Nonagenda items . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Very good. Placing us under department matters. Good afternoon, commissioners, i have no new announcements today. Its good to see you again. Past events, staff report, and announcements. Did the Planning Commission meet . Clerk very good, commissioners. Under item 3, president s report and announcements. Hi there. Just one comment. Director rans departure. So the Planning Commission has calendared a couple closed sessions for review of candidates for his replacement and they have invited me to participate. F. Y. I. I wont have a vote. The city charter doesnt allow me to vote, but ill at least be at the table representing us. Great. [ laughter ]. Just to clarify. They havent formally adopted their procedure. On their agenda tomorrow they will endorse their procedure. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. Clerk commissioners that will place us on item 4, consideration of the draft minutes for september 26 joint hearing with planning, the closed session of october 2 and the regular session for october 2, 2019. I have no speaker cards. Any member of the public wish to comment on our minutes . Seeing none, close Public Comment. And a couple questions. On the training, special offsite training on september 26, it says that i called the meeting to order, but i was absent. So i assume that was president melgar. Clerk it was and we will certainly note that correction. And the regular minute meetings for october 2, just a question. I wasnt sure of the answer, but did commissioner folley get recused for all of the mills act . Clerk they were taking up oh, ill have to look into that. Okay. Okay. Clerk [ overlapping speakers ] i just wanted to make sure that was correct. Clerk actually, the correction for calling the meeting to order would be Vice President matsuda because it was a joint hearing. Oh, okay. Any other comments . Yes. This pertains only to the minutes of the joint meeting. It did seem to me that the minutes as worded are more like an announcement, what is going to happen, rather than a recitation of what did happen. I dont know whether that is the customary format, but it did strike me as unusual. [ indiscernible ] thank you, commissioners. [ roll call ]]. Clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 70. Just on that comment, the minutes generally basically list the item as they were agendaized and then note the speakers following. No, i understand. It was more the verbs. Clerk okay. Very good commissioners. That will place us on item 5, commission comments and questions. Anyone . I think none. Oh, sorry, commissioner black. Yes. The academy of Art University item is proposed for continuance, but i would like to disclose that i have a personal friendship with one of the senior staff there. I do not i know that this will not affect my ability to address this matter when it comes back to us. I will be impartial in considering it. Clerk if theres nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to item 6 eight 8 article 11 properties owned or leased by the academy of Art University the project involves 8 properties owned or leased by the academy of Art University the academy which are located within article 11 conservation districts. Request for a master permit to alter, and item 7. Four 4 article 10 properties owned or leased by the academy of Art University the project involves 4 properties owned or leased by the academy of Art University the academy which are located within article 10 landmark districts or are individual article 10 landmarks. Request for a master certificate of appropriateness items 6 and 7 to move to november 19. [ roll call ] vote. Clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes 70. That brings us to the consent calendar. All matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the historic reservation commission, and may be act upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. 8. 2019004892coa m. Giacomucci 415 5758714 178 townsend street located on the north side of townsend street certificate of appropriateness. Item 9. 601 townsend street located on the south side of 7th street between townsend and king streets, lot 001 in assessors block 3799 district 10 . Request for a certificate of appropriateness. Item 10, 11, and 12. For 601 townsend street i once worked on it and i have no affiliation on the current project sponsor nor the architect of this project. Thank you. Open for Public Comment. Any members of the public wish to pull any of these items off the consent calendar . Seeing none, i close Public Comment. Commissioners. I move approval of the consent calendar. Clerk thank you, commissioners. Seeing no further discussion, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve all matters under your consent calendar. [roll call vote]. Clerk that motion passes unanimously 70, placing us under your regular calendar for item 13 case 20190041140 coa at 2066 pine street. This is a certificate of aappropriateness. Good afternoon, commissioners. Shannon Ferguson Department staff. The item before you is a request for certificate of appropriateness for the property at 2066 pine street, located in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. The property was individually designated as landmark 211 under article 10 of the planning code in 1999. The house served as the walker home, a boarding house for women from 1921 to 1972. It was named to honor madamec. J. Walker, one of americas first black women millionaire. This residence was built between 1876 and 1878 by a local carpenter. According to the land designation report, the property was clad in stucco in the 1940s and later the stucco was remo d removed. The proposed project involves a onestorey horizontal addition on