The San FranciscoPlanning Commission regular id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president hillis commissioner johnson commissioner koppel and commissioner moore. We do expect commissioner fong and commissioner melgar shortly and commissioner Vice PresidentRichards Will be absent commissioners, that places you under your is consideration of items proposed for continuance we have several bear with me case one at 2645 ocean avenue is proposed proposed for continuance to april and 3326 Mission Street to april 13, 2015, item 3 for the academy of Art University adoption of ceqa finding is proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Items 4 ab ac adoption of planning code changes by the Planning Department recommended to the academy is proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Item case 2016 adoption of ms. Hayward related to the academy of Art University is proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Case 2012 academy of Art University tech changes planning code tech changes also proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Items 5 abc d f and g for case at 2209 van ness avenue and octavia street and pine street, stuttering street and bush street relatively are all proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Item 6 townsend street is proposed to proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Items 7 for case 466 townsend street also proposed for continuance to july 27, 2017. Further commissioners under our regular calendar we received a request for case folsom street a proposed for continuance may i have no other items proposed for continuance and there are no speaker cards. Thank you jonas any any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore move to continue all items summarized under items proposed for continuance further to that prop for items 15 ab as note this morning. Thank you second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to continue matters at proposed commissioner johnson commissioner koppel commissioner moore and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 4 to zero from the acting Zoning Administrator can continue 1b to may 11th. I will to may 11th. Thank you commissioners, that places you under your commission matters item 8 consideration of draft minutes for january 19, 2017. Thank you Public Health on the draft minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. I so moved. Second. Second. Thank you commissioners on that motion to adopt minutes for january 19, 2017, commissioner johnson sxhorp commissioner moore and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 4 to zero item 9 commissioner questions or comments. Commissioner moore. Im reading about being asked about the citys requiring sidewalks along van ness in a particular portion ive tried to google but cant find what that means and im curious. Commissioners that was an item weve been negotiated with the state for a long time the city has been maintaining the sidewalks along van ness it is a state road for many years and the city has been in negotiations with the state to take control of that part of right away that gives us more flexibility we we can do the state for example, we had a discussion the state will not allow projection for bay windows into the rightofway so after a lot of discussion with the staff and state they will relinquish their rightofway with the building to curve to allow us more flexibility how that space is used. Im glad youre getting something for your money. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to Department Matters drourment. No new announcements. Past event the board of appeals and the Preservation Commission and Armed Services that weeks lucrative was scald for the later than you think year but the sacramento commercial district by supervisor farrell passed the second reading and the various general plan and map places of entertainment for the sfoep passed their second reading i understand the mayor is doing a sign this friday and tthd ordinance passed tifrsz its First Reading and the hearing for the 950 Market Street this item was the appeal was withdrawn as a partys came to agreement on the eastbound terms we have a transgender cultural district and so far no introductions have shown up thats all. Thank you mr. Starr. No report from the board of appeals the historic Preservation Commission did meet this were no real items of electrician to the Planning Commission only note that they did hear a presentation regarding the budget and the work program ill hear today and they received Public Comment on the pier 70 mixed use project ill hear on february 9th there are no questions move on to general comment not to exceed 15 minutes. 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 in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. There is one speaker card. Thank you very much georgia swedish and then if any additional general Public Comment you you can please line up on the screen side of the room. Ms. Swedish. Good afternoon like speeding through the agenda and was at the historic Preservation Commission yesterday there was a new co2 a they taken off the facade of one 51 liberty i dont care if you, you know about that it had a dr that was withdrawn when any neighbor had a dr in july of 2014 so i was interested in it i looked at the online this is why i was interested heres the plan favoritism can i have the overhead, please . That was with the packet when it was before withdrawn this is the lower unit it is a nice little unit living room and bedroom a nice fireplace the 1913 house, i believe