For continuance item one filbert discretionary review is proposed for continuance until september 2016 item 2 Inclusionary Housing Program planning code is proposed until december 15, 2016, item 3 for case 18th street conditional use authorization is proposed july december 16th and further under our regular calendar item 14 for 854 cap street the address shown incorrectly on the agenda therefore needs to be continued the proposed date is september 29th thats. Case 2017 cu a i have no other items proposed for continuance i had one speaking for item one opening up for Public Comment on items on the continuance calendar richard. 62 filbert street the other applicant is stephanie and paul were requesting that the commission reschedule the hearing on the agenda from september 29th to a new date that works for us as well as the sponsor id like to briefly provide the context for this review the matter was originally scheduled for hearing on january 21st the 21st hearing was taken off the calendered but the project sponsor when we learned the day before the hearing that the project plans submitted to the Planning Department misrepresented that a roof deck was existing when it was not the new notice date schedule for a continued hearing was today september 15th the sponsors didnt comply with the signed notification requirements to the Health Commissions was again postponeed because of the importance of the issue it was cancelled to attend a Parent College weekend out of town and be able to attend did hearing the reason theyre not here they rescheduled the college drip and are again out of town the 34r579 proposed new hearing date even if september 29th on todays agenda he is chair the california state bar ucl on september 29th there was a meeting scheduled months ago in san diego agriculture of the chairs of all of the sections for the state bar as chair of the anti trust section the gentleman is general Obligation Bond to attend the state bar meeting no san diego who immediately identified the Planning Department of the closet but the proposed new date of september 29th had been placed on todays agenda he is acting as our counsel in the project sponsor can have a counsel so too the doctor applicant the Planning Department staff recommended we contact the sponsors attorney and negotiate a date we folded the recommendation and offered the sponsors attorney 6 different meeting dates we were able to attend october 27th november 17th and december one and 8 and december 15th we understand from the staff that december one is available we we request that date other openings other than the other dates thats fine with us too. Calling another speaker tom thank you, commissioners tom reuben, junius rose on behalf of the Property Owner and, yes to summarize we would like to keep the september 29th and go through some the background and clarify we were scheduled for january 21st there was not a misrepresentation there was a missed date made by both the Property Owner and staff about whether the deck was legal or not we discovered it was not to sought of on abundance of caution we applied again to legalize the deck and added more caution issued a new 311 notice to make sure the neighbors were you aware that resulted in a declaration until june the 311 notice ended and enable unable to get another hearing because of the doctor schedule and summary vacationed we acknowledge this requirement of at least two more weeks is our own doing we posted the poster it was due on labor day the fifth and posted it the next day out of caution we agreed to a two week continuance until september 29th to make sure there was absolutely no questions about whether the public and the neighborhood had notice and now were faced with potentially 6 weeks or more of delay and we couldnt agree to that with the dr requesters and ask that the commission maintain the date of the 29 i would note that mr. Oreilly has stated hes come for his wife theyre both at the household the dr requesters weve been told ms. Reilly that she can attend and equally represent their interests on the 29 so inform obesity or impartially there we have our own support 20 letters of support from the neighborhood that would like this hearing to go forward on the 29 and this is an abbreviated discretionary review under the Planning Commission promoted forums this wouldnt be coming to the commission for consideration we think that it can be ably discussed on the 29 thank you for your time. Thank you is there any additional Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. And commissioner moore. Move to continue items 2, 3, and item 14 as noted by secretary owen and he would ask the rest of the commission to comment on the presentation on filbert im prepared toe move it off december 1st like to see comments from other commissioner and commissioners ill only add since the advice of the planner december 1st is closed to additional drs there are the next hearing date the 8 and also the possibility of skooekz it on the 17 only two drs scheduled for november 17th. Commissioner hillis. I mean on item one im open to continuance when we get to into that back and forth about calendar that would be great in october back in january it has been kicking around not prepolluted the dr requesters getting together and work this out any time earlier secretary owen. If you like. I i know the october day or night that was proposed. We could add it to october 6th as well. I propose that as well. Thats you made a motion already anymore and im prepared to support october 6th assuming that date is workable ill agree with commissioner hillis that we shouldnt be dragged into what really is a negotiation between people appearing in front of the the commission not we have to look at it obviously with no bias in anyone in the drs so october 6th and second. Thats property on the calendars very good shag. Yes. Please. To continue items 2, 3 and 14 and commissioner hillis supervisor coppel commissioner moore. And commissioner president fong. You snauchl 4 to zero and places us under our consent calendar 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 removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 4 for case no. 2016 cu a at polk street conditional use authorization. Any Public Comment on the item proposed open is consent calendar not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Exposure. Move to approve second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to approve item 4 under consent commissioner hillis supervisor coppel commissioner moore and commissioner president fong snauchl passes unanimously 4 to zero and places us under commissioner matters commissioners questions or comments. Commissioner moore. If i may jump ahead of the wanting welcome our new supervisor coppel none has acknowledged he sits here welcome to the game. Thank you. Ill extend that welcome and this procedure as well as us been many times on that side and glad to have our expertise and thoughts as umgs interesting mixed of eclectic mix i think youll add a great benefit. Is supervisor coppel. Thank you all for the the good welcome id like to first start off by giving some respect to commissioner wu and commissioner antonini so for their years of services. Thank you for mayor ed lee for the nomination and the board of supervisors for their support and supervisor president breed for the direction also really honored and privileged to be up here not taking this lightly and thrilled to be part of conversation thanks. Fantastic welcome again. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to move on to department matter directors announcements. Other than to also gratefully welcome supervisor coppel to the commission no directors announcements. Item 7 review of past events board of appeals in Historic Preservation Commission Hearing yesterday. Good afternoon, commissioners aaron starr, manager, legislative affairs. At mondays land use a proposed extension of the emergency room prohibition on the quatro special use district that proposes extending the existing prohibition on storefront and mergers of grandchildren seven hundred and 99 gross square feet in the inspection for an additional 8 months the quatro generates the properties on 22 to the north and cure to the east and cesar chavez to the south and cap street to the west the land use hearing no Public Comment and no discussion the committee voted to remedy the item to the full board also at the Land Use Committee the preservation staff took part on the status even if lgbtq Cultural Heritage proposed no 2011 as part of western soma planning effort the Department Staff conveyed the strategy rather than one tied to a particular geometry like the castro or the tenderloin staff discussed the need for the audience to be in the forest and some progress on the front and staff testified the budgeted will be sought in the 20162017 budget members of the public representing the lgbt night life urged the community to accelerate the Cultural Heritage district on tuesday supervisor wiener introduced a resolution urging the establishment of the lgbtq Night Life Working Group and the office of Economic Workforce Development and the tragically to convene with the goal codify preserving the lgbtq night life including drafting and enacting a strategy at the full Board Hearing this tuesday the board heard the appeal of the conditional use authorization and the environmental determination for bryant street on june 2nd it was approved that consists of doortodoor 6 building with 3 dwelling units and the communication of a 6 story mixed use building with marketrate dwelling units and 3 below grade approximately 12 thousand square feet and 84 Parking Spaces it provides roof deck and two necrcoast guard and meets that by dedicating the land but has to be 89 dwelling units and the project was modified by reducing the number of marketrate from one 96 to the 1 and increasing the being able from 2 to 5 subsidizing the grants first year 4 thousand of pdr and an agreement to pay for the privilege related to the 12 thousand square feet of pdr use the boards meeting lasted 5 hours the ceqa review was faulty the exemption relied on the eir and the eir was up to date the plan doesnt establish the caps or limits again use the information of the Impact Analysis the actual growth didnt render an eir and staff Police Department that ceqa mandates the cpes to yield unnecessary paperwork by the adopted Community Plan the appellants argued the; p didnt identify the gentrification the City Attorney and staff explained the social impacts doesnt effect the environment the appellants claim the appropriate issue for the the land dedication didnt meet the code requirement it only has the loss of 3 dwelling units the remainder is part of a large project authorization which is subject to an appeal considered on once night by the board of appeals it was consistent with the mixed use meeting the open space and the inclusion requirement by land dedication the mohcd has certified not only meet but exceeds the code requirement and the supervisor campos said the project was greatly improved for him the question of the heart of the appeal does this project do enough for the communities the community will be better off if this project was approved rather than denied the board uphold the cpe and the conditional use authorization also at the full board the approval of the proposed quatro special use district interim controls and, of course, the configuration of mri and joel the new introductions were not online but supervisor wiener has introduced a resolution urging the night life Lgbtq Community that concludes my report. Thank you, commissioners. Commissioners one more item i want to bring up should have been in commissioners questions or comments i wanted to share a conversation take place over a number of weeks and most and commissioner moore brought up the occasion we have those meetings they go to midnight and supervisor coppel is off easy with a lights load part of youre welcome but to level those out and not have mega part of that attempt and see when we look at the forwards calendar it is difficult wanted to share a couple of ideas and thoughts commissioner johnson and commissioner Vice President richards as well as commissioner moore have is shared victimized that we that may or may not want to try out to do look at of a pilot one of them staring the reasons meeting started at 10 00 a. M. That maybe a professional conflict for some but in those super days get us out earlier when we predict a super day we cant start earlier and the other thought to actually come pile the decreasing to one day a month to focus on that detail and bringing up others experts related to the drs and residential building and the third one potentially especially high impact calendars to reduce the minutes and the Public Comment that is generally not a well received but the dr comments can be reduced to one minute and the Public Comment to two minutes dropping to one minute and all of those are part of a special heavy calendars days so jonas and staff did research on other commission it is typical that two or three it used in some occasions one minute were not changing but adopting that at the discretion of whoever is sitting in the seat and the standard rule of default applied i want to i want to put that out there and obviously down a few commissioners but want to share that conversation with you. Okay coming back to item 7 the Zoning Administrator requested that i report to you regarding the board of appeals action yesterday as alluded to by mr. Starr there was one item on appeal that you had heard at 2000 bryant street with the large project authorization the boards denied the appeal and upheld the commissions moving on commissioners to general Public Comment not to exceed 15 minutes at 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 reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. I do have what speaking and georgia swedish. Good afternoon. Welcome good luck and have fun i think you need more ability to monitor alterations by requiring the project sponsors to send photos of deem 0 work to make sure it is not tantamount to a demolition our dealing next week with the 317 and should be considered as you deal with that the new demo