Any massivings will offset the costs. Findly, no matter how this goes, a big thank you to michelle and miss shannon for their amazing work and its been a pleasure working with you. Thank you. Thank you, ted olson. Good afternoon, commissioners and president hiland. Im ted olson and im president of the Swedish Society of San Francisco incorporated in 1875 in california, builders and owners of the swedish american hall at 267, also a california resource and they forwarded it to the u. S. Registrar. The hall is located at 216874 Market Street. On behalf of our board and members, i thank the Planning Department and staff for helping us to prepare and for supporting or application for mills act nomination and approval. At the time of the 1906 earthquake, my paternal graph, grandfather was secretary of this society at their Scandinavian Hall across from what is the main library, but which and there was under construction for the new city hall. The earthquake demolished the city hall and our city hall so they considered erecting a new city hall in what became the scandinavian sector of our city. My grandfather was a member of the societys Construction Committee and hired the major architect and once the hall was completed, my maternal grandfather managed the mall for the next quarter century. Marty benson, a former appraiser is the grandson of our contractor for the hall. Who together with his brother and several other swedish craftsmen built the hall in a year. I say entire board has restored and renovated the hall and all of us are to maintain the Historic Building to preserve there a centre for promoting our swedish and scandinavian cultures and continuing to provide a distinctive night spot. We also provide occasional civic programmes and we would appreciate your support of our mills act nomination before the board of supervisors. Thank you and im available for any questions you may have. Adel fung. I am one of four coowners of 275 fullsome street. Most of the major rehabilitation work was done from 2012 to 2014 under the previous owners. But we as the new owners are looking to tackle a number of major scope items on specifically of wood deterioration and the curbed wood te deterioration, the compe reroofing and attention to an overlooked slightly inaccessible patch of land that started to grow vegetation. The rehabilitation needs came on our radar as homeowners, wear and tear of the original curved windows and even the mosaic that revealing, especially the turette was older than it looks street view. We readdressed the items over the next three years focusing on the wood rot with the upcoming rainy season and curved windows. We hope that the city is able to support us in this investment. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce myself and to give the vote of confidence that the property tax savings from the mills act contract will truly help offset costs as we maintain our fulsome house. Thank you for your consideration. Any other members of the public wish to address this item . Closing Public Comment and bringing it back to the commission. Commissioner black . One of the things that struck me as i went through this rather large amount of material is is serving, from much larger family and arts organization. These are all important buildings in the city and i love the chance to have a tool like this to have people get their buildings renovated and going. It just adds value to the neighborhood. Im a supporter. Is there a motion . And thats a motion. [ laughter ] then i second it. Ill have one comment on the mills act in general. Weve had in past, comments from the governor oversight and Audit Committee relative to whether these contracts were necessary or if the applicants needed them financially as it being on a needsbased criteria and in my opinion, as i understand it, these mills acts are incentives, not necessarily based on economic needs. So i just wanted to put that out there so as this gets forwarded on to the goa, maybe theyll remember that. Commissioner johns . I did get the impression from the presentations that were made that there is an economic necessity for this money to be aloallocated so these folk and p up the properties. That was my belief based on the testimony. And in terms of communicating to the board of supervisors, these are structures worthy of preservation and some will be expensive to preserve. So yeah, using this as a tall ti think thats very important to the city. So with have a motion. Do we have a second . Indeed, we do. Son that motion, commissioners to adopt recommendations for approval, commissioner black . Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commission perlman. Yes. Commissioner so . Commissioner highland. So move and that motion passes 60 unanimously. Commissioners, that will place us on item ten. Can we get commissioner foley back . This is a permit to alter. We do need a motion to recuse myself. I move that you be recused. So moved, commissioners and it passed 70. Jonathan rebburg, application is a request for a major permit to alter for 865 Market Street, a category 5, unratessed unrat. Its developed with an eightstory commercial building completed in 1988. Its most modern in design and one of several components of the border westfield centre. Given its construction date and character, its considered noncontribute torory to the district. A previous iteration was brought before the committee in june of this year and in response to comments, the proposed alterations have been scaled back with essentially all aspects of the building that contribute to its compatibility retained and left exposed. The project retained a letter from nordstrom. Given the noncontributory status, it will be in compliance. Based on this ana analysis, staf recommends approval, that prior to issuance the sponsor shall provide final details and finished material samples for review and approval. This concludes my presentation and im happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Retail owners are making huge investments in our properties. The project before you today is an important investment in the future of retail and the future of the district and we ask for your approval on this major permit to alter. I have with you charles chase from the Architectural Resource group to walk you through com compatibility. Im with the architecture Resource Group assisting with the proposal before you today. As stated in the presentation, we believe these are modest in the ranks to accommodate accessibility challenges that were created in the original architectural design. Groundlevel changes enhance the appearance with letting, which provide protection at the entries without impact into the buildings original design. We hope you will agree that this design meets the standards. And we believe that it does adhere to the district standards and that these changes do not pose a Significant Impact to the features that characterize the district. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is ramy kuniuki. Were the designers of the exterior of the building. Were adding an office lobby entry because theres a level seven and eight in order to increase access ability to the usability of those spaces and were also adding glazing in certain areas where we can in order to create more of a connection between the interior and exterior. This shows the proposed changes to the Market Street entry. We are adding an awning, glass and metal, a bronze, light bronze colored metal. Were adding more were making a glass entry wall with more glass doors and larger lights of glass to increase the connectivity between interior and exterior and were creating a light, ri lit space because is rather dark. This shows just the Market Street entry changes. These are drawings showing the two entries. Along Market Street at level 4, behind the or or ornamental scrn wall, we would like to replace that in order to bring daylight into the level 4 at that area and this will occur behind the ornamental screen and keep the framing pattern and well be changing the glass there. Your time is up but the commissioners may have questions for you later. Ok. Any Public Comment. Good afternoon. Im the executive director of the Union Square Business Improvement District representing the Property Owners and merchants in and around union square. There are general manager on our board and an integral part of the community. Were in support of this project. They did come before our Public Affairs committee back in may and presented us with the project ande and enabled us to h in. We know retail is evolving and changing in union square and its important to draw visitors to the area to make sure that the westfield and nordstrom is a viable centre drawing people from all over, as well as to union square. This is an investment in our community and we really appreciate that. The design is very attractive and i think it will light up the exterior and invite people inside. Certainly with regard to converting the upper floors, 7 and 8, we know the retail footfingerprints arfootprints a. We would like those spaces filled. So in support of this project and hope you will approve. Thank you. Im the senior director of Destination Development and operations at San Francisco travel association. And i just want to urge our support of this project, as well. We see westfield and nordstrom being a regional destination for visitors alike. As shannon just mentioned, the model for retail is changing and we would support anything to make this stronger and viable and to converting some spaces to office space, especially on the top of the floor. It seems to make good sense to us. We want it successful for the community. We want that mall and that block of Market Street to continue thriving and i just want to urge your support of the project. Thank you. Any other member of the public wish to make Public Comment . Closing Public Comment ant bringing it back to the commission. Any Commission Members . Admissionecommissioner perlm. We saw this at the architectural review economy and this is different than what they presented. We were at the time we like the design but it was completely inappropriate for the district. So i really do appreciate this direction. You know, you dont have much to say about the design. I think its clean and simple and appropriate. So i thank you for hearing what we talked about and acting on it. I couldnt agree more with what my fellow commissioner has said. Commissioner so. Hi. I love this shopping centser. C. I grew up with this shopping mall. As a newbie, i was not involved. But i would like to ask the design tore explain designer tor interpretation for the full height glacing on the side street. I want to understand how your design lodging on kind of interpreting the facade. The existing building is an oopaque parking lot and were looking for any place to actually get some Natural Light into the space. So based on where we can actually occur, its only in a certain area in this middle bay along fifth street that we can actually have glazing. Otherwise, theres a core elements. I wonder if you want to put it in the slide youre rendering, on page 19 . Were trying to maximize the amount of loot. So if we could do just in the pumpepunched areas. So were working within the existing precast where the panels end and stop and so wherever we can, were trying to maximize the amount of glazing there. Where those windows are replaced. Those are precast panels that are full height and they represent the same panel proportionsoproportions on the r registers and on the lower ones, they are punched openings. Commissioner perlman, another comment . I love the term upper register because i think of it as a musical term as opposed to upper floors. I would make a motion to approve with conditions. Second. A motion seconded to approve with conditions. roll call . So moved, commissioners and that passes unanimously 60. Places us on item 11 for 2016008192 src 106 park street and this is for your review and comment. Good afternoon. Im with the Planning Department staff. The item from you is a National Registered nom nation for the grand orient hotel sorry to interpret. I wainterrupt. I think ill havee myself. Arg did the National Registry