not clear from the unit was oriental before the project they were remodeling it putting in a garage they expanded the back and changed the lower unit and the thing that struck me as odd the media room the media room became the dominant room of the unit that was a programming when was back in the historic Preservation Commission it is an elevated unit heres the new plan and the media room which is the majority of the unit was closed off so i guess my point is it has to do with with programming, programming the unit it is important you talked about that last week with the family unit it is not necessarily determined by the number of bedrooms by the not determined by the number of living room or family room allows floor space in a residential building it is important that gets memo to section 317 that looped i hope will get closed at some point from the unit is downsized they are flat two flat unit one over the other they have no control none has control over the smaller unit it hits the market or rented i think this loophole is incentive is turning one into a mega unit with a smaller unit that is ultimately school board that is a fact of a merger we hope thats why you close the loophole thats my connection with the project. Thank you, ms. Swishing is there any additional Public Comment . Good afternoon. Im paul wormer we want to take advantage to raise an issue ive raised before this was brought to mind by the recent discussion of mission and gentrification of the mission the argument well gentrification is not a result of the new construction but there is a problem in the gentrification has been going on for a long while and tailor clearly feedback loops unfortunately as i discussed when i talked about the article 7 revision a awhile back no good policy in the department for assessing what is going on in the neighborhoods. Gathering dictated identifying trend and drawing connections and if this this is not happening decisions with made and aon a case by case basis what is happening in the city be that good or bad pa means the department of city planning end up reacting than planning not good for the city i urge you to ask the Planning Department to look at how they can actually start assessing what is happening in the city in terms of trends of land use in residential areas, in neighborhoods commercial district how o those interactions play in february loops thank you thank you, mr. Wormer. Is there any additional Public Comment . Good afternoon jeremy paul when Public Policy in the planning code take one hundred 80 degree turn quickly it leaves a lot of question marks and remnant that need to be cleaned up and a cognizant distance in the community im talking about legalization of dwelling units and the one hundred and 80 degrees that went from any new kitchen sink requires a parking space to the conditional use procurement for removal of a kitchen sink what that left us with a planning of setting policies hold officers from the time when things were designed specifically or written specifically to prevent people in adding dwelling units there is a document that is still relied on called the rooms down magic and the independence of what is a kitchen and a cooking area we believe are obsolete and creates questions among the planners and create a degree of difficulty for Property Owners mostly singlefamily or two family pertains that really have no solution though 0 workout what to do with that second kitchen or quite often in the wealthier parts of town needs for a secondary kitchen for event catering or their own use or staff of households so i would ask the commissioners to consider directing the department to reassess the usefulness the down matrixes and the definition of what is a kitchen and do we want to prevent people from adding bar sinks where is that more liveable thank you for your attention. Mr. Dulavich. Good morning tom executive director of livable city wanted to second everything that jeremy said i imaginations or mentions that were talking about making familyfriendly housing and adding around the adu like no. You cant are a kitchen this kind of stuff maybe if we want to allow more flexible single units for types of household with children or undocumented family members multi adjudicatoral households you could look that if you read the down guidance it is aimed as preventing people from creating adus maybe we think what are you trying to do with that the, etc. The requirements are there things we need to do or should do so i also wanted to follow up on something i noticed we have a familyfriendly housing presentation and it kind of showed the map of where families are move on in rincon hill is a good for example, 40 are percent of units are two bedroom for larger households but no families move in to those united something that going on another thing Developers Say oh, you have lots of Parking Spaces like families need cars and you know garages then children will come back and i need more parking for the children; right . We hear this as ever hearing familyfriendly housing means parking and actually in conjunction with the tdm word i say look at the evidence were building the Downtown Parking in the integrity and not bringing children back if you look at this graph of households with children in the decline of households with children in San Francisco you see like it drops in 1960 and 1950s we impose one parking space per unit so a lot of parking has increased over the same time with the households with children are decreased if cars bring children back we have a ton of evidence that didnt work and come up with smarter ways but dont let children continue to be the reason that we over park projects in transit rich areas of the city were making housing more expensive by doing that and increasing cars from the tdm ordinance so but were not making the unit familyfriendly well need a different strategy to make them familyfriendly thank you. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment general Public Comment seeing none, well move to the regular calendar i believe we have a request from supervisor peskin to call item 14 first i dont see their office. I dont see them in the audience. We said 12 30 my presentation will go after 12 30. So we want to call item 12 were prepared lets casing call that and hopefully theyre watching. It appears that the staff is waiting on that as well they were anticipating that lets go ahead with mr. Starr presentation 14 very good, commissioners. Ill sit down one more time. Commissioners under our regular calendar for item 14 called outburst of order for case 2014 pca the reorganization and simplification of the project a planning Code Amendment. Good afternoon. Aaron peskin the phase two of the reorganization planning focusing an article 7 i want it explain why the department started this so the planning code is a large and complicates document some of that complexity is necessary a dime city and with the San Franciscos values and aspirations were a city of neighborhoods and preserve the identity for the land use control we expect the planning code to be complex, however, a part a code over the years without much thought for over will you explain control not often easy to find the controls and some controls get lost because of complexity that makes that difficult for planners but confusing for the public so i have ive a visual that hoping will illustrate i dont know if mr. Moore i think this is the planning code from 1948 27 pages long 4 of the pages are techs for the planning code the other 23 have the land use map that is pretty short then go into the 70s and we have a planning code from 1979 the code is quite a bit long and complicated but 200 and 14 pages and then finally we have todays planning code 3 volumes with 13 hundred pages it has grown in complexity in the recent years so prior to this project will was 4 different places in the code you could find independence to places in article 2 and one in article 7 and one in article 8 two ways to promulgate that the article 2 and zoning in article 7 and tables in article 8 after this process one set of definitions given the number of definitions from three hundred plus to one hundred a standardized way the information is organized in the code all will be done while maintaining the land use regulations in the Zoning District or the necessary complexity code so how did we get this way the code has the basic structure until 198 g prior to that the standards railroad in article 1 and standards and organizing tables that contain a definitions we have only a dozen Zoning District and a few regulations the formulate worked, however, the code gained with the special use district to dry to bring order to the code the city added article 7 that created general and commercial district and special use district and added an article and a new way of oracle the code known and a as Zoning District and article 7 came along which was similar but different all the uaw while article 2 remained the same we have 3 sets of definitions and 3 because of defining that in 2013 this project was to restructure the code to read and understand. Use this is a accomplished by the consistency through the standarding Zoning District format to help achieve this is the divided into 3 phases march of 2015 and dealt with article 2, article 2 includes the residential and mixed use and pdr and downtown xerosis now the depictions have an syrup two twooekz have been needed but overall helping the planners do their job better that includes phase 2 and focuses an article 7 and phase three article 8 since the definition have been consolidated into section one 022 reformulate to mick those in article 2 and use the consolidated definitions in section one 02 the definitions in section 790 will be deleted a significant number one number of begins are bans the definitions in section 790 one of the biggest changes to how uses will be regulated in article 7 the removal of what we called used grouping those groupings are found in section 790 they include other large institutions. Small institutions on the retail sales and personal business or professional and other retail as part of existence of the xhoechgs e consolidation those have been split into there used to preserve the land use controls the effects will not affect how the individual users uses are regulated in article 7 but allows for more finegrain definitions and for the controls if Zoning District throughout the city the ordinance eliminates section 316 that covers procedures for conditional use authorization and mcd district except one main defense theyre the same in section 306 for cus and other entitlements one main difference the 20 days notification that is required in neighborhoods commercial and mixed use in other districts it is 10 days it make it 80 days and the ordinance deletes the food existence and notified as described how the use is regulated by planning finally this use makes changes that have been requested by supervisor tang and zions e supervisor peskin for commissioner tang is amends the outer sunset to the conditional use authorization is required for bars and liquor store and personal uses on the second floor and republican states the oute