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Which expect richards to be absent. Item 1 consideration of Adoption Draft minutes for june 6th, to 19. I have no speaker cards. Would anybody like to provide Public Comment on the draft minutes . With that that comment is closed. Commissioner hillis. Thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt the minutes for june 6th, 2019. [ roll col call ] so moved. That motion passes 50. Item 2. Commission comments and questions. So i would just like to comment on the hearing that we just had in respectfully request that the Department Come back with the work that you started a couple years ago and improve upon it. Because i think that part of what is going on is that they have been coming up every week begging us to look at the demo calcs and weve been waiting for this legislation and we havent taken the appropriate action. We need to do what is right. Im hoping we can support staff in doing that. Seeing nothing further we can move on to department matters. Item 3, directors announcement im sorry, did you want to Say Something . Im happy to take that message back to staff and i think im thinking that we have we would come up with kind of a conceptual level and an alternative level. Were not solving for the world. Were solving for this specific issue. Other than that i have no new announcements. Thank you. Item 4, review the board of supervisors board of appeals and the preservation commission. Good afternoon, commissioners, i will give you the report, the summary of board of activities for this week. And the Land Use Committee there were three items of interest. The first was supervisor ronens ordinance to legalize 3150 18th street. You heard this item on may 23rd and voted to approve with modifications. The commissioners proposed modifications were to decrease the programs time period from 10 to three years for office uses. At the land use hearing, the item was continued per the request of sponsoring supervisors to provide more time to work with work on the proposed amendments and there was no Public Comment. Next, the Committee Heard supervisor mandelmans building standards and modifying buildings and residential districts and commissioners, heard this ordinance on april 11th and you recommended four modifications. Only one individual spoke about the item during Public Comment. The speaker mentioned that increasing building heights a forwards the opportunities to house the citys homeless and provides space for other public uses. The committee moved to continue the item to june 24th, one week to give the sponsor time to further refine his amendments. Because the Land Use Committee moved to continue the item, there was no deliberation. Last was the small brings streamlining ordinance. It would, among other things, expand the types of liquor licenses allowed with a bar use, reduce the one quarter mile buffer around limited non conforming commercial uses to 300 feet, amend the definitions of general entertainment and allow Outdoor Activities areas that operate between 10 00 a. M. In order to approve with modifications and the proposed modification was to retain the condition a lot use authorization requirement for Outdoor Activity areas associated with the bar use. Without Public Comment, this item continued to june 24th because the committee ran out of time. And then on tuesday at the full board, there were three items that all passed on second read. The landmark designation for 524 union street, a. K. A. The paper doll, the planning code amendment, a regional commercial and folsom street transit districts and the last ordinance was the accessory dwelling units in new construction. Thank you. Thank you. There are no questions the board of appeals on behalf of the Zoning Administration the board of appeals met last night and the Planning Commission considered two requests for discretionary review for the project at 463 duncan street december 8th. The proposal was to expanding a singlefamily home and the concerns were mostly related to privacy and the across the street neighbors concerns were related to anesthetics. The Planning Commission took d. R. And reduced the depth of deck and required a privacy screen along the eastside of the deck to better address the neighbors privacy concerns however due to the addition of the second dwelling units and its parity the commission tornado no other modifications to the project. It was appealed by the same two d. R. Requesters and they raised similar concerns and arguments to the board of appeals however there were two issues that needed to be addressed. First the permit had only included a planner box as the required privacy screen with an intent to provide vegetation as the screen. All parties agreed that the planner box should be instead replaced by a solid screen, second the additional dwelling unit was approved with three bedrooms and a study but d. B. I. Determined that two interior bedrooms did not have egress and con be considered bedrooms. They were a mended to relabel those as library and media room resulting in an 1800 square foot unit with one legal bedroom. Considering these issues, they voted 31 to approve the permit that the privacy glass be used for the three eastfacing windows at the first floor and the required privacy screen on the eastside of the second floor rear deck is seven feet tall and made of opaque glass. Third, the new basement level dwelling unit be revised as needed to ensure it contains at least two legal bedrooms per the building code. The Historic Preservation commission did met yesterday. They considered a couple minor permits but it may have been of