My name is a andrea. Thank you for having me here to. Ive been at that residence fors myself. And my family owned the buildine 1943. Im old enough to remember beind playing on street there. Ive been in every house in the neighborhood on both sides becae were just friendly neighbors. Its always been that way. Now something unique has hamed e that doesnt happened there t doesnt feel correct to us at a. The children cannot play. We had neighbors that have chil. They have to move away. I wouldnt have my children in a neighborhood where there are sts going up and down the street. My concern also is the legal asf what is happening. Theyre double parking. There is trespassing. There is littering. There is loitering. There is every type of un i wy unauthorized type of events hapg that would happen in any publice that does not have authority th. Making sure that things move, cd control and move in an approprie of a way. The neighborhood has changed so drastically, we cant sleep at. Songs, people want to know why m there. Am i the maid in they feel enti. That is public. I dont think mr. Franklin knewt would happen. Because he doesnt live there, e doesnt see all of the pit fallt happen to our property and our neighbors property. Were rooted and grounded in San Francisco. Im a native. My family is native. Weve been here for since thy 1940s and were not used to thie of tremendous amount of people r the neighborhood all of the tim. If were going to stay . San francisco and continue to b, were going to have to have a br situation. Thanks. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment os item . Seeing none, well close publict and open it up to commissioners. This is not a dip cal d. R. Scen. Were macing recommendation g recommendations. Were not in the d. Of d. R. Mod. Mode here, unfortunately. Commissioner richards. When i read the case packet d talked wittalked with the projei had plesm connecting the renovao the quality of life. The bay window, big deal. As with a lot of times when i gw perspective, its because of ths that come and testify before us. You may have had a pretty convig case or argument that clearly te actions of one person over the f last few months affected the plu live. Interesting enough, im sittingd somebody used the word shrinek twfs mr. Franklin. I think it was mr. Franklin. I appreciate you being here. I respect you a lot for coming. Somebody said thrie shrine. We have painted ladies on the s. People come and go and take pic. There is traffic. But generally its diffused becu have alamos square. Theyre on golden gate or mcallr street or fulton street. Lombard street, supervisor farrl wanted to charge people a hundrd dollars to drive down lombard so mitigate the effects of it beina Tourist Destination or a shrine. Those are the only two i can thf other than this one. You may get your visitors here n lombard street it sounds like jg from the numbers whether theyre accurate. A few other things came to mind. This is kind of the weirdest cae had in three and a half years. Dealing with the a building perd quality much life as a result oa Building Permit. Whether mr. Franklin owns the bg or not, whether these building s are granted or not. Mr. Franklin can sit in beverlys and promote the house all he wae have a problem. How do we mitigate this . He owns the building that hes promoting. It looks like there needs to bee level of mitigation here, but te question is what is our jurisdin that . We could not a we could recoo the board of a appeals to not ge permit. Is that going to do anything . Probably not. It might be a token jess tour e neighbors. Mr. Franklin doesnt live here. Hes going to change the insidee house. I dont see the point of that ie pea not going to live here. You could have left it the way s because there was probably fine craftsmanship and now its goind in a garbage heap somewhere. Putting the bay window on realle serves no really purpose. Its not like youre taking off asbestos off, you have a set ofm buildings that are built at thee time by the same person that are historic. Even though the bay window repls the style of architecture, its. How many square feet do you getm that . I think i saw a sitting area, it seem luke it serves a purpose. I think had beenlike it servens purpose. If we have any jurisdiction or e board of appeals has any jurisdn like we do with medical cannabis dispensaries, we should requiree mitigation of what is happening. And things that came to mind wee parentally the Security Officert work. He may have been incompetent. But i was thinking more in the f sfmta Traffic Control officers o stands there and makes sure peot double park. An offduty Police Officer thate hire for special events. Apparently this is a special evy hours in in the day. Mr. Franklin could grant a distt there on the street and have a b officer there whose responsibilo keep order. They dont carry guns because te not there for violent acts and. Theyre there to keep order. I live in a 13b district and ty generally keep order as best th. People respect the badge. Neighbors have im no attorns could create a nuisance. The Building Permit at hand, i d recommend not having the bay wi. The intier