director: good afternoon, and welcome to the may 16, 2012, meeting of the board of appeals. to my left is the deputy city attorney. she will provide the board with any needed legal advice this evening, and we have the board legal assistant, victor pacheco, and joseph duffy is here, as is john kwong, and scott sanchez is the zoning administrator. at this time, mr. pacheco, i would like to wish you a happy birthday. and ask if you would go over the board meeting guidelines. secretary pacheco: the board asks that to turn off all pagers and carry on a conversations and a hallway. appellants, permit waters, and department representatives each has three minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with them must complete their comments within the seven-minute and three-minute guidelines. member is not affiliated have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttals. to assist the board and accurate preparation of minutes, members of t
use along third street were appropriate to a wide range of uses and community serving uses, smaller scale retail, community uses, childcare, and the like. the design and development s.u.d. had a similar goal when we developed that. and that was to allow some additional office. we believe that by including the subject parcel in the india basin s.u.d., it does essentially the same thing. and it just opens up to some further uses beyond p.d.r., along third street where we think those uses are appropriate. the legislation, the second part of the legislation does, it also allows medical clinics, within the india basin on industrial park, special use district, at a larger scale. it allows up to 15,000 the rezoning would allow it up to 15,000 square foot principally and then would require conditional use above that. and for similar reasons we think this is appropriate. the location along third street suggests that there should be a wider range of uses, particularly when they are s
district, at a larger scale. it allows up to 15,000 the rezoning would allow it up to 15,000 square foot principally and then would require conditional use above that. and for similar reasons we think this is appropriate. the location along third street suggests that there should be a wider range of uses, particularly when they are serving the community at this location. staff has recommended approval. i would be happy to answer any additional questions that you might have regarding the actual effects of the rezoning. but i ll hand it over to andrea brus of supervisor cohen s office. vice president miguel: thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. andrea brus from supervisor cohen s office. thanks for agreeing to hear this item today. i know you have a long night ahead of you and thanks to planning staff who have been really wonderful to work with on this project. so as matt has already discussed with you, the ordinance before you rezones the property located at 3450 thir
public comment at this time. one minute. wow. sue hester. i have as much to on this project as they do. we have been asking at the community level the department to do a dashboard showing. what type of housing is being proposed, pardon me, approved by the department, and constructed by price level? we ve been asking for it for four or five years. peter cohen and i particularly have been diligent on this. we ve been asking it so that you would have something to look at that shows what are we building, how does it meet our housing needs, and we keep being shined on by staff. it always is going to be a project that we re going to deal with in the next year, the next six months, whatever. but we don t have it. and more is the shame because rincon hill is one of the areas where it needs attention. what is being built in rincon hill? what is being approved in rincon hill? is huge. it s a huge chunk of what you re doing. and where is it skewed? skewed toward very high end housin
i ve been asking it for at least five years. before you were even the planning director, because we need that information. we need to know who is being served. and i m tired of extensions. the market has changed since this project was approved. the economy has changed. and we keep chugging along building really high end housing. thank you. president olague: is there any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: i have a question for the developer. thank you. you re saying that you anticipated about a year s worth of construction documents, etc. but you re only asking for can we extend this longer than a year? no. so it s conceivable that you might be back if you fall short of your it s conceivable. commissioner sugaya: ok. that s all i needed to know. president olague: commissioner antonini. commissioner antonini: i m very much in favor of this extension, certainly with this particular sponso