Immediately justify this variance, but for me, a couple factors here. The building, as we know is historic, which can generally, as you know, restrict or direct development on the lot. There is a pretty large front set back of about 10 feet. This is a much shorter lot than normal, about 75 feet deep. Just if seeing this project without context, my response was negative, that, you know, just encroaching all the way to the rear property line, but looking in the context here, and i think it is what in my mind is unprecedented as the Development Pattern on this block, and the number of buildings that are developed in this manner, including extensions that go to the rear property line, so that, to me, allows me to support a variance that they are seeking here. I think a code compliant alternative would probably be more harmful to the pattern here, which i think has some unique character to this block, so for those reasons, i could be supportive of the variance theyre seeking here. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions here . So do we have a motion. I move that we approve it. Second. Secretary ionin thank you, commissioners. If theres nothing further, theres been a motion to approve that with a second. [ roll call. ] secretary ionin so moved. That motion passes unanimously. Close public hearing and grant the public variance for the reasons noted in my public testimony. Secretary ionin thank you. Commissioners, thatll place us on item 9 for at 56 mason street. This is a minor permit to alter. Good afternoon, commissioners. Alexander kirbi with department staff. The item before you is a request to alter for window replacement and storefront additions. The subject building was oenchly constructoenc originally constructed in 1908 as the Bristol Hotel and is located as a contributing building under article 11 of the planning code as well as a contributor to the uptown tenderloin Historic District on the National Register of historic places. Of building is a four story masonry Apartment Hotel typical of the surrounding neighborhood. The proposed scope of work is for the restoration of 75 existing windows on the upper three floors of the two primary facades along mason and eddy streets and a replacement of the nonhistoric storefront along eddy street. Based upon information provided there are 68 window sashes that appear to be sound enough to be repaired and rehabilitated, and only seven that require either that require total replacement. Seven new windows, the seven new windows will match the original windows in size, material, configuration and profile. The project additionally proposes to introduce a new storefront design that will create a more cohesive ground story and simplify the mason street facade. The new storefront window system will consist of powder coat the aluminum frames with a tr transom to match the window frames in the existing photographs and will blend with the neighborhood. A vent at the far south end of the storefront will be coated with a minute maximum powder coat coated minimum powder coated grill. As the proposed work will not damage or destroy original distinguishing qualities or characters of the original building. Staff finds the original character of the building will be retained and not removed. Staff recommends approval with the following conditions that prior to the issuance of the site permit, submitted plans including a bulkhead section, material sample of the proposed grill and transom details shall require Department Planning and staff approval, and that prior to issuance of the site permit, an onsite mock up of the storefront transom and grill shall be required by Planning Department preservation staff. The project was submitted to the commission as a minor permit to alter for review on august 27, 2017 however a request for public hearing was requested on august 28, 2017. The hearing for this item was requested due to concerns surrounding the use of the hotel in its single room occupancy or sro units. The subject permit does not propose to amend the use of the exiting units, nor do any prior building permits. Further, the use of the subject building is not under purview of the hpc, but rather the department of Building InspectionsHousing Inspection Division which makes annual inspections of all properties for compliance. The subject building has 41 legal sro units and 16 legal Tourist Hotel rooms. These unit counts are not under consideration under this permit. Both a Court Statement of decision dated january 4th, 2017 and a receivership order dated january 12, 2017 provide further information concerning this history and this displaced sro tenants of the property and these are included in your pactets. Please note that minor revisions have been made to the draft motion including a new section within the preamble on page 2 describing a request for hearing and a condition to read that all conditions shall be pursuant to the architectural site permit. Staff has been in contact with the tenderloin Building Commission and no Public Comment has been received to the proposed scope of work. Im available if you have any questions. Thank you. Commissioner pearlman. Miss kirby, i do have a question. Im looking at the date of march 4th, 2014, which is more than four years ago, and im wondering why it has taken so long . So this case was inherited by me just in 2016 so im not entirely clear on the early history of the case; however, its my understanding that they initially came in for wholesale window replacement, and there was a lot of back and forth, and the time frame for getting the conditions assessment for such a long building kind of added up. Additionally there were a number of other site permits for the interior of the building, and i think this may have gotten kind of lost in the fray for some time, so weve been treating it almost as an enforcement issue and kind of moving forward with it for a few more deadlines. Its shocking to see 4. 