Good afternoon. Im ashley brake field on behalf of project sponsor. As mr. Perry already stated, this is a requested permit, a portion of a small vacant and unleasable retail space in the mixed use montgomery washington tower to be converted in a Building Management office and shared tenant amenity space. This was a shared office use and that requires conditional use approval on the ground floor. This has been vacant for a number of years by its undesirable onsite. Its partially below grade, theres really no visiblity from the street and lacks a lot of window. The only at grade portion of the site with street frontage is being maintained as a small retail use. With that, ill introduce larry breaux whos the project sponsor to give you some more details. Larry breaux from black creek group in denver, colorado. Thank you for hearing our matter. Can i get the computer pulled up onto the screen. Hopefully you can see it like the last fellows apologies for it being washed out. Just so everybody gets the orientation, top side is washington street, right is montgomery street. The part thats shaded gray or white, thats the entrance to the residential tower. Which own the commercial portion which is the balance of the commercial store. Its three office suites, and the balance of the retail thats outlined in red and thats the subject space and really were focusing today on the proposed change of use, the area in blue. I think commissioner richards, you had mentioned longstanding retail storefront, im guilty of one of those. March 31st, its going to be five years the space is going to i vacant. We bought the building in 2013. At that time, the space was vacant. There was a paul business on the east side that was going through struggles and changes, and ultimately failed. We really had a vision of not just elevating the retail tenancy of the project to what it once was but also tieing in the outside and the inside both from a design, from an aesthetic to really make it a cohesive feel. Just to flip through a few pictures of the subject space, so this is the frontage of the merchant side. This is whats going to remain as the retail space, so thats the entrance immediately adjacent to the commercial lobby, and then, go ahead and go to the next one. And these are pictures inside the space. Right away, you can see some of the structural challenges that we have with being below the garage for the building. Our garage is actually right above this space, and this is looking towards the west. Thats the backside of the hilton, so it doesnt exactly get a ton of sun light. This is looking north to montgomery street, and its about a 4 feet grade change between grade and the floor, and so really, this is the back portion of the space that weve had two different leasing brokers brokerage firms, excuse me, seven different agents and outreach tours to over 200 prospective different tenants over the last five years. It was first, lets find a restaurant, and we started to broaden the net, looking at fitness type uses, Convenience Store uses, furniture stores, art galleries, any type of use. Zero interesting in leasing the entire space. Every sing of one of them said i cant make money on the back portion of the space. Thats a very big contrast to the success that we had in the other retail spaces. This is from the corner of month good morning rea montgomery and washington. Again, sorry for the washed out pictures, with you nice name brands, good quality structure that are offered to the public. Good tenants in the building and really whats happened is theres life on the east side and northeast side of the building. My Southeast Side of the building, theres still a little bit of death, and thats why were here to talk about the notion of aligning the large retail space where theres been proven demand because weve had folks that said hey, you know what . I can do something with a smaller portion, but i cant take the whole thing. If youre talking a bigger food service thats venting, thats cooking onsite, the numbers just dont work, so its a no brainer to position a space in the size where theres going to be demand in the market. And then, the natural question is what do we do with the balance . Well, the first thing we saw is right now, we need to put rest rooms here. They have to go to the bathroom, tenants have to go into the elevator, up to the lobby, into the office tower to go to the rest rooms. The Office Tenants are getting more about having their site secure, so putting these rest rooms on the ground floor, you know, one, its service to the customers of the retail tenancy. Two, frankly, its easier for the employees of the retailers to have the rest rooms right there, and what do we do with the balance of the space, the back portion of the space. Thats the blue area, and this is the motinotion in the lowert of the blue area, that would be the Building Management office. So right now, its up in the tower. Its not very visible. This is to elevate the presence of the management office. The darker blue portion of the space, call it lounge, tenant amenity space, whatever, the notion of a shared amenity space, thats been a repeated comment in our Tenant Satisfaction surveys that we do. Its a place where the employees of proper food and belange and the other retail, theyre not robots. Theyre outside, standing up against a column on their breaks. This would be a place to go. This is something its not just my building, this is not just my funds building, this is more going towards a hospitality situation where youre trying to