interest to the Planning Commission as they recommended legacy Business Applications for a number of Small Businesses including hockey haven out in the avenues and anchor brewing. If there are no questions, we can move on to general Public Comment. I have no speaker cards. Ok. Hi. I was there last night thats why i said i needed a nap. Can i have the overhead, please. I saw this and i was thinking something else. Anyway. I saw this problem back in february when i looked at plans. He had relabeled the plans. And i thought, that was one of the reasons at the d. R. That i wanted someone to do something about the facade was its a medicine terrain yall revival at outlined by mary brown and her studies and i thought it was worth saving and i still think it is because here it is and now it will be gone and i dont know what im looking at but this is nice. Back in february i saw 2 and here it is and you see and i thought what the hell. Scum. Excuse me. Its a onebedroom det below the garage. Thats not what she wanted. I suggested the time that they put the second unit in the garage level and go out and follow a nice standard San Francisco plan. Thats typical medicine terrain an revival house. You have kitchen and a breakfast nook and the two bedrooms there and put the second unit in a garage and preserve the facade. I mean, theres a house around the corner from it built by the same guy as i said last night and there it is. They preserved it. Its going for two and a quarter Million Dollars and that is the pending. I dont know what it sold for. Again, you know, here is another one that is gone. Another one of thats gone and this is it in the process so im getting back to your whole issue with the demo calcs. There it is and there it is now. Its all gone. So, i want to thank the commissioner for considering the demo calcs. You never started the clock on me but thats ok. I do want to thank mr. Heppner because he worked hard and his heart is really in the right place. I hope that you know, people appreciate that and that we proceed and everybody is happy in the end. Thank you, very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I have a mental clock. Overhead as well. And i have copies of this to to handout. Because you cant see the whole thing, you are not seeing the top. This is a notice of pre application meeting. I want you to notice the date. July 3rd at 6 00 p. M. What is the address of the project . The project is one block south of what the Ground Breaking was this afternoon for the city. This and folsom. How many years did they say here . Its really obscured. A lot of units. Ive never seen the nerve of a person having a preapp meeting at 6 00 the eve of a holiday. July 3rd, is july 4th. At 6 00 no one is there. Theyre going out of town for a long weekend. Including the Planning Department. This kind of manipulation provokes people sometimes saying we got to change it in the rules. They should be able to change it by strict humiliation. The Planning Department and the Planning Commission should say, what the hell are you doing . Pardon me. Im not allowed to say that word. What is going on here . You cant have a real meeting with a real community, one, the night before a holiday at 6 00 in the morning. 6 00 in the afternoon and secondarily, you see up here its at fourth and third and folsom. The meeting is in the financial district. At montgomery and post. [ please stand by ] good afternoon, todd david. I want to give a sacramental update. A new housing bill sb592. So, its a technical issue to the housing can really act. Claiming that there are some and buick get it i just wanted to give a quick update about what thats about. Its a technical fix to the houses accountability act. Accountability are denying code compliant housing. There are ambiguities in the housing act of this piece of legislation is an attempt to close those loopholes. Sb 592 will make its way through the process. Thank you. Next speaker, please. That was my notice for the preapplication meeting. We followed all of the guidelines of in the Planning Departments preop requirements. Sue, if you would like to meet personally, i would like to be with you to discuss the project. We originally intended to propose a Hotel Project on the site, working on entitlements on that since 2016, due to the change in zoning at the very end, we are now doing residential on the site. Hopefully an hst project. We are very excited about it. My Contact Information is on that flyer. Im reaching out to anybody who would like to meet with us and i would love to meet with them. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else for general Public Comment . Okay. General Public Comment is now closed. That will place us under your regular calendar item 5, [reading items] Diego Sanchez with Planning Department staff. The item before you is proposed legislation regarding intermittent activities and temporary use. The ordinances proposed by supervisor brown. Allowing operation for Farmers Market at the dmv Office Located at 1377 fell st. By allowing an intermittent activity to be located on the lot with a public facility in specified residential Zoning Districts. If they are located on a parcel that contains a hospital in post secondary education institution. Intermittent activities would be allowed in these Zoning Districts if they are located on a parcel that contains a hospital. Post secondary institution or public facility. Public facilities are similar to other facilities that already allowed intermittent uses on the parcels. This ordinance will allow Farmers Market to expand, allowing more vendors to participate. Additionally the ordinance