nomination. [ laughter ] once again, you are recused and could you slow down . Yes. Thank you on that mission to recuse. roll call . So moved, commissioners and that passes unanimously. Good afternoon. Francis mthis is on sound park. It was prepared by Erica Schultz with funding through the National Parks services for the community grant. In i capacity as a local deposit, the city and county of San Francisco will comment on the National Register of Historic Places. Any comments from this commission will be forwarded to the state office of historic preservation. The hotel is at the west side of south park street between jaqueline and third street in the south park neighborhood. The building is a threestory over basement, wood framed structure constructed in 1907. The primary facade features unentry vestibule. Its to the east of the vestibule. The second and third floors are three bay and they consist of double hung windows, linteils. Apple. This is one of several m Masonic Organizations. They provide Housing Assistance and an opportunity to established ties to members in the i in the community. They began leasing in 1935. The hotel offered rooms at affordable rates for those employed in lowwage jobs in San Francisco and provided a hope base in south park in south parks growing community for those working at sea or employed outside of the city. It was one of several Residential Hotel, serving the community during a time when Housing Communities were limited to the Racial Discrimination and housing cov covenants. The immigration act of 1965 and Fair Housing Act of 1968 began to shift as immigrants greatly increased and became possibly to reside in segregated areas of the city. This is based on National Origin and replace edthem with skills and familial relationships. There was a prohibition in the financing of housing through the 1968 act lead to a shift in the settlement from south park and communities outside of San Francisco. The period is 1935 to 1968 and encompasses when they began renting the building in 1948 and follows the passage of the nationality act of 1965 and Fair Housing Act of 1968. Staff agrees that the property is locally significant under criteria a with ethnic heritage and assisting immigrants and the formation of San Francisco. After request the Commission Review the National Register and provide commentses on whether the hotel meets the criteria of significance. The commission may recommend the nomination, not recommend the nomination or recommend the nomination be revised. Comments may be added to the resolution in your packets. It will be forwarded to the office of historic reservation. Im happy to answer any question. I will now turn the presentation over to miss schultz. Ill give a brief overview on what francis just presented and im happy to answer any questions. Just before i start, i want to say it was an honor to prepare the nomination for this building and pay tribute to dr. Don mapil new york city who is the extraordinary philippino caller and activist who lent her talent and expert expertise and reviewe draft before she unexpectedly passed away. To start, the grand hotel was constructed at 104106 park street as a rooming house in the south park naked i. It was owned by the huskin family and rented to the philippino in 1935 as Japanese American Community was moving out of south park. The grand philippino is a Masonic Organization founded in the early 1920s in San Francisco and extremely source of prude anprideand legacy in the commund beyond. The organization was one of several that formed in the 1920s, as philippino men began coming hear. There were widespread club and organizations, tenuous Employment Opportunities and limited options. The masonic and fra ternalternal organizations became a great source of strength. At this Residential Hotel in south park, the hotel provided a critical source of Affordable Housing to those with menial jobs. For example, we know from the 1940 census, there were 40 philippino men who immigrated from the philippines from 2862 employed in Domestic Work in sanfrancisco. The Organization Began purchasing property in south park, first with the building across the street in august of 1947 and then early 1948, it purchased the subject project and then again later that year, it purchased the third building across the street where it constructed a temple in 1951. While the new Temple Building expanded, the residential building at 104106 remains in the organization. As francis summarized, the building is nominated to the National Register under criteria a, the grand Oriented Hotel stands as a strong bond of community that it forged in the early 20th century in racism and discrimination and it was a critical source of Affordable Housing and the organization occupied the building for over eight decades providing a space toly and celebrate philippino culture. Although the building was sold in 2013 to mission housing, it will remain a force of Affordable Housing and is one of the larger cultural districts. Im happy to answer questions. Im paul barera. I would like to thank miss schultz and miss mcmillian for their presentations. I learned a little bit more. Its a community treasure. It reflects the strength, resolve and commitment to building to philippino life in the city which is the mission. When the monhuhgs established this grand, it was illegal and thats why they incorporated as a Masonic Lodge because that would allow them to purchase the property. So that sort of, you know, clever, positive thinking is something that we like to consider one of our legacies to carry on the work thats been established by our ancestors in this country. Its now a permanent site for Affordable Housing and its a testament to people power in the city and a crown jewel in the community. I would like to note that in one of the photos that francis shared, there was an image of steve arevalo, who was a manila town activist and certainly one of, like, the last ogs from the Hotel Movement and he recently passed as well so it was refreshing to see his face in front. That was a nice moment for me and i think if my colleagues