Good afternoon welcome to the San FranciscoPlanning Commission regular meeting for wednesday, august 12, 2015, id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. Speed up and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner wu commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards percentage and commissioner president fong is expected to be absent. You can leave the door, sir. Just leave it it will close on its own. Commissioner antonini and commissioner johnson will be in attendance today commissioners, that places you under your is items proposed for continuance items 1 ab at order cord is proposed for continuance item 2 ab at 24 order court is for september 24th item 3 record at a hundred i didnt street it continuance for october 22, 2015, and commissioners further on our agenda a request if the project sponsor for continuance of 14 ab harrison street to september 10, 2015, please be advised commissioners the september 10th calendar does appear to be a little bit lengthy next is september 24th there are no speaker cards. Thank you any Public Comment on item items proposed for continuance okay. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Ask commissioner richards. I move to continue one a and 2 and 3 a to the dates specified and to september 24th. Commissioner antonini. Yeah. Im probably supportive i was declined to go with the tenth we have items dropping off the calendars like flies last week was not the case but ill support the project sponsor did you want to speak to that . Thank you, commissioners steve on behalf of hines on harrison we requested a continuance to work with supervisor kim on the Pedestrian Safety issues shes out of town but back at the end of august we consulted with her office and september 10th works well, for her and us this matter was originally skeleton july 16th and has been continued ones well appreciate the continuance of 4 weeks rather than 6 weeks to the project continues to move forward. It is not the length of time we have 22 bryant there will be 4 hundred people im worried about on the testing. I think this matter will be short a coincidence. Commissioner moore and i am all in support of things coming back smoothly and quickly we have just a number of very, very difficult things coming up theyre all unfortunately are turning out out different than anticipated if you could trust our judgment ill suggest we push it out to the 24th. Okay please call the question. A there is a motion and a second to continue items 1 and 2 ab and 3 to the dates proposed and item 14 ab to september 24th. Commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 5 to zero on the variance 1 and 2 continuing the variance to the dates specified. That places you under the consent calendar are considered to be routine may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and he and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 4 Record Number at capital after a request for conditional use authorization record 5, at chevrolets street a request for conditional use authorization there are no speaker cards. Any any Public Comment on item items 4 and 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner moore move to approve second. Second. There is a motion and a second to approve the females for and 5 as proposed commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to zero. And places you on commissioner matters item 6 consideration of the adoption of draft minutes for july 13th and be any Public Comment on item draft minutes . Okay. So no Public Comment on draft minutes Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. I was pushing the bottom for the next item. Move to approve. Second. On that motion to approval of the minutes commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to zero and places you on item 7 commission questions or comments and commissioner moore. There was an article in yesterdays paper you may or may not seen it it spoke about starter homes we heard about and the article analyzed the fact the building industry does to the anticipate building any starter homes any longer than it is not pg e out i found a a sobering statement sobering to the extent were pondering avenue and in the parts historical starter homes were the first entry of families and children into ownership a first poem of hair own but with that building type not buildable for all the rebates reasons i assume were aware of we should be thinking about that as we move forward and answer other questions. Commissioner antonini and yeah. A couple of things first of all, i received today, the comments in response on 49ers 5 m owe spoke to commissioner wu and also my understanding released to the public i want to make sure it is available to the public and anyone who wants it should avail themselves we frequently have complaints of piano materials this is over a month to review the comments or questions on 5 m our final action to september 15th for the record unless theres anything im missing the second comment i the ask i dont know if our secretary was able to send this this is interesting the annual survey the bay area by the Bay Area Council i was invite a guest last tuesday and part of it was at finding of survey which was done by e mc research a very good survey first of all, one thousand respondents distribution by counties almost exactly to population income levels very adequate and various incomes represented and ethicly balanced a well formulated survey what was the most