Street. The building was demolished on july 24, 2018 before the structural problems were reported. The foundation poured is the subject of variance requested today. This is not an extraordinary and exceptional circumstance. We ask the commission not approve this variance and uphold the previous rulings by mandating building in the predemolition size and restoring breezeway and not rewarding violators with a vertical addition. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, commissioners. I am carlos. I own 4124 21st street next to the project. The Planning Department received the false letter. Please remove that from your records. I have never supported th the project. The space around my home because of the new construction. They said they were going to stay within the envelope of the new house. The new wall is up against my house. Before i could walk between the houses. The new construction touches my roof and the space is flush with my house. Please dont let that happen. Thank you. Next speaker, please. An i am jerry dratler. In addition to misrepresenting the side of the existing home, the project architect submitted flans that failed to show the size of the home demolished. He did not attest to the accuracy of the information in the environmental application and submitted the knowledge permit Building Permit with the increase in cost. The project is not necessary or desirable given the citys need for affordable rental housing and should be denied. The Planning Commission should inquiry construction with the same size home with the same number of Housing Units that were illegally demolished. Public comment is closed. Commissioner richards. Commissioner richards my issue was how big was the prior house . We have an appraisal from 2002. There were no Building Permits to enlarge. Then we have a Planning Department notification 2671 square feet. These to me seem irrefutable it was no bigger than the appraisal of the planning notice says. Appraised in 2002 noted the crawlspace, basement space. I think 2002 had a Square Footage 26 something on the document. The liveable square foot as the appraiser typed it like the permit it was livable 1200. I dont see the copies just from the slide 26 something total. Mr. Took. We talked about that at the last hearing. Every time the area of a home is calculated people use different methods which areas to include sometimes it is livable. When up the ground floor with a garage open to Storage Space, basicicly the well floor was open. It is hard to determine what much of the area the appraiser and assessor calculated to the usable or livable floor area. It is pretty clear from the floor plans how the building was laid out. You can get that from the Aerial Photography as well. It was made clear they got permits to extend the basement level and fill that in to convert is not livable space not finished to livable space. It is challenging to compare numbers between different documents with Square Footages by different methods. We dont have a definition how each assessor chose to include Square Footage. I want to put that as a challenge in terms of comparing actual numbers and understand that is going to be hard to get to an exacted calculation. Based on the layout of the building itself and the floor plans between what previously existed you get a ballpark feel to what they can comparable areas were. Is that 2671 on the Planning Department document as total Square Footage . The best numbers is what the sponsor provided. They actually provided updated plans with area calculations based on what was original, what was proposed now. The issue with the project sponsor said Single Family house with two units. The envelope of the building that existed in the past is not in dispute. We have documentation how big the building was. They are not demonstrating that the basement level was 20 feet deeper than it was or ground floor was 20 feet deeper than it was. Ththe numbers you can measure in different ways. The mass in the building that is something we can derive pretty clearly based on information we have. The issues are more challenging to derive we can go through that with the documentation we have. Before i pass the mic, if you look at the appraisal from 2002, how much does it match what is handed in tonight . Appraisers are licensed professionals. They dont make things up, trust me. I have had many, many appraise sams. Appraisals. Appraisals. I am not saying we shouldnt trust appraisals. It may use a certain method for liveable area. I have the same thing in the house i have. They give you value for this livable space and do the Square Footage on the nonlivable space and a fraction what it is worth. Take a look at this, please, to see what was handed in how faroff we are. Commissioner tang. Commissioner fong the variance request has changed, hasnt it . No, i dont believe so. The variance is required. Previously the building was not conforming. It went to the rear yard. After the demolition anything rebuilt has to be code complies. They scaled back the rear. The rear is conforming. The code allows a two story popout. Up to have a knife foot set back on each side to the ground. They are proposing to keep those. The front set back is still requested a variance . The front, i believe is, i dont know if there is an issue. There is a short sidewalk and the window requires the measurement from the landscaping. My opinion is you are taking a building that was nonconforming, sticking out further in terms of impact on adjacent neighbors and making it more conforming. It