Well nob nub get you to long term housing. Alright . Thank you very much. Appreciate it. [inaudible] [applause]. San francisco huft stork Preservation Commission regular meeting. Id like to real estate mind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate outbreaks or disruption of any kind. Please silence your mobile dwietions that may sound off during these meetings and when speaking before the commission if you care to please silence. Wolf ram, yes. Commissioner johns, yes. Commissioner matsuda, here. Commissioner pearlman. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the xlition except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be reached during the meeting. Each makeup may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. I have no speaker cards. Does any makeup wish to make comment on any item not on the agenda . Please come forward. Seeing and hearing none we will close Public Comment. Directors announcements. Commissioners, good afternoon. I have no new announcements today. The one thing to just mention perhaps is i know you have interest in the Affordable Housing bonus program. That item is before the board. Its not clear how the board is going to proceed at this point. Of course theres a lot of controversy over this item but just to let you know, the hearing will roblly take place sometime in midjune but as soon as we know well let you know. Thank you. Seeing nothing else, commissioners, item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission, staff report and announcements. Tim fry, staff. No formal report prosecute Planning Commission however a couple items to share with you regarding board of supervisors decisions on a couple pending landmarks. The kell house was unanimously approved at the april 22nd board of supervisors hearing and is now landmark no. 270 so that was good news. The bordette building was at land use on april 25th and supervisor peskin asked to be listed as cosponsor to that ordinance. And the Land Use Committee forwarded a positive recommendation to the full board which unanimously approved the landmark designation at yesterdays hearing, so there will be a second hearing next week then on to the mayor, so the two pending landmark designations at the board look to be resolved. And that concludes my report unless you have any comments. Commissioners, seeing none, we can move on. Item 3. No report or announcements. Item 4, consideration of adoption of draft minutes for april 20, 2016. I have one minor change, adding s to the end of the title. It was a very short meeting. Any other comment . Does any makeup wish to comment on the draft Meeting Minutes for april 20, 2016, hearing and seeing none we will close Public Comment and do i have a motion. So move . Ood . Oo second. Thank you, commissioners, to adopt the Meeting Minutes for april 20, 2016. roll called . So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 70 and places us on item 5, commission comments and questions. Commissioner pearlman. Thank you. Does anyone know these people . I wanted to disclose that i had a conversation with Andrew Junius who is representing the 235 one side of the 235 valencia issue that were going to discuss later today. Add to that, i also had a conversation with him. Commissioner hunt . Update on the waterfront land use update plan. Commissioner john and i are on this with mike beuhler who i see in the audience. The agenda item last week, mark pious from the port gave a pretty lengthy history, overview, and there were a few other presenters but it was predominately just an informational session and we have two more meetings in this first phase and then it will good into the second phase where we get into more of the policies, delving into the details so you will be updated. Thank you. I can add on to that i have requested the port provide us an informational presentation on the pier 70 project, given its well underway with horton Development Undertaking the preds vaition of numerous buildings in the city before starting their process. Mark pious has arranged that. Commissioner john. Id like to add to that, actually its quite exciting at the port with the presence of the three of us on the working group and advisery group. I think were captured the attention of staff, not just mark who is chief preservation officer there, but all the staff are listening very intently to our as we build some Information Base and recommendations and well be bringing that, you know, more to you and perhaps as we get to the recommendation area of the planning process were, we hope to have some really good recommendations. Thank you. Any other comments, questions . No, we can move on. Very good, commissioners, that will place us on item 6, the legacy business registry informational update. Hi, commissioners, shelly inaudible preservation staff. I dont have a long presentation for you today. I wanted to note that todays agenda gives you the opportunity to review case report templates for the registry applications that will start coming to you later this year. To date the Mayors Office of Small Business has received approximately 16 applications for the legacy business registry and we expect that these applications will be 230rded forwarded to the historic Preservation Commission in june so coming up quickly. We thought this would be a good time to firm up the review process so in the packet you were sent this week we forwarded to you a case report template with a draft resolution template draft exhibits and a sample application. This application is just for reference and were not considering the appropriateness of the application during this matter. So if you could keep your comments just to the application templates