Transcripts For SFGTV Historic Preservation Commission 20240713

Time. [roll call] clerk commissioners, first on your agenda is general Public Comment. I have no speaker cards. Would any member of the public wish to address the commission on items not on our agenda . Close Public Comment. Clerk very good. General matters. Item one, directors announcements. Thank you. Commissioners, simply want to wish you a happy holidays in advance. Part of our holiday experience will be preparing our budget which well be discussing soon. We have received mayor budget instructions from the mayor and her office which include that no new positions are expected to be added through this years process, so i wanted to let you know about that in advance. Clerk seeing no questions, item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission and staff announcements. Commissioners, items that may be of interest to you from the Planning Commission, december 5, they adopted the retained topic and special guidelines, and heard a presentation on the special japantown guidelines which will be coming to you in the new year. And jonas. Clerk yeah. At the board, wanted to let you know that the board approved 2251 webster street, 2168 market street, and 2731 to 2735 folsom. Clerk seeing nothing further, commission matters, item 3, president s report and announcements. I just want to thank the commission for a wonderful year. This is our last hearing of the year, and we will be having a celebration today at 5 00. I think its in the notice, hayes street grill. Clerk very good. Item 4, adoption of draft minutes for the november 6 a. R. C. Minutes and the regular hearing for november 20, 2019. I have no speaker cards. Any member of the public wish to comment on our minutes from the a. R. C. And the last h. P. C. . Close Public Comment. Commissioners . [inaudible] clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to adopt the minutes for november 6 and november 20 [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70. Item 5, commission comments and questions. I think were good. Clerk seeing none, we can move onto item 6, your proposed 2020 hearing calendar. Commissioners, traditionally, we keep all of your scheduled hearings and calendars as needed, but if you see any reason to cancel any of those dates ahead of time. I did have a question. I was wondering why july 1 was being cancelled since its three days away from july 4, and i was just wondering why that yeah. So im just curious its up to us. Clerk im not sure im sorry. Im not sure why that would have been. So well reinstate july 1 to regular meeting. Clerk so well just basically have every first and third wednesday of the month and cancel as needed. It looks like it, yeah. No action . It is. We should adopt it. Okay. Can i have a motion, please . Clerk we should have Public Comment. Teacher ah. Getting ahead of ourselves. Anybody here for Public Comment . Can i have a motion . I would make a motion to adopt the schedule, cancelling as desired. Second. Clerk very good. On that motion, keeping the 2020 schedule [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70, placing us under items proposed for continuance, item 7, at 55 hagiwara tea garden drive for the music concourse in golden gate park. It is proposed for an indefinite continuance. Okay. Any member of the public wish to comment on this continuance . Close Public Comment. Commissioners . Move to approve. Clerk to continue . Continue, yes. Second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to continue item 7 indefinitely [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70, placing us under your consent agenda. The matters listed here under constitutes your consent calendar. It is considered routine of the commission unless a member requests to remove the item, in which it will be heard in a separate vote. I have no speaker cards. Would any member of the public wish to remove this from the consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, i need a motion. Motion to approve item 8 with conditions. Clerk thank you. On that item, item 8, to approve the item with consent conditions [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70, placing us under your regular calendar for item 9, establishing the American Indian cultural district ordinance. This is an administrative code amendment. Hello, commissioners. Shelley cal at thtagirone from Planning Department staff. I wanted to bring paul monet up to provide some comments. Good morning, commissioners. My name is paul monket. Im a relatively new aide with supervisor ronens office. Pleasure to be here. So as you know, this legislation was intended to establish the first ever American Indian cultural district in district 9. In San Francisco, were proud of the legacy that the district has shared and led with. Were home to one of the very first cultural district programs, calle 24, and were proud to see how much this has expanded across the city, cultural place keeping, and we believe this is shine light and resources on a community that has long been the fabric of this land, long before it was the city and county of San Francisco. This is a way for us to honor the American Indian community in San Francisco because of the cost of living in the bay area, these communities have suffered from displacement and gentrification both on the side of residents, but on the side of cultural institutions. Were proud to have some of the Community Partners with us today to bring this forward for your consideration, and well be around for question you if you have any. So with that, ill tackle some of the more technical aspects of the ordinance. The proposed ordinance amends the legislation, and we did provide the specific boundaries in your case report. The ordinance also would require the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit written reports and recommendations to the board of supervisors and the mayor describing the cultural attributes of the district and proposing strategies to acknowledge and preserve the cultural legacy of the district. The deadline set for that report which we refer