renovations and id d putting a gate up on the front o people cannot climb the steps ak in the neighbors windows. Thats all i can come up with. Thanks for the public on educatn the impact. Commissioner fong. This is interesting. And like commissioner richards. Im not sure where i am but poit some obvious nings. Things for us to consider. Obvious things. There are other houses in the c. Flood mansion has become a schod many of those cases with the exn of mrs. Doubt firehouse, were t looking at a7ktdvk formal conveo commercial use. Stepping aside for a second, tha little bit of embarrassment that hollywood wants to show us. That is one of the privileges og in San Francisco that we have tl with can. Ago part just separating the ld use issues and the bay window bt or slide out, like commissioner richards, i dont see that much advantage to doing that. I dont know what the house gain business doing that. That leads the neighbors to bele there is intent. I believe there is an intent too bring it back to the set design. There is not too much livabilitd by the three feet in it my opinn that living room. I think the neighbors concernse legitimate. I see the videos. Our kids go to school nearby. Are there really traffic concer . Dpt concerns. Painted ladies recently approvey that doesnt allow tour buses tp off or go in front of the paintd ladies. So they cleverly drop them off e corner and they can walk down t. There are no diesel engines accg up and down the hill. That is a dpt concern. The Film Commission plays a roln this. If theyre going to limit the nf filmings or commercial shootingo happen on there. I dont know if we have the abio limit the number of that. Its a multijuri multijurisdict. I dont want to speculate how yd turn this into a 90 day airbnb h is not against the law. Its legal. Rent it out for a couple of evea year and it adds more attractiot is now. Its difficult to predict what e attraction is going to be goingd as it is in an older but cultle television show. It mazes me it has the stick t amazes me it has the sticking p. Purely from the land use buildig perspective, i dont see it neco have the slide out extension ofy window. I would like to find out what we ability to enforce as far as puc parking and traffic as well as m commission. If we can maybe forever say thit be converted into a conditionala commercialtype of use. Which i believe id like to e information. Being attractive comes at a. What interests me is to follow l deliberations between the commid all points discussed really strs being thoughtful and on point. How far, there is another layeri want to try to go there. One, we are in a normal neighbo. Its rh2. It used to be described by many neighbors for decades. A quiet street on which childreo play on the block. Thats the way we like our neigs to be. We have an unusual case that wee nine identical historic buildinn category a resource which shoule our kind of sensitivities towarg extra careful of what we do her. On the other hand, as commissior richards and commissioner fong summarized, we have several like situations, not quite the same e lombard street, painted ladies, where attractiveness of these ps become so unmanageable. It makes the situation for peope unlivable. I live close to lombard street. When i go i north on the weekeny hemyself in huge traffic jams. When a fire engine goes by, its unmanageable. Were here to help prevent thisf thing. Attractiveness comes at a price. I dont believe that the bay wis necessarily is necessary at. Im not judging as much from the as judging from the outside. Its unnecessary. I would agree with the would ofm that that is something i would t consider even approving. But i like to go further to loon rh2 building in being a noncor to residential. The shrine comment that was repy people is of great concern to m. We do not need empty houses like Winchester Mystery House or so r neighborhoods. And while in is probably a very extensive building, we want peoo live there and contribute to the wholeness of a neighborhood. That is my basic sticking point. Im going to ask administrator , i believe the use of a buildinga thrien slien as a shrine is a. How do we deal with that . Do we have comparable situation . Did we have lombard street befoe use of cars as benng something e had restrictions . That should be a garden, an ope. There shouldnt be any cars goin that street. People want to walk . Walk, thats fine. But im taking a slightly more l look at conditions which dont e themselves as compatible land uo the way we want to use them at y moment. Thank you. Vacancy of a building or a dwelt is not a change of use. We wouldnt look at that as thet that the building is vacant as e of use to shrine i mean perhae project sponsor can align this r about their intended use movingd and whether it will be occupied. In terms of changes of use, we y look at filming in a video prods an arts activity. Thats entertainment use which t be allowed in this zoning distr. That said, for a fullon changee which would be subject to secti7 because its no longer resident. They cant get to the end pointe the use is not allowed. Separately, something that the g code does not regulate because s