I think ill just make a couple comments and thats just that i note there are a number of different issues swirling around this planning code change including both the design which is not before us and also the labor issues which are also not before us. But im really glad to see that through this process facilitated both with planning and president chius office we are able to resolve a number of those issues before the [speaker not understood] came before us. And i think it certainly will make for a stronger business presence on that corridor, having resolved many of those issues prior to this coming to the board of supervisors. So, congratulations on that work. Thank you, supervisor kim. Colleagues, are there any additional comments or questions on item number 3 . Okay. Weve adopted the amendments on item number 3 and as i understand it we can move these out of committee today. Is that correct, mr. Givner . Okay. So, colleagues, i want to just thank supervisor chiu for bringing some disputes around this particular legislation and the project, and supervisor chiu, i know, and his staff put a lot of time in and brought the parties together. And i was concerned for a while we were going to have a major dispute today, and i think supervisor chiu, thanks to you and your office and the work that you all put in, we now have apparently an agreement. And, so, i think thats exactly the way the process should go. I think this will be a terrific development for union square. I think it will be a positive thing. In addition to the jobs it will create, its going to be good for people visiting union square. So, im really pleased with this result and i will entertain a motion to put this out of committee with positive recommendation. So moved. Ill make that motion. Motion by supervisor kim, and well take that without objection. [gavel] madam clerk, can you please call item number 2 . Item number 2 is an ordinance amending the planning code, zoning use district map zn01, to provide for eligibility to sell Transferrable Development rights for property at 133135 golden gate avenue st. Bonife church and rectory ; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1. ~ golden gate avenue. Okay. And supervisor kim is the author of item number 2. Thank you. As we go through the planning code changes, really glad to see this come before us today. Colleagues, i want to thank you for considering this item to change 133 through 135 golden gate which is also known as Saint Bonafice Church [speaker not understood]. This change to allow them to sell Transferrable Development rights to fund the rehabilitation ~ and preservation of this very Important Church in our tenderloin community. Our hope is for the church to continue to be a place of beauty and also respite for parishioners and neighborhoods, residents. As many of you know, this anchor institution on golden gate between leavenworth and jones is an Important Institution to the tenderloin neighborhood. It houses the [speaker not understood] academy which is a school that serves many of our poorest and most lowincome students fourth through eighth grade and helps them both transfer to high school and has been boasting some good College Acceptance rates with its graduating senior classes. And is also the home of one of our programs which allows homeless residents to stay in the church during the day and includes a Breakfast Program on friday mornings. Which is called the gubia project. Its also between the new Saint Anthonys dining hall where we have Many Community organizations serving our lowincome and homeless population. I want to appreciate the Planning Department and their thoughtful work and understanding their desire to assist saint bonafice to [speaker not understood] and in developing a framework for evaluating this proposal to guarantee their rezoning is in the Public Interest, acknowledging that many other buildings may also want to be eligible for this type of change, but figuring out what the framework is under which we would allow this. We do have a precedent and that is st. Marys church in supervisor david chius district. With the set of criteria established, i believe help to bolster communities support for this project giving neighborhood stakeholders the comfort that this would not produce unintended consequence either to the neighborhood or the citys carefully crafted tdf program. Because of the Planning Departments careful a analysis sis, the Important Role in the community, our legislation has received a broad range of Community Support and i know that we have the Planning Department and we also have father tommy from st. Bonafice here along with edward [speaker not understood]. I want to give st. Bonafice and [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Both the Planning Department and our commissions reviewed this and it is of utmost importance we make sure that rezoning such as this which would confer the ability to sell transfer Development Rights are only done when it is in the Public Interest and not necessarily in the private interest of the asking party. In this indication, the proposal passed with flying colors meeting all of the criteria and was recommended by approval unanimously both [speaker not understood] and Historic Preservation commission. Thank you. Thank you. Father tommy, would you like to come and comment as well . Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is father tommy [speaker not understood], the pastor at st. Bonafice church. We serve many critically and important [speaker not understood] in the tenderloin ~. The building itself is the tenderloins most distinctive and dominant landmark. Spiritually its a place of peace and tranquility. It also provides a place of rest for many San Francisco economically disenfranchised and homeless citizens. The architecture, the art and particularly the century old stain glassed windows provide humanizing beauty. And filled with dehumanizing poverty [speaker not understood]. During the day people come in to enjoy the beauty, the quiet for a chance to pray, meditate, or just gather their thoughts. The church is also hosted for nearly a decade now. It will be a project as supervisor kim mentioned. The project provides space in the back half of the church for people to sleep and rest during the day. Many of the people on the church pews were on the streets the night before because there were not adequate space for them in the shelters. Also having nowhere to go during the day at a time when the shelters are closed. Any given time during the weekdays, anywhere between 40 and 90 people resting in the pews of saint bonafice. You might imagine opening our doors to so many people takes a heavy toll on the building. We also provide one of the building to the [speaker not understood] academy, a private Catholic School which serves 4 through 8 grade students with families in the tenderloin area. Because parents only pay 50 per month, tuition is covered by scholarships. [speaker not understood] and advance to Sacred Heart Cathedral high school. Approximately 80 of them go on to college. For students in the tenderloin, that is an incredible statistic. The majority of the people is the [speaker not understood] serves are very poor. Many work two or three jobs just to cover the high cost of rent and to feed their families. Our parishioners are multicultural. Because of their high level of poverty, our parishionerses are able to contribute very little to the income of the church. As a result, we do not have adequate funds to cover the cost of preserving such a very large building. It what completed in 1902. The great earthquake of 1906 destroyed nearly the entire structure. Miraculously the main tower and two accompanying towers of the church remain standing. Those towers were incorporated into a new building constructed in 1907. Therefore, the church as it stands today includes the most prominent architectural feature from 1902 with remaining built from [speaker not understood] and upon ashes of the original building. The churchs most beautiful architectural ornaments are the stained glass windows. The 27 hand painted windows are designed by the premiere art glass designers in the world. The collection of the church represents only a few remaining complete examples of this genre of church he he in the united states. Having with stood past 105 years, the windows are now unstable. The [speaker not understood], the glass is cracking and many of them are in jeopardy of complete destruction. A recent proposal estimated the cost of restoration at about 2 million. As i mentioned earlier, the church barely has enough funds at any given time for substantial operating expenses. It would be impossible for the church with limited resources to begin such an immense financial undertaking as repairing these hand painted stain glass windows. To restore the stain glass, the church needs a new and substantial source of funds. If the church were allowed to sell Transferrable Development rights, we anticipate over time we would have sufficient funds to complete the restoration of all of our windows. Without those funds as a stained glass continues to crack and break, they will have to be replaced. If that occurs we will have no other option to put temporarily put plywood over the windows, [speaker not understood] clear glass. And if we can raise the money, that would certainly be a travesty. The church is a landmark worthy of preserving for all the citizens of San Francisco and particularly for the people that call the tenderloin their home. The church has long been known as the oasis of the tenderloin. Community sub for the for the proposed restoration has been overwhelming. This is the following list of the supporters. Tenderloin neighborhood development, Community Housing partnership, university of California Hastings College of law, Episcopal Community services, mercy housing, Saint Anthonys foundation, alliance for better district 6, tenants association, coalition, and San Francisco architectural heritage. We are also grateful to receive unanimous support from the Historic Preservation commission and as mentioned unanimous support from the San Francisco planning commission. This is a great cause and one that will help preserve this landmark for future generations. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for your presentation. Thank you, supervisor kim. At this point can we proceed with Public Comments . Okay. We will open it up for Public Comment on item number 2. I have no Public Comment cards. We have one, but then i got a note that this person will not speak, edward solesky. So, is there any Public Comment on item number 2 . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] and, supervisor kim, would you like to make a motion on item number 2 . Sure. I would like to make a motion to forward with positive recommendation. But again would like to thank all parties for their [speaker not understood] through this process. We want to be really careful when we expand on potential sites to the tdr program that we arent oversaturating, that we do have the framework by which we enter in other parcel. I think the church is a perfect example of the type of parcel we would like to support through the tdr program. It is both contiguous to the zone area and is also a Nonprofit Institution that serves such an important need in the tenderloin community. And i just want to note something that i really [speaker not understood] over christmas, the students actually do a free concert for any homeless residents to come to watch them sing and carol. And i think thats such a wonderful way for young people to learn how to give back at an early age. And again, it could be a project could be an amazing place. I wish more of our churches were able to did that. We have a limited amount of daytime dropin centers for homeless residents in our city, the good will project is really one of the few churches i know of that opens its doors to everyone in the city. Its just really just an amazing resource and i want to appreciate all the work that you do and really fulfilling your mission through your church. So, again, want to move this forward with positive recommendation. Okay. Supervisor kim has made a motion to move forward with positive recommendation and can we take that without objection . Yes, please. Okay, without objection, that will be the order. [gavel] madam clerk, is there any additional business before the committee . There is no further business. Okay, then we are adjourned. [gavel] thank you, everyone. [adjourned] loud. Is here. Yeah. The administrator ms. Kelly is here my farther supervisor katie tang is here and supervisor yee is here and freddie price and john is here with the 3 doggy heads man i didnt memo and jack and the school is here loyola yeah. We have diane scott. It wasnt quite a glorious day when the doggie diner feel detain from its perch. It was very sad i wondered if the defendants exhibit no. I think was going to be up here thanks to an Amazing Community work and the dpw head the doggy head was put back up. Now like most celebrities the doggie diner had to get work down and thank you to the amazing dpw surgeons i want to bring up the doggie diners best friend mayor ed lee tammy thank you, very much this is dear to you happy valentines day everyone this is where i like to spend my valentines day. We did so for many years after the falling of the our doggie diner head and the responsibility the city took place as an example for support for something thats part of our history. I know the historic Beach Society is here they appreciated what we did and john log did moot example of what we can do with the doggie diner head hes been responsible for you want to thank him over 51 thousands of funds raised to kick start this clapping and i hope john that we can provide the example of what they will look like its fit and shiny and with the honor of the history no big changes beautiful work. Thank you, thank you. I want to say Welcome Elementary School fifth graders. Yeah. I know those are moments they can enjoy the history as well but they social themselves with a fun icon and i am so happy to be here with you and guess what their wearing giant shirts and thats because of the great work of public works theyve taken the pledge to honor as kids and they take care of their neighborhood so youve taken a great pledge and you understand what the giant sweep means its using baseball and i want to thank our supervisors they also worked not only to keep their neighborhoods clean and beautiful but to honor us with their appreciation with this history and thats part of our cities history so thank you supervisor tang and supervisor yee and our city administrator and public works director and staff is here. Theyre part of the magic as tammy said theyre the sculptures because its their little inside talent that pulled this off for me. Over 10 years ago when we said look we could utilize the skill set of our city flez employees they took their time and came back and said by the way, that pole you used to have next to the restaurants we need a sturdy pole that wont fall down when the winds get tough and honor this for a very long, long time. I was out here mohammed and naomi said can we get a little facelift before valentines day so you see the product of what john lay would do the same with the heads its perfection from a historians violative i like taking over this boulevard for the right reaps and for all our doggie diner thufkz how about a clap thank you, everyone for helping all of us revisit our history and appreciate our neighborhoods and art and appreciate icons and all the things it means to us and while we cant take ourself back to the 1960s if theyre good things why dont we will make sure we continue good things for our city. Thank you very much