Planning Commission Regular hearing for thursday, september 8, 2016, welcome back commissioners, i trust you enjoyed your recessed id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner hillis commissioner johnson and commissioner moore commissioners first is consideration for items proposed for continuance item one1 cashmere street conditional use authorization and is proposed until september and case no. Two at the Market Street an appeal of a preliminary in relationgo negative declaration and next at the townsend street conditional use authorization is proposed. Continuance until november 10, 2016, and item 4 for case underscore two for chair wienerier the discretionary review authorization have been withdrawn the Zoning Administrator will consider the variance it remains on the agenda during our recess and infuriating under the consent calendar item 5 for case you 2016 at van ness avenue conditional use authorization weve received a request from members of the public and now from the pertaining to continue to september 29, 2016, and under the discretionary review authorization calendar im pleased to announce that item number 21 at he vermont street discretionary review that has been withdrawn i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. I ask that item 20 and b be turned because of submittal is incomplete for us to properly consider this project for the appellant not following for the commission to look at no photos or buildings sections no property depiction of juan property and the modification of the project this project fails to meet the standards as so forth in the plans submittal guidelines i ask for you to continue. Second. Is that a motion to continue all other items as proposed as well as 20 ab or just 20 ab. Thats 20 ab im obviously supporting the continuance included those as item 25 and asking for adding 20 ab. Second. We will need a date for items 20 ab maybe accepted 29 with the joint meeting with rec and park has been cancelled and opened up that date and thats fine by me. Commissioner johnson. Ill make a motion to inaudible so say proposed continue items 2, 3, 4, 5, 20 ab and 21. As proposed. Thank you 21 is withdrawn. Sorry not 21. Thank you, commissioners on that a motion to continue as proposed commissioner bobby wilson commissioner hillis so no not about 20 ab ill rather hear that item. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion 4 to one with commissioner hillis voting against commissioners under our cds exceptional or extraordinary all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. You now on have the one item number 6 cu at the beal street conditional use authorization. Okay. Any Public Comment on the items on the consent calendar. Not seeing any, Public CommentPublic Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Move to approve second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to approve item 6 under consent commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion unanimously 5 to zero and places us under commission matters item 77 consideration of draft minutes for august 4th and 112016 i received one correction from the member of the public that dully noted on there the minutes for august 4th under the discretionary review authorization calendar item 15 for Russel Street the action item number 3 so indicate setback the top floor one and a half innovate not inches. Commissioner moore. You move to approve together with the modifications as read into the record. Second. Thank you, commissioners then on the motion to adapt the minutes for august 4th and 11 as corrected commissioner hillis commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. Commissioners that places us in under item 8 excuse me commissioners, comments or questions. Commissioner Vice President richards. A couple of things we were gone 4 weeks a Welcome Break we added the fist thursdays next years id like to have a break if it permits, however, take on the labor day this is in january or december just wanted to say this is my second year on the commission as of this meeting and havent missed that meeting im having too much fun it is 2 years. Two things a hundred things i could have brought up ive read in the chronicle on wednesday august 31st there was an article on high rents in the Alameda Health department and doctor said that hypertension with increased rent associated stress and cost depression and schizophrenia by the Health Department of old weve talked about with that and the stress of not knowing youll have a house to live in next month or leave the city is cowgirls u causing Health Problem and an article in the negotiate time in terms of losing their legacy businesses and loot negotiate stores you can buy in new york theyll going out of business and struggling so happening all over thanks glad to be back. Commissioner moore. Presenter commissioner Vice President richards companionship commenting on ts the extension so appreciate that and looking forward to seeing us change the rules in regards to next year i want to speak about the request that is dawning on me id like to see the Department Work with the commission on compiling a list of small institutions their imp and the gross he projections we tweak small institutions and solicitedettled cases but that particular thought kind of jogsd any mind the cumulative effect of a lot of small things in the ends all amount to a big thing many of the small institutions has 200 plus people gold for a longer than or short tdm and we need to track that relative to the legislation this was introduced by supervisor peskin regarding looking at Student Housing and imp improvements to address the issues i think this came to me did not i was having a quick coffee with commissioner Vice President richards and charged about that and i think this is a perfect opportunity for the department all of us to be prepared to look at the next level of impact im very interested to see what is suggested in supervisor peskin in supervisor peskin legislation to come forward and talked about that has a professional for the imps dont give the department enough the evidence will then show or unnecessary enough Guiding Force to help make them equal amongst each other for the city to deal with the institutions and thats a positive encouraging comment rather than a negative comment otherwise thats my comment for today. Commissioners fuminga few weeks ago drourments. Thank you joansnas and commissioners hope you had a great break he wanted to take a moment to rewelcome someone into the department peter it has come back to work part time as the manager of Transportation Plan most of you know peter well in the city for over 30 years and retired last july laughter but couldnt resist us so just byword of some budged peter worked with mta where he was the prierlg the initiatives program and the liaison from sfmta and the office of Economic Workforce Development prior worked on urban design and related issues with bart and before that with the ta but more importantly and early in his a access peter worked with the Planning Department an architecture assistant in the Transportation Planning group and the preliminary thorough of the then transportation element that was updated at this time so we are very pleased to have peter back a backward in architecture and planning from cal poly and san jose state and got in San Francisco for 3 2 years pleased to have him help us with the Transportation Plan we are managing with our ta and mta and i think that peter will be with us foyer 6 or 7 months to make a transition to 9 months peter welcome back. Would you like to say your 8 nature months away from retirement. Again. It was easy to find my way back to the microphone id like to be back very much a full circle criteria by the way, good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioner the last big project for the Planning Department was the update of the transportation master plan good afternoon common sense and staff the case is an approved the bus school for bus and marketing and technology through france and expand to other parts of shanghai and San FranciscoSan Francisco program an intended as a study abroad discretionary review any student to study for a period if 10 days up to 10 weeks and it about expose