5 years for a window repair and replacement project. Yeah, but i wouldnt given what i know. Given all the other issues yeah, yeah, no, i guess that. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that it wasnt because it was stuck in planning for 4. 5 years. Okay. At this time well take Public Comment does the sponsor want to make a statement . Yeah. Hi. Weve been working since 2013 on this project, so i would submit before we submitted as window replacement, and we were communicating with the another planner, and we were it was a little difficult to get through the whole process until we have alexandra to came and help us out really good, and then, she suggests the surveyor of the windows, and that report saying that we have to restore the windows, so we had to provide all the information to alexandra, and we have everything and oh, before that, we had a do you want to know the Bristol Hotel, they had to replace, just for front of the next door facade, which is same building, so we provide all the information, too, so were ready. Were just waiting for the addendum to get the approvals from planning and fire department. Okay. Thank you. I have the elevations here. I guess you guys have it, too. Yes, we do. Thank you. At this time well take Public Comment on this item. Does any member of the public wish to speak on this item . If so, please come forward. Sue hesser. Im the one that forced a hearing. It became clear to me, from your comments, that one has seen the court decision. It outlines the outrageous behavior of the developer by attempting to evict the tenants, convert to a Tourist Hotel, all kinds of repeated things, so your staff has the decision called and its in the superior court of california. The decision was dated january of 2017. I am asking that this be put into the file. Its in your the case record for the Department Already because the outrageous behavior of the developer has caused this whole mess. He evicted tenants, they became homeless, they were entitled under San Francisco law to go back. He evicted them for enormous repairs, and he didnt have anan any i dont want to say intenti intention. He didnt show he was taking it seriously. He emptied out the building, caused all kinds of grief. I was hoping that mr. Sanchez was still here because you dont have jurisdiction to dale with a building that is being transformed in violation of the administrative code and the planning code, and the Planning Commission should hear this case. We want, really a lot to have the developer do the work that allows the tenants to come back. At the same time, were in a catch 22, where theres no ability to have the Planning Commission, which has the power to say more than you do effectively saying this is not a Tourist Hotel. Signage has gone up illegal signage has gone up, marketing this as a Tourist Hotel on the building in the past month. The wifi all kinds of things that Tourist Hotels have. This is an sro, and because the law allows an sro for a couple months of the year to rent vacant units to tourists its in the administrative code they are using that to eliminate sro tenants. I didnt want to speak first, but i thought someone should frame the issues right now, and i would encourage the two people that are in attendance to standup here and talk. Thank you. Thank you. And youll have three minutes, and theres a warning buzzer 30 seconds before your time is up. Hello. My name is laura, landowners and city of San Francisco are forcing people of low income out of their homes. We demand that you keep the 56 mason building as housing for people of low income in the tenderloin. Do not convert this building to high Income Housing. The original tenants must return to their homes. Far too many people are forced out of their homes and have become homeless. Dont let this happen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is alexandra goldman. I work with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development corporation. Just want to say that we acknowledge this is an imperfect venue for raising these issues, however, we have been concerned about the trend of taking Single Room Occupancy Hotels and turning them into a venue for other people. According to the general plan, changes like this are supposed to support the change of Affordable Housing in the city. We also just want to remind people about the Historical Context of the tenderloin as a neighborhood for low income people and the challenges of low income people to find housing elsewhere, and weve watched single occupancy places being turned into high income hotels, and we feel it compromises the significancy of the tenderloin. Weve watched this happen at other places, and in both situations, landowners removes tenants from their property by various means, and then proceeded to upgrade the building and market the building towards high income people, so we have a concern this is happening in this hotel, and weve seen this happen in other areas such as chinatown and the mission and south of market, and so we just want to raise the profile of this, of this particular issue and really express the concern that the supply of housing thats available and affordable for low income people in the city is rapidly doeteriorating a in the market. My name is joe wilson. Im with the hospitality house. I have a copy of our original request for a hearing on this matter, and in response to the commissioners question about why this took so long, you know, displacement of poor people is timeconsuming, and i think this is not only the incorrect venue, its the wrong one. The issue is gentrification and displacement of a low income neighborhood, a neighborhood that has the highest concentration