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Hadaryah Morgan suggests incorporating positive impacts into environmental reviews for supportive housing
2:30:51
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Commissioner Shams DaBaron asks Hadaryah Morgan about potential charter mechanisms to ensure fairer distribution (fair share) of supportive housing.
Morgan expresses support for previously discussed ideas like limiting member veto power and suggests reforming the environmental review process to explicitly consider the positive impacts of supportive housing, such as reduced strain on local health services due to on-site care, energy efficiency benefits, and the provision of community space.
- Morgan supports reforms aimed at limiting individual council members' ability to block projects.
- Proposes that environmental reviews should assess the benefits of supportive housing (e.g., reduced demand on local services, energy efficiency).
- Advocates for centering the voices and needs of potential residents in the review process.
Shams DaBaron
2:30:51
I have one real quick question.
2:30:53
Do you see anything in the charter that could be useful?
2:31:00
And I think I'm hearing you talk about fair share.
2:31:04
If if do you think anything in the charter specifically that could be useful?
Hadaryah Morgan
2:31:10
I think some of the recommendations that have been discussed, that deal with, a process where you're not allowing one particular member to necessarily veto the process.
2:31:21
I've heard the suggestions about a supermajority or so forth.
2:31:27
We, of course, will submit written testimony that can actually get more deeper into those reasons, but we support those things.
2:31:33
We also really support an environmental impact sir process that really also looks at the positive impacts of supportive and affordable housing that have that affect, safety, that affect, community resources.
2:31:47
By virtue of the fact that we provide on-site services, including the fact that CCS provides on-site medical and on-site psychiatric, we are freeing up resources within the community.
2:31:59
When we develop our property, when we put in our services, we are not taking from your neighborhood doctors and urgent care centers per se.
2:32:08
We, in fact, actually provide many of the the health services that folks need on-site.
2:32:15
Right?
2:32:15
Those benefit advocacy services, they're on-site.
2:32:18
So there's a positive benefit.
2:32:20
We also because of the changes in building codes, sometimes you'll be walking by our buildings not knowing what the fact what our buildings are, And we have more energy efficient buildings that deal with some of those issues that other colleagues mentioned, impacts on water use, impacts on waste use.
2:32:38
We look to sort of site our facilities near and around public transportation so because we have to.
2:32:44
So I think actually having an environmental review process that centers the voices of folks who need the housing, the folks who the folks who've lived there, and actually looks at the benefits of what it is we're doing and offering the community.
2:32:58
Many of our developments have designated community space as you all know.
2:33:02
This is part of actually getting, things that are negotiated with council members in terms of support.
2:33:07
And so, I think that it's important that the process, the review process, actually take those things into account as well.