the students to American Culture are the Toolbox Industries and having 6 to 8 sessions between 20 and 80 students parting in each the number of planters is expected to vary within the range and the school didnt own any property and leases 61 square feet of space on the floor within the c3 their entity e inevitable to file a master plan and high hire additional staff and participation is open to any boulder students and to find their lodging during the stay the department has no Public Comment and no action required of our the commission has discretion discretion to hold the imp and this that concludes my presentation. And im available to answer any questions. Okay opening it up for Public CommentRonald Morris im sorry project manager. Iemzm sorry, im sorry are you with the project sponsor come on up sorry. Commissioner thank you very much for allowing me to speak about the impact of our campus here we set up this campus and started the program in january of 2016 we have had 40 students come for a 10day project and two sessions of 10 weeks just under thirty students and andrew did a fine job founded in 1925 and in london and now here they are what we consider to be satellite campuses and students are getting a International Dimension and a strong focus is come back r came back with practitioners in the Public Sector or in the Public Sector and for students that have emersed session and all i can say that so for the students are absolutely enthusiastic about the experience and leave here and become ambassadors for San Francisco all around europe thank you. Ill city for any questions. Stick around and open up for Public Comment now and calling ron morris im sorry, i got it all laughter . First. Do it again, i was wording r on one hand. Any Public Comment on this item . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. And commissioner moore. Im of those institutions and saw the students having the ability to dive into an International Exposures given the world is one practice and having said that, comment to you my point is reminding the correct that the discussion i asked for is part of a our work list lock conceal at the cumulative number of smaller constitution for a guidance including mr. Albert mentioned earlier thank you au. Thank you. Fumingat this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes. This section is not supposed to exceed 15 minutes i have seller speaker cards. Okay. calling names good afternoon and welcome back from well deserved vacation this testimony pertains to other neighborhoods on initial comments on august from tthe your own guidelines and the 21st 2016 draft promised neighbors a 5month period of neighborhood u d g draft subcontractor and the fundamental to those guidelines is the idea this Good Neighbors make great neighborhood and great neighborhoods make good grades please work from the neighborhoods want our pride month of commentary and Public Outreach and the community and the neighborhood organizations must be con ductduktd planning outreach to involve bio last night engagement between the Decision Makers and the staff and local land use groups additionally theyre going to propose the comments needs to be expended as theres been insufficient time to conduct and incorporate Public Outreach into the n u d c draft brother the Planning Commission, Planning Department target gate of october 80 were asking for the indefinite deferral or extension of final consideration of the u d gs until the 2017 xenld residential guidelines has bn been property and embedded which should occur communicating curling with the perspective unusual guidelines and not happen without the interval corporation the results is the creation of the january 21st u d g executive summary and the guidelines themselves the neighborhoods cant tell whether they are intended to apply to citywide including the n r zones district or in just mixed use or other places as well and whether or not there are intended to replace the existing your own guidelines element thank you very much. Next speaker, please. And folks that have called or have speaker cards if you want to line up on this side make use of 15 minutes. Good afternoon commissioner my name is lisa im the president of the liability Hill Neighborhood Association and speaking as a concerned resident since any board has not taken a position on this matter were concerned that the we only heard about the document draft your own guidelines and by happen stance we were under the envision the commission will revitalize the guidelines roughly around now in the fall and became aware this entirely new document had been drafted and that caused a serious concern for us particularly because we were promised 5 months in the draft document it talks about Public Outreach and review from february to june of this past year and none of which occurred the urban Design Guidelines cantonese language that maybe the over arching review document in all of districts for all buildings and this raise he pretty serious concerns for us in the low, low density liability hill is a Historic District and this really causes some concern so we would ask particularly that you postpone the target date of adoption is october it 22 for the your own Design Guidelines until the Public CommentPublic Outreach and has to be accomplishments together and not one ahead of the other thank you. Common sense and commissioner good afternoon aim matt i a cofounder of the neighborhood counsel and a 34 resident of city last month the noah valley and the Telegraph Hill submit correspondence to you and the planning staff advising of the serious concerns with the roll out for the guidelines and two nights ago we hosted a Community Meeting notifying other organizations to share their concerns they might have one of the things perhaps the most important for the scent that these the adaptation of urban guidelines so be approved the Planning Department pro tems promised the Community Involvement in an external review and the simple fact that has not happened and perhaps the more importantly was the proposed relationship of the urban guidelines and under this proposal it appears that the residential George Washington high school will be marginalized subordinate to the other guidelines and most important tool for the wellbeing scale will be rented omnipotent i point out to the case report we since then were told the guidelines might im quoting more modest projects it assertion was disconcerting the noah valley and the fellow organization replacing urge to move the inner guidelines to next spring that allows for the 5 processed of the external review for the adoption of the urban Design Guidelines and strengthened residential guidelines ultimately leading to more cohesive Public Policy thank you. A couple of items id like to distribute to the commissioners if i could please thank you very, very much im stan the president of the Telegraph Hill twitters and here to talk about the urban guidelines the most important guidelines to come before you october 20th for adoption over a month from now in january, the as you heard the Planning Department skeleton a 5month process and external review, however, here we have with the current draft without any outreach to the communities and organizations im joined. Q by a number of organizations and colleagues from around the city to make sure that outreach occurs that the results are incorporated under the wise draft about you before you consider their adaptation and one of the reasons some of the their talked about in the letter that are distributed a couple of initial reasons not only consultation for the community and neighborhood organizations but second the current craft is not resisting the policies third too many of the examples that are in the guiles of the modern highly your honor, in his design not representative of the character and and i thought of residential neighborhoods throughout the city so not suited for Design Review fourth the design the craft is incomplete and prematurity and not having a full implication with the residential guidelines i understand as much as a year away and fist in the guidelines are written can be there cut by a waiver from the staff so we you, please please, please assure that the outreach and Community