It would not contribute to the formula retail as the recent one is proposed to close down. In order to grant permit, it must grant 17. 43 to establish formula Retail Limited restaurant doing business as coffee with the the commercial distribution. The project recommends approval and is necessary and desirable for the following reasons the project would not affect the formula retail, the project sponsor would vacate the existing space. The project would fill a soon to be vacant establishment in the district. The project meet applicable requirements of the planning code and the project is desirable and compatible with the neighborhood. This concludes staff presentation and happy to answer any questions. President cindy wu thank you. Project sponsor. Good afternoon, on behalf of project sponsor, phillies coffee. I appreciate the Staff Support in the project. I wont go into everything in the comprehensive report. This location will replace the existing location. Its a tiny storefront where
Complying that would add the dwelling units that may still require a variance but adding onto the existing buildings did not seem very practical when you have a through lot like this and would call for or encourage an exception to a lot development. In which case the lots dont qualify and the variance is required. A variance could be justified for this location however i have concern about the overall scope of the overall project and neighbor project proposed here would not be one granted a variance. Seeing there is willingness for everyone to get together and discuss alternatives and im happy there was some discussion and alternatives discussed and im disappointed it did not carry it through and not before the commission here today but removing that third story would be more acceptable in terms of the variance and what came to light at the hearing was the tree issue and that i did have questions and concerns about. I know the department of public works is very diligent in terms of rev
Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I want to thank you for the presentation. Really looking forward to the piece of art. City clerk thank you, commissioners, if there is nothing further well move to item 8. This is the Environmental Impact report. Please note the draft eir is closed. It closed on september 29, 2014. Public comment will be heard however comments submitted may not be included in the final eir. Thank you commissioners, second and commissioners, rachel Planning Department staff. Im joined by my colleagues and senior environmental planner and preservation technical specialist. Members of the project sponsors are also present. The item before you is a certificate fiction of the final impact reportish for the proposed indiana street project. The project side is located on the west side of indiana streets, assess oris block 4105, lot no. 009 certification. Its by a steel frame industrial warehouse. The proposed project the demolitio
Consider hamburger marys a formula restaurant because its independently owned and management and i think that needs to be mentioned at least once. Thank you. President cindy wu thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon commissioners. My name is allen nelson. I live in the neighborhood. The discussion on this project with extensive outreach, in fact we did an unprecedented thing. We for the First Time Ever put a vote to all the membership. Normally its 10 percent of the membership, if they show up to the meeting we base that attendance on the 10 percent. We ended up doing an online audited vote and im happy to say that we had 60 percent turnout about triple what our last election had and out of that election, 31 was in favor of this project. So that was 109 people in favor of it, 42 opposed to it and for that reason, we strongly support this project. One of the thing we did talk about was ensuring that the community had some safe guards above and beyond just the standard condition of use
Variance is required. A variance could be justified for this location however i have concern about the overall scope of the overall project and neighbor project proposed here would not be one granted a variance. Seeing there is willingness for everyone to get together and discuss alternatives and im happy there was some discussion and alternatives discussed and im disappointed it did not carry it through and not before the commission here today but removing that third story would be more ceptable in terms of the variance and what came to light at the hearing was the tree issue and that i did have questions and concerns about. I know the department of public works is very diligent in terms of reviewing applications and they only remove trees when its been warranted and there has been a hearing on it and they may make a decision and that will be appealed to the board of appeals which gives me a little bit of pause honestly in having a decision right annoy. Now. I would be really hesitant