Plumtree, they ripped out our mutual fence without prior notification nor consent and most egregiously, they redrew the Property Line of the retaining wall on the new without notification or consent. I lost a full 60 inches in this redrawing of the Property Line. My complaint is currently being investigated by the d. B. I. I dont know what other neighbors are experiencing, but from my perspective, theres a proven history of do first and ask for forgiveness later. All the above were discovered by me. I would have to get upset, notify them, then they would concede and fix the offences. You cannot on kill a 40yearold tree. Not once did they offer to fix things, not once did they tell me of a disassembly of a shared entity for development. [indiscernible] they certainly dont know how to be a good neighbor. Now lets talk about the currently approved plans. They were approved to the property goes from his 1200 to 7,000 square feet. For comparison, the average home in the square in the neighborhood is 1300 square feet thank you. Your time is up. You will get a twominute rebuttal later. Make those comments later. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comment in support of the d. R. Requester . Come on up now, please. This is my first time speaking here so im not quite sure how to do this. Let me see if i can get this phone working here. Okay. I live at 141 fairmount street which is northeast of the proposed project. I have lived there for 36 years. I have owned that property and i was never informed this property was going to be built. This is in los angeles and it is called a monster house, as it was pointed out, it is totally inappropriate for this neighborhood, which is 1500 to 2,000 square feet. This is 4,000 square feet. As you can see from this picture , as it exists now, this is a picture taken from my bedroom window, and it exists now with significant privacy concerns. Im sure that the proposed additions oh, further exacerbates privacy concerns so i am opposed to the proposal to expand with a roof deck and more windows. I think that is all the questions i have. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment in support of the d. R. Requester . Come on up. Come on up. This is your time. [reading names] thank you to the members of the plan commission. My name is joseph and my family has been at this location since 1962. It is still the family home and the house a grove been. Unfortunately, are lies have been change for the worse a buildout of the 240 monstrosity. We have lost our privacy, sunlight, and our quality of life. From day one, of a conversation plan for the architect and developers has been geared towards maximizing profit without regard to the quality of life of the surrounding neighbors. It was the crown jewel of our neighborhood, an actual sentry Old Farmhouse located literally in the middle of the block with an enormous front yard. People would stop and take pictures on a daily basis. That is all gone. Obliterated by greed and over 7,000 square feet consisting of a second added building containing two more units that no teacher, policeman, firemen, or artist could ever afford. Rising like this tower over the adjacent singlefamily home from the block, the fourstory edifice is completely out of character. What could be worse, let me tell you. After series of unfortunate shenanigans by the developer, the new building began to take shape over the last two years, the outline formed according to the agreedupon plans, which included a wall of glass running along the entire southside on the top level facing the sun, and each floortoceiling windows on the front side and more windows at the rear, which is the west side. There were no windows at all on the north side adhering to the plan. 8foot cut outs appeared on the north side top floor presumably for another wall of glass. This was never in any plans and are ever discussed. This is a game changer. I formally believe that the developers planned all along to put a wall of windows on the north side to gain downtown views and packet another few hundred thousand dollars in profit. No reputable builder would forget something that can make them so much extra money, and they would know the negative impact on the adjacent homes this would create, thus the classic bait and switch routine. Then they have the nerve to try and hide it with a small window addition and sneak it through at the last minute. Im a proud native san franciscan who has lived here all my life. I have experience firsthand the changes that we have seen throughout the years, both good and bad. Were at a Pivotal Point in our history. We must be a balance between. Profit for profits sake and the quality of life in our neighborhoods. This is where you all come in. We need you to do the right thing. We are pleading with you to make the tough decisions concerning concerning when enough is enough and to give some selfdetermination back to your taxpaying citizens of this grace great city. Deny this latest track and prevent another wall of windows from turning this house into a four story glass atrocity. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . In favor of the d. R. Requester. Good afternoon, commissioners i would like to thank you for allowing me to be here. This is the second time i have been in this room for the last 20 years. I was at the very first meet and greet and we met in the old burnedout garage. I was medially concerned about two things. One of them was the size of the project. It was totally out of character with the neighborhood, and the second thing was parking. There are four Parking Spaces in an underground garage that is currently planned, and this is for both houses. They took a threebedroom property and made nine bedrooms out of it. One has five bedrooms and one has four. I see that it will probably a blood one or two of those bedrooms in each unit and those people are going to need cars. I was concerned about the parking and also the character. I did not have too much of a privacy issue although my backyard my patio is totally in view of these new windows now that is a further thing that i have is a privacy issue. That is all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. I live at 135 fairmount street and i have owned the property for 30 years. I want my bathroom one day and looked up and there was a construction worker looking right into my bathroom. They put these windows in without letting us know from the plans that they were going to do that and it just destroys all my privacy it was a horrible shock to me and i dont want to put blinds or anything up because ive always enjoyed looking out over my garden. That is one of my joys in life. I was thoroughly shocked. Any other Public Comment in support of the d. R. Requester . Public comment is closed. We will now hear from the project sponsor. You will get your turn. I promise you. Good afternoon. I am from a law firm on behalf of the project sponsor. We are here today to clean up a little bit. This house was previously approved in 2017 and if i could have the overhead, please it was approved with mendoza on the northeast facade adjacent to the d. R. Requesters home there was an original window approved. Please pull the microphone so we can hear you. This window was previously approved and now we are seeking to adjust the orientation of it. And over here, at two more windows on the elevation in the media room. The reason for the windows in the media room is because initially one presented, we had hoped to have the front facade with glass doors with an accordion to allow in a lot of light for the media room. Unfortunately through the Design Review process, that has changed there was accordion doors. That has changed. There is not much Sunlight Exposure into that media room. In order to give that exposure, we are proposing to add these two fire rated windows. The windows would be set back with threefoot benches that will prevent people in the media room from going up to peer across into other people into the d. R. Requesters home. We understand the d. R. Requester s privacy concerns and we have tried to meet with them to address them but we have been unsuccessful at setting up a meeting. That being said, we have offered some concessions that we would hope alleviate their concerns. We have proposed changing the rear window, the one that was previously approved, the orientation has changed. It is window 301. It would be changed to an opaque window and allow light in, but it wouldnt allow people to look out into the d. R. Requesters home. The deer requesters concern is based on his proposed two story horizontal expansion with roof deck. That window would look over the roof deck so that is why we think having this opaque window would help ease that problem, in addition, we are proposing to contribute 2,000 to the d. R. Requester for installation of trees or vegetation here mean planters to shield that window that is closer to window three 03 for anyone being able to look into the d. R. Requesters roof deck we are here as a cleanup of the adjustments that were made before. We had we taken the time, we thought it could be a proper etiquette etiquette layout into the media room. We are here seeking to add these two fire windows. They will not be operable or make the other one opaque and change the horizontal orientation to vertical. We are happy to answer any questions that commissioners may have. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comment in support of the project sponsor . Okay, with that, Public Comment is closed. You get a two minute rebuttal. I will use the two minutes and try to plead my presentation the project would propose and go from 1200 square feet to 7,000 square feet for comparison. The average home in the neighborhood is 1300 square feet this is an email dammit. All right. This is an email that underscores the deceptive nature of Gamma Construction for construction of a modest, threestory singlefamily home. And the world is 400,000 and what world is 400,000 square feet modest . More Living Spaces for residents sort of. They only build high end because that is where the Profit Margins margins are. Look at the bathroom. Next one. This is taken straightly from their website. Look at the bathroom. It is so rich and stark and cold at the same time. Raise your hand if anybody can afford that . Slide. Now to the real issue. The proposal for the two new windows. By the way, the proposed changes dont actually include dimensions for the two additional windows. I dont see how they can actually submit anything without dimensions. I went to the roof and i measured the openings that they have already precut. It is three and a half feet by. That is the size of two and a half a standard doors. It is not just a small window to let in sunlight. They are huge, expansive windows that operate more like an observation deck. Okay. Theres a video that illustrates the view that will come with the addition of the windows. It is a milliondollar view and i would like that but he will not live there, so why does he care . It is because it is purely a build to flip. The windows are there to maximize profit for a unit that will sell north of 5 million. Increased profits are great, right . The prophets come at a cost of the little guys in the neighborhood. Thank you. [indiscernible]. Thank you, your time is up. We may have questions for you later. Thank you. The windows that are being added here, their intended purpose is to allow sunlight in. The reason we have benches there is to keep people from sharing out there. With the addition of screening, that would also help shield any concerns regarding privacy. With regard to the finishes, we are constructing a singlefamily home project. We consider adequate parking that addresses the needs for the two homes that