Organizations occurs revised and recirculated the draft incorporating the elements and bring it back allowing the time for Public Comment and because that will take longer than october 20th please extend the deadline until it is done i think all of us look forward to working with you on this process to make that very, very important step as discussed we all preserve thank you very much . Good afternoon and welcome back my name is paul wormer a resident of Telegraph Hill dweerlz a delegate for tsthe coalition for San Francisco neighborhood i want to amplify one point and im referring to the narratives of the executive summary if the january 21st meeting of the commission in that executive summary it is afghanistan big as to the raelreal premisecy or lack of premisecy for the existing design element we have as you may know already urban design and urn destine section to the general plan and an existing residential element in the memorandum there is a reference to the new guidelines being sort of preempting what may be part of general plan it just ambiguous so others have requested and ill request the staff tells you specifically where the hierarchy of the general plan those guidelines will fit first of all, are they to be relative to all neighborhoods including our neighborhood capital our neighborhood or only going to be relative to mixed use or transient districts thats an important point and given heart burn to people not sure of the thank you and e cigarette e secondly, where in the hierarchy of elements is this are those guidelines to be are those mark farrell guidelines of the department which are not part of general plan in which case what kind of of a review case to the implementation or the cooperation secondly, if they are to be part of general plan where are they to be in the hierarchy and then feinstein where in the hierarchy have will this plan and the new residential plan be to each other none of that is made clear and those points are important points to be clarified in those hopefully will be clarified soon thank you for your time. Good afternoon, commissioners wellbeing from our hiatus ill request in the sunshine ordinance that one and 50 words have smooths the hierarchy in relation to the general plan and in relation to the prop m an unclear and come format needs to bto be examined and relationship to the existing residential guidelines needs to be clarified it is important to get this right those are also included in the article 7 legislation that you will voted on october 13th the waiver provocations to say they dont have to apply begs the question where write them deleted and requests further postponement for all other public members and i submit thank you au. My name is marvin and i appear to ask really the commissioners for some information about the status of gil kelly the person that is leaving as planning director of the commission and the nature of my interest in the status stems if his duties on the Sea Level Rise issues that have been recently the subject of a great deal of of con controversy and interest any interest is that of a private citizen so and i ask basically, i agree that hes taking his job as commissioner in the city of having an cover starting september 15th im assuming his status will terminate sometime after that and are you in a position to tell me who will succeed him as planning director and who the deputy Pricilla Chan director has been and finally the question if as a private simulate im interested in the issue of the Sea Level Rise can i look to in the Planning Department after commissioner planning director loaves and get information about the Sea Level Rise issue. Maybe if i could protocol gill was the director of citywide planning and his last day was friday and i didnt say mean to diminish. But for the Public School record im not leaving the department as of yes, but Maya Angelou Gil cosponsored and his position with the department taerl in the hands of adam but ill give you the information with the Sea Level Rise. Thank you very much. Surely. Edward mason like to submit for our consideration an editorial in the newspaper in the park that discussed the facebook expansion and a regional vision and facebook will build 275 Office Buildings important 9 thousand plus square feet and another hotel for more square feet with the expansion will add 6 thousand 5 hundred employees to the current 7 thousand plus and housing study opportunity by facebook realized that only 18 current facebook employees in bat out of hell heaven and others it conducted that 65 employees will have impact on the lemon Housing Market creating demand for one and 75 units of questioning logic and planners are voig alarm out growth and housing as resulting in upward pressure of low prices and widening gridlock from the campus half of facebook employees drive cars to work and facebook will increase the generation to 4 hundred and 38 in bound commuter vehicles the development will financing benefit the middle eastern low park but worsening the transportation and housing facing the region as Standard Practice of the permitting jurisdiction to extract cash pamphlets without having communities with significant and uncontained impacts now, one is well severed by major proposals sealed through the lens looking at for its own interest and citys what move away if the regional problems i came away with this talking takeaway currently are over thirty commuter buses on 24th street and you additional to 26 and van ness about 55 an hour so you have a bus a minute going through 26 and van ness so with this addition doubling any question is what are we are doing on a regional basis between planning, transportation a there nos to be some resolution to this bonding situation and apple spaceship theyve awakened the 280 to that plan thank you au. Good afternoon, everyone. Commissioners pardon me ill make a general statement is it so relevant to an item on the agendas i cant speak specifically but go to a service a long time finance person and her services in oakland i would suggest that has there are efforts to encourage and make that easier for developers to provide housing for speciality market one of the things they have to be cause about as with work and Business Services in the early days of grepz to sure to make sure that there is no cheating is really tight and i think there is a tendency to fall on good intentions and have to make up up the good intentions and were dealing here in a market environment with every con sizzle creek of the Housing Development has a profitable incentive as you consider efforts to deal with the Housing Needs in various ways to create the proposals ill encourage you to make sure that the city and public has the monitoring in place and the enforcement and the penalties to make sure those good intentions are catered rried out thank you au. Sue hester the city is replacing a director the city as a role to play and more than Sea Level Rise we the whole scheme in the planning code from transit fees and housing fees and housing requirements on this side of aisle and coming from the Planning Commission it came from people giving long a. D. With us testimony on the connection between the expansion of the commercial district and the needs for housing that was in the 70s and be pardon me latest 80s is the Planning Department doesnt intern lists what the connection at the level of the community does we have dropped down in San Francisco to not being a model for the rest of the area there should be Affordable Housing requirement all from San Francisco marin and B Santa Clara and the gentleman spoke about in palo alto was true i talked to someone on the East Palo Alto hes with the state housing and the City Council Amendment what air struggling with trying to get cities menlo park and palo alto to deal with in terms of Housing Construction everyone post prop 13 is looking for taxing and San Francisco absolutely is no different that is driving what were dealing the. Org pardon me district economy every time we have an opportunity to say come on guys put on a housing requirement on the on palo alto and san jose and take the burden if San Francisco all the legal buses in the world they dumb their projects on the mission and comes back to San Francisco that doesnt naturals with with you didnt naturals with the plans so we have all the stresses on housing and a lot of crazy what is the Planning Commission what the the planning director and the mayor doing and the board of supervisors doing to say hey guys build housing in your communities because it is an impact in San Francisco thank you au. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners and welcome back to what is as entertaining fall series i have a question slash comment by the way, the timer didnt seem is to be going regarding the proposed reservation of article 7 i asked him it and will be digging more i nodded it appears to be eliminating the proposal that every two 2 years to be a report on what is going on in the neighborhood commercial district that is an interesting piece of code there is one report on what is going on in the neighborhood commercial districts in the 30 years since the legislation was passed so clearly that requirement was not fundamental but how did the Planning Department understand and how will you understand what are the trends evolving and plays into the decision with conditional use if youre not aware of changes that are going on of the eventually of busy practices in the neighborhood commercial districts as a interferences to everyone leaping on who one direction and suddenly goes out and the disruption that falls on streets the loss of Neighborhood Services that have resulted in part because of the trends, because of assumes that the market will miserablyly solve the problems it but how much disruption youll accept and what is happening with if there is not some regular analysis of what is happened, where the vacancies and what are the trends accompanying are those trends go or bad potentially whether or not are the ramifications where is that analysis come from and who is responsible for that thank you. Any item general Public Comment okay jemd and director rahaim. If the commission would allow me to respond to come up of issues in general Public Comment first of all, with respect to the guidelines we have 20 hearings to update you but we fully intend to expend that Public Comment period and two Public Meeting and skelthd for as question speak to be in touch with the neighborhoods and working with them and continue to work with them on those guidelines and the point is welltaken we need to explain the residential guidelines those are meant to be on ero arching guidelines not replacing them but be a higher level of project guidelines with righthand turn to the regional i was surprised to hear the comments weve talked about our work and i daresay San Francisco is involved in the region ive personally testified easy counsels and may be seated with efficiently folks that are proposing 3500 units of housing on their campus and strongly urge them and working with arockbach and one of the major issues weve monitored in the planned area the need for abag to seriously have the housing on the parks in this region and certainly not just in San Francisco and continue to update you on the regional issues and happy to do so in the future but assure you the department is hooefl involved and will continue to be and critically in the region and city and commissioner Vice President richards. A few things wow. A lot of pentup comments this is interesting a couple of things active more than a couple director rahaim talked about the University Guidelines some type of a historical summary and what they apply to in terms of size in districts and relationship two the two sets of guidelines and which one is the residential guidelines it helps everyone understand what the two are for and love to sit down and have a chat over lunch and the one im surprised and the Regional Planning issue hoping it is interesting to hear that people having want a planning solution it is hard without the control but coordinate and give some level of control that is carryy but how we do that is something well have figure out because were giving up control weve e well have people asking for more control i agree with a lot of the commenters is regional solution is neon the comment how people can cheat on things that we put out there with great stipulations but learn something from the technically community and have bonds and systems we should have a hawk fund to find loopts and regards and close those loopts before we pass the legislation will be a few looptsz and loss of things we have notable intentions but not thinking like the people that want to communitybased though the loopts and last what is interesting i was going through any many, many commissioner Vice President richards im going to interrupt you those issues are not on the agenda but some other time. Can i comment on the neighborhoods okay. I was going through any paperwork over the last 10 or 15 years and came across the nc 20 i look at the date were at nc and talk about the last things in the nc controls in the 80s thank you for reminding me not to go off topic secretary. Director rahaim id like to say flashlights drourments you can add having a meeting and update you guess on current or running issues so the regional issues stay in focus and i appreciate your thorough response to the questions. People hold closer to the dooishs for the shaping of the city and the agency but is future of the city is a positive thing for all involved including the agencies and into this has allowed us to bring hundreds of thousands of people through a traditional workshop format and truly pioneer piece of work undertaken by the your own bank on center it is this is a bright issue for public life and participation throughout the city and highlights the cross relationships for perspectives and a lot of people to the important topics of what the city should look like in the future and with that, im going to turn it over to my partner with the making sure that thing will come off that hitch with all the actresses involved ill introduce katie changing thank you very much. Good afternoon commissioners. Turn that on. Need the computer if you want to use the lower mike. As neil mentioned this is a really important project and an exciting way to test ideas and new processes and were doing it again this year this is a picture of what Market Street was like in hiss its had a day and with Market Street something we can test with the eir bringing back the life to Market Street looking at history to history will repeat itself in the near future talking about the details of this festival we had hundreds of submissions this is from last year but this year many submissions from people from all over the region and a selection of projects we are being fabricated pretty much as we speak on Market Street on display for 3 cases the criteria were generally favored things that create engagement accessibility and exclusion and a prototypes youll see encouragement and engagement on these this is a map showing where the prototypes will be on the website if you want to dig deeper into that we worked with many partners to pull this off with yerba buena arts is our main partner but county pull this out with the public works and theres the Mayors Office of innovation are helping to guide this process as neil mentioned we have lien hooefl on private partners to help us lead the prototypes to Companies Like autodesk and psa to help us to combrsh enrich our we have it rated on the tack in this consideration of the festival and our community includes members from the sro collaborative to the Community Investor program and Market Street use services and gallery and other places we tried to broaden our outreach including people that may not be prototypes themselves but be a part of the progress as well so talk about a little bit more before that later so it is great and fun to do those things but how to measure the success we have an expensive report on our website but doing the same thing this year, the colloquy to measure that and if youre murray your successes in our case Pedestrian Movement and engagement is some prototypes are doing better and measured and do that again, this is a little bit how we have doing the process of evaluation and. So it is prototyping our process with outreach and engagement so this is a shot of the open house we did last year and this year we have