caps are very good possible in the packet not on the 317 plan i had a grant when you didnt consider it i understand that that is a problem but glad you added a unit that was a positive thing and enforcement people often say oh, ms. Swedish file a complaint bombardment octavia after the fact is hard determining the existing number of units in a project that is going under an alteration or closing a loophole in 317 i think that if you talk with the staff im concerned seen it is really hard they work very hard and a complaint is an arrest warrant with us task to deal with i on the ultimate goal to preserve as much existing housing as possible thats the whole 317 is about and in that same vein we and the can have public we need to proceed with the residential Design Guidelines there critical and necessary for the r Zone District all the neighborhoods that are comprised and most part of our bulk of the city is residential neighborhoods and updated and pubically aired per my general Public Comments that i made in the minutes on june 23, 2016, i think that it is according to that memo the staff is a working or plans to work with the a i a they need to be brought up now, its been two years i think i had the paper it started two years ago i think that is good important things particularly in you talk about drss and combining the dr hearings thats my comments and heres for the minutes any Public Comment . General Public Comment okay general Public Comment is closed. Commissioners that whether place you under our regular calendar for case no. 2016 are better roofs planning Code Amendment. Good afternoon commissioner president fong and my brothers keeper. Ann Planning Department staff the item before you is a proposed ordinance amending the planning code for standards for new Building Construction for the detriment on the other hand, development of living roofs supervisor Wiener Office has been a great leader in pursuing the sustainability of the city id like to invite andrea powers to talk about that. Engage commissioner president fong and commissioners and welcome supervisor coppel andreas with supervisor wieners office today before you i hope you think this exciting legislation to support of greening of rooftops in San Francisco that is an ordinance the supervisor offered requiring that most New Buildings here in the city have solar power or solar heating installed on 15 percent of their rooftops that position has not been pass and signed by the mayor that legislation made us the first large city in the country to require the solar rooftops thats been a strong origin across the country and hoping spur others to follow suit and this legislation will be a step forward in making our city cleaner and more sustainable in the era of climatic change this is the second piece i mentioned as is rooftop ordinance we call and staff call the better roofs ordinance and will expand it to include the green roof lines roofs in the accelerator law firms that green roofs can be an alternate 15 percent rooftop area that specifically any that will succumb to a 2 to one ratio of whatever valor you dont have to install have 2 solar as long as the cost can say the same so the project sponsor a fair trade off theyre both priorities to advance so with this amendment today most in any r5069s will have you know will have 15 percent of their rooftops solar ass or thirty percent of the rooftop being green if they only choose green roof a likely scenario is a combination of the two given the shadowing and other constraints as briefly and the staff report said the green roof has a documented health and environmental benefits including reducing the quantity of run off and the combining sewer system and the quality given the filtration of the rooftop memory and reduces the heat island and to the sharing of a lesser extent and helps air quality and after the noise provides habitat and places for increases by diversity in the city and extends the lives of roofs in closing for us a greener city is a more sustainable city as rooftops are one of the last tapped resources in this buy out environment and focuses on making sure our rooftops are more for pipes and vents and such mailsz i want to thank the staff for the great work on the proposal and gary from the Investment Infrastructure and dbi and the puc have been key in helping us develop this proposal thank you. Id like to acknowledge others from the departments we are working hard especially with barry and the department of the environment and back up for the greener roof theyll all interchanged we use the rooftops San Francisco doesnt see as much rain plants are not green year ran but on the exterior membrane of the roof the overall goals to work with our colleagues at department of the environment and Public Utilities commission to promote the collaboration as well as fascist the best use of space and the very much for the developer and owner as andrea mentioned the roof the california state back in the day has required 15 percent of roof to be solar ready free and clear of abduction and shading in april of this year, the board of supervisors amazing passed a vote that got 15 percent of the roof area that actually has to have solar insulated and the new before you is an alternative it allows the similar to be replaced at a 2 to one radio between the 15 and thirty percent will have solar living roof or a combination of both. Our team at the Planning Department has been at this in 2013 we cohosted the citys alive with our colleagues at the puc in preparation for the conventi convention, sir organized the task force as to the colleagues and outside designers came the better recommendation for including a mandate and also a living roof mantel. After the convention our team got a lot of momentum and why San Francisco falls behind in green roofs we found it spring city has a grant and chicago for example, had a requirement that required all new municipal buildings to have this we looked at our plans and policies that noticed a lot of the projects bring up green roof but no specific project knows what that means for the city of San Francisco in the environment. After the convention we start to get a lot of calls from the public and people asked how to get a green roof what do you mean and so we decided to put the information on the website and looked around when living roofs were out there we have a map that has a proposal the data out there it tested in the future we have a box on the permanent site to check in the future and linked that with the department and city sf plant finding type in our address and bring up any plants in our specific area we flifrnltd out roofs their windy and might have a shallow roof. We got a lot of the information from going out on the field and vooifrt a lot of the existing green roofs we know that cal can be is a great example of a living roof in the city and we went to talk with the designer and learned this one project has a huge research and education components one south van ness a green water catch they use the water from the building on the upper left and drain it into a sister tenor for the roof and sam kitchen and garden in mission bay they actually use all of that in the roof in their restaurants. All this fox weve put into a roof manual on the website with a large help from olsen our past interim the manual has the benefits what are the concerns as well as the residential Design Guidelines with roof specific in San Francisco this is a flow chart for anyone interested the owners and public on what steps to make once you want a green roof an example of code requirements after speaking with dbi and fire about their restrictions we work hard with puc to come up with how living roofs and the rainwater can combine into the system i you know the stormwater Martin Luther king is important we partner with them in the process. Our consultants did a cost benefit analysis for the living roof over three year period living roofs are cost effect for the owner and tenants this is in large part due to the San Francisco Entertainment Commission benefit their faced with. So interagency is part of huge parts we worked with the different agencies to understand what our rooftop priorities are to date the department has no Public Comment. And the Department Recommendations approval of the proposed ordinance and adapt the resolution and stronger supports the living roof alternative to enhance the rooftops in the city San Francisco is known as its strong reputation for being a green healthy sustainable city in the forefront and will continue to updated the technology on rooftops and providing options the designer developer or owner is not forced into one use may not be appropriate the roof are a valuable resource for land use opportunities and technology the proposed ordinance a great place to see how rooftops can provide benefits to the neighborhoods that concludes my report. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Opening up for public comme comment. Hi i think that is a really good idea i have a problem ignoring had is happening in our rear yard spaces now and thats why i think that the whole issue of rear yard have to be considered as residential Design Guidelines the trends im seeing innovating 80 is people are flating their yards and creating the w hotel not three by one and 14 lot with patios and beverages and fake grass which i can understand the problem with the water but if you had earth is going into the earth it charges the waters table which i think some of the water were mixing with hetch hetchy with greener or grvrt not into the storm drain this is really great but dont want to this and ignore and add units but take away units it is the same thing you have something now it is really good i really hope this passes but hope that well start to consider the residential residential Design Guidelines and what goes on in your rear yard our rear yards are part of our mid block open space to add to the environment and add to the value of the homes in the neighborhood as well and critically important it will be a shame to see them go were not looking at people extending the Square Footage of their house into the backyard rear yard and using that has they remodel or do new building a lot of them are remotely i think thaish theyre all demos anyway you need to think about that as you precede with the residential Design Guidelines i know you cant do that with this it would be nice we have this resource it is shame to let it go and start up to date things on our rooftops. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner johnson. Thank you georgia for finding a way to turn this issue into noah valley no, my question this is fantastic work for those who seen some of the things i love the idea of green roofs im concerned excited to see this i have one question and followup with what ms. Swedish is mentioning rear yard in the ordinance or in the planned legislation it says that the percentage you can use 15 for living roof or thirty percent for living roof or 15 percent for solar is executive of skylights and one other one hal ports i know we have a few and my question is we often see buildings United Health care workers roof spaces for open space because they need a rear yard or open space variance or you know on endorse variance any question is there any possibility or like what will be the impact of saying that the percentage could come out of space also inclusive of open space you think of all the open space with the decks and rooftops on other elevations of unoccupied buildings if there is a building that might have basically two different roof levels if theyre doing the calculations how much is that space open space meaning people can go through that ill hate to see up to thirty percent a building roof in the style of a garden or other space that you couldnt actually have recreation and stem rations fantastic foods it is really good but not walk through their garden and another roofs that is similar my question is that considered or something we can potentially recommend for supervisors in the future. For this. To answer our specific question you can design the living roofs they can be part of living space the living roof can be people inclusive and executive and help me get a tour of a living roof at the whole foods building on market and delores an excellent example of the roof that is combined into the one space that project provides a. Were concerned and let planning come up and responds as well he agree but youre putting pressure on the department and Planning Commission to be on the look out for that; right . When they get a large project authorization and thats where well be paying attention this is a lot of roof and open space poornl that the roof has to incumbent and now on the look out for is youre living roof or green space designed northbound a way that is part of recreational space or not or just the garden over there that in reality youll not be able to walk through so im trying to make everyones life easier maybe in planning. Yeah. No, i totally understand your concern thats part of the reason only thirty percent of the roof deck and buildings under 10 stories maybe the buildings do have a lot of things take place that rooftops space and should be able to accommodate a living they can walk on and partially they can i want to remember an alternative compliance if they cant accommodate the roof going go back to Something Else and thats something the planner will work with the applicants on. Thats fair im happy to see what projects take advantage of that. Scomploer. I appreciate the thoughtfulness into our study you including the expertise i have a couple of questions with the size of projects one to 10 Story Buildings tends to be relatively small relative to the cost of technology it requires to build a functioning living roof that only occupies 20 percent of what is required for solar 10 percent when we have a project last week the academy of science and that obviously shines because or because of the size and location partially it is an environment that mass the ability to keep plants looking green and thriving in a way aesthetically as the intent of green roofs my really serious question about the sustainability and sustainability of green roofs in the compliment