In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said here as a direct invitation for those parties who were present in the room to talk to each other. I have a lineal way of thinking about that. That was the people i thought i was talking to and that didnt happen. So i dont know what to say. I dont have any comment anymore on that matter. Thank you. There is a motion on the table. I will say, my strong directive was to go back and work with the community. I expected there to be that communication, different from the last time. We heard this, the last few times we have heard this, i have not received a lot of communication from Community Folks nor do i see lots of Community Folks here today. You know, obviously the wood would woodward street neighbors were a big part of the folks that came last time. I do think this is a better project than the first time it came in front of us. Thank you for the efforts. Very good commissioners. There is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions as amended to include a condition prohibiting corporate housing. On that motion. [roll call] that motion passes 51 with commissioner melger voting against. That places us on item 12. [reading notes] you will consider a large project authorization while the Zoning Administrator will reconsider a request for variance. Good afternoon president melger and members of the commission. Planning department staff. Im here to introduce the project at 88 bluxome street. The project before you is a large project authorization to allow construction of a new Building Greater than 85 feet in height, or for new construction of more than 50,000 gross square feet. A variance from the Zoning Administrator from the planning code requirements for parking and loading entrances and micro retail to allow offStreet Parking and transit greater than 20 feet in with and to allow three micro retail spaces were six are required. The project would demolish the existing 288,570 square foot tennis building and construct three new components. A 16 story, 240foot tall west component. A 13 story, 202foot tall east component, and a seven Story Community center and Affordable Housing building. The project includes a total of approximately 1. 2 million square feet consisting of 775,000 of office, 8,080 square feet of pdr , 16,590 square feet of retail, 4,630 square feet of childcare facility use and 134,460 gross square feet of private Recreation Center which will be the new tennis club. 29,690 gross square feet of community wreck. And 106,220 square feet of Affordable Housing for up to one eight 118 dwelling units. It will include basement level parking with 163 offStreet Parking spaces, eight offstreet loading spaces and 388 bicycle spaces. The project will provide approximately 15,500 square feet of privately owned public space through a combination of on and offsite spaces including a mid block alley, a linear park directly in front of the project, as well. Project requesting approval of a large project authorization pursuant to planning code section 329, permitted to seek special exceptions from the planning code. The code allows exceptions for projects identify key sites within the central soma that provide qualified amenities in excess of what is required by code. Qualified amenities proposed for the project include a parcel to the Mayors Office of the housing and Community Development for the construction , a developed recreation and Community Space that is proposed for dedication to the city and operated by the recreation and parks department. The development of a public park along and the retention and replacement of the telescope facility. As such, pursuant to planning code section 329 the project is seeking exceptions to the following planning code sections. Building setbacks and street wall articulation. Offstreet freight loading requirements. Pdr space requirements. Wins, height limits, bolt controls, horizontal mass reduction and narrow and mid lock alley controls. To date staff has received to support of the project from the Sheet Metal Workers Union 104 and the pipefitting unit number 38. The project is on balance consistent with the central soma plan and the relevant objectives and policies of the general plan. The project will provide new mixeduse development with ground floor pdr, childcare and retail, significant site updates including common open space and development of a public linear park. It also include qualified amenities per the central soma plan that will substantially improve the neighborhood. The project sponsor is present and has prepared a presentation for you as well. This concludes my presentation. I am available for any questions. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. We are here with our partner, tmg partners and our architect from wescott. We will try to be brief, because we know you have a long agenda, and we have been here before with an informational session. Just to orient you, this is the tennis club site as it currently stands today, and as it was since the 1970s. We acquired this site because one pursuant of the central soma goals. We came up with a mixeduse project that is essentially filling out the site with multiple uses, which have been outlined. I will outline. It has a mid lock crossing connecting bluxome street to brannan street. This is a view looking across from brannan street. You can see a taller massing, a smaller massing of Office Component, and then the far distance you see the reddish massing which is the Affordable Housing site. We will be deeding to the citys Mayors Office of housing. The components of the project are listed here. I am not going to go through it in observance of time. Just to say that we think it is a nicely balanced mix of uses that will enrich this neighborhood. In general, this is how it lays out across the project site. At the center is the office allocation, the 775,000 square feet that we are seeking from your authorization today. This section indicates how this is a fully integrated signal structure essentially all connected at the base. There is the tennis club at the bottom along with the swimming pools and the Community Center. There is the Affordable Housing parcel that will be on top of the Community Center and on the Office Component of retail and pdr space. My partner, matt field will speak to the community benefits. Good afternoon commissioners. It is my honor to be here this afternoon presenting the project and the array of Public Recreation on Affordable Housing that comes with this project. First is the Aquatic Center that is being developed. As you probably know there are no pools south of our area. This project will develop an Aquatic Center that will be dedicated and donated to the city and operated by park and rec. Including two pools one that is a fullsize lap pool and one that is a learning pool for both kids and seniors. That Recreation Center will have a groundfloor element that is more flex space that park and rec will use for afternoon programming, and spills out onto the mid block alley. What you see here, on the left of this rendering is the Affordable Housing you see on top and the rec center on the bottom. As you pass between bluxome and brannan. Next is the bluxome linear park. This was developed in deep coordination with the city family, including dpw, mta, and the puc. So all elements of this plan have been fully vetted by the city family. At this. Because, there are a number of different programs within the space, that i will walk you through. There is space that is recreation based. There is space that is more relaxation based. It also includes a dog run which is deeply needed in this part of town. As to the Affordable Housing. As my partner