the east elevation with a roof deck above the addition. An existing fence will be removed on the east side of the property to make way for the addition. An existing of the existing wall will be removed at the first storey. At the second floor, the existing doubleheight wood sash window and a portion of the wall under the window will be removed for a new wood and glass door, surmounted by an arts transient window. The deck will have a wood railing and a fire wall at the east elevation clad and horizontal wood siding. The new addition will be clad in horizontal wood siding that is half as big as the existing wood siding. At the rear of the addition new windows will be infilled and hung with wood sashed windows. Due to the projecting bay of the east elevation, the addition will be minerally visible from the street and clad and compatible, yet differentiated wood siding. New windows will not be visible from the street and will be compatible with the materials and profile with the existing fenestration. The proposed result will have a modest removal of fabric, but maintains the historic character of the building. The proposed work is outlined in your case report and is in compliance with article 10 and secretary of the interior standards. Based on the analysis, staff recommends approval. This concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any question and the architect is also here if you have any questions. Shannon, i do have one question. So the motion the recommendation is approval, and that is what it says in the motion. So i dont think we need to make any changes. But in the actual text of the staff report, it says approval with conditions. I will modify that. Thank you. Anything else . Okay. Any member of the public wish to comment on this agenda item . Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Questions . Comments . Motion. [ indiscernible ] second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. That motion to approve this matter. [roll call vote]. Clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 70. Placing us on items 14a. Through e. For 2019020087 lbr, 2019020093 lbr, 2019020094 lbr, 2019020095 lbr and 2019020098 lbr. Hello, im from the preservation staff. So we have five legacy Business Applications to review today. Im going to give very brief descriptions of each with the characteristics that we are recommending for safeguarding. If any of the Business Owners are here, i invite them to speak during Public Comment. The first is the academy of ballet. The academy of ballet was established in 1953 by edward sasoon and has operated continuously at the same location. The academy is a Ballet School offering training for students and adults and others who are studying ballet for its many benefits. The subject property is local landmark number 277. The features that we are recommending for safeguarding are the ballet training for all ages and skill levels, the professional program, the high ceilings, many windows, and exposed trusses that define the interior, and the original paintings made for the academy located in the lobby. The next applicant is li po lounge. It was established as the first bar in chinatown. The original owners of the war were willbert wong and jack chow. Wilbert wong initiated the idea for a celebration of Chinese New Year and organized the First Chinese festival and parade. Staff is recommending the following features for safeguarding, the neon lantern slide, the cavernous stone entrance, the buddha statue and the chinese mai thai. The next one is the lyra corporation. This legacy business supporting the bookmaking tradition. There are two companies under there facility. The corporation is owned by and works in conjunction with the nonprofit grab horn institute, which supports the only paid Apprenticeship Program in typecasting and book binding in the country and houses one of the worlds most extensive collections of metal type faces and ornamental cuts. Staff is recommending the following feature the better press functions, the paid Apprenticeship Program and the collection of metal type faces and ornamental cuts. The next is rebuilding together San Francisco. The business is a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting safe and healthy housing and Community Spaces for all. The Organization Provides home repair and renovation programs were homeowners and others. The business is located in a historic resource, pier 28. We are recommending the following features for safeguarding. Promotion of safe and healthy housing and Community Spaces for all, a reputation as a reliable and committed community partner, their volunteer structure, and their free repair of services. And the last applicant is zazie restaurant. The restaurant opened in april 1992. It specializes in americanstyle brunches. The restaurant quickly became prarp becoming locals favourite for brunch and dinner serving meals seven days a week. Jennifer pinnet joined the restaurant in 2000 and purchased the restaurant in 2005 when she took over ownership. She took over with a unique mindset determined to make staff part of the family of the restaurant and the community. With that she established 401k and 4 employer match and fully funded health and dental benefits for all employees and paid parental sick leave. Staff is recommending the following features to be safeguarded, the original brick wall, the 1940 tss skylights, the interior mural. That concludes my presentation unless you have questions. Any questions okay. Why dont we open up for Public Comment. I dont know if we have any speaker cards. Just feel free to come up one at a time. Youll have three minutes. Youll hear a buzzen about 30 seconds before the end of the three minutes. Im the director of the academy of ballet in San Francisco. I