like San Francisco particularly rain in neighborhoods more sun than rain and relative to the sustainability position of solar panels the returning of rainwater to the system when it doesnt rain is nice but solar produces solar when that produces solar i want to know the efficiency of the student delegate report when their compared. To the effectiveness of solar versus the living roof. You know i think their apples and oranges from any understanding of it i mean, i think that depends on the building and the site the roof provides other benefits from bio fill i cant so reality whether youre in the building your proven to be more productive and happier as well as kind of being around nature and real estate cost benefits for each project weve seen that solar being on top of living roof increases the efficiency of solar panels that lowers the turn on the roof it depends on the site i think youre making some good qualifying 125e789s it dont think 0 on the site and question dont measure the happiness in any shape the intent is good when i need to look at how sustainable and green as much as i dont like the effects solar is the higher producers of sustainability but i want to let that sit there and hope youll deeper dive into what ultimately is a hiring student delegate report i that is an important question to answer. Maybe a mike. A thanks the other thing ill add to also known as comments the study was designed on the back of much Prior Research by europe for other institutions and municipalities are around the world and part of their so part of their analysis that included acknowledging maintenance costs over time is embedded in that analysis thank you it would be interesting to us to catch a glimmer of that study i want to make sure as a city accounts for measurable sustainability comparison to other cities were taking into consideration that the absence of rain this is an arrest warrant rid climate doesnt return the water to replenishing as we think it does. Commissioner hillis. I appreciate this legislation and especially the fact youre giving people the time to answer questions but giving the developer or Property Owner the ability to do their turn and not try to solve every problem on ever roof that would be helpful im supportive and move to approve or wremd approval i have one question on the comparison d. C. Is a compatible size and somewhat compatible in density and built environments has so many more green roof we dont have an Incentive Program but what justifies that is that just green roofs or green roofs and solar. That one is on this green roofs we believe the incentive is a huge part as well as the stormwater fee so San Francisco didnt have a stormwater fee thats where youre charged if it didnt hit the ground running weve been working closely with the colleagues at the puc enhancing the stormwater. You know the solar pageant how we compare to the same cohort of cities or others. Ill invite my colleagues theyre from the department of the environment. Over and over barry hooper. Good afternoon barry hooper with the department of the environment San Francisco is in the upper ends up of installing but not could you speak into the microphone. I dont have weve done a recently specific comparison that was requested but basically, theres a modern 65 hundred portable systems that connect in San Francisco today and it will be in the upper end the distribution that were compared to. Thank you. Supervisor coppel. Yeah. Again in support of the item and glad to see that dbi and the Fire Department were involved and still going to be mechanical and Electrical Equipment on the roofs and cleaners are a necessary for the safety of potentially electrical produces like panels i think that is a good decision to be part of what were seeing now in the necessarily needing to cover a roof with solar panels we are designing nor Energy Efficient building with more use of Natural Light and devices so it is going to be a potentially a combination of obgyn roof and solar the perfect sweet spot for a roof but that rooftops are definitely have a potential for use a lot of times theyre under utility it is good to see that moving forward. Commissioners, i did hear a motion. Second. Thank you commissioner johnson. On that motion commissioners to adopt a recommendation for approval commissioner hillis commissioner johnson supervisor coppel commissioner moore and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero commissioners that places us on items 9 and 10 quietly call up together for case numbers pca both signed regulations one is pertaining to general advertising. Good afternoon Diego Sanchez with Planning Department staff today two ordinances to modify the sign controls, however, before i begin i want to provider lee we supervisor peskin with time to present to you. Thank you diego and welcome supervisor coppel two ordinances before you i want to provide some Historical Context and supervisor peskin past work in this area in 2002 supervisor peskin offered proposition g an bifurcation use for any advertising signs as billboards and there were 15 hundreds general advertising signs in the city no new signs are permitted it allows for the existing relocation of the legal billboards to new locations providing they allow for the prop signs they pals with an overwhel overwhelmsing step we addressed the creeping imperiltion of the signs in the city and supervisor peskin supported prop k dlash the advertising signs in the public rightofway as contributed to urban blight this passed twothirds and want to enhance the parties for posting general advertising signs since 2007, however, new billboards have not seized to profile rat because of new technologies that allow the signs to be projected on any as much as and theyve successfully moves seven hundred and 33 illegal billboards throughout the city and since the new penalties a decade ago the city as engaged if litigation as two hundred new billboards and successfully removed those i want to address item 10 doesnt makes two fundamental changes first, it sclafrz that all nonresidential are exempt from regulation a legal constitutional matter were novelist allowed to regulate the speech and so this includes religious and noncommercial flags, art murals, those were not regulating with this ordinance and second more critically it enhances the penalties for violation of general advertising sign requirements and shourlgz the windows from 30 days or 5 days if the notice of violation is sent by mail a responsible party must remove the sign or correct the violation or correct the violation the responsible party has 3 opportunities to address a notice of violation within 3 or 5 day window depend on how the notice is citys served and repeat general advertising signs will be subject to daily personality from 2 to 5 times the base penalties and those enhance day to day until the violation is abated for repeat an alternative calculation based on a calculation relative to the profits that are earned off of the general advisement sign this legislation is in line with the our citys general plan that states that quote signs are another leading cause of street clusters they lose their identification and advertise offend the viewer and unrelated to the physical quality unquote an additional revenue from the general advertising signs is 4. 6 percent in the past year compared to the Previous Year accounting for 7. 3 billion in Revenue Generation we know those are extremely vaufshl our consultation at the currents personalities peshts are not due to unlawful behavior but hope to change that to remove the general advisement particularly signs that go up and are relative for a horticulture duration to abate the violation is inconsequential to the entity posting the signs i respectfully ask this commission adopt the approval of this legislation and i will defer to you on the preference jump into the other ordinance or want to discuss this item first. I think both would be great. Sure turning to item 9 that is the board file this ordinance will limit the relocation for general advisement signs for billboards in the city i all right mentioned 2002 proposition g out loud for the land use controls that allow for the signs to exist prior to the passage of prospering g but amended the procedures for this location giving rise to the general advertising Signs Program which allowed for the to facilitate recognition relocation of those signs since we accepted the application the city has two requests for relocation of general advertising signs we know that location not a high priority for existing illegal billboards the most significant change among more minor technical changes that general advertising signs will no longer be allowed in pdrs districts where their currently allowed and roof signs not in m and pdrs district and window signs are permitted in the pdrs where their prohibited as long as they dont exceed one thirds of the windows or clear door on which theyre related to in effect we are losing want effects on window signs but placing new restrictions on general advertising signs a number of other minor including the improvements to the vintage signs and Diego Sanchez making improvements and to faster restrict the relocation of general advertising signs this is align with the general plagues weve seen to tie in the past several years and again having reviewed mr. Sanchez recommendations were in full agreement and thank you to the planning staff they only improve the ordinance and thank you, tom and others that provided great advise think these items thank you very much. Commissioners the department is in overall support and making the changes and with the alignment of the protection on speech and strengthening the sign controls and updating other sign controls including the planning Code Organization commissioners those changes as much as and ios interests in improving the aesthetics of Public Safety through sign regulation they can enhance the attractiveness to recreation and reside in the recommendation we recommend item 10 as well as approval with modifications of the first sign ordinance number 9 the modifications are following eliminating the reference to the candle stick point special my own in the map as mentioned in the case report the candle stick point design for design managed by ocii is a guiding line document that makes those planning code redundancy another administration to amend the wind signs the department supports the shooinz signs would one banner of flag and this will bring those signs under existing regulations for winds signs and this will improve the aesthetics of the building environment the last notification of administration to amend the modification of the signs the Department Approvals those and will define the future of the property to be considered historic signs that concludes my presentation. And im available to answer any questions thank you. Opening up for Public Comment tom one speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners and welcome supervisor coppel i didnt email you, you were not on the states without a doubt, we said to an on behalf of livable city we like about those and wanted to commend supervisor peskin for bringing those forward and through the Department Staff those ordinances go to one of the purposes of sign controls why do we regulate signs in San Francisco and really look at those and refresh them and make sure their current purposes and align with the things were trying to do and trying to create a public realm street trees and urban design and our signs 14 compliment that and preserve the signs and preserve the local and Small Businesses and give me a decent shot at the chances and so on those are in keeping with the values of the city today and that look is great we think you sunshine do that with other areas like your parking control are they serving and aligned with the other city values i thought id mention that it is important and goes into the specification of how we think those controls makes a lot of sense one thing we need to think about those commercial and neighborhood commercial and residential and so on but in reality we have people obgyn in every neighborhood of the city so somehow between 10 and 15 feet of the sidewalk that is a neighborhoods in virtually every neighborhood and by policy pushing more and more housing into the mixed use neighborhoods we think need to think about the place where people reside and views and what about air and blinking and all the intrusions into the residential space how can the ground zero thrive be able to communicate with their customers at eye level and create that better environment we on the looking again at these billboards controls that dont nothing for the city theyre a net negative and their some of the standards for the business signs as well makes a lot of sense so we support both ordinances and love to continue to look at the controls when we look at the c district controls last times they were updated in the 1960s time to look at them thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Yeah my name is ronald some of you guys know me im concerned seen the kiosk and night clubs theyve wrapped so many concert posters where there is a night club around the polls poles you can tear them off and find outlined posters the motorists are a fire hazard someone could set a match those huge amounts of posters you have to tear down now using scotch tape is one thing but were sarandon wrap is hard to pull down it is plastic i know that is hard to control rock and roll posters you have to get it seems to me kind of control im concerned seen where night clubs have you know they want to interest their ban but get control not only is it a fire hazard but posters are posters when they accumulate on light poles thats another thing you shouldnt be able to put them on a light fixer at all and have a designated posters area that you can put it on thats the only commissioner kim i have to make i know that sounds like weird have a good day. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. And commissioner johnson. Thank you, very much. For this ordinance or couple of ordinances i think those are good news i agree with the gentleman on a number of them and the commenter talked the night club thats innovates weird it is more of an enforcement issue you run around and chase people taping those things up i have a couple of things one positive benefit if im interpreting getting rid of of the belonging and flashing will the on some of the signs that will help to decrease our light illusion i applaud that i dont know if it is one of the main purposes of those ordnances the first one a widow sign provision that is allowed in pdrs districts as long as not exceeding 1 3rd of the area i think we have rules i dont know figure in our residential Design Guidelines or actually in the planning code about the fire transparency and im wondering is that duplicative of that or our requirements are not in the planning code i dont think this duplicated this would be be saying on top of that glaring on so much can house a window sign and i meant transparency in rules how much of the window on the ground floor like retail if you see through that; right . It is come up a lot with medical cannabis dispensary and other uses im trying to think of whether or not that requirement is just our sign guidelines or is that in the planning code you know. Your transparency requirements in the planning code but we have sort of interpretation of these transparency requirements as a separate document we issue two years ago i think the 3rd of an area of the window is also, we have that for neighborhoods commercial districts were users the control. That carol in the zoning not in the planning. It is in the planning but only applies to neighborhood commercial this applies to c p and industrial districts. Im thinking one applies and one covers it and one doesnt. Correct. Okay. Thats fine sorry. Okay little second question i it is totally understanding the 125i9 constitution why you have to exempt signs for bludgeon boards how does it overlap with commercial institutions that part of their model how theyre in the community to provide space for Community Institutions some of which might be protected institutions bludgeon boards sign for protection under the regulation my question is if an organization like that wanted to have a permanent bludgeon board will necessary not be allowed. Not whether or not allowed but commercial or public speak but on a case by case because im trying to think of like cold well bank think 17 street they say 50 percent of our time we give our space for nonprofits or other culture institutions the Bulletin Board what do you mean if they want to is where a permanent Bulletin Board but other times hours for shores what happened to that Bulletin Board is it permanent. If it is 100 percent for commercial space not being allowed by under slides and projections and whatnot in the case report well trying to appointment that case by case basis depends upon what it is use for this is a theyre interesting it may be a dilemma a situation. It is a dilemma yeah which is revolved im concerned seen examples where we have voluntary businesses saying thats our way of sdrasht and seeing the ground floor space taking uses is that question actually ask for do i have Community Space are you dedicating space for members of the committee for different organizations and having signage to be able to delineate that use in the commercial property is really important so ill actually ask the Supervisors Office consider that and maybe it might be if you say your Bulletin Board will be there if you dedicate our time to have it for nonprofits that is an incentive for more uses a dilemma but also a potential good thing to solve that problem right now that might not a recommendation for our finding maybe or representative to the office is here so just briefly we are happy to take into consideration i think that it is an interesting incentivetion and issue of balance between wanting to provide space for nonresidential and again balancing that against whatever were trying to procure. And then im sorry what a vintage sign that definition is confusing one more time. The vintage sign if im not mistaken the cola sign in Bernal Heights my understanding not necessary a historic, or historic sign in and of itself that lends to the character of the community thats why this new sign needs this category was developed to i dont know preserve the right answer but preserve a vintage sign and recognize it is lending character to the neighborhoods thats where that is different than a historic sign has tobacco attached to something recognized before a historic registers it lends one of the characters in the future a little bit different the attachment not with necessarily having to be with a historic this i understand in a historic register. So quickly tera flats an industrial building that says jones with a factory and do a different thing with apartment and says jones with a factory thats a vintage. It has to go through a conditional use authorization but a way for that to kind of okay. Thank you. Commissioner moore. Great legislation all over due particularly moving back to the 60s buildings are going to signage that looks dictated and talking 209 give enough reasons for this to eastbound strongly sponsored and mr. Dulavich thank you. Ill not repeat but wholeheartedly support our recommendation but for my own reference picking up on what commissioner johnson said there is a glossary the use of interchallenge changeable is tricky commercial signs and identifying signs and regulatory signs and, and, and when it comes to understanding what you, scomplan about or not very good to have the glossary that includes winds signs illuminated and flashing signs and moving signs historic signs vintage and on and on the one thing im knowing that Zoning Administrator sanchez is not here but pharmacist on films that is commercial advertising and he consider advertising rather than commissioner identification is a big issue allocate question that dimension commissioner president fong and i talked about the commercial logo that are advertising rather than million there he is commercial identification that is bringing on it and having it in a commissioner konstin place can i mention the name on the corner montgomery and sutro using 14 to 20 times in one windows that is over the top and wondering how this legislation would help us sort that out in a way noncottage fronttion always he move to approve as required in the second point. For both items. Thank you very much. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt a recommendation for approval with modifications for items 9 and 10 on that motion commissioner hillis commissioner johnson supervisor coppel commissioner moore and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. Okay. We actually have a relatively short calendars were going to go ahead and he i the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Commissioners, we left off under your regular calendars under items 11 a 12 the sun dale hope sf and the masters plan initiations of general plan. Good afternoon. Im matthew with the Department Staff the item before you for the smoep cookie cutter and the sunnyvale weve been here but quickly hope sf looks to completely rehabilitate two Housing Authority one think potrero hill the south and east slopes and one in the Visitacion Valley neighborhoods the projects will offer time demolish all existing dwelling units and accountable dwelling units and replace them and adds additional Affordable Housing housing and completely rebuilding the streets to Better Connect with the city and add parks and consul facilities for the neighborhoods currently as i mentioned you had been here several times and certified the Environmental Impact report for both projects and made at the actions on behalf of the keller it is between the city and the Master Developers weve prepared the amendments as well we expect to be initiated by the board of supervisors very quickly before you general plans it initiate the first step commissioner president fong i requested we bring those before you as required but i section 340s two year two in the urban design and one the urban design element data the heights of buildings throughout San Francisco and the new determination 41 to 48 designation were not planning up to build up to the 88 and the recreation and open space permitted the existing parks and indicate those planned for the eastern neighborhoods so the resolution is before you is to initiate those amendments and set a hearing date in our resolutions we indicated october 13th that is when we hoped to be before you you initially that hearing is now schedule for november 17th so i would ask you amend the resolution to reflect that that concludes my presentation. For those general planned amendments ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Staff members from mohcd and project sponsors from Bridge Housing on behalf of the potrero and sunnyvale are also here. Okay anyone else from staff at all does that include staffs okay opening it up for public comme comment. Good afternoon, commissioners korea smith on the members of the Housing Action coalition i welcome supervisor coppel to the board and well had had marijuana starting next week the housing isolation is involved since the implementation weve been supportive of proposals when the city is doing so 11 and 12 he ask you to please approve and forward thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Mr. Schmidt all 3 projects are important to us where is visitation. I mean sunnyvale within the valencia so theyre moving in tandem and plan to be here before you in november to approve all the master plan approvals including the zoning map and text amendments with the special use districts the adoption of special guidelines and the adoption of eastern plan and the approval of the development agreement. Thank you for that explanation move to initiate the amendments including the revised date of november 17th. Second. Commissioner johnson. Always good to move own guess smoep i was confused by the map that was included in the packet the first one is to demonstrate the buildings under the urban Design Guidelines the shading is so for 41 to 88 over potrero and sunnyvale and hope sf but the height for these projects are to 60 feet. Right the map the way it works the general plan have a broader scope than the zoning rule says the way that map examples a 41 to 58 designation when you get the zoning maps amendments theyll indicate a lower map a lower height range within the 88 within the 65 feet. Thank you and at the that would be helpful and for the second map showing you the open space that is in the packet didnt highlight potrero or sunnyvale hard to see what areas with were reconfigured to show the open space can you point out. So potrero is on the south and east slopes of potrero hill and i know where that guess where is the thats where we were going to highlight i did not realize that was highlighted in our packets. So, now and we will see the maps the one we come before you with the actual amendments theyll show the maps and the change. Okay. Thank you. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to initiate both general plan amendments and set hearing dates on november 17th commissioner hillis commissioner johnson supervisor coppel commissioner moore and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and expirations that places us on item 13 pennsylvania avenue a large project authorization. Good afternoon Planning Commission chris are Planning Department staff a large project authorization for the proposed nuked project on 249 pennsylvania avenue under the large project authorization the project seeking modifications from the planning code requirements for one rear yard, two dwelling unit exposure and 3 horizon map reduction located within the umu or urban mixed use as well as is the zoning with 3 parcels on pennsylvania avenue currently occupied by centrally Center Hardware and the studio located within the transmission neighborhood be into the mixed use neighborhood that aims to preserve industrial roots the site is in the adjacent to the 280 along the Property Line the expansion of two pdr building and 40 feet 6 of thousand mixed use building that will contain 59 dwelling units and 54 hundred square feet of ground floor and did pdr space and includes Parking Spaces within a subterranean parking garage pr the project contains 15 thousand square feet of common usable space with the plazas think is ground floor a rear equaled and roof deck the project is a mixer of dwelling unit with 33 one bedrooms and 22 two bedrooms and 4, 4 bedroom units that has a configuration being a site setback along the south Property Line the Building Maintenance a one street wall and the Building Steps with the typography along pennsylvania avenue the rear yard includes approximately thirty foot tall green wall that provides an element that is with the sounds like buffer if the freeway with regard to Public Comment the department has two letters of support including 1 from pennsylvania street Gardens Organization that maintains the Public Open Space immediately adjacent to the property and one from the hardware ownership that is looking forward to the relocation along the third street corridor and a telephone call to have the composition if previously proposed two units the sponsor proactively decides to increase the count from two to four and conducted Community Outreach with the neighbors with the potrero boosters and other groups ill hand out Public Comments which were received after the packet mailing and that kind of summarizes the potrero boosters comments. Subsequent to the packet mailing the sponsor worked with the boosters to develop language for the communities liaison provision located on page 31 and 32 ill read into the record staff has reviewed the language and supports it at the end of the Community Liaison our conditional approval it will read quote in addition prior to the excavation or construction the liaison will provide notice requires it subject to planning code 311 or 12 and discussed the Management Plan the project sponsor should discuss a hearing with the neighbors and such notice informs the neighbors how to sign up for construction process and no less than monthly and the Community Liaison shall provide just wants as the activities and fields any complaints from the community he said quote San