Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Story structure which contains two residential units and some ground floor commercial space. We are looking to add a third floor to increase the main unit for family use. It would have three bedrooms and a guestroom. We are also looking at relocating the second unit, which is now at the rear of the groundfloor space. It is a small onebedroom unit. It will go to the second floor and converting the entirety of the groundfloor to commercial space and extends the building at that level to the full coverage of the lot. This will enable a more usable commercial space and reinforce the commercial neighborhood district with a future tenant to be determined. We are looking at creating some outdoor space, which is pretty minimal in the neighborhood, as well as on the lot, by proposing roof decks both at the front and rear, as well as on the top of the building. My client, the owner, would like to have some space to do some gardening and the second unit would also have some outdoor space and the intent here is currently there are parents within the second unit and would remain so. It truly is a family style residence and we are looking at restoring the original, or as close to the original commercial storefront that has since been removed. We do have 3d renderings on the overhead. This is superimposed on a photograph with the new commercial front, and the third floor is hardly visible. We have some other renderings that are a little less photoshopped. These are from further on the opposite side of the street, more than you would be able to visually see when you are on sight. The third floor does pull back quite a bit and it is fairly simple, flat roof structure, pretty minimal, respecting the original two story structure and is detailing were keeping it fairly simple and straightforward. That is pretty much summing up the project. We are not we are the only two Story Building on this side of the street. The building site is framed by a threestory four story structure on the western side and a threestory structure on the corner that is currently used as a church. Our proposed addition would not be any higher than the adjacent structures and it is in keeping with the fabric of the neighborhood. Thank you. Great. Thank you let me open Public Comment. I have two speaker cards. Hello, commissioners. The reason why im here is because i do oppose the current building plan. I dont think that it really fits into the neighborhood according to article ten. It is not consistent with the other buildings on that block. It all it says in article ten that they can be made compatible since it is not. The building, the groundfloor goes up against my Property Line and is right in front of a light well, which is visible and you see into the bathroom and two bedrooms on the second floor. And as they go up, the sightlines will be into the light well. It disturbs the light and air from my property. It is an old property. This is the one that is being remodelled. They are taking off the roof, which is Pretty Amazing in a historic district, especially considering the neighborhood in itself, theres a couple of projects in front of you now on the same block that they are restoring their property. They are removing that roof, which is unique to that building , and they are putting back on a flat roof with decks, with front and back. To me, that is just powerful building when it looks out at the other backyards within that neighborhood on the 800 block of 202nd street, on minnesota street, the 900 block, none of the buildings conform or look like the building that is being built. The other thing that i think about is in 2010, there was a commercial building on the corner, to stay flat commercial space. The fellow wanted to demolish it and then put in a groundfloor restaurant and two units above, and when you read before the historic review board and all of that, he was denied because they said it was blocking the light on the building that it would sit up against. Eventually he withdrew his permits and a business on the 800 block took over that project and they maintained the historic value of that building. I really dont think they deserve this certificate of appropriateness at this time. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners i am a longtime resident of dogpatch and i live at 1080 tennessee street. I am above the rear of the proposed project. As a result of living directly behind this expansive proposed project and the proposed alterations, it is primarily the most effective building of all in our neighborhood. While i am not 100 in agreement with the design of the project, my main concern is i will lose the majority of the light and air in my residents. The only windows have three roofs on the abutting Property Line site and the access to Natural Light and air will be greatly impacted. I am requesting there be a commendation for the designed to maintain a light well and air shaft so they continue to function providing much needed light and air. Thank you for your consideration thank you. Any other member of the public wishes to comment on this item . Closing Public Comment and we will bring it back to the commission. Commissioners . Thank you very much. I know this couple and i know this property fairly well. I used to live in the dogpatch area and i am quite familiar with it. I wanted to respond to the two speakers only because pretty much everything they talked about was not laid to the historic character, i mean, almost everything. The speakers talked about a lot of things that are Planning Issues in terms of light wells, and coverage on the lot, which the zoning allows, i understand, but those are things that we cant really address. I do want to go to the historic issues at hand here. I know the current front basically what you see from the street, dogpatch is