provides more opportunities to introduce new Farmers Markets and other neighborhoods as it is reaching citywide. After the packet was published, the department determined that the ordinance had a different sequence determination than what was published. I have a second version of the draft resolution that has that determination and i brought here for the record. The department supports the proposed ordinance because it supports the commerce goal to strengthen the neighborhood serving goods and services. The Department Recommends approval of the ordinance. This includes staffs presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, sorry. I will be brief because i know you had a long day. Thank you for your time today in considering those resolutions. Supervisor brown introduced update to the planning code you are considering today after learning that the Farmers Market through the pan hold panhandle had negotiated an agreement with the state Department Motor vehicles to move the department from grove street to the dmvs parking lot at broderick and fell. Then they found out they cannot move to the lot because of the current planning codes. The Farmers Market is of particular importance back in 2008 when she was a legislative aide she played a major role in working with the community to get that market open. 11 years later, she is asking the commission to approve a sensible fix to allow this important, much beloved neighborhood institution to grow and continue to serve the neighborhood. We currently allow intermittent activities like Farmers Markets, hospitals and post secondary educational institutions. Its surprising we do not allow them at public facilities like the dmv parking lot. The Pacific Coast Farmers Market association which runs the Farmers Market is a great neighbor. The move and expansion they are proposing has the full support of supervisor brown. [reading items] in addition, merchants support the move and expansion. Furthermore, the proposed market will reopen grove street on sundays providing relief to the folks living on grove who currently have to make contingency plans for accessing their garages every weekend for the last 11 years. It will activate a space of in district 5 that is currently not being used on sundays. To clarify, some folks do gather there for freestyle skateboarding which we fully support. The proposed side of the market will not have an impact on them. Finally with the planning code update, the potential for additional Farmers Markets open in the parking lots of our schools, museums and other public facilities will be a great benefit to the city. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comment on this proposed legislation . Okay. Commissioner koppel. [laughter] supervisor brown, great job, definite better use of a parking lot, a large parking lot to help out the neighborhood. Motion to approve. On that motion to approve, fung . That motion passes unanimously sixzero. [reading items] good afternoon, pres. Melger and commissioners. My name is audrey harris, senior manager of the Planning Department. I am pleased to present to you the 2018 downtown plan monitoring report. As a refresher to you and to the public, the downtown plan was adopted in 1985. At the time garnered National Attention earning a front page debut on the new york times. This plan grew out of a need to foster a thriving economy and to retain the urban patterns and structures built there. It would do this by absorbing cities new rob joe job growth by increasing carpooling and transit use to accommodate growth. In short, progress in 2018 indicates that office is still hot. Retail is cooling, and we may be losing some ground on some of our goals around transportation. The purpose of this annual report is to monitor the plans progress of meeting its goals and to evaluate the growth and effectiveness of the plan. The report gathers data from a variety of sources on metrics relating to the goals of the downtown plan, including information on commercial space, employment activity and revenue trends, and the downtown support infrastructure such as housing and the production of it and the infrastructure for transportation. We can start by looking at office and retail vacancies as an indicator of the health of the downtown market. Nationally speaking a vacancy rate of 10 is healthy, 10 or lower is healthy and 5 is even better. Some vacancy is recognized as being needed to keep the prices of the market more stable. The Office Vacancy rate downtown continues to fall from a highend 2016 of 12 receipt to 7. 7 in 2018 and concurrently average Downtown Office rents continue to rise increasing by 6 to just over 75 per square foot of office space. For more context, these changes occurred even as over 1,000,000 ft. Of new office space came online. On the other hand, the Retail Vacancy rate downtown rose by 2. 5 from 2017. At a 6. 6 vacancy rates, this is still considered to be healthy. However this increase is enough to still raise some flags and as a result the Planning Department, the office of economic workforce and development are working together with supervisors and yourselves to keep an eye on this. Furthermore, Hotel Occupancy and average room rates have climbed back up from the low rate in 2017. This recovery in the Hotel Industry and the changes in retail can be attributed to multiple factors. Two of which may be the effects of the recent completion of the gunny Center Renovations in the central subway station at union square. In 2018, employment continue to grow. Slightly faster than the previous year. Citywide employment grew by 2 in 2018. Assign that growth over the last couple of years is picking back up. As of the Second Quarter of 2018 there were over 724,600 jobs in San Francisco. Accounting for about 40 of those jobs, downtown employment grew faster by about 5 from employment in 2017. Not on this slide that i wanted to make sure i mentioned, in 2018 over 1,000,000 ft. Of office was completed compared to the previous year, this is about half of what was completed in 2017. However as you can see on the slide, or pipeline of the Downtown Office space continues to grow. From 2,900,000 ft. In quarter four of 2017, up to 3,400,000 ft. In quarter 4 of 2018. 