pressing issue it delta dealt with the drought more proactive it said fyi our Water Infrastructure and so that was you know more than just saying you take shorter showers or dont get water in restaurants so we have a apply around when there is a lack of rain the highest percentage said that and second place was the cost of living and shortly behind that housing so those are the things on peoples minds a lot and came traffic crime and homelessness in that order that was a good survey 60 percent of respondent were living in the bay area two years or more you did have a lot of people coming from somewhere else from a prospective from one year to the next and a couple of the minutes this people agreed with in highlevel 66 percent want a reduction of fees and other things if it meant moving housing through faster and also by a High Percentage like 55 percent said modification of ceqa to expedite those things while were still protecting the environment that was an interesting survey one the most interesting things a map and more to it than that they asked people where is housing the most needed 75 or 80 percent of the entire bay area represented 85 percent of the population outside of San Francisco 55 percent identified San Francisco as the place where the housing was the most needed it is clear people want to live in San Francisco have family members who live here and they understand the need we build for housing asked housing of all income levels not necessarily Affordable Housing but all income levels it is clear there is a lot of support for building more housing and hopefully, well continue to do that. Ms. John if you could comment on the 5 m comments and responses. Good afternoon sarah john acting director and review officer we had been on track to publish the comments on 5 m for the hearing date of september 3rd it was continued with one of the reasons for the continuance of that hearing was to give commissioners adequate time to take in the information we felt it would would appropriate to push and have it available for a longer period of time than mandated. Commissioner richards. First a couple of points to the survey that commissioner antonini referenced you know, i really want to frame the issue lets reduce fees and build housing as a result issues we increase the supply and demands for Affordable Housing our nexus studies certainly bear it out as schar the fees some people own call them tax but i call them fees because of the issue this whole issue of building more housing is a fallacy i want to make it point to a lot of people they agree about the chunks that is complicated issue were trying to create a whole city we have 10 elements in the general plan all perhaps working in concert with each other you cant focus on housing and pump it threw and cause the issues likes in the eastern neighborhoods and around the infrastructure and some of the other areas in Affordable Housing, and, secondly, i thought id seen it all until in any neighborhood a one bedroom parapet for 6,500 a 9 hundred plus square feet 434 deboss student at 70 a square feet only other part time i like any neighborhood but not worth that much money. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioners, if theres nothing further we can monarchy to Department Matters item 8 directors announcements. Good afternoon sarah jones acting planning director i dont have items for directors report this, weeks ago so well look forward to hearing after the break. Board of appeals and others Preservation Commission matters. Oh, and theres no are report for the board of supervisors. The board of appeals met one item of interest to the commission 101 hyde street appealable for the determination of compliance a project another hyde and golden gate also an appeal it on the decision i issued this was the appeal that will be heard in september last time it was uphold the Section Thirty 9 and ready for that project thats all i have to report. I dont believe theres a report for the historic Preservation Commission. Which places you on general Public Comment not to exceed 15 minutes at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. I have speaker cards. Okay r e david lee calling names sorry cant read your last name. Well here we are again, i got to speak into the microphone about the housing issue when i look at it from where i live guys i see a beautiful city thats all i see we need a lot of Affordable Housing for everyone rich, poor abag because Everyone Wants to come to San Francisco because it is a beautiful city correct . Correct i mean come on it didnt matter about politics we need more housing period we need it bad period that means our architecture needs upgrading and a lot of complicated things i like this guy but if you were my mom and dad, i feel like it would be me, you understand lets get to done heres how you dodd do it build a big at all building lets go for the moon we can do it right in the middle of the financial district and go for the moon im serious about a huge building in the center the skin. Would like period the pyramid is begun did say so clustered you dont know i look at the skyline go for the big one make that work perfect we need to bad but preserve the old im trying to do it historically ill report what i the while you guys were having fun, i found a hyphenating so 10 by right where i live okay. I wish you guys could see it, it is to fantastic hidden behind a wall about to determine 0 a wall i found it i still got it my