feel very honored to be in this room. I came to the United States from israel in 1983 as a ballet student, and i took classes at the academy of ballet. I still remember the awe of going into that building. Little did i know that all those years later it will be my school. Yesterday i had tea with janet sasoon who was the daughter of edward sasoon who started the academy. She danced in the first nutcrack nutcrack nutcracker. I promised her that i would be here and not try to underestimate the legacy of what her father and she did. We went through the history of San Francisco, including mentions in tales of the city, and best tales of the new york times. I would love this place to stay as a San Francisco institution. Its very hard to see a legacy business in this neighborhood. We saw every business around close. Next year was the bible church. Now its going to become another condo building. Theyre blocking our exit. Im going to have to find funds just in order for us to build an exit for us to exist. We offer San Francisco lectures to show kids what ballet is about. We Fund Scholarships for students who cannot afford training and we boast 180 adult students in a very unique curriculumbased program that doesnt exist anywhere else. I humbly would request that you would consider the academy of ballet to become a legacy business. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Good afternoon, my name is karen memsick. I am the executive director of rebuilding together San Francisco. Asking the committee to consider us as a legacy business. Rebuilding together San Francisco originally in april has been repairing homes and Community Spaces in San Francisco for 30 years, and weve been tenants of pier 28 since 1991. So i think safe to say the longeststanding tenant in pier 28. Our work is focused on helping our longtime neighborhoods, older adults, People Living with disabilities and families live safely in their own homes. We know that theres a housing crisis and has been for many years. Right now were seeing rapid gentrification. Were seeing longtime families losing the family home. Thats what were focused on is helping our neighbors stay in their home for as long as they can and providing deferred maintenance so they can pass that on to their children and grandchildren, ensuring Affordable Housing for generations to come. Now our christmas in april and we are committed to preserving our committees and being a Good Neighbor in San Francisco. So thank you very much. Thank you. Next. Hello. My name is kelsie and i work at rebuilding together San Francisco. I was doing a little bit of research on the neighbors that we have the opportunity to work with. The overj neighbor we work with is 74. 5 years old, has lived in their home for 30 years and has an annual Household Income of 13,330. 72. These are neighbors who cannot cover or trying to cover the cost of living and cannot afford to look at the different maintenance in their home, the safety modifications that are needed, the critical repairs that are required. I was thinking about what it means to be a legacy business or organization in San Francisco. I came across a letter from one of our neighbors who mentioned the word legacy. This neighbor, her name is charlene, we worked on her home in the last year. She lives in bayview. Shes lived there for 58 years. She lives there with her sister, her father built that home. When he passed away, she was given the home and she has this incredible economic asset that cant afford to keep it in the home. Property taxes are low. Thats where we come in, to keep people in their neighborhood, a family thats been in that neighborhood. Shes been there for 58 years. So she shared with us what a joy you have brought to our home and family. I could never thank you enough for all of your expertise and selfless hours you have so willingly given that our strong legacy continues to live and thrive here in the house that my dad, louis armstrong, put his sweat and life to. I hope the universe returns to you 300 times what you have given out. So when i think of legacy, i think of preserving the legacy of families, the legacy of people being able to be in their neighborhoods and being brought to be in their neighborhoods. I believe thats exactly what we do. Thank you. Thank you. Next. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thanks. My name is paul gray. Ive been a volunteer at rebuilding together for more than ten years. I was a carpenter for more than 20 in my life. A lot of the skills and volunteers that work with rebuilding together in the trades, theyre local citizens here. I wanted to just give a quick perspective from my side. Ive done more than 20 Major Projects with them, probably dozens and dozens smaller projects. Ive never left a home we didnt improve the safety, comfort level, and health of the occupant. Its great the turnaround we can do in a single day or multiple day on larger projects. This is a Community Organization that is an anchor in the city. I want to urge you to do everything in your power. There are many internets helping with the housing issues. It is truly the Affordable Housing keeping seniors in their homes. I want to emphasize what a great consideration it is and please do everything in your power to keep them here. The economic pressures are getting too great. Besides homes, its all the nonprofits ive worked with. Its a domino effect. If you lose this organization, theres many others you may lose just directly related to this one. Thank you very much for your time. Great. Thank you. Next. Good afternoon. My name is aaron levey. Im on the executive board of rebuilding together. I worked at the oakland Child Protective Services as a child abuse investigator for six years. So my passion for community and