imperial here. and johnson, here. we expect richards to be absent. first on the agenda is items for continues. case 2020-52pca for the standard environmental conditions of approval, administrative and planning code amendments. proposed for continuance to march 18, 2020. 2018, 11430, 1776 green street are proposed for indefinite knz. items 3a and 2018 deny 282, 780 cancer street, continued to march 5. and case number 2018-149, discretionary review is withdrawn. i have no speaker cards. >> president koppel: anyone who wishes to comment on the items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner johnson: move to continue items 1 through 4 as proposed. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on the motion, diamond aye. fung aye. imperial aye. moore aye. johnson aye. koppel aye. so moved. that motion passes unanimously. item 2b and 3b. >> i will continue to the date specified, thanks. >> very good. that places us under item 5, adoption of draft minutes can february, 13, 2020. >> president koppel: would anyone like to publicly comment on the draft items. >> yes, this thing i submitted is for the minutes, it's an error, a typo. i have the four suggestions for housing affordability strongs and the -- strategies. and the third one was about having a report back to the commission and i wrote within six months of the cf being issued and the minutes say 56 months. so that's a big difference. prison sentence for some people. but 6 months is the correct answer. >> very good, we'll make the correction. >> thank you so much. >> anyone else for public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore? >> move to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt the minutes for february 13, 2020. as corrected on the motion, commissioner diamond aye. fung aye. imperial aye. johnson aye. moore aye. koppel aye. so moved. that motion passes unanimously. item 6, commission comments and questions. seeing none, we can move on to department matters, director's announcements. >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, commissioners. bear with me for a couple of minutes. it's hard to imagine this is my last time sitting in this chair. it's going to be a little harder than i thought. it's been my great honor and challenge of my career to be here. i want to thank you all for that. this commission has been an incredible supporter of me and the department over the last 12 years. and i just wanted to mention a couple of things moving forward in my career and for you all. i've been doing this now for 37 years in three different cities. what i've learned over the last several decades is that we do, in fact, need to grow our cities and grow our cities substantially to accommodate the changes we're seeing here and across the world. but i also think we have to change the way we do our work to accommodate that growth gracefully and with soul and without displacement. and i really have come to believe that we can do that, but we have to do it by thinking differently about how we do some of our work. i think it is one of the challenge of the last decade for me, in the department, has been responding to the incredible pace of change, which has been greater than the changes in many, many years of before. i think that pace of change will continue and accelerate. and i do think it's important -- incumbent upon this commission and the department and the city in a whole as being nimble in responding that change. the city is not very nimble, but these changes are coming at us at a pace we never anticipated before. my advice, as you go forward is to try to be more nimble in responding to that change. and embracing the notion that we can grow without displacement and grow with soul as the city continues on this trajectory. i thank you all again for this great honor. >> commissioner johnson: -- john, it has been a great honor to get to know you personally and professional. from the day that i met you until now, i'm incredibly -- always struck by your kindness and fierceness, your generosity and your grace. and your leadership that has both soul and a deep love for the city, for the people that you work with and for the larger calling that we all have to figure out who we are and who we're becoming as a city. thank you so much for your leadership. and i hear your call an invitation to us as we carry forward with the work. and we'll work to honor it. thank you. >> commissioner fung: good fortune, john. >> i wish i had more time to work with you. the last two months have been inspiring watching your leadership. and i wish you the best of luck and take to heart your words. >> commissioner moore: john, i was the only here who actually recommended you to mayor newsom. there are no disappointments and thank you for taking on the challenge this commission has posed to you. there are commissions who are in lock step, you had the fortitude and strength to stand with the challenges. you will be sorely missed and i hope our paths will not just go off in different directions, but you'll stay close to where you actually belong now. thank you. >> so i had the honor of emceeing a going away party for -- director ram, and it's very fitting we're up there literally with the bird's-eye view of the city seeing with our own eyes what this guy has been able to accomplish within our skyline. nine area plans. this gentleman oversaw with over 64,000 units of housing approved. no one can point a finger at john for not getting housing approved. i started off on the public side of the room and didn't know as much about john as i do now. and the ability for you to come in when we're all over the place and confused and wrangle us and get us in one direction, i appreciate all your leadership and your help along the way. thanks a lot. >> commissioner imperial? >> i'm very new here, but i've seen planning commission and you as a public person. and i've also seen the growth, but i've also seen your growth, too. so i wish you all the luck. and have a good retirement. enjoy it. >> i'll just briefly say, john, thank you for your leadership and direction you've provided to the department. >> commissioners, if there is nothing further, we can move on to item 8, review of past events at the board of supervisors. there is no report for the board of appeals or the historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon, commissioners, manager of legislative affairs. first on the agenda, the ordinance allows projections over alleys and bay windows that do not meet the standards, but the massing standards to seek zoning administrator waiver. commissioner heard and approved this ordinance back in october of 2018. after staff gave a presentation on the changes, use committee voted to send the ordinance to the full board with positive recommendation. there was no public comment and commissioner safai thanked the commission. last on the agenda, supervisor peskin, occupancy ordinance. this is to regulate occupancy in units that last between 30 and 365 days, in buildings with no more than nine dwelling units. the ordinance also places a thousand unit cap on ilos. it amends the administrative code to a corporate entity or other nonnatural person. you heard the item twice, first on january 16 where you moved to continue for questions around health care. on january 30, you moved to recommend approval with modifications. those modifications included enacting interim control on new ilos, collecting data on the scale of the activity and clearing amendments around exemptions for nonprofit organizations. monday's land use hearing the committee discussion was led by supervisor peskin who explained the reasons and workings of the ordinance. he discussed some of the amendments he would be considering including the creation of criteria and exempted uses -- units and ineligible units. the budget and legislative analyst office also provided a summary of the report on ilos. a finding that activity is on the rise nationally and b.l.a. mentioned in san francisco there is no comprehensive data on the activity. public comment was overwhelmingly in support of the ordinance. they thought the ordinance would help prevent displacement in san francisco and there were a few speakers that did express caution about overregulating activity. public comment, supervisor peskin moved to continue the hearing to monday, march 2, when he'll propose amendments. at the full board this week, the activities ordinance sponsored by the mayor and supervisor haney passed second read and appeal for the exemption for 2300 harrison -- i'm sorry, the c.p. for the exemption was withdrawn by the department, so the hearing wasn't necessary. that concludes my report. john, it's been a pleasure serving under you and we'll miss you, thanks. >> there is no questions, we can move on to general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, except agenda items. with respect to agenda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached to the meeting. i have two speaker cards, former commission ron miguel and georgia chutes. >> commissioners, i'm not speaking to you today, i'm speaking to john. i want to say thank you. both for myself and for thousands of san franciscans that don't even know you exist. your 12+ years of tenure is the longest in the history of planning in san francisco. you have presided over an era which is literally not only changed the landscape, but changed the skyline of the city. the affair, a wonderful one last friday night, was indicative of this as joel made comment on, because it actually created a brand new icon for san francisco. and yet it is totally referenceal to that old nearly first icon tower. quarter of the city was rezoned during your tenure. new districts, new activities. you came into this job and had questions immediately because the san francisco planning code is so absolutely strange and different from any other planning code in the world. and i know you questioned much of it as you should have. we have a far better city today because of what has happened during your tenure and your leadership than we had 12 years ago. i had the pleasure of coming on the commission early on, about six months after you started. and serving through a good deal of your term. and it was an absolute pleasure to watch how you worked with things, because it's not only major, which i say commercial areas such as the schwarz transit center, but you understood that san francisco was a city of neighborhoods. and that neighborhoods are not merely agree graphic, they're cultural, they're ethnic, and you took that to heart. and that was a good part of the way that you led and pushed and maneuvered in a very, very difficult situation with all of the activists of san francisco, because we are a city of activists. so, thank you. and enjoy palm springs. [laughter] >> thank you, mr. miguel. next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon. this is a map. i have a large one at home and i was going to bring it to john, but i don't think he needs a 4 by 4 foot map. but i had this made when the r.e.t., before they were kneecaped. i'll leave it at that. and one of my promises was that there was no definition of demolition. but that is bygones, but this map is a cool map, made by your staff, mr. robertson, a really cool guy. and it shows the r.h. neighborhoods because that's what they were to cover. if you can see, the green his rh-1 and the red is rh-2 and the blue is rh3 and the yellow is remaining r districts. i thought it was cool and i wanted to give it to john if he wants it. i know you want to get rid of stuff when you make changes, so if you don't want it, you can re-gift it and give it to your incoming person. so to former commissioner hillis. i wish you best of luck. have lots of fun. take care and have long lunches. that's for you. a little san francisco souvenir. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. and, yes, director ram, i didn't bring you a map or anything like that. i started this in 2016 and i remember one of the first conversations i had with tim and his list of people to talk to and listen to. and you were obviously high up on the list. and the thing that i think our organization always values, this is going to come as a shock, we don't always agree with everything you do and we don't agree with a lot of the advocates that are coming up here, but thought that you embodied the desire to sit down, have a conversation, have a difficult conversation with one another at times to figure out a solution. and that general collaborative attitude i think does a lot to make this room better, make the department better, because these things are tough and they're difficult. i know you weren't in it to make everybody happy. that wasn't your job, but i think that you just embodied that collaborative attitude that i really appreciated. that our organization really appreciates. and to echo ron, the city appreciates. thank you for all of your work. and absolutely, best of luck next and we'll get you back on this side of the podium at one point in time in the future. speaking out. thank you. >> any one else? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners, that places on regular calendar for item 9, 2019-20363cua, 88 post street, cancel use authorization. -- conditional use authorization. >> should probably hear from staff first. commissioners i wanted to introduce to you a staff member you haven't met yet. this is samantha updegrave. she joined in september and is a senior planner before coming to california. she was planner for seattle, construction inspections land division where she focused on implementing the city's affordable housing programs. she enjoys reading, going to literary events and hanging out with her family. welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners, planning department staff. the project before you is a conditional use authorization to change 8880 square feet. as a donation center and job training facility. the site is located at 888 post street. the project would also convert 21,300 square feet of office and auto storage to a navigation center for traditional age use operated by san francisco homelessness and supportive housing. it's been in the news because the board of supervisors just approved the lease on tuesday. and i think you received an e-mail from supervisor peskin. pursuant to planning section 303 from the institutional use on the ground floor in rc4 residential commercial high zoning district. the navigation center is a principally permitted use of the site. the department of homelessness and supportive housing conducted multiple public engagements events between january 2019 and january 2020, including two large community meetings with goodwill in attendance. to date, staff has received one phone all in support of the project. and three letters and three phone calls expressing opposition. those in support cited the need for services and opportunities in the neighborhood. those opposing the project cited concerns related to the potential negative impacts object the navigation center on the neighborhood and concerns about goodwill's onsite operations. the department and the project sponsor have responded to some of the concerns. the sponsor is continuing to work with sfmta on cueing and loading. and they're working with department staff on a final design for securing the open bays during the hours when the goodwill is closed. the department of homelessness and supportive housing will continue to work with community and other city agencies on issues related to the operation of their navigation center. so in conclusion, the department find that the project is on balance, consistent with the objectives and policies of the yen plan, and is necessary and desirable for and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. the goodwill donation center will serve the local community and the job training facility will provide opportunities for people experiencing barriers to employment. the navigation center will provide much needed safe shelter for 75 transitional age youth. after analyzing all aspects of the project, department staff recommends approval of the project with conditions, including measures to secure open bays during non-open hours, sidewalk maintenance and the community of a community liaison to deal with issues of concern. i do have one housekeeping note. there is an administrative error in the executive summary in the preamble of the draft motion. it states that the project was exempt from ceqa as a class one, however, i would like to read into the record that it's exempt as a class 32. and that class 32 exemption was attached as exhibit c. the project sponsor is here and they've prepared a presentation. this concludes my portion, but i'll be available for questions. thank you. >> great, good afternoon, everyone. dylan schneider, i'm the manager of legislative affairs for the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i want to note you have two different decs in front of you. we have updated goodwill slides, i'll let you know when you need to reference the second. i'm honored to be here today to speak approval for the institutional use of 888 post street, serving young people 18-24. this project is a true testament to the innovation and impact achieved through healthy partnerships and approved unanimously by the board of supervisors on the proposed lease this tuesday. before i dive into the project itself, i would like to take a moment to recognize the project stakeholders here today. they will be available for questions following this presentation. as i mentioned, the proposed project offers an exciting opportunity to pilot a private partnership, whose aim is to serve the most vulnerable in our city. this opportunity is further strengthened by the compelling physical space itself. there are not many physical spaces that support these types of partnerships in san francisco and we feel fortunate to be working with this site and these amazing partners. so thank you to the mayor's office, supervisor peskin's office, especially sunny, the department of real estate, the department of public works, the site developer tidewater, architects and goodwill industries for their partnership, leadership and commitment. as i'm sure you're all well aware, san francisco and the bay area are in the midst of a housing affordability crisis, we're seeing the effects of that with increase in homelessness across the state. according to the 2019 count, there was 19% increase amongst the unsheltered population in san francisco and over 1,000 transitional age youth experience homelessness in san francisco on any given night. the majority of which, 83% are unsheltered, sleeping outside in doorways, parks, vehicles, or anywhere they can find. young people experiencing homelessness in san francisco demonstrate disproportionately to the adults. 41% of youth survey respondents identified as multiracial compared to 18% of adults 25 years and over. and 46% identified as lgbtq+ compared to only 23% of the adult population. so now as i speak to some of the details regarding the navigation center, i'd like to show you photos of other active navigation centres in the city so you can see how space is utilized and designed to create a welcoming and dignified environment. [please stand by] [please stand by] hsh conducted a process that included two large community input forums. a community working group made of neighbors, representatives from city departments and supervisor peskin's office will continue to meet on a regular basis. and i will now turn this over to my colleague, william rogers at goodwill. >> good afternoon. i'm william rogers, president and crowe of goodwill san francisco -- ceo of goodwill. housing and unemployment are linked. the number one cause of homelessnessness in san francisco is job loss loss. i'm going to tell you a little bit about goodwill, and that's that we exist for two reasons and two reasons only, to provide second chances through training and the dignity of work and to protect our planet. so we are very intentional about hiring people with barriers to employment. 95% of the participants that start with us are low or no income. more than 27% have limited english proficiency. over 20% are formerly incarcerated. 