Z. The meeting will come to order. This is the monday, december 10, 2012 meeting of the Land Development committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Its our last meeting of the year. My name is eric mar, chairman of the committee, our clerk is miss alisa miller. Miss miller, are there announcements for us . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 15th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, id like to thank sfgtv which televises us each meeting. Id like to say we have 7 items on the agenda today. Madam clerk, please call item 1. Item 1 is a resolution granting a street encroachment at 54 peralta avenue for construction of a driveway ramp. Sponsor is david chiu and from dpw we have david qwan my name is eleanor tapk and i am with the department of public works. Our office received a major encroachment request from sia consulting on october 26, 2011. The request is to remove and
Feet and exceed the height dimension by two feet, they would make it 7 feet tall. If you were to approve this Pilot Program and the redesignation of these 47 spaces, it would be with the exemption from two regulations, the regulation that says a street artist space must be no more than 4 feet wide and the regulation that says that it can be no taller than 5 feet and then theres a third regulation and that is that street artist displays cannot be within 5 feet of each other. So if you increase each space around the plaza rail, if you can picture this, then instead of there being 5 feet between the spaces, there would be 3 feet between the spaces. You did this historically speaking about nearly 30 years ago when you exempted 12 spaces around bart plaza at market and maupblt montgomery street. There is precedent here. In fact, youve granted exemptions in no less than 40 resolutions over the years for the street Artist Spaces so long as there wasnt a Public Safety problem, of course. That
City of San Francisco. They knew the space on the other side of the wall should not be considered a buildable site. Please spare us this development and send compassionless people, moneyoriented builders elsewhere. There must be a City Department that should look into with this sidewalk issue to determine if its detrimental to the elderly and handicapped residents. Some people on our block require a walker, somebody else a cane, somebody else a wheelchair. Nobody could tolerate, none of these people could tolerate an even steeper sidewalk. But anyway, thank you very much. Thank you. I do have some cards that i didnt see before. Michael mccabe, lou randell and Michelle Kimmel . Oo. Im michael mccabe, i live just downtown in the hydrologically Significant Location from the development. First id like to echo the request that this project be, this hearing be continued for at least a month because we need to get together and get present our case and as it turns out, we had very little notic
Next speaker. Good afternoon, im donna figarota with the Union Square Business district. I just wanted to talk a little bit about the background for this project. It grew out of a larger vision for Hallidie Plaza that was developed by the bid Streetscapes Committee that would create better access from the top to the bottom with a inaudible approach that would allow for a larger range of activities like flower stands, and the street artists being a very important part of Hallidie Plaza were folded into that. Right now the artists when they exist, they are lost in the confusion of people, street performers and tourists in line buying muni tickets around the cable car. We want to increase the visibility of the street artists as an asset and promote them as an asset in an attraction for both tourists living and working in the area. The display table which weve got here, i dont know if you can put on the overhead, if you can see it, anyway, what that does was it really allows a better expos
To hire a licensed engineer to come by and basically take a look at our plans and see whether it is flood. We are human too, maybe make a mistake. During the whole time, since, you know, 2008 that we have been at this, not once they have consulted an engineer or a licensed architect to come by and say, hey, your plans do not work and causes an issue. As for the sidewalk, again, we had the same issue with the directors hearing at the dpw, we hired an outside consultant, my client paid for an outside consultant to look at it and their finding was that, you know, there was no impact on the surrounding homes. Dpw took on this project themselves and did major hydraulic calculations and reviews and they felt that there was also no issue with the building. Okay. Just an engineering aspect of this project. I dont know how the neighbors could have a take on it without licensed engineer opposing us. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor cohen. Can we just bring mr. Kwan back up f