children and families goes back many, many years. When i had the opportunity to join the board here, i leapt at it and am 150 invested in this program. I cant really begin to tell you the massive effects that this company, this nonprofit has on families and their legacy. We are focused on keeping people in their homes. That is one of the main goals, is keeping people in their homes for generations, not only the people that live there currently, but their children and grandchildren and keeping a home thats safe for them. I wanted to read a letter from one of the families we recently received when we had our rebuild the block day. We have it every single year. This year we had 200plus volunteers spread out over the bayview where we fixed countless homes. I worked in the garden weeding for eight hours. I was very sore a few days later and was shocked at how sore. We went overboard and weeded more than you could ever imagine in this community garden. This is a letter from one of the homes. I wasnt present at this home, but some of my teammates were. It says, yesterday morning your staff came to install a few things for our house. It was a pleasure meeting andy and ana and getting to know them a little. They were friendly, pleasant, and competent. I truly appreciate the time they took for our house. Thanks to andys expertise, the handrails are beautifully installed. Now i can rely on them so i wont fall down the stairs as i did a couple of times in the past. And they raised the toilet seat which is very helpful. Its heartening to know that theres still good, kind, generous people like you who try to help people in need. All of you make our world a better place in a difficult time. I am grateful for your generosity. This is just one of the many letters that we received. This is just a small example of what we do. I encourage all of you to come out and work with us on a rebuilding day once a year. Were always looking for additional volunteers. It would be great to see some of you there. I appreciate the time. My name is alex cristie. Im an author, printer, and journalist. My grandfather worked for the mck mckenzie type foundry. I want to share with you some of the history to illustrate the history San Francisco shares with this trade. As you have heard in the introduction, these firms that are applying for recognition today are the successor firms that have 100year history in the city of San Francisco, but whats less known is San Francisco has always been and continues to be one of the worlds Major Centers of printing and fine book production. It goes back to before the gold rush. Printing started here in 1846 when sam branon disembarked with a hand press to start a newspaper. The story goes that a printer tailor so loved books that when the earthquake hit, he buried his most precious volumes in his garden. By the 1920s, our predecessor was so much entrenched that they laid the foundation for the rest. In 1926, fresh out of high school, my grandfather apprenticed to the previous company. What i want to stress and what i found interesting looking through the history is beyond casting type, throughout history the foundry played a prominent role in the political and cultural life of the city. My grandfather started by hauling big forms of types on the ferry because they had a shortlived oakland plant, but the main plant was on fulsome street and later on bryant street. In the beginning it was mostly technical type, but it turned to serving the advertising and publishing businesses. As superintendent, he worked with the examiner and chronicle printers to print ads. They also had a hand in a lot of Civic Projects which is relevant to the intertwined history of the foundry. They set type plaques for the golden gate bridge. They produced a cyrillic menu. Beyond that my grandpa spoke about other things they designed. M. N. H. Has supported many fine printers to the present day. I urge you to recognize the unique treasure that is deeply and uniquely interwoven with the citys. Thank you. Thank you. My name is steve woodal and im collection specialist for artist books at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. I curate the exhibitions and the book gallery at the legion of honor museum. Ive been involved to one extent or another and a great admirer of the work that arion press has done and the Incredible Community resource that m. N. H. Type represents. These two institutions have been in a central position in what is really a worldclass Bay Area Community in the arts of the handmade book. As alex said, that is a community that goes back to the 1940s. I think philadelphia may have had a headstart on us, but our community is more well formed than any other in the United States. What that means today is arion and m. N. H. Are important partners in extending that history into the future. With its unmatched array of historic equipment, printing and typecasting, arion is sometimes thought of as a museum, but if it is a museum, it is very much a Living Museum where real production is done every day on books that marry traditional printing techniques with the visions of the most prominent contemporary artists in the United States and in the world. It is currently one of only two type foundries in existence in the United States. The other is in upstate new york. And there has been a tremendous researcher in letterpress and book binding over the past 30 years. I have witnessed this phenomenon firsthand, as we grew our Letter Press Printing workshops to more than 100 workshops a year. With a many young demographic. Many were designers. This is a cultural tradition of national significance, a truly Historic National treasury. