Welcome everyone.

Good afternoon.

This meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the September 29th, 2025 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I am Supervisor Mirna Malagar.

Welcome to joined by Vice Chair Supervisor Cheyenne Chen and Supervisor Bilal Mahmud.

The committee clerk today is Mr.

Sean Carroll.

And I would also like to acknowledge the folks at SFGup TV, Jeanette Englow for staffing us in making this meeting available to folks outside of this building.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

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Thank you so much.

Uh Mr.

Clerk.

Please call item number one.

Agenda item number one is a resolution accepting the African American Arts and Cultural Districts, Cultural History, Housing and Economic Sustainability Strategy Report.

Okay, so we are uh joined now by our uh district 10 supervisor uh Shhamon Walton.

Welcome to the Land Use and Transportation Committee, Supervisor Walton.

Um, and I will turn this over to you now.

Thank you so much, Chair Milgar, and thank you to my colleagues for allowing me just a few moments to talk about this important report that we are receiving today.

And just want to start off, of course, by recognizing all of the members of the San Francisco African American Arts and Cultural District community, all the folks who worked on this very important report as you know every cultural district requires a chess report, which is the cultural history, housing and economic sustainability strategies report.

And so we have here today the report that is coming from uh the SFAACC, and I am just excited to be here with the entire community.

I I want to acknowledge that the report reflects a long and intentional process that started in 2021 and that has stretched to really to where we are to this point today.

I've had an opportunity to talk to some of the members, of course, talk to Mo C D and talk to community, and just can't stress the level of one excitement that we have around the cultural district and the things that we're gonna do in our community to let people know that they are in a place and presence where black people still exist here in San Francisco.

The report, of course, most of it has grown out of Baby Hunter's point, but I want to also make sure that folks know that it's bigger than uh just one neighborhood and one demographic and one zip code, but this is something that when we get done, which obviously it's an ongoing process, the work of the cultural district and what we will do in community.

So we'll never be finished, but when we get up and running and things, good rolling, you will know that you are in the presence of the black community and black space here in San Francisco.

And so I'm excited to be here as you hear this item at land use, and I urge your support and committee approval so that we can continue to build on the work of the African American Arts and Cultural District.

So thank you so much for this opportunity and look forward to your approval.

Thank you, Supervisor Walton.

Much appreciated.

We will have a presentation now by uh Julia Sabore, uh, Deputy Director of Community Development, presenting on behalf of the Mayor's Office of housing and community development, uh, and then April Spears, the executive Director, um, Carrie Bolden, Chess Engagement Implementation Leader, and Jennifer Gayden, Operations Director from the African American Arts and Cultural District.

So you're first, Ms.

Sabori, welcome.

Afternoon community.

It's a beautiful day in San Francisco.

We're honored to be here.

The Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development here with the Office of Economic Workforce Development, Arts Commission, Planning Department.

Today's a blessed day, and I look forward to hearing from our colleagues and the unity and the solidarity that we can pull together and bear forward from today and always.

So I want to pass it to my colleague Imani.

We're super honored to partner with you to support your leadership, to support community leadership, looking forward to the future by honoring the past.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is Imani Pardue Bishop.

I'm a community development specialist at the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, supporting the Cultural Districts Program and the South of Market Stabilization Initiative.

The Cultural District Program was established by the Board of Supervisors in 2018 as a placemaking and a placekeeping initiative.

Later that same year, San Francisco voters passed Proposition E, which then created a dedicated funding source for the cultural districts program.

The program's founding legislation defines a cultural district as a designated geographic area that embodies a unique cultural heritage, meaning that these areas contain a concentration of cultural and historic assets, culturally significant enterprises, arts services, and/or businesses.