Foster Community in the building, and its fore things like buildings have long been the ice cream socials and the holiday parties, but its a whole lot easier to do a whole lot of things, like blood drives, like toy drives, like e cycling, where tenants can bring down, its a place where the building staff can host the frequent trainings that were doing for the floor wardens, for fire evacuations, you know, so on and so forth, and its really just something that takes advantage of a space that going on five years, and im the second asset manager thats given a go at this. I think the most telling thing was when we were interviewing the leasing brokers, i had one, and after walking the space, she looked me in the eye and she said larry, the combination of very low probability of success, the time im going to have to spend on this, the difficulty, im going to pass on bidding for this listing. Leasing brokers are notorious eternal optimists. Are you kidding . Ive never had a broker pass on an assignment. Oh, yeah, i can do what you didnt do kind of thing. So i appreciated her candor, but also, very disappointing to hear. Ive finished my prepared remarks. Im happy to answer any commissioner moore on the street, used to buy chocolatecovered raisins in one of the small chocolate stores, which was in that building many, many years ago, probably before you actually were involved with the project. And the project is in a location where this particular space doesnt work. It never did. Except for a restaurant that used to be there in the past and some of us knew when it was there. And i believe that every attempt has been made to figure out what to do with it and it is indeed a good solution in support of successful retail, which is essential to keep and foster because that area is a little bit dead when it comes to moving down montgomery street, moving up clay, or washington into chinatown. This particular block has always been a little bit in the shadow. Its the best way to say it. Im in support and commend mr. Perry for telling us the incredible, complicated moves here and there. Thank you for explaining it. Im in full support and mick a motion to approve. Second. Commissioner koppel i was just going to add that five years is long enough to wait. With that motion and second. [roll call] so moved. Passes 50. I will close the public hearing with the variance. Thank you, commissioners. With that, well move on to item 15 for 2016004524cua at 900 clement street or request for conditional use authorizization. Good afternoon. Chris may, planning staff. You have before you a request to convert 2,273 of vacant ground floor retail space to a dental office and onecar garage. Remodel the office on the second floor. Construct a third floor vertical addition and excavate 373 cubic yards below the building for storage and mechanical purposes. The dental units will be separate with ground floor being accessed at the corner of clement and 10th. And the upper space, secondary entrance, further along the 10th avenue facade. Because the proposed project proposes nonresidential uses in excess of 2,500 and retail use, conditional use authorization is required. No exceptions or variances are requested the project proposes a third floor addition for 1,300 residential dwelling unit, containing 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. The proposed onecar garage would be for exclusive use of the residential unit and 10footwide curb cut on the 10th avenue facade. Private, usable open space will be provided on two separate roof decks. One 568 square feet above the existing second story and one measuring 494 square feet and above the third floor. It proposes six bicycle parking spaces. Since the publication of the staff support, the department has received one email in support. I have that here for the record. The department recommend that the Planning Commission approve the project on the basis that the project will complement the mix of goods and service and contributed aing a dwelling unit. This concludes my presentation and im available for further questions. Thank you. Thank you. Well hear from the project sponsor, please. Hi. Im alan. Good afternoon, commissioners. And were the Design Architect for this project and i would like to give you a presentation of the project. In recent times, weve had a number of projects that went through the Planning Commission hearing and some of them are being reviewed at the moment. And were also we have experience in commercial interior projects and also residential. Based on the program of this project, were very excited to take on this Dental Clinic, as well as residential addition on the third floor. And the project is located at the corner of 10th avenue and clement. In a previous time, it used to be one monolithic, 120footlong building, which was sub divided into four individual buildings, so our client purchased this corner lot with the existing threestory building. A fact about the site, the lot is 75 feet in depth. And the zoning is n ncdcommercial. The building was built in 1979. So we looked at what are some of the possible implications from Historical Preservation and we seem to be all clear on that. Id like to talk about the history of the building. This building has been a twostory establishment with a 7eleven on the ground floor established back in 95. And upstairs on the second floor, this is where it gets interesting. Theres actually three small Dental Clinics up on the second floor with about two stations each. However, when we first got the project, we couldnt