And then all of a sudden something rolls over us and everything that we did actually was more not because now theres some new mandate out of sacramento. We spent weeks years, on the market octavia plan. We designed it, 45 feet in the middle of the block, 55 feet at the end of the block. Got 85 feet in the middle of the block now. These are the kinds of things im talking about. We got to be careful. Thats all im saying. Thank you. Let me just add one more thing. And that is what was beautiful about the victory we just had at the polls of proposition e with proposition a is that we were able to convince the voters that there was this relationship between density and funding. And i think that thats key to the conversation we had about racial equity, because it wasnt just zoning that created our inequalities and Racial Disparities in america. It was the combination of zoning and money and availability of capital. So the way i see it, what has happened in the mission and soma and increasingly happening in the bayview is that we have up zoned. And weve up zoned poor communities where the people who have access to capital to capture the value of that up zoning into a development is not the communities that live there. So, you know when we look at the availability of financing for latinos, africanamericans we still today see a big disparity about who can get a mortgage and who cannot. So to me up zoning without access to capital for building will exacerbate those existing patterns of residential segregation. So to be able to plan, to have data, to have goals so that we can work with our state and local officials to be able to put our money where our mouth is and be able to capture that value for folks who we want to live here, who have been here, who have built this city, to me is key. Thank you. Commissioner richards. Thats exactly what i was trying to say on the social equity part. You put it better than i did. Thanks. Thank you. So this is not an action item. This is not an action item. Thank you commissioners. Commissioners, you are now on item 15a and b for Design Guidelines and informational presentation, followed by the case number 2018003800cwp for the calle 24 special area Design Guidelines. This is for your adoption. Good afternoon. Maya small Planning Department staff. Before calle 24s Design Guidelines, i want to give context about what you are to see today but mostly about what you are to see in coming hearings. We have a set of Design Guidelines and we wanted to make sure to highlight those so you are aware they are coming. There will be in subsequent hearing both informational and adoption proposal. So first to give the context on Design Guidelines themselves and a little bit of a reminder and context for the special area ones Design Guidelines are implementation documents for city design policies and objectives. They partner with planning code to shape and development. They consist of general principles of Design Excellence and neighborhood compatibility to improve the way new projects will look and work. They do not change height zoning uses tenants parking Affordable Housing requirements. And this is very much in line with what we went through in the process of developing the urban Design Guidelines in work working with a variety of neighborhood groups for that process and establishing base guidelines. The two primary base guidelines are residential Design Guidelines which are in the r district and we have the urban Design Guidelines and neighborhood commercial, downtown commercial and mixed use districts, exempting the historic discriminates. And because we know that a lot of our neighborhood commercial areas and some of the other parts of the city have unique qualities and weve been speaking with those Community Groups for a long time we developed a compatible system of special area or special topic Design Guidelines that essentially sit above those guidelines and help refine and demonstrate specificities, ways of looking at how projects can be much more identifyable with their neighborhood. So special area or special topic Design Guidelines are additional, more detailed and specific guidance by project or type. They work on top of the citys base design guideline it is. These are more honed to help neighborhoods design values. We have some other ones that are coming forward. So today we have calle 24 the special area Design Guidelines that came from the calle 24sud process and out of map 2020. Coming forward another project you saw back in january and a joint hearing with the Historic Preservation commission coming forward for adoption is a retained element special topic Design Guidelines. So we returned to the Preservation Commission so you will have some information out of that hearing in terms of their feedback. So that will be coming for adoption on the fifth of december. And then the third one is the japantown special area Design Guidelines which comes from a process that happened quite a while ago which was the strategies that came out of it. One was to develop Design Guidelines. We worked in 2014 to begin a draft of those. And we had a lot of detailed conversations. And that was put on hold to finish the urban Design Guidelines. And they were patiently waiting for those to be completed. So we have revised those and continued those. And we are doing a bit of a quick process in a couple Public Meetings to see if we can complete those prior to the end of the year, given sb330 the legislation thats coming up. So we wanted to make the public and commission aware and because you have not seen those Design Guidelines yet they will be coming for an informational on december 5. We are having a Public Meeting tonight in japantown and well be having another one on december 3. So we recognize this is it feels like its more hurried but its a continuation of something that had just gone quite a while ago. So that will be coming for adoption on december 19 the last hearing of the year. With that i will hand it over to you. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. John francis with department Citywide Planning Division and project manager for the calle 24 special area Design Guidelines effort. As maya indicated we are here to present the Design Guidelines and resolution adopting them for your consideration. Ill provide a brief overview of the purpose of the special area Design Guidelines and describe our Community Engagement process. My colleague trent will highlight a few of the guidelines from the document and my other colleague will wrap up our presentation by describing the equity assessment that staff developed to evaluate the anticipated equity impact of the guidelines. So in addition to the general purposes behind special area Design Guidelines the calle guidelines are being developed to help them preserve their characteristics in art and design to recognize the districts latino Cultural Heritage and foster its representation in the built environment. And to support existing city policy as i will discuss further in a few moments. As proposed the guidelines would apply to neighborhood commercial and neighborhood commercial transit dictates as shown outlined in pink in this map. They are roughly bounded by the khai calle 24 guidelines. It is to ensure the guidelines apply consistently within the same zoning district. I would note the guidelines do not apply to the residentially zoned r districts within the sud. So generally speaking guidelines are applied to new construction, exterior Building Renovations and address topics like signage and public art. We also want to be clear about the limitations of Design Guidelines and note they do not change, i tell you what, height limits, at tenancy, traffic parking standards. The Design Guidelines have their origins and are intended to support prior city policy and legislation. For example the calle 24 cultural district and calle 24 special use district were adopted to recognize the unique contributions of the Latino Community in the mission and to support