'll also include your comments as part of the official file on which you are commenting.

And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of April 23rd, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Clerk.

Please call item number one and two together.

Agenda item number one is a resolution endorsing the joint aspirational statement of the public nonprofit and private entities known as the Treasure Island Development Authority.

One Treasure Island and the Treasure Island Community Development.

Agenda item number two is an ordinance amending the planning code to revise the Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island Special Use District to update the Treasure Island bulk and massing figure to make the process for amendments to the design for development document more flexible and to provide for additional circumstances that may authorize minor modifications to the standards in the special use district and design for development.

Revising the zoning map to change height districts in Treasure Island to provide for five additional feet in a certain areas and to remove the special height district designation from two easements adjacent to buildings two and three, making findings under CEQA and making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1 and planning code section 302.

Okay, thank you very much.

We are joined by uh district six supervisor Matt Dorsey.

So uh I'll turn it over to you now.

The floor is yours.

Thank you so much, Chair Melgar, um, for having me today and for scheduling these items.

Um, the items before uh you today are sponsored chiefly by Mayor Breed and myself, and our hope is that these will keep the Treasure Island project on track and moving forward uh with a number of planning code zoning map and development agreement amendments.

Um the legislative package highlights a San Francisco neighborhood that is at long last playing host to uh long-planned and long-promised um housing boom.

Uh Treasure Island has been has seen significant progress in the past few years on the first stage of construction.

Uh nearly a thousand homes are nearly completion, uh served by parks and utilities, public arts, new streets, and ferry service.

When complete, the island will be 27% affordable with a high quality public realm that includes parks, open spaces, waterfront access, and amenities and unmatched views that will be worthy of our world-class city.

As you'll see in the presentation today, the 21st century urbanist vision for the island is just remarkable and stunning.

Uh right now it represents nearly 10% of our arena targets, and I'm committed to doing everything I can to ensure that that progress continues.

But that progress isn't solely important to our city's hopes of fulfilling our housing commitments or meeting our obligations to the developer.

It's also about keeping our promises to residents of the island.

Treasure Island is home to a resilient community of around 2,000 residents, uh majority of whom are low-income and BIPOC community members.

Many are members of the recovery and re-entry communities as well.

Living inspirations who are making the most of their second chances.

Largely because of that.

Uh, Treasure Island will always hold a very special place in my heart.

When I joined the Board of Supervisors nearly two years ago, I made clear that my own journey in recovery from addiction was why I was asking for a role I never thought I would want, let alone have.

But Treasure Island residents embraced me and welcomed me as their supervisor in a way that meant the world to me and that I will never forget.

They reminded me of why recovery and redemption matter.

And some of their faces inspire me every day with the treasured stories prints on permanent display in my office.

Residents of our Treasure Island neighborhood have been waiting patiently.

Some for more than 20 years for new units and new infrastructure that has been slower to come online than many of us expected.

And I know from my own experience here in City Hall, I remember TICD's selection as the master developer back in 2002 in my first year in the city attorney's office just down the hall.

Many of my Treasure Island residents have endured a lot of delays, which for years exacerbated their perception of being treated as second class San Franciscans, with a bridge separating them from the opportunities of San Francisco, lack of many services, and constant power outages, including another one that uh was just resolved in the last hour and a half.

Um, you know, I'm constantly aware as their district supervisor that their experience of being a San Franciscan is fundamentally different too often than many other San Franciscans.

That is a longstanding right, or that is a long-standing wrong.