were here, they would have enjoyed that as well. Theyre quite honoured to support this, to the National Register of Historic Places. I cant think of a better site in the city that reflects philippino life and strength. So thank you. Memberany members that woulde to make Public Comment . Good afternoon, commissioners. Im karen kye and im a board member of asian and Pacific Islander americans in historic preservation, also known as apia hip. Our consideratio organization so encourage the Pacific Islander communities in getting recognition for and preserving their community treasures. Dr. Don was one of our Board Members who is dearly missed. And its a pleasure to be here today to support a project that was very dear to her heart. And for very obvious reasons and so thank you, we appreciate your inclusion of this treasure and hope that you will indeed forward its nomination on. Thank you. Im sorry. I had a speaker card. Good afternoon. Im woody labounty from San Francisco heritage. I would like to thank and welcome commissioners fol earthquakes and soh and thank them for their willingness, to serve the committee in this role. There regards to the National Register nomination for 104106 south park. , heritage commendsthem. The grands philippino hotel is the significant site not only to the formation of the community, but with San Franciscos role as a gateway city, it is a significant site related to philippino ethnic heritage in the entire united states. We enthusiastically recommend the commission adopt a resolution supporting this nomination. Thank you. Any a members of the public wish to make Public Comment . Closing Public Comment and bringing it back to the commission. Any commissioners, comment, public . Yes, i move we adopt the resolution of support of this nomination to the National Register of Historic Places foul. I second that. Francis, is this going to be the very first National Register nom nationomination for the phio community . Do you know . I believe so. I think it is. It is in the county and city of San Francisco but nationbody. Nationwood. I think stockton. The only that i wanted to make is maybe i know you cannot dedicate this report to dr. Movelon, but maybe you could add in a footnote of her and her efforts in making there is a footnote where i added that. I just saw her name mentioned. Maybe if that could be called out more because she was such an active person in promoting preservation in the ful full pho community. Were any oral histories taken to support this nomination . I dont believe so. I mean erica may have additional information. But as a part of the soma context statement that was created, there are oral histories that were created. To maybe possibly include one or to, i think that would make this nomination even more powerful than it is. Thank you. Im sorry, there was a motion and was there a second . There was. So commissionerrerings, justf your resolution, you can call out and ask the ohp to further recognise the doctor. I would like to do that and include an oral history regarding this no this nominati. We really relied on this to help us support a project and that project could had a lot more strength, had oral histories been added. So im looking ahead to rely on this, specificallily in the underrepresented communities. So if thats a proposed amendment to the motion yes. I accept that amendment. Any seconds . Yes, second. Do you accept the proposed very gad, good, we adopt a resolution in support of the nomination with commissioners recommendations. On that motion . roll call . So moved and that passes 60. Were on item 12. This is 1830 sutter street. As president highland comes back, ill be asked to recuse myself from this particular item. I move you be recused and recommend we install a revolving door. Thank you. Commissioner black . roll call . That motion passed 60. Good afternoon. Francis mcmillian. The item before you is a National Register nomination for the japanese ywca womens building at 1830 sutte resource street. R strategy. They will comment on National Registries and forwarded to the state presente preservation. The building is a twostory wood framed structure in a japanese eclectic stool. Style. Its on the east side elevation. Its A Cross Gable flat and consists of wood, multilike casements. One story overraised based from the west elevation. It consists of aluminum windows. The japanese ywca is in the area of japanese ethnic heritage and social history for its associations with the struggles and accomplishments of the women and African American ethic heritage. During world war ii, 1830 subtler was turned over the to ywca. Contact tduring this period, thg was the location of numerous gatherings that advanced multiple, political and social causes, including the state for africanamerican civil rights. Russ continue h. There wasthey hk course at the building. During the occupying of 1830 1830 subtler, ther sutter. reading from document . The period of significance from 19321959 encompasses the relocation to another site. As noted, the San Francisco ywca moved into the building in 1960 and programmed it to the late 1990s when he announced the buildings failed. The japanese american redress, a group of japanese americans lead a successful, legal struggle to retain title to the buildings to be kept in use for the benefit of the Japanese Community. It is anticipated that the Community Effort to retain the building for japanese use will be for significance in the future. Staff agrees under criteria a with the ethnic heritage and struggles and accomplishments. Staff agrees the building is locally significant for the civil rights and lgbtq right. The commissioner may recommend the nomination, not recommend the nomination or recommend the nomination be revised. Comments may be added to the resolution in your packets and forwarded to the reservation. This concludes my presentation. There are two patrons available for your questions. Do you have an idea of how much time you would need . Three or five. A couple of minutes. And karen probably another. Three each, ok. Good afternoon. My name is kathy and im executive