Years. It has provided a safe and warm environment for everybody. Reason foods, reasonable prices, all kinds of gathers, neighborhood meetings, wedding receptions, memorials, chili cookoffs, all sorts of things. The legacy Business Registration helps support businesses like caffe sapore. There are 26 vacant storefronts in five blocks around caffe sapore, and the last thing we need is a successful business to go under for no good reason. Were hoping that the designation of legacy business will help this from going under. Okay. Appreciate it. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for listening. My name is elias sapai, and i am the owner of caffe sapore. I opened the cafe 22 years ago in a neighborhood where nothing was around there. I cherished every neighbor that came in, and i love them. I watched them growing. Some of them, i actually raised, and theyre actually working in the cafe right now. They were babies even though they come from college and they work in the cafe. Its a community cafe, supported by a lot of people. I serve every single day, every single customer thats been coming there 22 years. Its not their work, its not their home, its their third place where they come to meet each other. Elderly fellows, they come in, they sit down, they eat their lunch. I married people there. Its a very important place. And again, in north beach, like i say, theres so many businesses that are closed, and a lot of it has to do with the greed of the landlord, the price of the rent is so high that we cant afford it. And actually, id like to support caffe sapore, but the legacy business will help keep us going with the support of the community. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My names gloria rogan. I cant talk about caffe sapore without crying. Sorry to be this emotional. But ive been going there since elias opened. Im 71 years old, and i dont cook and sometimes, i think oh, gosh i have cancer, and i dont like to eat vegetables. Sometimes, i go to caffe sapore, and i order a salad, and it makes a real difference to my health. Im a real estate agent, and ive been one for over 30 years. I understand i work with a lot of investors. I understand the dynamics here only too well, and i feel its its a travesty of to see this kind of business being involved, let alone threatened of being removed. Im telling you, one day, my cocker spaniels will be on the cover of a chinese travel magazine. They get their pictures taken all the time, and i have so many people who want to send me photographs of the dogs, and so on. I cant begin to tell you how unique this place is, and i thoroughly support the legacy business designation. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is charles forester. Id like to thank you for the benefits you provide for recognizing the historical assets of the city. Caffe sapore has been a big part of my city. For me, there was no place for me to go to consult my business. I was a consultant, and its right at the border of the tourist area. And not only not only myself, where i got my first fulltime job in what is now my career, but that neighborhood and that community depends on caffe sapore to do their business, to meet. Its also a valuable asset for the community for their families. I became involved with a lot of Community Organizations there. So i id like to strongly request that you grant this resolution. Thank you very much for the time. Great. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is dick lumagi, and i make pottery for a living, and my pottery is very much influenced by the life in japan. In japan, they have a prize called the living definition treasure. Its somebody whos risen to the top of their trade. The definition of this award is the holder of an important tangible cultural property. And i think by that definition, caffe sapore deserves your support. It has a singular talent. There are hundreds, thousands of us who live close by that place, and we live in small apartments. There are few you are and few you are places for us to meet. Its a soulful, wonderful, vibrant place, and i hope that you lend your support to their petition. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you. Hello. Im here for courtneys produce. Im robin courtney. Im patrick and lolas daughter. Okay. Good afternoon, commissioners and planning staff. Thank you for considering our legacy business application. Founded in 1971, courtneys produce has been located at the corner of 14th and castro for nearly 50 years, and before that, courtneys had a market in the haight for two years. The market is very special because everything is sells is fresh from the fruits and the vegetables that are picked up fresh from the Produce Market every morning to the fresh squeezed juices and the fresh sandwiches it makes daily. The business has another k key attribute, and that is that it has never sold alcohol. When my parents established courtneys at the corner of castro and 14th, they changed the neighborhood. They had the bars from the previous owner removed from the windows and the doors, and they strung up lights and added seating around the magnolia tree. They became a location where children from the School Across the street would come to get a special treat with their parents. Its been available for the patients and the staff at the Medical Center across the street, where they can get nutritious and healthy food at a reasonable price. Its improved the quality of life for the neighborhood. The neighborhood considers this to be a gem, and were very grateful that youll be considering the application today for legacy status. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Hello. My name is lorna kollmeier. This is my partner, mike dyer. We have the ornamental shop at hunters park shipyard. Our business touches every neighborhood of the city, and especially as s. F. Preservation. Weve done more facades than i can even count since 1984, when we went into business. And because of our opportunity to have such beautiful space in our torpedo factory, weve been able to keep those patterns. So now, when people walk into our shop, they look, and they see the real stuff, the real stuff that was made back in 1880 and 1890, and its authentic. And you people would know more than anything, when people want to do the right things, and they dont have the materials to do the right thing, then they go to home depot, and they go buy plastic things. So i just want to say were it. Between our collection that weve amassed for the past 35 years or so, when victoriana closed, we acquired their molds. We are it. We are sitting on we are so much of San Franciscos history is underneath that roof. Were okay at Hunters Point the next couple of years, but were grateful of being acknowledged as businesses that are valuable to the city, so thank you so much. Thank you. And im mike dyer, business partner. I just have something quick to say. We are the largest and oldest plaster shop west of the mississippi. But lorna tells me i cant say that because mgm movie studio has an older and larger plaster shop, but ours will last 100 years, and theirs will not. Thank you. Im tom hamilton. Im with gamescape. Just want to vouch for the legacy business status. Basically, gamescape is a place where gamers, the tabletop community throughout the city gather. We have events throughout the week that some are free of charge, so we dont put a price on your ability to partake in what happens at the business. Id say six days a week, we have varying demographics. So your legacy business status would be wonderful, because well continue to operate in the coming years and continue to provide that opportunity for gamers in the city, so thank you. Great. Thank you. Good afternoon, mr. President and commissioners. My name is Scott Madison and im one of the owners and the managers in ecletic cookery. I was planning on three minutes because thats what was said in the announcement but im going to have to edit my remarks. As you know from our application, ecletic cookery is a timeshared commissary with two kitchens at Hunters Point shipyard and a third on private land in the bayview. We share with kollmeier the distinction of being two of the remaining few businesses at Hunters Point shipyard of which there were about 100 when we started our businesses in the 80s. We were the first timeshare kitchen in the bay area and among the first such businesses in the nation. We may well be the largest such business in the nation today. Weve always been a forprofit business, but we are functionally a Small Business incubator, but we function like a Nonprofit Organization than a real business. We offer affordable kitchen services, technical, and occasionally Financial Support and hand holding to our sometimes struggling customers. Our success is measured by our longevity and the number of businesses moving on from ecletic to their own facilities. Our customers are and their employees are a veritable united nations, hailing from many countries and many nations. We give preferential treatment to our bayview customers, and our recent culinary program, only available to bayview residents, focuses on our appreciation for our customers. Thank you again for your recognition and hopefully approval. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is woody labonte from San Francisco heritage. I support all of these San Francisco legacy registry nominations, but i want to call out two that i think deserve a little extra attention. One is the potrero view. Nobody here spoke on that, but some of you may know the new fillmore just published its last issue. To help the potrero view and all of these Community Serving newspapers is vital to our democracy and community strength, so i strongly support that. We also want to highlight lorna kollmeier ornamental plaster. Lorn lorna kollmeier, as she said, shes it. You have the oramountnamental r and cornises in San Francisco thats available in San Francisco. And if you go to our website, we have a video that highlights the business, so thank you. All right. Any other Public Comment . Close Public Comment, bring it back to the commission. Commissioner johns . Thank you. As a first thing, we received this letter from zachs, freeman, and patterson, and it raises an issue. Im glad that the City Attorney is here, because what about this claim that there was insufficient notice and therefore we ought to continue at least the consideration of 790 lombard street . Have you seen the letter . I have just had a chance to briefly review it. Thank you, commissioner. Victoria wong, deputy City Attorney can you hear me . Barely. Okay. Ive seen the letter, yes, and i can provide more vice as the commission, you know, desires. My view is that the commission is making, really, a recommendation today, not a quasi not taking a quasijudicial action. And the administrative code governing legacy business designation does not require a particular form of notice. So i believe the commission can go forward if it wishes today. Okay. Now to the more substantive things. Weve got a really great collection of businesses here. I have patronized at least gamescape with my grandson, and i i know that its thats a really wonderful asset. The ornamental plaster shop well, all of them provide a tremendous benefit to San Francisco, and im so happy that people came out today in support of these businesses. Great. Thank you. Commissioner matsuda . I have a question for rick. Its an ongoing question i have. Im sorry to keep bringing it up, but im very interested in what the marketing plan is. We have such great businesses out that need recognition, and to make sure we promote them as much as we can. So can you give us an update about that . So we selected a company to do the plaques, the bronze plaques. We