to as the chehs report is set for 2021, so we do have about a year. We did pass the cultural Designation Program back in may 2018, so its still a relatively new program. We have our first cohort of districts going through the chehs program currently, so the American Indian cultural district adopted would either be in the second or third cohort of properties going through that chehs process. I wanted to raise a couple of options for you to consider for your decision today. The Planning Department does have a relationship with certain native americans in the city that are identified as descendants of the ohlone group. That relationship is established through our ceqa consultation process and through our consultation process of tribal and Cultural Resources. We also have quite a bit of archaological groups located in San Francisco, and we have our San Francisco archaeologists today to answer any questions that you may have. We also wanted to note that we do believe that the mandated timeline of january 2021 is a reasonable timeline for the amount of work that we believe the Planning Department would be responsible for, which is generally to collect information in our records related to the Cultural Group and to assist with any Technical Expertise thats required in terms of working out strategies for landmarking in the district, developing cultural assets, inventory, doing general Cultural Resource survey work or any other aspects of our Historic Preservation work program. We also wanted to note that the ordinance does call for mohcd to establish a relationship with a communitybased organization which will lead the chehs effort and Outreach Program for that strategy, and we fully support that communityled approach to the cultural district program. So with that, i wanted to note that we are recommending approval of the proposed ordinance, and that is how your resolution is drafted today. We do not recommend any changes. If the commission has any recommendations to amend the ordinance, were happy to help you through that process. As we noted, paul is here to answer any questions about the legislative process or the development of the ordinance. We also have yulia sabry who is the cultural coordinator from the mohcd. She can provide you information how the program is currently managed and how the indian American Indian program would be foldland into that, and of course im here to answer any questions you may have about the cultural districts role and specifically your recommendations for the ordinance. Thanks. Commissioner . Well, youve already sat down. But you said there were five cultural districts total. Is that right . There are five that are going throughar strategy of development currently, what were calling the chehs process, but we currently have seven adopted sorry, eight. We have eight adopted cultural districts. And what are they . Oh, that is a good test. I should have brought my list. The last adopted was the castro lgbt Cultural Heritage district. Prior to that was the African American bayview cultural district. I do have a list. We have japantown cultural district, which was one of the first recognized by the city, calle 24, soma filipinas, the compton transgender district, and i believe ive listed them all now oh, lgbtq leather district in soma. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Commissioner matsuda. Thank you. I just had a question about the appropriate cultural partners that were noted in the staff report. Would that be the American Indian Cultural Center or thats a Nonprofit Organization, right . Would they serve the community as the nonprofit liaison or how would that work . Its actually to be decided. Mohcd would actually issue an r. F. P. , and folks will respond to the r. F. P. , and folks in the community will be chosen through that process. And julia can answer any questions about how that process unfolded for this last cohort. No, i was just curious. So that will go through process. And then, you do have a lot of good information listed in the actual resolution about individuals as well as venues that are hopefully going to be a part of this process in the cultural district. I would just strongly suggest as you continue to collect this data, that you also collect oral histories of these particular businesses and Community Leaders because we lose people every day, and you want to make sure you collect their stories and make it a part of the record so that future generations will know the challenges that it took to get this far. Commissioner so . Thanks. Completely second commissioner matsudas comment. Ive got quite a bit to say here. First of all, i think this is a really wellsuited time we live in now in the current climate, that i am so thrilled that supervisor ronen draft this legislation to acknowledge the Indigenous People of our peninsula, this land that we look to right now. It is close to my heart, being served on the Art Commission for four years, we have increased 70 our funding for the native American Community. And i really want to make sure that when we draft an ordinance now, we have the ability to be responsible. I want to ask the supervisors to acknowledge all the different evolutions of naming of the Cultural Center. My understanding that since the 80s, it has been named several different versions but in our ordinance right now as its draft in page 4, its only listed as the only original Indian Center is the American Indian Cultural Center. But my urge is to look since the 80s. I believe its called San Francisco American Indian center, and then later on, its called the native American Center. I think its important for different leaders who have lived in this community have correctly represented. Its a bit of a sad to me that we can only go by archaeological positions and not fact. Another thing that commissioner matsuda said, we need to be focused on the Community Representation process because Community Representation are the ones that have the resources to show up in the meetings, but that might not be the Community Representation of the entire native community. So organizations that