Francisco aging Adult Services commission is generally supportive including with the modifications sought, however, because the project sponsor changes their selection to satisfy their inclusionary housing requirement subsequent to the packet mailing staff recommends you have an intent to approve and hear the inclusionary housing at a later date. Staff recommendations the intent to approve based on the following the project complies with the general plan, the project located within a district with ground floor pdr are principally uses and a mixed use development comprehensive streetscape improvements with the better streets plan and provides 59 dwelling units, approximately 34 hundreds square feet of pdr space to partially outfit the pdr that is being daptsdz as a result, the project exceeds two bedrooms and large requirements of the planning code by providing 44 percent two bedrooms or larger and 22 two bedrooms and 4 to 5, 3 gremz and compatible with the neighborhood character and provides mass and scale for the site that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions okay. Thank you. Did you have yes. Commissioners to clarify the Affordable Housing component since the project sponsor has switched their Affordable Housing from d to onsite the city is required to have a costahawkins agreement since the city if have the agreement if you are inclined well recommend you adapt the motion and we will put the item on the further calendars and bring it back. Okay opening up for Public Comment if there is any. Project sponsor and im sorry project sponsor. Cynthia goldstein commissioners steve betel for marcille first, let me welcome supervisor coppel and congratulate you on your appointment can i get the overhead . Power point. The project sites an mariposa on pennsylvania avenue on the east slope of potrero hill and it uphill from north to south along pen anticipate across the street from other Residential Development one one block of the marcos park on the upper right corner of slide only a few block from the tenth street and a short block of the key metro on third street the zoning is umu and the housing is principally permitted with a health limit the board is pennsylvania on 18th street the Community Garden at the left of the slide and the project slides on the right it is on caltrain lands and designated the provisions that the architect will describe and incorporated ventilation as required by the health code the center hard. Well, will be relocating within the neighborhood to 3000 third street and another building in our brief we constituent the letter from chief sdraib their plans to relocate we know that is a good fix and close by and provides better park for the wholesale customers and contains square feet of pdr space along the level frontage on mariposa street the project proposes 59 dwelling unit 4, three bedrooms and others and as mr. Towns noted inclusion rather than filling out under prop c the onsite percentage increases to 16 plus resulting in 10 bmr including one three bedrooms and 4 bedroom units prior it would have been only 8 units it is compliant with the potrero hill the umu district controls and the 40 feet height limits only two limits for the configuration of the rear yard and on second the unit ask exception the rear yard is 25 feet wide but not increased in sight at the upper floors to be strictly compliant no others exceptions are sought the Planning Department is aware of modifications and the final design well note the project was continues from june hearing date to this date so the Planning Department staff can work with the architect on the Design Community benefits. The project will provide a significant package of Community Benefits in addition to the bmr units and the relocation of Central Hardware will provide 335,000 in funding the building is setback 15 feet from the southern a gardens for the access to the garden our brief includes a letter from the gardens support for the project we believe this contribution to an vacant open space make sense rather than this project deputy City Attorney those funds to the jackson park it is 6 blocks away if the northwest of the site not nearby the project will pay over whereon moiltz in the construction fees and childcare and sustainability fees and high school were not seeking any reduction in the fees finally acted to update our immediate neighbors prior to construction and discussed the dust control and update our neighbors monthly the cpe proposed the construction noise and mitigation measures to minimize the construction tasks the percentage to the we presented to the boosters in june i have Additional Support letters that were not in our package ill introduce one architect to walk you through the project design thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners welcome supervisor coppel we look forward to working with you my name is juan next to me is my colleague with the Studio Architects and its your pleasure to present the project on pennsylvania avenue we all have very busy schedules and moving back and forth doing one thing or another we do this almost everyday we do it sitting down and walking and running or biking now imagine driving down the road of the freeway were constantly focused on the view in front of us as this happens our peripheral view is just outside our central gaze is constantly in motion we preserve this motion as blurred indistinction images theyre more and more abstract as things pass by the same happens when our standing still we perceive obtains as blurred with objects emperor acceptable our building is the same motion lines we like to call them abstract that appear behind the motion object and making that appear to be in motion. This is our design sdmecht o concept 2 recognizes how it relates to the adjacent freeway in the movement of cars we have incorporated randomly place motion lines and enhanced the building facade exterior by organizing them in the same horizontal patterns in order to mitigate the noise from the freeway were proposing a green wall that runnings along the rear Property Line and parallel to the freeway the green wall is designed to the building with the horizontal pattern in planter boxed in the disagreed system in addition that is with a mix of trance elegant glass or acrylic patterns and the colors serve mainly as a sound barrier but acts as a gene a filter for the residents looking out towards the east the proposed building is general 40 feet in height it steps down along the pennsylvania avenue in keeping with the general typography with the immediate neighborhood it includes a sidewalk bulb out and 19 street trees that adopts the streets plan the ground floor at the corner of mariposa street and pennsylvania avenue offers two pdr spaces of 34 hundred total square feet it has a combined 92 active use on the street frontals that enhances the connection continue the public and private areas we propose 4 residential units are private slupz along pennsylvania avenue if encourages positive sidewalk appeal it will add 59 united to the hovrts and 49 Parking Spaces two spaces for pdr and two car share spaces and 80 bikes spaces and offers 15 thousand square feet of the front coast guard side yard and rear yard the envelope creates the maximum exposure to all the units that provides open space to the yards over the course of the will lake few months weve worked with the staff to make sure the fine concept is addressed and anted the concerns and a building before you we present this project today for your kind consideration and approval ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. Okay opening up for Public Comment. Good afternoon and speaking for myself responsibly first issue id like to address is the issue of parking the the current project has at the maximum allowable sfovps with the street to the om ramp and offramp it appeals for people to the south bay since the current aim of the current aim of planning in San Francisco to reduce private car traffic and since this particular corner happens to be the most invested area of potrero hill and the neighborhoods i strongly ask that we number of Parking Spaces urban design reduced as a condition for approving of the project i do, however, think that providing Parking Spaces for the pdr for pdr business is a good idea i like to mention that since hardware has moved which was one of the few retail spaces of its available sites for the neighborhood more because of that there will be more private car traffic generated now by people probation officer need to go further away for basic hardware needs and second issue Affordable Housing. Im glad to hear that the project sponsors opted our onsite building, however, the property has been held by the same owners for decades and has been last time it was assessed at 700,000 for the entire property in building on it which is means it is practically getting the lands for free he suggest that with this fortune this new developer carries more than the normal burden more Affordable Housing rather than people who have to pay marketrate for land be that nor Financial Flexibility to do that and the city is suffering much shortage of affordable units than units in general thank you. Okay is there any additional Public Comment . Good afternoon commissioners moe president of the middle polk neighborhood welcome supervisor coppel i wanted to make a brief comment on this project a couple of months ago i want to write up a line to point out an example of when you have a soft site with an important Neighborhood Community business where a sponsor worked with the neighborhood, worked with the business he worked with the community and do the hard work before coming to the commission i think that is important because i know in our side of the city if we have Something Else come up trying to move around businesses the law is not helpful so it really writers a lot of negotiation and hard work i want to commend the sponsor because that would be terrible to have a fight about what is better a neighborhood business or Housing Project someone will get upset if that debate so i want to make that comment here today parking i agree 100 percent probably can reduce some of the parking here and have a great project with that, ill say the boosters are in support of project they do a lot of hard work and the sponsors ill ask the commission to take notice of future projects and hold the project sponsors to the same level of standard thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Delighted to hear in the presentation that one thing that concerns this commission has been amendment indeed providing onsite affordable which i think the commission has consistently supported for the last two or three years germany think ca a challenging site and good approaches that aggregates the lots and the stepping of the project on pennsylvania avenue is a very, very positive one and rather than excluding it as one massive i think this is a good silhouette from pennsylvania the question i want to ask goes beyond looking at this site but goes to a discussion we had probably a year ago on 56 indiana which is a freeway site 3 arithmetic took a project of similar size and created a composition of that buildings but what this project do im questioning this project the public side of the project for the residents is pennsylvania, however, for the rest of citizens a 280 east facing facade i personally dont see a disclose or not disclosing dloir on the success of that being indeed opening up to the community and basically making the building an interval part of community rather than for trees building im concerned the green wall combination structure which you mean lasts a republic indication of the building on the freeway way edge is too mass of a statement he question that a Free Standing green wall can be successful and as to whether or not it is indeed the public side of the project their comfortable with the wall is only shown to us not 3 dimensional but back and forth drawing in an elevation that faces the knowledge facade with the wall that is forthcoming in the presentation i saw a brief glimpses but not enough to be comfortable those types of walls if you travel abroad start only looking like generated walls starting to shut off the community from the freeway and the freeway becomes only a movement corridor not allowing to be on it im questioning as to whether or not he would ask the Department Im in full support of project on all the unit design the bedrooms we normally look at critically how well it is resolved but the wall didnt do it for me ill ask mr. The Planning Department staff mr. Jocelyn and the gentlemen as to whether or not we can take that project element and think of it in a slightly different context it is two massive i dont think ultimately that helps to or the subtle i didnt to be ac ken i cannot im supportive of the project but basically requires a new approach to this. Sure commissioner moore im confident given the people working with us this come back resolved similar to the 88 indianas project you if you remember they added the condition of approval with a particular focus into the freeway and looking at the project from above. Im prepared to ask one or two commissioners ask in the participation ill be interested to see the Idea Development around the criteria with the city at large user the movement corridor im fine on the pen person street side but not comfortable with the wall portion of the east facing side of the freeway with that, i Planning Commission make a motion of intent to approve given other pending ordinances with the affordability and the costahawkins agreement and the wall needs tobacco rethought. Second. Commissioner moore if i could add a specific date so we dont dully notice this i suggest november 3rd as a possible date. Ill see we have full calendar im not sure what the costahawkins takes we need to be sensitive off at the time we have feedback time and november 3rd is a fine date will go take us 2, 3, or 4 weeks to get the costahawkins. Ill rely on your thought. Commissioner hillis. Im supportive the project sponsor has done a great job of the architecture be when you see not the floors in the same Level Developers have a hard work accommodating on that an extremely good way to break up