need you to make sure your presence here. Mary Young, from all of this right here? Brian
Matthews, Sally small, Jordan James from Lee Park,
Manisha Jones from O'Farrell here. Andrea Carlos,
Brian Matthews is online. He's
on So, 1-234-567-8910, 11 persons present report, 11 persons
present report, the chair long speak,
whatever to the university or virtually, if
read
virtually, please mute your microphone. Speak. Mute
your
microphone when I'm speaking, it is time to answer your questions. Knowledge from the previous speakers. Comment. So now adoption
of the agenda the motion is because on the day, and adopt the
agenda. Second, please been moved by Vice Chair of our county and seconded by Gary Young to adopt the agenda. All in favor. Please say aye, all those abstention the Motion carries unanimously, and move on to the first action item three, A, which is approval of a letter to all citizen council members and to the mayor urging them to act as quickly as is consistent with the major global crisis, to Remove from the San Diego Municipal Code Oh, seven of table 131, Daniel, 48 which will be section 130. 1.0443, chapter two, repeat Article One, Division four and two, nine, and halt all projects that rely upon it. So that is the action item that needs to be deliberating. But we do have a presentation so that we can place in context what this motion is really all about, what this item on the agenda is really all about. So I'm waiting for vice chair again to get back on the screen
so you see in this first page here the actual code is at issue. You see that it says table, 131, 04, D, and you'll see a little circle at the bottom. So what codes are? What code are in the very first rectangle to upper left are residential zones, moving from left to right. You have the least stance to the most dense. So r1 one would be the least stance, which allows for lots of a minimum size of 40,000 square feet, a minimum size of 40,000 square feet. Then you move to the right residential code one, dash two, that one has a minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet. So it is the second lease against residential zone, they will move on to presently, where they decline by 5000 square feet, until you find an empty, right most common, which is the most dense residential density that allows for lots as small as 5000 square feet. Now everything seems fine, but why is that circle there in the second most left column? Because there's a footnote there, and footnotes usually are not a big wow. The footnote that is the subject of this item on the agenda was discovered by Vice Chair Rob Campbell, standing with a podium. The story of how he
deserved that portion work.
The story of how he found it will be on his mind in the latter portion of this presentation. Footnotes are almost never anything an individual is worked up about. When we see an item in an article or book or websites, website terms and conditions, we usually skip over to about a second thought. Sometimes we may intend to go back to read in order to verify something, but we never expect a footnote to be shocking, and that is the entire point. There is city code in the form of a footnote
that is shopping.
The municipal zoning code includes the unique footnote that quietly changes the minimum lot size required to sit neighborhoods from the standard 20,000 square feet to just 5000 square feet, with a footnote that land can be acquired for one or two Property Groups could use and enjoy their republic can now be dealt with so many people that acquiring that man becomes a practical possibility. And with that being people type on land, there are all the problems that complicate low resource area, including increased physical, mental and social health from the stress of it when we already have a matter of these problems. With this window, the city is essentially saying 20,000 means 20,000 to everyone in the city, except you folks in southeast. For you folks in southeast, 20,000 means 5005 $1 means a quarter, because we said so secretly. Normally, rezoning requires clear and public notification, an environmental review and a public comment period. This ensures residents can say if the changes will affect their neighborhoods in an adverse way, but I can put into the change as these flood code, the city has bypasses protections, reduces transparency and avoid COVID discussion. The city has made some changes, zoning changes hidden this way it's likely that they are designed or known to disadvantage the very people who are being left in regard which was supposed to be us all we get in service all the time, that the intent is the opposite of this, that equity and fidelity to constitutional principles of due process and equal protection are primary objectives for our city issues. Does
not
seem
to be the case
again. For setting context,
we're going to be talking a lot about permanently furthering fair housing. And people want to know, what does that have to do with due process? What does that have to do with equal protection? And many people believe that due process is very abstract, hard to understand that you have a juris doctorate from Harvard to understand, but it's really not hard to understand due process simply means doing things correct. This incorporates both go ahead Rob, fair procedure might notice in time, so all people who be potentially adversely affected should be given notice, and they should be given notice with enough time to respond, and they should get enough time to compose their response. That's their procedure. That's just doing things correctly. You have something about having to use adverse you should know about them. Just have enough time to respond to them. But due process also incorporates. What you all can hear is equal protection, meaning they should be non restricted for it, without regard to race, ethnicity or national origin, intent or effect. And what is a FH, you're going to hear us say Affa a lot instead of being blue, we want you to be able to say it like you're brushing your teeth. We want you to be able to save community life. What is it? It is a federal requirement. Fair Housing Act, required cities, towns, country Council, sorry, Paris, to proactively eliminate housing discrimination and to promote in close houses, not enough, not to disturb you. Was supposed to be trying to reverse patterns of segregation caused by public and private costs actually go back. Can I
cover everything or gracefulness?
