Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Thank you. Commissioner kopple . Just factually, im not available on the 2nd. So that means we have no quorum for that day. I am. Ok. Im not. But i think that leaves us without quorum so only three. , maybe four. Commissioner johnson . Is it possible to do the 14th, the 21st and the 25th . And then do interviews the the 12th . Yeah. So that would be pushing back the entire timeline a week. Im not here. Thats right. Yes, commissioner richards mom has a big birthday. Can we do the 9th, 10t 10th or the 11th. . Im free everyday that week, as well, and so are you. Commissioner moore, are you available from the 9th through the 11th . I have not looked at my calendar, obviously, other than my thursdays dedicated to Planning Commission, i have not looked at other dates to set aside for this effort but i would like to suggest for the matter of e expediency, if somee can take a calendar and hand it around instead of us going over the same dated again and again quickly indicate when they are or arent here and then look of what other dated are available. So commissioner moore, i attempted to do that in setting the original dates and got a poor response from fellow commissioners. So there is an attempt to make the process transpor transparen. Commissioner johnson . I already spoke but those dates work for me. Commissioner richards . I make a motion more november 4, 21st, 5th with a decision coming the 9th, 10th or the 11th. Second. If you can announce youre endorsing the process for commissioner melgar and youre announcing them as potential dates and i think we can work out the dates if they change over the course of this time between now and then and theres to requirement for you to actually set the dates. Theres to requirement to set the dates today. The most important thing for today is to endorse the process. So in speaking with City Attorney stacie, theres a 72hour notification requirement as long as we hold sessions here in city hall. I think in the endorsement of the process, for my fellow commissioners, we are agreeing to the premise we want as much participation by as many commissioners as possible in the vetting of the resumes, the discussion of the resumes and before we are interviewing the candidates. Understood. Im just clarifying commissioner rims said 14th, 21st, december 9th, 10th and 11th and were not having closed sessions on all of those dates, right. Well, were not having session on 9th, 10th or 11th. It will be four closed sessions. Got it. Was there a second . I second it. On that motion to endorse the process and setting closed session dates for november 14th, 21st, december, 9, 10 or 11th and december 5. Commissioner moore . This is not by normal planning lingo. This is a statement of support and intent or whatever, but not a motion. Well, commissioner richards is making a motion to endorse this process, so it is a motion. A request for endorsement. Right. Hes movin moving to endorse soa motion. Thank you for clarifying. On that motion, commissioner f urinatiocommissionfung, commi . Aye. Commissioner moore, aye, commissioner kopple and melgar, aye and it passes 60. That will place under doctorrers announcements doctor directors announcements. Theres a connect msf and i wanted to announce for your sake, we have several Public Meetings on this program and the first is in the southeast, wednesday, the 13th, from 6 00 t Community Facility and the second is a Youth Workshop being cohosted by the San Francisco Youth Commission on thursday the 21st from 5 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. At Mission High School and there will be fyi, two public workshops in late january. We dont have th the specifics t this coming your way which this is connect sf in concert with the citys other transportation agencies. Thank you and that concludes my report. Item 12, historic preservation. Good afternoon, eric star, manager of affairs. The Committee Held a meeting on the implementation of to make this a citywide priority sponsored by furer and man mandelman. It would extend the medical cannabis dispensaries and you heard this on october 24th and the Planning Commissions recommendation was to extend the permits to four years instead of three. At the hearing there was no Public Comment and it had to be continued one week and at this weeks committee hearing, they voted to recommend the item to the full board. At this weeks fullboard hearing, the jobs housing linkage fee by supervisor hainey passed a second read and fulton Street Grocery store by brun passebrownpassed a second right. The 3333 california street were continued to november 12th and thats all i have for you today thank you, mr. Star. Let me see if i can get this microphone and figure it out. The board of appeals met last night and heard something that is the appeal of a large project at 344 14th street and over the last year, the Planning Commissions had many hearings and ultimately took action earlier this year, granting large project authorization. This is a state density bonus project and was the first state density bonus project appealed to the board of appealed. Appea. Many things related to the Environmental Review appealed to the board of supervisors within the last month and that board of supervisors unanimously upheld the environmental determination that the department made on the project. Similarly, last night, the board of appeals upheld the project and the matter is concluded. Commissioners, the preservation did meet yesterday and approved or adopted recommendations for approval for multiple legacy business registry applicants and the only item of note is they also reviewed i want to get the name of it correct. The retained elements special topic guidelines coming before you, as well. If theres nothing further, we can move on to general Public Comment. At this time, members of comment may address the