find any permit records for the dental establishment on the second floor. Then from digging into the dental association, we did find evidence that official Dental Clinics were established on the second floor. These are just comparison slides between the existing and the proposed. And the third floor is going to be residential for our property owner. There is no interest in renting that out. The second floor, were hoping to legalize a nonconforming Dental Clinic into a clinic occupying the entire floor. Ground floor, also a Dental Clinic. And then the basement, will have to do a lot of excavating to facilitate equipment. With the two issues triggering the conditional use, which is the commercial space nonresidential space must be under 2,500. And the permitted medical use needs to go through conditional use permit. So we do recognize that were way over when we combine the nonresidential use. Were over by 1,800 square feet. But then i think the reality is that since day one, the client always had a vision of having two separate clinics. One on the ground floor and the other on the second floor. And once you minus all the subtract out the parking garage and the building, stairway and elevator, were looking at 1,800 square feet on the second floor and 1,500 square feet on the ground floor of the Dental Clinic. And so in respect to the rationale behind keeping everything under 2,500, when we look at the actual square footage, were over 760 square feet. So were hoping for some reasoning there. And, lastly, why this location . Surprisingly, when we looked at the some neighborhood research, theres a high concentration of Dental Clinics along clement and richmond. Clement street alone, theres 10 Dental Clinics. So im pretty sure that the client had that in mind when they purchased the property and thought that the second floor may not be permitted for conditional used by thought its appropriate at the same time. That will conclude my presentation for the project. Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you very much. I have a speaker card for lilly wu. And if anybody else wants to speak to the item, you can come up after ms. Wu. Hi. Im lilly wu. Im the owner of the building next door, 906 clement street. Im not necessarily against converting existing commercial space to Dental Clinics, but i am against the proposed additions. The basement over 1,000 square foot is not necessary and could be reduced in size and accommodate existing space, for storage and mechanical use only. And the third floor, one residential unit addon. I dont see how it will benefit a community on such a busy commercial street. It doesnt necessarily commit to the resolving of housing problems the city is facing these days. And also, my major concern is this addition, the proposed additions. The construction and greatly prolonged construction period, it would be detrimental to the existing businesses operating next door. Right now, that building has a restaurant and a beauty parlor on the ground floor and an art school on the second floor. Ive already heard from tenants that theyre worried about construction noise and disturbance causing so i certainly hope the commissioners will not approve the unnecessary additions, for more antibusiness space, which has been a problem in the city. Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else want to comment on this project . Okay. Hi, commissioners. Vice president richards i think staffs analysis was good. The basement, you know, it may not be necessary. It will create a lot of construction issues for the neighbors. Adding a housing unit, creating more commercial space for professionals, which you need as the population grows, i dont really have many issues with the project. Any other commissioner comments . Commissioner fong i dont have any problems with it and move to approve. Second. Okay, commissioners. We have a motion commissioner moore . Commissioner moore in this neighborhood and corridor, do we have any restrictions for ground floor medical . In some we do. Do we have that here . Not in this neighborhood commercial district. Commissioner moore no restrictio restrictions . Its a permitted use, yes. We have a motion and a second to approve the matter at 900 clement street. [roll call] so moved. Approved 50. Okay. So at this time, well move on it our discretionary review calendar. The first item on our agenda would be 2015001542drp. At 2514 balboa street. Good evening. David lindsay, department staff. The project at 2514 balboa street consists of a horizontal addition at the rear of the house, twostory vertical creation of second dwelling unit. It would occupy the expanded first and second floors and fourth story set back from front and rear facades by 15 feet and set back from the east side Property Line by 5 feet. A roof deck will be located the a at rear of the fourth story. The project would propose a threebedroom flat and apartment on the third and fourth floors. Its not seeking variances or modifications from the planning code requirements. The property is on the north side of balboa between 26th and 27th avenues in Outer Richmond. The circa 1920 house occupies a slightly downsloping, standard light, 25 by 100. The lot is a key lot with the rear lot lines of four properties fronting 26th abutting its east Property Line. Zoning is rh2. This portion of Outer Richmond has two and threestory singlefamily houses, duplexes and apartment buildings, largely dating from early in the 20th century. Of the sixth properties, the subject is one of two that are two stories