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Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 20240713

The authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and Small Business. Sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda item today. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak are available by calling 8882045984 using access code 3501008 and pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, you dial one and zero when the q a period opens, and you will be allowed to submit your testimony. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. I will announce when your time is up and direct my staff to take the next person in the queue to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or computer. At this time i would like to take roll. President hyland. Here. Vice president matsuda. Here. Commissioner black. Here. Foley. Here. Commissioner johns. Here. Commissioner pearlman. Here. Commissioner so. Here. Very good. Commissioners, first on your agenda is general Public Comment. Members of the comment may address the commission within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. With respect to agenda items that will be afforded in the meeting when that item is reached. You may address up to three minutes. I will ask members of the public at this time to call in to the 800 number. If we could take Public Comment and if there are any members of the public in the queue, you need to press one and zero. Do we have anyone on the phone line . You have one question remai remaining. Good afternoon, commissioners, San Francisco land use coalition. I have a question for the commission. Before we were struck with this covid19, the Planning Department had acquired two fds to survey the San Francisco streets for Historic Resources. They were to complete that survey. My question is if the Preservation Commission could follow up and maybe you already have the answer, where we are with that survey, and whether or not the impact from the budget shortfall and whatever we are experiencing right now is actually going to impact the completion of that survey. Thank you. Very good, there are no additional members of the public. We will move to department matters. Item one. Directors announcements. Commissioners, good afternoon. I wanted to touch on one thing that was touched on during the general Public Comment to give you a preview about the budget. Certainly, the crisis we are facing has had implications both to the city budget and to our budget. We dont know the details yet. We will likely be back before you talking about next years budget when we have a better sense of where the budget is heading. City General Fund Budget is down hundreds of millions of dollars because of th sales tax. There is a reduction in permit revenues. We think we can absorb that we are looking to the implications. The surveys were in the budget funded by the ad back and Historic Preservation fund. We were ramping up hiring. We hadnt fully staffed those positions. There could be some timing with hiring freezes. The city is not allowing hiring at this point. We hope to ramp that up when we get back to the office. There could be some delay in hiring because of this crisis. We will definitely be back before you to talk about next years budget. Your time is up. That is all i have. Okay. If there are no questions. We can move to item 2. I will make mention in regard to the planning commission. They have successfully held four remote hearings. They have been fairly smooth given the issues associated with remote hearings. Last week they considered 701 harrison, and part of the conditions or they amended the conditions of approval directing that the project sponsor work with neighborhood organizations to incorporate the Cultural Heritage district that project is add adjacent to into the programming of the development. I have no other comments relating to the planning commission. I dont know if there are additional Staff Reports or announcements. Seeing none, we will move to item 3. President s report announcements. No report or announcement today. Very good. Item 4. Consideration of adoption. Draft minutes for the arc february 5, 2020 hearing and draft minutes for the regular hearing april 15, 2020 as were amended and email correcting or adding additional speakers that were left off were emailed to each of you this morning as well as a member of the public who made that note. We will take Public Comment on our arc and h. P. C. Minutes . We should. Members of the public to address the commission in regard to the minutes, please call the 800 number, press pound and pound and 1 and zero to enter the queue. Public comment please. Do we have anyone in the queue, j on. Sie . We dont have any. Very good, commissioners the matter is before you. Any comments . Commissioner johns. I move the minutes as amended be approved. Second. I did have one question or comment. On item 11 0 11 at a we listed e public speakers for legacy business. They were not able to participate. Do we need to strike them or put an asterisk by their name . Do you have an opinion on that . Are you suggesting . I would suggest perhaps we just strike their names. They were on the line but they werent able to speak so we werent able to have their participation. Do you have a recommendation . Well, actually, josie can you recall if the members of the public identified on the minutes actually spoke or not . I suggest we strike their names. They werent able to speak. They were on the delayed broadcast. There were a couple of speakers, but they didnt provide names. That was my recollection as well. I believe the minutes as issued accurately reflect how we received Public Comment. What i can do, commissioner hyland, is review the video again and to confirm whether or not we did receive. If i recall we were able to receive a couple of comments and then we had technical difficulties. I just know that ed beckley is on top of the list and was not able. I would like to provide them an opportunity to address us when we can in the near future. However you want to handle the minutes to recognize the accuracy. We will certainly do that. I believe we extended an invitation to have those Business Owners and or interested parties comment today during the legacy business update. We will certainly review those and confirm actual speakers. Any other comments . I dont see any. I did hear a motion and second to adopt minutes as amended. Commissioner black. Aye. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. Commissioner president hyland. Yes. That passes unanimously 70. That places us on item 5. Commission comments and questions. Any comments or questions, commissioners . I dont see any. Seeing none we will move to item 6. For the Certified Local Government Program annual report. Is staff prepared to present . Yes. Good afternoon. This is marcell, Department Staff. I coordinated the preparation of the clg annual report linked through the agenda with full details. This is a requirement of the office of Historic Preservation to produce a report on your undertaking during the state fiscal year. That reflects october 2016 through september 2019. Speaking with the last several years we had placed this on your calendar for consideration in lieu of a formal presentation. If you have questions about information or details included, please let me know. Otherwise, i will sign off for questions. Very good. Commissioners, shall we take Public Comment first . The clg agenda item. Go to Public Comment. Do we have anybody on the line . No, we dont. Commissioner hyland. What we have been doing also is recognizing the delay in the broadcast is allowing to have Public Comment remain open for items and if someone does call in that she alerts us and we can take that Public Comment. If members of the public want to make comment, please call the 800 number and press 1 and 0 to get in the queue. We can pause to provide that person the opportunity to submit testimony. Commissioner pearlman. I wanted to address some of the comments we got in email over the last couple of days about the item about landmark trees that was not included in the report. I dont know enough about it but i do want to make sure that i know there was public concern about this item until some of those elements were there. I dont know who can speak to that, maybe marcell. Yes, this is marcell. We can make edits for new landmark trees for this reporting period. Unfortunately, that may have missed our Data Collection at this point. We will research any new land mark trees from that period and add. We do have a landmark tree that we our commission approved. I dont remember the specific action, but can we add that to the report before it is publis published . Is it too late . No, this is marcell. It is not too late. I will research along with other staff of the date and the details on the landmark tree and add that before the final version to the state office of Historic Preservation. I have one edit. On page 7, the Commission Terms and dates it looked like an odd date for keith black. I believe the term ends 12 31 2022. In the report it was march of 2023. Just a typo. We will update the typo. Thank you. Then commissioner johns. I believe the tree is on the willard north street. We need to take action or is this just review and comment . This is just an informational presentation to update you on the report, is that right, marcell . Thats correct. No formal action needed. If there are no Public Comments, we will move on. Commissioners that places us under consideration of items proposed for continuance. You have one item number 7 for case 202000005 2 00 p. M. Ca for the standard environmental requirements code amendments. You heard this april 15th. It is proposed to continue to july 15th of 2020. Can we open up the Public Comment and take any callers. Is there anyone in the queue . No. Okay. The matter is before you. They are just starting to come in. Go ahead and lets receive them. You have three questions remaining. This is catherine howard. I want to thank you for amending the minutes. I strongly support the continuance of this item until july or until such time as people can meet in person, learn more about this extremely important change and weigh in on it. Thank you very much. Please continue this to july at least. You have two questions rema remaining. Good afternoon, commissioners. Ozzie again. I want to echo the request and i want to go one step further and request that you would put this item on hold indefinitely. In light of what we are faced with, the economical problem from the covid19 crisis and companies are shedding people and people are leaving San Francisco. In light of these monumental changes far worse than an earthquake that could have hit california, we need to stop and wait to see the impact. In fact, it behooves us to have the Planning Department issuing an Impact Analysis coming from the calamity as covid19 as we know it before we start looking at any other program that attempts to change or streamline already existing programs. The previous plannings do not hold any more. I encourage you to continue the item and continue this indefinitely. I am in support of the continuance and want to ask it to be continued indefinitely. Thank you. You have one question remaining. This is sonya trout from nb law in support of the standard environmental requirements and against the continuance. I think this is a good program and great that plans is working on it. I think the fact that covid19 is going on is an argument forgetting this together because it will save staff time, which makes the department