commission of the jurisdiction of the commission, except agenda items. That will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. You may address the commission up to three minutes and i have numbers and cards. Ok, we have mr. Georgia shudish, ilene bocan, duncan lay and rose. Anyone not on the agenda, please do so now. Hi, i want to fix the overhead. Part of this is that they blow up the kitchen and the kitchen becomes the dominant part of the house and takes over. So here is a house that recently sold and i sent you an email about it on castro street. And you can see, sort of, theres a kitchen. Its pretty small and theres two bedrooms and another little room that they call office, but that certainly could be a bedroom and this is sort of a typical San Francisco layout. Its a typology. I think its a good one and if you look, theres a full garage. If you want to dens densify, you could put an adu. Its a big space and they tear down the house and this one, you can see the kitchen and here it was originally, as it was, this is a real house that sold for, you can see the original layout there. Theres the kitchen. It originally sold for like 1. 2 didnt then 4. 1. So its a San Francisco typoloy. Here are pictures and just to show you some layouts, thats the nortra house that didnt get torn down and what made me think about it, theres the kitchen and his wife was a gourmet cook in new york. Here is a picture of the nortrr house and here is a worceistrer house and a daily house in pacific heights. Theres discrete rooms, reasonably small. I want to point out a couple of months ago you had that thing on courtland where they expanded the butcher and the project sponsor said, nobody cooks any more so if thats true, if uber eats, youre looking at trends, if uber eats is going to be the future and no one will cook any more, why do we need kitchens that, basically, blow up a house when you can have a livable layout like the typology in the mary brown study and here are copies of that and here is for the minutes and ill show you the mary brown typology. Theyre all kitchens and perfectly functional. You could live like that and you could do a horizonal exception and add another bedroom. So thats it. Thank you. Thank you, miss shudish. Next speaker, please. Im with the coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods here on my own behalf. Im here urging the commission to conduct an informational hearing on 2050 sometime this month. The board of supervisors with 2050 will be introduced at the november 12th meeting. The board of supervisors action is required by the end of this year to meet mtc deadlines. Planning Department Staff has stated its intention to bring this issue before the commission as an informational item only after it has been approved by the board of supervisors. This is despite the fact that the Planning Department has been part of the team developing the plan b or 2050 component for San Francisco. The Planning Department, the mta and the Transportation Authority proposal would make significant changes to the Priority Development areas and this would affect not only transportation but also land use. Plan be area 2050 is a land use document, as well as a transportation document. Therefore, i believe the commission should weigh in on the proposed changes before any action by the board of supervisors. Thank you. Thank you, network next spea, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is dracari donaldson, im a registered adequate for a proposed cannabis dispensary at 312 columbus street. Ive been sinning behind a pending application for a dispensary at 3035 grant avenue. The pending applicant has had a number of glaring issues with their application which has prevented them from moving forward in the alreadyextensive process in opening a cannabis business here in San Francisco. With no viable plan to address these issues theyve been allowed to drag their heels while my team and i are forced to exhaust their resources and wait. The group behind the pending application already operates multiple dispensaries in the city and you have to ask yourself, is this what the Equity Program is supposed to represent . Im here today as a small fish in a situation. To ask you to please inform the Planning Commission thats application for 1335 grant avenue is noncompliant and this applicant is out of time . Thanks. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is duncan lye and im here to speak about the same application dracari is referring to. Our group has been in second position since the applications were submitted in may of last year and the permit in front of us at 1335 grant avenue has delayed their application to the deadlines that theyve been given every time and based on the very accomplished list of people that are associated with that permit, you have to assume they understand the process and know what theyre doing. Theyve delayed an attempt to paint a local favour to change zoning prohibits accessory use on grant avenue as it is and that proved unsuccessful and they adjusted their plans which we still find to be out of compliance with the code and accessory use. We dont believe this was the intent of the application process. They forced the only competitor to bleed money in hopes we draw. We have a zoned and qualified location and we have a more than qualified equity applicant who represents the definition and spirit of the law. So we ask that today you review the pending application and ask for 1312 columbus avenue in the first position so we can quickly pursue the opening of our business and start serving the community. This process is complicated and lengthy enough and no applicant should be allowed to knowingly drag the process alone, let alone when there is one go in the wings. Not to mention, they have, i think three to four dispensaries in San Francisco with another three to four pending. So we have to ask, they know the process, theyve delayed it and have had their opportunity and ithy itithink its our time, t. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, long time no see. Sf didnt tv, please. Im sorry i wasnt here last week but there were birds telling me story so im here to present public on general Public Comment. A general Public Comment was reordered on the following dates as you can see. To the end, after the department matters, to the end, after the department, so this is moving around. The background is in 2015, president fung formed a committee and the flee commissionerthreecommissioners d they passed a form of the agenda or whats supposed to be on the agenda on july 2nd, 2015. In r rs responsible which is,s and regulations, it says these rules and regulations may be amended at any regular meeting by a majority vote following a public hearing providing the amendment has been calendared for hearing at least ten days. My concern is, after all of these people are calling me and doing things and i couldnt have time to come here, but in what ways can the commission handle changes listed in the items in the r rs . Im submitted under sunshine 51. 56 for these texts to be put in the minutes, thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . With that general Public Comment is closed. Commissioner richards . A question for the director. It was alleged that an application was accepted on a parcel not zoned for it. I just was emailing staff to try to find out whats going with that. Just further inquiry on that, director rand. So i think were overdue for someone from the office of cannabis to come and tell us what their process is looking like, whether the assumptions that they had made about the process have come through and how that process is working with our process to hopefully avoid the issues that we heard about today. But you know, we also have a new director that has not come in front of our commission and ive met her and shes lovely and it would be great to have her here. I would be happy to do that. I dont know whether theyre at the office of cannabis or with us right now but ill find that information out and report back. Thank you. Commissioners, if you would indulge me, we received quite a large number of people who were alateralled whealarmed when thec was put to the end. Thats not the first time the commission has done that and i would like to clarify the rules and regulations do list order of business, but it clearly states that the order of business at any regular meeting may be as follows, not must be, but maybe as follows. So it doesnt dictate the order of business. It further states that the president or chair may change the order of business as determined necessary for the Planning Commission to conduct its business effectively. So moving general Public Comment to the end of the agenda did not break anybodys rules or regulations. So i will just clarify further for the public. And beg for your patience with us. That we are a commissioner short right now. Hopefully it wont be for long. And moving Public Comment to the end has been, just since ive been here, a way to maximize quorum and participation of commissioners while we have them. So being down a commissioner, if someone needs to leave early and gets sick, as was the case when this happened, you know, we need to get stuff done and get it through. So were weighing both the need to do our jobs and also that humans are humans and were down a commissioner. So i just ask for your patience and forgiveness while were going through and hopefully we will get our seventh commissioner seated promptly. Thank you. That will place us under the regular calendar for case 201 201013522 xca, code cleanup, 2019, planning code amendment. When are we hearing the items that came out of consent . Thank you, commissioner moore. I certainly overlooked item 7 that was pulled off of consent. Case number 208009548 cu8 baden street, conditional use authorization. Good afternoon, president melgar, commissioners. Im with the Department Staff and the case before you is a request for a conditional use authorization for the creation of one substandard lot and new twostory dwelling unit. It is located on a vacant lot to be altered via a lot line into a substandard lot. The lot line will be on the subject property by the exist cent building at 433 bayden street. The project site is a 2,500 square foot property on the west side between martha and mangles avenue, 40x, and outer mention neighborhood. The immediate neighborhood includes one to threestory family story buildings and the item before you is required by planning code 121 for the creation of one substandard lot and the development of said lot with the Single Family dwelling unit. They have not received any opposition in support of the project. They believe the project is necessary and desirable for the following reasons. The Department Finds the project is consistent with objectives and policies of the general plan and meets all applicable requirements of the planning code. The project will maximize the use of a underutilized lot and provide one additional dwelling unit to the city stock. It will construct the building compatible in size, density, height and architectural characteristics of the neighborhood. The proposed project will not displace any existing residential tenants or remove any rentcontrol housing, as well. This concluding the staff presentation and im available for any questions. Thank you. Do we have a project sponsor . Hello, commissioners. Im the architect of the project, mark hogan with openscope studio here representing my client clients e here. They currently live in the adjacent house at can you speak into the mic, please. Sorry about that. They currently live in the adjacent house at 433bayden, which is the house over the existing Property Lin

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