We do expect commissioner johnson to arrive shortly and commissioner bobby wilson that to be continuance items one ab fulsome conditional use authorization and the Zoning Administrator will opine on the variance for indefinite continuance and further under the regular calendar item 8 potrero zoning map staff asked for a continuance to the i didnt get all under the discretionary review authorization circuses we received confirm that item 17 a the discretionary review has been withdrawn as a result, the defer will take up the matter during the first recess. No others items proposed for continuance. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on this item . Proposed for continuance. Good afternoon Commission Jim counsel to the Property Owner on potrero and ask the item be heard as quickly as possible if not today this is the correction of an error in the zoning height map on a second Story Building that covers the lot it existed for the last 50 years and thely down zoned to open space despite the
Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner moore and commissioner wu we do expect commissioner johnson to arrive shortly and commissioner bobby wilson that to be continuance items one ab fulsome conditional use authorization and the Zoning Administrator will opine on the variance for indefinite continuance and further under the regular calendar item 8 potrero zoning map staff asked for a continuance to the i didnt get all under the discretionary review authorization circuses we received confirm that item 17 a the discretionary review has been withdrawn as a result, the defer will take up the matter during the first recess. No others items proposed for continuance. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on this item . Proposed for continuance. Good afternoon Commission Jim counsel to the Property Owner on potrero and ask the item be heard as quickly as possible if not today this is the correction of
The recording secretary of the government committee, of which i am the chair, and i dont think you can find, as previous people have said, a harder worker, someone who is more tenacious, disciplined, tireless, a selfstarter. She is a great researcher and writer. And so i come cap in hand to ask you to reappoint her and one of the great things here, too, is that she is experienced, this is a reappointment and so you dont have to have somebody come in and learn on the job. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, catherine howard, landscape architect. I do have some experience with tree issues in San Francisco, having worked with friends of the music concourse to protect the historic hundredyearold trees in front of the band shell when the garage project threatened them. Ive known miss hillson and her work for many years. I am on the open space coalition. In our monthly meetings we sit through a lot of meetings, many of them extremely complex. Ro
With the work of your department, we are putting in hundreds of trees but what are your thoughts how we can move forward on preserving our trees, expanding our trees in the face of what our current policy is . One of the things ironically i spent the last two days, six hours worth of focus groups that we at friends of the urban forested and paid for. One of the things the public is interested in and are they concerned about the tree canopy and trees and expanding the canopy and we also spoke a great deal about the urban forest plan. What we discovered in the process we had home owners with trees, home owners without trees and renters. We were surprised at how the renters really werent that interested in trees. But they are very interested in the damage that trees do to sidewalks. And so one of the recommendations from the urban forest plan is that we have a dedicated Funding Source for the care and maintenance of street trees that also means the city would take back the liability for d
With the work of your department, we are putting in hundreds of trees but what are your thoughts how we can move forward on preserving our trees, expanding our trees in the face of what our current policy is . One of the things ironically i spent the last two days, six hours worth of focus groups that we at friends of the urban forested and paid for. One of the things the public is interested in and are they concerned about the tree canopy and trees and expanding the canopy and we also spoke a great deal about the urban forest plan. What we discovered in the process we had home owners with trees, home owners without trees and renters. We were surprised at how the renters really werent that interested in trees. But they are very interested in the damage that trees do to sidewalks. And so one of the recommendations from the urban forest plan is that we have a dedicated Funding Source for the care and maintenance of street trees that also means the city would take back the liability for d