3354 CESAR CHAVEZ ST

- This continuance is a political delay

- Opposed continuance

- We need to have our building to continue working

- Asked as a good faith measure to approve this permit and not delay it any more.

- Opposed continuance

- Encourage the Director to move forward with this permit

- This permit needs to be expedited

- A continuance date should be set

- We have an inadequate and insufficient location. We are exposed to the elements.

- Opposed continuance

- Asked Director to approve the permit

- Asked Director to disapprove the request for continuance

- Here to express their concern that the Day Labor program will not have a place immediately to move in to any time soon. - Asked Director to speed the process.

Requested that this case be continued to January 9, 2003

Representing Project Sponsor

- He does not agree that the building on Cesar Chavez should be given to the staff of La Raza Legal Center.

- I believe the community at large really supports better conditions for day labors and good hiring hall. This is not it.

- Traffic options are not really bearing on the issue of the location. - This site will increase the accessibility and participation by day labors. It will only be appropriate to say that if, in fact, the day labors can come into the site.

- Concerned about the independent consulting methodology for calculating expected trip generation–believes it is fundamentally flawed.

- Responded to different concerns expressed by Planning Commissioners.

- Hoped that the Commission will vote in favor for the Day Labor Program, so the workers can have a decent place.

- Supports the program, and asked the Commission to give them a hand, with the approval.

- The Day Labor Program is part of the community development in the Mission District.

- Supports this program

- It is important that the workers have a bathroom. Basic needs are not being met. - Because the workers basic needs are not being met, it is very important for you to be determined to solve this issue.

- What we are asking, is very little. Please, approve the permit so we can continue supporting our families.

- Strongly supports the move of the labor program to its new location.

- I am in favor of the workers obtaining their own building.

- Supports day labors whole heartedly and welcome them with open arms. - The program will be an excellent addition to the neighborhood.

- As a day laborer I am here to let you know that we have been asking the City for a long time to provide us with some bathrooms. We have also petitioned the Police to not harass us. We are just people who stand there everyday trying to get a job.

- Requested that the Commission give the workers a decent place to be.

- In strong support of the site. - The issue is not whether or not the day labors need to be present--their presence is a reality. - The proposed site is a viable organized way of honoring and acknowledging the work that they do and their presence.

- Supports the Day Labor Program.

- The site is extremely small to accommodate all the workers and give the services that they are planning to provide them.

- This is not a hiring hall, it is a tiny office. - Workers need something better than this. It is a shame that the City cannot provide something better for them.

- You can not put all these people into that tiny place and expect them to have the quality (of life) that we all expect to have in our community. - There are a lot of empty buildings in other areas, why do we want to have 500 people overcrowd in the neighborhood?

- Against granting the permit for this building, because it is too small.

- Is opposed to giving Centro Legal La Raza the permit to have 3358 Cesar Chavez as a hiring hall.

- This site is not appropriate for the large number of workers.

- Requested that the Commission deny the permit.

- I am opposed to the project.

- As far as he is concerned, the proposed site is too small.

- Is opposed to this project.

- Strongly opposes the approval of this project.

- Not in favor of this project.

- Expressed his strong opposition on this project - Stated that the conditions of approval are unenforceable. They lack clarity and purpose and they are impossible to implement.

- There is overwhelming opposition to this project in the neighborhood. - All surrounding business are against the location of the Day Labor Program at this site. - Asked the Commission to deny the permit.

- The Perry's oppose the proposed project.

- This is not a race issue. It is very important that we all remember that this is a building that is a totally inadequate site for working conditions. - It does not provide shelter during inclement weather. It does not provide bathrooms. It does not provide areas for services that are needed in all areas. It does seriously affect the quality of life in the Mission District.

- Does not support this project.

- He supports the project.

- This location is too small and the practice of chasing after vehicles to get a job will continue.

- Concerned about traffic hazards and pedestrian safety.

- Opposed the 3358 Cesar Chavez Street as a hiring hall proposed - This will institutionalize the existing practice of using the street of this neighborhood as a hiring hall.

- Feels that the site is very small to be used as a large institution or a hiring hall. - Concerned about traffic and parking issues.

- The site is inadequate. It is a health hazard for these men.

- As an architect, she believes that the scale of the project seems very disconnected with its intended purpose.

- He spoke in support of the project.