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Hello, im kevin king and im the chair of the board of arion press and m. N. H. My First Experience with selling books began in new york city on ba barnes and nobel on fifth avenue. I was in the mass market and best sellers division. Those were quantities of books that required forklifts to be removed. When paperbooks went unsold, we returned them and pulped the books. Imagine my surprise when i discovered a different book building, repurposing the books in the presidia. Here they were making them one at a time, stitching the covers on with incredible attention to detail and craftsmanship. When i convinced my wife to take a tour, she stopped me halfway through and asked, why are they doing this . Exactly, i replied, its amazing, isnt it . Im not sure thats what she meant, but weve been loyal subscribers ever since. I invite you to come take a tour. I think youll be amazed. All right. Thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this . I close Public Comment and bring it back to the commission. Commissioner jones. This is really remarkable. So today we have printing, we have dancing, we have rebuilding, we have drinking. Its just the most amazing and eating, thats right. Its just the most amazing collections of things that have really, once again, shown us how terrific these businesses are in San Francisco and how really important it is that we support them. So i move that we approve these legacy businesses and wish them the very best. Commissioner pearlman. I want to thank all of you that are here today. The one that struck me the most was the rebuilding together. I wondered what happened to christmas in april. I had participated in the early 1990s with the merger on pulp street and was a wrangler with a twoday event to renovate an 8,000squarefoot space in a couple of days. It was a remarkable experience. I know that the work that you do is really impressive and necessary. So i salute you. Then zazai is one of my favourite restaurants. I agree with commissioner johns and second his motion, but that all of these are very, very worthy of the legacy of San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner black. I too, this is my favourite thing that we ever get to do. Its such an honor to be able to give accolades to these really amazing businesses that make the city what it is. I was an exballet dancer and i appreciate the importance of discipline that children learn when learning to use their bodies in a disciplined way. I remember madame would not have put up anything from any of us. So i think thats really important and im delighted that its here and its viable. I wont go into zazais. I think we all know i love it. I want to say as a book lover, i love the fact that handmade books are still occurring here and its in my city and i think thats fabulous. I want to say theres nothing more important to someone whos a lifelong planner and preservationist of keeping people in their houses in a city where the economics are changing so rapidly. With most of us have aging family members. You can see how difficult it is, even if theres the wherewithal to pay for some upgrades, its the decisionmaking and finding someone to do it is really complicated. I cant even get a contractor, so it get s gets very hard for. Its so very important to keep them in their neighborhoods where theyve built relationships with their Corner Stores and their neighbors. Its a very important thing that youre doing. Thank you very much. For all of the volunteer time you have put in, i think thats immensely valuable. Thank you. Thank you. I also want to thank you for coming out. Its a great resource for me to learn. I work with a lot of lowincome individuals who are seniors. So i will be calling you soon. I had a question for shelley and then also one for rick. In the material that you prepared, shelley, you mentioned that zazais is there is a risk of displacement. Can you share a little bit about that . I can. I only have the details from the application. They are 27 years old, just under 30, which is normally the required age. They do have lease negotiations coming up in the next two years, i believe. Usually when a lease negotiation is that imminent, we do consider them at risk of displacement. Good to know. Rick, i had a followup question. We worked so hard on our marketing campaign. What happened to it . We are making some good progress. Were slowly rolling out the marketing program. So as you know, we have is the logo done. I have new business cards which i brought here today. Im excited about that. Pass them out. Yeah, i have them here. We have requests for proposals where we are searching for a company to do bronze plaques. We also just created a survey which well be sending out probably this week or maybe beginning of next week to all the legacy businesses to ask how many bronze plaques they want. Were hoping to have a contract with a company by february and get the plaques up by Small Business week in may. We have a new person coming on board hopefully by the beginning of the year who would be able to help with the heavy workload. We have a really heavy workload right now. We have more and more applications coming in. Its taking me at this point three months to look at an application. Its that heavy. We need to get you a bigger budget. Yeah. Its a lot of apologizing from me to the public about the long queue, but theres only so much we can do. We received 135 Business Assistance grant applications. So we have to go through all of those. Each one of those takes a couple of hours to look at. The holidays are coming up. Is there any way we can promote the legacy businesses that are retail shops . Yeah, were slowly rolling out as much as we can the marketing promotion, but its definitely a slow process with the big workload. Yeah, we hope to connect with weve been connecting with sf heritage. They