We do expect commissioners to arrive shortly. Item one, case number 2017005617drp at 1339 through 1341 south van ness avenue. Discretionary review is proposed for continuance to january 18, 2018. Items 2a and b for case numbers 2018. At 114 lion street. Are proposed for continuance to february 8, 2018. Item three, case number 2016oo578 at 88 broadway and 735 davis street. An appeal of the preliminary negative declaration as proposed for continuance to february 22, 2018. Further commissioners under your regular calendar, we received a request from the project sponsor for item 15, 2227 fullsome street. They are requesting a threemonth continuance to march 22, 2018. I do have one with speaker card for lions. Ok. Any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . Tess . Tess welborn, speaking in opposition for a continuance for 114 lion street. The planning domestic has the preliminary recommendation of this approval. I suggest that you go ahead and disapprove it now. The building has been a fourunit building. Its converted to one unit now and that is against San Francisco housing policy. So please disapprove the continuance and disapprove the project. Thank you. Thank you. Next eke spaoer, plea. My name is sean westbrook. I would also request that we do not issue a continuance. There was a preliminary declaration of disapproval and i would appreciate if that was held up at the hearing because it would place one or both sets of tenants in those units. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . My name is eddie. Im here if solidarity with the te thans of 2227 fullsome street. I just want to agree with sean that you shouldnt continue that item and you just disapprove the merger right now. The issues arent going to change in three months so lets go ahead and finish the case. Thank you. Thank you. Additional Public Comments . Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Commissioner fong. Move to continue items one through three. 1 , 2a and 3. Second that . Second. Commissioner moore . Id like to ask that the continuance of the item 15 be explained by staff more fully. Looks like the motion on the table right now is the not the continuance. I did not hear that. And the request is from the sponsor, not from staff. Oh, ok. Yeah. In fact, i think staff does not support the continuance on the folsom. Sorry, i should explain that. Thank you. Commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to continue items one through three as proposed. [roll call] that motion passes unanimously 50. And im continue that item to february 8 as well. Thank you. Acting Zoning Administrator. Commissioners, ill place it under your consent calendar. All matters listed here are considered to be routine by the Planning Commission and 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 commission of staff or the public so requests in which the matter will be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this future hearing. Item four, case number 2016. 519 ellis street. Conditional use. Conditional use authorization. I have no eke spaoer cards. Any Public Comment on the items being or the consent calendar . Seeing none, commissioner . Commissioner koppel. Move to approve [inaudible]. [coughing [ second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve all items under your consent calendar. [roll call] so move, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 50. And places us under commission matters. Commissioner johnson. Hi, everybody. I wanted to say that today will be my last hearing as a Planning Commissioner for San Francisco. I have been a proud Public Servant in volunteer capacity for around 14 years now. Ive served on citizen advisory companies. I was on the ocii commission when it was for the purposed and served the last 3 1 2 years as Planning Commissioner. Im leaving to hopefully continue my Public Service if other capacities, but i wanted to give a statement here to the commission, to the staff and to the rest of the city that ive been honoured to serve beside you and honoured to serve the city and just leave with a couple of words on this day. I was really sad coming into the building. So, i wrote some things down to make sure i didnt forget anything. So, ahem. My time at the commission, weve deliberated affordability, availability housing, shared use models for home and transit, and how s. F. Should respond to our economic engine from the changing nature of retail and what our streets should look like to the coming role of cannabis which well see play out over the coming years. This commission has also delved beyond our borders to look at the citys workings. I kind of started it off. But weve had a number of joint hearings with other our sister agencies and weve really begun pushing to have all of us Work Together and work better. And i really appreciate the work of the staff and the Planning Commission on doing that. I want to leave with just a couple of pet items and a few words for hopefully my successor who will be coming in the next few weeks. So the first one is i still want to push to continue a real discussion narrow view. The commission needs more time in the future. Not less. Because this is the direction of the city. We we need to be spending our time on citywide policy and what our thoughts on how we should shape this city so that its for everybody. And adjudicating private disputes between neighbours takes away from that time. I think we should be the tail that wags the dog in envisioning how societal shifts will impact what our physical environment needs to look like. Weve spend a lot of time talking about the changing nature of retail and i really think it is going to require a reshaping of what we think about the ground floor as we look at our city and we need to look at ouren planning code to make some changes so our city reflects what our society looks