im aware of, in addition to whats being listed in this ordinance are this one called the association of ramatush ohlone, which is an acronym. Im probably missing a lot of the groups that im not aware of at this moment. I really believe were doing the right thing, and i believe we need to be inclusive. This community has been displaced systematically, and i think we need to do the right thing and be the trailblazer in this. The other part of it is i also need to be placing on the record that i have received some Community Comments by dr. Jonathan cordero and dr. Lana wohljack. Its my understanding of my years having served on the arts commission, its great that we are here making part of the history. And i think that summarized what i have to say, yeah. Thats it. Great. Thank you. Commissioner black . I just want to mention that i strongly support this endeavor. I would like to see and im sure its already being planned as part of the chehs component, but id like to see a strong education component for members of the community. Part of the cultural places are no longer present, so there should be a mechanism of which people are informed of this incredibly important part of San Francisco. I found commissioner matsudas comments to be really well formed, and i support them completely. Thank you. Commissioner pearlman . From a process standpoint, i dont know if they finished their presentation, so i just wanted to make sure thats the case. Well, were in questions. But i didnt know if they were done with their presentations. Staff doesnt have any more information to present, but i believe in the Public Comment section, there are Community Members here to speak. So i do have a question. Do you have a notion of what some of the frameworks might be at this point . I honestly dont. The department does not have a Historical Context statement for contemporary native american landmarks in the city. Obviously, the community can always recommend certain landmarks to be designated, as well, and we can work with someone on developing landmark designation. I was just wondering if something chad come forward tht might be obvious. Okay. Commissioner johns. I think that you made a very good point about the educational possibilities here. And the San Francisco Historical Society which now has a location in the original mint at 608 commercial street is very interested in exhibits of this kind theres about the American Indian cultural districts and other districts. I just had a brief conversation with mr. Jocelyn about the possibility of the museum dp San Francisco Historical Society, rather, getting together with us and allowing the Planning Department to exhibit some of the work that has been done which would provide information about some of these things that are going on. So i do have a question. Shelley, did you want to respond to that . I did want to note for the commission that it seems like some of the discussion is moving into commentary, rather than questions, and we havent taken Public Comment yet. Yes. I do have a question, but i think i missed the name. Julia is she is the programming director for content, and she works for mohcd. My question is or could you, for the benefit of the commission as well as the public i fully support this, but i just think its probably of value if you can explain the consultation process. I dont think in my years on the commission that weve had a case where weve need today do that. The archaeology . So can you give an overview . So i manage the archaeological programs. We review projects to determine whether or not we think there is a potentially significant historical arch owaeological s. In 2015, with ab 52, we added a resourcetype to the ceqa Cultural Resource review, which is Tribal Cultural resources, and that outlines a process that we go through. Basically, when were doing certain projects of ceqa level review, we reach out to native americans and ask them whether theres a Tribal Cultural resource that might be impacted by the site, whether or not theyd like to consult on the project, if they have suggestions for the level of environmental review, whether or not theres suggestions for mitigation measures, and so we do that in process quite often through the department. Basically, anything thats beyond a categorical kpeexempt, we do that. Through that process, we did initial outreach in 2015 where we met with local native americans who are on that state list and asked them if there are any Tribal Cultural resources in the see that they would like to consult. About the main thing we heard back from them is they would like to consider all the Cultural Resource sites in the city could be developed as Tribal Cultural resources, so we developed a strategy for Tribal Cultural resources that has to do with working with local native americans to do interpretation. And so and actually then doing an interpretation that would be done in concert with sort of local native american groups. And so that, you know, this would be a there would be many opportunities through that ceqa process, also, i think to partner with the outcome of this, the Cultural Heritage district, as well. Things that you guys have mentioned already, educational, heritage displays, all of those could be done in coordination with ceqa process for archaeological and tribal process review. Thank you for being put on the spot. Why dont we go ahead and open this up for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to comment on this item . Okay. Seeing none, ill close Public Comment. I think there are some. Im sorry . Yes, there are a few people. Okay. Please step up. You have three minutes, and about 30 seconds before the end, youll hear a buzzer. Please be bold. Anybody, anybody come forward. Hello, commissioners. This is ohlone land. My name is melda maldonado. As an immigrant, i came here in the late 70s. By good fortune, i ended up being very close and working at the native American Center at 221 valencia. This was many moons ago. The people came from all nations at that time. I personally learned a lot, and it was my home for many years. San francisco, and