Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of september 15, 2015. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll . Madam president. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed, supervisor campos, supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor yee. Madam president , all members are present. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . I have none today madam president. Okay, madam clerk, can you please call the first item . Yes the first item of business is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and the board of supervisors. The mayor may proud additional remarks up to fi
Please wait outside if you care to speak submit a speaker card to make sure youre aware your name has been called for a particular item okay. As soon as an overflow room is made available ill let you all know where that is id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner richards thank you, commissioners commissioners, the first item on your agenda is item for continuance item one the go affordable unit general plan amendment and two Affordable Housing bonus planning Code Amendment and next Affordable Housing and public Zoning District are proposed for that continuance until december 3rd, 2015, item 4 at 1126 irving street has been withdrawn i have a number of speakers commissioners. Okay. Opening it up for Public Comment for continuances Katherine Howard calling names and if you all want to line up on that side of the room pent. For those members of the publ
Screen. So theres the drawing you see the penthouse was moved further east now and so it actually, the door lines up with the west side of the roof deck im asking for is consistent with what youre proposing with 3 modifications because the four feet four feet reduces the roof deck by thirty or 33 percent 3 feet on the west, 3 feet on the north and 4 by 4 foot section at the door to allow someone to leave the penthouse and assess the deck. If you would draw it please i cant see that to comment. She wants a setback on the west side exactly. Along with the chimney yes. I drew it wrong 3 feet on the north side. What is the reason for 3 instead of 4. Just because it reduced the rjd by 35 percent a big reduction so i prefer it to be 25 percent that is what im proposing instead of the 3 feet if the offset the fire code is a nice number for the setback. Im comfortable with that. As a seconder ill agree the setback will be 3 feet from the north and west sides if im correct. Thats correct i thou
Correct. Thats correct i thought you were worried about the odds my reference to the arrow shown the drawing. Okay commissioner Vice President richards and i guess mr. Lindsey want to make sure have you looked at the calculations the reason im asking weve done an audience audit inform september but permanent a training issue and 2 of 5 fails the audit there was indeed an audit i want to make sure your comfortable with those calculations. Commissioners i did not personally review those. As motion id like to ask mr. Lindsey to double check the calculations to make sure it is not a demo. Ill accept that as part of motion. Thats fine it looks okay to me. Call the question. Commissioners, if theres nothing further theres there is a motion that has been seconded to take dr and approve the project as proposed with the modifications to the roof deck only and the railing associated with the roof deck to set it back from the edge of the building 3 feet own the west and north side and for staff t
Commission im Marshall Schneider an architect working with the neighbors with the project proposed the neighbors of the proposed project building there are several reasons that warrant commission bans the commissioners, on that motion related to the design decisions lets examine the size the average size on or of the buildings the same zoning is 2 thousand plus square feet open an average lot size and the largest this on the block is currently 3 thousand plus and the lot size of 3 thousand square feet the proposed project is 5 thousand plus the promoted project is one. 5 the size of largest structure on the block and that is more than double the size of average structure per Historical Planning Commission is not grounds for the exceptional or extraordinary circumstances we believe the sheer size the project coupled with the design that the project sponsor neatest the exceptional or extraordinary the first, the decision the project sponsor made to leave the exit facade massing and this