when you have 30 seconds you will hear a chime. when your time is reachedil announce your time is up. we will take public ment if person in city hall first and then open remote access line. for those participating web ex raise your understand what when public comment is called for the item. for those call nothing to will submit testimony you need to call 415-554-0001 then access code:; 480 349 2149 call if a quiet location. mou the vol tomb on your television or computer. for those attending live in city hall lineup on the screen side speak clearly and state your name for the record. i will ask that we silence mobile devices i would like to take hell. president tanner >> vice president mor >> here >> commissioner braun >> hee >> commissioner diamond. >>ey >> commissioner imperial. >> here >> commissioner koppel and ruiz. >> here >> items for continuance. a cu authorization to february 23ed, 2023. under the regular calendar i received a late request from staff to continue item 11, for the waterfront plan environmental impact report certification a week to february ninth of 2023. i have nothing other to be continued. take public comment, member this is is your opportunity to peek to items proposed to be continued in the chambers come forward. commissioner braun >> aye yooch commissioner ruiz. >> aye. >> commissioner diamond. why aye >> commissioner impirrelevant >> aye >> commissioner koppel. >> aye. >> commissioner moore >> i aye. >> commissioner tanner >> now we are under consent calendar. all matters are considered to be routine by theed planning commission and may be acted upon by a vote of the commission there will be no sprit discussion unless the commission or staff requests the matter removed and considered as aid separate item this or a future hearing. item 2, the property 3936 through 393824th a cu authorization. 3a and b for property of 361 upper terrace a cu authorization and variance. and item 4, 855 geary a c u authorization. members this is your opportunity to request that any of the items removed from consent calendar. come forward if you are horror press star 3 if you are calling in. >> yes. i want to be clear you had asked if we wanted one of the items remove third degree is regarding upper terrace we hope we can speak on that. in order to you need to ask it be removes and you have justice done so we will have upper terrace remove friday consent and heard under the regular calendar. >> very unusual. >> good. sir items 3a and b are removed from consent and will be considered under the regular calendar. >> and last call for members to request other items removed. seeing none. public comment is closed and your consent calendar is before you commissioners only items 2 and 4. commissioner. >> motion to approve 2 and 4 >> second. >> well, we received an e mail this morning about amending one of the conscience of approval on item 4. we valid to remove from consent. >> if you would like to you can q. i like to remove item 4 from consent. okay. removed. i take actual amend your motion it item 2. >> i will second that. commissioners, on this motion to approve item 2 on consent commissioner braun y. aye >> ruiz. >> aye >> commissioner diamond. why aye >> commissioner imperial. >> aye >> commissioner koppel. >> aye yoochl commissioner moore >> aye yofrm commissioner tanner. >> aye. >> that passes 7-zero. will place us under commissioners matters the land acknowledgment. ramaytush ohlone acknowledgement the planning commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples >> thank you. item 6 adoption of draft minutes of january 19 of 23. >> members, this is your opportunity to address the minutes you need to come forward. and press star 3 if you are call nothing and raise your hand on web ex. when can we comment on upper terrace. i feel i was watch thanksgiving i missed that opportunity. >> you have not missed opportunity, that item was pulled off of consent and considered in the regular calendar coming up shortly. >> okay. >> today. or in the future >> today. >> you raise your hand again. >> last call for public comment on the minutes. no requests, commissioners. public comment is closed. >> commissioner braun. >> move to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> thank you, on this motion to adopt the minutes commissioner braun. >> aye >> commissioner ruiz. >> aye. why commissioner diamond. >> aye. >> commissioner imperial. >> aye >> commissioner koppel. >> aye >> commissioner moore. >> aye >> commissioner tanner. >> aye y. this passes upon 7-0. item upon 7. comments and questions. >> before we open up, i want to make sure for those listening the agenda changed for having not that many item when is we started for folks listening we'll hear items 3a and b then 4 on consent 55 gear and he the dr and 800 taraval and not hearing item 11 if you mean are here for upper terrace or geary those will be heard on the regular calendar. i want to make comments. we sign said the housing element and submitted to the state. we got a certificate from hcd makes it official we got the housing element. >> correct. >> they certified the housing element. >> that is great. it was a lot of work but it is irrelevant quite exciting. commissioner diamond i have a tour yesterday at stones town mall. it was great to be out there and get more thorough walk through of the plans. i encourage others if you want to learn about the project tell come back later this spring. i want to have a tour it was worthwhile to seat areas where things are planned to change. and then lastly. 