like. The coming revolution in personal automotive transit. I truly believe, sooner than we think, owning cars, people having personal vehicles is going to be as strange as someone saying i own a horse and buggy. And when that happens, we need to be thinking about how we physically change our city to accommodate what our city will look like at that point. And timely, continue to push the dps agencies to come up with collective solutions. Too many times people think of the Planning Commission and the planning domestic as the first stop so we get a lot of comments that really dont belong us to. But it is incumbent upon us to figure out where they go and make everyone Work Together. It may not be part of our mandate, but we should find out whose it is and encourage them to work with us. If those three things could move forward, i will feel like my three and a half years here was time wellspent. Im going to miss my fellow commissioners. You guys are some of the best coworkers ive ever had. I watched commission for years before ending up being appointed by recently passed mayor ed lee. Ive never seen a commission with as much collegialty and as much commonality as this one in terms of working to solutions and being able to deliberate in a really great way. So, i hope you guys keep that going. I think you know the success successor, whoever that is, will fit in just fine. They wont be as fufnny as me. But everyone will get by. [laughter] ill miss all of you and congratulationses on a year well spent. Thank you to the city attorney. I really appreciated every time you raise your eyebrows at me and give me pretty looks. [laughter] and with that, thank you. Lets continue on with our last meeting of the year. Great. Thank you, commissioner johnson. [applause] and ill just add, we will miss you. You were only in your first term here, but we often look to you for guidance. You act as if youve been here for years and you take it on with a broad policy perspective and help us do that. And focus on the bigger policies. We face in the city and perhaps not decks next to everybodys houses that we can get mired in and spend a lot of time in. So thank you for everything youve done here. It certainly wasnt time, you know, it was time well spent and i think were impacted by it so good luck and hopefully your policy perspective will continue on in bigger areas. So, thank you. Thank you, commissioner johnson. For telling us sad news and leaving us with an upbeat challenge. You definitely kept us on our toes. Thank you. On Public Matters comment, today we, just a few minutes ago, approved in con sent service station demolishing at 3601 largent street. I urge the department, i urge the director, i urge you that we get on to having our overview of where stations are and how we need to look at this. This is an outlying district. Im not sure how many stations there are. By think it is an urgent matter. The second part this morning two important letters came in from the public and because they came if so late, i did fot have any time to read them. They are letters contributing to conversations we have later today. I urge the public to send any letters that comes through earlier than the day before. It is impossible for us to get these letters in time to read them, these letters were very important. And i just like to positively under all of you to send those out no later than the sunday before so the secretary will see them on monday and we get them on tuesday. Id appreciate if all of you could think about that. You have lots of important things to say, in particular the ones we got this morning really matter. Thank you. Commissioner richards. Thank you to commissioner johnson. We started about the same time, probably about a month or six weeks apart. I recall the first time we got together and went out to lunch. We were out looking at an m. C. D. In the outter mission. And she turned to me and i turned my head and i said what the hell are we doing on this commission . We feel like the crazy auns and uncles up here and what do we want to accomplish and i got the action light going and all these policy things that weve been tackling. Some successfully like section 317 reform, which we put on the side and then the u. D. G. , all these Different Things that percolated the past couple of years and really have been a genesis from having this commission actually be able to start setting some good policy work and with the department and i want to thank commissioner johnson for the help that she gave the commission on that. I wish you the best of luck. And dont forget about us. [laughter] you guys dont forget about me. I wont. And commissioner moores point, i echo what she said about getting some really substantial comments and feedback from the public, all very good. Unfortunately a lot of them come in between 11 00 and noon on the day of the hearing. And this is crazy. We cant read everything. Some commissioners may or pay not but then we rely on public testimony or Public Feedback here at the podium. And that is really unfortunate of the person that wrote the feedback of the people that we should be taking a look at doesnt make it and we cant read it. So, anyways, please try to send those in earlier. Thanks. Commissioner fong . Commissioner johnson, im sad that you are leaving but im happy for you. Personally. You have so much dedication and have so many big ideas. Maybe ideas that are too big for the commission. Wherever you go, i hope that you are able to implement and push forward those big ideas of yours. Commissioner milgar . Thank you. I will also really miss you, christine. I think you are one of smartest people ive ever met and we sometimes disagree and you always make me think. And i think that that is such a fantastic quality in policy government discourses to be able to add something with heft to the discussion and you never