dad im just done i like you a lot but a day go ago he looks like my dad this is my mom i still have 57 minutes im going to make you laugh ill budget finance subcommittee why did he get rid of his chickens because they bash i have 29 seconds i the that out of respect for Robin Williams i got to go i love San Francisco im the weirdo a member of the historic Certification Committee of one thats historic i got everyone to laugh its 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 oh, yeah. Thank you, sir. Have a good day. Very hard to follow a good act i have looked at something called journals. Org ill read you a few lines the San Francisco board of supervisors debate legislation that spare housing projects like the marina and western edition and sunset under the proposal by the Planning Department developers will would 2 stories taller than allowed are get relief from parking space in reserve for low income residents this is all well and fine until we find out there are 7 thousand units left in the city and we keep on using the same arguments we need more housing but yet vacate units i dont know the mentality of continuing to build when we havent looked at the vicinity of the land about new build in certain districts may not as neighborhood characteristic historically or something but we also have neighborhoods that are well, what do you callism architecturally designed in such a way to have character i dont know how else to describe it but we have to be sensitive to quality of life as commissioner moore mentioned things about infrastructure that are not there and all those things have to be take a look at it and this legislation i hope it will not be rushed one of the items that are coming up number Ten Coalition for San Francisco neighborhood didnt get 20 days in advance a week before like the regular people the public and we need to be at the table early on this thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im georgia i sent you all two emails last night between 7 and 3w9 the alterations that i precede as demos just for the tv audience can i have the overhead please heres the how is it was originally that was in the first email thats your own email here in june overhead please theres the same house as the floor and great bay and into the digging out here it is in july very similar but just this week there it is its gone that last little wail is gone and four story so you know id like dont want to be a tablet tail there are certain things to be considered but i think what youll say people in noah valley theyre not here but are upset and dont know what to do theyre protecting looking to you and the elected officials they have ideas one thing ill say since ive been coming here in a year and a half talking about this i dont think any of those had department of Human Resources the 311s but not the drs one of the things starting on some of the recent plans the defense in Square Footage now the developers my understanding lets not talk about Square Footage but Square Footage is really, really important to neighbors thats where we understand so it i think would be good on the 311 discussion a discussion of Square Footage what is to a starting at and going to have the many projects that are reasonable someone adding a bedroom or something but too many are egging gregarious i hope you read your emails have a nice break by the way. Thank you. Commissioner wu im donald president of San Francisco and the commissioners, thank you for having me today so i want to congratulate the triple c for taking politics out of housing and putting people into housing there were endorsements and as such i know we speak about housing in the blocks for the last 40 years and splildz in solving our problems and complaints about infrastructure but, however, if the city was doing their job for the past 40 years with a villainy plan with the infrastructure to support all the building were trying to catch up from a lack of 40 years of building and two blocking buildings is high in San Francisco the attorneys are living in 2 million homes in noah valley yet they represent tenants that are displaced and due to the housing policies i want to clarify about the 5 m project it is two hundred and 12 affordable units new open space for the south of market neighborhood is going to be built 11 thousand square feet and upwards there will be transportation and improvements a commitment to transit there will, 70 million in benefit fees, there will be new jobs 12 hundred for construction and also 3 thousand 1 hundred and 50 permanent jobs in the local neighborhood our arts and cultural continuous will be there focused on youth in the dead belong with attention to the chronicle building and currently on the block of this project site none lives there only a few Office Tenants work there therefore we need to press forward because theres about i would say 10 thousand seniors, thats vets and disabled renovating around couch sandra fewer as they apply to the citys lottery for the subsidize housing projects for example, the tenderloin has 65 units only 7 thousand applicant for the seniors and therefore were in a crisis we need housing yesterday not day it today or tomorrow but yesterday it is utter we move forward and no longer delay them thank you. Thank you. I see theres a number of public speakers from potrero hill sometimes, the limit for Public Comment is 15 minutes i want to you all to speak but be cognizant of time. Thank you for the opportunity