2 things one business item we scheduled a closed session for left week the mayor's state of city, 12-1. i wonder federal we might move closed session to the following thursday instead of next thursday if commissioners are visible if it it is a challenge we can keep the ninth. if folks can dot 16th and the city attorney has a fling wonder federal could begin on 10 a.m. giving us time for lunch and start the hearing on time. >> does that work for everyone? >> i don't have a problem. >> 10 a.m.? >> bright and early y. making sure i order this correctly. commissioner ruiz does this work. ? >> yes >> final comments you know this yesterday was february first marks black history month. excited cell brit this this year. there will be events celebrating and some the [inaudible] community and black community coming together. excited have that. and come just this hearing a week after. video was released of nichols who died ever beat by police in tennessee. so many of us have been troubled boy whether you watches or not. knowing what happened is traumatic. we want to acknowledge the loss of life and family and relatives. but the fifteen many in our community in memphis approximate here suffering and bring update challenges we have around racial justice in our nation. as this commission after the murder of george floyd this had our residence lugz in the department on racial equity. we are committed to racial and social equity and he his mother really tremendous woman helping that something from his death, positive come out. she can't imagine there will be a reason taken other than change to come out of his death temperature it is on us to make sure that happens in our professional lives here or in our will professional lives i hope you recommit to that work in honor of him and all those suffered at the hands of police but racial injustice in this country. thank you. >> commissioner moore. imented to take a second to thank you for your thoughtful words and want to see that it each day racial equity we could this morning other inequity in washington, d.c. and government and they point in the wrong direction. what you said is when we need to focus. i appreciate the work of the implementing the housing leadership will be a major challenge and require everybody in planning to walk around with the sleeves rolled up every day. wore here to passport happen and hope we can work with each other to really deliver. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner moore. >> other comments or questions? future items? >> commissioners if you indulge me to discuss a future hearing item. i will get into the preservation hearing yesterday that talk the cast retheatre and under commission merits we discussed about the possibility of i joint hearing for the castro theatre entitlements. and due to conflicts by may be a member or 2 of historic preservation that is scheduled to be heard on march 15th and for to you hear it on march 16th, i believe is the correct dates. but yes, that's right. we wanted to hold a join hearing for those to be heard together. we locked at april 13th if you could look and i will get clarity from you all later weapon don't vice president to today. buff if you could look at april 13th a 10 a.m. start time and would be amount clearing the agenda for just that matter. so. >> would this be in lou of the march hearings >> in lieu of. >> yes. march 15th the historic commission continue this to april and you do the same on march >> thank you. >> no further questions or comments we can go -- move off to item 8 case 2021-009977 for remote hearings. this will be the left time we request this you adopt this resolution that would allow remote hearings if necessary. march first we will be going back to the future. and regardless, of covid illness or other illness, you will not being able to attend remotely, if you are out of town. the same of you are all able to submit to the department of human resources and request for if you have i disability for what is it called. accommendation, but -- beside its is expected for you to attends in person >> so. public comment on item 8 remote hearings. seeing no members of the public requesting, public ment is close comed this is before you now. >> one question may be, when we go where we are all in person, will we use web ex for members to call in or old fashion phone y. so the platform is still available you to. the interesting thing is each commission can decide on its own whether to continue the able for members to attends remote. so, you could decide starting march first to require all members attends in person to submit testimony. >> i leave it to you. >> i think it would be difficult to take that back. >> i would agree. despite improvements web ex is working good >> knock to good. i'm shocked we have not had it crash once. >> now you said that you. >> knock on wood. >> i knocked on wood. [laughter]. >> all right. i continuing grit to continue public comment via remote access. motions on this or other question sns commissioner improll imperial. just a moment to approve >> to adopt to allow remote hearing. commissioner braun. why aye >> commissioner ruiz. >> aye. why commissioner diamond. >> aye >> commissioner improll. why aye y. commissioner koppel. >> aye >> commissioner moore. >> aye >> commissioner upon tanner >> aye >> so moved unanimously 7-zero. i would not surprise mow if legislation ma'ammeded the brown act and allow for that to happen in the future. it seems to make sense. moving right along, commissioners department matters i have 9 announcements. >> on housing element to follow up you may read that we did get certified but had a project come in to attempt a remedy the one you heard in the past on 17th street. we had a certified housing element. builder's remedy was not irrelevant voluntary. we were one of a handful of jurisdictions that did get certify in the time thank you all for adopting and modifying the time line and leadership on that. thank you. >> >> item 10 review of the past events at board of proirsz i don't believe then and there is a report from board of appeal and preservation commission. >> good afternoon. department upon staff here. on behalf of aaron star it has been 16 years since i gave a board report for give me if i'm rustef monday at land use an ordinance by dorsey, machine man and guard guard was heard. you heard on the 12th of last among. an ordinance allow entertainment on properties on 11th and folsom general low in the leather lbgtq+ cultural district. monday's hearing the second and financial land use hearing on this it went to the full board with positive recommendation. 