for sharing this moment its fun to be out here clapping. all righty thank you so much mayor ed lee. There are snacks back there and posters to memorize this wonderful day lets bring up katie tang the supervisor. Good morning, everyone this is a my good friend john over there. Hi. Well, welcome everyone i had the great pleasure of living here i drive by the doggie diner everyday. I thank you to dpw and everyone who takes care of the doggie diner heads. Were in our office we have a coloring we put together and it was put together by ashley and we feature the doggie diner head its a cool part of our district and today, i want to thank everyone for being here and celebrating many days valentines day and wish everyone a happy day thank you very much clapping. i want one of those coloring books katie. I see the lines now also on that side of the street is another supervisor district 7th district they share the doggie diner head so next up supervisor yee clapping. thank you you know, i. So jealous that its not on my side of the street laughter but i guess anyone else can visit the zoo and will get to see the dog head. I want to say one thing the first doggie diner that opened in San Francisco came in 1949. I want to say that was the junior i was born so ill also remember this as a symbol of it laughter now Everybody Knows how would i am. I want to really thank the kids for being here and helping to celebrate it momentous day. What do you think i like it a lot. There we go; right . You know, i want you to i cant remember seeing a head thats that beautiful good job dpw thank you very much clapping. you mention a fungus someone told that because those dogs are manny mow and jack now i know it shares a interest with supervisor yee maybe we can name it norman. Next up our administrator naomi kelly clapping. happy valentines day everyone. All right. U love Elementary School who let the dogs out we did, we did. I just want to thank the men and women of dpw especially the theme cert and the automotive painter they are the teams that worked on the recession project and poured a lot of love does he sparklin sparkling . It is a great landmark this doggie diner head was the advertisement forbidding for the doggie diner recuperate a block away and now its a city incongruous people get to enjoy this and people visiting the San Francisco zoo we get to all enjoy this beautiful doggie diner head with a new fresh coat of painted we have a lot to celebrate today. Thank you clapping. so naomi was talking about and the mayor ed lee and supervisor yee now to get some real background on the doggie diner head well bring up ms. Scott hi, im a neighborhood resident and cofounder of the Ocean Beach Historical Society ordered in 1999, to help Small Business owners. Try to get this gentlemans leaseback we didnt succeed in saving that business but it took off because of the doggie diner. This is for v nor valentines day and v for victory both are connected to the heart why did the doggie diner become an icon first of all, because its fun. The late howard who designed it founded the first doggie diner by the beach a block away and wanted to work with walt disney and it didnt happen but he create art have a high goal and continue doing wasnt you want. Many bay residents love this this reminds them of the beach and the pole where the parking lot is now. New visitors to this neighborhood love it because of the way it gets us to laugh on foggy and ation i didnt days we know it as the object of the spearhead prevention thats the doggie diner design it became a symbol of love for the people of the neighborhood of something were fighting to save it made front page news and people signed petitions we ate at the recuperate that was b. A. Pa block away including then supervisor gavin newsom and supervisor yee made that part of his Campaign People worked together to save is and have fun. Still that wasnt enough so Mother Nature gave the battle a push and the windstorm it was in april of 2003 something had to be done is mayor ed lee got a nose job and paint job and it looks like it is restored. The moral is dont give up on something you love or find it right find people who think like you do and youll have victory and fun clapping. yeah. Thank you very much. And talking someone youll notice the Kick Start Campaign the man wholesale been taking manny mow and jack around in a truck 20 years. The conserving of the dog head john. Thank you tammy and i really want to thank the city for doing an amazing job on the dawn dog. Im a professional sign maker and the job the corporation did on it this dog head it is shinier then back in the 60s. I want to say when i first came to San Francisco i sue the doggie diner head. I took battering over to berkley and many years it was chaez and this was a million years ago i was a kid and thought that place is crazy this is where i want to be right here over a restaurants theyve got this giant dog head. I forgot about it and i ended up with a series of accidents and ended up to take to party and ended up with a second one and i i7b9d up with a third one when my girl found it in the in return. Weve been. Org doing this for years and its expensive those things are 10 feet high the van i haul them around it eats up the gas we raised up enough