just put that notice out on friday. Were waiting until this friday to see if theres any objection to that. From there, well do a contract with our company, and hopefully, we will enter agreement with them by february. Weve put a survey out to all the legacy businesses to see if they want plaques, how many, what size they thought was appropriate. We have about 60 responses back from them. And then, we are continuing to do press releases every time legacy businesses get on the registry. As i mentioned, we are doing a slow you know, marketing were introducing things as we can. We also have received some funding from the board of supervisors for a position, so were working on maybe potentially hiring someone who could help with the marketing. Marketing, and then also to help with the maybe the expediting of the applications or well, right now, its just me. I know. And we have a queue of 30 applications, so thats really taking a lot of time. Oh. Theres just a lot of demand for the services we provide, and a limiting staff. So as you can see, each application that we do, we put a lot of time in it, not only finishing the application, but we have to run it through the process, not only this commission, but the Small Business commission. Yeah. You do a great job. We have plans, come the spring, to do a huge marketing and Promotion Campaign to really get the ball rolling on everything. Great. And really depends on if we can get this position this person to do thats the type of activities that theyll be doing. Were waiting for it. So fingers crossed that they can make that happen. Great. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. And thank all of you for coming out. Its rainy, not fun, its cold. But we really appreciate you coming out and telling us your stories. Thats what makes this program so special for all of us. Thank you. Commissioner pearlman . Thank you. My first comment is to shelley. Theres two problems in the text that i just want to note. For ecletic cookery and for gamescape, on number 5 is the property associated with businesses located on the local, state, or federal legacy registry, both of them are incorrect. They reference a different property. So for those two, i just want to make sure the records correct on that. Thank you for noting that record. So, i mean, it talks about a cap Street Property of which neither one are on capp street. The difficulty with reusing templates. Yeah. I do the situation with caffe sapore is pretty remarkable to me, and sad. The fact that you had 1900 names on a petition is is utterly shocking and wonderful. I i mean, thats like most of the neighborhood there. And then to find out that the potential of this business being ousted in the middle of a lease, i dont even know you know, theres obviously legal issues there. You know, i havent been there, but its i mean, for people to come and shed tears about the potential loss of that space is it really is a testament to this entire program of legacy businesses because heres one that although not 30 years, has clearly woven itself into the fabric of north beach, in that neighborhood. So im im a little saddened not a little saddened, im very saddened by a landlord who would, you know, throw out a businesslike that or not be able to come to a you know, some kind of an agreement to allow that business to continue. I am hoping that, you know, hearing that theres 26 storefronts that are potentially available, i certainly hope that business will survive because it sounds like the loss of this business would be a tragedy for the community. For everybody else and caffe sapore, this is the best part of our work. You guys are the community. You are the representatives of who San Francisco is. And the ornamental company is a very big representative of San Francisco. To find that youre the only one left is a little scary. To find out what would happen if youre not there, how we would do our work, you know, to restore a lot of our important buildings. So for all of you, thank you so much for your work and your contribution to our city. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner black . This is the pleasure that we have each meeting is being able to celebrate these fabulous businesses in this city. I want to start with caffe sapore. For one thing, the comments made by the potter i found very compelling. If your pottery is anything like your statement, its very beautiful indeed. I loved hearing from people in the neighborhood about how important a resource that is, and it is very important that we have businesses that are part of a neighborhood and thats something that this legacy business is supportive of, and the Preservation Commission is supportive of, so i wanted to get that out there. Im also familiar with courtneys produce, having been a customer over the years. I dont live too far away. I love the idea of the ecletic cookery. Ive never been there, but i love the idea of you forming a business that helps other businesses in San Francisco thrive. Thats as good as it gets. Gamespace, im old enough to think its a legacy business. Times have passed, and you know, as someone whos been passionate about architectural history since i was very young, hats off to lorna kollmeier for keeping the faith. And im sure you have people from out of town ordering materials, and thats such an important resource. All the best to you, yeah, sure. Any local newspaper that is neighborhood based the p potrero view, you cant get any better than that. I think i covered them all. Did you want to yeah. Going back to the two businesses in the Hunters Point, i remember i was at the shipyard on the u. S. S. California in the 80s, and luckily, i didnt see the torpedo room, and i didnt see your food cooking facility, but i would love to come see where you do. I lived in north beach for a period of time. I cant believe you have all those people coming out. You