the artists present a small portion what is great i love about that im not behind any tables we have Community Members open to the public event coming and talking with people would their own ideas and the conversation are fascinating sort of shifting the ways we engage with each other and talking about the issues and well have a series of images to show you the prototypes of last year a lot of them focused on interaction with people in the streets and great to see them in the financial district and embarcadero and to you know we put it out there and was really able to see what is important to people bringing out joy and interaction is great to see so in addition to the 3day festival we are we have fund raised to the the team from last year to come back and talk about their process and have a phase roll out for those will be insulate in october and a few more shots from last year. And in addition to the theme of joy and engagement this thinking about how we can bring positive activities as night lifetime and the artistic elements introduced to the sidewalks lastly the shallow stale is the prototype i talked about so those communities people got together and lead them through a series of experiences to create their design and design theyre small tail decided on in the central of market and other prototypes in october and then this is just a shot of youth team we have 14 students from around the cities that are involved in the design and architecture internship their fab r fabricating their ideas and will be installing their prototype along with us in the festival as their suhr their ideas are and getting them engaged in city discourteous how they want their streets to be and so festival from october 6th to 8 were excited about and trying to get out the word and having tours well innovative you and get a oneonone tour well invite you to speak with artists. Open up for Public Comment if there is any okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Scombhoer. This sounds fun as we are having our planning Commission Meeting on october 6th we should take a walk we never do practical things but a way to see how is it works. October 6th. Okay. Very good idea. Any other commissioner comments. Commissioner johnson. Yeah. It sounds like really interesting i remembered the last festival is not too to far and yeah excited commissioner moore and i will head out. Director rahaim. Thanks i want to thank cia and neil and the whole team and particularly to the partners at the y b c a and the grant members has been funded through a private foundation forgetting the name google and the national for the yards are the leaders and the park place is the Leaders Foundation that looked at community and grinning e bringing cities together the real success is both in the process how the pieces are create but how to get people to interact on city streets that is positive and existing last year was a Great Success were looking forward to another round and what happens on Market Street as we go forward and happy to get the commissioners out there a group or individually and figure that out for the actual festival. Thank you commissioner moore. We could start 11 and do a walk through as a group and experience it together that will be really, really nice to see a fresh start and leave it up to you to follow up. Tu prhank you commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to on po require a zoning map amendment good afternoon, commissioners aaron starr, manager, legislative affairs. Next item. Will amend the property on potrero the the truth was rescoped as part of the mci to a miblgd residential hits height and bulk was changed the open space was zoned and intended for properties to be used as open space for parks and natural areas this is a developed property that is privately owned and not p as part of the eastern neighborhoods the department believes the height and bulk distinction from 40 to o s was a mistake the project sponsor has requested it be changed and the department is recommending it be changed to 40 x that of those the height zoning and with the proximity of park next door and the department has several letters if the public and those letters were constituent in your packet and one additional letter is here if you want to review it there was a letter if the rec and Park Department included in your packet discussing the concerns over any future development on the site that concludes my report. Thank you au. Okay opening up for Public Comment calling names . Is that who you were calling hi, im a 20 plus residents of district 9 a gardener and i know youve received petitions and received the letters not a large number of us were able to be here but a large number of people that are verified if this from the artist colony under threat by this the this colony and garden spice collectively used to be known as the farm ive been in the space 71 and from august in the city and one of the oldest artist communities in the city the commissioner that is not here spoke earlier about the importance of preserving the citys last legacy in the changes in the city and this colony is a huge example of the legacys the culture is changing and those are the kind of spaces we need to preserve and the garden is right into the property is south of the garden we are in the northerly atmosphere without the sun we cant grow if those highrises go through no more dwarnd it is the Second Community garden in the city and many people have been gardening for that 20 or 30 years imgone no point ii go through nor my Cancer Treatment and it is more importantly for me a huge part of my life people bring their children down and teach them of growing plants and things you have good access to in the city i have a neighbor that do not to st. Anthonys it is tremendously important thing you know to raise this hyatt you can build taller buildings all over the citys this this is not an appropriate place for be happening and reiterate from the garden from the community at large like there are a few of us but we are he representing a large opposition to this and yeah thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners my name is carina Community Gardener at the place gardens borders the property site ordinance change id like to just talk about the sites because of the 55 x space in the nation and my objection is on the id like to support of x 40 and refer the commissioners to a presentation to each of you by the garden cooperated and a hard and soft copy if you wanted a reminder and in support of garden a few points to make in relation to the garden and how is it can be threatened by its borders and this is not a correction of and zoning error but from the Planning Department recommended 40 x height and as discussed the Community Garden is an important resource and affordable resource for their families and friends there are currently 40 plus in the gardens but one and 16 active members that relevancy a large ethic diversity and large age exist and an equal stunt for people to come together and garden this is for fresh food and the ideas it promotes healthy eel and respect the environmentalist s and this would take a whole afternoon to impart of the significance to everyone and a part of rec and Park Department award from the unique garden an important city and one of the 17 natural award wishes and in the shadow from 149 two or three he 7 on the edge of the gashd it effects a nuke of property and predicted the building will increase in size this will only get worse and you know gardens such as there are important for zones and particularly at the edge of the freeway and around you know it is important in that respect and if you look at a number of areas around where the garden is not having a garner are fishgsz so the summer in the current height will negatively effect the garden and i appeal to the commissioners to reject the proposal thank you very much. Okay is there any additional Public Comment . Good afternoon commissioner and jim im the representative of the project sponsor and just want to say we support the staffs recommendations to go to a 40 feet height not suggesting to a 55 height we agree with the gentleman that is a the 40foot height is appropriate in the ooermentz plan and studied in the eir a building