Take action this week to support affordable housing
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Friends,
Take action at the Tuesday Board of Supervisors hearing. We have all been
organizing hard and putting pressure on the Supervisors; the emails,
letters, phone calls, actions, visits, press, testimonies, etc… are making
a difference. Last week the Supervisors heard over 5 hours of impassioned
testimonies from our community. This Tuesday at 1:30pm the Supervisors will
decide if they value working families, poor people, mom & pop merchants, and
day laborers. Though there will be no public testimonies taken on Tuesday
we are asking the community to show up and represent our strength and unity
at the decision on Tuesday.
Supervisors Decision on 3400 Cesar Chavez
Tuesday July 31, 1:30pm
City Hall, room 200
located at Van Ness St, betwn Grove & McAllister
(take the #49 bus or BART to Civic Center)
In the meantime email/call Supervisor McGoldrick & Dufty and let them know
we don’t need any more exclusive condos and another Walgreens. We want 70
units of affordable family-sized housing and a community-serving workers
center on the ground floor at 3400 Cesar Chavez.
Bevan Dufty, District 8,
Jake McGoldrick, District 1, (415) 554-7410, Jake.McGoldrick@sfgov.org
Sample letter to include in your message:
Dear Supervisor McGoldrick (or Dufty),
You have been a powerful ally of working families, your votes have
consistently supported our communities’ efforts to make housing affordable
for everyday San Franciscans. I am writing to ask you stay true to the
principles you stood for when you voted to support MAC’s appeal of 2660
Harrison St. and in favor of the Eastern Neighborhoods Resolution. These
votes sent a message to the Planning Department that it cannot continue to
approve market-rate housing projects until it has figured out how they are
affecting our neighborhoods’ ability to meet the housing needs of its low
and moderate income residents.
If you do not support the appeal of 3400 Cesar Chavez the floodgates of
uncontrolled market-rate development will once again be opened and our
communities will no longer be able to count on the Board of Supervisors to
protect our neighborhoods from the incompetent decisions being made by the
Planning Department.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
“If you do not support the appeal of 3400 Cesar Chavez the floodgates of uncontrolled market-rate development will once again be opened…”
Not true. Most of the proposed market rate developments are on PDR (light industrial) zoned land, and the moratorium on developing PDR land for market rate housing remains in effect, pending the Eastern Neighborhoods planning process. The 3400 Cesar Chavez project is zoned for its proposed housing over retail use, not for PDR. Approval of 3400 Cesar Chavez would not reverse the moratorium that has halted other proposed developments in the Mission.
July 29th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
dan,
great point but probably lost on most of the readers here. the green party isn’t about doing the right thing, it’s just about being right.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:03 am
It could be argued that the paint store served as many construction and contractor businesse customers as it did retail customers.
By that measure, it could be construed as “PDR” which really means “non residential or office use.”
The 2660 Harrison EIR was not a moratorium. Residential projects on the former IPZ have been trickling through say those who keep track of such things.
-marc
July 30th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
PDR means “production, distribution, and repair.”
I wrote, “The 3400 Cesar Chavez project is zoned for its proposed housing over retail use, not for PDR.” That statement is correct.
July 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
But the paint store use that it replaces has one foot in retail, like Walgreens and another foot in light industrial.
PDR is the coinage of one individual, and has no precedent as a term of art in planning.
Light industrial is another term for that, and a paint store serves customer retail as well as contractors and builders and is a lower value-added operation.
Its displacement can have impacts just as displacement of light industrial can have impacts.
The issue here is competition between high and low value added uses and how to ensure that all land is not gobbled up by high value uses. Those high value added predatory uses are chain retail, office and market rate housing.
-marc
July 31st, 2007 at 12:32 am
The two last 2 stores on the property, the Kelly Moore paint store and the Out of the Closet thrift store were not displaced from the neighborhood. Both continue to operate nearby in the Mission.