themselves. And im available if you have any questions. Thank you. Any questions for miss contra before we take Public Comment . Commissioner matsuda. Can you tell me what kind of promotion has been done around this . I only have 16 applicants seems, i know its still in the early stages, but this was on the ballot, this was something that several supervisors promoted and put some money to and it just seems odd that there are so few who are participating. Is it because of the way in which you need to submit the application, any information on that . Tim fry and i did meet with regina, who is director of the Small Business office. We did not talk about promoting the program at this point. My understanding is that theres no staffing yet available in the Small Business office other than regina to run the program, and so their office has not made many attempts at outreach and promoting the program simply because we dont have the, the city doesnt have the staffing to process the applications yet. But in the next couple of weeks or months we will, those positions will be filled and well be more capable of processing the applications. Xwropb if any promotional activities in supervisors offices or any such thing. Commissioners . Its only one of two way that is a business can submit, right, to participate, through a supervisor or through the Mayors Office. They need sponsorship, yes. Just those two ways. Correct. Commissioners just to add to what miss contra mentioned as you see from the memo, it seems that now she has secured funding for this additional staff member that, as she says at the end of the memo, now there is funding to develop a logo and a brand identity for the registry it sounds like their intention now is to move forward on promoting it. The application is on the office of Small Business web site. Its not promoted on the main page but its under their applications list of links so were not sure about what sort of active promotion they are doing at this time, but based on the meeting with regina it sounds like something is going to happen in the near future. And what happens if people on this commission would like to recommend businesses . How did that work . If youd like to forward that information to us, we are happy to forward it to the appropriate supervisors, or you may want to speak to those supervisors as well. I see a representative from one of the supervisors offices, would you come forward . Thank you so much, commissioner matsuda, for that question. Thats precisely why, one of the main reasons im here today. My name is hillary ronin, i am supervisor david campos chief of staff. Supervisor campos called for a meeting that will be held before the business and oversight meeting and just to provide some perspective in numbers, the board of supervisors over a year ago passed unanimously the creation of the registry. Nine supervisors have nominated 54 businesses to the registry. Our first nomination from our office with a completed application was submitted to the office of Small Business in january and not one single business has been placed on the registry. This is at a time, and you are all acutely aware, where rents for businesses are sky rocketing, the cost of doing business in San Francisco is rising every day, theres no commercial rent control and many businesses are closing down because they are unable to hire staff that can survive with the incredibly high housing and transportation costs. So the implementation of this program could not be more critical and yet we are not seeing action out of the office of Small Business and the office of economic Work Force Development that you would think you see when the voters approved by 60 percent a measure like proposition j, which is one of the few tools available to help Small Businesses and our legacy businesses that provide so much historically Important Service to our city desperately need. So given theres a public hearing on this, im surprised there is no one here, for example, from the office of economic and Work Force Development and as we all recently read in an article in hud line director dickon dreesy said she has been understaffed, she has been told by her commission to implement the program in her spare time and she has no spare time to implement it. So were very concerned that this is the treatment the city and what were seeing out of the office of the mayor in terms of the importance of this program and we hope that youll Pay Attention because the response from the historic Preservation Commission has been very different, its been very involved and handson and i am here from supervisor campos to thank you so much for that, for recognizing the importance of this legislation and reviewing the example memo and recommendation. It just looks fantastic, its very thorough and the fact you are recommending very explicitly sort of the features of the businesses to maintain forward going in the future is extremely helpful. Really just coming here with gratitude for this commission for recognizing the importance in taking your role very seriously in this legislation and alerting you to the fact that thats not happening through the office of economic and Work Force Development and the office of Small Business and we are going to draw attention and ask some really hard questions about that on may 19th in case you are available to attend. Its at 9. 