more efficient, and it saves time and effort for people trying to build housing. As it becomes more difficult potentially to borrow money and more expensive to borrow money to build housing, the city needs to figure out how the city conchange the policies can change the policies. New housing is an income stream. We keep 40 of the property taxes we collect. As we are losing income streams this is becoming more important to build housing so our wonderful Public Services and servants can continu continue te employed and this can be offered to the residents. You have zero questions remaining. Okay. Commissioners, any comments or maybe a motion for continuance of this item . I move we continue this matter until july 15th. Second. To speak to the callers comments, i believe we are required to set a specific date for the continuance. I would support the july 15th date that has been selected. For clarity, you could continue this indefinitely if you chose to do so. It would trigger new notification. I dont think that is a good idea at all. Very good. Then seeing no other comments there is a motion seconded to continue this matter as proposed to july 15, 2020. On that motion, commissioner black. Yes. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. Commissioner president hyland. Yes. That passes unanimously 70. Placing under the regular calendar. 2018 higher 009197coa at 1772 vallejo. Certificate of appropriate necessary for staff to present. Good afternoon, commissioners. Shannon Ferguson Department staff. This is a request for certificate of appropriate necessary for 1772 vallejo street. I am going to share my screen. Can everyone see that . We can. The property at 1772 vallejo street is known as the burhouse. It was constructed 188 as a Single Family 1878 and was designed in the style as a wedding present for his son. The property is designated as landmark 31 under article 10 of the planning code. It is listed on the National Register of historic places. The proposed project is a three story vertical addition at the rear elevation of the main house. The first two stories of the addition will extend nearly the full width of the elevation. Third story will extend approximately half the width of elevation and retaining the view at the sides of the house and bay window at the second story and the addition will be notched at the third story to retain the additional window at the second floor. Wood railings will be on the third and fourth stories. Plaster at the first story and wood siding upper. Three arch windows at all level of the addition. Windows will be wood and have a plane trim profile. Architectural review committee reviewed the proposed project january 15, 2020. The sponsor has incorporated arc comments and it is supported by staff. Department received two letters in opposition from adjacent neighbors. These have been forwarded to the commission. The proposed project is appropriate and consistent with article 10 and complies with the secretarys standards. Addition is at the rear of the main house and minly visible from the street. It will remove a substantial portion of the rear elevation. The first and second stories have been previously altered. This removes one historic window and not to retain the second historic window. There is visibility of the coining, bay window and the roof. The massing and sides and scale is compatible with the house. Arch windows with the simple trim and siding proposed is differentiated yet compatible with the sides. The architectural features of house and addition is constructed in a manner to be removed in the future. Staff recommends approval. This concludes my presentation. I am happy to answer any questions. The architects or project sponsor team also has a presentation and i will hand it over to them. Thanks, shannon. Is five minutes sufficient for the sponsors presentation . That is a little tight. See what you can do. I am going to start. Good afternoon. I am michael, preservation architect for the project. They have been stewarts of the home and have planned changes to the master, kitchen and den to be appropriate for this property. Both themselves or any future owners. Few changes would be needed. The house has gone through a few changes historically. It is an intact property to speak for its time. The garden setting for the side of the home is an example of a property not subdivided. Previous and future developments changed the environment and the property itself has retained integrity of setting. Slide three is the current rear facade built in the 1990s. Slide four shows the facade prior to the 1990s addition. Many elements were altered. Our changes are focused at the rear of the building previously altered areas. Interior of the house is original and the changes are focused on previously altered areas at the rear of the house. Are we okay as far as changing slides . We are on elements to be removed. So those are going to remove previously remodeled elements to clean up those elements. Slide six the diagram shows the existing condition at the rear area of the building. It shows looking south. Slide 7 shows our proposal for a modest addition. There is very little change being perceived in those two comparative slides. Slide 8. The proposed removal of noncontributing changes from the 1990s. Many primary features will note be altered. The remains three primary facades are original. Slide 9. The design, scale and character of the project down to the essential form and internal functional areas. This honing involved the input of planning staff and arc guidance. Is that proposed or demolition elevation. Either one. I am hoping to show the proposed. Those were flipped. We are talking about the proposal and what it encompasses. The addition is simply styled from the

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