specifically that area, valencia and julian, was the center, where people of all nations came together. There were times, and if youre familiar with the native american history, the people were sent from the reservations to urban areas, and San Francisco was one of those places. But it was also a place in the late 70s and this is my history. Im sure before that, there was more, but i am giving you what i know from personal experience. The people that came many of course there were many native americans of all nations living here in San Francisco. But we also had the yearly different past throughs of migragss, that they passthroughs of sigh gratetions that occurred here; that they would stop to see the family and move on. So the members of the American Indian community at that time were able to meet people from the flat head reservation, from navajo, from athabascan, from every place in the united states, including guatemalans, mayans. And i believe being honored translating for people when she came here, especially for mother teresa, when she came here in i believe it was 1981, before she got the nobel prize. We are definitely here to support the cultural district. Thank you very much for listening to me. Thank you so much. Next speaker. For give me. Im doing this as i do the bath room dance at the same time. Im kind of frantic. So i definitely want to mimic, you know, the inclusion process moving forward. I dont know in what way ill be involved or whether its with the cultural district or, you know, the Cultural Center. One of the things that i did want to give a little bit of context on, theres so much more that could have been included in this ordinance, but just understanding, we had three months, im new to San Francisco. Came from sacramento. Was there for three years. I stepped in and listened to what i could from the community, but our goal was lets get this past in the time frame that we have this momentum. But i 100 agree moving forward that there needs to be additional consultation. I think a way to shape that scope moving forward is in four parts. The first part, 100 is being with 100 culturally affiliated tribes in this area and anyone else who is impacted by termination, relocation. The Mission District, we have not just the ohlones, but people from all over california. The second part, i would say that Community Organizations need to come to the table. What they see, how they can best involve their own communities. Because were not just californiians. Im kiowa, and people are from all over the place, so get people talking to their districts and how they can be in touch with individuals. The third part is timelines for Community Members and having input with individuals and Community Members. And the last part i see helping shape the district is going through preexisting resources. Ive already connected with several professors, elders, people that have lived in San Francisco since that have been part of even the whole alcatraz process, and its been my understanding that a lot of our information has been released to oakland, San Francisco state. It hasnt always been American Indian Cultural Center, but there has been different leaders and different sources of funding, so looking back at that leadership and those sources. So just looking at those, and i hope that we can have one going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is mario demura. Thi this is my coworker, paul. We are from soma filipino cultural district. We are just here in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from the native american cultural district. We heard news from julia that this was on the table and moving forward, and a lot of our cultural districts were really excited and ecstatic and thought it was way due, overdue, that they would be recognized and part of this strategic effort to recognize communities in the neighborhood and also as a strategy for cultural and Historic Preservation. You know, we are all aware of everything thats happening in our world right now, everything thats happening in our city with displacement and gentrification. I think our brothers and sisters in the native American Community can teach us a lot about how to resist, how to learn from them in dealing with issues of displacement, even deeper issues like genocide and colonialism. I think its also an important lesson for us to learn from our native american brothers and sisters about climate in this era of climate change, of global catastrophe or climate cat catastrophe. Good afternoon. Woody labonte from San Francisco heritage. I just want to quickly say, and i think that staff and planning might be aware of it, the latinx content thats in it, the staff has identified a number of sites in the Mission District that might want to be involved in the just process, so take a look at that. Its a little shortcut. Okay. Any i apologize. I just think its really important. I know that were talking about archaeological historic resources. I think thats important, and i think that working with the cultural district and the ohlone, youre going to find that prevalent. I dont think going with the leather district and asking if there are archaeological sites, but i think its great making them a pertinent member of the community, and thats all. Okay. I think we had a pretty good discussion. I would just like to echo the comments of the last speaker. In the consultation process, i was just trying to get at the baseline. As with all of these cultural districts, were just going to want to cast as broad of a net as we can for the engagement, so id just like to speak to that briefly to maybe help clarify . We had the Cultural Heritage districts are fairly different for what weve done for the processes of ceqa and the planning processes that way, so we dont hold the Cultural Heritage districts to that standard. We use the information in the Cultural Heritage districts to inform our determination and process, but we we see them as being actually fairly separate. And so we still have the process for looking at archaeological resources and tribal resources which will integrate