the Economic Vitality of the latino cultural district. In fact equity calls for the adoption of Design Guidelines to support these calls. The plan 2020 which is being implemented by the Planning Department in coordination with the committee and other city agencies dovetails these efforts. Lastly the guidelines are intended to support Economic Development strategies for the latino cultural district being spearheaded by the office of Economic Development and workforce development. Over the last year, the planning and staff have engaged in ongoing discussions with members of the community to hear directly from them about the values and aspirations for calle 24 broadway and the Design Guidelines specifically. We competed a working group of 11 members representing a Broad Spectrum of stakeholders who served as advisers to us. They provided input on the guidelines as well as on the Community Engagement process. We hosted two Community Workshops in june and october of this year to solicit ideas for the guidelines and feedback on the draft guideline document itself. All the workshops were available in spanish. And Spanish Language interpretation was available at both. I would like to note the Planning Department plans to translate the guidelines in spanish to make them accessible to as wide an audience as possible. We gave an informal presentation to this body and the public back in july. So with that context ill have my colleague trent walk you through highlights from the guidelines document. Commissioners if i could interrupt very quickly and introduce you to our next two speakers who you have not seen at the commission before who are members of the planning staff. Trent is a california licensed architect and planner with 20 years of experience. He studied architecture at the university of miami and received his masters in urban design from uc berkeley. Before joining San Francisco he had a practice in oakland and focused on working with cities to improve their downtown. For the Planning Department he is a member of the urban Design Assistance Team and rdat teams that focuses on developing Design Guidelines. Youll hear from louise an architect from brazil, he attended the university in brazil and received his mast of urban design from berkeley. He worked in the bay area for private firms and before joining the department. His colleagues, he is part of the City Design Group the rdat and udat teams and works on the racial and social equity team. So we welcome both of you to the commission. Thank you and welcome trent and luis. Before i let you speak, secretary, would it be possible to request that we turn the airconditioning down a little bit . Its freezing. [laughter] it is possible and i have made that request. Ive been notified that the system works only when it wants to. [laughter] thank you. Sorry, folks. We are all feeling it up here. Okay. Trent, im sorry. Come on up. Thanks for that introduction john. And good afternoon commissioners. Im trent greenen a staff architect. Im going to walk you through a few of the key Design Guidelines from the calle 24 design guideline document. Starting the project we worked closely with the community to determine what were the special features that make calle 24 so special as well as what concerns do they have moving forward. So you can see some of the comments they had was the color, the vie bran vibrantsy, Outdoor Dining, special events, mom and pop shops, diversity and layering of elements including the storefronts and the signage. At the same time they were concerned about losing local artwork having architecture that comes in that feels very out of place with the community as well as losing trees and open space. So the guidelines are divided into three main categories site design, architecture and public realm. These track with other recentlyadopted Design Guidelines. But we did start from scratch with this document. And we feel we tried to add a bry brandtsy and craft that adds to the corridor. So the first is site design. In site design we are talking about how buildings were placed on their property and the overall massing. On 24th street its a lowscale development of two to threestory buildings with a very fairly narrow roadway. So it creates a very intimate pedestrian experience which is unlike other corridors in the mission. So the first guideline we are looking at is to sculpt the New Buildings to relate to the scale of adjacent buildings. This disparity in building heights adds character to the corridor but when you have adjacent buildings that are several stories larger than the others, it creates a very uneasy relationship between the buildings. So this one looks about looks at stepping buildings back when they are next to buildings that are much lower to them as well as midblock buildings that would step back after 45 feet. So 45 feet is roughly the height of some of the threestory Historic Buildings on the corridor the threestory victorians. So we use that as a bar for where we might consider setting back future development. Because of the narrow roadway, it can be easily concealed. There are a lot of buildings that are four stories that you would never see because you cant see the upper floors. And that section is architecture. This is the bulk of the document. And its really what the community has the most concerns about. Calle 24, theres remarkable stock of historic and older buildings. Many dating back to before the earthquake. So introducing New Buildings and development into this context is very sensitive. So we had the first guidelines preserve architecturally significant buildings. This goes beyond Historic Resources but buildings, iconic buildings it could be theaterrers, churches mixeduse buildings but they have an iconic quality to them. So we recommend developers consider retaining those. And also use them as an inspiration to set the bar for new development. You can see in these guidelines we have here the little quotes, the sense of history victorian details. These all come from the Community Outreach process. We tried to link each guideline to a comment that was made either in the working group or in the public workshops. Next is to incorporate art, textures, colors and materials that have a strong precedent on the corridor. So beyond considering the materials that are present or the detailing and so forth whats unique about calle 24 is the artwork really permeates the entire corridor in the buildings and the murals and open space. So recommendations are to look for opportunities to include this artwork into new development or in restoration. You can see here in the photo on the bottom right those are some locallycrafted that were included into the bulkhead. So thats one area that can be done. And next is signage. Signage has a huge impact on the character of the corridor. Including the old neon signage, some of it which has been restored the old signs and some of the handcrafted signage. So its really the diversity of the signage which gives it its most strength. So we dont want to homogenize the signage but rather continue to use a lot of different signage thats already out there and to reuse the signage that already exists. And even encourage neighbors to use different signage to maintain the diversity. The storefronts maintain the pattern of pedestrianscaled facade elements. The storefronts are a backbone of calle 24. The elements that people pedestrian encounter most. They see close up. So that combination of the storefronts and signs really creates that layered diverse character. But while there is a lot of varied storefronts they all have a lot of common historic elements to them. You can see in the sketch here of a storefront on calle 24. I had some of these Common Elements such as the bulkhead the storefront with the recessed alcove with as well as the reused signage that originally was a neon sign thats been reused for the new business. But then on calle 24, Something Else happens, and its sort of this combination of a common storefront with a vib