the spectrum of artistic use. At what point when everyone haso camera that we see movies in the theaters filmed on phones. At what point ko does your homey have a million followers on you, but at what point does your perl actions constitute an art activy versus complaining it into a fim production studio. If people are filming videos inr own home and making money afte s that a change of use under the g code . Wed say no is personal use. But the planning code doesnt de that. Its like a happenstance. Until this case, they havent cd the use. As i understand it, theyre not, this is not a filming set. Just the fact that its vacant t make did a change of use. We are not to comment on the interior, however, i would say m not trying to dominate the micre here, that the ground floor user layout of the ground floor use t speak to somebody wanting to ocs building the way this ground fle is laid out on whatever the sher is, i can give it to you. I think its 4. 0. Clearly indicates that there arr intentions than residential use. The sequence of rooms, the way s are oriented, it looks more lika staging space for either a recea party or whatever. But it is not a typical layout r residential use. Is that the Storage Space thy have . It is the sequence of rooms and im looking at the final sew a full bathroom with shower, opo the garage. You step into a laundry room ant as you open the door, youre stg into another bathroom. That is a sequence of rooms thas completely atypical for a resid. When you look at the previous sh is in front of what have file s. It shows more layout on that par floor which does not speak to residential. I would say that i would e that a full bathroom off of thet or garage is you can look at that with a e discerning eye all the way throd it doesnt quite hold. Its at this moment, the pretenf residential versus something e not talking about the interior,e talking about how the building g used for if this is supposede rh2 residential in a san franco neighborhood, then this land use depiction doesnt pass muster. That would be my comment. Commissioner koppel. Very sympathetic with the ne. I have some similar experiences. I love in the sunset near goldee park. Very close to a major entrance s the pol oh, fields an polo f. At times my home is disrupted f. The festivals are close to my h. For weeks up until the time of e event, everything is different. Everything changes literally. My sister and i have to time who when we do it often. There is nothing we can do abou. That doesnt even take into consideration when the actual cs iin effect. Friday through sunday, our lived the house are a different ballg. So we embrace it. There is nothing we can do abou. There is maybe a hundred thousae that could literally walk in frf our house. People are drinking. People are enjoying themselves d taking pictures. There are a lot of things going. Theyre going on in front of my. I cant do anything about that. I dont think that mr. Franklins necessarily doing anything illee that would warrant us coming don him. I mean, i would definitely wante all mitigation measures taken. I like the fact that, again, lie commissioner richards says, hee with us today. Thats a big help for us, i thi. Him going through the film commn for all his events i think is an important and commendable step. I hope that the neighbors are nd of any such event. I mean, thats all speaking r myself i at least know when theo concerts are coming up. I put them in my calendar a yean advance so i can make plans. If i want to get out of town, it out of town. As long as youre notified of te events, i dont see what we cano tell him to stop. As far as the actual house, i ms this house historic . Is there any does that come o equation at all . The building is a classa, ia known historic resource. He owns the house. If he wants to paint the house,n paint the house. Im leaning towards the recommes of staff in the rdat in our pacf now. Im not sid siding with one pere other. I look at the situation as a wh. We live in San Francisco. This is a very touristy, popula. And we all choose to live here. As far as what can be done to t, im leaning towards what is recd in packet. President hillis commissionr melgar. This is fascinating. Also, fascinating by your take. So, the house is vacant. So its not really a change of. But we live in a Virtual World t can be an advertisement. Virtually and then people come physically, which really wasnte 15 or 20 years ago. Now it is. It opens up a bunch of questiont what is the use . In ways that i hadnt thought at before. I think that i also, you know, n to support the recommendations d of appeals. Although i completely disagree , commissioner koppel, but i done what else we can do at this poi. Were not i dont like the by window. I think that should go. But i do think that it fundameny changes the neighborhood. We have zoning for a reason. This is a commercial use. So technically, you know, its t and not, but it has led to an if people that use it as a commerc. Even though theyre not paying , or going inside the house, the s lovely before. They took off the gate that wase before. I think on purpose so that peopd go up the stairs and make it int