Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is pat tura, and i am the president of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood association. Dtna has been involved in this project for close to seven years. In 2007 the market octavia rezoning Historical Survey was done. In 2008 the proposed duboce park landmark district was identified and documented as eligible for the national register. In 2011, it was added to the landmark designation work program. The planning staff has done an excellent job in frameworking and doing the Due Diligence in working with the community to identify the value of this historical resource. They worked at the request of really come to honor and to codify this Historic Resource there. As peter said, in this area is found one of the largest concentrations of intact historical buildings anywhere in the city. Reason to phase and preserve these buildings. It was at the request of the neighborhood that supervisor wiener worked to amend the mills act to better understand the workings
Early on with rec and park who was concerned about potentially having any review of the Harvey Milk Center for example and we tried to emphasize its unusual connection between the park and the buildings, the lack of a physical separation of the roadway, these park entrances, and they understood that, and they agreed that these small were the most important areas. A couple more things. When you do interior changes lets say you want to put a new kitchen in one of these you wouldnt be necessarily restricted in how did you that. Correct. You wouldnt need a certificate until it was entirely interior. Correct. The Affordable Care act only applies to exterior improvements. And there was one gentleman that said he needed a huge number for the under grounding which is in place. I think we have the historic light post in that district but he needed a huge number of the people in the district to do that, and he feels there wasnt the bar wasnt as high for this. Im not sure how we so the planning c
Objectives and policy developments that were developed during the the market octavia area plan. This plan k5u8 called for the designation and protection of important historical buildings. Thank you. President fong thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment on this item . Lfjclnpizgc good afternoon. I had a card filled o owd out. Should i be here now . I john sham bray. I own a property at 75 pierce street and have been there 28 years. Ive come to just about all the hearings and have been in opposition to it since it came to my attention in early 2011. Only because i feel that thek3j. Historic designation of our neighborhood should have been something that the neighbors, who purchased and maintained these homes, should ask for, not something that the city should be imposing on us. Beginning, what does this do for the homeowners, other than add additional loopholes, additional fees, additional approvals, over and above the already inconsistent application of the existing law. It s