related to, this is a dedication of an airspace parcel. Fully coordinated with the Mayors Office of housing. It will be 100 affordable. There is 107 units programmed here. Over 40 of the units are 23 bedrooms designed to fit both family and intergenerational housing. Here you can see unit plans that have been developed in consort with the Mayors Office of housing. This is really a thoughtful program that can be realized as soon as the Mayors Office is ready. And going to turn it over to lisa to walk you through the design of the project. Hello commissioners. This describes the project looking from the bluxome street side. There was a lot of effort to take and have it appear as separate buildings which are complementary to each other but not just superficially different but different also in massing. It is quite a large footprint and the idea is to allow for some double height spaces deep in the interior where he gets less sunlight and to also add double height spaces at the entry area. In terms of the massing strategy it takes the provisional zoning on put developed by the sky playing and adjusts in two different ways. On the west side a series of stacked blocks, on the east side a series of shifted volumes that connect through the negative space in the middle where there is a connector. In terms of facade we really wanted to take inspiration from the Historic Buildings there. The deep punch windows and also the industrial sash and bring that into contemporary language that unites and synthesizes each building. This is what has developed. There is a gradient facade on the West Building that allows us to orient and have different window sizes based on the site orientation and on the eastern building a series of vertical elements, all of which become quite asymmetrical, and less regular in nature. The facades are designed to have depth so they create more shadow and light, and look differently across the course of the day. For the West Building those are the deep windows that have two different materials. One is a panel, another is a copper bronze painted metal panel so that even as you move around the building, you are looking at two different sides of it. On the east wing, panels that again perform more depth and shadow within the vertical seams the view of the central space, the entry to the building, and some views of one of the interior and one of the eastern terrace which overlooks towards downtown. A summary of the project and im happy to answer any questions that you might have. Good afternoon commissioners, taras sullivan. I was asked by the Zoning Administrator to briefly discuss the two variances that the project is seeking. It is seeking a variance from a section 145. 14 though with of the off Street Parking space. Due to bluxome street part, there was a need to consolidate, minimize the impacts. It is greater than one third and 20 feet as required by the code. A variance is requested. The second variance that the project is seeking is for the micro retail spaces. The project is required to put in six micro retail spaces providing micro rebate retail spaces on the ground floor. As we explained in our variance application, the pdr spaces have been designed as essentially pdr micro retail spaces. The intent is to have the users have those function as small retail spaces. The project is intent for the micro retail spaces. Thank you. Okay. Do we have any Public Comments on this item . Good afternoon commissioners, tricia weaver, i am the cofounder and a former director of san franciscan for sports and recreation. It is the organization that was formed in 2015 to help save the San Francisco tennis club. As a longtime member of the San Francisco tennis community, i was quite skeptical of this project initially. The reality is that the project is doing the right thing from the beginning. Early on, the project sponsors and san franciscans for sports and recreations reached an it mou for the provision of offsite interim Tennis Courts during project construction. Also providing for advanced Public Benefits in the form of grants to Public Recreation throughout San Francisco. To date, funding for this project has provided 1. 864 million in Public Recreation grants to San Francisco. Some of the enhancements include the refurbishing of 15 public Tennis Courts at six different locations, throughout the city, including goldengate heights, musk only Recreation Center, marina, mclaren park, bonavista park, numerous others with four new court scheduled to be resurfaced with new nets replaced later this year, and early next year respectively. There was a 400,000 gift to the Learning Center in the recreation room at Golden Gate ParkTennis Center which is under construction now. 95,000 to the successful restoration of the playground and golden gate, which you know had been damaged by arson in 2017. 300,000 to the lets plan and initiative retrofitting playgrounds across the city in desperate need of repair. And a few months ago we celebrated the donation of 105,000 to the friend Recreation Center. Only a few blocks from 88 bluxome street which included sport wheelchair is now available for pickup up an basketball games. The project has also provided for its Marketing Center to be more than a Marketing Center. Also a Community Asset organization such as mine. Thank you so much. In conclusion i believe this project will benefit the community, the neighborhood. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon members of the commission. I am field representative for the carpenters local 22. The members of carpenters local 22, San Francisco and the surrounding bay area strongly support the approval of the 88 bluxome Street Project in the central soma area of San Francisco. This 1 million plus square foot of development will generate hundreds of Union Construction jobs in San Francisco and provide opportunity including women or minorities to begin and continue a career. This type of development is exactly what the city of San Francisco needs, a development which highlights the intent and goals of the central soma plan by delivering a well project, and vibrant mixed use. When completed, the development proposed by the alexander Real Estate Equities inc. , a collaboration with tmg partners will deliver the much needed 100 of horrible housing, of nearly 100 units all producing a tremendous amount of permanent jobs creating opportunities for local residents to work closer to where they live. Additionally the ground floor retail, generous amounts of public and private open spaces including amenities such as a new Public CommunityRecreation Center, pools and outdoor tennis facility. Onsite childcare center, curated Public Arts Program truly displays the developer teams overall commitment to San Francisco on its residents. Thank you for allowing me to speak. I have some letters that i would like to submit. Thank you, sir. Any other Public Comment on this item . Good afternoon, my name is andrew. I am with so can, and a resident of soma. During the planning and even before the plan was thought of, some had been advocating between 3090 . To ensure we would be able to house the most vulnerable populations in addition a few years ago, our Youth Program conducted documentation of how they are not children, youth or senior friendly. Reflecting how popos could be friendly and useful for these demographics. We have been sharing these insights with your planning staff and private developers. We have shared our feedback with alexandria to see more neighborhoods serving benefits included in this project such as onsite Affordable Housing with 3090 ami that would be marketed and available to families, and workers living in the south market. A Community Center a