is still not conforming in terms of popout dimension. Weighing that against what occurred with the demolition. The project sponsors have indicated that they are not speculators and that it was accidental with respect to the demolition, i accept that word. The question is what is the proposed project in terms of anything that i would find objectionable . I dont find any. Commissioner richards . Commissioner richards do you have a copy of the appraisal . Could we see it . The 2002 one. The one at the time of the purchase, the mortgage appraisal if we could have the overhead. If i could see the hard copy. It is the one that i referenced. It shows 2841 of square feet gross livable area. At the time of the construction loan because this is just a family home they had Square Footage with different calculation of 3387. That is why we submitted the lower number as we noted the plans. It was 3025 and the 2841 because of the discrepancy. I am happy to entertain what your appraisal is if i can have a hard copy of it. I apologize. Yes, sir. One other question. One of the accusations was there was a dry rottish shoo. The whole building was knocked down before the drew rot permit was sought. We got five inspections. The inspector did tell the contractor to do an exploratory permit. The contractor did not but nevertheless the inspections continued to happen. While the owners knew the contractor asked for 150,000 more for replacement of dry rot. One of the interesting things we as a commission have centered around is the architect, structural engineer, contractor, they are all part of the project sponsor team. We have on 655 alverado if architect did this and the believe is down. Wait, these are your folks, auhired these. If you have a claim you need to pursue the contractor and hope he is in accident. Business. We have before us the project sponsor and what happened. On that point, we have had subsequent inspections. I am told they are passing. Uneducated to this process, i think you are well said i have a legal action against the contractor. It is within my control. For that i take full responsibility. When you had d. B. I. Coming out to in over multiple five inspections i would have hoped that they also would have instructed us to proceed in a different fashion, but it is well said that it is our responsibility as the owner so for that i apologize. I would love to hear dbi come and say there was a permit. This is what happened. Here is the date. This is what happened. We get this every week. When i said this, mr. T and our new director and i am going to the board of supervisor, we have to have people reconstruct things is crap. I am sorry. It is garbage. It encourages bad behavior. Absolutely agree. In this case these are two working parents with a family. The inspections arent stopped but the contractor says here is the money. The contractors are trying to get more money from homeowners. This is very unfortunate. The facts are different on other two properties. Now they have to reconstruct their home. That is the difficulty we are in. Commissioner richards. Commissioner richards i move to disapprove. Second. Commissioners if there is nothing further there is a motion seconded to disapprove the conditional use authorization and i would recommend we take a motion of intent to allow staff to draft that disapproval motion. Absolutely. On that motion of intent then to disapprove and to continue out to i would say october 10th, commissioner. roll call . That motion fails 22 commissioners. Is there an alternate motion . There is no alternate motion. There will be de facto disapproval. Move to continue this case to allow other commissioners to weigh in. October 10th. We are only going to gain one more commissioner. Further out then . Move it out to november . November 14th. I make a motion. 11 14. Okay. Is there a second . Second. On that motion to continue to november 14th. roll call . The motion fails 22. I think we are stuck here. Unless somebody wants to change a vote it is a de facto disapproval. Commissioners that places us on items 17a and b case no. 2018 no. 2018009534 c. U. A. On 45 cull he bra terrace. You continued to july 18th by vote of 50. Commissioners fung and hillis were absent. On july 18th it was continued again. Again subsequent continued without hearing to todays date. This is our third hearing. One minute. I am Christy Alexander with the staff. This is to allow demolition of the dwelling and construct a new four Story Building with two dwelling units. It proposed one off Street Parking space and variance for exposure and two feet encroachment to the yard. Since the memo last week we received letters of support from all neighbors and this morning you should have received the final email letter with the neighbors who were in opposition before are now in full support of the parking garage, conditional use authorization and variance. With that said the Department Recommends that you approve the project and the project sponsor would give a presentation. I am here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. You get one minute. I will be quick. Thank you ryan patterson. Happy to report in the time since the last hearing where you directed us to go back to work with the neighbors to find Common Ground and a solution to this we have done so. Neighbors are in support of the project. You have a letter in the records and on the overhead as well from the neighbors who were opposing the project. This is in addition to the i believe three additional letters from other neighbors supporting the project with the garage as proposed supporting the conditional use authorization and variance. The architect is here to answer any questions you may have when the projector variance. It was fleshed out and i want to take a moment to thank planning staff for the staff time to get to this point and the neighbors themselves. We have ended up in a good place. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Good evening, michelle scott. We havwe have reached an agreemn the letter he emailed you. The agreement is that mr. Eastwood will surrender two parking passes in exchange for garage in space 8. Spaces 7, 8, 9 will not change in any way. My clients wanted to be clear about the point that support of this project is solely limited to the project and did not constitute a waiver of anylem rights of any kind. As for future contracts which impact it the parties assert easement or otherwise to contest the further project. They want to be clear that their agreement is solely intended to support this project only. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . I am jennifer lender across the street. This is a really special treat the community is engaged in. It was important to find agreement which is the reason why we agreed to the garage. The community in general still feels the building is too large. It is out of context with the rest of the street in terms of size. It is a one story cottage with a small space underneath that is two units and increasing parking beyond what the building having a garage and space is. My personal home looking to my bathroom and bedroom removing all light, narrow street. My Children Play in the street. Moving all the things. It is designed to go on a large lot rather than small one cottage space currently there. If we get a building we want to agree with the new owner but we feel the building is out of size and context for the street. You dont accept this agreement . Any other Public Comment on this item . Okay. Public comment be is closed. No, no, no, i am an immediate neighbor. As part of the community i disagree with the last speaker. I think the project is perfect. I support it. I support a garage as many other neighbors have for quite awhile and have submitted letters to the commission. Any other Public Comment on this item . Public comment is now closed. Commissioner. Commissioner fong fong is there agreement or isnt there . I think i should distribute the written agreement the letter from the neighbors. She was standing up to say she does support the project as proposed. It is surprising to me. The statement signed by counsel is supporting this project as proposed. Commissioner richards. Thank god. I move to approve. Second. On the motion to approve this matter with conditions. roll call . That motion passes unanimously. Close the public hearing for the variance and grant with standard conditions. If we could go back to 16b. Sorry. We need a small break. We are down to four. Hold on. Go ahead. Going back to 16b for. We would take that matter under advisement. Thank you. Commissioners we left off on item 18, for 2019004691 c. U. A. 1347 27th avenue. The project is conditional use authorization for demolition of existing Single Family home and construction of a new two family home in rh2. Demolition of two story Single Family home and construction of new 5355 gross square foot four story two family home. Unit one on the bottom with two bedrooms and total of 1925 square feet. Unit two four bedrooms and three full baths 2158 square feet. One vehicle and one bicycle space for each vehicle. There was an application meeting on mar2019. Three maybes voiced concerns of the height of the building. The department received 25 letters of support describing the dwelling unit to the neighborhood. Consistency of the project design with existing neighborhood character and the garage spaces will not impact Street Parking. The department received four letters of opposition to the project from neighbors voicing concerns over the fourth floor on light and privacy to add jay sent buildings and out of context to the the neighborhood and concerns of the conversion of three unit structure and effects of neighboring foundation. I believe there was one additional. Staff recommends approval of the conditional use authorization request as noted in executive summary. It does involve demolition of the structure, proposed will provide two family sized units. It is not Historic Resource. This is a point of clarification. The unit is not occupied it is vacant. No known evidence of eviction it is consistent with rh two zones. That is concluding my presentation. The sponsor is here with a quick presentation. Good evening, president melgar and members of the commission. I am going to edit this on the fly so bear with me. The reason we are asking for demolition is because the existing driveway goes up 4 feet 9 inches from the street. Any attempt to modify the building to add fourth floor. The existing building is seen from the street yesterday. Here is a closeup of the driveway. So again the building on the left has 17 grade in the driveway. Ours is 29 . On the right is 26 . This is what we are proposing. Four Story Building, 40 feet tall. It is only 15 inches taller than the building on the left, a three story Single Family building 38 feet above the roadway. The building on the right is three story Single Family. I can go into more detail. The long and short the building is not bigger front or front, a few inches here and there. Taller by 13 feet to add 7 bedrooms and additional