Or principle of affair, a FFA stands for what you see at the top here, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. A F F h, a firm A firmly Furthering Fair Housing. Core principle of a f m h, by mandating fair and consistent practices. A F F h, upholds due process, supporting equitable access to housing while preventing and reversing and reversing segregation. Okay, right. So, what are the historical foundations of families? Very important as to how we got
here Next please. Affair was repeated and had thorough recognition and formalizing the fair housing act of 1968 requiring jurisdiction jurisdictions to take active steps to dismantle housing discrimination. That doesn't need to stop it needs to turn you by packers, when
the Lord gave me clothes.
Historical context, one we've heard red wine. We've heard restricted guidance. This is where people of color were not allowed to live certain places and other offices have legally excluded African Americans, Mexican Americans, and other minorities from equitable housing opportunities. But to every action, there is a reaction. Sometimes it's not equal and opposite, but it's definitely opposite. If a people I don't know be here today. Historical context, number two, social and political movements in the 1960s spur by civil rights activists generated substantial pressure from anti discrimination laws. The resulting legislation targeted entrenched discrimination that have led to segregated, under resourced communities nationwide is not separate, but equal, separate and unequal. That's just our nurses. So when we say that we're supporting the MFA as a principle and an application of people protection and due process. We're being patriots, and it might not be too much of a wonder why some people want to eliminate Constitution of the United States,
and now
we're talking about community plans. How does this all fit? Well, state law plan in 1971 California mandate that Municipal League powers create general plans, which are comprehensive guidelines. And because of all the movements that were happening in the 1960s there is a close connection between planning and civil rights, and that connection led to something called Community plans, because they were being whatever being the city people of color who said, the way you're playing is that you're planning for us to stay under resource. So community plans are especially important to under resource neighborhoods like choice now, like southeastern planning, I plan.
And to underscore that, what were the reasons for the community planning? Well, let's begin here. We're not supposed to be able to recognize people's physical types, how they live, by where they live, where people live, are not supposed to be proxies for the quote, unquote race, but we have to deal with the facts as they are in our world. So because of white COVID, spurred by 1960 civil rights games, inner cities were left under resourced, exacerbating racial and economic inequities community plans, as I just discussed earlier, about closeness between civil rights and community plans, increase these disparities By promoting balanced development the city of San Diego, I and how does CEC what and community plans. You're gonna hear a lot of that from our resident expert, who does get paid to do what he does. He's amazing. CEQA. So when you hear CEQA, CEQA stands for California Environmental Quality Act. How does that relate to community plans, those community plans that civil rights activists fought for the 1960s early 70s and so on. Well, seaport to state law requires environmental reviews in community plans to ensure the developments here, there, everywhere, us to meet both environmental standards and community needs, our needs, typically assessing air quality, traffic and important access to green space. And what are our cities supposed to be doing once we have community plans? What is the role of our city hall, they look at municipal code to see if it's sufficient to meet community plans, and they apply the appropriate Municipal Code, including zoning, so that community plans are upheld. Not all that I
so these things will include the things that we just talked about, those numbers, the 5000 15,000 how we got the 20,000 5000 lot sizes, building regulations, and after January, 22 and for social needs, they're supposed to facilitate community plans, ensuring neighborhoods development, specific community priorities, environmental
protections outlined. Okay, yes, sir. Brian. Brian speaker, so
you
don't have so much you're doing a great job. It's a real Multi Purpose room, and there's kind of a sales, okay. I
Okay, that was Ryan Matthews. Is our residential voice. I think it's important to point out what's happening here, that what is happening here is in a long tradition, unfortunate, unfortunately. So to underscore this long unfortunate tradition, I think it's important to write historical paradox between affirmative labor for housing and Brown versus Ford, Brown versus Board of youngins was the 1954 Supreme Court decision that said that schools should be disinterpreted. And as with brown board, Affa has encountered resistance, quiet resistance. It's
gotten more skillful, more seafood, but we're
getting resistance. The
intent of both Brown and education was to disseminate innovation housing and brown and education. And we had patterns of resistance, of which I believe this is a part at the rounding board southern and southwestern states, consistent integration of African American students in the south and Mexican American students in the southwest, including Southern California, by at the pretext statement such as freedom of course, limits people, place of laws and private school tuition banks, all were designed to preserve segregation, but under new terms and scenes advance. And so that was happening. That was happening when we started to have community plans, and we're trying to get disseminated. And Saturday, and to California legislature credit, they responded. They responded with community plans. They said, Hey, all the people with the
resources go out. Infrastructure is not being supported or funded properly. So you know what? Let's have a plan to make sure that it's balanced, without regards
to the approximate race,
and that is supposed to address the similar resistance in desegregation efforts in housing as well as some schools. Yes, that's self explanatory, yes. So what has been used? We heard a school engage people,
placement, etc, etc. Housing
to continue to perpetuate education,
housing leniency and afford predominant white areas, but imposing restrictive measures in areas of predominantly
and they're pretext for discrimination. You can go into
this. Leads