director of the Little Friends and with me is karen kye, a former board member and current member of our Capital Campaign committee. On behalf of the organization, we thank you for your consideration of our facility to the National Register of Historic Places. We woulin addition, mr. Hashimoo couldnt make it today but wanted us to state his support for nomination. There was a preschool programme in japan town in 1975. For nearly 44 years, we leased property from the golden gate institute, another historic japan town institution. The organization approached the ywca, the San Francisco ywca to lease space in the former japanese facility to open a second preschool programme and we have operated there ever since. In 2012, there was the owner and steward of the womens building through an outofcourt settlement. We made a commitment for use of the Japanese American Community and we have continued to keep this promise. We hope the recognition of this resource will promote the unique history and significance and allow the womens struggles in overing those struggles. I walkethe first type i walked o 18318301830 sutter, it was so rk bibleremarkable and i had no idf its history and understand why it looked so japanese. I thought some day, this would be great to learn more about. I got that chance in 1996 when the San Francisco ywca announced that they were evicting all tenants in order to sell the building. This moved the Japanese American Community to organize to save the building. There was a glimmer of hope that was offered by vague memories from people who sort of remembered that there was something about a right to purchase the building because the japanese had actually built it. It was soon discovered the San Francisco ywca held paper title to the building and that was due to the california alien land laws which forbid persons ineligible for citizenship, a euphemism for japanese americans, from owning real property. Although it was paid for, they were legally barred from owning it outright. The modernday San Francisco ywca decided to deny this history and the courage of their own predecessors whose sense of justice compelled them to enter into a legal trust and that exposed them to the possibility of liability and even arrest for evading the alien land law. And the Japanese American Community decided having lost so many Cultural Properties through the internment of japanese americans during world war ii, through the destruction and diaspra during the redevelopment and exclusion from je gent gentrification was formed. We hope youll continue supporting us. Public comment . Any members of the public wish to comment. Im sorry im late. Im auggi philip and my children took part and they, i guess they themselves are fifth generation from the western edition. Aside from all of these wonderful reasons why this building is important for this nomination, i think also just that the architect herself that julian morgan, she did this work for this building pro bono and i think that says a lot. She did it for a specific reason. She believed in the women that were her clients and believed in the cause and community. So shes probably the most important architect from california to this day that a female architect, if not from the united states. So please support this project. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im robert rusky. I had the honor to be colead counsel in the litigation returning the building to the community and as karen mentions, the owner who has not only promised but more than lived up to the promise of the steward of the building and perpetuate who were introduced to the history, the National Importance of the history that the building represents. Theres some structures that are important because of the people or the events or both that happen in them. And others seem to take on a character and a life of their own and almost seem to attract those very people and events that make them important. In my mind, the womens legacy building is one of those buildings. Both architecture and cultural history make it eminently qualified in my view for national, local and state, historic recognition and i urge you to approve the recommendation for national recognition. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im from the sanfrancisco heritage. San francisco heritage is dedicated to preservation of the citys architectural legacy but also to sites that have important connections to the diverse cultures, subcultures, emergent social history and political movements that make San Francisco singular and extraordinary. In 1830 sut ter, you have most of the character defined features in tact. But a building which is locally significant to japanese and american ethnic heritage. You have the africanamerican civil rights and lgbtq rights movements. This is a site well detailed prepared by donna graves and the Planning Department and we strongly recommend a resolution to support the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. And i would like to add, you know, with redevelopment that had gone through the area after world war ii, this is a pretty singular building with japanese style that represents the Japanese Community that was there before internment removed it. This is another thing to consider. Thank you. Closing Public Comment. Back to the commission. Commissioner perlman . I do have one question for miss mcmillen. Is there a reason why julia morgan is not identified as one of the identifiers for the area . I focused on the social history of the building. And so focusing more on that and not on architecture. I would have to check and see if its referenced in other nominations. I believe thats the strength of the nomination was developed. One of you said its about doing whats right. From the architect who said i will do it pro bono to the group of women who said, we have to do something for our community through, you know, all the way to the present and the current ownership, its just a very moving story. Its the history of communities doing the right thing for the right reasons so irt
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