in height, with the remaining buildings three stories in height. Immediately west of the subject property is a threestory, fourunit apartment building. The adjacent properties to the east that front on 26th avenue are two stories in height, except for the corner building, which is three stories in height. With respect to Public Comment, 12 neighbors have indicated one opposition, one letter of support from grow the richmond organization, received after the packets went out. And i have a copy of that document here to pass around and enter into the record. D. R. Requester is jack wong, who owns 693 26th avenue. This property the rear yard of his property abutts the east Property Line. Mr. Wongs concerns are as follows. That the projects fourth floor is not compatible with the neighborhood character, that the project will creep eight health and safety hazards with respect to mold, sewage, ventilation and loss of light. That the project could be converted to additional dwelling units and it could block views from adjacent buildings. Following the submittal of the d. R. Request, the Residential Design Advisory Team considered the issues raised and recommended that the project be modified to address neighborhood character with respect to window size and type as well as window size and type, as well as detailing. The Residential Design Advisory Team requested the proposed four story be set back 15 feet in order to address the concerns regarding massing and impact to light and air to adjacent properties the project sponsor submitted revised plans incorporating the design teams comments and the deep finds that as revised the project meets the standards of the guidelines and does not create or contain any exceptional or extraordinary circumstances the Department Recommends that the commission not take d. R. And approve the project as revised. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. D. R. Requester . Who is the d. R. Requester on this . Yes, sir. Please come up. So you will have 5 minutes. Good afternoon. Good evening. My name is jack wong. 693 26th avenue occupant. I am concerned about the construction of the top unit because that area, especially in summertime, is typically overcast, wet and humid, which causes a lot of black mold around that area. I had a report done and it showed a problem with moisture because of the shading and the climate, especially in the summertime. I would say we get about 30 , 40 overcast weather. And i read something in regard to the inspection from the centers for disease control. And it says that, its not necessary to determine the type of mold. All mold should be treated as potentially hazardous to the health and be removed. Black mold may grow on paper, dust, lint or gypsum. Water damages, flooding, condensation or excess humidity can cause mold to grow. Before construction, it has seemed an eradication for the mold infestation around the area. It is potentially hazardous for Senior Citizens and toddlers. And i got something from the planning code, section 101, states that one of the purposes of the planning code is to provide adequate light, air, privacy, and convenience to access to property in san francisco. And i will thank you for the time to give me presentation to the commissioner. You will have time for rebuttal. Yes. Thank you. Well hear from the project sponsor. Those in favor of the d. R. Requester, please come up for Public Comment. The folks in the public that support the d. R. Requester. Yes. Hi. Thank you for your time. My name is chanel busiok. And my husband and i live adjacent to this property. We have two major concerns. One, i believe there are exceptional and extraordinary circumstances to change the plans of this project, mainly related to the loss of light and ventilation. We conducted an informal light study and the matching light will not prevent loss of the only correct sunlight for two of our four units. The process of informing the neighbors about this project has been poor and disappointing. Quite frankly, its been shoddy and out of compliance. Heres some reasons. Number one, almost no one on our block or in adjacent properties received notice of the preplanning meeting. Number two, the first we heard of the project was the notification required by 311312, which prompted the d. R. The problem, very few neighbors within 150 feet received this notice, including none across the street. Number three, when we received the notice of a public hearing in the mail a few days ago, it contained this letter, which i ha have, and its the wrong they sent us the wrong letter. The only way we found out that this was the date of our hearing was by calling sara directly. Number four and most importantly, this the owner did not post a required notice of hearing on the property, which is i know hes supposed to have a sign on his building 10 days before the hearing. And he did not have that posted. So nobody knows of this project and it seems kind of sneaky that all of these compliances have not been met. Heres just a picture of today, this morning, to show that there is no sign on the property that there is a hearing today. And thats something that he was supposed to have. So not a lot of people know about this project. After all that, its in my good faith that moving forward with this process would are out of compliance. I took my own time to walk around and inform all our neighbors and to our surprise no one knew about it. 15 signatures were submitted with the d. R. And we got another five last night. When i asked the architect if i could speak with the owner, he said that the owner declined to talk to any of the neighbors. My neighbors and i welcome a project with proper communication that makes an effort to lessen impact on our surroundings. Thats not the case the publics interest is in concern. The fourth floor with six units and a lot of foot traffic, makes it concerned it will be more than one unit and they will try to create multiple units for this and that would not be fair. Our suggestion is to remove the fourth floor because it blocks the sun and properly inform our neighbors so everyone has a say. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment in support of the d. R. Requester . Good evening. Im teresa wong. I live on 26th and balboa. So we are right next to them. And i echo the thoughts of my neighbor. We were hardly informed about any of the proceedings. I think we found out originally only by talking to jack, our neighbor, on the other side. So it seems like the planning went forward without any notice. We literally found out when jack decided to do the d. R. In addition to that, the parking is very tight there. And by adding essentially doubling the living space with a sixunit building, there will be so much traffic and in the past couple of years weve lost a lot of parking spots. By putting into the unit and it says its a singlefamily residenc residence, but the last couple of years, theres been probably students living there. So every year, theres a new set of people coming in and out. It has increased the trash. When people leave, they dump their stuff out on the street. My sister saw somebody from the unit bring their garbage can over to 26th avenue, because their garbage is on balboa street, and leave their can in front of somebody elses house to be dumped. And they were fully aware, giggling, my sister said, as they did this. I think by increasing the living space and creating a second unit with six bedrooms, were afraid that there will be a bunch of people, not a family, living there, and it will increase the traffic. There will be less parking. There will be more noise. In the past when a family was not living there, theres been parties there. The police have been called at least once. And even when the police came, the party did not disperse. The police had to come back. So were concerned about the quality of life for the rest of the neighbors. In addition to the fact that were going to lose the light, my fathers bedroom is facing their building. He is an elderly gentleman. So were concerned about the mold. There is somebody else in the building that has asthma, whose bedroom is in the back. So the mold, the light, and there are many concerns and we feel that we did not get to express any of this because we were not informed. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment in support of the d. R. Requestor . Okay. So we will now hear from the project sponsor. Good evening. Im the project sponsor for 2514 balboa. Per the requestor, regarding the sunlight and ventilation, our property is abutting the backyard, to the east of the subject property. Given the 5foot setback and the closest to the closest building to our building on the east side is 21 feet. The furthest one is 24 feet, plus 5 feet, almost 30 feet away. And regarding of the notification process, we went through a proper notification process. We we requested the preapplication notice. Its the licensed agent that does the services, theyve been in business for a very long time. I have notices that i sent out. I actually spoke to their staff on how they did the list and they said they walked the block and jotted down every address there is and then basically matched against their data and sent out the list. And thats how we got our mailing list and sent it out. We didnt do that ourselves. Theres an affidavit that was signed by them and weve been using them for quite many years now. There never had been a problem. So the radius is 150 feet. For reaching out to the neighbors, one of the adjacent owners. Her name is sandra mangle. She requested a site visit, on site, february 10, 2017. I was happy to do so. I was out there meeting her. And i walked her through the project, and what will be done and what will be done during the construction period. And i conduct all the surveys for her any concerns she had and she had a letter of meeting on site that day. One of the tenants contacted us via email and phone calls. I worked closely with him to address his concerns. He has a concern regarding a child that was born probably during construction and wanted us to hold off on construction for a certain period of time. I spoke to him to find a middle ground and we could not really meet in the middle ground. And thats the thing that is unfortunate, but we did our Due Diligence to work with the neighbor and to work to address their concern. Were proposing for two tenant parking. Were allowed to have two units and were building two units, two tenant parking. So parking wise, we meet the basics of one parking spot per unit. Thank you. Thank you. You have a 2minute rebuttal . Public comment. Sorry. Public comment in favor of the project sponsor, please. There doesnt seem to be any. So now you have a rebuttal. Project sponsor . I mean, d. R. Requestor . Sorry. Sir, if you would like to rebut any points that the project sponsor has made, now is your time to come up and do so. Okay. Commissioner moore . And sponsor gets 2 minutes. Sorry. This is my first time doing this. Project sponsor, you can do rebuttal but there was no rebuttal. Would you like