with the house as if it were thl house house. The owner, mr. Franklin, thank r coming, but he was quoted in tha saying that he had plans for the to make it available to fans. Which, you know, i get. I respect. I am a big house of both the sh. I have kids who watch them. But that is a commercial use inf the interaction of the fans wite neighbors. So its tricky. Its fascinating in terms of whr jurisdiction is and what we can. All we can do at this point is t the recommendations to the boarf appeals. But i think that were going too think about this a little bit me because as commissioner koppel. We live in a city that it full f historic spots. I think if the winchester housee here, wed have that also. There are places that are histd have fans all over san francisc. Now that they can be promoted oe and attached to a campaign thats a film, it opens up a new world. Just to echo some of for i think the staffs recommendatioe floor of the bay window. I think commissioner richards ag support removing the entire bayw which i agree. I dont think it does much for. I think from an historic standp, whether this is the full houser whatever to get rid of the bay. That was an all straition i an s recommendation. This is an interesting case. If mr. Franklin didnt own the n someone else did, they will thee acting differently. I think theyd try to discourage from coming there and not necesy encourage people. You come from a different stand. These folks live in this neighbd and have to deal with this. I say to myself, what would i di owned this house . Its a great historic home. There is not a lot you can do. You can paint it probably a dift color. So obviously the red door is a a beacon for people as i look thre advertisement for the home aa beacon for people as i look thre advertisement for the home. We can enal courage you to act a homeowner and not promoting the. I found out this morning my daur watches it. She watches fuller house i thi watched the show before. I always thought they lived in e alamos square. Highlight San Francisco not necy the home. But people can quickly search id find out where they lived. So just a question, commercial e commercial use is that you see s neighbn event space. If people want to turn it into t place. I know either of those would rea cua if theyre allowed. The hotel use would be allowh conditional use authorization. Something as more of a commercit space is generally not allowed. In some cases they may be more n institutional type place as a mg place that is an institutional. Generally if it was a commercial activity, it would not be allows it had some past historic use ad grandfathered in. The only thing that could bee here is under the current zonine form of b b and theyd have to u to do that. Which i think when we get thee scurns here, there is a threat f getting a cu approved for a b bs spot given what is happening. I dont think we can presupposee stop that now from happening. I agree if there was an existing resl tenant of the building, they coy for a shortterm rental authori. That could be d. R. Ed. It is not a permit. So its a certificate. Its not an appealable document. So the neighbors should be a. If someone lived in it, they coa 90day rental. Even without the sherretttom rental, they could maintain it a rengs use. Residential use. So i regret we cant do ie neighbors. There are traffic problems and e parking that we cant really ley support unfortunately to them. We can lend our vocal support bt do much. I support sending this on to bor board of permit appeals with the recommendation that we take stas recommendation and remove the b. I think your idea of putting ga. Thats what id do. Id put a gate up so people donk of my front stoop. I think the Property Owner shoud consider trying to put himself e position of the neighbors as ife an owner of the home that didnt people to come and look at it, e home a different color, things e probably cant control. If the board is inclined to e that a gate be added, that woule a preservation review. You could ask that they look in, but at this point, we dont have environmental clearance for adda gate. That would need to be reviewed y reservation staff. If there is a small gate at , not the bigger security gailts e in other places, but im sure ir way, you need it. Commissioner richards. Question for the city attorne require a Security Guard or them monitoring up for how many line. Could we do that today . The Planning Commission is authorizing land use, but two, e department of Public Health is g the operator. So those conditions regarding te security plan is similar to entertainment commission. They get placed by the agenciese operator. So i guess three points, tonn cheek, we could require mr. Fran though live there so he experiet is the neighbors experience , because i see here you canter t want these activities affectingr life down there in southern cal. We could move it to pier 39 ande an attraction. [applause] or the last one would be i thin. Franklin, the words were familyd friends learning how to solve ps with love and friendship. I would strongly suggest since e making hopefully a lot of moneya very successful and artistically wonderful sho