Single Family housing dwelling unit rather. This is designed for the homeowners who have a few words to say. I am lydia. This project will provide housing for my family. I have lived in San Francisco for 15 years. I continue to work downtown. We have been looking for housing for a few years and unable to find anything with enough space for my family. We plan to have three generations me, my husband, two young kidses and inlaws and parents. My husband and i work from home. The Additional Office space is needed for us. Thank you. We will now take Public Comment on this item. One speak consider card, mr. Lee. Okay. Any other Public Comment . No. It is you . Come on up. I am the neighbor in the sun set area. I lived in sunset for 40 years. I think sunset Needs Housing now because the children are growing up and family is expanding, and we need more, you know, housing, actually. The kids are growing up, they have married and have children. We need places for children to sleep. I believe the project is really good for the new people coming, you know, for our children around grandchildren. I dont have grandchildren yet. My son is getting married. I think, you know, eventually i might need to expand my house for my grandchildren. Right now i dont. I am thinking about that in the future. Thank you. I support this project. Thank you. Okay. If there is no further Public Comment is now closed. Commissioner richards. Commissioner richards i have to say i respect you, and i want to thank you. Every time you come and it is tantamount for demolition you go through the process and after seeing the last one and the ones before it i may not agree with the designs you are a man of integrity for advising your client to go through the process correctly. I move to approve the project. Second. Nothing furthered there is a motion seconded to approve with conditions. roll call . So moved. That motion passes unanimously 40. This is discretionary review. 19 a and b were continued to november 14th. 20 both drs are withdrawn. That is 21 for case 2018 2018012718drp at 1980 eddy street. Discretionary review. We are on 21 now. Good evening, David Winslow staff architect. This is a request for discretionary review of Building Permit application 20180816 a three story rear addition and conversion of ground floor Storage Space to create 775 square feet of dwelling unit to create a twostory two family dwelling. The Historic Resource is category p. Dr requester the immediate neighbor to the west is concerned with the proposed project because of the size and proximity of the proposed additional reviews from the bedroom to significantly impact his property value. His suggested alternative is reduce mass of third floor. Public comment staff received no letters in opposition or support. Staff recommendation is based on Advisory Team this design complies with guidelines related to building massing at the rear and access to mid block open space because the proposed addition is set back 6. 5 feet from the requesters Property Line and extends to the adjacent neighbor to the east. Sits over the existing footprint of the building such that it retains visual access to the medblock open space from the add adjacent properties. Property views are not protected by the guidelines. Staff recommends not taking dr and approving. There are no extraordinary conditions. This concludes my presentation. I am here to answer questions. Thank you. Good evening. I see am renee hole. Are you the d. R. Requester . You have to wait. I see am sorry. I didnt realize that. The d. R. Requester will present first. Then if you are a sponsor you can come up after. Good evening. I live in the house for seven or eight years with my wife and baby. This is one of the rooms where we it is with our baby. It is going to impact our pleasure of the house as well as parents come to live with us often enough. That is why we requested to the height and subsequent i spoke to my neighbor and she is going to present her case as well. Your neighbor is going to present your case . You are done with your presentation . We will before you come up we need to take Public Comment from anyone who agrees with the d. R. Requester. Okay. Since there is none. You can go. Please forgive me for not knowing the appropriate procedure. Is she the project sponsor . No, i dont believe she is. I am sorry. I dont understand who is who. Let me explain. I am the one who is most impacted by the proposed remodeling. I live in the middle of the block around the corner from 1100 broad rick to 11201122 broad rick. It is a two unit building. My coowner had a stroke. She is in her early 80s. In two months i shall be 90. I have here a picture of the existing building from my kitchen window. This is a drawing which we were able to get from the designers, and in a letter on the 30th of april i said i had no objection except that i wanted to see that the extension were not on so deep. Apparently this letter of the 30th of april never got to anybody, even though i addressed it to the Planning Commission. If you take a look at this drawing, you can see that it comes up to about here and it cuts off daylight from my windows considerably, and is the sun goes at an angle, i will get very little sunlight except maybe once each day. I have here a picture of my existing thing and a photograph with black lines what i would consider for me a healthy adjustment which would mean the line of the roof in the proposed building would not be so high. What can i say . I am nearly 90. My friend had a stroke. She is in her early 80s. We have had no communications with the owner or with the architect to try to let us know what they were planning to do. If it hadnt been for reuben i wouldnt have had a clue. I did give a condition approval. Gentlemen and lady, that is what i have to say. Do you want to take this letter . I can accept that. Just leave it there. Would you take these pictures, please . Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Since we have no Public Comment in support of the dr requester we will hear from the project sponsors. Good evening. I am the architect for 1980 eddy street. What we are proposing is a rear addition. This is the existing deck area, three story deck. The proposed design does not go past the line of the deck or adjacent house to the east. We have held back our building 6 6 be inches in the Property Line the d. R. Requesters window is here. 35 feet to where our bathroom begins. This is approximately 30 feet here. The distance there. There are no windows on this wall right here. All of the windows are back here. This drawing north is up on the drawing. It shows light coming through. There is plenty of light from the south coming this way. In fact these two buildings cast more shadow to the mid block than we actually would. The third floor addition is expansion for the growing family there and for the addition of the unit below is for to add a unit to the housing stock. Also, i have here with me the owner of the home to speak now. Evening, commissioners. I am a fifth generation bay yore z area i have been in San Francisco 25 years. I am a schoolteacher, my husband is a chef. We have two children in the public schools. We love the schools and neighborhood. We need more space. We have decided not to move outside of the city and hopefully to do expansion of our property. Thank you. Thank you. You still have a couple minutes. Do we have any Public Comment in support of the project sponsor . Case is submitted. D. R. Requester you get two minute rebuttal. If you would like. So my case i stated i lived in the city for almost 20 years. I came from a different country, this is my home and i have been living there with my family and kids. I believe that this expansion is going to significantly impact my home value. I requested merely [ inaudible ] okay. Thank you. Project sponsor you have two minute rebuttal as well, if you want to add anything else. I think we started this process knowing that we were sensitive to the house being victorian and the mid block light and air. We made choices. Our planning input to pull the house away from the west neighbors and Higher Elevation than we are. I feel like we have done a lot to already address the light and air access for the whole neighborhood. That is what we did. Thank you. Okay. That is it. Commissioner fong. This is probably not as much as what the neighbors would like to see, the addition in the rear has a shed roof and a higher ceiling than the rest of the spaces. There could be if that was a flat roof that was say 9foot clear space in there, that would reduce the addition probably several feet. Do you agree . I do. Which is probably not as much as what the d. R. Request errands neighbor would like to see but it does reduce it a little bit. Otherwise, the addition and Everything Else is pretty minimal in terms of the length of the lot. I am supportive of the expansion but perhaps with a minor tweak. Commissioner richards. Can you put that in the form of a motion please. Move to grant and to approve the project with modification of the rear from a shed roof to a flat roof allowing the interior to have a 9foot clear. Is that sufficient . Second. If i understand correctly take dr and approof the project as proposed with following modification for the rear shed roof alter the shed roof to flat providing interior 9foot clearance floor to ceiling height. roll call . So moved that passes unanimously 40. We are adjourned. My name is naomi kelly the singlestory for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. Not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored United States and excited about the future. My name is is jack listen and the executive director of a Phil Randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in San Francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the Community Members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. I worked in hes Mayors Office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of San FranciscoState University and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the Taxicab Commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and. 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Good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessorrecorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. im proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north Beach CommunityPort Commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give president hyland call this hearing to order. Good afternoon, welcome to the Historic PreservationCommission Hearing for wednesday, september 18, 2019. I would like to remind members of the public to silence your mobile devices. When speaking before the commission, if you care to, state your name for the record. Taking roll. President hyland . [roll call] commissioners, first is the public general comment. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public. With respect to agenda items, why you are opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the im is reached in the meeting. It does appear there