the facade and brought in elevators in corridors it works well, i like the design also so im fully supportive but i get other comments on the wall and that would be helpful to be seeing that i think that is probably a better job than that weve seen in 411 you see a snip even though of the wall and if we saw that better it would give us you know just a better sense of belonging what that call looks like but generally like the direction that that is going it is not the entire building it is kind of balancing the ability to give folks some open space that live there not directly on the freeways and having a visible so im supportive. Commissioner johnson. Thank you very much also supportive of the project i think that is good and hopefully, some of the design i dont know if there are design changes i like the living wall i have a question of maintenance but maybe well see something change for the next meeting but im concerned supportive i want to mention about the parking to people that mentioned that in Public Comment i placated this as well the layout didnt allow us to reduce the parking that is meaningful for the project maybe more impacts to traffic in the neighborhoods for having less that concludes my remarks but from a land use previous seismic we have reducing parking not getting us this much it is subterranean if you reduce the parking not like you can replace it other than maybe another, amenity i feel the position of 40 i think p 49 spaces is additional it is additional cars in the neighborhood thats for sure but i i dont feel that it is in the scale of other projects weve seen that come to us with hundreds of Parking Spaces for that reason im supportive the original thing ill say about that i believe this project will find itself over parks in a short period of time in a few years one of the buildings your looking at the base i hope the project sponsors think about the readapt reuse and amenities put in where the parking is now i for see that for many buildings going up in the neighborhood. Supervisor coppel. Yeah. Ill echo the fellow commissioners comments on the size of units that need to accommodate a car more families in the units rather than studio or one bedroom and also i want to make sure that people understand the importance of Center Hardware relocation if you can call it a tiny parking lot theyll is where a parking lot that will enable them to accommodate nor business and flourish and still stay in the local vicinity so no one is seeing this as a business outcast or removed im happy to support the project but like to hear about the green wall by the time but im in full support of project. Commissioners there is a motion that has been seconded to approve the project excuse me to adapt a motion of intent to approve the project as proposed with design modifications in support of one or two commissioners as well as the costahawkins. Costahawkins agreement to be in place and to continue this project to november 3rdrd. On that motion commissioner hillis commissioner johnson supervisor coppel. And cosponsor and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. Commissioners that places us on item 15 for case Mission Street this is a conditional use authorization. Good afternoon. Nancy the item before you a request for. Conditional use authorization to allow a change of use at formula retail this property is located within the Excelsior Outer Mission and 40 height and bulk district the proposal involves the planning code cricket the formula retail use has more than 11 location the the subject property on Mission Street is a twostory with residential on the upper floor will occupy a ground floor and the hours of operation cricket he sells Services Plans and accessories this will provide Employment Opportunities with an part time and two fulltime the majority will get to the site by quacking it includes tenants improvements and minor alteration and submitted underline a Building Permit and will be required to meet the guidelines the area surrounding the site is mixed use in chafshg and a variety of staesht in the ground floor and restaurants and other types of retailers most buildings in the vicinity are one or two Office Floors the project sponsor conducting the survey in the larger excelsior mcd approximately 4 hundred blues businesses of that number ten percent are formula retail use the proposal will increase the formula retail between the mcd by less than one percent publication of the case the department has no communication from the public the department is in general support and recommends for the following reasons but will fill a vacant space and innovate displace a tenant and create part time and fulltime opportunities, the project will not the project site is well served by the public lines and help to contribute to the vitality that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions. Thank you project sponsor please. Commissioners good afternoon phil speaking on behalf of the circus even though wireless the communications nancy did a very good job encapitulating everybody or everything i want to give an explanation on the fourthgeneration been on a lot of merchant walks not been on one has this love festive we very folks went to galileo and washington highest basically san franciscans hanging out with each other and nobody shock germany hair until a man changes the oil in any car we have over 70 letters of support in english and spanish and cantonese represents the flavor of the neighborhood this is at t why would at t create another division where does the world need will crack even though wireless im going to turn it over to my colleagues to answer that questiquestion thank you. 415 we have appliances that is good for the neighborhood this is affordable for everyone we dont ask people we have a great family saving plan as well and a really good plan. Thank you. Hi so in cricket is im nervous cricket is fit for the neighborhood in the near the Excelsior Community and we dont need contracts and we dont need credit checks it is simple people come to the store and get a plan yeah. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Anyone wish to comment okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. My thing is dying any screen is down. Oh, from the last time. Ill talk thank you thank you very much thank you. I know sometimes that is hard this fit i dont see any particular issues here this is wonder under the cu findings id like to make a motion to approve. Second. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion commissioner hillis commissioner johnson supervisor cowen supervisor coppel commissioner moore and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and were on the discretionary review calendar in your final item before 3 oclock supervisor coppel. Youre a good luck charm. Item 16 at 18 plus church discretionary review this may have come up so fast staff may not be here. Good evening Planning Commission devon the subject property located on Church Street the proposal to constrict a 3 story horrible at the rear of a singlefamily dwelling to excluding include a bath and bedroom the the subject property is a singlefamily residences 1880 church located on the east side between randell in the Diamond Heights neighborhood the surroundings area is the singlefamily residences and just south of the upper rec center the discretionary review was filed by a neighbor that lives next door and to the south and expressed concern about the design of the project and the design conflicts with the residential Design Guidelines with more materials should be included and the roof slope top story anothers roof deck eliminated the Residential Design Team suggested changes that incorporated into the project the rdt supports it and the addition with the setback north and 3 feet plus on the south adjacent to the dr file not as deep as the subject i the subject property but to the south it is not xhapdz or create anything exceptional or extraordinary and the Planning Commission should not take discretionary review and approve the Building Permit as presented that concludes my presentation. Dr requester. Thank you my name is albert 1789 Church Street im here to ask that you uphold the dr within is the general scale of the project it is a 3 story addition to a singlefamily home that basically goes back 33 feet including 3 feet of deck and goes up 3 feet 9 inches i feel ill have looked at the design for the rdt specifically page 37 heres example of allow work radiations on the residential Design Guidelines and not seeing anything within the rdt this project resembles at all i on the map of the project is a bit over powering the location and mass a serious on or about on the mid block location for the residents on the south west corner of the block four or five houses that are impacted sort of the mid block range between the two streets i know that the sponsors have a desire to expand their home for theyre growing family i dont disagree with that and dont have a problem with them building the problem i think the scale is a bit much thank you. Thank you okay sorry speakers in support of the dr requester. Good evening go commissioner. Sir, are you project sponsor. Im the project sponsor and the owner of the project. Well, not appearing to be any other speakers in support good evening. Im a this is my wife and children were the owners we basketball the house it is a small house given the lot size it is large enough. Speak up into the microphone. Large enough for an addition the we made a lot of improvements in the rear yard and provided a gardens weve enjoyed our plan to extend our footprint home this is especially needed as we had our twins that you are 6 years old and made those plans clear to the neighbors including the dr requester this modest yaeks is living space while better making use of lots for a better home for the family the exception will provide individual rooms for the children on the same floor a comfortable family space and room for parents and family to stay the view at the front is similar to others on the block over the years weve seen many developments go in addition, we know many of the neighbors weve been privy to lands weve considered in the design this is i think if i can have the overhead this is a view of our block space which shows our home the lights or the pink is twostory homes the darker reds is 3 story and the others is 4 story many existing three and four story home weve done our Due Diligence and felt our proposed project is our best foot forward in keeping with the character of the neighborhood our project is not outside what exists in the neighborhoods question kept our plans modest while preserving the first and foremost we didnt max out the building envelope as you can see from the initial proposed plans your proposed versus what we the potential plans we didnt want that we spent a lot of time trying to compromise with the dr requester and made several design changes to accommodate some of the concerns rays a slide shows the attractive rear addition and indicates the design compromises to accommodate the concerns notable the setback in the general plans we moved the upper deck and made changes to the deck railing and introduced the roof unfortunately we were unable to resolve all the concerns that wasnt have resulted until a home that dont meet the needs question love our neighbors and we feel fortunate to live in a good communities additionally were happy to get the support we think our project would be good for the neighborhoods the support comes from admit neighbors 18 in total we wrote letters of support youll find in your supplement commissioners we hope weve conveyed why you should move this. Okay. Thank you. Are there any speakers in support of project sponsor . Okay. Good afternoon. My wife and i live on Church Street that is 4 houses to the north of jena and adam and they are children and all i can say theyve been great neighbors but when it came time to do the renovation we asked to have an actual walk through they graciously explained in detail what they continued to do we feel in support that have theyre not greedy people they want extra space so they can raise their family in a city that is increasing expensive and increasing dense we visited their home as i say without that kind of in personal information and step by step walk through we couldnt in good conscience support any project one of the things that struck us strongly about the project was its might have i didnt certainly given what is legally allowed we appreciate what is come to be in consideration by Building Inspections you have to take into account 4 houses to the north of where i am to see what happened to a small one story victorian now 4 floors probably going to sell for 4 million weve been living in our home for 3 seven years under the basic chamber of San Francisco so anything that comes in the way of approval regarding renovations demands clear evaluation to get our support those are wonderful young people with young cared for children looking for reasonable additional breathing space and then extremely responsible i believe theyve the in their space for 8 years and be great neighbors so my wife and i support 24 we dont feel that will impinge on the nauseated that are houses that are turn around proposed and certainly deeper thats all i have to say thank you. Okay dr requester a two minute rebuttal. First id like to disagree the front view is not impacted by the map that is built at the back new look at the house that is existing now my family lived in our house since is the later 60s weve seen families raised in the neighborhood in smaller homes basically what is going on is that it is almost like theyre building another house in the back of the existing house as you can see by the director garcia its large noncomplaint disputing three or four other story homes in the homes this doesnt have the impact on the corner of the neighborhood it has i acknowledge there are support letters if i see in the vicinity of where the support none of people are effected by this project in any way thank you. Okay project sponsor you have a two minute rebuttal. My weve commented as i was accrues the term growing family twoochl times but really commissioners thats the crux of it were a family