really developing quite a bit in the past ten or 15 years and in particular, these two blocks from third street to minnesota and tennessee have really, you know, been improved quite substantially. This storefront is not historic, it is kind of junkie looking, it has it is kind of modern. What theyre doing on the storefront is exactly the right thing. I also know that there are very large trees on this block and i think even with the setback, it is minimally visible, so this has a fairly high and large cornice that sticks out, so visibly from the street, i think this is appropriate and fits in. Were not talking about a landmark, were talking about historic resource. I do think it is appropriate to the block it is on. It is the smallest one on that side of the street, and again, it is not bringing the map out to the front, it is pushing it back quite substantially, and the storefront is quite appropriate for the district. Thank you. Anyone else . Thank you. I drove by the place. Im kind of interested in this. My impression was similar to what you have said that i dont think that the massing on top is going to be a problem. I think it is a good project. Anyone else . Commissioner black . I concur. The improvement on the storefront is really noticeable. It is going to be a big benefit to the neighborhood on the street level. I also went by the property. I do think it will be difficult to see the upperlevel addition, and the structure is sandwiched between two other structures, so i dont think the height is incompatible. I understand why members of the community are concerned about planning related things, which are really not in our purview, so from a standpoint of the criteria that we need to apply, i will be supporting this project. Thank you. Any other comments . I moved to approve with conditions. Second. Thank you. On that motion to approve this matter with conditions. [roll call] so moved. The motion passes unanimously 7 0. Placing us on items nine a through e. Properties at 2251 webster street, 1401 howard street, 2168 martin street, 27301 through 2735 some street. These are all mills act applications. I understand that commissioner foley, you need to recuse yourself. You have to recuse yourself for all of them. Can we have a motion, please . I move that we remove commissioner foley. Thank you. [roll call] i will remind you, commissioner foley, as a new commissioner, you need to file some paperwork with the ethics commissioner within 15 days. Thank you. Could i please have the screen . Good afternoon, commissioners. Michel taylor, Planning Department staff. The items before you today are the five mills act historical property contracts. It was legislation authorizing local governments to enter into contracts with private owners of qualified Historic Properties. This agreement provides property tax reductions to owners at those Historic Properties who can allocate the savings towards improved maintenance and restoration plan. The department currently holds holds 37 active mills act contracts. The department received seven applications for the may 1st filing date. We reviewed their own applications and deemed two of them incomplete. The staff is working with the Property Owners of those incomplete applications to file complete applications for the next mills act cycle. For the remaining five applications, staff conducted preapproval inspections and worked with applicants to revise riba location, restoration, and Maintenance Plans as necessary. All five Property Owners will enter into a mills act contract with the city. The agreements are a tenyear revolving contract that are renewed annually. Your commission packets contain a draft evaluation for each property outlining the potential property tax savings. These figures were compiled by the assessor recorders office. Each property has outlined with the assistance of the Department Staff the rehabilitation and Maintenance Plans that ensure work will be conducted in conformance with the secretary of the interior standards for rehabilitation. 2251 less webster street is located on the left side between washington enclave street. It is a contributing building to the webster street historic district. It is a two story basement with singlefamily dwelling designed in the italian style and built circa 1900. The applicant completed some rehabilitation of the building in 2019 including drive out to repair and painting with an estimated cost of 12,650. The proposed reability asian plan includes inkind window replacement, interior plaster and repair from an exterior leak inkind replacement of the front and rear doors, roof repair and replacement. [please stand by] the subject properties and a threestory miss sonnery building designed for Survival Style by architect john somebodier jj. Foley. It was submitted to demonstrate the exemption would assist in the preservation of a property that might be in danger of demolition or substantial allerrations. Alterations. There will be entry lobby floors, plaster detailing and woodwork. Maintenance work will cost 31,000 annually. Al proposeall proposed work wilt standards. The property meets two of the five priority considerations. They will invest money other than for routine maintenance. Additionally the proposed Rehabilitation Project will preserve a distinctive example of a renaissance Revival Church and there will be a savings of 66,394. Its on the east side of patomic street. This was fro from 1899. Front facade window repair and placement and rehabilitation work will cost 126,035 over ten years. The proposed Maintenance Plan includes annual inspection of roof, gutters, down spots, foundation and woodsideing and trim. The proposed rebull takes will require significant associated costs to ensure the presen presn of the property. It will be other than routine maintenance and the proposed Rehabilitation Project will preserve a distinctive example of a victoryian home. There will be 22,692 or 74. 