3 items from tuesday's full board meeting. supervisor peskin ordinance to allow a new grocery store on polk street use size in that neighborhood passod second read. secondlys mayor's reappointment of lydia so to the historic preservation passed congratulations. lastly the director mentioned. we now have a certified housing leadership. the board did upon prove this on second read and trans mitted hcd on wednesday morning we upper informed our how doing element is certified. >> that is all i have for you, commissioners. happy to answer questions. >> commissioner moore. >> could you give us a run down of who new committee appointees, i think when the board changes the president changed you make new appointments. is there anything to share? >> we will share that later. the land use committee is chaired by supervisor melgar and supervisors peskin and preston. the rest we will get to you later today. >> and land use the same. >> the same group that was there before. >> consistent. >> thank you. will there is in report from board of appeals and historic preservation met yesterday. i blame moiz for not starting senior. took update matter of the castro theatre landmark feesures. we had to switch rooms but we got through the hearing and took the public comment and the commissioners historic preservation adopted to the board of proirzs to land mark the character defining features including the slopped floor and the affixed chairs. or seats. >> if there are no questions we can move on to general public comment. members of the comment may address the commission on items of interest to the public under the jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items your opportunity to address the commission will be when the item suspect roached. each upon member may address for up to 3 minutes. when the number of speakers exceed the limit general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. >> good afternoon georgia. i want to respond to the comments during the rivera hearing from last week. the demo matrix is a way to translate the drawings of the designs on the plan show. are the purview of planning and show the scope of a project including what of the existing structure will be remove exclude retained for alteration projects. it is mass and given that architects and engineers are professionals, who need to be good in math to get the licenses that allow them to put stamp on the plans for an alteration that the planning department reviews. department should assume that the information provided on the plans in the drawings and translated by the matrix is trust worth and he reliable. not absurd. not complicated. it should be a straightforward and honest process. one thing to review a project. when it come to the department as a demolition the project on the back end may be waste of everyone's time but the loss of existing sound housing. how would the commission reacted over 50 projects a mrooi plying as demolitions in noe valley. at least 50 alteration project it is that should have been reviewed by the commission as demolitions in the past decade some with 2 units like on 21st. that sold for millions of dollars, caution the loss of financially accessible housing and rental housing. how many @rigzs that are demolitions the same losses found in other neighborhoods like the one on rivera street. how would neighbors reacted if projects had applied as dem ligsz rather than @rigzs metly projects that were rarely dr'd. it is unfortunate the calculations were not adjusted since upon 2009 to make it more straightforward as intended. thank you and here is my 150 words of when i said for the minutes. thank you very much. happy groundhog day. take care. last tao call for yes or no public comment. seeing no requests to speak. general public comment is closed. move on to the regular calendar. 11 is continued to february ninth. we have 2 items pulled off of consent first being items 3a and b for 2022-000908. for the property 361 upper terrace. you will contract cu authorization and the za will consider the request for variance. >> commissioners. this is the first time that brandon is before the commission. wvenlg hoe joined us as an intern in summer of 2021. went to school in clemson where he graduate student in historic preservation and authored theseis on water front development in charleston, south carolina joined us in june of 22 as 8 preservation tech specialist and serves in the planning division in districts 1 and 2. welcome. >> thank you. commissioners nice to meet you all. brandson dunn with planning staff the item before surequest for cu theorys everauthorization to allow increase in officer height and expansion of rear deck that result in the a roar yard less than 45% went current height large resident special use district. the property is on the west side of upper terrace in the height's neighborhood. property is a steeply downward sloping lot, 25% with the width of 29 feet and depth of the 85 feet. at the front the site is developed with a garage for 2 vehicle in a small courtyard to the north 365 upper terrace. mass of the building in the remaining portion of the lot contains natural vegetation the lot is 2, 425 square feet and located in rh3, residential house, 3 family zoning district and 40x height and bulk. neighborhoods consists of 1, 2 and 3 story buildings. containing 1-2 units. the parcel to the north or 365 upper terrace is a 1 stormy single family that is on a similar lot with the building depth of 60 feet. property to the suthp south 357 is 1 storm of residential building depth of 46 feet. the project proposed to raise the roof thai height lie 3 feet and reconstruct the rear decks expand happening the lore deck by 4 feet to the rear yard wrchl interior reason vapgzs are proposed. since submittal and response to department comments the project made the following modifications. at the roar of the property, the project experience removed the addition that would have resulted in a 350 square foot increase. long with the enlearningment of the ground floor rear deck. as far as support the department received letters from 2 niche in support of the project with none against it is on balance and consistent with policies of the general plan. the aterations upon have been designed with regard to site specific ness and improve access to open space to a rear yard that is unusable. scale, design and urms it are consistent with the block and compliment character with the design. the department upon finds the property necessary, desirable and compatible with the neighborhood and not detrimental to importance or adjacent properties. thank you. project experience you have 5 minutes. >> good afternoon. upon i was not expecting to speak apol gees. i'm amy lee and we have been working with the owners. and the project architect kevin zelar on the project. an degreea and allen purchased the home to which have a family and for the parents to stay when they visit. i will try to do just like doing temperature it is construction date existing building respondeds to had portion of the block pattern. street scapeful miscellaneous and scale and dwellin