Period of the controversy from 19952001. Increasingly as we went through process, Planning Commission figured out they had to impose conditions that bound the occupants to not complain. What mary read you were absolutely correct. The board of appeals requiring sales to be done that notice that people couldnt complain. Why . Because artist live in commercial developments. They went into zones and i represented them. They went into produce market, cites next to the at another to the food bank and after all those considerations and many many more, the Planning Department realized and the Planning Commission realized after the first couple of cases they had to put these conditions on to keep the occupants from driving people out that the city wanted in this city. The zoning allowed for them. They were really protective of food banks and artist and industrial operations and those conditions were put in by the city. Next speaker. Please lineup by mr. Pacheco. Commissioners my name is rick we
Commercial developments. They went into zones and i represented them. They went into produce market, cites next to the at another to the food bank and after all those considerations and many many more, the Planning Department realized and the Planning Commission realized after the first couple of cases they had to put these conditions on to keep the occupants from driving people out that the city wanted in this city. The zoning allowed for them. They were really protective of food banks and artist and industrial operations and those conditions were put in by the city. Next speaker. Please lineup by mr. Pacheco. Commissioners my name is rick west. I want to start off. The developer mentioned several times 1043 valencia street that we did not show it in any of the pictures and that it was 45 stories big. I want to correct that. It is in the photographs that we represented. Im part of the a Liberty Hills group. It was there and they didnt even notice it was there. Its a tall building. My
Because artist live in commercial developments. They went into zones and i represented them. They went into produce market, cites next to the at another to the food bank and after all those considerations and many many more, the Planning Department realized and the Planning Commission realized after the first couple of cases they had to put these conditions on to keep the occupants from driving people out that the city wanted in this city. The zoning allowed for them. They were really protective of food banks and artist and industrial operations and those conditions were put in by the city. Next speaker. Please lineup by mr. Pacheco. Commissioners my name is rick west. I want to start off. The developer mentioned several times 1043 valencia street that we did not show it in any of the pictures and that it was 45 stories big. I want to correct that. It is in the photographs that we represented. Im part of the a Liberty Hills group. It was there and they didnt even notice it was there. I
The principals principles of the Planning Department. That site is on tennessee street was locating housing right on the 3rd street rail. Again the project is consistent with the umu zoning of the eastern neighborhoods. And its also on the edge of an established neighborhood and serving as a transition point between residential and pdr to the south. Consistent with the umu zoning. Our original mass when we looked at the site came to 300 units if he we were building as big a project as possible. Over the twoyear process we held about 15 meetings and Landscape Design charrette as well and summarized some of the main concerns, and some of them including the building being no monolithic and too dense and more need for open space. This is a look at our first pace of revising it and reducing density and dropping the boiling down to 275 units. We continue to break do you mean the massing and stepping back at the upperlevels, as well as separatinging from you are neighbors in the residential e
Right. And so again its a grand [skpefrplt ] and experiment and hopefully will be a positive one. We hope so too. In the alley, which is great, that is in the conditions of approval, forever publicly accessible. Right and our ownership will maintain it. Thank you. Briefly, if i may, too, commissioner hillis. The project authorization, one of the exceptions allows them the flexibility allows them to change the amount of flex space. Commissioner moore. It would be interesting for staff to report back the flex space and if we could encourage it, because were discovering many new angles how people are using space and what people are looking for . I would be interested to see real applications in terms of what comes forward. Commissioners there is say motion and second to approve the project with conditions on that motion commissioner antonini . Aye. Commissioner borden . A commissioner hillis . Aye commissioner moore . Aye. Commissioner [sa eug ] eau . Aye. Commissioner fong . Aye. Commiss