Favro. Reporter mayor liccardo says the officers involved should be fired, and tonight hes calling for a thorough investigation to see if there are even more Police Officers involved than the four placed on administrative leave. Four active and several retired san jose Police Officers are accused of posting racist, antimuslim comments, including mocking black lives matter, on a closed facebook page. Tonight the executive director of the Bay Area Council on islamic relations says she is disgusted by the posts but not surprised. We are calling for these officers to be terminated. On top of that, we want to be clear to warn any Police Departments across Northern California to not at all consider rehiring these Police Officers. Reporter san jose mayor sam liccardo is calling for an investigation to see if even more officers are involved. Any officers directly involved in this kind of racist or islamaphobic behavior should be fired. Now, obviously were going to learn a lot more through this
Retailers, local and big box and just about everybody and nobody could make it work. Even using the global reach of our company, we couldnt make it happen. Nowhere in this country is there a shopping sent we are as many floors as westfield San Francisco center. Not in chicago, not in new york. The retail is why they succeed which is why the body amended the planning code to eliminate the need for a cup for the seventh and eighth floors and above. So we believe this investment is good for San Francisco center and mixed use buildings are inherently complementary with the office use supporting the retail and retail an amenity for the office. And we are going to do a full renovation and that includes improved lighting at the street level and the largest nordstrom in the portfolio and will remain one of the largest in the country. Letters of support including one from nordstrom and they couldnt make it br are supportive of this project. We believe they must continue to be the Retail Destina
The second is the use are w the surrounding context and the concern over the proximity to the use of the San Francisco city academy and the adjacent religious institution at 4 450 ofarrell. And located more than 600 and project site verified and the school is an intermittent activity and does not provide k12 and is likely used while children are accompanied by guardians to the site. Additionally, the current plans for reconduction would place the sunday school on the third floor of the site raised away from the subject application. The third principle concern raised is of the tenderloin is lacking access to daily needs retail uses such as Corner Markets and that the proposed use would displace an existing market at the site while other large format markets such as trader joes and whole foods are establishing in the larger area, the loss of the Corner Market is impactful on the local population. However t project sponsor is a member of the family which has owned and operated the market
From 220 post. The likelihood that a Retail Business would want a stand alone third Floor Office Space that is accessible from an alley that provides minimal foot traffic, marginal street visibility and has some Security Issues is in our opinion simply less than minuscule. On the overhead, i want to post one more image which is looking at the alley from grant street and if you see the orange box, that is where the third floor business is. Pretty tough to see. Pretty unvisible. So with all that said, nothing prevents the third floor and the upper floors being turned back into retail if at some future point that becomes viable. Project does not include any physical changes that would preclude that, so i am going to let the project sponsor speak about the actual efforts to lease this building, but before i go, in your packet, you have support letters that collectively include 41 signatures in support of the project including a leter from members of the Street Building at 210 post which in
The department has not been in touch with us and when he was asked about switching the side, he said it would offend his personal sensitivities. Thank you. Anymore members of the public who wish to comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Definitely an appeal case. The orientation drives a lot of the comments that they brought forward. There is no doubt that the new building is taking the west of the existing appellant building. There is going to be a lot of shadow there. The question is how much. However, i was not quite satisfied with the permit holders approached in this. They could have easily given up some the height and the upper living floor between dining and the living room could easily have dropped some. Similarly, the setback could have been handled a little bit better. Maybe not as much is what the adjacent neighbors want to, but i would have expected this be in San Francisco because they would have been some movement there. We didnt see a