- Us laborers do not have support from the Police. That causes a lot of problems with the neighbors. The solution is to grant us the permit to occupy the building on Cesar Chavez.

- Let's treat the labors with respect. Cesar Chavez is a good location.

- Giving the Labor Program this building is a great idea. - Urged the Commission to approve this project.

- Our organization strongly support this project.

- After 20 years of not being located at the source, this project will help and improve the situation.

- Asked the Commission to push this project forward and not allow anybody to sidetrack them from making the positive decision for the Day Labor Program.

- This kind of use on Cesar Chavez is the proper use. There are no planning issues to be discuss. - If this were any other project, or if this building would serve any other contingency, it would have been approved.

- Strongly supports the Day Labor Program moving to this site.

Executive Director of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center - Has lived in the neighborhood for 45 years. - Expressed his support as well as that of the Neighborhood Center for the San Francisco Labor Day Program.

- Supports this program.

- The workers deserve a dignified place to work.

- Worked for the labor program for the last 13 years. - At Saint Anthony's Church there is a group of 6 ladies, who prepare food for the laborers every day. - We have the support of most of the churches in the neighborhood. - Urged the Commission to approve the use of the building.

- I am here to support the program. I feel that it is very important for them to have that building so they can have a safe place and obtain their jobs without being out on the streets.

- I had employed several people from the program for about 12 years. - It is not very dignified for people to have to be house in the kind of situation that exists in the trailers.

- Asked the Commission to grant the permit to do the repairs to the building. - Trailers that are occupied right now are very uncomfortable. - We are here to continue struggling for what the workers need to survive.

- Supports the Day Labor Program. It has helped him and his colleague obtain jobs.

- Asked Commission to keep in mind that the proposed new home for the Day Labor Program is about providing dignity to hard working people of our community.

- This will bring dignity and honor to laborers. It will also bring down crime and the problem of urination.

- Requested that the Commission follow the recommendations of the Planning Department staff. - The proposed use for the Day Labor Program is a needed use for the neighborhood. - This project is very realistic and will comply with the conditions set forth by the staff 100%. - There is overwhelming support by the immediate neighbors.

- The move to Cesar Chavez will enhance health in the following ways: 1) will increase worker accessibility to health services; 2) it will improve the safety conditions of the workers; 3) it will improve pedestrian safety; 4) it will improve public sanitation; and 5) it will decrease the risk of violence to labors resulting from robberies.

- Supports this project.

- I think it is only fair that there will an office on Cesar Chavez Street for the Day Labor Program because that has been their dream for many years.

- As a staff member of the Day Labor Program, I feel that it is very important for us to have an office on Cesar Chavez where we can render the services. This will be beneficial not only for the workers, but for the neighbors.

- Asked the Commission to grant the petition to the Day Labor Program.

- Supports the project.

- I am here to ask you to grant permission for the building.

- Finally, today, the voices of the excluded are being heard. - Give the Day Labor Program the site that they deserve.

- The Day Labor Program is a good program that benefits not only the Mission community, but also the City and County of San Francisco at large.

- The hiring hall should be placed at another site.

- Supports the project.

- She would like to see this Commission vote in favor that the program and have it established at this site.

- I have lived in the neighborhood for the last five years and would like to welcome the Day Labor Program to my community.

- Expressed his support for this project. - This program is in his district--district 9--and is not without controversy, but he very much supports it. - What is an appropriate site? Sometimes what is appropriate is in the mind or eyes of the beholder. And sometimes those situations change on a daily basis. - I have read the report and believe this will be an appropriate site.

- Respectfully requested that the Planning Commission not to delay the project and approve the permit.

- In his opinion, this debate should be about how to provide justice and humane working conditions for workers.

- The proposed use for the Day Labor Program is a permitted used in the neighborhood. - An independent traffic consultant anticipated no increase in traffic caused by the programs move to the new building.

- Please grant the workers a dignified place.

- The workers need a dignified place. There have been too many years that the City has been denying them the right to have their own space on Cesar Chavez.

- It is crucial that this Commission vote yes in favor of this proposal for the safety and dignity of the day labors.

- Supports the project whole heartedly.

- Urged the Commission to approve the project.

- In the name of my co-workers, I want to remind you that all of us are going to benefit.

- I support the program, but I am against the proposed site because it is extremely small.