to they any more time . No. Okay. Now, commissioner moore . Commissioner moore mr. Lindsay, notification, do we have a problem with the building not having the proper sign on the outside . Well, thats the first i had heard about a d. R. Hearing sign not being posted. If that is, in fact, true, that is a problem. Its supposed to be posted 10 days ahead of the hearing and the applicant is required to sign an affidavit to that effect and take a photograph of it. If that information if the project sponsor can provide that information, thats what we would accept. Commissioner moore then we have it have that information before we continue with the hearing, i assume, otherwise, it would need to be kind. Is there a photo with the sign on the building . It hasnt been submitted to me. [inaudibl [inaudible] commissioner moore what would you advise . Is there issues we should be discussing . It deals with generic issues that are inherent in these plans, then there are concerns to enlarge a building almost four times its size. Its a little bit unusual. So how would you suggest we handle this . We need to follow your recommendation here. We need to check out the poster issue. So i would think we should have you continue it. Commissioner moore move to continue. Second. Commissioners, what date would we want to or, mr. Lindsay . Commissioner moore you have to verify the sign is posted and it needs to be on for 10 days. Right. So we could potentially if, in fact, the poster was not its an orange poster on the front of the building saying that the hearing is on such and such a date. So its a 10day requirement. If there is no poster up right now, we could be back in two weeks. Commissioner moore one of the speakers said that they had received address yes, we had some issues but they were corrected. They went out a year ago, expired march 2. And the d. R. Filed on the last day of the notification. So it was the 311, if there was, in fact, and it looks as though there was an issue with the wrong address, it was corrected by staff and i have confidence in that. Commissioner moore as long as we have it in Public Record that that has been addressed. Then i think your suggestion about choosing a date that allows 10 days of sign on the building to notify people, perhaps you could suggest a date. Looking at the advanced calendar, you have four d. R. S in that hearing, but one of them will fall off. So if you wanted to move it to february 22, that would be a viable commissioner moore is that acceptable to the applicant and d. R. Requestor . If i might jump in, in the interest of trying to finalize it at that hearing, do you have any direction to the project sponsor . Commissioner moore i have a couple of issues with the project. If you want me to just speak about that, i can do that. I think it would be helpful. Commissioner moore i would like to ask the commission about the sizing of the enlargement of unit one and the adding of unit two in size and configuration raises questions, further augmented by my concern about a space assigned on the first floor, which is called recreate room. Share with both units. That raises a lot of red flags. It looks like a party room. It looks like whatever. If the two units are supposed to be ownership units, there is no such thing that people would share a common area. Thats highly unusual for ownership units in an rh district. I do not want to let some of the testimony overshadow my judgment, but its somehow supportive of an assignment in a large piece of space here that is not necessary and desirable for multifamily unit building. I think the building is slightly oversized. And i think we should be asking that the building is more property sized residential units for what is in the area. There are some strange things suggested. A twounit residential building does not need a fire escape. When you look at the rear of the building, there is a dash line of two bay windows. And in the middle of the bay windows, is a ladder, which is identified as a fire escape. This type of residential has residential sprinkling and the Fire Department does not allow ladders like this anyway, nor is there a fire escape required. So this thing has a lot of questions and perhaps those things should be revisited in order to bring a project forward that has a little bit more reality to it. I want to be careful how i say this. I appreciate the departments review with pulling the Building Back and adjacentcy, but i want people to look at the fire escape ladder with a more useful assignment of what the recreate room means. If we have a first floor unit that uses that part as part of the unit, perhaps it would be the right side and we could lop off the fourth floor and size the second unit more appropriately. Those are my thoughts. Thank you. Commissioner richards . Vice president richards when i looked at the pocket, i was really trying to search and find for who had done the drawings. And i could not discern that. I see its drawn by somebody with the initials j. C. Was this an architect drawing this . Im questioning the accuracy of the existing condition and im trying to understand the qualification of this person to do the drawings, because its a twounit building and not a singlefamily home. This is the first time ive seen from a health and safety point of view somebody bringing up material that says that the building could have health and safety issues because of mold. I would like to understand from the d. R. Requestor, were those taken in the yard, measurements, in the house . I see there were photos of