14 of the office space in the pipeline is under construction. This is on par with the share that was in 2017. Before i go on, i would like to point out in the packet that i just sent out his corrections to any indication of the pipeline. There is some coda corrections on the office space that was in the pipeline and also the housing. Speaking of housing, the downtown plan set a goal of building an annual average of about 10001500 new Housing Units in San Francisco to meet the demand resulting from increased employment and downtown on the housing market. In 2018 about 2300 new units were constructed in the city. This is down from last years production of 4270. As has been the case in the many years, prior to this, new units in the downtown area represent a significant portion of the citywide housing production. In 2018 downtown accounted for 38 of those new units. As our residential pipeline continues to grow. Downtown remains a significant portion of the expected units in the future. There are currently 10,000 units in the downtown residential districts. Outside of any master plan in the pipeline. The downtown plan also set out a goal to expand carpooling and downtown. It states that the number of persons commuting by vehicle must increase from 1. 48 up to 1. 66 persons per vehicle. Census data indicates people commute of a rate of 0. 9 persons per vehicle and downtown. For workers and downtown the rate of carpooling decreased by 26 from the years 20102016. Another goal of the plan is the use of transit by downtown workers must increase to 67 of the work trips to avoid unacceptable levels of congestion. There are two different data sources we could look at track this. One is more reliable than the other. There is actual transit ridership from our transit agencies that you see on the left, and then there is a census estimate. Transit ridership all over the country has seen a gradual decrease in the last couple of years. This is no different for San Francisco as you can see by the figures on the slide. On the other hand, the sense it estimates that the San Francisco shares and downtown has increased by 11 . During that same time. The proportion of driver roundtrips has decreased by 8 . With that, transit and walking continue to be the most perceived popular commute modes of the downtown residence. The available data is odd at this point, transit is the most popular way for employees in downtown to get around. In 1981, the city adopted a trance tatian impact fee. For new Office Development and downtown. This fee was created to alleviate negative impacts on the cities Transportation System coming from these developments. In the fiscal year, 2018, 18. 4 million was collected. This is important to note that the 63 drop in that collection is due to what im about to mention which is the Transportation Sustainability fee that was adopted in 2015. It was made to replace the t idf and and included an expansion to capture large Residential Projects citywide as well as a fee rate increased to generate more funding to invest in the cities Transportation System to address impacts of growth. In the year 2018, 7. 9 million was collected in the downtown area. 6. 2 million of that was collected from the ocean rightcenter at 562 mission st. Set to be completed in 2021. In summary, we are continuing to see many of the downtown plan goals realized. Jobs continue to grow and cluster downtown. It has resulted in fee revenue, new privately owned public open spaces and investments in the transportation infrastructure. Through the central summer plan we are planning for Additional Office and housing capacity and focusing that growth particularly near transit so we can continue to work towards our transportation and sustainability goals. The full report is available on our website and we will publish data tables as well both on our website. With that that concludes my presentation and im happy to take questions. We will take Public Comments on this item i have another little handout. I have no idea what you are handed by ms. Harris, she may have talked about the changes that are on here, sue hester, i was san franciscans growth and i attended every single hearing on the downtown plan with three engineers that worked with me on dealing with what became the office limits in the housing fee, and the transit fee. They all came from a lot of work. Years of work from the people in the city. I want to point out a couple of things that are just in here, one of the things that jumped out to me was page 3 report on the Office Allocations. I have the Office Allocation report that you were given two months ago, three months ago 10 months ago, by cory teague on the Office Allocations. The pending smallcap projects on the pending largecap projects are not in the c3 at all. I summarized them up there. Four of the small caps are not in the c3. The ones that are in the c3. A lot of 4999 ft. Depending largecap projects, 10 of them are not in the c3. When i say c3 r, ost. They are not in the downtown core. What that means is that the