on the prophet a 2 Story Building that building if a twoStory Building casts a shadow with the building that occupies the property is he we deep respect the shadows on the garden but want to make sure that the commission thinks there is a building at the property a twoStory Building not a project proposed but anything in the future has to go through the showed and garden were really here it was offered to sell the property to rec and park and at the declined is an interest in the property to go to rec and park but were asking for the zoning to be cleaned you and happy to follow staffs recommendation here for questions thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello my name is ivy a 20year residents of San Francisco and a 10year gardener and i have an artist space in the property in question like any friend mentioned earlier this proposal to increase the height limit will threaten the garden as far as the shadows that will be cast by increasing that height limit on proposed construction and it is an Incredible Community asset as both the past speakers mentioned i know that people have lived and worked in this Community Space foreclose to 30 years so in the face of what were experience in San Francisco now with the basic massive change to the landscape of the city this is an Important Institution and remember now just about casting a shadow on the garden but talking about the displacement in the art colony that is located at this space and a question that i dont know what the Environmental Impact statement but this is a flood zone and capping if we were to lose the Community Garden space we have be to cafeteria not to cap let you the space especially in this year area we want to commend advocate for the garden and thank you for your time. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Thank you to the public and to mr. Starr for taking this on with a thoughtful consideration of what is going on i appreciate the representative of the appellant b. C. Being a proactive stand in the garden and looking with big eyes at director rahaim we do need open space an urban gardens are more than anybody can spell out and perhaps talk with the president of rec and park or whatever i make a motion we approve with modifications as proposed by staff second. Commissioner hillis. Just a question for staff on ththis because it is odd we see a parcel zoned open space so before eastern neighborhoods what was the zoning. Mci light and industrial. It had a height. 40 x. So thats what the height was i agree with the motion to the folks that testified everybody makes valid points they have is parcels that are zoned to open space and generally, we look to the future development to shape the development knowing there are several to be developed knowing there is open space and taken projects and modified them to minimize the impacts to open space just abag because is it so zoned 40 not the entire lot will be 40 analytical a project being built there are other processes this needs to go through im supportive standardized adjacent to a large site 40 x. Okay. I think thats all jonas okay. Very good. Commissioners that places us on item 14 and i apologize. Theres a motion thats been there is a motion that has been seconded to adapt a recommendation with modifications commissioner hillis commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and commissioners now that places us on item 14 Student Housing exemption inclusionary housing requirements a planning Code Amendments. Good afternoon. Im criticism i cant and filling in for any colleague the item before you is. Enough people. Sponsored by supervisor wiener regarding Student Housing requirement this planning Code Amendment will reduce the master lease time requirements if 5 years to 2 years. Today ill be recommending approval for this legislation and my colleague will be joining us to make a comment currently the mandates the secondary institutions are a conceptual agreement with a 5year term the ordinance reduces from 5 years to 2 years and the costs associated with the elementary lease with the educational institutions dont have the ability to Something Like that a long term lease and reduces the Financial Burdens on the education San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission it allows for an institution to see how the building is run and not tender theyre built to develop their own housing and given that the city is facing a storage of Student Housing this ordinance can encourage production of more Student Housing lastly id like to note that currently Code Enforcement cowboys have exempt if the inclusionary requirements upon exclusion of lease term in the owner choose to convert to Student Housing or Group Housing the proposed legislation mincedaintains this position that concludes my presentation. And we ask you recommend approval the proposed ordinance and the drafted resolution im available to answer any questions and Sophie Hayward is here if the Mayors Office. Sorry to i had to run upstairs but good afternoon, commissioners and common sense im power from supervisor wiener first of all, thank you to Monique Mohan for drafting the report as staff report highlights there are short summary on the order off 40 thousand student beds those 40 thousand students extradite so for the housing a few years ago the supervisor wiener asked for more Student Housing at the same time the general population housing is not permitted Student Housing is generally exempt from the inclusionary requirements is longer the Student Housing remains Student Housing and if the entitlements later decided to convert that at that point the project will cover youll see inclusionary requirements plus interests and this is no way changes this is provided in two ways would be where the educational students build their own housing or another where one of more come together and master lease the building that is built by a third party in the latter six we ask for the lease be a minimum of 5 years and as the staffer report pointed out those 5 years with significant barrier for educational institutions for a variety of reasons the recommendation changes the minimum lease duration from 5 years to 2 and as suggested but be various institutions and lulled committee in the year. It is important i was going to reiterate the point that raised by some out outside of this building didnt alter the requirements and lease 2 years the legislation will require a master lease end and become giving up and due plus interest when we came up with the 5 years we had the decision originally no magic to that on this came up from 5 as weve learned people are building and using Student Housing building that is a barrier for the education of the program so lastly i want to thank California College of the art and the Golden Gate University and the park and the theatre and the Conservatory Museum and manufacturing and the California Institute of studies this is in your packet sorry i ran from upstairs. Okay opening it up for Public Comment doctor peter m calling names hello commissioners aim peters dr. A research we represent the city and county of San Francisco employees but supporting this policy amendment we also have brotherhood supported inclusionary housing in San Francisco for some time im here to call your attention as a new policy to amend the policy section after reading an article on the policy amendment it calling your attention that the California College is modifying the language if inclusionary and secondary education institutions wed like to point out that cca is exempt i have a master plan from april 2015, however, it was submitted and not required for the cca Student Housing projects prior to the start of this Academic Year and the planning code didnt require them to have the requirements for imp but having a volunteery update on this year and the letter was submitted to the planning on year and the letter was submitted to the Planning Department the reason theyre exempt the Planning Department for all those years even until the moment in our eyes has determined that cca is not a post secondary school and exempt if the imp rules how are you theyre arguing for an exemption theyve take advantage of from the section so it is like cca is tunney advantage from the