what appeared to be a living room or a bedroom. Im concerned that a build building overshadowing, shadecausing mold is an issue. You can see mold all over the buildings there. The other is density equity. We talk about density equity here. Well have another coming out of the gate here. We would rather see two more evensized unit, rather than a gargantuan unit and a small unit. And the last point is, the one elevation showed the wall. Its horrible. Its plywood with the seams in it. I would rather have higherquality materials. Somebody will have to look at having their light and air blocked, at least it would be Higher Quality than just plywood. Commissioner moore thank you for bringing that up, commissioner richards. I would generally say that the package for this type of building expansion is very thin. It does not really speak to window sections or materials or have the 3d. The package is thin. Its the lower end of what were expecting for this type of application. So i would encourage the applicant to spend more time. And if its not drawn by a licensed architect or somebody with a stamp on here to be sure it meets the minimum requirement for Something Like this that comes to the department. I pointed out the fire escape ladder. So i would suggest that the applicant consider taking more time, making adjustments to the project and not just take the 10 days. I think the questions were currently raising will be on the table 10 days from now. And communicating with the neighbors. Yes, thats implied, yes. I was going to say, were going to need more than two weeks here. I would suggest, i dont know, five, six weeks to give time to meet with the neighbors and do the changes youve asked for. Mr. Lindsay, did you have anything else . Yes. To commissioner richards on the siding on the elevation. I see what you are looking at. Thats against the adjacent building. The side facing the d. R. Requestors house is finished with proper siding. Is there specific direction from the commission on the top floor . If there is, we would like to hear that. I concur with commissioner richards, that to me the size equity is an issue. Six bedrooms with a ladder in the back reads more like Group Housing than twounit in an rh2 residential district. So i give than ground floor rec room and six units in the top, i would say that you can design a twounit building, you know, in that space without having the fourth floor. So if we think that the project sponsor needs more time, might i suggest either march 8 or 15 . I would go even further. 22nd maybe. March 22, if thats ameanable to the motionmaker . Yes. And seconder . Yes. So on the motion to continue this matter to march 22 [roll call] excellent. That matter has been continued to march 22. Well move on to item number 17. 2016014684drp at 26222624 greenwich street, request for discretionary review. Good evening, commissioners. Dav david lindsay, department staff. This includes the infill of a threestory light well on the east side. Addition of a deck on the west side. And reconfiguration of the two dwelling units. Its been reviewed by staff pursuant to planning code 317 and its been determined that its not tantamount to dwelling. Its not seeking variations to requirements of the planning code. The subject property is on the north side in the marina neighborhood. Circumstance yeah 1912 house occupies a downslowing slop, 25 feet wide, 113 deep. Rh2 zoning. 2622 occupies the third floor. 2624 occupies the entire second floor and a portion of the ground floor behind the garage. Both units are condominiums and currently vacant. This portion of marina is a mix of three and fourstory houses, duplexes and apartment buildings from early 20th century. Immediately west, fourstory, twounit building. And east, threestory, which occupies almost the entire lot with a rear yard only 9 feet deep. The downsloping topography results in the rear being a story taller than at the front. With respect to Public Comment, theres been concerns in a letter regarding inaccuracies of story polls that had been erected during notification. And the projects effects on the Property Line windows. The d. R. Requestor is christina saginowski, 2618 greenwich street, fourstory building immediately adjacent to the subject property to the east. Her concerns are as physicals that the project will negatively affect light, air and privacy to 2618 greenwich. The project would create health and safety hazards with respect to windows being blocked. The story polls that had been erected were inaccurate and the project would negatively affect the d. R. Requestors development plans. The Residential Design Advisory Team considered the issues and to avoid impacts to light and privacy to adjacent properties, the railings for the proposed second floor roof deck by set back 5 foot. The Residential Design Advisory Team noted that it includes light wells on the east side to provide for light and air to the light wells in noncomplying Property Line windows. The Design Advisory Team found that the d. R. Requestors concerns regarding the loss of light and privacy are neither exceptional or extraordinary as the setbacks are appropriate and maintain access from the d. R. Requestors property. The planning Department Recommends that they not take d. R. And approve the project as revised. Okay. Well hear from the d. R. Requestor. I think we would like to start by requesting a continuance. There has been numerous revisions of the plans that weve not received and reviewed. We did not receive the response from the project sponsor that was