are a beloved institution. Reinforcing what commissioner matsuda or black said, its amazing that the landlord is acting the way they are. So i am just in true support for all of you and thank you very much for being part of the fabric of San Francisco. Thank you. So i have a couple comments. Courtneys produce, i also love walking past your establishment on my way up to b. V. With my dog every day. Lorna, you know, as a preservation architect in the city for 30 years, there used to be San Francisco victoriana, theyre gone. I think there was one other plaster shop. There was. Youre the only one left. Thank god glady mcbean is around so they can get their archives on the terra cotta molds. I wish you all the best because its really important. I kind of was torn between whether or not to say anything about caffe sapore. Im appalled that the Property Owner isnt spending money trying to figure out how to perpetuate your success. And this is exactly this program is established to preserve businesses just like yours, so im fully in support of this, regardless of what the Property Owners position is, so anything else . So i move that we recommend these businesses be granted legacy status. Second. Clerk very good, commissioners, and there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt recommendations for approval as corrected for ecletic cookery and gamescape. On that motion [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70. Congratulations. Congratulations. [applause] clerk missioners commissioners, thatll place us on item 11, for the racial and social equity action plan. This is for your adoption. Good afternoon, commissioners. Claudia florez, Department Staff. I do have one correction. Its an endorsement action, not an adoption action by the historic Preservation Commission. We are thrilled to be bringing the combination of three years and first phase of our work before you for consideration and endorsement. Its been a significant lift because its not only a plan with tasks, but a significant effort of process change, culture change and a significant investment as an organization to see where we have been advancing with equity and where we have work to do. Before we jump into the presentation, i want to thank you for your time, and i want to thank jonas ionin for his allowing us to schedule this, and i would like to give a big thank you to our director, john rahaim, for supporting our initiative and standing behind it. We would not be at this milestone without his leadership. For the benefit of members of the public who may be tuning if for the first time, this is a presentation overview. We will give a little background for those members who have not heard about that and go over the initiative components. We will talk about implementation and i will turn it over to shelley for next steps. So for background, why is the Planning Department do a racial and social equity action plan . As you can see from the data included in the plan, disparities across measures, whether its income, health, education, housing or either stagnant or increasing, particularly with the housing affordable crisis. This shows that the city stack can be better representing of our communities, particularly in management. And we know that government in the planning field historically played a significant role in racial and social equity wi. For these reasons, we have a reason to advance racial and social equity. Our initiative is fulfilling a citywide mandate to advance equity. Late mayor lee developed this Strategic Planning framework for all City Operations and services. Under mayor breeds leadership, this includes a longterm Investment Strategy to generate greater equitable outcomes in the city. Most recently, the mayor and the board of supervisors approved legislation this last august, creating a new office of racial rights and equity to advance this work. Were happy to report that the new director of this office started yesterday. And on this slide, you see kind of the key responsibilities of this office, and ill just point your attention to the last bullet, which is creating a budget equity Assessment Tools, which they will require all departments to use. The next slide shows the responsibilities of city departments, and we are ahead of most departments for completing our action plan with metrics by december 2020. The portion today is phase one. As you already probably are aware, the department has already been advancing equity work for the last two decades through various projects going back through the eastern neighborhood 20 years ago and the more recent legacy business and culture districts work. So we are now advancing equity more comprehensively and explicitly in our external and internal work through this initiative. These are the key components of the initiative. Phase one is in front of you today for initial action. Its inclusive racial and social equity project. Phase two will deal with our external operations, so whether thats Historic Preservation, planning and review. And then, theres the ongoing work, which is implementing, integrating the lens into the work, monitoring, tracking, updating the plan every three years. The phase one has the following goals, dealing with hiring Organizational Culture and staff capacity, budgeting and resources, procurement and contracting, and a fifth goal pointing to kind of the phase two work. There are effective actions under each of these goals, and the way that we have captured the next steps and who is responsible for doing all of the captions is through an informational matrix. When we initially presented to you earlier this year, it wasnt fully developed. But heres a snapshot of kind of what we one of the items we plan to report every year to the office of Racial Equity and the board and the mayor . It has some key indicators or outcomes dashboard for each of the goals. And again, it will be a