46 reduction from factorybased year value. 2168 Market Street is a threestory woodframed commercial building constructed in 1907. By master architect, ark arkus mordn. In 2015, the applicants performed a full building rehabilitation including seismic strengthening. The proposed plan includes repair and restoration work to the exterior entry, replace of a historic door with accessible door at the main entrance, replacing a noncompatible window and restoring bricks at the front facade. Its estimated to cost over 95,000 over ten years. The proposed Maintenance Plan includes any necessary repairs to the front facade windows and wood element and roof on a regular basis. Maintenance work is estimated to cost 7500 annually. All proposed work will meet the secretary of the interior standards. The property meets three of the five priority considerations. Distinctiveness, recently designated landmark and business. It represents the arts and craft architecarchitectural style ands listed to Historic Places in 2019. This is a registered regularly business. The property will not receive a property tax savings. The Property Owner is aware they will not receive a savings but would like to move forward knowing that the property will be evaluated in the future. Its valued at over 3 million. There fore, historic Structure Report was submitted to demonstrate the granting that would exist in the preservation of a property that might be in danger of demolition or substantial alterations. The building underwent a full rehabilitation by a previous owner including full repainting, facade restructuring and reroofing. Proposed Rehabilitation Plan includes dry rot repair of wood elements at the base of the building, repair and restoration of windows and repaint exterior, replace reflashing and full lie roof the building. Rehabilitation work is estimated to cost 305,000 over ten years. Out the proposed Maintenance Plan includes inspection of gutters and downspouts, windows, front facade and roof. Maintenance will cost 5,348 annually. All proposed work is intended to meet the secretary of the interior standards. Tthe subject property meets thre consistors, distinctiveness and recently designated city landmark. It represents a well preserved example of the bozart style architecture and the Property Owner will be investing additional money towards rehabilitation other than for routine maintenance and the city of San Francisco designated the building as an individual landmark under article 10. The estimated property tax savings is 35,495 and is a 49. 6 reduction from the base value. The Department Staff recommends Historic Preservation commission, recommended approval of all five milisac recollections for the following reasons. The properties are all qualified historic resources. The Maintenance Plans were found to be appropriate and all proposed work is intended to meet the secretary of the interior standards. This concludes my presentation. I and my colleagues are happy to answer any questions, as are the property representatives in attendattendance today. Thank you. Public comment . We have some speaker cards. Well start with sally sadusky. And then Sarah Orourke is up next. Good afternoon, im at 2251 webster street. I find out about this about two years ago and was extatic because it would help me use the taxsavings toward the restoration of the door and windows and deepenin keeping myl painted lady up to par. I want to thank shannon and michelle for being so transport and making it incredibly easy. So i look forward to your approval and to keeping my house, which is on the tour route everyday at 1 00, picture worthy, thank you. Sarah orourke and gustav linquist. I represent ken folk for the st. Josephs art society. This is a Cultural Organization dedicated to supporting the arts in our community. We are comprised of two separate organizations, the art society forprofit and foundation which is for the nonprofit. Both organizations are committed to supporting artists and allowing them to flourish in their career. We support many 501 seats in our space and supported over 20 events in the one year we have been open. Additionally we open daily tours to the public to see st. Josephs. We applied because our mills are large and our building is tall, approximately 132 feet. But yet, we take up a small footfingerprint. We plan to use the funds to maintain longterm maintenance of the church. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Gustav linquis and then ted olsen. Hello. Im here with my wife and were the owners of 6 63 that patomic. Its in pretty bad shape. Yet were excited restore it and fits nicely in with this beautiful area down by the park. Any massivings will offset the costs. Findly, no matter how this goes, a big thank you to michelle and miss shannon for their amazing work and its been a pleasure working with you. Thank you. Thank you, ted olson. Good afternoon, commissioners and president hiland. Im ted olson and im president of the Swedish Society of San Francisco incorporated in 1875 in california, builders and owners of the swedish american hall at 267, also a california resource and they forwarded it to the u. S. Registrar. The hall is located at 216874 Market Street. On behalf of our board and members, i thank the Planning Department and staff for helping us to prepare and for supporting or application for mills act nomination and approval. At the time of the 1906 earthquake, my paternal graph, grandfather was secretary of this society at their Scandinavian Hall across from what is the main library, but which and there was under construction for the new city hall. The earthquake demolished the city hall and our city hall so they considered erecting a new city hall in what b

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