whole Transit System that was talked about in the downtown plan, the fees that were put on their, were not relevant to what is happening right now. One of the things that i am pleading with you to do, is to really take cognizance of the jobs housing imbalance. This comes out on page page 9 of your report. You Start Talking about the jobs in the housing balance. The jobs housing balance is really bad right now. It is because we have an assumption of how much housing was needed in 1985, and its not the same as 2019. You have Office Development at the allocation and sit on it. One of the ways you have to correct it is to impose at the same time you approve the Office Allocation a report back on what they are doing. It should be done automatically, because if it is not done it will not happen. Secondarily, you have to have a serious discussion about the jobs housing balance, really serious. I am willing to work on that, ive already exceeded my time. Can have an extra 30 seconds. I do a lot of work on this. I had a meeting last night, it wasnt set up, between the head of srd, the board had, david jones and myself, we talked about the jobs housing balance. Its not what you normally go to dinner to talk about. We did this because we had been in this battle and it was unanimous on our side, that we really had no idea about the real need for housing, in 19801981 when we got the fee. The fee is undersize. The people making the money are the office developers. We need housing. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Public comment is now closed. Great report glad to see goals are being met for important issues like transportation and Greenhouse Gas emissions. Commissioner johnson. Want to echo that this is a great report. Its touching onto hot button topics whereas, the jobs housing linkage and also the future of transportation. Adding more color as we can figure out how to address both of those things. It has been a long day so i am linking a little bit on how we have worked to calculate that fee. It has come up a few times. Could you just share a little bit about how we have been continuing to think about that fee. Specifically to the jobs housing or transportation . The jobs housing linkage fee has been legislation to increase it supervisor haney increased legislation by about 10 per square foot. Im not sure of the specifics on that. Great. Thank you. A couple of questions for staff. The other c3 districts, can you just briefly explained to me what geographical areas they are . You are asking where the c3 districts are in the additional downtown dress dish districts . Andre if you can pull up the slide that has the map of downtown, to me it looks like an upside down diagonal guitar. I see the overall map and i know the downtown plan its an original stage was different than this map. My question is, on table 1 when they talk about these other districts come i dont know where these are. They are all within that larger district. But we do not have a breakdown. Go ahead. The c3 r is in the downtown area, the artist for retail. The g is for general downtown. The o is for office. There is also the other districts, i guess a little bit selfexplanatory, the dtr is in the south market. There is some dtr which is High Density Residential districts. There is also dtr in the intersection near market and vanness for more downtown residential. The highrises you see near that intersection will be residential, the majority of the rest of the traditional c3 is for office building. Is this the downtown plan, the original one was much smaller than this . The original one is the red. The c3 district has not changed that much since 1985. But for the expansion near the market in vanness area. Recently, with the central summit plan, that is when a little bit of changes also happened in the central subway area. It looks predominantly like the red upside down guitar. My last question would be, in the discussion on transportation, what about rideshare . When you speak of rideshare do you mean the car pulling itself . Both. San francisco county Transportation Authority has released a number of reports on what is happening with the tmcs. That is not included in the general if you will information about what is going on, transportation wise. Again, the data we are looking at is transit ridership, caltrain, bart, and what the census is estimating the motor to be. We did described in the report what we called rideshare which would be the more traditional carpooling has decreased by 26 . That is one of the main reasons why we are not getting as high vehicle occupancy as we would want in the downtown. There is more Single Person in a car trips because carpooling has been down. This is also a regional trend, if you will, too. Do we have any data how the disruptive construction practices, in downtown, have contributed to making downtown less industry interesting retail environment. Particular streets to be linkable to projects which have been around for a very, very long time including the unattractiveness of what it takes to maneuver around them and how they could potentially do we have any data on that . We do. No, we do not, commissioner. Sorry. Okay. Any other comments or questions, commissioners . Very good, item 7 a and b for case numbers 2014. [reading items] good afternoon pres. And members of the commission. Right now, which is handing out a memo from the review ofc. As well as some revised emotions that clarify some language as well as correct some type of graphic errors area i am linda hoagland, Planning Department staff, and im here to introduce the project at 6554th st. It is characterized as fourth and townsend, its one of the eight key sites identified in the plan. The project is a large project authorization to allow construction of a new Building Greater than 85 feet in height, or for new construction of more than over 50,000 gross square feet in the sentra selma special use district rate as well as authorization for the demolition of 2 existing dwelling units and to allow hotel use in the cmu oh zoning district. Demolishing the existing buildings on surface parking lot on the site and construct two new 400, 300 foot mixeduse i am sorry, residential mixeduse, i apologize, that appears in for separate towers. It includes approximately 18454 ft. Of ground floor retail, 21 eight 40 ft. Of office, 38 room boutique hotel, 18 four 32 ft. Of privately accessible open space. This includes 132 private balconies and rooftop open spaces. 