30 at the government audit and oversight committee. Thank you, miss ronin does any member of the public wish to comment on this item . If so, please come forward. Hi, we have known from supervisor Aaron Peskins office, thank you to my colleague, hillary ronin, i think she put it pretty suck sipgtly. I am working with two businesses who were nominated specifically with the thought that their leases expire the end of may and they are seeking the assurance they can provide to their landlords for an incentive to enter into a longterm lease and this process has just been disoriented, alienating, i am running out of promises for these businesses that have been relying on this for the last 4 months. We met here 3 1 2 months ago, i am discouraged not one application has been presented to the historic Preservation Commission, its really sad. The flip side of having 16 applications apply, thats only 16 applications to move forward, its not like you are sitting on 400. By you i mean of course the other entities implicated in this as well. I really am grateful to the historic Preservation Commission, i think the draft resolution prepared for this is very good, i am encouraged the sample applicant even though they didnt hit every single box, for example, being associated with a culturally significant event, they were nevertheless recommended for inclusion on the registry. I think thats accurate, i dont think every business is going to be as good and successful at checking all those boxes but nevertheless should be included on the registry. So thank you all, im looking forward to the hearing on may 19 t and getting some of those applications forward as soon as possible. Thank you, thank you very much. Mr. Beuhler. Good afternoon, commissioners, mike beuhler with heritage. Heritage obviously shares the frustration voiced by previous speakers regarding the slowness of implementation of the legacy business registry. To answer commissioner matsudas question, one of the explanations for so few applications is there have been literally no Information Available to the public as to how to apply. Our office received many inquiries from businesses interested in being added to the registry. We literally had nowhere to point them to in terms of looking at Application Form that was only posted on the office of Small Business web site i think in march and as tim mentioned, its fairly difficult to find. I would encourage the department to link to that application material and promote it in conjunction with its other work related to Cultural Heritage assets. I think the department is certainly more on top of this than other parts of City Government right now and i think that would be a simple step that could be taken. With respect to the draft template before you, i agree that i think its excellent and it is clear. My one thing that i did note in terms of the features and the list of features and traditions in this sample template, unless i miss something, it appears its only physical features that are listed here, although there is the opportunity to list traditions and i would, you know, i think it would be helpful for the commission to elaborate on what types of traditions would be appropriate to include as the nominations come before you. Thanks for your continued attention on this and hope to see some nominations soon. Thank . Ue . Oo thank you, any other makeup wish to comment on this item . Hearing and seeing none we will close Public Comment and bring it back to commissioner highland. Followup on commissioner matsudas point. I think, shelly and tim, you can provide some further details, but i believe they are still trying to decide when and how to schedule the applications, if its going to be an annual process or just a continual process and it hasnt really been decided yet. As a deadline. At the Small Business commission . Were not clear about that. I dont think regina has given us that information, do you know . I can only speak to the process that regina and we talked about during our last meeting, which was that a batch of applications would be forwarded to us as early as next week and that we would expect to calendar all of those for a single hearing, a single item for action, but at one hearing and i think weve put a place holder on the july sorry the first hearing in june in case they are ready to go. Right, and we are trying to see, waiting and seeing how many applications there would be to determine to process. Correct. I think staff feels at least in the beginning of the program where it looks like we might have many applications to process in a quick amount of time that putting them together in batches and trying to schedule hearings at least once a month. And the legislation allows 200 per year . Three hundred per year. So were really woefully. Were below that. One, i want to reiterate this commissions interest in this and willingness to help out in any way. Our Cultural Assets committee has reached out. Were available. We can angendize anything we need either at the Committee Level or hspc, i would encourage both supervisor campos and supervisor peskin to reach out to us as well and keep that moving forward. Then to follow up on mr. Beuhlers comments about the physical features and traditions, thats exactly what i was thinking as well and i would also encourage maybe to be a little more selective in the physical attributes that are identified because we dont want to be limiting the ability for these businesses to evolve and change and the importance is really the egg legacy and the intangible traditions that the businesses bring to the city. So a little bit different than a landmark nomination list of characterdefining features. Commissioner john. Well, it sounds like i think we just discussed this last time, write in to the mayor and say we want some attention on this. It sounds like this is a mess, which unfortunately or its just not getting going and what kind of help does this person need . If i may i think were happy to take your concerns back to the Mayors Office of economic first