have some new employees. Were trying to work with them to see if they can help us with some of that. When the new employee comes on board, hopefully we can do some marketing there. Its a process, but we get to introduce new things every few months. How many applications do you currently have . We have about 15 in the queue on red. I have about 25 that im looking at. I look at the narrative first and send the information back. Im going to be hopefully submitting three today. Im trying today three to five per meeting. But right now im working on about 40 applications simultaneously. Its quite a lot. So well probably never get to the 300 max per year . No, probably not. Were averaging 66 applications per year. That seems to be reasonable for the commissions. For me, for shelley, so that seems to be the number. So its a bit of a bottleneck when the applications come to me, and i review them as i can and get them to you as we can, thats about 66 a year. Thank you. Youre welcome. Im from San Francisco heritage. I just want to add to what hick said. We have a new communications and programs employee. We were just talking this morning that were going to try to help with the outreach and the marketing and highlight the legacy businesses that are on the registry in the coming year. Heritage came up with the legacy bars and restaurants idea that spun into this. So we feel a close affiliation with this program. We want to highlight it and give the businesses a little extra boost beyond the grants and the assistance they get on the registry. Commissioner folley. I would just like to say, i knew about the legacy business and when i met heritage and understood what they were working on, it was amazing. When i sit here and hear about all that youve done, especially the restaurants and the bars, the fact that shes made her employees i. R. A. In San Francisco. Its amazing. I also want to call out heritage for all your good work around this issue because this is the fabric of this community and these are companies that we need to keep. Thank you. I need a second to second the applauding of this legacy business registry. Im happy to have you come forward and share your perspectives of your businesses and how relevant it is for San Francisco. Especially for rebuilding together San Francisco. Thank you for giving all san franciscans the dignity that they deserve. Its an Admirable Service to the city. Thank you. And i also love to applaud the academy of ballet. Holding down the fort to provide access to education to little children and also maybe perhaps people like me, if i can be flexible, to be a ballerina. Thank you, and i hope you will consider creating programs that could have allow families who otherwise cant afford to have access to arts which is very important. Li po lounge is my first bar that i walked into when i was a student coming to study San Francisco and its urban planning. So im really, really happy that it stays. I truly applaud and agree to motions to move forward to all this legacy business registry. We dont need to talk about the restaurant. Everybody has talked about that a lot. I love that too. The letter press, i love it. As an architect, i cant get any more beyond the thickness of the paper. Im all for it. Thats my comment. Great. I just have two quick comments. One is the lira, the press. I did meet one of your staff, hes not here, at the heritage soiree. Its great how geeked out he was on the technique. So that was really enjoyable to see it in action. And then on the academy of ballet, this business came to our attention when we made the site tour of new era hall when it was on the landmark designation program. They didnt know about the legacy business designation. Im thrilled that we mentioned it and now theyre here before us. So its really great. Okay. Seeing nothing further, commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt recommendations for approval for all of the legacy Business Applications. [roll call vote]. Clerk that moition passes unanimously. Thanks. [ applause ]. Clerk that will place us on 2018017235 cwp, retained elements for the special topic Design Guidelines. Hello, everyone. I think i have copies for everyone of the presentation. So today were going to return to the special topics Design Guidelines on retained elements thats being proposed for adoption in december. Were returning here. The last time we spoke it was a joint commission with the Planning Commission in january. Were going to start with just simply broadening the conversation around the role that existing fabric of the city plays in the public xas and our recognition that many projects that we see in the neighborhoods that are very identifying for those neighborhoods are sometimes Historic Resources and sometimes buildings that have been around for a long time. In some cases they can be more informal landmarks, places that are important to people or may host different kinds of uses that dont necessarily fall within Historic Preservation. These can be found in residential areas as well as neighborhood commercial areas as well. So retained elements really is a broader conversation beyond Historic Preservation or outside of that into a lot of different pieces of existing built environment that could be part of a new project. And this happens currently in a number of different ways in the city. The topic of elements and the reason were using that word is it could be something that is part of a building, part of a wall, it could be a expire, a mural, all of the different pieces that create that kind of fabric. We see these things happen in the city. We think theres success around the kfltion of these. There is the manner in which they can be done. Conversation o. There is the manner in which they can be done. This has