10% are homeless and 40% are at risk for homelessness. we take a unique workforce development approach, which is an earn while you learn model. and so it has three pillars. on the job training and industry certifications, individualized career support and paid employment with benefits. and that happens under one roof. so our employment impact is pretty significant. we served over 3,600 individuals across our three counties last year. over 500 of our program participants were hired by 229 bay area employers, and the staff i'm most proud of is that 84% of those that we place were employed more than a year later. good will employing 8600 people. i want to delve into our climate impact. we diverted 31 million pounds from landfills, and we do that consistently every year. we also divert 3 million pounds of electronic waste from landfills every year. last year we refurbished 200,000 electronic units for reuse as well. and we are one of the first entities in the u.s. to convert half of our fleet to electric trucks. our experience with the population for 15 years we provided comprehensive youth employment programs. we are responsible for back on track and ramp. we are currently the primary employment partner in youth diversion programs that includes the young adult court. and as part of this project, we would have customized program. we already work with this population, but we would have designated youth training space, paid internships and employment, partnerships with google, microsoft and linked in and, and we would have our growth mindset training which we work with stanford to create for the populations we serve. so i am going to -- happy to answer any questions you may have when the time comes, and i'm going to turn it back to dylan. thank you. >> apologies of my technical difficulties. thank you, william. i'll take a few minutes to go oversight design, and then we are happy to take questions. these images depict the primary building entrances. the image on the right is the first floor plan for the good will subtenant. the job training portion is on the left, and the donation center is on the right. staff offices are located in the back. hyde, a one-way street is along the left running up and down, and post, another one-way street is on the bottom running left to right. so vehicles needing to access the goodwill donation drop off will make a left off of hyde street. and the existing provides space for two to three vehicles to unload. the vehicles can continue straight through the drive and merge onto post street. the image in the left depicts the new mezzanine. it is made possible by the driveway to the second floor. this space provides a separate secured entrance for navigate center guests. the image on the left depicts the third floor of the building. the lower half is the congress dormitory. bathrooms showers and changing rooms are in the right with the exam room to the left. in the top right hand corner we are creating an outdoor lounge for guests where the former freight elevator used to be. we will leave the top open to the sky. navigation centers include outdoor community space. while this is a challenge to meet that need, we are proud of this creative solution. i'm running out of time so i'm going to skip to the next slide. these are two renderings of the facade. top right is the southern portion of the building fronting post street. the bottom is facing hyde street. this image represents the new mezzanine entrance to the northern most section of hyde. thank you for your time. we are happy to answer me questions and i want to take a moment to say director, thank you for your leadership and vision. it's an honor to be here today with you. >> thank you very much. i do have several speaker cards. commissioners. [calling speaker names] please come on up whenever you are ready. line up on the screen side of the room. >> good afternoon, all. my name is jonathan, i'm the director of transportation and logistics for san francisco goodwill. my journey with goodwill began ten years ago when i was given an ultimatum by my probation officer. get a job, go to school or go to jail. i stopped in at the goodwill career center and took every flier that applied to me. i ended up in the ram program, designed to help at risk youth ages 18 to 24 gain basic job readiness. they provided interview attire. upon completion, i interviewed and was offered an entry-level position in goodwill's warehouse. after my second day of work white blood cell while out celebrating my -- while celebrating my brother's birthday, an thercation happened and i was arrested on gun charges. i went to serve a year in prison. my career adviser was a strong advocate for me. letters were sent on my behalf to the judge and to me throughout my incarceration. when i was released, i was placed into a safety net program, staying business with any and all training certifications goodwill had to offer. given this second chance, i strived to give 110% in every roll or task i was given. my work ethic and reliability was noticed, and soon a career path began to develop. i was being promoted almost annually. i had a sense of belonging, gained many mentors and began to feel i had a purpose. today i'm the director of transportation and logistics. i'm in charge of the warehouse, the same warehouse i started ten years ago. i oversee 160 employees, many of whom, just like me, needed a second chance. as a product of goodwill's mission, i'm here before you in support of the navigation center and goodwill training and career center at 888 post street. before i leave, i would like to share a quote by carl barred, which was shared with me by a mentor. though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. thank you for your time. and director ram, this is my first time in here, and looks like it's your last time. but i appreciate your integrity, the morals that you hold, and i wish you the best on your journey. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is gail roberts. i'm the chief development officer at larken street youth services. i'm also a 22-year resident of san francisco and a homeowner living in vernal heights. i happen to be a transgender woman and that's relevant for something i'm going to say. i'm here to give a shoutout to our friends at good will but i want to speak specifically to the tay navigation center. as was mentioned earlier, don't need to tell you there's a homeless crisis across america, but i want to talk about transitional age youth 18 to 24. across america, this year, one out of three young people age 18 to 24 is going to experience homelessness, some time in the year. that adds up to 4.2 million youth. here in san francisco, the most recent point in time count back in february, 1145 on any one single night, and we know that's an undercount. so that's only one night. there are thousands more throughout the year who are experiencing homelessness on our city streets, young people, unhoused. and i know we all agree that's unacceptable. so what are we going to do about it? well, the good news is the city has already been making major investments, and over the last couple years, homelessness for young people decreased 22%. this is really great progress, but more needs to be done. mayor breed has set a goal of reducing youth homelessness by 50% by 2023. this tay navigation center is critical to be reaching that goal. as mentioned earlier, the young people who are experiencing homelessness primarily are youth of color and lgbtq youth. just one step. we all know the african-american population in san francisco has been declining in the last few years. it's about 5%. the individuals experiencing homelessness is 37% in the young people we serve at larken street. so let's do something about this. this tay navigation center is critical to that. and we support that. as a queer woman, i support it too because over half of the youth who are experiencing homelessness are queer here in san francisco. so thank you for your time. thank you for your support. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. i am tyler spencer, the manager of public funding with larken street youth services. i don't need to introduce it as gayle already did. but i did want to speak to the tay navigation site. larken street operates the only tay-specific shelter in san francisco. it's been in place for 20 years and operates at near capacity about every night. we support the resources for this population and are eager to share what we have learned over the last 35 years in designing and implementing services for the population, including working with neighbors at sites throughout the city and launch program programs that benefit the neighbors as well as the youth that are served. so we want to recognize the importance of this tay navigation site. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm the recruiting hub manager for allied universal in san francisco. i'm here to express my support for goodwill. i have worked with the staff there for 20 years and have come to find they have a genuine mission to put people to work. recently we began staffing a large project at a venue in the china basin area and goodwill was instrumental in hosting ongoing recruitment and training sessions for allied universal at their venues. because of their assistance we were able to hire over 100 people for that project. i cannot express how imperative their partnership has been to our success. i have personally hired hundreds of candidates in partnership with goodwill and factor them in all my recruitment strategies. allied universal has experienced phenomenal growth over three years, and this has led to a shortage of qualified candidates. workforce programs like goodwill are vital as they connect employers with people in the community in need of job opportunities. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is ashley. i'm the lead clinical case manager for young adult court. we have partnered with goodwill for three years with goodwill providing readiness and employment services to our clients. they are an impactful partner, and we are proud of our accomplishments together to provide supportive employment services to traditional age youth. these services are helping provide individuals with support, tools training and services to move toward a brighter future. the career services provided by goodwill have been an important aid to our clients because they are navigating the employment field while also dealing with a felony or pending felony. goodwill connected our clients to employers who are background friendly and open to taking a chanson our young adults. they provide our young adults with what for some is their first job readiness support including creating resumes and supporting workforce dynamics. i support the center at 888 post street. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is ytzel. i represent the youth commission. thinkstist a chartered commission in the san francisco charter. they are charged with providing the board of supervisors and the mayor on the unmet needs of young people in san francisco. and for the past five years, the housing and land use committee within the youth commission has been advocating for permanent supportive housing and a navigation center. and we are in partnership with larken right now, and h.s.h. is part of the grand challenge which their goal is to end youth homelessness. we believe this navigation center is a step towards that. i know there is a lot of concern around public safety and just in general what this navigation center could do to the neighborhood, and i think that speaks to a certain assumption of homeless people, lgbtq youth people, homeless people and also just young people in general, and i believe that if we move this along, we are abiding by ending the grand challenge, and the youth commission is in full support of that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon again, commissioners, on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition, in support here today. and this is one of the things where we are actually on the same page for the most part. the leadership of supervisor peskin's office and sunny specifically on this. and it's something we are seeing across the city. my supervisor, supervisor preston, is leading these efforts, talking to the community in district 5. supervisor haney has had a number of these conversations with his community, supervisor mandelman doing the same thing in district 8. it's something the mayor has said publicly we will build housing for homeless people. the navigation centers are not going to solve all of our problem but they are a key part to the solution. our state delegation is doing everything they can to make these homes built faster and more efficiently for people. and so if there's ever anything that is necessary and desirable, this is absolutely it. so i urge you to approve it and build it as fast as we possibly can. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is oxil. i'm a housing organizer with community organizing. we are in support of this navigation center because we operate a navigation center and also serve transitional-aged youth. i love the term transitional-aged youth because i myself was a ward of the state of texas. in the late '90s when i exited there wasn't the concept of transitional-aged youth. and it's extremely essential that we support our youth, because as somebody who has experienced homelessness, the barriers that people have to go through in exiting homelessness as a youth is -- we are not able to give people a chance to succeed unless there's a place for people to have the stability to do that. and the proper resources and support to do that. so community housing partnership is strongly supportive of this effort. and lastly i have not had a chance to congratulate teresa imperial who i've had the honor of working with over the years, and i want to give her a shoutout and i hope -- her perspective will be listened to. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm a resident of nob hill. i urge you to deny this conditional use permit. there is no need for another goodwill facility. there's a goodwill at gary and hyde. one block away. there's a goodwill at 750 post, less than two blocks away. there are two more five minutes away by car for drop off. 13 total in the city. regarding the navigation center, according to the latest point in time count, there are only 49 unsheltered transitional-age youth in all of district 3. in order to fill 75 beds, the city will forcibly relocate youth. you either relocate or you are denied services in the model pursued by city hall. this low-barrier navigation center will admit substance abusers and mentally ill. they will have 24/7 come and go privileges. the addicted will continue to use at these centers. they just have to step outside. no judgment caseworkers take little or no action against continuing drug use. nothing in the law requires that those who drink or use on-site will lose their residence. there are 429 liquor licenses in zip code 94103. there are 83 liquor licenses. it kitty corners with three other census tracks for 228 liquor licenses within four blocks in any direction. the san francisco chronicle reports there are open-air phentynol and meth markets operated by honey do do honey gn leavenworth, gary, polk, and mission, within a block from this center. leavenworth is the locus of youth prostitution in this city, one block away from the center. supervisor haney with four cosponsors proposes a 90-day minimum stay at any navigation center with no requirement to participate in job tane training for those first 90 days. most cases are resolved in less than 90 days. this eliminated the stated purpose of having a goodwill here, which is job training. it is hazardous to authorize auto motive drop off surrounded by sidewalks which patterns for navigations hold, will be peppered with tents, inebriated and stones residents coming and going at all hours, pedestrian will be hurt, drivers may crash their cars, innocent people will lose their lives. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. that's the mic there. >> my name is rob harper. i'm going to be -- i'm a resident of the area that will be directly affected if this navigation center goes into effect. the department of homelessness has put out a fact sheet which states that no drug use or drug dealing will be allowed in the centers. what that basically tells me is that the department of homelessness is admitting that a large portion of its clientele are hard-core drug users. when you have large numbers of hard-core drug users in an area, the only way they can obtain the money they need for the poison they want to take is by robbery and burglary. this is born out by police statistics. i know that police department has said that these navigation centers do not constitute a threat to the neighborhood community. i would like to point out that most san francisco police officers don't live in san francisco. so they are not going to be affected by anything that happens near these centers. i would also like to point out that navigation centers, the term itself, is misleading. supervisor peskin himself has admitted there are very few places in san francisco that provide housing for this population. so what these places are really, are warehouses. finally i would like to say the more these centers that you build, the more people will be lured to come here from other cities and states that are not willing to support this population, and we are talking about a population mostly of hard-core drug addicts, hard-core alcoholics, mentally ill who should be institutionalized for their own protection, and just people who don't want to work for a living. and we've already seen states more than happy to give free bus passes to these people. and the more these people that come out here, the more the city is going to deteriorate. we've already had one medical association refuse to do its conventions here anymore because they are tired of the filth and the feces and the drug syringes they keep finding on the streets. so i hope for the people living in this area you will reject this proposal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, good afternoon, commissioners. my name is wendy. i am fully supportive of this site proposed for the corner of post and hyde. i live one and a half blocks away from this location. i have lived in the neighborhood for 20 years. i have lived at my present address for 20 years in this present location. okay. and as the crow flies, this type of services was in existence exactly one block away on larken street between post and sutter by larken street youth. so it is entirely appropriate. and two and a half blocks away was the former site of larken street youth center, which provided these services before they moved to their current location. to assume that everybody who is unhoused are drug addicts, alcoholics or have mental illness is a very broad stroke generalization that isn't fair. what i have known is that there are lots of city college students, san francisco state university students, aged-out foster youth and lgbtq youth who is more representative of this population. so i fully support having this navigation center in my neighborhood. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is robert garcia. i'm president of save our streets, tenants and merchants association. i live 30 feet from this project. i live right on post street almost next door. we have right now, within two or three blocks, over 700 beds. polk and gary, there are 400 clients there with 200 comes every day for services. 90% have substance abuse problems. 