failed to do that and you also do it with grace. I have really appreciated sitting next to you as a human. You are warm and wonderful and wish you the best of luck in what you do next. Im looking forward to your success. Commissioner koppel . Thank you, mr. President. I as well will be sad not having you next to me. As sad as i am, i am that more excited for you and your opportunities to come and this is a small city and im sure we wont not run into you. Well probably be seeing more of you than we think. [laughter] so best of luck to you in the new year and congratulations again. Commissioners, if there is nothing further, sad to you see you. See you go. Directors announcements. Thank you. Commissioner, i guess just on behalf of the department, thank you for all your great work. We will miss your energy and your enthusiasm and just one item to point out is all your work on child care and moving that legislation through and i made a difference on our able to get support for that and move that legislation through. We really appreciate that. I will certainly miss your enthusiasm and hard work on this commission. So, thank you. Commissioner moore recently told me i wasnt allowed to fraternize with staff. You waited three and a half years to tell me that . [laughter] this is the year and maybe uz ba its year end, but it is also the year milestone, the last several weeks have been challenging here in city hall with the mayors passing and it causes us all to reflect and think about change and how we are reacting to change. Im about 10 days short of my 10th anniversary as planning director and that paiks me think. And the one thing i will just say is to first of all thank you all for 10 years of support. That is not that is pretty extraordinary. And there are not many of my colleagues that have been in their position for 10 years. I appreciate your support and it has been a great honour to be here and i look forward to many more to come. And there will be a lot of uncertainty over the next few months. We all know that. It will be a challenging few months for all of us in city government, given the uncertainties and deadlines. But i think, you know, i think i am encourage by what im hearing out of room 200 in terms of staying the course with our work. I ask for your support in the coming months as well and really thank you all for the last 10 years. Thank you, director. Who was the last Planning Commissioner planning director that served 10years . Dean macris. He was here for one length of time for 12 years but his most recent went he came back in acting capacity was about three years in addition to that. Well, thank you for everything. We appreciate your work. Commissions, item eight, review past evens of the board of supervisors and the Historic Preservation commission hearing. There is no board of appeals report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Here to share a few items with you from yesterdays Historic Preservation committee hearing. Before the hearing, the Cultural Heritage assets met to briefly talk about Cultural Heritage districts, what they mean for the city, fi sort of goals that they would like to establish. And give direction to the Planning Department based on some community feedback. A large number of attendees were present that voiced their support for various lgbtq districts. Also president boyce gave support. The this hearing was in preparation for the full commissions review and comment of supervisor ronans proposed legislation regarding Cultural Heritage districts which will also be on your calendar in february. The full commission, two items to share with you. The full Commission Recommended approval of the Diamond Heights safety wallow indicated at clipper and Diamond Heights. They initiated this designation last month. If i could get the overhead, please. The d. P. W. And the Arts Commission are both examining the sculpture for aesthetic deficiencies to determine the next best steps would be for rehabilitation and the community. This is a Community Supported local designation. The item will now go before the full board in the beginning of the year and our understanding is supervisor sheehy is in support of the designation. The second designation that the commission considered was for the peace pagoda plaza in japan town. This item has been continued a number of times due to concerns over the japan town communitys rehabilitation of the plaza at a future date. The japan town task force was present and didnt ask the commission to postpone their vote on including the plaza in the designation, although everybody agreed that the plaza should be ultimately included in a final landmark designation. After some q a between the commission and the japan town task force, the Historic Preservation commission ultimately decided to keep the plaza as part of the landmark designation and to move it to the full board for consideration. And, again, that will be heard in the new year and supervisor breeds staff was in attendance and is committed to having some sort of discussion between the Historic Preservation commission, japan town task force and the rest of the community on next steps forward. So, that concludes my comments unless you have any questions. Thank you, mr. Frye. Seeing no other reports, we can move on to general Public Comment at this time. Members of the public may address members of the commission. Except agenda items. With respect to agenda item, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded went the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I did have a couple of speaker cards. Yeah. Jerry dratler and georgia sciudice. I have some materials to hand out. Place them there, please. Oh, im sorry. Good afternoon. My name is jerry dratler. I served on the civil grand jury and city commission. I was a member of the 2012 civil grand jury that wrote the re