started the conversation that you all have been having for quite some time. So the facade is a conversation as it was called for a number of hearings. It really was in response to ones that had happened that many people felt had come out poorly. This conversation has been going on for quite some time and mostly was around preservation issues and outside a larger architecture or Design Review conversation. That shifted at the end of last year or a little bit before that. It really began to kind of broaden outside into Design Review and step outside of the preservation professional process in this last conversation that we had in january. So thats how the Draft Guidelines began. So the passage of sb30 has put pressure on the adoption of these guidelines. Were going to get into what the guidelines are proposing to do. We look forward to feedback on how they can be shaped to do the best job that they possibly can. With 330 we are after january of 2020, we cannot apply nonobjective Design Standards that have been adopted after that period of time on housing projects. So if we want to have the influence with these types of guidance, then this is really what is putting some pressure on the timeline for the end of the year. So were here today to discuss the current draft. We have done some revisions after comments with heritage as well as the comments from last january. The retained element special topic Design Guidelines direct the special and appropriate attention of existing Building Elements on sites that are not Historic Resources. Well get into a little bit the conversation and details around applicability little bit towards the end of the conversation because we know thats an important issue. Whenever beginning a project, we hope that potential applicants weigh the options in coming to a site and looking at whats on the site and whats important about the site. It may be designated a resource. If not, there may be important considerations around the quality of that material thats there. So there are a number of questions that are put into the guideline itself in the document itself to begin to essentially ask these questions. So, for example, determining the visual contributions of an existing structure. What features play a role in establishing the identity of a structure. Is there something informal about it. Is it a place the neighborhood has recognized, if not known beyond the neighborhood. Does it have features, scales, or qualities not found in also what it might be replaced with, some kind of contemper rare architecture. There is a technical requirement. In some cases a wall what is only unreenforced masonry. Determining the ideas of the existing architecture. How much of that should be or could be retained to support neighborhood use and context. What are the critical elements and materials as part of that. What the potential Design Options are. Does it find the right balance of Public Benefits and project objectives. If a new building is proposed in lieu of keeping some of the existing elements on the site, is the new architecture superior to the existing architecture. One of the ways in which this happens on the Design Review side is when a project comes into the department and we have our Design Advisory Team that looks at this and our Design Review staff, oftentimes were looking at the existing and the proposed and we saw does the proposed reach the bar of the existing. Do we have confidence that pulling that away and putting something in its place really does achieve a highquality effect . So i want to talk a little b bit one other aspect we have approached this project with is from the racial and social equity assessment process which is a little bit new in the department. Were now looking from this framework at our projects as were presenting them. There are a couple of major things we ask. What are the intended social equity impacts and outcomes of the project . We think this is a really interesting opportunity, a really opportunistic situation to build upon what the preservation communities are doing and seeking, which is to broaden the inclusion of cultural expression, creative viewpoints, and decisionmaking. If the members of the public are interested in having part of a building retained as part of a new development, that can be part of the conversation about what is important in a neighborhood, what the qualities are, what the history may be, how that is used in the context of the neighborhood, that this simply broadens these potential outcomes, that we are looking at a broader set of creative voices. I think we recognize that there have been processes where people of color have been underrepresented in architecture in the past. We are expanding the retention of the built environment. In architecture, this is a new opportunity to examine pieces and how they fit. That simply increases the opportunity of establishing neighborhood identity and maintaining. We of course look at who will benefit from or be burdened by this project. There is a potential for with Design Guidelines that there could be a slight increase to the cost of a retained element, but we believe that would be mitigated by looking at the project overall, reviewing the benefits and balance and making sure there are other Public Benefits that could be established that simply help with that and ways to reduce costs. There may be additional Public Participation burden on individuals. As long as we make sure there is a wellknown process and this can be started early in the process of something proposing development that everyone can be informed about whats happening and be streamlined into that conversation rather than thinking that it has to be above and beyond. Its also important to note that the use of these guidelines are discretionary