are there. I understand where they could view this is a 1200foot expansion to a 7,000 squarefoot expansion, but this home has been approved and we are here just for three windows. That is simply what we are requesting. Thank you very much. Commissioners . Commissioner koppel . Seeing as though the house is already built and theres no further expansion of the envelope, is there maybe any other way that either guardrails can be raised or different types of glass can be used to address these privacy issues that are valid . There is a 3foot that is why we figure contributing money , he could choose whatever form of vegetation he would like and that would be able to provide the privacy. Did you want to answer that . Yes. For the third window, adding opacity, that is a concession that would be agreeable, but when youve illustrated the approved two windows, i think at the end, that was deceptive. I even have an email from eddie just today saying that the total windows are 70 inches by 39 inches each. From your diagram, they are 8 inches by 34 or something. I dont know the dimensions. There is an email directly from eddie that shows the expansive nature of the windows that he is planning to add. Thank you. Commissioner richards . Question for the project sponsor. Can you put up the drawing that shows the media room in question and the existing condition . That is on a two. Hold on a second, please. Over here are the two benches that are about 3 feet in depth. Above them, 54 inches above the ground floor, the floor, is where the windows start. Can you show the other windows in the room on the drawing . Can you go back to the drawing you just had . Show me the other openings for light . Yes. The only other opening for light in the media room is right here. How long is that . 15 feet, 2 inches. He already have a window in there, 15 feet, 2 inches. It is only on one side. Were trying to capture the sunlight from the way the building is oriented, it is northeast, so large portion of the daylight sunshine is coming from the east and would like to be able to capture that. I was under the impression that the room was a cave, and he needed light, and you already have light coming in. Im not sure the windows are necessary. It is a this gentleman here can build an addition right over those windows if he chooses to do so. I dont think this windows are necessary there. I do like the offer of the opaqueness on the third window, but i will wait for other commissioners to weigh in. Thank you. Commissioners . Any other comments . Okay, commissioner richards . I move to take d. R. , disapprove the media room window and leave the third window, take the opaque offering that the project sponsor offered. Im not clear about the motion because the original plans already had windows, they were just smaller and higher, right . The soul substance of this d. R. Is the addition of these Property Line windows in question. There were none. Property line wall, opaque, and the additional windows are what does jonas bubbled in your plan shown as bubbled in your plan okay. What floors me is it is in addition. It should be in the original plan. Second. If nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to take d. R. Into. Project with the condition that the new Property Line windows proposed are eliminated, but allowing the opaque of the third window. On that motion. [roll call] that motion passes 41. Okay. We are now adjourned. I personally love the mega jobs. I think theyre a lot of fun. I like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. We do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, Transit Center, a lot of the note worthy projects. Im Second Generation construction. My dad was in it and for me it just felt right. I was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. In college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. The Transit Center project is about a million square feet. The entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. It has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. Bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. I love going to the workshops. Its where i met jessica. We hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. Through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. The projects provide the power from san jose to San Francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. Without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. She has headed up the Womens Network and i do, too. We have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. Its been a Good Partnership for us. Women can play leadership role in this field. I tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. He starts dropping fbombs and i say if youre going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. So these are the challenges that we face over and over again. The reality, okay, but it is Getting Better i think. It has been great to bond with other women in the field. We lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. What drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. Its important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. The percentage of women and men in construction is so different. Its hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. Its fun to play a leadership role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. To have that person of women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. Women are the main source of income in your household. Show of hands. People are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that theres a dad at home instead of a mom. You wont have gender equity in the office until its at home. Whatever you do, be the best you can be. Dont say i cant do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. Just put your mind into it. Good afternoon and welcome to the San FranciscoHistoric Preservation