little more flushed out, but just wanted to give you a snapshot for each goal. Theres something were going to be tracking to see if were making a difference, the work that were doing is making a difference. Were going to be working with Human Rights Commission im sorry, with the office of Racial Equity in the Controllers Office to analyze these metrics because we want to align the report card that theyre going to be creating for the city as well as the direction theyre going to be giving all departments so theyre not tracking 15 different metrics that the community has to make sense of. Im going to be talking about this table from left to right. So the first column lists every single action, and this was in your plan . And the next two columns are developing Performance Measures for each of them, so we are actually going to track how much are we doing, how well are we doing it . Then, were committing to timelines, so what are we doing what, and by when . And well be finalizing this with the office of Racial Equity early next year. Im happy to report that almost all of the actions under goals two and three are underway . These are the Organizational Culture and budget actions, but we do propose these to be the next few key priorities for the remaining of the fiscal year and next fiscal year. Largely continuing our training, so doing advanced training for managers, doing fairness in hiring as well as implicit bias training for anyone involved in hiring. Enhancing our outreach and recruitment lists, so making sure that we have lists that are inclusive, having contacts that we maybe dont traditionally reach out to, but we want to have more of an effort. Same thing for our contracts, making sure that a variety of Small Businesses and local nonprofits, enterprises are familiar with our department. Also with regard to hiring, we want to develop guidelines, so people have training on how to implement this work, and similarly for contractors, so they understand the expectations, and they know that we are advancing this work. And then, the last one is the budget Assessment Tool, which is a requirement of the office of Racial Equity. And so speaking of a tool, this is the interim tool that was in the thats in the first phase of the plan that staff are using. These are the basic steps, and staff have already been applying this to projects. Much like Environmental Impact assessments, the actual is used to mitigate and avoid potential harms. Examples of applications include our legislative team is already using these steps for all ordinances that we receive from the board of supervisors, so theyve included that in their case reports. Also, the retained design case guidelines has used this tool to look at potential equity Impact Outcomes as well as to identify who could be benefited and who could be burdened. Specifically calle 24 burdens to look up burdens and mitigate them. And i will turn it over to Shelley Caltagirone to do the rest of the presentation. Thank you. Thanks. Thats my cue. Could we have the presentation back . I want to talk a little bit about the heritage element, the project weve been working on for many years. Ive been working on it personally now for about five or six years now. We will be applying the racial and social equity Assessment Tool to the draft heritage element over the next year to look at draft policies and see where we can promote racial and social equity with the heritage element. Some of the ideas that already exist in the draft are to address the identification and safeguarding of the intentional qualities of our heritage in order to better represent ethnic and social histories. We also are promoting the incorporation of Community Values and historical significance evaluations, and we will be bringing that draft to you in the next year or two. That brings us to next steps. We have been working on phase two of the racial and social equity action plan for the last year, starting with some brainstorming sessions with each of our divisions. Weve approached phase two of the action plan by dividing the work by Department Operation areas which are listed on the screen, and that includes our community outreach, Community Plan development, data analysis, our regulatory functions, our policy and legislation functions, Historic Preservation is its own topic area has been leading the discussion with the historic president er vak team to develop those goals. And lastly, Community Engagement and monitoring. Well be ramping up with more robust outreach beginning in the spring. I wanted to give you a little insight into the conversations that weve been having about Historic Preservation and equity. Language will be formally before you for review as we do public outreach, but i wanted to give you a sense of where we are. And the objectives that weve framed for the Historic Preservation chapter of phase two has been divided into four main areas. The first being identification of cultural resources. The second, protection, third, management, and last, the protection of our program. We wanted to provide you just a brief summary of the commissioners direction on the racial and social equity action plan as a result from your joint hearing. We want to incorporate these into phase two. The first two, however, can happen as we proceed with our budget over the next few weeks and during each budget cycle. Those are aligning the departments work priorities and prioritizing implementation of these forces. And the third is already underway under phase one of the action plan. This is a timeline of where we are. We are wrapping up phase one. Your action today will be our last commission action. We are finalizing the implementation and accountability matrix. We are applying the budget tool to work program, and we are beginning the Community Engagement in the process that we spoke about. We are we are deep in the phase two of the action plan