with this to some extent, but we usually try to keep these processes separate as we move forward. This is a community process, so we wouldnt be holding our Community Resource standards to anything that came out of this process. Thank you. Any other comments . So whats our action . Clerk it would be to adopt a resolution recommending approval. Right. And so do we have any amendments . We had a couple comments. So, commissioners, so you had a change that on page 4, so do you want to take a shot at offering a motion . A motion to approve with the following recommendation is to recommend the board of supervisors to take another inclusive acknowledging the actual legal statement legal terminology of the Cultural Center through the history of San Francisco. Theres several of them. And then i dont know what else you want me to motion on and the inclusive process, when we identify in the chehs process, to include as many organization and Community Leaders as we can within resource. Okay. Second the motion. Im going to pull for commissioner matsudas comments about oral histories being included, and also an educational component. Probably both are contemplated, but its reassuring to see them in writing. Okay. Shelley caltagirone. Planning Department Staff. I just wanted to get clarity to the resolution. To clarify, the first resolution is to clarify language specifically for the American Indian Cultural Center and its historic names in the ordinance. And then, the other two recommendations are to about process but not youre not are you recommending changes to the ordinance or recommending just generally Good Practice for the chehs process in the future . Mine is really more toward the chehs process, the educational component. It doesnt have to be in the just and ill let commissioner matsuda speak its more inclusive, including all of the communities, especially the young lady about commenting about we got all the communities represented . Im just clarifying because the 30day deadline for the legislation is tomorrow. Ill need to be transmitting your comments today, and you wont have a chance to review, so i want to make sure i get the language correct. So it sounds like one actual change to the legislation to identify the previous names. And then three, summary recommendations that the commission thinks are very important to make sure is included in the process. That being the inclusiveness, the educational component, and the capturing of all the histories the last one, sorry. Capturing of oral histories. Thank you. And i can provide a draft of the of final of your final resolution at your next hearing so you can see what was transmitted to the board. Thank you. So i believe we have a motion and a second. Clerk so commissioners, you do have a motion that has been seconded, and i would just suggest that possibly the amendments be included in the findings in the resolution to the board of supervisors. So on that motion recommending that the board of supervisors adopt this resolution including identifying American Indian Cultural Center historical names and its findings potentially to make this process as inclusive as possible, including educational component and oral histories. On that motion [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70. Commissioners, thatll place us on items 10a through f for case numbers 2019022726 lbr, 2019022727 lbr, 2019022000 lbr, and 2019022005 lbr for various properties. These are all legacy business registry applications. Hello, commissioners. Shelley caltagirone, Planning Department staff. I just wanted to let you know that i have received an email just before the hearing. I have not reviewed the email prior to the hearing, but i have copies for the commission and the public if they would wish to review it. So with that, im going to give just a very brief summary of each of the proposed legacy businesses today, and then, i would invite any Community Members or Property Owners to speak during the Public Comment period and provide further information about the applications. The first is caffe sapore. Its located at 790 lombard street. The cafe opened in 1997 as a european style cafe with med terranean influences. The owner is a chef who has successfully operated many restaurants throughout San Francisco. You may have noticed several recent news articles that have been published and news segments that have been aired highlighting the importance of the cafe within the community. The cafe has operated continuously in San Francisco for 22 years, which you will recognize is less than the 30year requirement for listing on the registry unless a business is under significant threat of displacement. We have determined that theres a significant threat of displacement. Their lease is being terminated on december 31 of this year. Therefore, the lower threshold of 20 years applies to this application. We have noted the following features to be safeguarded. The mediterranean influences, the beer and wine, the catering services, the murals, the original hardwood floors, and we are recommending support for the application. The next application is courtneys produce, located at 101 castro street. Courtneys produce was established in 1971 by patrick and lola courtney. The store stocks Fresh Produce as well as a an assortment of fresh cut flowers. They provide sandwiches and juices made fresh daily. We are recommended approval with the following features to be safeguarded. The neon sign of courtneys, the organic foods, their natural foods, and the famous Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches. The next is ecletic cookery located at 103 cline avenue. It is San Franciscos first and largest commissary kitchen, established in 1984 by California Culinary Academy graduates. This business is located in the Hunters Point Navy Shipyard dock number two, constructed in 1903. It has no historic resource. We are recommending approval with the following features to be safeguarded, the at the same shared kitchen and culinary processes, the time honored resources and character adaptability. The next is gapescape, locate gamescape, located