Speak to you this evening on behalf of the pacific avenue neighborhood association. My name is robin tucker and i am the president , share of leadership responsibilities for the organization. Our organizations area of responsibility that we take very seriously is to support our neighbors in those efforts that we especially feel not only impact our own neighborhood, but also impacts contiguous neighborhoods, specifically russian hill and the middle Polk Neighborhood Association area as well. I hope that you receive their emails that objected to this project as well. Im appearing before you this evening to object to the property on at least three bases. One, the project, as mr. Low stated, has at least the appearance that it is a matter of time before its converted to a highend condo unit or condo building. It has already occurred along pacific avenue in two buildings between market and haight street where we lost a public garage and we lost one Affordable Housing building to three penth
they re a block and a half to the north. if you look at the two photos in his brief at appendix 3 page 13, those photos were taken a block and a half north. at washington and jones. they re not near the site. that s not how you define neighborhood character. the residential design guidelines tell us you look first at the adjacent buildings, then the block face, then across the street if necessary. in this particular case, it s not necessary. we re asking the commission to listen to the neighbors and look at the neighborhood. the second extraordinary exceptional circumstance in this case is the way in which this housing has performed for more than a hundred years and more than 35 years as affordable rent control housing. the project looks out of place. it s far too large. it gives the impression of the creation of some luxury condominium or tics. when you have the two top floors, individual elevator, two-car garage, it gives the strong impression at some point in the future al
project does not fit in the following manner. the scope of the project is too large to qualify as a neighborhood improvement from jetctiontionthv. number two, the financial cost to add 1200 square feet penthouse and garage and an elevator will impact the sick affordable housing units to be lost in the neighborhood where housing is dwindling. three, this precedent exposes the hill area community to further request for penthouse additions. four, this project does not conform to the existing character of the neighborhood. also, it does not contribute to improve the neighborhood or the environment. it threatens the community and the environment and the quality of life as it exists. thank you very much. president fong, members of the commission, mr. sanchez, thank you for allowing me to speak to you this evening on behalf of the pacific avenue neighborhood association. my name is robin tucker and i am the president, share of leadership responsibilities for the organization. our or
mid-block and quotation next to buildings of similar proportional height. the project sponsor does note the project is unusual and we all concur to that. the project sponsor states this is a partial addition. if it is partial addition it is an entirely different mean tog all involved. call it what it is, massive 1300 square foot structure with increased height of 10 feet with the highest point topping at 50 feet in total building height. it encompasses 0 plus percent of the existing roof line with exterior and front decking. ~ 90. there is no like construction of proposed mass on the entire 39 parcel square block. as far as the eye can see to the north and to the south of the subject property, the building topography slopes accordingly with the terrain and not against it which is proposed. in doing so if this project is approved, it will forever negatively change the existing pattern and slope topography which has presently existed for over a century. the alternatives that we