35% have mental health problems. a block away from that going east, there's 160 living above warner's liquor store, going another block east, you have the union hotel which they have about 150 there. so we are talking 700 already of now they have another one that's planned for post and taylor, and they have a whole empty building there, which is going to be housing for homeless. this one is just not appropriate. there is no entrance on the hyde street side, except for an old condemned elevator for automobiles. the ramp cannot be used. it's too steep. they cannot use that. the hyde street is a main thorough fair for people coming from st. francis hospital down. and a lot of them are in wheelchairs, crutches, contains. canes. we don't need a congress graduation on hyde street. the only exit from that -- congregation on hyde street. the only exit is stairs going up up. going up from this floor, from the ground floor. >> you can speak into the microphone >> there are 75 to 100 stairs going up, and you have to go to the front and go up to the third floor. other than that it's just that elevator over there which cannot be used in a fire. so there is very, very little exit from that area. so we have -- we have 297 buildings on the register city of national historic places. we ran out prostitution. there were 60 prostitutes day and night on that corner which we ran out. there were 75 on the next corner and 100 on gary street. we have done a lot to clean up this area. >> your time is up. >> we certainly don't need this. >> i got to give the same amount of time to everybody. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i had a script to read. i'm the director for tenderloin, and i worked closely with goodwill for many years. we worked together to get job opportunities for the people in that community. i'm fully in support of this project. i think it is very important to realize this is not another goodwill, this is a center for hope for people. this is going to give people the resources and the tools so that they can better their lives. i was a homeless t.a.y., and i was given a second chance. i have changed my life, i have a family, i have two kids that have gone to college. if we are helping one person, we are helping that whole family. and we can't do this if we are not giving people the resources they need and also deserve. so i believe everyone has a right to try to earn their own living and feed their families, and i think by having this center, we can do that together. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, good afternoon. executive director of lower polk community benefit district. thank you for your time. director, thank you for your years of service. good luck with your future endeavors. commissioners, the lower polk community benefit district has not taken a position on this project, but my board did want me to speak to the process. there's been exceptional outreach on this project. supervisor peskin first came to lower polk neighbors probably over a year ago and said, hey, how about think about the navigation center. there's been continuous dialogue since then. there's been a number of meetings starting with smaller stakeholder meetings building up to a number of community meetings which culminatedded in several large meetings over this year, which had, i think, enormous turnout and some strong support from the community. the lower polk community benefit district was committed to working as a stakeholder. the department of homelessness mayor's office, supervisor peskin is committed to working on a community advisory group and building an outreach plan, and other things the community desires to ensure this is a benefit for the community, and we are committed to working as a stakeholder to ensure that all commitments are met. so thank you so much. and that's the benefit district's position. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm a neighbor, i live a block away from the proposed location. i live at sutter and hyde. i was -- when i was 19 years old, i was homeless. and i was in school and working at the time, but things happen, and people need support systems, especially transitional-aged youth. and i do want to highlight that even if there's concern about substance abuse and mental illness, kids, 18-year-olds to 24-year-old young adults who are struggling with those issues need a support system in order to be able to pull themselves out of that position, and i think that this navigation center would be a major contribution in allowing them to do that. and i think it would benefit our entire community. so i'm strongly in support of it. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is peter jacobson. i sit on the board of lower polk neighbors, the lower polk c.b.d. i've been a member of the steering committee to help with community engagement throughout this project. i speak as the general manager of music city s.f., a neighboring business at 1453 at the bush and polk. we are proud to support the t.a.y. navigation center. our organization has been inspired by the outpouring of support by the neighborhood and our community of musicians. we have enlisted letters of support from the musicians on july 9 of 2019. those letters were submitted at the board of supervisors meeting. we submitted dozens of letters of support from musicians who were in support of the navigation center. the house of fans building has been a long wasted space, and we are excited to see it transformed into a beacon of hope. we also look forward to helping foster the navigation center and its clients for many years to come. thank you so much. >> thank you. anymore public speakers for this item? come on up. >> linda chapman of nob hill neighbors. i can only believe there would be place for 75 of these youth to be helped in this neighborhood. i do. do i believe this is the way to do it? i definitely do not. i was quite appalled to see the plans, the drawings for this thing that looks like it comes out of dickens. this giant dormitory with 75 beds in a neighborhood where we have the residential hotels that i say helped to save wrote the legislation with paul. working on revising it now. you know, now, if this is a drug program, and they need to be locked up, okay, then they need to be in one place. otherwise why can't they live in decent circumstances, two to a room, at least some of these rooms have an extra room leased at their recreation place, and they walk to work like anybody else in nob hill or take the bus, which is hardly likely to be necessary. i think of the challenge, i don't know if you know that is a subject that's taught in organizational change conflict resolution and so on as a perfect example of how people get a notion in their head we are going to do this, by god, management, you know, and other people will say, their engineers kept saying don't do it that way, that's not good, and they say we are intent on doing it, we have a plan, we don't want to delay and the next thing they know, well you know what happens and then they did something like that again. this is like a lesson in this kind of thing. we've got a bee in our bonnet that we are going to do navigation centers and without thinking about we could have goodwill or whatever program they are going to have, they don't have to live in a warehouse on-site. do homeless people have to live in warehouses? originally, yes, there needed to be emergency shelters, but i don't think you want to keep emergency shelters as your main option all the time. and look at this site. and another site that i've identified that's a commercial site that's actually available on knob hill. you could have tenderloin development neighborhood center build senior housing on those sites and it doesn't all have to be senior housing. after all, they are capable of building us two different entrances or two or three different buildings on these large sites. instead they are going to pay, if there were no inflation, $50 million in rent and repairs on this inappropriate place. you know? and i worked in the anti-poverty program. we had upward bound programs which did wonders in lifting people. but the way this is planned, not a good idea. there is no community outreach. that's just a laugh, except for your signs that went up, practically nobody knew about it. and i told you about lower polk neighbors. chris shulman is one of the major problems we have with them. the other one is the residential hotels, the other stakeholder. >> thank you, ma'am. anyone else for public comment? come on up. >> my name is dennis. i'm the manager of 839 post for the past 40 years. i don't think this has really been thought out. goodwill is great. i would love to have another goodwill. but it seems like for the transitional place, why don't they put it in a different residential place, residential neighborhood, maybe in the industry area or an area that's not so -- would be so impacted by what that 75-bed is going to bring to the neighborhood. it just seems like somebody really hasn't thought it out, because it could be a better place. and i do support what the larken street youth center and those things for those people, because they do need help. but this probably isn't the right place for impact on our city. that's basically what i need to say. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else from the public wish to address us on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, bear with me for a second. i would like to welcome up sunny from supervisor peskin's office. >> thank you, commissioners. welcome, commissioner imperial. and director, we will be honoring you in many forms at a later date. so i'll save those comes. thank you for considering this c.u. today. first i would like to -- and you should have the resolution in your packet by now that kind of gives history and background as to the struggle to try and find a site, whether public or private, that we could partner with the department of homelessness and other stakeholders to actually try and meet these goals for this intractable issue the city has been struggling with. i wanted to say first that i actually, you know, prior to working in supervisor peskin's office, i was in supervisor kim's office and did a lot of on the ground organizing with communities in the south of market, south beach, tenderloin. and everyone there, regardless of their income level, regardless of their background, wanted to do something and be a part of the solution to end homelessness and end the suffering on the streets that they were witnessing every day. and i think that supervisor peskin feels really strongly that we are not afraid of process. i think community process and the c.u. process is important, because it allows the community to continue to have a voice, whether it's design, whether it's external conditions, and all of those things are going to continue to be top priorities for us in terms of working with these other departments. i actually had the opportunity to be a part of the community process to get the king edward ii t.a.y. use site finally built and occupied. and that was a very contentious, for those of you guys that were around in the city at that time, it was a very contentious project. the neighborhood appealed it. it was a long and drawn-out battle. and in the end, you know, the t.a.y. use that ended up being there and larken street use and community housing partnership really developed deep relationships within the community with their neighbors. and it took time. and i'm not -- i think supervisor peskin's position is that we are committed to a solution, we are committed to implementing the solution, and we need to hold -- it's not just about advocacy and cheerleading a project but really holding our city departments accountable too for the entirety of the neighborhood. what does the rest of the neighborhood look like? what are we hearing from constituents when mr. garcia calls our office and complains about different things, those are valid issues, and we've got to actually address them one by one, whether it's with the police where appropriate, whether it's with getting better street lighting, whether it's getting better resources for elementary school whose parent and teacher council i've met with several times. whether it's getting better pedestrian safety improvements. and there's been valid concerns and questions, and i want to give kudos to rachael and the department of public works for really documenting each of these design issues and meticulously following up on them and saying okay, we are going to have to probably move the bike stand, and there's legitimate concerns around pedestrian safety. and there always have been at that intersection. these are all things that we are struggling with in tandem. this is not -- we are not thinking of this as an isolated siloed project like oh, we are just going to open this up and then walk away from it. this is about an opportunity to build up capacity and infrastructure in the neighborhood, to think about this as an asset that is not, you know, us versus them but is really about how -- what are the opportunities for volunteering? what are the opportunities for them to get the residents and the workers at this site to become a part of the fabric of the neighborhood. and i don't think it's this zero sum game that we are -- this black black and white dichotomy. it's really about what does the future of this neighborhood look like. and we have seen an incredible transition of ourette row, resident -- our ethro, housing stock. i can't talk too much about what we are doing to stop that other than to say we are working very hard to try and get these units back on to the market so that our seniors, our transitional-aged youth, our workers, our artists, our musicians, really the folks that have been the fabric of this neighborhood for many decades, have a place to live and continue to be without being priced out, without being victimized by an increasingly speculative market. these are all things together. we know the neighborhood has issues with other facilities that maybe are not the same model, kind of a relic of a different time, and we had a shelter system built in the '70s that was very fortress-like. that's not what our navigation center molecules have evolved into. and we need to start thinking about how we support those other shelter sites too which is something our office has reached out to supervisor haney and the department of homelessness and operators to say what can we do to make these other sites in the neighborhood that are to the south of us, how can we improve on that. what are the ways that we can address some of the issues that are happening at next door shelter or in that vicinity. and they need help and resources. and i wanted to just say i think everyone's feedback is really valid. and it will continue to be valid. and it's something that we are committed to having regular meetings and getting updates from all of our departments on what are we doing in the neighborhood as a whole to make it cleaner, safer, for everyone, including the eventual population of this site. the other thing that is important to note is that we've got to start acquiring these properties. i mean, in this case, i want to thank the developer, because they ultimately, it's been very difficult to negotiate with private property owners. they are not interested in anything that's not going to make them, you know, a ton of money. and in this case, we are going to have an option to purchase within two years, hopefully, this site, and bring it into the city's portfolio so we have more control, we are able to, you know, constantly evolve the programming and the operations there and taylor it. and i think ultimately with land values where they are, this is the future of how we solve this problem. so i really thank you for your consideration. i thank the community for coming out today and everybody giving their input, because it is really important. and we are going to continue to take all of that feedback into consideration. thank you. >> thank you and supervisor peskin for all the thoughtful planning and outreach. okay. commissioner johnson. >> thank you. thank you for your generous and thoughtful comments, really appreciated them and all the work that the supervisor has done in concert with the mayor, the mayor's office. thank you. and city departments to bring us all together today. i want to start my comments by just affirming a couple of things that were brought into question. one is about the goals of this project. and i just want to affirm that the goal, one goal of this project is housing is a human right. the second goal is stability, housing and a support that honors the inherent dignity of all people, including the people who will live in this site. the third is literally living the goals of the city of literally saint francis and also the goals that again and again we have honored as a city, of love and action which is also known as opportunity and justice, and the goal of giving people the same chance that every single one of has gotten in our lives where somebody looked at us and thought that we could make different changes, that there was potential within us, and that they wanted to support us in that. i just want to say that this housing, this opportunity, this asset belongs everywhere. it belongs in every neighborhood, it belongs in every district. and it isn't a zero sum game. i think these are assets that are responding both to the city cycle of cities and to the lives of humans that need spaces to stabilize, find their grounding and change their lives. and specifically with transitional-aged youth. if you have ever taken any time to learn about this population that will be housed, they are incredible. and they are against incredible, incredible odds. i'm sorry. these are kids aging out of the foster system. these are students at s.f. state, they are lgbtq, they are black and brown, they are human. and just like all of us, they deserve an opportunity. and so i am so thrilled, so proud, so excited for this project. and the last thing i'll just say is one of the many assets that our city has is an incredible amount of nonprofit organizations that have pioneered programming and services to serve these populations and, yeah, everyone. and i think in particular the long legacy of larken street, of the community housing institute, goodwill, and so many others have served as models for the rest of the country, actually in how to serve and will well-serve this center. so with that, i will turn it over to my fellow commissioners. but i'm just so proud and excited and grateful for the opportunity to approve this project. >> well said. commissioner imperial. >> thank you, commissioner johnson, for that comment. i think it needs to be heard. i wholeheartedly support this site. i do have question for department of homelessness and supportive housing. as far as i know, in order to access for the youth, for the t.a.y. youth to access, they have to go through the access point. can you explain the process in order to -- how can t.a.y. youth access this? >> how they can access the site? certainly. so youth can go to youth access points where they would go through the coordinated entry system basically an assessment of where they are and one of those options would then be this t.a.y. navigation center. anyone over 18 is eligible to access any of the navigation centers in the city as well. the other option is also through our outreach teams. we have our homeless outreach team workers that are across the city. i think as a few folks mentioned, part of the community commitments we have made around this process is holding a designated outreach zone leading up to the opening of the center that would be concentrating on youth in the area. and that would continue. so any time-out reach workers are meeting t.a.y. youth experiencing homelessness in the city, they would be invited to the center depending on space. >> will there be social workers or case managers on-site? >> absolutely. all the navigation centers, it's high-service so it would have case managers, health services, wrap around services, activities. we want to make sure that any guests of this center feel really supported in physical and mental and all wellbeing. >> thank you very much. i think this is, again, it's not just criminals or drugs, that's very insulting, actually. that displaced -- that this place is a safe place for youth. this is important, and we need more of this throughout the city. so i would support this. >> commissioner moore. >> thank you, commissioner johnson, for your heartfelt thoughts. i would like to speak about land use. this is actually in front of us because of approving an institutional use under the purvey of the c.u. i would like to focus on c.u. in a metaphor calloway. and that is called -- a metaphor cal way. necessary and desirable. that is what we need. we need to identify sites. create opportunity, use buildings that are solid, thoughtfully thought-flu -- thought through. i couldn't be more delighted seeing all those things met and the incredible amount of work that has gone into it. and i'm touched and inspired by people who come from homelessness to stand in front of us and testify what that small move as made in their lives. and if it was one or two, that is enough for me to support it. but here we have 75. more power to it. it has my full support, and i move to approve. >> second. >> second. >> before we get to the vote, i wanted to say i'm thrilled to hear about the workforce component today. i think a lot of the public in general are fearful and just skeptical of what the outcome is when people leave these centers. so i think this was a great answer to kind of complete the circle for everybody. seeing nothing further, there's a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. i believe as corrected by staff. on that motion. [roll call vote] so moved, that motion passes unanimously, 6-0. that will place us on items 10 and 11 for cases 2017-0035359env and cua at 3700 california street. you will consider certifying the environmental impact report and the conditional use authorization in planned unit development. for those who are leaving the chambers, if you could do so quietly, we would certainly appreciate it. we have additional business to attend to. please note the public hearing on the draft d.i.r. is closed. the public comment period ended on september 24, 2019. public comment will be accepted. however, comments submitted today may not be included in the final e.i.r. commissioner diamond. >> yes. i wanted to bring to the commission's attention that i have two connections that the city attorney and i have discussed do not preclude me from voting, but i did want to disclose them to the commission and assure that that i think i can be impartial. i live close to the site but it's enough feet away so there's no material financial impact on my residence. the second is i noticed in the packet that the jewish community center submitted a letter of support for the project. i was on the board, and the board chair of the jewish community center but only until 2013 which was long before this letter was submitted. i was then the lawyer for the j.c.c. on numerous real estate matters up until this past summer. while i was attorney, we did receive a presentation from the developers of 3700 california. but during the time that i had an attorney/client relationship with the j.c.c., they took no position whatsoever on this project. a letter they submitted was done long after, many months after i was their attorney. so i believe i can be impartial in my analysis and vote on this project. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you. i will also say i too live in the vicinity, but over 1,000 feet away. i am also a renter. so i also will not be impacted by that. >> good afternoon president koppel and commissioners. chris may of planning department staff. the overhead. you have before you the certification of the final environmental impact report and request for conditional use authorization and planned unit development for the proposed redevelopment project on the former campus located at 3700 california street. i'm joined today by my colleague from the environmental planning division of the department as well as the project sponsor team represented by matt field from t.m.g. partners and dan from architects. after providing a brief presentation of the project including the required approval actions, i will hand the presentation over to jeannie who will speak about the final e.i.r., and matt and dan will provide a more detailed overview of the project, including the extent of community outreach that was undertaken to refine the project to where it is today. the department is requesting the following actions. first to certify the final e.i.r. pursuant to ceqa. you will be asked to adopt ceqa findings as well as the if i myth gas station monitoring and reporting program -- as well as the mitigation program. to permit a building or structure exceeding 40 feet in height in an h.r. district and to permit a building or structure exceeding 50 feet in height in an h.m. district and for a planned unit development otherwise known as a p.u.d. pursuant to planning code with modifications to the rear yard, dwelling unit exposure, street frontage, moderation of building fronts and building height requirements of planning code sections 14, 140, 144, 144.1, 260 and 261. the former campus at 3700 alaska street is approximately five acres in size. and it encompasses blocks. it's bounded by california street, sacramento street, cherry street and maple street as well as portions of two other blocks to the west of cherry street and to the east of maple street. the project site is located on a hillside that slopes down from the northeast to the southwest by approximately 44 feet. the project site is located primarily within the rm2 zoning district with portions within the rh2 zoning district. the majority of the project site is located in the a.d.e. height and bulk district with the exception of two lots that cover approximately 8% of the site located within the 40-x height and bulk district. the project proposes uses, residential densities and building heights consistent with the controls for the applicable zoning and height and bulk districts and does not seek to change these designations. the project proposes the retention of the existing nine-unit residential building at 401 cherry street as well as the partial retention of the existing marshal hail building on california street and conversion to residential use. aside from these two buildings, the project proposes the demolition of all remaining buildings. the project proposes the construction of the 1 new buildings ranging from three to seven stories, with building heights ranging from 35 to 80 feet, totaling approximately 632,000 square feet of residential floor area. including the retained nine-unit building at 401 cherry street, the project will result in a total of 273 dwelling units and a variety of dwelling types including single family row houses and 17 multiunit residential buildings. the project proposes a dwelling unit mix of 69 studios and one-bedroom units, 88 two-bedroom units, 96 three-bedroom units and 20 four-bedroom units. they will satisfy their affordable housing requirements by paying a fee at a rate equivalent to off site requirement of 33% which amounts to between 43 and $44 million. overall, the project proes poses off street parking spaces consisting of 392 spaces in shared below-grade garages located beneath the multi-unit buildings which also include 7 car share spaces and 24 private spaces located within the 12 single-family dwellings. the project also proposes a total of 424 class one and two bicycle parking spaces. the project would include shared on-site amenities such as a residential finance facility, library and lounge and private and common open space areas for residents which include roof decks and ground-level terraces. the projects will provide significant street scape improvements to enhance pedestrian safety including widened sidewalks, the conversion of existing perpendicular on-street parking on maple street to parallel parking, expanded sidewalk at all four major intersections within the site and the planting of an additional 76 new street trees. of the 173 total number of private trees on the site, 47 are proposed to be retained while the remaining 126 are proposed to be removed and will be replaced by an additional 224 new trees. these physical improvements meet the goals and objectives of the city's better streets plan. the 14 existing parcels will be merged and subdivided into 16 parcels and developed which will allow for modifications to the rear yard, dwelling unit exposure, street frontage, moderation of building fronts and building height requirements to the planning code. the project is consistent with the 2013 development agreement between cpmc and the city that requires the development of the site be informed by an intensive community outreach process, including the formation of a neighborhood vision advisory committee. this committee participated, included participation by nine key organizations in regularly-scheduled meetings over the course of three years. the outcome of the project is supported by various supporting neighborhood organizations including the association of neighbors, jordan park improvement association, laurel heights improvement association, lake street residence association, pacific heights residence association, sacramento street merchants and laurel village merchants association. the project sponsor will go into more detail regarding this community outreach in their presentation. since the publication of the staff report, the department has received 18 letters in support of the project which generally cite the replacement of large, underutilized institutional buildings with much-needed housing, more compatible with the surrounding neighborhood character as reasons for their support. the department has also received one letter inquiring about the feasibility of realigning some neighborhood intersections to improve traffic flow. on balance, the department finds the project is consistent with the objectives and policies of the general plan and recommends that the commission approve the project on the basis that it represents the appropriate redevelopment of an underutilized site in an area where existing and planned infrastructure can support residential growth and proposes land uses that are overall in conformity with the planning code. this concludes my portion of the presentation, and i will now turn it over to environmental planning staff for their review of the ceqa. thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> good afternoon. i'm the coordinator for the environmental review of this project. as chris indicated, the first item for your consideration of this project is the certification of the final e.i.r., i'll walk you through the environmental review process and ceqa findings and turn the presentation over to the project sponsor. the draft was published in 2019. the public hearing on the draft e.i.r. was september 2019 and the public comment period on the draft e.i.r. closed on septembe. the responses to comments documents was published and distributed to you on february 13, 2020. the response is to comments document in combination with the draft e.i.r. constitutes the final e.i.r. the draft certification motion is now before you. i'll summarize the findings of the e.i.r. the e.i.r. found that implementation of the project would result in no project-specific or cumulatively significant unavoidable environmental impacts. the e.i.r. did identify significant environmental impacts that would be reduced to less than significant with mitigation. these measures as shown on the screen concern construction-related air quality, noise and vibration and historic archaeological tribal cultural, biological resources. as part of today's approvals, you'll be asked to adopt ceqa findings that include the mitigation measures as conditions of project approval. as required by ceqa, the e.i.r. included an analysis of project alternatives. these alternatives include a no project alternative and two other alternatives that would reduce the project's environmental impact. the reduced construction alternative shown on the screen would result in buildings no taller than three stories, would involve less construction and less excavation of the proposed project and would reduce construction-related impacts on cultural resources and air quality, noise and vibration. this reduced construction alternative would result in 141 dwelling units compared to the project's 264 dwelling units. the e.i.r. also analyzed a rehabilitation reuse alternative that would retain and convert the existing hospital buildings to residential use and would minimize construction-related impacts on cultural and biological resources and air quality, noise and vibration. under this alternative, mitigation measures would not be required to reduce impacts on biological resources and construction-related air quality, noise and vibration because this alternative would retain the existing buildings and not require substantial construction. for this reason, the rehabilitation reuse alternative is the environmentally superior alternative. this alternative would result in 258 dwelling units compared to the proposed 264 dwelling units. i will now discuss a key issue that was raised in the comments on the draft e.i.r. we received comments that the environmental analysis, particularly related to transportation and circulation should compare to a project -- should compare the project to a vacant site. the draft e.i.r. determined that baseline conditions are those that were in effect in september of 2018 when we published the notice of preparation of an environmental impact report. the c.p.m.c. california campus hospital was still fully operational at that time until march 2019 when it started moving its operations to van ness avenue. establishing baseline conditions at the beginning of environmental review is consistent with ceqa guidelines. i'll now discuss some changes to the project and analysis that occurred after publication of the draft e.i.r. modifications were made to the number of existing trees and those proposed to be removed. the screen shows the updated summary of the number of trees. the net effect of these changes is that the partial waiver for street tree planting required from the public works department would be for 26 street trees instead of 31 street trees as cited in the draft e.i.r. also in response to comments received on the draft e.i.r., eight new zealand christmas trees at sacramento and cherry that were proposed for removal would be retained. i would like to correct an error in the responses to comments document that identifies those trees as coast redwood trees when they were actually new zealand christmas trees. other minor changes and corrections to the project and analysis identified in the responses to comments document are shown on this slide. these are an increase in total amount of residential area, a change in the residential open space, minor changes to curb cuts and colors, and increased height to the top of rooftop apartments. an updated shadow fan was conducted for the additional height above the roof which shows a minor extension, the shadow on streets but not in excess of what is commonly expected in an urban environment. a change that occurred after publication of the draft e.i.r. is that the city completed updated citywide air pollutant modeling. the e.i.r. updates the construction health risk analysis accordingly and includes construction minimization measures to reduce air pollutant health risks to less than significant. in response to a public comment regarding tree removal's effect on bees, it includes an improvement measure that requires them to conduct a survey for bee populations prior to construction and tree removal. the draft e.i.r. in responses to comments document provide a full and complete environmental review of the project. we believe the e.i.r. is adequate and provides decision makers and the public with information required pursuant to ceqa to understand the potential environmental impacts of the project. on this basis, we request that the commission adopt the motion before you which certifies that the consents of the report are adequate and accurate and that the procedures through which the final e.i.r. was prepared comply with the provisions of ceqa, the ceqa guidelines and chapter 31 of the administrative code. that concludes my presentation. i'm available for questions. i'll turn it over to the project sponsor. thank you. thank you. >> you can go to the overhead for the project sponsor, please. >> you are there. you just go to go there. one more. good. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is matt field with t. t.m.g. partners for the project. the project you have before you today is a couple nation of a five-year community envisioning process and comes with broad neighborhood support. the project, as chris mentioned, is zoning compliant, and we are here to certify the e.i.r., p.u.d. and c.u. if the affordable housing requirement is met by an in lieu fee, calculated on a per swear foot basis. the project has a strong housing family focus with 33% two bedrooms and 37% three and four bedrooms. it brings a strong improvement to the pedestrian realm, including widened sidewalks and increase in street trees and pedestrian crossings. it will be certified lead gold. when the hospital was originally built, it was actually a series of quite elegant buildings. but today, it spans three blocks and five acres, and is an institutional mishmash of buildings that are really out of context with the surrounding residential neighborhood. the community process that we ran was actually mandated by the planning commission back in 2013 when cpmc got their development approval for the new hospital on van ness. at that time, the neighborhood groups worked with the commission and the department to put together a process that would allow the neighborhood to be instrumental in directing the reuse of this property to make sure that it was something consistent with the surrounding neighborhood. we have worked with the mandated envisioning advisory committee, which was to include the surrounding neighborhood groups, merchants associations, the district supervisor's office and the planning department over five years. the first three years were a community planning and outreach process, which included all sorts of stakeholder analysis, in-home meetings and neighborhood association meetings. the following two years, 2018 till now, was the processing of the environmental documents. we continued that outreach process with the neighborhoods as the plan evolved through that process. as chris mentioned, the project is zoned entirely residential with mostly moderate-density approved or allowed and 80-foot height limit. that height limit is consistent with the tallest buildings in the neighborhood that you see here and shorter than the tallest buildings at the hospital today. one of the key principles for the neighborhood was making sure we were sensitive to sight lines that exist there today, and we tried to put taller buildings where taller buildings exist today or in places that were least visible and that we try and retain significant historic features such as the courtyard at the end of commonwealth street and historic marshal hail building. we did a series of urban design studies with the neighborhood before we hired an an architecto think about the context and how it was put together which included block patterns, landscaping, architecture and the like. we came out of that process with a strong preference for traditional architecture that looked like the neighborhood and did not look like a giant project landed from outer space. the strong preference for a variety of buildings and types and the neighborhood was extremely sensitive to the parking and traffic impacts that had been in their neighborhood for years from the hospital. and we were asked to minimize those impacts as much as we could. following that guidance, we hired architects to help us turn that guidance into a plan. i'm going to turn it over to dan to walk you through that planning process. thank you, matt, thank you, commissioners. we take very seriously our responsibility to work with you, with the neighbors and with t.m.g. to do a project that really grows out of these significant neighborhoods and fits in with these significant neighborhoods. so i would like to give you a quick overview of our design evolution. the plan you see on the screen really does try to follow the patterns of the neighborhood with varied roof lines, setbacks and building heights, a mix of unit types, landscaped backyards and edges and parking and services below grade, a mix of taller and shorter and smaller and larger buildings. this