Discussions and items were there were conversions often from housing to that use or maybe sometimes, it was not a housing use it might not another use but there were situations weve been reticent to grant this situation were allowing under is a difference between new construction and conversion the results are the same youre having medical officers o offices on the upper floors it makes sense to be able to have enough space it have our entire operations on different floors that was a one reason i brought that up for the benefit of the public there was and then earlier approved project at the same location that included 4 locates on the third and fourth floor the sailing sale is dead its not before us anymore by i just wanted to bring that up because i think we need to look at 0 Global Policy on what we want to do with the upper floors i think we center to be a little bit more welcoming of the medical or office uses on upper floor where their conversions on the upper floor im perfectly
The discussion on the nonprofit and legacy businesses in my view so thats something ill be looking for criteria around future projects. Commissioner moore. Two comments of appreciation that youre doing it at the time youre doing it i greatly appreciate our underpinning the statement for world cities is not a notebook and cranny country but paris i appreciate this warning to the Planning Department and staff mr. Kelly to really take a board and anymore comprehensive look at this juncture i dont think that the central selma plan can pass which indeed address what was presented as youre looking across the city the one neighborhood you didnt mention was chinatown the closing of the empress of china with no mitigating idea yet presented it will fall within a legacy registering rather than considering building replacement that is inphantomable and chinatown as a cohe has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that
Commissioners might have about the design. Thank you. Well take Public Comment first if we have questions well bring you back up any Public Comment on that item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner antonini. Yeah. Thank you. I was the one that brought it off consent i think it is a wonderful project im a health care person im very, very supportive but im trying to establish our policy is in regards to medical for office uses on upper floors of commercial districts weve been through a lot of discussions and items were there were conversions often from housing to that use or maybe sometimes, it was not a housing use it might not another use but there were situations weve been reticent to grant this situation were allowing under is a difference between new construction and conversion the results are the same youre having medical officers o offices on the upper floors it makes sense to be able to have enough space it have our entire operations on different floors that was a
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Mitigating idea yet presented it will fall within a legacy registering rather than considering building replacement that is inphantomable and chinatown as a cohe has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that the empress of china joins the registration of cultural importance and i hope that you and other presentations will mention chinatown because while theyre still many living owners probably generational changes go as much in the making we need to help to address this and front on and overall possible techniques for this to go throw the proper process. Thank you for appointing the empress of china its one of our legacy bars and restaurant and sadly one the businesses that is most enthusiastically about the initial round in the early 2013 so its challenging a real loss for chinatown if that occurs. For the empress that emphasis if the owners want to sell the building for over 20 million how can a open spa