of renter households in the city, and almost twice the number of Homeless People in our district as the other ten districts combined. This project is affecting both. Its either displacing low income renters or its entrapment of the existing renter households, and to allow a building to stay vacant in a community that has one of the highest concentrations of Homeless People is egregious on its face, and i think you must, in good conscience, put this matter where it belongs, with the Planning Commission. Its also a legal matter, as attorney hester pointed out. The court case that has been decided is an important issue here. This is not an issue of a minor renovation or a minor permit to alternate, this is an egregious example of circumventing the law or manipulating it to the advantage of a market rate developer. That is something that should concern you, and you should not, under any circumstances, approve this project to go forward without extensive public review of all of the issues that are at hand here, and if you look up you know, gentrification in the dictionary, it would say, see 56 mason, so we urge you to act in good conscience and deny this minor permit to alter. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is der he can marcou. I represent the tenderloin peoples congress. My problem with this and i should say our problem with this is this an intentional deliberate action to get rid of the low income tenants they have through delays and other illegal methods to where the people just finally just disappeared, and now hes going to turn it into a boutiqu boutiquey sro, which he can do, but its morally reprehensible, and thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is donnell boyd, and im with hospitality house. I just want to ask the question, when we all was little kids, and we went to sunday school, and they taught us about the good samaritan, what happened to all of those teachings that we got when we was a little kid . Because im looking at it as like we have got so caught up into money that were not paying attention to the poor. Its a lot of poor people out there on the streets, and they need houses more than the gentrified. The gentrified, they have lots of money. They can live anywhere. But the sro, theyre low income. They help people get off the streets. Help the people thats on Market Street and all over the places thats living in the tents and all that. We need to reach down and help them up and put them in those sros and start giving these over privileged people everything and neglecting the underprivileged, because theyre underprivileged. What we doing actually, this city is doing a robin hood thing in reverse, robbing the poor and passing it onto the rich, and we need to stop that, because a city cant survive passing everything to the superprivileged people. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is ryan, and im from the tenderloin peoples congress. I have an issue that i want to bring before you that might make sense to all of this. Man, you own your own homes for sure, and you have no problem. Youve been living there for years. You want to payoff your house notes and all the rest of that, but what is, like, the landlords, your realtors turn their clock back and say, well, we can get more money than what you guys are paying. Now, youve been paying a lot of money as you can see, and you dont need to pay no more, but what if they did that to you and take your home away . Would that put you on the street . Would they evict you illegally, made you homeless . What if you were in a position that you were poor and broke and had nothing . How would it be for you, sitting here, right here, doing your jobs, and your home, your landlords deciding against you. A lot of people on the streets right now are only there because people like city hall sorry, Planning Commissions, and all of the rest of you who are living well and good are doing a terrible job. Youre not giving no justice in any of this. The people that come into city hall with big pockets, you give them all the attention. Why do they deserve all the attention . Number one, they dont all live here. Number two, and they are not citizens here and paying taxes here, and three, youre giving them our homes. Youre taking away from us to give to them. The robin hood experience, even worse, because youre not caring about what youre doing. It seems good because the word legal comes into mind. When the city said Affordable Housing, i thought that meant people would get off the streets. It turns out, its not about affordablity for us, so that was a kick in our teeth in the first place. A law by you guys, cause you did nothing about it, nothing, if you was on this side, and you were sitting over there, youd want us to do the right thing, wouldnt you . So its time for you guys now to do the right thing. Youve got to stop this nonsense. You make extra amount of dollars, you feel good about yourself, youve got nice cars, wonderful, but if you got it at the expense of us, and we paying taxes just like you, then youre not doing any justice, youre not doing any good, so what is your point . My point is youve got to change the way you do things. Yeah, to see what makes money. Everybody wants to make money, but when you let people sleep on the streets and live on the streets and pee on the streets and poop on the streets and Everything Else on the streets, you are just kicking us in the head. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is jessie johnson. You know whats particularly painful about watching these sros, you know, the owners of the sros take a huge and suddenly decide to kick poor people out of the buildings and try to fix the buildings with some paint and faux marshal, whatever you want to do, it was we, the most poor and vulnerable who were willing to invest in the sros. I remember people were embarrassed if they lived in an sro, but we were willing to live there. You know, we were trying to make it look better. Youre the people that you called the ambulance or someones o. D. ed in the hallway, well pick them up until they get there. Weve invested in these hotels, and now to get kicked out, theres something unjust about that. One thing about the Bristol Hotel that i did find out is its full of ghosts. I heard at least three ghost stories, and a lot of people have died there, and in my mind, that means theres investments of lives in that building, and i think they should be acknowledged. You guys are up here because youre leaders of our community. Youve decided you care about the city, and its injure generation of leaders that is going to shape the future of this city, and its your generation of this city thats going to determine the fate of the tenderloin. So if youre not the right people to talk to, tell us who is, talk to your colleagues so we can get a hearing and talk about this issue. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I took everybody off guard by coming from the other direction. My name is dorian rhodes, and i live in the tenderloin district. I know that were here about windows primarily, and our concern should be about the historic value about the actual architecture in the building and you all are invested with maintaining the historic value in this neighborhood and the tenderloin is a special neighborhood to do that because it is a neighborhood that has retained so much of our historic value, and what brings to mind what that brings to mind for me is the simple idea that history goes beyond architecture, history goes beyond buildings. It goes within those buildings who resides in those buildings and what role those buildings played in our cultural history, and i think the tenderloin not only represents how much architectural history weve been able to maintain, its one of the least changed neighborhoods remaining in the city, and in that vein has managed to maintain as well so much of its rich cultural history. It does have the highest number of homelessness percapita but it does have the highest number of artists percapita of any neighborhood, and part of that is the cultural history, in the tenderloins own history, there has been an ongoing through vine of art and consulture and just struggling residents of this city, the type of people who created this city. When the gold rush that created this city, it was the artists and the entrepreneurs and the people that thought outside the box that created this city and turned into what it is today, ultimatel ultimately. So the tenderloin was the heart of that. The tenderloin was the heart of everything here because it was where the working class lived and the struggle class that we still have and the working class that still life there, like myself and my husband, rely on that, and rely on that historic history ha thats duplicative, but rely on that restorative trajectory. I was in an sro that was allowed to go downhill and downhill, and i was forced to move out and could not afford to live there. Now, where we now live, we pay 500, and every month, we worry if were going to lose our home, all because we were forced out. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My names alex burlein. I am an attorney at the hanson bridges law firm. Just to give some context where the project is now, my clients are excuse me, sir, are you part of the project sponsors team . Yes. Okay. Your opportunity to speak was during the project presentation, however, the commissioners may have questions and may call you up later. Sure. Thank you. My name is otter duffy. I live a couple of blocks away from this project. Im kind of ambivalent. Im not sure if i should have got up, but i kind of support this project going forward. I was involved in the redistricting and in 2012, that particular building was the you can go back to actually the files on the redistricting and read this, the Bristol Hotel was the reason that that block was included in district 6. It was scheduled to go into district 3, you know, and its true that its in the the union square Historic District, as well, but you know, i think theres some truth that its kind of a bridging element between the two districts, the union square preservation district and the tenderloin preservation district. That being said, all the people who were living there, we thought belonged in district 6, theyre gone. Theyre gone. The building is empty. The reason it took so long for this window issue to come to you is because in 2012, there were still People Living in that building. They had to evict the people in that building before they could bring it to you, so the other thing i would say is that this building as it comes forward, its going to be much more in the Union Square Area than the tenderloin. Thats the plan for it. Moichb street is going to be the dividing line, so the other thing i would say, these people, as far as conditions, they never brought you any conditions. They never said lets make requiring this to continue to be a bridging element between the Union Square District and the tenderloin district. They never made it. What are their what are their demands . What conditions do they want . Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon to everyone. My name is abel silva. I have been living in a precarious situation here in San Francisco for seven years. Im a member of the faithful fools, and even though this is about windows, i do support the historical regional windows, but at the same time, i would ask that you look at the greater scope of this and not see this as a local business as usual situation. Im here to support that there be a better venue to have time to present all the information about what has happened. If you could do that for us, we would feel that youre part of the Community Supporting us. And the rest of my time, i would just like to read something that i wrote, just some expression forgive me. Well, while its good to keep the character of the building, you are going to destroy the people who have given character to the city if you allow this. There have been rumors at the greater scope about the death of democracy. I am from puerto rico. Historically, the crown of spain called the shots there, so we have been a bit slow to understanding democracy, but from where we stand and in the face of all this gentrification that has been happening here in San Francisco, which i am a personal victim of, businesses here will have some truth to report. I will have some truth to report after my country after this decision. What will i tell them . Presently, it is starting to look like it needs democracy is a way to pose ourselves as prey for capitalism to commit genocide in the long run. If you want to contribute if you want to contribute to proving this idea wrong, locally and abroad in a concrete way, please find a means to integrate the poor population by saving the Word Community from becoming a joke. The alternative would be allowing the less influential and create the makings of a cold civil war. All lives matter, especially ours, that, you know, we make your position possible. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is jessica lehmann. Im the Deputy Director of senior with disability action, and we see seniors every day that are being displaced in myriad ways from all over San Francisco, including sros. People used to say sros are somewhat immune from the housing crisis. Its seen as low Income Housing. People with a lot of money wont want to live there, and obviously, thats not what were seeing. Were seeing people pushed out of sros, people who have lived in sros for decades, units are renovated, and we are looking at people that are moving in with much higher incomes, leaving the low income tenants with nowhere to go, so we have an opportunity to see the situation for what it is, that we make sure we dont move forward on a project that is going to further displace senior and disabled tenants that call San Francisco home. Thank you. Thank you. Are there other speakers . If so, please come forward. Hi. My name is freddy martin, and im a i was born and raised in San Francisco. Ive seen a lot of changes over the years. I currently im speaking as a tenant of a tndc property south of market. Part of my road to getting there into stable, longterm Affordable Housing was staying at the Bristol Hotel. I stayed there as it was an 18 Month Program to help as trasignificanceal housing. The conditions became unbearable for me in about 2010. They werent fixing anything, it was bedbugs. I know many of the people after i left, i chose to couch surf after that because i just i couldnt live there anymore. There were mice, there were all kinds of things, and there were several disabled people in the building. There were people, after i left, that, i guess decided to file a lawsuit, but the things that i heard from people that i know who were formerly my neighbors was that they were given relocation money and they were told that they would be able to come back after things were fixed or whatnot, so i know that theres the San Francisco general plan priorities which said that the Affordable Housing will be preserved and enhanced. I personally know a couple of people that were relocationed because of their Living Conditions because of their lives, they didnt have that stable housing, and they actually died. One of them was named terry, so with all of the things that are going on in the city, and all of the buildings that are being made and made to house people with hi incomehigh incomes, 8 there are people that are losing their lives. Keep that in mind. The most vulnerable of us need protection and need help from the people and the places that are supposed to support them and help them, and thats all of you. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other speakers who wish to speak on this matter . If so, please come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. I would oh, if theres so please come forward. Well reopen Public Comment. Hello. My name is chanise valencia and im here as a member of the community and i work with Homeless People at hospitality house. At the end of the day, what were talking about is essentially taking out some extremely valuable and needed Affordable Housing from a community thats already under siege and under attack when it comes to the housing crisis. Homelessness is an extremely violent act. Were talking about having a Ripple Effect that can lead to some serious tragedy for people who wont be able to come back into the community and will make it tougher for people to find places to live, to put their kids up in a safe place or wherever, and so i really just think were at a point now in the country, in San Francisco in particular, where when were talking about taking Affordable Housing or low Income Housing off of the market, were talking about committing acts of violence against people who are already under attack every single day in many different facets, so i encourage you to like, look at the the opportunity that you have to impact and intervene in this act of violence that would be possibly happening, to look at that as an opportunity to do the right thing, right . I feel like theres really no other way for me to look at it in its essence cause thats whats happening here. In krcrisis, theres opportuni, and the responsibility you have comes with the opportunity to intervene on the side of the people and not profit, and so i think thats what im asking you to do at this point is to look at it in those terms, as well. And to recognize that theres no neutral position in this. Theres no nut willity in this situation. Thank you. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to comment on this item . If so, please come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. I think, and i would say this for the members of the public, that were the Historic Preservation commission, and we we have before us a review for Window Restoration, and were looking at the merits of the documents before us, and thats all we have before us and thats what were looking at. We dont actually have any jurisdiction related to Affordable Housing and other issues, so i just want to make that clear. I do have some questions for staff, and i think we may have some other questions, so ill just dive in. I would have to say that these documents are probably one of the least legible documents ive ever seen, so the i mean, the drawings were really, really hard to read. And theres a comment in here in your staff report about on page 7, i couldnt see anything about gfrc units in the drawings, and under the scope of work on page a1, they dont mention anything about that, so im just curious, not only for the removal of the Affordable Housing but for the gentryfication of the Tourist Hotel. It would be subject to chapter 341 of the administrative code which i did bring if you want too remove that it requires for hearing comparable housing and the essential rights that the existing permanent residents do have any existing sro units. As i said before, there are 41 legal sro units within the existing building and 16 Tourist Hotel units. All the of the prior residents do have the legal right to return to those units. Thats all additionally spelled out in the legal documents that are in the packet. Thank you. Commissioner johns. Thank you. I just want to go back to what president wolfram said about what were here for today. Its clear from the members of the public who have spoken that there are very, very Serious Problems and they have raised some quite important issues. And as many of the speakers said and miss rhodes was one of them, this was not the commission or the court that can address those things. The limit as i understand it of our functioning this afternoon is the approval or disapproval of windows. When Window Restoration and storefront restoration and although people may have raised or have raised very significant questions. We are limited to dealing with replacement of windows and store fronts. As to that it narrow area, i think that i would be in favor of approving the replacement with the conditions that the staff has stated. Thank you, commissioner pearlman. Thank you. I concur with president wolfram and commissioner johns on this. It seems to me that you as a group havent been advised well because it seems like to spend your time, i mean everybodys time has value. To spend your time to come here today, you werent advised as to what we have any jurisdiction over being able to do. I mean many of you talked about our responsibility but they didnt advise on what our the scope of our responsibilities are which sadly we cant address any of your concerns it seems to me there are pub milk Comment Periods for the Planning Commission. That there are many as miss kerby said, it sounds like many violations ever the planning code and administrative code. So spinding the time that you just spernt and go to the Planning Commission might spark them because they have the authority to speak about the issues that you brought here today the board of supervisors, there is general comment on the board of supervisors. This seems to be to be a potent issue. Im sorry we cant do anything about it. But there is general comment there. There is newspaper, there are blogs. There are many ways to raise Public Awareness about this to the people who can actually make a difference. So i encourage you to do that. Maybe youve done that, i dont know. Thanthank you public comintds over sir. You have done that. Thats fine. Sir excuse me, Public Comment is not over. Were not having an argument here. Youre occupant of order at this time. Sir you may be respectful in not calling us stupid. Were not having a debate. This is not a debate. So i encourage you do that, maybe youve done that, thats fine. Ire not going to get any help from that balls we cant. If you cant understand that, look at the rules of how this works. Excuse me miss kerby. [inaudible] it is but maybe you should go higher an closer i would like to add that because the project sponsor has not met timelines outlined by the courts. There is a special master receiver who is overseeing the construction timeline to make sure they get occupyable again within a reasonable amount of time. They were operating in limited construction times previously. The Planning Department and dbi both have avenues for reporting violations if this does end up actually becoming a Tourist Hotel, that would be rorpted to us and wed make them go through the typical legal avenues to correct the violations and hopefully get the sro units back on line. Commissioner. I want to echo my concerns on thresponsiveness to your concers which are certainly legitimate. And assess tad, situation is really sad. But its true. We have a permit before us for window alteration. I have no quarrel with that. And i guess what i would, you know, and commissioner pearlman, you recommended there is the Planning Commission and board of supervisors. We mow thatwe know that the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors has in the past rejected or overruled some of our decisions and most immediate one that im thinking of is our approval of the mills act contract. They were looking at whether there had been been abuse of the mills act and we were making decisions on approvals when in fact, the