is that initial plan in three dimensions, for 2016, and you can see that the buildings themselves had relatively simple massing at the time that we did that initial plan. working with this plan, we did a series of views taken from all the significant vantage point, especially important were views looking up toward the site from jordan park because of the way that the street grid shifts along california street, the project is very prominent in many of those views. and so we reviewed views of various locations with the neighbors and developed a series of architectural strategies for really mitigating the impact of the new development and also enhancing the new development from those vantage points. and i'm going to take you, show you just three examples. we really want building by building -- went building by building. this is a view looking up jordan. you can see on the left the very simple massing. we introduced an increased landscape buffer along the sidewalk. we introduced a significant setback along california street, reduced the visual impact of the building. this is another building further along california street. here we introduced a notch between the building and its neighbor and a more significant setback at the top floor. here along maple street, we sculpted the building to have a series of setbacks to create a more pleasing silhouette on the skyline and also open to view from below, more sky. we also studied very carefully the landscape and greenery, and this is that previously-mentioned corner at sacramento and cherry with a stand of existing trees that you can see on the upper left. our initial design was going to remove those trees, and we went back and figured out a way to reconfigure the project to retain the majority of those trees. and that's embremmatic of-- embf the site. we are doing brick, stone, wood and stucco with buildings in a variety of styles, growing out of the neighborhood. the pedestrian realm is very important and so beautiful entrances are typical. we have looked very carefully and tried to create those all around the site. so this is the plan that we submitted to you, and with that, i'll turn it over to matt. and he's going to show you some additional views and then wrap up. >> thanks, dan. as dan mentioned, this plan you are looking at was the process of months of interaction sculpting the building so ultimately when we came to this for the first time, we had strong neighborhood support from all the neighborhood groups, which is quite rare where you come at a point where you have done this much design work and have this much support. i'm going to take you through the final design iterations, and you can see the buildings in context. here's the same view looking to the north with the hospital in the foreground. and here's the proposed project afterwards. here's looking at the stand of trees looking to the easton sacramento and the proposed project. again, these same views up from jordan, the proposed project looking north on commonwealth, and you'll be able to see the courtyard we retained here. and looking north on parker. this is a view looking to the south on cherry street from presidio heights today and with the proposed project. here's a view looking to the west along california street. you'll see the historic marshal hail building on the right. and with the proposed project. and then stepping back further to the eastern edge, the two buildings that transition in. here's looking up again into jordan. this is looking south on maple. weston sacramento. and the couple nation of this really is even broader support than when we started. i really want to thank all of the people who stuck with us through a five-year process who went to many meetings. we have a much better project. i want to thank the commission. i've never done a process like this. it led to amazing neighborhood support and a great outcome. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you very much. we are going to open this up for public comment. >> i have several speaker cards. [calling speaker names] >> my name is charles ferguson. i'm a judge at the public utilities commission. i'm in the process of writing a rate case decision. i've been waiting here for a long time. so i thank you for those who are letting me speak first. i'm also president of the presidio heights association of neighbors. and we are here obviously to support this project. i, with mark, drafted the original version of what got implemented here. i want to thank the developers. they followed it to the tee. it was everything i hoped it would be. and it turned out perfectly. everybody supported the project because they took so much input. our neighborhood is, i think, the largest neighborhood eligible for historic status at the state level. we have 800 residences in our neighborhood. many of them historic. this is an important project. because with our decision on 3333 california street and a decision at any level on this particular project, 150 or whatever, up to 264, you will be more than doubling the size of our neighborhood. and we support that. we support it for two reasons. one, they designed a great project that fits into our neighborhood. what's there now doesn't fit at all. we are happy to see it go and be replaced by this. secondly, what they put in was housing for families. our neighborhood is a family neighborhood. that is its whole design concept from back in the 19th century, and they have carried it forward with this particular project. so we are entirely in support of it. lastly, i just want to say that we would really appreciate it if you approved the parking, the off-street parking that they have in there since the hospital has gone, i've lived there for 30 years. this is the first time when i feel like kids can walk in the street, and we have lots of children in our neighborhood, lots. it's safer when there are available parking spots. we don't have the traffic problems that are caused when there's not enough parking in the streets, and it gets dangerous for the kids. and we have had accidents and fatalities with children. so please pay attention to their parking requests. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. i usually don't comment outside of noe valley but i feel i had to, because to me this is children's hospital. and i thought about all the babies that were born there many, many, many years, including my own. and i'm glad that the neighbors are happy with it. i think it is a really nice project. i really like the windows. i wish that would, that would transfer and fly over to noe valley, because we are getting tired of these ipod houses as your staff calls them. i think the number of unit -- two-bedroom units. and i think the $44 million, that's a lot of money. it would have been nice if they could have had some affordable housing on the site, but i understand that doesn't ever really happen anywhere. i don't know if it's possible, but i do think it would be good if some of the that money went to the small sites program. i don't know if you can do that or if that's even possible. but anecdotally around the city, i see a lot of multiunit buildings for sale, apartment buildings, i think it's a generational shift. i think people that bought in the '50s and '60s are leaving the scene and their buildings are being sold by their heirs, and there's a lot of tenants in those buildings. that's anecdotal, but i think it's going on. finally i would just setting that this huge number of units, and this is conditional use, gives you an opportunity to get data back who is living there, how many llcs. it's all ownership. i read it online before it crashed. it's all ownership units. it would be good to understand how many l.l.c.s, how many family trusts, how many individuals. is there a way you can find out. you build this large project, can you figure out who is living there? it's data you can use to maintain the soul of the city i appreciated that today. thank you very much. have a great day. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. i'm john jenson and i live adjacent to the property on california street. i went to that five years ago to the initial meeting at the j.c.c. with t.m.g., and for the first time in my life, i saw at the end of the meeting, everyone in the audience stood up and applauded the project. i was somewhat surprised and shocked that after seeing all the work they did, when they came to my house to see firsthand, everything, all the work that had gone in, i'm not surprised after seeing that. so we wholeheartedly support the project. we are literally adjacent. so there probably isn't a neighbor that's going to be as impacted by this project as i will be to the point where we'll probably need to underpin our building to theirs. so i've been at this microphone before, just saying, hey, i support residential projects, because we need to build more housing in the city. and so i'm doing so now here as well even though i live adjacent to the project. i know a lot of people take a different view. anyway. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners, and also planning director. we'll miss your steady hand when you leave. my name is ron. i'm a neighbor, i live a block away. my kids were born in the hospital. i was a past fan of the -- of the neighborhood association twice. i've been involved in a series of meetings. i'm a real estate guy by background, and i'm currently producing a film series on rebuilding cities all over the continent. i came in from houston yesterday. i look at these projects and the quality of them all over the country in terms of what i'm doing with the project, and i'm here to say it's a great project. we have heard a lot about the process. i don't want to he lab more on that. elaborate process. they were constantly refining to major the project better. so it's not only a process thing but the product here in a city in which process is often more important than product, here there was a process but also a product at the end that i think represents a design quality and sensitivity to the site that we don't find everywhere so i urge support for that. the second thing as somebody who grew up in the town, very important that we have family housing, and i think it's very important that in this project, i know it's upper income housing but in this city we are so desperate to have kids and families, it doesn't matter from where they are, as long as there are kids here in town. so i want to say we should support it for that reason. and last thing i'll mention is i'll echo what charlie ferguson said, a little about parking which is this is on a transit corridor, i understand that. but in this case if the idea is to make it conducive for families and not just somebody buying it as a project but if it's for families, allow the parking that developers want because you want to entice people who have families to be the buyers of this project. so i urge support. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i live at 211 cornwall street at fourth avenue. i'm speaking as a local resident and also as a professional with the post graduate degree in urban planning. so many missed opportunities in this proposed development. by not including any affordable housing on the site, this project seems destined to be a homogenous on clave of extreme wealth. it is inevitable it will end up investor-owned housing that is of little or no benefit to the immediate community or even to san francisco as a whole. such an on clave will have a detrimental environmental impact on the immediate neighborhood. it will not match the diversity of class and race along california avenue and jordan park. it will inevitably result in an intention if iing speculation and -- intensifying displacement of tenants. i understand that neighborhood property owner groups have been consulted. however, the majority of residents are renters. i don't see any tenant associations on their list of consulted groups. so the missed opportunities are missed opportunities of maximizing the density of housing on this site. it's possible to get 500 units not the 270 odd that are planned. already mentioned is the missed opportunities of having affordable housing in district 2. little more than 37 affordable units have been created in the last ten years in this district. by maximizing the number of parking spaces on-site, they have missed the opportunity to consider environmental and sustainability concerns. so it's note worthy that there are many parking spaces in this development than housing units. the missed opportunity to create an imaginative vision for the neighborhood. i'm glad they referenced 3778 washington, a masterpiece. finally, i want to see the missed opportunity to create a temporary navigation center in district two, a part of the city that has not participated in the burden of housing the homeless. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is josh, i'm not here to talk about the merits of the project itself. i was one of the commenters on the e.i.r., and i laid out in detail the benefits of the existing trees on this site, at least the ones i was able to access from the public right of way. the plan now proposes to plant 224 trees, which sounds awesome until you understand what a new tree means. i did a public records request and received assessments on 27 of the 42 street trees up for removal. for those 27 alone, 280 inches of healthy tree trunk diameter would be removed. new trees are one inch in diameter which means it takes at least 280 new trees to make up for the loss of the 27, not including the remaining 99 trees, including redwoods. it takes three years for a new tree to establish so even if they plant all 224 trees, it will be hundreds short in terms of the environmental benefits the existing trees declined. last year our city declared a state of environmental emergency. we must sequester more carbon or climate change won't be reversible. this contains an urban forestry component because trees are the most effective way to sequester carbon. this plan will not be complete by the time climate change is not reversible. the trees will not live long enough to provide the environmental benefits we need today. we can't way for ceqa or planning codes to catch up to our climate reality. we need people like you to stop approving plans that contain thousands of trees proposed for removal with the promiseer more in the future. we are continuing to do business as usual when we cannot afford to. this board approved another project that would remove 200 trees. these two projects within a few blocks will remove more than 300 large trees in the city that has the smallest canopy of any major city in the united states. after comments were made the project made a way to preserve trees which were identified as redwoods. this begs the question of how much attention these trees received at all, especially if you cannot tell the difference from a redwood or christmas tree, and all it took was a comment to change the removal equation. it will only be if you start to ask questions. how much mature trees be preserved? what construction methods can be employed to preserve trees or could designs incorporate existing trees? it will only be people like you to ask these questions that maybe our city and world stand a chance against climate change. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [applause] >> ma'am, can you please refrain from the clapping? >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is julio. and i'm a carpenter for 30 years. i live in san francisco. and i am speaking in support of 3600 california street project. this project will allow so many carpenters like me to continue living in the in the city of san francisco. we'll help to continue my career as a carpenter, moving forward towards retirement. will provide me the necessary income to support my family. will bring much needed housing in the area. i am here before you to support this project. and ask that you move forward for this massive plan. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is anthony. i'm with the sheet metal workers union here in san francisco. we would like to be here to say that the sheet metal workers union 104 supports t.m.g. partners proposed project at 3700 california street in san francisco. we believe this project would be a benefit to the local community and the city and county of san francisco for the following reasons: this project would provide approximately 264 units of housing that our city desperately needs. this also would stimulate the local economy by providing middle class union construction jobs with living wages, health and retirement benefits and also for san francisco residents. this would also ensure sustainable career pathways into union construction apprenticeship and training programs for local youth and also for united states military veterans. the project sponsor was open to discuss our concerns and has committed to partner with our local union construction community. we urge you to join us in our support and to approve this project as proposed. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president koppel, fellow commissioners. i'm field rep with the carpenter's union, local 22 here in san francisco. and we ask for you to support the 3700 california street project. t.m.g. partners is committed to using union general contractors that will provide numerous individuals with the opportunity to earn a good wage, provide both health, retirement benefits for our members. this project will also offer training and education opportunities for those entering the carpentry trade through apprenticeship, including women, minorities, veterans. we don't discriminate against anybody. this project brings much-needed housing to the area. and also everybody needs a place to live. it's housing for everybody. so i would like to thank you for this opportunity and urge you to move this project forward today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is sarah alexander. i'm nervous as hell. i'm mostly here to talk about the trees but i'll put a few in. there's an apology mixed with the sour grapes. i live at sacramento street, my kitchen wall is next to the demolition. the other side of that wall is the demolition of a building. i work at 3600 california street, which is the eastern end of the project. so i bookend it. unfortunately for me, i think i wasn't in the proper notification process. matt fields did meet with my m.o.a. partners and myself but i never received invitation to any public meeting. so i feel bad that i'm here at the last minute. i did make comments for the e.i.r. about the trees. i would like to make a clarification about the trees. there are both redwood, california redwood trees and another kind of tree which i now know is called a new zealand christmas tree. they arer -- they are on the corner of san francisco and cherry. i have pictures. if you want to see them, i have pictures of the trees. there are ten california redwood trees, four or five stories at all. there are 17 in that corner. i understand there have been some notifications since the comments to the e.i.r. report in terms of retaining some of the trees at the corner. i could not tell from the conversation so far and the pictures exactly what trees are going to remain. my suggestion is on that topic is that many trees as can remain, remain. new trees that are buried at the interior of the project are not the same thing as established trees which are now visible to every person who gets on or off the number 33 bus who walks by that corner who up until this project can hang out at that corner. anyway, my request is for the preservation of as many trees at that corner as possible. and i have a comment about parking spaces. it's only good right now because there's nobody working in the hospital, but once there are people in the building, we will have a horrible parking problem. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is rosa. i'm a native san franciscan. i've been living in this neighborhood for 30 years now. i am here to speak about the trees. i know it's not a popular position at this point, especially hearing about all these different community groups talking to the developers and whatnot. but trust me, very few people actually know that this is happening that live west of the center of the development. so i just wanted to mention that when you say there's 230 units going up in here, people are like what are you talking about. they have no idea. so i just wanted to say i've noticed lately that the city seems to be rubber-stamping tree remove as they relate to developments. and especially trees in the public right of way. those are our public trees. they belong to the public. i'm appealing to you today to ask that you please require developers to be more creative in their tree-related solutions. i do believe that it's possible to have these large-scale projects retain trees that are in and around these properties. in this day and age, especially with climate change concerns, we really need to find better solutions in regards to the way we integrate nature into new developments. when you remove a tree, a healthy, large, mature tree, you are not only ending the tree's life, but you are also effectively obliterating the housing for birds and bees. and we are complaining a lot in san francisco that there's no birds around anymore or there's no bees around anymore. i wonder why that is possibly could it be because we are chopping down trees en masse in the city. so replacing mature trees with saplings, i'm sorry, it feels like an empty gesture and band-aid to please the public. we don't know if these saplings will survive. and of course saplings, you know, a little twig, cannot house birds and doesn't have the pollen propagation to be serving bees also. lately the richmond and laurel areas have been really hard hit with tree removals. we have a sonic avenue, u.s.f. tree removal, 3333 california and now this. it's basically deforestation of this neighborhood. and i wanted to quote john, he said god has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, floods, but he cannot save them from fools. so thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president koppel and commissioners. i am richard frisbee, and i'm here to state my strong support of the proposed 3700 california street project. let me read a portion of my letter sent to you february 10. i've been involved in all the meetings associated with this project from the out set. the final design is a result of a unique collaborative process where the developer worked with the community to craft a plan that incorporated community's concerns. community input was discussed, understood and implemented where appropriate and practical. where input was not implemented, the developer took pains to circle back to the community and explain the rationale involved in the final decision. we don't need all our ideas accepted. what we do need is that they be heard, understood and considered. the one topic i would like to give further thought on is about the trees. and we are in an unprecedented time of climate change. and no matter how small the effect, every tree does make a difference. global warming is not going to be solved by a silver bullet. it's going to be solved by a billion tiny silver darts, one tree, one car, one cap gas well at a time. so saving a tree is important. t.m.g. partners made a good-faith effort to retain the trees, but i would like still to see a rigorous process implemented. i would request that every tree that does not fall within a building envelope be examined, does it have to be removed? most sidewalk trees may not need to be removed. removing a tree to simplify construction should not in and of itself qualify for removal. it should have a higher standard. my experience is that t.m.g. partners will do the right thing. so in conclusion, commissioners and developers, my kudos for this project. you have my support. i'm looking for your support in saving the trees, if only one tree. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president koppel and commissioners. i'm kathy, president of laurel heights improvement association. our association strongly supports the proposed plan for the residential conversion of the hospital. i sat on the vision being committee from the beginning. and the plank presented to the city reflects a process that is rarely if ever employed in san francisco. t.m.g. partners ran a process that included extensive studies of neighborhood character, a neighborhood survey, and numerous meetings with individual neighbors, neighborhood associations, merchant associations and others to form a visioning process. t.m.g. really listened to the neighbors. and then faithfully incorporated neighborhood concerns and desires into a plan where they could. they found an extraordinary architect to execute the vision. and dealing with him was an utter delight. the plan includes significant family housing and appropriate parking for the project's units. t.m.g. accommodated the specific request of neighbors in jordan park and presidio heights to forego changing the zoning to allow retail uses to be constructed along california and sacramento streets because the retail would have attracted a substantial amount of traffic to the site. t.m.g. designed a feasible all-residential project that conforms with current zoning. the neighbors were vocal in their concerns about avoiding adverse impacts on traffic congestion, parking and inconsistency with neighborhood character and land use pattern that would compromise safety. in my last meeting, t.m.g. agreed to meet with me as to selecting species for the replacement trees because i expressed a desire to select trees that would accommodate bird habitat because i have noticed the decline in the bird population. they agreed to work with me, and i'm sure they will. so the plank presented to the city is the result of 18 months' work with the neighborhood, including numerous adjustments to the scale and character of buildings as you saw, changes in setbacks and other refinements to make the plan widely acceptable. it's rare and probably unique that this plan is endorsed by all the surrounding neighborhood associations. so i strongly encourage you to endorse this plan with the same enthusiasm as the neighborhood. it's an example of neighborhood planning done correctly. and i think the reason is that these developers had integrity and really listened to us whereas in so many cases we try to participate in the process and other developers, they listen to what we have to say but they don't pay attention to it. this was a bright light. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, president copper and commissioners. i'm here representing local 38, plumbers and pipe fitters union here in san francisco. we are in favor of this project. we feel that this project getting passed will create direct and indirect jobs for people in the in the city for or members. we appreciate the outreach that t.m.g. has outreached to us, and we are hoping you guys support the project. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i guess that's me, and we are all done. good afternoon, president koppel, commissioners. welcome commissioner imperial. i didn't welcome you last time i spoke. i look forward to you getting an actual nameplate soon. again, like so many of the folks here, i wanted to come in and support this project. i think you heard, i work with the mechanical and life safety crafts. and you heard from them specifically what it's going to mean for each individual craft, but i wanted to step back a little bit. if you take a look at it, i'm sure it's in your packet. t.m.g.'s first source affidavit, what you see is this project over however many years it takes is going to create about 1200 full-time positions for construction workers, unionized construction workers from across all crafts. what that translates to isn't just 1200 people working for a couple years and moving on, these are about 200, if i got my math right and understand everyone's contracts correctly, about 240 athen it ises are going to get -- apprentices are going to get work and get on the first couple rungs of the job ladder and the ladder to the middle class. and t.m.g. has been consistent. we have worked with them across a number of projects in the past, and pardon me, and same thing here, that they are going to be providing these opportunities. so it's exciting to see this thing move forward. it's exciting to see so many neighbors in support of it. i look forward to your approval. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i have packets for the commissioners. my name is john. i'm the representing san francisco tree campaign. in these packets, i have 370 signatures of people over a two-year period to save the trees at california street. also in the packet, i have comments from the signed petitioners which they commented over the last two years. and so they are not able to come to this meeting, so therefore that's why i print out that information. so my issue is a couple in full. one, let's get real, this project, well, first, the point that animy family lived within a half mile of this project for three generations, so i know the area and grew up in the area. so to hear them say this is characteristic of the neighborhood is not really true. it's great for the unions, for middle class people, but the condos are not going to be affordable to middle class. they will be for the rich people, starting over a million dollars each, and it's even more than that in the packet. so let's talk about the trees. the trees will give serenity, tranquility, solitude, peacefulness, isolation, remote remoteness,. what birds do you see, what flowers do you see, what sounds do you hear, what odors do you smell, what textures do you feel, what inhabitants pass through this. so this would be if there was more open space or open space for the community in this large project. and as a native san franciscan, i did go to the children's hospital a number of times for their services. and i did see the tranquility when it was open. and i would like to see that continue. and i really don't like a big developer coming in and doing what they are doing to this project only for their pockets. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else for public comment on this item? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner fung. >> question for staff. was a sustainability overlay done for this project? >> pardon me? >> was a sustainability overlay done for this project? >> i'm not aware of one, no. >> quite a large project for not having the template looked at. >> commissioner diamond. >> i have a question for the developer. first i want to compliment prior commissions and planning department and other city members that worked with c.p.m.c. to include the language in the development agreement that allowed for the extensive community engagement process. it seems to have worked extremely well. so compliments, and of course to the developer for implementing the process that was envisioned. could you talk for a moment about construction phasing and timing? when do you expect to get underway? >> it is slightly more complicated than normal with 31 small buildings than big buildings. that is an 18 to 24 month process with the building department. our intention would be to break ground and work directly through over a three to four year period. >> when do you anticipate you would be done with the whole project? >> sixish years. >> are you going to have residents move in to the first phase? >> yes there would be distinct phases because they are distinct properties. >> can you address the tree replace issue? >> i have a few graphics. i am lousy at the overhead. i will try. what you have here is in the green are trees to be retained. it may be hard for you to see. this is in your package. on maybe street those walks are 7.5 feet wide. we are widening the sidewalks. there are currently no street trees on the west side of maple. the streets on the east seed have to be re-- the trees on the east side need removed. there are a few street trees on sacramento street that are being removed. you can see them small in yellow. parts of that have to do with the infrastructure. there are guide wires and street posts and all sorts of things. we tried to minimize the number of street trees being removed. we tried to maximize, which i will show you here. , the number of new trees. the blue dots are where we can't place street trees. there are bus stops. bulb outs, fire hydrants and bike racks. i will point out a couple other things that might be useful. this is a view looking at the same courtyard on california street. what you will see there is an area on the bottom right, some of these trees are elevated on a second level. those two wings are actually. the elegant building they chopped the top off. those are the two remaining wings. these trees are planted on the second levels. similarly, this is up on sacramento and maple. this is a garage. it is a private garden. you can sort of see it is gated here at the top, and underneath is a parking garage that is on the property. all of the street trees are being retained. if you look at the top left here where my finger is, we are retaining that tree and notching the building to go around it. the trees that were asked about earlier up here on the corner and the redwoods here. we are retaining four redwoods here and set the buildings back. we are retaining all of these perimeter industries which were originally scheduled for removal. does that help? >> yes. >> commissioner imperial. >> a question for the planning staff. in terms of transit, how many transits are located in this corridor? give me a moment here. the project site is located on the 1 california, 1ax express, 1bx express. 2 clement and 33 as bury 18th muni bus lines. >> i would like to comment. i understand that this neighborhood needs parking spaces for the families, and this project is for multi-families. my comment is just like for planting to be consistent when we talk about neighborhoods. i think this is a good planning process when it comes to this area, but when we go to the other areas of san francisco, parking is essential. also, we talk about transit. when we are talking about the dwelling units and the ratio to parking spaces and who are using the parking spaces, i think we need to take into consideration in other areas of san francisco that needs consistency. that is my comment. also, in terms of affordable housing. there is a great neighborhood. i really wish there is an on site affordable housing on this. we know affordable housing takes longer than a new development being built, and it will be a great neighborhood for any families to live in this as well. that is my comment. >> commissioner fung. >> perhaps this question is directed toward either the architect or developer. i would like to get a little more information on what is the sustainability measures you willeyou willencore important re project. >> the project is going to be certified lead gold. there will be a series of sustainability. stormwater management in here, there is electric vehicle parking, bike share, car share, ground permeability. we are trying to maximize all of the sustainability measures on the site. is there one in particular? >> most are required by various other departments by codes other than the lead code. are there any additional things, whether it is proactive energy generation or how to deal with gray water? >> we would be happy to study those for sure. wwe are not looking at code generation. we are thermal in this location. the smaller buildings do make it more challenging to do this on a small building by small building basis. >> commissioner moore. >> would you mind explaining the parking strategy? i understand there is a significant vice i -- significa. it may help to understand the efficient reuse for the parking structure for those asking about parking. normally and i pick up on commissioner imperial's comment we are critical. here i believe there is a large element every-using an existing structure. could you perhaps explain that briefly? >> yes, commissioner moore, the site is steep. the existing buildings have significant below grade space that is already there. for the most part we are taking advantage of that existing below grade excavation for the construction of the parking and services that we are locating below grade. for the impacts of that parking that are relatively minimal. >> thank you for explaining that. >> i will throw in comments. i want to commend tmg on the outreach. it is not too often we have projects with this support. you could have gone with a density bonus. it would be a rough ride. i am glad to see what we see here today. commissioner diamond. >> i am supportive of the project and would move to approve similarly, my children were born at children's hospital. while i look at the site with some degree of nostalgia and affection, i can't think of a better reuse than increased density of housing on the west side. i mover to improve. >> the entitlements were called together with the final report. i remember you certify ar first. >> then my motion to move to certify did ar. >> second. >> there is a motion seconded to certify environmental impact report. [roll call] so moved. that motion passes 6-0 unanimously. >> commissioner johnson. >> i move to approve with conditions the conditional use authorization. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. commissioner diamond. [roll call] so moved. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. >> can we take a small break. >> had i may make an announcement. i am pleased to announce item 15 at 421 walnut street is withdrawn. >> that is noted. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners, planning department staff. the project before you is conditional use authorization for the addition of one car garage. the project includes an addition to align the front façade with the ad adjacent acknowledges, maintains structure height and excavates rear yard. 1714 grant avenue. it is in the rh3 residential house three family zoning district. project requires conditional use authorization pursuant to planning code section 249.49 and 303 for addition of off street residential space. the lot is currently developed with three story over basement single family basement. the block has mixed structures. all include a garage and tree except on the southwest corner. since publishing the staff report, staff received additional letters of support for the project andy sign for a total of five letters. staff received comments with suggested changes. in response to the feedback, project sponsor revised the front to include a plaster finish and wood panel garage door. the department finds that the project is on balance consistent with objectives and policies with the general plan and is necessary and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. the existing single family use is permitted in rh3 which anticipates a mix of one, two, three family dwellings. all residential structure on the block have off-street parking and garage. it maximizes distance between new and existing curb cuts and will create a more visually interesting street façade. there is a reduction in parking available the remaining space may provide parking for motorcycles, scooters and alternative vehicles that may have less of an impact on the environment. project sponsor is here. this concludes my portion. i am available for questions. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor. >> q architecture. i am joined by my partner who is architect engineer. we are an architectural engineering and landscape design firm. we have been working on this project over two years, working with neighbors and neighborhood groups, especially neighbors directly associated with the project. everybody is very supportive. this project includes an addition. there is a step-in, if you will, currently. this façade does not meet the façades of the other properties on the street. it is a missing tooth. our proposal is to fill that in and create the regular pattern. we are sensitive to the bay windows and modulation of the streetscape and so forth, as you can see. we are adding 172 square feet for two floors and 154 for one floor, total of 498 square feet. added to that we are asking for off-street parking. which we hope has very little effect on the street, current street parking. we have listened to the planners, planning department. we have mirrored the property just to the north, which has the same sort of set back and stairway and exposed stair with a porch on the top of the stair. we mirrored the idea of the bay windows. the next two floors above. all of our projects exceed the environmental code. we are mindful of the issues at hand. our projects are environmental upgrade. we exceed the code, they are sustainable. we are find full of the four small children that live in this property. we use no toxic materials. a quick note that the family that lives there. they have been part of this community for years. they have lived in the community for years. they are camping out in the building because it is in really bad shape, and they are very much part of the community. the kids are within walking distance of school. the husband walks to work. this is the project everyone would want to support, a young family in a community well adapted and well engrossed. thanks. >> okay. we would like to open this up for public comment. >> hello, commissioners, i am mary mcpherson. i am from north beach -- not originally but since 1992. my husband and i had the north beach journal for many years before the big bust in 2008. we often covered stories about agreed and how it would impact our housing in north beach from developers who would use the ellis act to clear outbuildings and cut them up and sell them, that kind of thing. it got us into sticky situations, death threats on the phone. it was challenging to write those kinds of stories. i was often in this room to gather notes for stories. to cut to the chase, it was rare that i saw a project like this, and i am just so happy about a family trying to put down roots in north beach. for many years i have seen families leave. i am glad to see them stay in the neighborhood. i have four kids that went to the same school that jimmy and anna have their kids at now. most people at the school would leave after one or two kids and fly to marin or down the peninsula. it amazing to see a family trying to stay in a home they have been in for a few years that isn't very habitable. they have been just transparently trying to follow the right process to add a garage for practical purposes, not to make money or have a big trophy home, a convenient garage for the kids. i am here to support them annual be i hope you will, too. >> anyone else? come on up. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am david mat so. i own the property around the corner from the applicants. we share a backyard fence. i would like to voice my support for the project. i also agree that having off-street parking when you have small kids, getting them in and out of the car safely with the sports items is very important. i also am very supportive of having families in the neighborhood. in fact, just a short story. when i moved there i saw a pair of people about my age getting out of a taxicab with suitcases. i introduced myself. i ran across the street and i said i live across the street. it turns out they were renting an air b and b across the street. it is nice to have family homes in the community. >> anyone else to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner fung. >> i am prepared to accept the proposal and move that we approve the conditional use for adding the parking space. >> second. >> seeing nothing further there is a motion seconded to approve the matter with conditions. [roll call] so moved. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. item 13. 2019-0148c at 1905 union street conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, planning department staff. the property is requesting conditional use authorization to legalize conversion of residential unit to commercial use pursuant to 303 and 317 located at 1905 union street. the dwelling unit is second floor residential flat above an existing restaurant use. unconverted conversion occurred 50 years ago. currently there is a massage establishment and acupuncture office. they site retention of long standing commercial uses as important for the neighborhood. no opposition. it is compatible and necessary and desirable. i am here for questions. we recommend approval. >> do we have a project sponsor? >> googood afternoon, commissioners. on behalf of the project sponand property own notices gabe and stefani, we will be brief here. we have a lot of supporters. they would like to show support. we are aware this is a unique request to remove or convert a considerable unit. the commission has been very clear about the of aversion to allow removal or conversion of dwelling units. however, we ask the commission consider the unique and compelling facts of this case. staff as he just expressed has recommended approval first and foremost this conversion happened a long time ago, at least 50 years ago. he is here. his family owned the believe his entire life. this space has been commercial that time. >> this is not a residential unit being taken away. during these years, even longer than 50 years, the first floor is okay you paid by the bus -- occupied by the bus stop bar, not compatible with the use below. the second policthethe second fe retail uses. they are valuable in the difficult economic climate for retail uses. especially true on union street. it is a big challenge to fill storefronts. finally, as he expressed. the commercial uses are overwhelming supported by the neighborhoods and the union association and the neighborhood association support it. i will turn to mr. feroni and we will have a show of hands of neighborhood support today. >> hello. i am gabriel feroni. i thank everybody for their time and help. thank you, matthew, i appreciate everything. i am available for questions you may have or anything to talk about. >> we may have questions later. >> okay. >> do you want to show us a little support, a show of hands. >> people here to support us. >> duly noted. >> thank you very much. >> just in case there is any opposition. did anyone else want to public comment on this item? seeing none. commissioner fung. >> i concur with staff's determination on the appropriateness of use on this specific street and the impact of the usage of the ground floor space and would move to allow the conditional use. >> second. >> seeing nothing further there is a motion seconded to approve this matter with conditions. [roll call] so moved. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> just in case anyone is here for item 15, it has been withdrawn. excuse me, folks, if you could leave quietly we do appreciate that. we have one more item to attend to. that places us on discretionary review for items 14a and b. 2017-012887drp. 26 5:00 street. we will consider request for variance. >> this is a public request for discretionary review of believe permit application 2019-0618-3782 and 2019 2019-0617-3765 to demolition a one story garage in the rear yard and new construction of two family dwelling on lilly street on a lot fronting oak street. a one story portion of the existing building at the rear would we demolished to create 17.5 feet by 23 feet. the existing 525 square foot unit would be expanded to 586 square feet and relocated within the ground floor of the main building by eliminating two off-street parking spaces in the garage. jane flurry is the neighbor to the northwest that it requires variance for planning code section 134. two, it compromises what is left of the mid block open space pattern, three demolishes a rental unit at 170 lilly and will displace tenants and create unaffordable housing for the proposed building will limit light and air to adjacent properties and five fails to preserve historic building. department received four letters opposes one in support. the advisory term reviewed and it meets the fundamental guidelines of the market octavia area plan. as infill housing that fits the pattern development of the block. as such, the recommendation of staff to commission is not to take dr and approve. this concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you, mr. winslow. we will hear from the d.r. requester. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am not accustomed to this microphone. can you hear me and it is not too loud? i am jane flurry. 269 oak street. i have lived in the block there for a little longer. i lived at 249 for two years until i moved to 269 in 2003. it has been a pretty stable neighborhood and worked well for me, and the unit i have has worked very, very well for me. the first thing -- could i get the map, please. okay. this neighborhood, the green area is california registered historic district, and lilly reet. i have a pointer that is not going to work for it. >> would you speak up. >> it extending between octavia and golf. louder? okay. we are in that little piece that sticks out between octavia and goff. the historic district is our block. it is part of the greater hayes valley historic district. i spent the last couple of days trying to understand did implications. i called david chew's office in sacramento. it seems to be something that is evolving. every building onna block except for 124 lilly, which was built about 10 years ago, is over 50 years old. that means every building is up for consideration as a historic building could be considered. nothing has been designated at this point. my building was built in 1906 and so were all of the other buildings between me and octavia when there was a real housing shortage in san francisco going over towards gough street. the buildings get newer. as i mentioned the building at 150 page is called the barcelona is marvelous. i look at their windows every time i go out the back way which i use exclusively now because there is a small step in the front and i am dependent on this. i knew this was coming. when i moved in there, i saw i would be able to get one of these to come in the back way. it works very well for me. this is the satellite picture. we got it from google earth. all of the red-shaded areas are open spaces at this point. they make it kind of a nice pattern. can you move it up a little bit to see both sides. in the middle of the block over there on the north-facing side of the street there is a parking lot behind nick's grocery. there is a lot of air coming in that way. these other ones form a kind of circular pattern, which has been somewhat blocked by the building at 124 lilly. that acts as a way to trap the air and bring it in as an eddy. it brings the light and air into all of those bays. into all of those buildings. it really makes a difference. my flat has 15-foot ceilings. it is quite comfortable all of the time. it doesn't need air-conditioning. i am running out of time already. i am not going to have time to present this. my neighbors are here. i have a lot to say. i would like to ask if any commissioners who had the time and would be willing to come out and i could walk you through it in about 15 minutes to show you how it impacts me. it is the literal truth. >> you will get another two minutes later on. >> now we will hear from the people in support of the d.r. requester and opposition to the project. >> we have several speaker cards. anna, santiago and mandy. >> good afternoon, commissioners. it looks like director rom has retired. he is on a plane. i was going to say congratulations to him. i have a little picture. mr. winslow thank you for what you said about the exposure. i have one picture to talk about the exposure. it shows you the lack of exposure. this is currently the picture out of my window. actually i am bill johnson and my wife cocoa. we live at 26 5:00 at 265. the new building on 170 lilly would be outside of our window. it is four stories plus high. it would be above the level of the top of the window. we would see nothing but the back of the building, which per the plan is 17 feet from the back of our house. not required by code 25-foot set back there. i would like to talk about a couple other things. there are discrepancies in the information we are seeing. our hope is the commission takes up the dr to look into these discrepancies our faith and ability to trust what is told to us is in question. all of the documentation says no such address as 170 lilly street. i would like to show that it does actually exist. per the u.s. ps website it it is an actual address, not a parking garage or garage structure as noted in the notice. next, it was noted only three garages on lilly street. that is way out of line. i went this morning to check. there are no less than 17 garages and/or garage spaces. as you can see this is the goff side with garages. this garage is covered up right now. this is behind 170 lilly. it shows garages there. this is 170 lilly, the back of the location showing the parking spaces and garages next door to us, no less than 17. the new unit constructed fully on grade. i am not sure how that is possible. i went in the garage. it is 6 feet high. i don't know how they will make a 8-foot ceiling when it is 6 feet high. it said 265 will have unit changes. all documentation said there would be no changes. that means rent increases. we would like information on that, too. >> thank you. anyone else to speak in favor of the d.r. requester? come on up. >> hello. i am sanity an go. 2 265 on oak street. i want to voice my concern about the apartment which is the light that comes through. my apartment facing south. i have photos here. this is my living room facing back. i live directly under william and cocoa. as soon as this apartment goes up 17 feet from my back window, i will have absolutely zero sunlight left in my apartment which currently right now the entire day long into the early evening i have sunlight streaming into my apartment, and as soon as this building goes up that completely goes away. i feel like that is something that needs to be addressed. being that sunlight is important for humans in general so that is what i would like to say. thank you very much. >> thank you. anyone else in support? come on up. >> hi. i am mandy. i live across the street from the proposed new building. i am here in support of jane. we are not against development, but we are a little bit concerned about this particular development. there are some misleading statements in the developer's paperwork, as my neighbor bill mentioned. i came out last time for the variance hearing back in july of last year. during that hearing only one variance was identified by the city. now we heard of two additional variances come up. that makes us neighbors a bit nervous. just being here in the meeting and walking around the city, i know there are a lot of big developments in the city and those take up most of your time and energy. this is a relatively small project. we are here and we hope the city will take the dr and give this project a bit more over sight and scrutiny. we hope the process is properly vetted by the city to make sure all of the neighbor's interests are looked at. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am anna. i am a neighbor of jane's. i live on lilly street. i will have your indulgence as i read my statement. i am going blind. i can't make eye contact with you guys, and also i am recovering from a stroke. thank you for your patience. my partner and i have lived in district five and have invested our lives in buying the home in the test person edition over 20 years ago. we were one of the initial members of hayes valley neighborhood association when it was formed back then. one of the attractions was living in hayes valley in our particular neighborhood was the richly diverse community and affordability of the area. during the current time when housing issues are the crux of many issues that in our community i am speaking in support forethoughtful consideration in building new homes in the neighborhood. in responses to our concerns it doesn't appear this project is well thought out. in the paperwork we have identified numerous statements that do not capture the actual conditions of the neighborhood nor the reality of construction nor the impact of the new building. housing is absolutely required. it does not appear the builder has considered items such as the open space requirements, as it encroaches into the open space. i think they are going from 30-foot portion to 17 feet, and that 17 feet doesn't look like it is addressed as community space in that area. 40-foot structure blocking sun and air. they haven't considered possible set backs to address this, additional landscaping. other items. i am not an architect, but there is some items they could have considered to make this more usable space. the items about excavation. it doesn't seem feasible there is not some type of excavation, especially in the current condition. we are understanding what design features can be used to address the shadows. housing is critically needed. i support the creation of housing taking into consideration the structures andy sign structures. we invite you to visit the proposed location so you can see the existing neighborhood and building conditions. we ask it be closely reviewed and hope you take into consideration the points of view. come visit us. we are only be a few blocks away. >> anyone else in favor of the d.r. requester? seeing none. project sponsor, your turn. >> thank you, commissioner, on behalf of the project sponsor. the project will reconfigure and redevelop the lot to create two new dwelling units with a more consistent building mapping on this block. the property is narrow lot between oak and lilly improved with a single five unit building with 16% rear yard set back and in that is parking today. it is not usable open space, it is parking area facing directly to the street. the project would demolish the one story rear portion of the existing building, incorporate that to the existing parking garage of the existing building removing parking, constructed four story two unit new building on lilly street and provide 17-foot courtyard between the two buildings to be accessed by both buildings. the property will be more consistent with existing development on the block once the project is completed. i will show you the screen. >> the green dots are the other lots on the block with buildings on either side, both on oak and lilly street. they are providing lessenral court yard space than we are. this is a uniform development pattern encouraged by the planning code so you don't have holes on the street and you have strong walls on the street. you also have a mid block open space that is shared by all of the buildings on the block. the project completes lilly street by eliminating unclosed parking with a lot line building. the size and scale of the new building on lilly is appropriate if you look at the shots of the street today. it consists of two to four story buildings along the street looking east. this is book looking west. directly across the street is a five-story building. we are proposing four story building. it has a 10-foot set back so it reads 3-a long the street. it is in the middle what the existing cakieringter of the street is. finally, another important aspect, it is going to include 478 square foot one bedroom apartment which is more affordable than most new housing that is constructed in the city today. now the project sponsor has worked with the d.r. requester to try to allay her concerns. he offered a number of mitigations to her, constructing a ramp for her accessibility to the unit, constructing a ramp on oak street, a walkway, reconstructing the walkway at the rear toward lilly, installing a gate at the rear. as it is, it is going to widen the walkway by a half foot. the new building is 6 inches off the property line. due to the construction it is going to improve the walkway from the current condition today. he offered to pay for daytime workspace elsewhere to avoid construction noise. it is a challenging situation in a tight neighborhood and folks are close together. the only heightened construction noise is going to be jackhammering in the garage where they separate the garage from the concrete slab, that should be accomplished within two weeks. light reaching the rear of her building, as it is, look at the screen