development. We will should have a draft ready in spring for a more robust public outreach, and we expect to be ready to adopt phase two in late fall so that we are ready to submit our action plan to the office of Racial Equity in december. Much of the work is continuing and ongoing, including the tracking and updating of the plan, which has already started. Annual reporting on the progress to community commissions, and integration of tools and learning into existing projects. So your action today is to adopt a resolution i did pass out a revised resolution for you. We realized that the language we had inserted around adoption and direction are not appropriate for the historic Preservation Commission due to the way that this commission is formed through the charter, so we have changed the language to say endorse the racial and social equity plan and urge Department Staff to do the following. Implement phase one action plan and finalize implementation matrix and performance metrics, develop with Community Members and office and local agencies, a and last, to promote racial and social equity. So that concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions, and claudia is, of course. Thank you. Thank you, shelley. Open this to Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to address this item . Okay. Close Public Comment. Commissioners . Commissioner foley . Sorry. I think this is super important work, and i appreciate the offsite we had about it. The one thing im concerned about, and i appreciate how you put in the statement. But in the underserved and underprivileged communities in historic resources, its hard for them to get the help to actually renovate, repair, and keep if its a property, to keep them intact. Im working on one for a nonprofit in the fillmore. They dont have any resource to try to figure this out. And to the resolutions point, weve got to try to figure out how to reduce the regulatory burdens and help these groups get the resources they need to keep these if its a physical resource, if its a physical property, how we can help them kerenovate the propey and hold it. Thank you. Commissioner matsuda . I just had a question. On the executive summary, the last page lists the board of supes and the planning commission, but it does not list us. Is that because we can only endorse or why . On the second page . The last one here. Oh, in the plan itself. Oh, that was just an oversight. Thats what i do five minutes before submitting the packet. Thank you. Commissioner black . I just wanted to express how strongly i support this and once again, i hear from other cities, seattle is among them, but once again, San Francisco is on the forefront of doing the right thing, and im proud to be part of that. Great. Thank you. Commissioner so . Im very honor and being part of this history to actually be involved with making this amazing exciting initiative. And on behalf of my San FranciscoPlanning Department, we just set up such a big policy, Game Changing initiative not just for our city, but neighboring city and to the state, and i hope it keep going from there. Im just really proud, and i listened previous through Racial Equity. Its really obvious. I do have one question about the tool that youve been referring to, that you are in maybe phase two to develop the equity tool . And i question my question is, is it only going to be used within the Planning Department or it will be used at large in city of San Francisco, and city and county. And is there any implementation of how do you regulate it . Because of a tool being deployed, there will be a chance to perfect it. Will Something Like that happen or is there a chance we will see it when it come out . Yes, absolutely. Because several departments have already participated in the Government AllianceRacial Equity training, there are at least 20 that are using a version of the tool . So i imagine that the budget tool that the office of Racial Equitys creating will be very similar because were using the seattle templates and portland templates that have already been out there . In terms of how we can regulate it, that is a great question to bring back to the director. One thing we are proud of, we got a small grant to share how we are applying the tool and raise awareness to community groups. So we are going to be training in a way thats, like, a twoway training. Also, if it helps their processes, but also, they can give us feedback on how to improve it. As far as how we are choosing to regulate it, just like the youll see in the retained elements and the calle 24 guidelines, staff is writing up analysis, and theyre writing up a pair of analysis in the case reports. So the steps are iterative, and we have to apply them from start to finish, but staff has to write a paragraph summarizing what came out, kind of particularly the Equity Growth of the project, but also, is there any specific strategies to advance equity or mitigations that need to be put in place to make sure that impacts and harm is reduced, so we will document that as part of our analysis. Great. Thank you. Anything else . So can we have a motion for endorsement . I so move. Second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. There is a motion that has been seconded to adopt an endorsement for adoption of the plan as has been amended and to include the historic Preservation Commission on the acknowledgement page. On that motion [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70. Placing us on item 12 for item 12. This is a certificate of appropriateness. The item before you is requesting a certificate of appropriateness for 59 potomac street. The residence was constructed circa 1905 by an unknown architect in the queen anne style in the duboce district. The proposed project involves enclosing a third story deck at the rear of the property to create an 87square foot addition condition