board was questioning whether there were abuse in the past and they were holding up our approval of the contracts. Which to me is we ought to be considering those kinds of things. But you know, and be concerned about that. I guess the only thing i would say at this point is id still be in favor of, you know, improving the Window Restoration but to recommend that these concerns because it appears there are violations that need to be addressed and that the board and Planning Commission would be the arena for that discretion, i dont know whether in the future our Cultural HeritageAssets Committee would think about some kind of policy or some statement that we could be making that looks at the relationship between our authority and how were looking at the historic value. I thought the comments were very eloquent on that issue. Soy want to thank the public for that. Thank you, commissioner matsuda. Thank you, as commissioner wolfram and commissioner johns pointed out, our commission is narrow. We should not ignore the comments that the community has raised and if there is some way that we could officially as a commission tell the Planning Commission that we have a group of people that have come before us and raised serious issues about this issue and maybe receive the proceedings today and to be asked to review them and seriously consider their comments. I dont know how procedural we could do that, but if we can do that as a comoition and show that weve taken them seriously, id like to request that. Thank you, commissioner hnld. I would echo commissioner matmatsudas comments. I would propose i think we can continue this item. The a item before us as writteni would not disapprove. When it comes back, ill support it. The window replacement should be supported. We could ask the Planning Commission to take this up and figure out if from is any other venue. Then it will elevate it instead of puppet in a Public Comment. Mr. Ionin, that a paroled ural possibility . You could seek Additional Information from staff and staff could convey your concerns to the Planning Commission, our staff could convey those concerns to the Planning Commission. I wasnt sure what would be before the Planning Commission as far as the property in p a future hearing. It did sound as though there was something that was going to happen, that it would have to go to the Planning Commission. I dont believe there Application Pending which maybe the difficulty. And are there interior changes . There are other interior permits approved in 2013 and 2014 that are underway which is why the building is entirely vacant right now. There is if we look at it on the sake of the fact that if what miss kerby said was true that the sro units will be available again to the sro tenants, there is a benefit to moving the project along if everything went according to the way one would want, there is a benefit to that. We can continue it, were only extending the timeframe for getting people back in their homes and enapprovinging it today would help the people as opposed to pushing it further into the future. Commissioner johns. I do agree strongly with the president made and commissioner pearlman has made that we should not do anything to delay this. We heard there is a special master to supervise and approve this. There is litigation. I have serious concern about the commission inject itself into areas that are occupied and apparently with some success on behalf of the members of the public who have spoken. To attempt to get ourselves into an area where we do not belong. I think the best and most helpful thing we can do this afternoon is to approve the project with the condition stated by staff and leave those other problems to the special master to the courts and to the Planning Commission. Thats as far as i want to go so i do move that we approve this item with conditions. Second. Commissioner matsuda. Id like to add the condition affording the comments made today to the Planning Commission. I reject that amendment. We have a motion and a second. Shall i call the question . I was the second. Im not sure that i reject that. I think that somehow the information that we all this testimony that we heard today should go beyond us. Again, we made it clear that we cant do anything about it. So whether its the board of supervisors or the Planning Commission somehow this information should be conveyed forward to someone who potentiay i suggested the general Comment Period of the Planning Commission. If there is no project of the Planning Commission, you cant go and talk about it except it at the general comments. With all due respect i would reject that. You did second it without th i secondedded it without ityou can retract your second but im not sure that those comments are appropriate to include in the motion of approval of the window of alteration. I think to the chair, you can direct staff to convey these concerns to the Planning Commission and to the director and for staff to continue to pursue other actions. But as far as the motion on the table, i think im not sure where do you put that, right . Where do you put the comments in. I think it could be very appropriate to do what you suggest and to convey that to the Planning Commission. But leave the motion so that that can proceed so we can get the windows fixed so people can move back in. If its the case, if we can approve the window replacement and in addition strongly the president s permission, direct this to the attention of the Planning Commission to the mayor as well as the to the board of supervisors and i would support it. As a separate letter. Separate thing. That seems reasonable. I agree we should do that. Very good commissioners. There is a motion seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion. Commissioner johnck. Commissioner johns, mightser