you invest in an a Security Officer and monitor yot with love and friendship. Because these people are going p coming to the house. You have some level of responsiy and youre a good guy. Thats what i recommend. Id make a motion to recommend e board of appeals that we make a recommendation. To not have the bay window. As well as ts staff recommene staff recommendations and look a gate. To take staff recommendationh would in addition to staff recommendations have the entirel of the bay window and ask the pt sponsosponsor to add a gate ande community about the issues evers to the site. Commissioner moore. Id like to ask the zoning administrator, but asking a trac control officer is an admissionf change in use . No. I havent seen any residentil building anywhere where a single residential building where you a Traffic Control officer in the f a residential block. I have not seen that. For me, that indicates a changee and intensification. There is no requirement the s for a tco officer at this locat. But it would encourage the neigo talk to their supervisor to enst the street is actively and propy controlled by the relative agen. Commissioner richards. So i think commissioner moors point, there is a situation in y neighborhood, its called the cs tree, every thanksgiving tom any on 21 street, they have an we ir muss pine and they have traffics between christmas and new years. The neighbors complain. It keeps traffic flowed. Theyre being good neighbors. They know they cause a its e to christmas for lack of a bett. They mitigate the impact. Two weeks out of year. Six weeks. Weve all driven there for oe times. Youve a seen it. I heard a motion. I need a second. Second. Thank you. If there is nothing further, tha motion that has been seconded t excuse me, to recommend to the f appeals that board of appeals as staff modifications including aa gate and removal of the bay winw entirely on that motion, commisr fong. Eye. Aye. Commissioner melgar. Aye. Commissioner richards. I want to recommend that the probability sponsor work with te neighbors on mitigation measure. The motion that was what we said, is that okay we seconder . Yes. All right. On that motion, then, to recd that the board of appeals that y accept staffs modifications ada gate and consider removing the y window and recommend that the sr continue working on mitigation. Commissioner fong. Aye. Commissioner koppel. Aye. Commissioner fel gar. Aye. Commissioner hillis. That passes 51 with commissione swroating against. Voting against. That included the staff recommendation to remove the ro . Yes. Thank you very much. Thats it jonas . I believe thats all, folks. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you. 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Mayor i think what is really special about this project the fact over 60 percent will think two bedrooms and three bedrooms apartment we know there a sdaerth of Family Housing no inform has an incredible impact on the economy and, of course, on the communities if you cant have families that work here afford to live in the city they living live and work we have much, much more to do across the country to make sure were housing the middleincome and workingclass this supplement will help to solve the problem thank you for making that neighborhood healthy and congratulations to tndc for the groundbreaking this. Hi my name is jason jones a xaefrp and communication capture at the San FranciscoWater Department i hnlt a high volume of calls and Radio Communications i enjoy coming to work i still find it challenging i still learn everyday and im going to have the level of activity if zero to 60 in a matter of minutes i take bride pride in handling the emergencies. 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For me as a designer, i love the control. I can see whats going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. Going through the suing room, im looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look . Is this what shes expecting, maybe if weve made a customization to a dress, which we can do because were making everything here locally. Over the last few years, weve been more technical. Its a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a Small Business owner. Sometimes its appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. We need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. Moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how theyre going to use it, whether its the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so thats the direction i hear at this point. The reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that were sharing the opportunities that weve been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that [inaudible] and Parking Authority commission on tuesday, december 5. Ms. Boomer, could you please take the roll . Please quiet down in the audience . Thank you. [roll call] madame chair director, you have a quorum. Please be advised that director torres will be absent from todays meeting. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phone, pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. So, please turn your phones off