at 333 divisadero street. It was established in 1985 in San Francisco by robert j. Hamilton. Robert envisioned it as a place where the local community and gaming enthusiasts could gather and enjoy the world of tabletop gaming. The business is renouned for the selection of games that fo purchase as well as gathering location. We are recommending support of the application with the following features to be safeguarded. The gamescape logo, the locally hand made sign, the edwardian era retail space, the dedication to offer the best tabletop gaming products and services and their open gaming space. The next applicant is lorna kollmeier ornament taal plaste. It was established in 1988. It was a traditional retailer for ornamental plaster. In combination of its already extensive collection, they hold the only archive of San Franciscos cast architectural sculptural detail. As noted, located in the historic shipyard. We are recommending support for the applicant, and the following features to be safeguarded. The collection of plaster molds and their plaster ornament services. And the last applicant today is the potrero view, located at 1458 18th street. The view is San Franciscos oldest continuously published community newspaper, beginning in 1970. They aspired to emerge into a newspaper that could influence municipal policy decisions, and it began publishing in june 1972. We are recommending support of the application as well as the following feature to be safeguarded. The monthly Free Community newspaper publication. If you have any questions about the applications, im here to answer them. I believe rick kurylo is here to answer any questions about the applications or the process, and with that, ill leave it to Community Members to come speak. Okay. Thank you. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment. Youll have two minutes, if that works, and youll hear a ring when youll have 30 seconds left, okay . Please step up. Members of the commission, thank you very much. My name is janet crane. Im 50 years in the neighborhood of caffe sapore, who im supporting here. I belong to all the neighborhood organizations. I run a nonprofit for keeping seniors in their homes in north beach, and caffe sapore has been an enormous Community Living room for the area for all these years and has been threatened is going to be evicted in the middle of their lease for no good reason, so were desperate to keep them going and relocate them about a block away. There is a slip here hopefully that they can take over. I have a petition here of 1,984 signatures of caffe sapore remaining in the neighborhood and obtaining its legacy business classification because of its Incredible Service to the neighborhood over all these 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 Francisco Planning 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 Alliance Racial 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 little bit more space. And the stairs, you can see here were just at an awkward position, and we configured that to i felt a better condition. And the other comment was it greatly improves an existing conditions. These decks are very unsightly, very bulky, and very large. And the way they were structurally built, they were starting to show some major structural issues, particularly with dry rot. So if a condition is we require the decks to be set back 3 feet, there is no project at that point . Im saying we would have a 5 foot deck. You would still do the project and the reconstruction of the stairs. Thats a question for my client to answer, but i i believe we would accept we would accept that, yeah. Okay. Thank you. Are we still on the historic part . Its a joint hearing, so yeah. Yeah. I mean, im looking at this, and, you know, my understanding would be that the if the existing condition had its required fire wall, it would be in the exact same position, and the new one would actually be smaller. But of course when the deck was built, no one required a fire wall at the Property Line. If they had to pull it in 3 feet, it would cut through theres a sliding window its an awkward plan. Theres an existing window, but theyre putting a slider in there. Its not a sliding door, so theyre replacing it. They were existing. Theyre two sliding doors theres a door on both levels. Okay. Its there its not a window. Okay. Thank you. Do i have a motion . Yeah. I i would move to approve as designed. Approve with conditions. Second, please. And second. Thank you. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion, then, to approve this matter with conditions [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 60. Assistant Zoning Administrator, what say you . Take the matter under advisement based upon the Additional Information provided by the project sponsor to render a decision at a later date. Thank you. Thank you. I think thats a wrap for the year. Great. Were adjourned. [gavel] welcome to hamilton recreation and aquatics center. It is the only facility that has an integrated Swimming Pool and Recreation Center combined. We have to pools, the citys water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. Exercises for everybody. Hi have a great time. The ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. People think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. I have been coming to the pool for a long time now. It is nice, they are sweet. In the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in San Francisco. And also ensuring that they have public safety. 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From more information, visit president cook peace, peace, and glad youre here. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Unified School District on december 10, 2019. The meeting is now called to order. Roll call, miss casco. [roll call] clerk thank you. President cook thank you. Tonight, id like to open this meeting in honor of flo kennedy who said dont agonize, organize. Section 1, general information, accessibility for the public. Number 2 is teleconference information. There is none tonight. Section b, opening items