that loved living in San Francisco and in our particular neighborhoods we need Additional Space for our children we dont need a mansion nor desire one we put forward modest plans and received support from our neighbors we addressed the concerns raised by the dr filer throughout the process that meeting several times and making design concessions as noted earlier we reviewed many alternative plans and give them serious consideration but unfortunately at the tends addressing many of the issues the filer raised the changes the dr requester resulted in a home that didnt meet the family needs he respectfully is in seeking our plagues you approve that and move forward to make it a home for our family we hope to enjoy for many years to come. Okay. Thank you public hearings is closed commissioner moore. Appreciate the departments active voochlt in shaping the building there is one issue that is something the Commission Speaks being myself leading the discussions that the issue of private School Privacy regarding the second level second that since is building expansion over shoots the rear lines of all the rear yards directing your attention to this well have an issue of people looking backwards think both sides into the joining buildings the current building is shorter no problem but once you start to build an additional that over shots this plus a deck that problem will be exacerbated im in support of everything regarding the expansion of, however, i have ask we look at the width of the deck and pulling that in on both sides to avoid looking back into the other Jane Properties on both sides this is 1879 and 1889. Are you following me on the drawings. I am commissioner he heard are you youre aware there is excusable the decks 3 feet on one side and 3 feet league of women but in addition there is additionally setbacks necessary you. You stand on the deck over the entire width 12 feet you can xhovsht look from the second story cerebrowindows clearly demonstrated in the rear elevations of one the dr requester submittal but on the site photos for the rear elevations i think were very consistent in trying to avoid in children of intrusion of privacy on adjacent properties. So we hold that back oath foot from the edge of the expansion on either side that you cant look around the corner. Cutting it back one foot . Whatever we feel that makes a reasonable deck a foot and a half on either side. It is basically remembering people that you cant stand at the railing and kind of look into our neighbors windows. Commissioner johnson. I disagree i think that for one of the properties youll be looking into a fair get back and ill, hardpressed to pull it back a moderate amount impedes someones views i think the project as designed works in terms of pulling back normally for projects in zoning that could hold the identification but in this case it is a pretty moderate and he knows of a singlefamily home not going through the envelope id like to make a motion not to take dr and approve the project. Second. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to not take dr and approve the project as proposed commissioner hillis commissioner johnson supervisor coppel commissioner moore. No and commissioner president fong sxhauchlts 4 to one with commissioner moore voting against. Supervisors that places us on general Public Comment i have no speaker cards. Any general Public Comment this afternoon not seeing any, the meeting is adjourned one o was asked to do is Water System Improvement Program and one thing i looked at is about the 4. 8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. We looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscans and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local San Francisco lb program. So, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. I was on the First Committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. In the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. We wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. Our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. I like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to Small Businesses and lots of creative ways. Help the community as well. There is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to our success. Francisco 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 Comment Public 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 Francisco San 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 Comment Ronald 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 Francisco Public 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 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 245id 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. The project will construct fourstory 92,002 and 44 ft. 2 addition to the existing build. In addition the proposal would read glad the existing facade with eight new metal and glass curtain system we can think of the ground floor to move and expand retail space at construct a new corner lobby entrance. The result will be an 11 story 160 foot Tall Building with two innercity 4000 six or seven to square free of office space and 5000 ft. 2 of ground floor retail space. The department has received correspondence in opposition to the project from both individual residents and Homeowners Associations with two buildings located immediately adjacent 631. Street and 77 dow place. The letter success concerns related to loss of light and air as well as impacts related to construction and increased traffic. It is staffs attention was not a sufficient shadow analysis at the plaza located at 601 fulsome st. In response steps that request a supplemental shadow analysis memo 461 fulsome st. That is revise the finding way to section 147 shading on Public Open Spaces to include an analysis of this open space. And you have been provided with a copy of that. Should the project be approved, commotion would reflect the revision. Points of clarification and a couple of errors in the executive summary. The staff report the addition diagonal to his 190 feet. To clarify, the maximum permitted diagonal is when 90 feet and edition will have a diagonal dimension of 242 feet. Additionally, the Office Allocation is not to 89,000 square feet. Also, the batteries for the central [inaudible] were easily changed and project is no longer within the propose central limit area plan. At the time, the packet was published that had not been addressed yet. After analyzing all aspects of the project, Department Staff recommends approval with conditions. Specifically, aside from the aggressive exceptions budget complies with the applicable requirements the planning code. The project is consistent with the objectives and policies of the general plan including the downtown area plan. The project wouldve reoriented the ground floor to create retail along fulsome street thereby creating a more vibrant pedestrian realm. The project is in a Zoning District thats permits office use. The project will construct 89,900 ft. 2 of office that currently has office uses in this without committing a compact downtown core. The project represents an outpatient approximately 20. 3 of the largecap office space coming available for allocation. This concludes my presentation good im available for any questions. Project sponsor is present and has prepared a presentation. Beatniks thank you. Project sponsor, please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is when a show with gansler. I will pull up this presentation. You might want to use the other microphone . Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity this afternoon to share this exciting project at 633 fulsome st. Today, i have with me. Weingarten gensler, john kaplan with William Julius and debra blair with swig company the owner of the site. When we came to this project there we gowould begin to this project a couple years ago we had some major project objectives we wanted to try to achieve. This unique opportunity here in 2018 where cmpc who currently occupies the building is fully vacating the project. The building needs major infrastructure upgrades, mechanical seismic and elevator and in this unique opportunity to provide all those upgrades to this existing building. We wanted to revitalize the project and make it more attractive to Current Office tenants within the market. So there was a lot of attention paid to making sure the asset provided that value. We alsoyou know, we are really trying to this a modest project and were really trying to aim high and achieve a high level of sustainability for the project will see some unique features in the facade and infrastructure upgrades for the project as well. The greatest of which is really wheezing and existing buildings and would try to maximize the use of the existing building at 603 fulsome st. In doing so, these projects upgrades we are trying to fit the community and the public realm along fulsome street and hawthorne street with major Pedestrian Movement [inaudible]. I think you are all aware of the site here at the corner of opera and fulsome. Its important to note, this is an important and changing Downtown District of San Francisco. Its got 5 min. Access to major Public Transit in the neighborhood and 10 min. Away from the and transbay terminer. Makes an ideal location for Office Tenants in the neighborhood. When coming to the existing building, its important to understand his acids and attributes. This way company could originally developed this company and 19 six and theyve had a longterm commitment as an owner to the neighborhood and to the quality of the district. You know, when looking at this building in 1968, it had it has its original claimant in terms of infrastructure and were looking to improve all of that. The building is an exterior concrete frame structure, so that creates unique challenges with dark recessed windows the performance of which are sort of substandard by todays highperformance envelope requirements. Create a dark resourcesorry, recessed entry portal along fulsome street. Theres retail that exist in that location in the facade is stepped back many feet that creates a dark recessed portal upon entry into the building. When we can to the project, we really look at how this one provide for the 90,000 ft. 2. Try to add to the building . At important to note we are not doing with a new ground of development that we are really trying to best utilize the asset of the existing building and first and foremost, is the core location is expanding the court to add new elevators required for the highrise. The clemens for the building. And in doing so we need to center the office floor plates of the addition around that mass of the court. In provide usable expands around that space for the Office Tenants. So when looking at a compliant sort of zoning massing, we centered thethat option run this quarter and its important to note that it doesnt fit well in terms of these is the building structure. That structure built in 1968 hazard limitations in terms the amount of load it can carry including the columns and foundations. So, it goes those restrictions drove us primarily to asking for this exception today. Using the assets we have the existing building is beneficial to distribute download in additional weight because of the more horizontally across the site. In doing so, we also are able to reduce the overall height of the building by reducing it to stories from six stories in a combined massing to four stories in the proposed massing. Thus, reducing the height of the building from 192 feet to 160 feet. So, while its the right thing to do with existing building we also think it provides less impact on the neighboring buildings and to size outside of that of providing the shadow impact and wind impact in this proposed massing. You can see here that the proposed massing that we have provides reasonable setbacks from two adjacent properties. Some of which if you look at the blue condo property, the new addition is at its least 45 feet in terms of separation. [inaudible] street itself is 50 feet wide. Were providing an nearly full story city state separation from the conduct of the north sea and 3610 towards the 77th doubt please property as well. Respecting the existing easement and access the link to the parking garage that exist in that location it we are also beginning the 15 foot setback thats required by the planning code against both of those properties as well. Not violating those. I think clubbing noted some of the key dimensions that the diagonal were requesting his 242 feet. And the building length on hawthorne is another exception we are looking for at 222 feet. Again, these both comply with a setbacks required and help us reduce the overall height and mass of the building. That mass at 160 feet high, we really feel fits well into the local urban context in soma. If you look at the netscape of buildings currently exist within the neighborhood, the 160 feet height is within that no one and in terms of building length and building with, this also number buildings in the neighborhood that have more if not equal building length and dimensions. When you look at the future landscape of the neighborhood, you can see significant mass even being put into this neighborhood five. 655 fulsome st. , 684 fulsome a major renovation, is a much bigger building profile and 95 hawthorne, which is directly across the street is proposed to be 320 feet tall. So when you take the futility of his neighbor this is really a modest addition to the existing building. If we start with that as the premise and amassing, but we really wanted to do was approach the project to unify the building. We did not want this to feel like two small buildings attached to each other or round ovation floated onto. We want to stitch together a building that at holistic perspective anesthetic. We started by connecting the new addition and a lower addition on hawthorne street. To create a more unified expression providing moments of relief or multi source expansion at the corners that also helps to minimize perception of mass on both primary facades. Here, you can see what that looks like in its final form. You will also note there are some nice solar elements we have on the building to bring down the building mass and scale which all go into in a minute. Weight we really used a pretty traditional motion intensive solar shading which is to reduce the amount of opening from the facade, but expanded that by providing some of three dimensionality to an architectural element that provides scale and mass. This allows itself, allows solar shading element to really provide more solar shading while allowing for increased transparency in the facade. It great something thats pretty dynamic for the neighborhood while achieving sustainability sustainability goals for the project. 