us to today, footnote seven. I think it would be forever known simply as footnote seven. When we say footnote seven, everybody's gonna know what
that means, and you're here historically
to put an exclamation
point, footnote seven in the San Diego municipal vote, as was discussed in the first slide, reduces lot size of otherwise rural lives, but only in predominantly non white areas in those two areas that it says in the code, to go back to first slide, it only applies to Joyce Valley, formerly known as the candle, where we are right now, and southeastern It so happens that southeastern president doesn't have any zones that are zoned for one nation. So really affecting what we're talking about, where we're sitting right here in Joyce Valley, Canada, and this is apparently continuing the traditional exclusion by reinforcing racial and economic divide. We want people. We're not saying hey, we want to stay economically under resourced. We're not saying hey, this is where all the people that have a really hard time need to live. We're not saying hey, we don't want people who have resources, who have been able to get their PhDs and masters, who've been treated to this neighborhood, to this community, who children can model themselves and insights on that. We're not saying we don't want, that we want, that we want people who can afford large lives, because those people can come in on whatever, because those people can contribute to the betterment of our community. So why would you take away the choice of the people who can afford those kinds of lots to be here? Why would you take away even what we wanted to do was to use those lots for public benefit in the form of high quality parts, which we have around here. Why would you do that? Do we actually Where did you, what? Where can we say, Please, figure out a way to turn the large lungs into the tiniest lots. Oh, please, please, because we've gotten very used to having a low level of economic development. This is where we want all those people to come. We never said that. So why did, why did this
happen? I does happen under God's
community standards and development regulations? I don't know. It hasn't been something to be exact.
Stat footnote seven, in my view,
is, I mean, I think quite clearly,
and we're going to see that it isn't just my view. We're going to see that it's not just Vice Chair Campbell's view. We're going to find out that officials within the city of San Diego itself have determined that it is non compliant within education. It is not compliant with due process and protection of the United States Constitution.
Again, a function of footnotes centers and effectively rezoned. You just want to call it a footnote if we effectively rezone from Rs one to 20,000 square foot lines to Rs one, seven, snap it a finger, a little footnote without following the city's own rezoning process, this shift mirrors lot size that you're going to find in the concrete jungle, my love and my brother, my sisters. But let's call it what it is. You know, City High School signs.
Do you want to Sally to look like that? No, look like
that? It drastically increase density, or potential density, in these areas, and it sets up the elimination of precious, we know, the whole mental and physical health green space. It circumvented the city's own rezoning process as a vision to existing zoning by Oh, this is so far what seven. It did the same thing. As far as WhatsApp,
all the maps, as far as what gardening zone? It's just
a little footnote. The city bypass may be. Rezoning steps, including notifying us the community planning and conducting a California environment Quality Act sequel review, which is mandated we do zones, and of course, what comes with that. Thank you very much. Y'all never got an opportunity to do that. Obviously, lack of transparency. It's a secret rezoning.
And this was said earlier because he serves
another round of applause. This was and I said this was only revealed, but appealed on another project on fire. So this board voted to appeal another project on fire, and we looked at the notice of way to appeal. It said that the environmental determination was that it's very cool. It's cool because it's consistent with the zoning. The zoning says it's our feet, no. And since this was your beauty plan, that's what it says. That's the environmental determination. Go forward, and we want to thank those white people in this other project. How can it notice right appeal have on it to prove that it isn't legal, because the life sciences on the appeal are not consistent with our actual appeal, and they waited forever. They didn't respond. Kept asking all kinds of questions. You don't have the academic writer, but sexually, you don't have the account, right? You don't have the actual law that I knew was because it's not an exception. Now, you might say that it's consistent, but you had that problem. You were asking questions. Should you read this before we under the Iranian and past the six days it was supposed to have, and then they told us on one day, take that two hours to get the presentation if you want to speak. And we needed to help, by the way, no, you know all
that. And you know, under all this arrest,
we meant to rabbit the community of the Canada and several other people in choice out, and we took off work. I stay up on my doing that. I my $5 staff. I can't do that, you know, I gotta clean my house, work with other kinds of things, but I'll stay up all night. I won't get enough. So we don't get more than two minutes of public comment if I have a mutual PowerPoint. Okay? I stay up all night when people take off work. We didn't have enough City Council. We asked them 15 times, until you settle these problems. No response. So we went down there and said, Here we go. Then we got down there and
we're all waiting,
and we heard from the Council President, we're not going to happen. I going to have your hearing,
not going to have it all, and I didn't see a city council vote here. So we're confused. We're just very confused the night before, how can we even do this? And because we were so busy putting together our presentation, we didn't take a look at the fact that they submit some some evidence arguments a couple of days before him, because we were heavy work right right off. And so a community member sent us the city's remote to our field because we thought he couldn't possibly have a slammed up. And then we saw, Oh, it's consistent with the zone. You didn't know that Barnabas one seven is the same thing as our dashboard do where you live. You didn't know that, did? You had that doctor postponed? We would
have found Mr. Campbell. Found it
immediately, and we've been immediately, and we've been running ever since that's