rules and exemptions from the inclusionary housing and they need us to hold cca to the rules to move forward fast with less public scrutiny and i submit the various documents on this issue thank you for your time. Im waiting for the clock to reset. Ill just im nationally 0 green here on behalf of of the 1021 we represent the cca i want to elaborate this should be of concern we support what peter cohen was saying earlier that the new addition to be enforceable and if someone is not complying with the code and taking advantage of the planning code bans theyre a Vocational School a concern out of the capacity and for cca not a secret im about to reveal theyll close their school and it is in their report to the board of trustees and Public Information but didnt appear as a document that cc as has with the board of supervisors and not in the documents theyve submitted for all the projects in the San Francisco campus and presuming others impacts that will come up in the purview of the campus explosioncondemnation we believe the process should be fully trans period of time and glad theyre supporting some projects on Market Street and good not a substitute for the city code thank you au. Good afternoon. Commissioners my name is j p watching and work for one of the largest Student Housing in the area most recent project on 9 and mission both of osthose are for 5 years and since that project has been a lot of schools interested in housing i believe director rahaim you visited our school and what we founds a lot of positive interest amongst all students organizations in the city and they would love to sign leases with us and but they cant until after 5 years weve heard this is too much physiquely and you know the time period so weve heard under not only weve heard skills that signed the letter but a lot of folks want if interest is a shorter lease term once we have those we can start new construction in the city since were here we very much support the term from 5 years to 2 and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you au. Sue hester i believe you can solve all the problems day or give some direction that helps to resolve them i dont object to the lease to this change but the Planning Department has a big mess on Student Housing the big mess is complicate by the robert who was Zoning Administrator cac and that can be resolved you have a requirement to fill a master plan and the imp should have disclosure of this college being closed and open and you have information that is very good summary in your packet the housing gets built at least and you have the letter if 9 institutions saying help build housing i know the huge expectation that is on the list the second largest institution didnt sign the letter and they run four Profit Housing not owned by institutions but owned by private investors and about to hit you in 2 weeks i suggest that the Planning Department seriously look at the Student Housing issue for hearing 2 weeks from today you have 7 pardon me Residential Hotels 5 Residential Hotels and two other housing before you in 2 weeks in the academy of art the academy of art owns zero housing for Profit Institution doesnt own its own housing the it is controlled for by Profit Institutions so there are 4 prove leases you have to insist on role good information we have an institution that has a 20year exemption from thats a really nonprofit Arts Institution and we have a renegade for property that is mushroomed into the city. You should resolve things i dont have any objection to this protective being approved but the Planning Department has to shape up you have ais an outlined imp ruling from forming Zoning Administrator theres a theres way outofdate it can be corrected administratively and hey cac has to foil an institution and correct it thank you au. Okay. Is there additional 9 yes. Good afternoon. Im paul wormer pr i do want to endorse this proposal legislation i think that is very important that academic sdpugsz u institutions be a vocational or otherwise bring in students from out of town do provide adequate and appropriate Student Housing in particular should be strongly discouraged if taking over Residential Properties and creating Student Housing on properties that can be singlefamily homes or otherwise available to the rental market thank you. Okay is there any additional Public Comment . Okay Public Comment is closed. Exposure. Director rahaim to my recollection not aware of the past ruling what can when i seen the cacs institutional master plan i comments on it being the more thorough plans and if indeed something that needs to be corrected lets bring cac who are in need of a responsible institution into the folds that whatever it linking if the past can be corrected i have a hard time accepting is comments made by the public in the absent ive witnessed for the last 10 years the institution is responsible and doing project which were done ahead and when people were not thinking of building pdr and joint have you ever seen with sfmade, etc. If you could help you in commenting that would be helpful im in supportive of this legislation i had a couple of questions about the, 2year reduction timeframe and raise questions of pintspenalties we dont have a at the Monitoring System that gets to thing that are caused when things have happened and their difficult to rectify i have to make that has a comment we are not deciding on this particular legislation but i hope the board will be able to put additional teeth teeth into this so that indeed the intent of what were trying to support will be executed to the letter of the words were approving thank you. Commissioner hillis. Director rahaim. Actually, i was not aware of that ruling pardon me from sometime ago in the west from the previous Zoning Administrator basically says that cac is a Vocational School not a post school and not to submit a Municipal Transportation Agency plan but two things theyve done so voluntarily in the same manner, and, secondly, if they move their operations or practices from oakland theyll be technically required to submit a plan well get more information but thats my understanding and we have an imp on file from cac like point other institution. Thank you sniffles commissioner bobby wilson. Weve heard a bunch of issues from imps and grappled how theyve worked so well have that discussion eventually and agree with the xhrmths you you know cac kind of seems like an constitution that should file an imp and they didnt file an update with changes because what weve seen as cac being a pretty good artistctor and taking steps to rebuild and looking at steps from projects that are done and contemplated their cac relatively small or moderate sized institutions in the landscape out there providing for housing for the students i think is great so anything we can do to encourage for institutions to build housing it is stripping they didnt do it in 5 years but theres no harm and should encourage the change to happen as far as the enforcements we should make sure that the students in the projects should be relatively simple to enforce given the Student Housing projects being built i encourage this and recommend approval. Commissioner Vice President richards. Im very supportive of need for Student Housing and taking things out of the way for two questions that come up that struck me as i read this unfortunately, if they lease were not to be renutd the housing became general Public Comment housing what requirement in the percentage or fees are applicable the time the leases started or evident and ms. Hayward a question for you, too. So tail be subject to the inclusionary requirements not exactly sure the time so like no 25 percent requirements we have to report to the feds if we recommend if something happens in the future with the percentage when a which one will apply. It will happen when it no longer is used as Student Housing but at that moment in time. A question for ms. Hayward we heard someone speak and the mortars enforcement is only good as the integrity of the process hidden it can you tell us what that process looks like i saw what was written how would you talk about that. So remind the housing and development mohcd is about responsible for the monitoring i want to make sure there a clear line. Code