32nd . You can see that modifies itself may see the building facade as it has a deeper dimension as required at the highest elevation of the building defines itself as it goes to the towards the ground. Lets solar shading is required. In terms of the ground floor, the providing a number of lumens on hawthorne street including new street trees and a significant sidewalk widening is part of the project. We are also repositioning the projects lobby towards the corner of hawthorne and fulsome good which we think is a great benefit to the project by removing the dark recess that occurs along that street frontage and by pulling the retail frontage out towards fulsome street to provide a more dynamic street facade. Thank you, sir your time is up with the commissioners may have additional questions. Europe hobbies of the diagram you presented . They are not in a packet. Do you have the height diagram involve the things you just showed us we can give you copies of that. I do not have printed copies of those good copies of those good s to the theater was organized opposite your opportunity to speak with being out of three speakers and you would have 10 min. My name is michael dunner on with hands and bridget and i represent the organized opposition to Homeowners Association San Francisco blue and Hawthorne Place. Im joined here today and if you could, rise by some very concerned homeowners as well as my colleague, melissa and him who we splitting time at the podium today. Given the time limits i will abbreviate my comments that i direct your attention to are very competent civil letter brief that was sent to the commission. This project is life with a number of very strange oddities. The developer wants to plunk down an oversize shear wall fourstory box on top of an existing sevenstory structure. The box does not architecturally correlate to the rest of the building. The existing sevenstory seven normal 10 foot slab to slab separation. But the new four stories are different. They have large windows and 16 foot slab to slab separations, giving rise to about and 1820 foot ceiling on the interior. This is odd because it artificially increases height without providing increased Square Footage. Now, one of the questions that we raised in our brief is whether or not that they are was propped coolly calculate. Theres a possibility that it was not. The project sponsor acknowledges that they are right up to the limit and therefore, an accurate count is fundamentally essential. Planning staff told us just yesterday, they were not entirely sure. By stuart because they had not gotten details of the basement, which may or may not even count toward the sar link. Thats not the only thing that was missing. We pointed out that there was a shadow study that was missing regarding public sidewalks and pogo in the neighborhood and suddenly, just an hour ago, a shadow study appeared. We have not had time to review that. Theres no traffic study regarding impact regarding the back easement and there is almost 16 foot penthouse that appears at the very top of the project, 16 feet, 3000 ft. 2, with two sets of double doors and one schematic with women. One needs to ask, why double doors, a window, 3000 ft. 2 and a 16 foot high penthouse needs to appear . Now, the developer is coming here today to ask you for a favor. Thats a sweet what it boils down to. It says, it wants april exception to have floor plates of 24,000 ft. 2 even though the code only allows 17. That is 28,000 ft. 2 more that its entitled to. It says command exchanges going to give you serious concessions, but lets look at what those are. It has a side setback againstoverhead, please. Aside setback against sf bloop that is required by code. They have to do it. There is another side notch facing fulsome street that they have to have in order to make their sar. Therefore, the only concession they get is a little postage stamp, 300 squarefoot notch in the back. Other than that, they are going full floor plates on the existing structure. I point out, by the way, without the exception, in red here, you will see what they would be allowed to build. Here. He went up an extra story, here. Because it would go from 17,000 ft. 2 to 12,000 ft. 2 given the height. In gray, is what they are proposing to do. The developer cannot build higher. This is something we just learned on the project architect. The reason that the developer cant do itwell, it can but it cost prohibitive given the weight. So, its not a concession to tell the homeowners, gosh, we could build higher but we gave you that one and were not doing that. The homeowners understand that they live in a dense urban environment but with a didnt bargain for was the fact that there will be Office Workers 3545 feet away from their bedroom windows, and that they would be shrouded in darkness all the time. Both Homeowners Associations. There was no wind study at elevation which is critical, especially given the fact that the building has operable windows. And there will be a virtual wind tunnel created at that height. We have several alternative solutions to this problem. Weve reached out to the project developer and weve heard silence in return. I now leave the remaining period of time to my colleague. Melissa [inaudible] hello my name is melissa bank from [sp . ] im also here representing sf blue and Hawthorne Place. I think really the key. Insufficient information to make an approval today. As michael mentioned, there are some details missing to be able to determine sar including both and house the basement and retail the entire 5000 ft. 2 has been eliminated from far even though theres certain types of retail that are restricted. The shadow studies only recently been provided. The window analysis has not been complete the Environmental Review was only provided at the end of last week. Theres many details missing in the application that are needed in order for the commission to make certain findings. Plus, theres also many conflicting figures. In the project sponsors materials. As far as for areas that are important to know what precisely is being built in what is being approved and if its appropriate. We are asking that if you do approved today that you consider that they are asking for some significant concessions, and getting little in return. But we would ask is that those exceptions be reduced get and set a 40 of a reduction in floor area, that we look at a different option of a smaller amount of exception provided. In addition, the slab to slab could be reduced we dont have 16 foot ceilings but 10 foot ceilings and then the project sponsor could get another floor in within that 160 feet. Thereby, getting to the maximum floor area that they can get with pdr which is what they are aiming for. We also asked to be certain conditions of approval placed on any approval which is that the will of the penthouse, and the setback not be used except for maintenance purposes. As michael mentioned, the 27 and squarefoot penthouse is concerning to the neighbors along with the setbacks and office parties would be a problem. The 5000 ft. 2 retail space should be restricted to those particular uses that are allowed to be excluded from far and also to exclude uses that would be seriously conflicting with the nextdoor neighbor retail or residential use. Such as latenight bar activity. We also asked whether the landscaping plan for the roof and the setbacks, so that they are treated appropriately and we listed certain construction conduction conditions in a brief is whether we think would be very helpful could we have a additional speaker. Matt calls. Money was matthew coulter, resident at 631 fulsome. I want to endorse everything in mr. Donners brief and just say on behalf of people who live in the building, we are worried about what life will be doing this construction project if it was approved. Mr. Donner suggests a number of ameliorative conditions, mute of steps that particular construction is going on. Im simply here to ask you on behalf of the People Living in the two buildings are thinking about life during the construction that when and if you approve this at any point, that you make those a mood of suggestions conditions come up upon approval. Thank you. Is there available for questions . Thank you very much. Will open up to Public Comment. [calling Public Comment cards] commissioners, ahmed thompson. I live in Hawthorne Place. Am happy to be here today i know as neighbors we will get heard today. Our attorneys summarize the issues it really well. We want to be Good Neighbors with the developer. Our major concern is that we losing our like an air to go into darkness. Hawthorne place is a residential condo building is 130 feet high. The edition goes up to 170 feet so it towers over us. There is hotel proposed. This is the proposed Office Building. 631 folsom. This is us, 77 dow plaisted hotels are going up right. [inaudible] is 200 feet high. So whats happening this building goes up to 170 feet we are really in the dark. So, [inaudible] not so pleasant. By purchasing transferable developing rights for sale in the marketplace of this buildings value will go up. But theyre asking for exceptions. So, what are we doing this. What is the lawyer same spirit in exchange we want some setbacks. They have not offered any. Our requestthat is us. This concrete this is a shot from our root. 77 dow plaisted this is 633 fulsome. Office building with. Thats the existing elevator and has. This is blue 631. You any setback as you can see the buildings are pretty close. This is not a photoshop. This is a true picture. So, by providing setbacks here on the roof, this opens up the back units of blue looking this way. So, it also provides some that we are asking for 25 setback here for Hawthorne Place in the setback the lawyer asked for the 60 foot back here. This opens up the units looking west. Also, it does on other thing. If you move this new addition back this way, it helps the shadowing that now exists on the public space on the second street. So, commissioners, theres no rush. His two years on the lease. So, i submit to this to your attention. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im ginai love with it as of blue 631 folsom. I endorse everything that mr. Donner has put together on our behalf. I just want to say one of the city planner said to me once you meet people opposed to building towers other people who live in towers. I just want to put a face on some of the people live in our tower. After seven years here at the blue were your 75 owner occupied. We are young professionals. We are retired professionals and ashley young families, two. We live and work and go to school in San Francisco. Our children have play dates with each other. We get together for barbecues. Just like any other San Francisco neighborhood. Each of our 114 household pays its share of San Francisco taxes. We are not asking for special consideration. Which is asking for equal consideration in regards to this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is nora hurley. I am also a resident of sf blue. I moved to the original owners whove been in 2009 and i to speak to some of the quality of life issues living in blue during this proposed construction and already a long fulsome street week spirits extreme Traffic Congestion from anywhere midafternoon to early evening. We would like to think its a fiveminute access to the bridge but i think anyone has ever done that commute you know youre sitting on fulsome street on a good day for maybe about 20 min. 40 min. From fulsome and hawthorne to any of the access areas. We are also concerned about access to our garage space on hawthorne during this construction. When you look at the size of the lot and how narrow the sidewalk and streets are around 633, it seems to be nearly impossible that theyre going to be able to carry off this construction without at times and perhaps long exciton blocking our access to our garage. As the retirees in blue by husband and i will be accessing the garage in and out during the day not just during 8 am where 6 pm commuter hours. So id like to thank you for allowing me to express my concern. Thanks. Good afternoon. My name is thomas maddy know that Hawthorne Place. I appreciate the opportunity to be able to be on record that as a resident, for five years at Hawthorne Place, i appreciate the work that our console is unterberg there you did i, too, encouraged the consideration of the appropriate setback for this particular building. In a unit facing directly into where this will be i have experienced floor renovation, but sometimes the renovations have gone until one in the morning and gone down in my pajamas to chat with people. Never a fun think about it very courteous and appropriate in those situations. So i ask that you consider what we might need to do to have the appropriate setback for this particular property and is filed. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Im also a resident of ligand binding is margarita speak into the microphone, please im sorry im also a resident of blue and i strongly oppose the approval of the development of 633 fulsome in its current form. Im any concerns with regards to the condition of given limited time only going to address three of them. Bulk air quality and sunlight and ive spent an email to the Planning Commission with my concerns. Personally i believe that all assumption exception is unwanted. The close edition [inaudible] of the existing building already billed to the Property Line. If billed as proposed it would be a shiny presence on the street [inaudible] we dont need another [inaudible] please, require the developers to build
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