space. Enclosing the third story deck is a revision to two previously approved projects from 2018 where two rear additions and the deck were titled at the subject property. The proposed massing will be clad in horizontal woodsiding and include new casement windows and a new door at the rear of the facade. The work also proposed minor interior alterations to the minor adjacent bathroom. The work will not be visibility from potomac street nor duboce park. Since the publication of the staff report, the department has received staff correspondence from one individual in opposition of the project related to work on the project. Based on the analysis, staff recommends approval with conditions. This concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Why dont we take Public Comment for this. Any member of the public wish to comment on this item . Close Public Comment. Commissioners . I move to approve with conditions. I second that. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve with conditions [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 60. Placing us on items 13a and 13b at 73 through 75 fair oaks street. Youll consider the certificate of appropriateness and the assistant Zoning Administrator will be considering the request for variance. Good afternoon, commissioners. Stephanie s stephanie cisneros, Department Staff. This is a request for appropriateness for proposal to remove and reconstruct two existing rear decks within smaller footprints and with a 5 foot and associated 15foottall fire wall along the south side Property Line at the property located at 73 to 75 fair oaks street, which is a contributor to the liberty hill landmark district. The proposed construction of a fire wall district requires consideration of a full certificate of proeptneappropr. The scope of work is detailed in your packets, but generally is as follows and is intended to correct damage to the building, in kind replacement of the front entry stairs with new wood to replace the existing and modification of the existing. And removal of and the removal of the two existing decks at the second and third floors at the rear and replace them with new smaller decks and associated stairs. The decks will include 42inch high cable railings, and a fire wall at the south Property Line. The replacement rear decks, associated stairs, and fire wall will project into the rear yard and thus require a variance. Staff finds that overall, the proposed work will be in conformance with the requirements of article 10, paend tix f of article 10, and the secretary of the interior standards and recommends approval of the certificate of appropriateness. The proposal appears to be comparable with the overall architecture of the landmark site. This concludes my presentation. Im available for questions, and i believe the applicant and architect are here to answer questions, as well. Questions, commissioners . Okay. Why dont we take Public Comment. Open it up clerk you going to do a project presentation . A member of the public wish to address the commission . Close Public Comment. Commissioners . I have one question. Commissioner pearlman . I just have one comment, which is a graphic one, just a request. You know, its really to the architect. Your infills are you know, they turn black when you i can address that issue just very quickly, so that is not an issue with the plans. It is more of an issue with the printing of the plans. So weve noticed that on a couple of different occasions, and so were trying to work to fix that in the future. Yeah. Its something that says woodsiding it just a big black yeah. Its the same as, like, these . Yeah. Thats also an elevation. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mr. Sanchez, is that you . Thank you. So question for the project sponsor. So part of the variance, you have an existing deck and stair structure that youre remaining, reconstructing. I know its going to be reconfigured and slightly smaller. One of the concerns i have i think staff has relayed to you, the fire wall is 15 feet tall. You set back the rear deck such that you dont need a fire wall. Why is it you couldnt do that with the existing fire wall . One of the things that you know, the reasons for it, the space is very minimal. If we cut the deck back, it would be about 5 feet wide. The current deck is about 10 feet. Were proposing an 8 feet. If we lost 3 feet, the deck would be rather miniscule, which provides a lot of open space for the units themselves. We did the current configuration is the decks do go to the Property Line. Obviously, we werent going to have a 20 or 30foot wall, and we did bring the top floor back. The floor below, i will just point out a couple of things. On the existing condition, if you look at the photograph, you can see two evergreens on the adjacent property, and they really do screen off the property for visual privacy and really do limit the impact of the fire wall. There was some structural reasons that we are doing a seismic upgrade do the property. We do need what we call shear walls at the back of the house. And at that particular floor, next to the doors, wed rather have one big panel, really, lends itself better for the sheer capacity of the building, and just a little bit structurally, we were able to pull it back. So its also its more difficult to do, but the lower floor, it would have been a difficult not kbabl, but more difficult reconfiguration. Based on the configuration, you can have an 8 foot wall there, that we felt and 8 foot is not an overly large deck. 5 foot is a limited useable deck. Those are the reasons why i didnt do it. But if i could have gotten an 8 foot wall and pushed it back, certainly, i would have done so. But the deck at the second level the deck at the third level is smaller. You could have some exact same sized deck on the second level, correct . No. Because of the stair configuration, we got a