2449 public open space, and 2480 ft. Of combined retail interior space. The project will also include a three level below grade basement including building amenities, eight loading spaces, 263 parking spaces, 12 car share spaces, 540 class i bicycle spaces as well as back of house use required for operation and maintenance of the building. The project will satisfy its inclusionary housing requirements pursuant to planning code section 415 through payment of the inclusionary housing fee at a rate equivalent to an outside requirement of 30 . Projects requesting approval of a large project authorization are permitted to seek exceptions from the planning code. The code allows additional exceptions for projects on identified key sites in the central selma hud that provide amenities in excess of what is required by code. Qualified amenities for the project include a new public plaza at the center of the site and approved Pedestrian Network in and around the site. As such, pursuant to planning code 329, the project is seeking exception exceptions. Setbacks, street wall articulation and tower separation, usable open space for residential units. Dwelling unit exposure, street frontage controls, ground floor commercial street frontage, pedestrian cycling and transit oriented street frontages. Wind. Narrow and mid lock allie controls, and the central selma bulk controls. To date, the department has received four letters and emails in support of the project. Two from current businesses on the site, the creamery and hd buttercup and one from united players. One from the San Francisco building and construction trades council. Six emails in opposition were received, as well. For from tenants of the liver Worth Holding adjacent to the project site on Fourth Street and 2 from residence on king street. Siding impacts to light and air, to adjacent live and work units on environmental concerns. Throughout the application process, the project sponsor has conducted multiple oneonone meetings with individual stakeholders, Community Organizations and nearby homeowners associations. They also participated in three Additional Community outreach forms. Staff finds that the project is on balance consistent with the central selma plan and the relative objectives of the general plan. The project will provide a new mixed use development with 960 new residential units, 38 room hotel, ground floor retail and combined interior retail space i will include qualified amenities per the central selma plan that was substantially approved the surrounding neighborhood. The project sponsor is present and has prepared a presentation for you, as well. This concludes staff presentation and im available to answer any questions. Thank you. Lets do 10 minutes. Good afternoon commissioners, i am carl shannon. Great to be here again. We are here today to talk about 655 fourth, also known as the creamery site. This is directly kitty corner from the train station. Initially when we began assemblage of the site, this was envisioned as a commercial site. Really from working with the department and with the community, and looking at the specific massing of this site, it made more sense to shift this to a residential site which is part of the evolution of the central selma plan. And to see at least one of the major sites come forward as a residential site. We are very glad to be here to present this today. The site is directly across from the train station where the train is being electrified which will provide great transit down the peninsula. It is immediately adjacent to the brandnew central subway providing good conductivity up to the muni backbone and good north sound transit immediately across the street from a grocery store, within walking distance to preschools. Near a library in elementary school. Equal distance between southpark and the park that we plan to build in the new part block. Two weeks ago you heard, in this room, about the plans in terms of Affordable Housing to be part of the central selma plan. In the city put forward, several sites that they want to see be permanent housing for a total of 820 units. That requires 211 million of fees to help support those 830 units. This project alone, the creamery project would provide approximately 1 3 of that. As much as 300 units coming forward. This is an exceptionally dense site from a pedestrian traffic standpoint. 3000 People Per Hour across the intersection at fourth and townsend at the train station. We wanted to do a groundfloor plan that has very vibrant retail and really plays off of the energy that is here. Also provides a central courtyard and hobos spaces that allow one to get away from the frantic environment on the street. We turned the lobbies of the building to the interior so that there is a mix and a permeability through the site of both quiet public spaces. And very active in sidewalks. We also pulled the back Building Back intentionally away from Fourth Street to provide a plaza there at the Northeast Corner of the site adjacent to the liver worth building. 