enforcement with planning. Right. And the Housing Units on an annual basis just the reverse if a project were to convert to i assume marketrate housing or any nonStudent Housing theyll have to report on a monitoring form and theyll initiate the enforcement procure or the fee collection procure and owe the inclusionary fee plus interest and still disclose theyll initiate because there the violation a. We trusting the institutions to see this is no longer the Property Owner is no longer as we do with many cases i mean at the time of approval all Student Housing their notices of special restrictions and their condition of approval calls out any changes regardless of Student Housing requires the floifks ill say curable two projects subject to this monitors if not we certainly will scale as appropriated it will be great do have other institutions to provide Student Housing from 5 years to 2 years doesnt impact our nutrition saw so you still go out and locate the institutions or call and say the Student Housing lease is up. Ill be honest we have two right now is it so easy to pick up but technically if it were a larger portfolio theyll say 0 cotton us and i hope we can be active with it im supportive of this i think that is a good idea. Commissioner johnson. A quick question to understand this this is for if theres a building; right . And then a post secondary institution wants to use that housing tail sign a lease that says there are conditions that says this is for Student Housing and convert to other status. Hold it i dont want to go into the mr. Larkin world but one point of clarification Student Housing has to start as Student Housing not convert from another form of ourselves to Student Housing. Thats a thought all right. So my question is around the 2year t so thank you for clarifying that i thought wait a second i thought it Student Housing where does that number come if if youre a post secondary institution and your part of the Growth Strategy having 5year master plans and pay those costs while you developing the Student Housing so what we know in San Francisco sometimes things take a awhile whats the rational i agree with it but want to know what were recommending. That will be a question to ask the institutions theyll testified at the Land Use Committee for particularly for the mid to smaller institutions that will let you know what their cash situations will be that is challenging for them and having a shorter tomorrow that will be giving them more flexibility as what will happen ill point out for example the master lease for a building Student Housing institution a at the end of the lease term institution b can come in and not like after 2 years theyll have to sequester to Student Housing but basically, the ability to basically plan and have money available to lock up the 5year lease. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner moore. Id like to make a comment that goes back to an exercise month universities and institutions have students stay at the Student Housing for the predicament lengths off their times of studies i want to see as to whether or not this is a tool by which Student Housing what is intend do be gets turned over to an appropriate average study that a student spends the monitoring element as ms. Hayward between the institutions and the housing felt that housing remains available to upcoming students rather than students that choose to study as at least has the benefits of staying in housing for students that are active in studies i think also see that institutions would you mind coming up participate in the monitoring so ultimately the proof of enrollment this creates a timeframe for students have to move on or get out of there would you comment on that. Sophie hayward from the Mayors Office of housing ill point out the lease is with the post secondary institution and not the individual students so it was the onerous is on the school to assure that students are active enrolled not providing housing for people not students thats part of monitoring. We need to find someone that is able to spell it outs to a level we feel the report were giving to the legislation on the other hand, has an objection to operate and whyd conceiving concluding the studies to move on i appreciate that gets brought forward as this moves on 0 the board of supervisors ultimately create the teeth this is legislation needs to have thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt the recommendation for approval sxhiflz commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. And all appreciate that some of the commissioners comments could be added and forward to the board. Thank you. Commissioner Vice President richards. And commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. Okay jonas the commission will take a break be back in approximately 245 commissioner if you conceding for the record commissioners would left off on the regular calendar. December 2015 009 815. [reading ordinance] good afternoon commissioners. David sanchez with Planning Department staff. Presenting a ordinance initiated june 26 and it goes into man the planning code officer parking code and control. This is chief objective to update these controls to conform to the changes enacted by phase 1 of the planning code with organization project. This project began in 2014 to make the planning code easier to use and resulted in changes to about 30 of the planning code. The propose updating of aussie parking phase is about the best example of running the code from the changes from the organization project. These tables are used to determine parking requirements based on user activity. These tables are currently out of date and when his references that are not found in articles 1 and two. This audio cd discretion. The ordinance also proposes clerical and typographical corrections. These include directing proper essences and the like. Commissioners, this forms the bulk of the changes proposed in the ordinance. However, lastly the ordinance does propose certain minors of two southern changes to the today. These are better to align these fiddles with the cities transit first policy as well as with the general direction the cities are controls taken in recent years. One example would be the bolstering of conditional use findings for requests for parking above recently permitted [inaudible] besides require their quest to demonstrate additional parking does not unnecessarily burden pedestrian or bicycle travel as a result of poorly designed parking facilities. I like to take a moment and provide you with a copy of the signed ordinance. The copy in your packets is not signed by the attorney city attorney, as a matter of procedure have to provide this to you. That concludes my presentation. Well before that my recommendation is to adopt the ordiances propose. I conclude my presentation im available for questions. Thank you. Thank you. Im open up to Public Comment. Not seen any, Public Comment is closed. Perhaps commissioner stuart mr. Hillis i moved to recommend approval moved and seconded. Get commissioners on emotion than to adopt recommendation for approval, commissioner hillis aye johns and aye moore aye fung aye so moved that motion passes unanimously 40. Commissioners the places also on item items 16 a what about cases 2014 [reading ordinance]. Good afternoon commissioners. By the Planning Department staff. The project before you is about the project authorization and office devoted authorization located at 63 fulton st. Under the downtown project authorization budget request exceptions perception 148, when current section 152. 1 aussie loading requirements of section 270 and 272 would exceed the limitations within 200 identical district. Under the office bauman authorize the project requires authorization of up to 89,000 nine and 79 ft. 2 of office from the annual limit of office development. The propose project is located on southeast corner of the intersection of wholesome and hawthorne street within downtown commercial support zoning district. The 200 height and bulk this. The site is also located within downtown plan area and the filipino Cultural Heritage district. The site is occupied by sevenstory one 74,693 ft. 2 Office Building that contains 1100 ft. 2 the ground floor retail