again. there is a narrow notch as it is today for light to enter into the rear of that building. it is limited and the building is going to have little if any impact on the light and also pull up -- here is a good shot. this is the site today. here is the rear of the d.r. requester's building. the roof deck is no longer on the project. that is not consistent with the plans. it provides light access to the rear way. there are 14 e-mails and meetings. it is not out of lack of trying. now as evidence that the project intends to minimize impact on others, he has worked with the tenant to move into the building. that has been a successful conversation not only the tent but the tenderloin housing unit has worked with them. west adjacent neighbor the most impacted would is in support and there is a letter in your packet. thank you. we respectfully request your support. >> thank you. we will open this up to public comment in support of the project sponsor. anyone want to talk to us? so kay. seeing none, the d.r. requester, you get a two minute rebuttal. >> it is true i had extensive conversations with the project sponsor. they were extremely fros frustr. i am happy with my flat. i don't want an automatic door. those breakdown. they are dangerous. i don't need 6 inches in the walkway this gets through there just fine. nothing. i don't want to check in at the office every day. i am retired. i have a little dog who gets real anxious when i leave home and barks. as far as the effects of the jackhammers on me go. i will offer this. when i came to the variance hearing earlier, i had been subjected for eight hours the day before to constant jackhammering and four hours that morning. when i arrived there to speak and waited until last to gather myself. i was unable to string together one single coherent sentence. the zoning administrator can attest to that. that is what it does to me mentality. i am going downhill very fast under the neighboring construction on my west side right now. they were to be done in january of course, they are not. it goes on, on, on. they are not going to be done with the jackhammering in two weeks. there will be more and more sawing and hammering annoys see power tools. it is pure hell. if one of the commissioners, anyone would come over. i will show you how that demmellition will be -- demolition will be adjacent to the basement. it is a 7-foot basement underneath me. because of the way those buildings line up with each other, they will be hammering right next to that wall. it is awful. it is really awful. i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. thank you. >> thank you. now project sponsor you have a two minute rebuttal. >> we will pass. >> okay. we are done with public comment. commissioner fung. >> a couple questions for staff. from the planning code point of view, thi this is a single lot. how are you looking at in light of what is rear yard versus -- what are the variances for? >> this block is mixed. there are some lots through lots and some divided. there are separate lots on oak and lilly. this is a through lot, the rear of the property is on lilly. this proposal because it is a new structure within the rear yard as it fronts on lilly triggers the rear yard variance. >> is there multiple variances. >> there is some reference to the prior variance hearing. this was first a rear yard variance only and we had a hearing prior to 311 for the building permit. then we realized the project triggered for exposure and open space. subsequently, the 311 notice we received the d.r. request. that is why we are redoing it for all theory choired variances along with the dr hearing. >> i guess my other question would be maybe directed toward mr. winslow. it is my opinion that most alley side streets, the development that occur on those streets are two and three stories at the most? here it looks like there is some four stories and a mix, some three story and one five story. is my recollection correct or incorrect? >> i would say the alleys in the market range two to five and higher when you consider the seven stories. that is a real range. >> in this area? >> in this area as the project sponsor highlighted there is a five story building across the alley as well as mix of two to three story buildings. when we look at the scale of this project, the code requires set backs at the upper floors. the scale is conceived to be three stories when you try to find the median of height. >> to add on to that. the code does have alley controls to make sure there is adequate access to light in the alley so you don't get the canyons. that requires that you have pay 45-degree angle from the opposite side of the right-of-way and the building can't pierce that. this building comes in shy of the 45-degree angle. >> set back on the forth floor is in response to that? >> correct. >> commissioner moore. >> i would ask mr. winslow. there were several comments made for us difficult to comment on. there were inaccuracies in the existing description referring to a garage height of 6 feet which is not a workable space. in addition to that address as 170 lilly. >> i want to correct a misstatement. in the original 311 notification it said demolition of one story garage structure. there is no garage structure in the rear. it is a parking pad on surface. >> i am not aware of the height of the garage nor the address in any of the material that i have. maybe the project sponsor could clarify. >> regarding the address on this parcel, we use the addresses in the records with the city assessor's office. this property only has the oak street address. it is possible addresses are used in orangements. it is only the oak street address. he. >> thank you, commissioner. if you look at the overhead. the top one is the side elevation. you will see lilly street is a little higher. you will see ground floor existing building 9.5 feet. new building 9.5 feet. it is raised to provide a stoop with the residential design guidelines. >> i have looked at this carefully. it seems to leave 17 feet clear, aas far as the building lots tht is a defensible dimension particularly when bedroom looks to bedroom in the rear of buildings, and i personally did not see anything that was out of the ordinary. i am actually in support of this building. i would like to hear other commissioners speak. >> commissioner fung. >> i was leaning that way when i read the brief only. what is new here is the tenants in the existing building. none of that was presented in the original d.r. request brief, and i hadn't considered the impact of this building in terms of what it does to the existing units. i believe there are five units in the front building. apparently i am not sure how the configuration works. it is two units by the people here who came here voiced concerns about what they will be looking at. i understand the d.r. requester's concerns with respect to noise and possibly vibrace. vi-- vibration. i didn't feel the issue of light and air was significant in this case, given the packet that her basically rear yard is this nonconforming and very small. the impact on her rear yard and windows probably has some sunlight blockage when the sun is relatively low in the southern orientation, which then occurs at wintertime. the sun during the summertime and spring is relatively hi, and i am not sure it would have been that much impact. i didn't view that as a major concern for me. >> commissioner imperial. >> i agree with commissioner fong. the information presented to me is from the d.r. requester but not from the tenants themselves. i am glad to see the tenants are here. i would like to see the information how they are impacted by the light and air circulation so if that can be presented to us, you know, so we can have a clear picture who are affected of this structure. >> zoning administrator. >> interesting case. i just want to recognize some of the issues at play here. i also live in a unit that does not get great direct access to light and air. i understand how that can be. i want to point out that this is a very tight dense part of the city. adjacent property to the west did receive a variance in the past to split that because it is complete lot coverage. those two parcels have around six units. it seems like this parcel the way it is developed is carrying the light for the adjacent properties. also, right now the rear of the subject property allows more light and air in the units. it is not used for open space, not providing any purpose under the code. the courtyard proposed is enough. if these were a.d.u.s facing this courtyard, we could grant that administratively. the size of the courtyard is not large enough to fully comply with open space requirements. the end of result is exposure that is variable than a.d.u.s. you are getting more open space than now. i want to put that information out there for additional context. >> looking at this like commissioner moore, i am okay in support of staff's recommendation. >> commissioner diamond. >> i support the staff's recommendation. >> is there a motion? >> one last question. >> commissioner fung. >> for staff, did you consider whether it helped both in terms of the context of the street wall on the lilly side to make this three stories as prore more appropriate for that street recognizing exceptions to it? >> it is four stories proposed with set back appropriate. in our design review. it conformed not only with code but with the applicable guidelines, both residential and urban design and market fundamental principles. that was, i think, our deliberation on that matter. >> commissioner moore. >> mr. winslow, please clarify. across the street is the taller building. lowering the building would not really help in any direct form because on the lower sun angles the sun has to come over the building across the alley to reach the rear units. if that was the intent it is not helping. i have to restate that i do believe this is appropriate project and, yes, it does have some effect on somebody's light, it does. that is what we encounter in all projects across the city. since we need to dense fi, i believe this is a reasonably sensitive project to that particular challenge. i move to approve. >> second. >> commissioners a motion and second to not take dr and approve the project. commissioner diamond. [roll call] so moved that motion passes 5-1 with commissioner imperial voting against. >> i will close the public hearing for the variance and grant with the standard conditions. >> thank you. best of lek, director ram in all of your retirement days. citybe . >> the hon. london breed: well, welcome, everybody. my name's london breed, and i am the mayor. weren't we here just last year, celebrating the victory? first of all, i was at turkey day, and i didn't necessarily sit on lincoln's side to pick sides, i sat on lincoln's side somehow. i don't know how that ended up happening, but i think that i was your good luck charm -- oh, i was with you. many of you know i mean to galileo high school, and i am a big fan of our high schools and a big supporter and a fan of making sure we continue to uplift young people when they're doing something great not just as athletes, but we know you also have to keep your grade point up in order to play football in the first place. so to balance that at turkey day, and emerge for the second year in a row as state champions is absolutely an incredible accomplishment. when you came here last year, i was really excited, but this year, i'm even more excited because i've got a special surprise for all of you. usually, when you win the super bowl, what do you get when you win the super bowl? exactly. we're going to make sure that each and every player gets a championship ring this year. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so you get to design them yourself and figure out what you want on them. it's going to take a few weeks for them to get ordered and set up, but we are committed to supporting your championship ring so you can wear your rings with pride. and i'm really excited that you all are here today because we want to make sure that we honor you. and coach, come on up. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: come on up. >> thank you. >> the hon. london breed: i just feel like i was your good luck charm because i did the coin toss and all that. it was a great day, and it was so fun. >> i would like to say, kerry bader, he said no mayor has been out to flip the turkey coin. so i hope we can make it a tradition and you'll be out when you get the chance. >> the hon. london breed: but i think it's really important. it's important that we support young people that are staying focused and positive, and the fact that this team has come together as a team and accomplished something so amazing under your leadership is really -- it's a testament to what you do. because i know they hear from you every day, they hear from their parents, telling them the same stuff every year, to focus and to put on your gear. you know, i was like a lot of young people here, and i would tune it out and tune it out. but today is a great opportunity to let you know that your city supports you, that your city stands behind you, and we wanted to do something really special to make it clear we are proud of each and every one of you for putting in the hard work and getting to this point. and so today is about all of the young mustangs that really put san francisco on the map in a whole nother way. so thank you for this, coach, for this incredible opportunity, and we are looking forward to you designating whoever you want to coordinate the ordering of the rings and how you pick out what you buy. so you can have your school and your year. you know what we do. >> we'll do that. >> the hon. london breed: congratulations. >> that's awesome. [applause] >> thank you so much. it's a great gift. it's totally unbelievable, and i really appreciate that. but we have something for you. >> the hon. london breed: for me? >> so basically, you know you went to galileo, so we have to make sure you're representing us when you walk-through the city. >> the hon. london breed: oh, you guys are so lucky. we didn't have this kind of stuff growing up. >> just a couple -- couple things just about this here. it shows the legacy of what we have here. >> the hon. london breed: oh, wow. >> this is called dedication, discipline, and desire, and we've been running the program for 19 years since i've been here. you have the dedication to run something every day, you have t the -- dedication to run a program, the discipline to run it every day, and the desire to be a champion. >> the hon. london breed: wow. that's a lot of years. >> and so many travels that you go through, this was unreal. just kind of a different team than the year before. i tell everybody last year's team was a ferrari. you could do anything with it. this year's team was a buick. we had to run it out. it's amazing we did this, and it's amazing for them because they bought into what we were selling. the best thing is when we went up to mariposa, it's the championship. none of on us kids have been -- none of our kids have been out of san francisco. what's that smell? well, that's cow smell. we rented a room to sit in before the game. and we went to this game. and here we are, asian, african american, white. different group against a predominantly white culture. and everyone was thinking we would be the ones who broke down, we would be the ones who pointed fingers at each other. we would be the ones who screwed it up. and you would be proud of us, mayor. we didn't screw it up. unbelievable. people there, unbelievable. what we did just awe stirring for me. it's just amazing to see the guys pull together and be like that and represent your city so well. so that was amazing, and for that, we're going to give you the state championship hat because the nor-cal championship, we had to win that to get this. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. >> when you're walking around, make sure you represent that. >> the hon. london breed: what's that on your finger? >> that's last year's. >> that's last year's. >> the hon. london breed: look at that. undefeated. well, this year, i'm getting the ring. >> hold on. right on. we'll get that. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. and the last thing i want to say is, you know, soak up this mome moment. enjoy every single minute. you're going to look back at this time and realize this was one of the best moments of your life. i know there's some folks from lincoln, so raise your hand if you're a lincoln alumni. they wish they were the age you are right now, in their seats right now. coach, you want to introduce your players? i'm here to enjoy. >> thank you. we have one young man to speak for us. it's an interesting story. simani came to us from another school his junior year, reardon. he went through a lot of stuff to get on the field. it was unreal, and his parents are great people. so timani, it's your turn. >> i was just trying to say thank you to all the parents and all the alumni and all the coaches and, you know, making this year great, and helping us restate again and helping us and having our back this whole year. most importantly, my teammates because we did it again, especially the last year, all the seniors this year. we had all the odds against us. we weren't projected to win like we were supposed to, and we had a lot of people, you know, going against us and saying that we wouldn't make it, and we proved them wrong. >> so at this time, for our first group of eight players, brian pinto. [applause] >> jonas francovich. luis quinteros. tyree cross. [applause] >> eduardo garcia. [applause] >> xavier abrams. [applause] >> jack lau. [applause] >> and at this time, i'll take a photo. >> our next group of players is john tursano. thank you. [applaus [applause] >> diego ramirez. [applause] >> jeffrey franco. [applause] >> andres montano. [applause] >> tony crossland. [applause] >> all right. take our next group of photos right now. next group of students, dean batar. [applause] >> nicholas walker. [applause] >> darren erfrey. [applause] >> michael leon. [applause] >> tamani morris. [applause] >> alex mchugh. alex? [applause] >> our final group of student athletes, philip acuna. [applause] >> alexis velasquez. [applause] >> jonathan chow. [applause] >> sicoti manunua. [applause] >> leonardo gallegos. mikha . [applause] >> mikhail hicks. [applause] >> and james wish. [applause] >> so we're going to present certificates to the managers and coaches, and once we do the presentation of certificates, we'll take one big group photo here. i think we'll do it near the steps. all right. here we go. to the managers, cassandra matana. [applause] >> crystal pimentel. [applause] >> sharina gutierrez. [applause] >> and elise hammond. [applause] >> and reilly zuleta wong. [applause] >> thank you, managers. >> and last but not least, our coaches. coach pereno, of course. [applause] >> coach andre walker thomas. [applause] >> coach greg wood. [applause] >> coach edison zau. [applause] >> sheri bader. [applause] >> and coach mark walker. [applause] >> and again, i'd like to invite principal sherry bellisi to come up for a photo. >> the hon. london breed: again, thank you to all the players, the coaches, the managers, the principal, the teachers, the alumni, the parents, the friends, the family. congratulations again, and i think what we're going to do at this time, since that concludes our program, we're going to go probably take a -- go down to the rotunda at the beginning of the stairs and take a picture. in the meantime, stay focused on your grades. make sure you don't give your teachers and parents a hart time this year. walk around like champions because you are champions, and make sure that everybody knows it when you step in the room. thank you, and congratulations. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪] [speaking foreign language] [♪] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [♪] >> good afternoon and welcome to the february 25th, 2020 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, please call the role. >> thank you, mr. president. (role call)

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