960 units, 20,000 ft. Of retail, 38 room hotel we are thrilled to bring this forward. I have a letter of endorsement from the San Francisco Building Trades council. I will also ask, we have a number of supporters here. Given the hour i will ask them to talk briefly. Without i will turn it over to daniel from the ark angels designed to walk you through the project. Good afternoon. Somehow it is not switching. So, as we look at the new central trend 32 districts, typical downtown cedar blocks. They are split up by mid lock alleyways providing shortcuts and activation at the neighborhood scale. We see a tremendous potential to continue this strong San Francisco culture of activating alleyways connecting connections on life within the block. So, instead of building up the towers on a typical podium, we propose a ground plane that spits up the podium into alleyways and plazas. We essentially blend them together offering a wide variety of moments in a unified expression. All while incorporating various setbacks to provide extra space to neighbors on all side. Essentially with the main focus of activating the site and inviting the neighborhood and everybody into the site. For the tower facades we are referencing both San Franciscos timeless skyline and capturing so much Industrial Heritage rate essentially the idea is that we are bringing the selma heritage into the skyline, marking the new central selma district. You can see, this scheme is really offering an incredible variation of expressions in the skyline. The intention is really to create this incredible dynamic project that looks different from different angles. And then the sign comes together and creates a Great Variety of open spaces both public and private. Enhancing the aim at creating neighborhood walks. We are basically using the architecture to frame, define and invite people into the open spaces. These are a few diagram examples. You can see here from Fourth Street, you have the 4th st. Plaza at the corner of the site. Really pulling the project back and creating this invitation into the central oasis. Once again, a more closeup look at what that would look like, and then inside some of these moments you can see we have opportunities for art, and landscape to really occupy the building and the surroundings. And then having the retail spelling out onto the street, this is from Fourth Street. In some of these alleyways you really have the retail, so making sure that their life, throughout this district. This is just coming into the middle. You see the central oasis, this wont be program together with the community. We are thinking that you have restaurants spelling outs, opportunities for different art projects, nature and so on. At the heart of this project you have this ecosystem of different activities generated by the community and for the community. And then just some examples, of course murals, sculptures, inhabiting the overall project. Once again this is a diagram showing the intention of creating a variety of spaces, and really creating different characters throughout the project and working together to make sure that it becomes a diverse, and interesting experience. So here you can see a new metric view of how everything comes together. An activated indoor outdoor environment. 24 hours, in the evenings, as well as daytime. Thank you. We are opening up to Public Comments. Thank you so much. We will now take Public Comments on this item. I do have a few speaker cards. Michelle, i cannot read the last name, kevin, noel, katrina, elizabeth, and michael. Anyone else who wishes to speak on this item . Please come on up. Dont be shy. Hello. Michael guthrie, i am resident next door at 6014th st. 30 years ago, i moved into this building that was originally the hue blank building on the first project that the Planning Commission approved as a live work loft project and south of the market area. We found a very interesting and exciting. Subsequently i bought a unit i moved my Architectural Design practice into one of the groundfloor spaces. This is a pretty exciting project. I dont have anything other than praise for a lot of the design that has been done. It is an exciting addition to San Francisco. Knowing that one of our biggest problems is housing, and rental housing. Myself, and those of us that are going to speak, we are not here to oppose the project. We find that there are certain aspects to it that with some mitigation, we think that we could live in harmony with this project. I am not suggesting any major modifications. We would like to be able to voice our concerns about some of the issues that we feel impact us in a significant way. You can imagine having been a neighbor to this project for 30 years, suddenly we have this enormous project, thats going to be built. We would like to encourage it, but we would also like to request some mitigation measures. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is kevin, i am a homeowner at the project was just talked about, 6014th st. To reiterate again, as a member of a group, i have to note there were a lot more people are here earlier, they cannot stay. We got here at 1 pm, they had to leave. This is a small amount of people that were here earlier. We are not here wanting to stop the project. It is a good project. We understand that San Francisco is in great need of housing

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