Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 81116 20160910 : c

Planning Commission Regular hearing for thursday, september 8, 2016, welcome back commissioners, i trust you enjoyed your recessed id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. 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 fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner hillis commissioner johnson and commissioner moore commissioners first is consideration for items proposed for continuance item one1 cashmere street conditional use authorization and is proposed until september and case no. Two at the Market Street an appeal of a preliminary in relationgo negative declaration and next at the townsend street conditional use authorization is proposed. Continuance until november 10, 2016, and item 4 for case underscore two for chair wienerier the discretionary review authorization have been withdrawn the Zoning Administrator will consider the variance it remains on the agenda during our recess and infuriating under the consent calendar item 5 for case you 2016 at van ness avenue conditional use authorization weve received a request from members of the public and now from the pertaining to continue to september 29, 2016, and under the discretionary review authorization calendar im pleased to announce that item number 21 at he vermont street discretionary review that has been withdrawn i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. I ask that item 20 and b be turned because of submittal is incomplete for us to properly consider this project for the appellant not following for the commission to look at no photos or buildings sections no property depiction of juan property and the modification of the project this project fails to meet the standards as so forth in the plans submittal guidelines i ask for you to continue. Second. Is that a motion to continue all other items as proposed as well as 20 ab or just 20 ab. Thats 20 ab im obviously supporting the continuance included those as item 25 and asking for adding 20 ab. Second. We will need a date for items 20 ab maybe accepted 29 with the joint meeting with rec and park has been cancelled and opened up that date and thats fine by me. Commissioner johnson. Ill make a motion to inaudible so say proposed continue items 2, 3, 4, 5, 20 ab and 21. As proposed. Thank you 21 is withdrawn. Sorry not 21. Thank you, commissioners on that a motion to continue as proposed commissioner bobby wilson commissioner hillis so no not about 20 ab ill rather hear that item. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion 4 to one with commissioner hillis voting against commissioners under our cds exceptional or extraordinary all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. You now on have the one item number 6 cu at the beal street conditional use authorization. Okay. Any Public Comment on the items on the consent calendar. Not seeing any, Public Comment Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Move to approve second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to approve item 6 under consent commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion unanimously 5 to zero and places us under commission matters item 77 consideration of draft minutes for august 4th and 112016 i received one correction from the member of the public that dully noted on there the minutes for august 4th under the discretionary review authorization calendar item 15 for Russel Street the action item number 3 so indicate setback the top floor one and a half innovate not inches. Commissioner moore. You move to approve together with the modifications as read into the record. Second. Thank you, commissioners then on the motion to adapt the minutes for august 4th and 11 as corrected commissioner hillis commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. Commissioners that places us in under item 8 excuse me commissioners, comments or questions. Commissioner Vice President richards. A couple of things we were gone 4 weeks a Welcome Break we added the fist thursdays next years id like to have a break if it permits, however, take on the labor day this is in january or december just wanted to say this is my second year on the commission as of this meeting and havent missed that meeting im having too much fun it is 2 years. Two things a hundred things i could have brought up ive read in the chronicle on wednesday august 31st there was an article on high rents in the Alameda Health department and doctor said that hypertension with increased rent associated stress and cost depression and schizophrenia by the Health Department of old weve talked about with that and the stress of not knowing youll have a house to live in next month or leave the city is cowgirls u causing Health Problem and an article in the negotiate time in terms of losing their legacy businesses and loot negotiate stores you can buy in new york theyll going out of business and struggling so happening all over thanks glad to be back. Commissioner moore. Presenter commissioner Vice President richards companionship commenting on ts the extension so appreciate that and looking forward to seeing us change the rules in regards to next year i want to speak about the request that is dawning on me id like to see the Department Work with the commission on compiling a list of small institutions their imp and the gross he projections we tweak small institutions and solicitedettled cases but that particular thought kind of jogsd any mind the cumulative effect of a lot of small things in the ends all amount to a big thing many of the small institutions has 200 plus people gold for a longer than or short tdm and we need to track that relative to the legislation this was introduced by supervisor peskin regarding looking at Student Housing and imp improvements to address the issues i think this came to me did not i was having a quick coffee with commissioner Vice President richards and charged about that and i think this is a perfect opportunity for the department all of us to be prepared to look at the next level of impact im very interested to see what is suggested in supervisor peskin in supervisor peskin legislation to come forward and talked about that has a professional for the imps dont give the department enough the evidence will then show or unnecessary enough Guiding Force to help make them equal amongst each other for the city to deal with the institutions and thats a positive encouraging comment rather than a negative comment otherwise thats my comment for today. Commissioners fuminga few weeks ago drourments. Thank you joansnas and commissioners hope you had a great break he wanted to take a moment to rewelcome someone into the department peter it has come back to work part time as the manager of Transportation Plan most of you know peter well in the city for over 30 years and retired last july laughter but couldnt resist us so just byword of some budged peter worked with mta where he was the prierlg the initiatives program and the liaison from sfmta and the office of Economic Workforce Development prior worked on urban design and related issues with bart and before that with the ta but more importantly and early in his a access peter worked with the Planning Department an architecture assistant in the Transportation Planning group and the preliminary thorough of the then transportation element that was updated at this time so we are very pleased to have peter back a backward in architecture and planning from cal poly and san jose state and got in San Francisco for 3 2 years pleased to have him help us with the Transportation Plan we are managing with our ta and mta and i think that peter will be with us foyer 6 or 7 months to make a transition to 9 months peter welcome back. Would you like to say your 8 nature months away from retirement. Again. It was easy to find my way back to the microphone id like to be back very much a full circle criteria by the way, good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioner the last big project for the Planning Department was the update of the transportation master plan good afternoon common sense and staff the case is an approved the bus school for bus and marketing and technology through france and expand to other parts of shanghai and San Francisco San Francisco program an intended as a study abroad discretionary review any student to study for a period if 10 days up to 10 weeks and it about expose the students to American Culture are the Toolbox Industries and having 6 to 8 sessions between 20 and 80 students parting in each the number of planters is expected to vary within the range and the school didnt own any property and leases 61 square feet of space on the floor within the c3 their entity e inevitable to file a master plan and high hire additional staff and participation is open to any boulder students and to find their lodging during the stay the department has no Public Comment and no action required of our the commission has discretion discretion to hold the imp and this that concludes my presentation. And im available to answer any questions. Okay opening it up for Public Comment Ronald Morris im sorry project manager. Iemzm sorry, im sorry are you with the project sponsor come on up sorry. Commissioner thank you very much for allowing me to speak about the impact of our campus here we set up this campus and started the program in january of 2016 we have had 40 students come for a 10day project and two sessions of 10 weeks just under thirty students and andrew did a fine job founded in 1925 and in london and now here they are what we consider to be satellite campuses and students are getting a International Dimension and a strong focus is come back r came back with practitioners in the Public Sector or in the Public Sector and for students that have emersed session and all i can say that so for the students are absolutely enthusiastic about the experience and leave here and become ambassadors for San Francisco all around europe thank you. Ill city for any questions. Stick around and open up for Public Comment now and calling ron morris im sorry, i got it all laughter . First. Do it again, i was wording r on one hand. Any Public Comment on this item . Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. And commissioner moore. Im of those institutions and saw the students having the ability to dive into an International Exposures given the world is one practice and having said that, comment to you my point is reminding the correct that the discussion i asked for is part of a our work list lock conceal at the cumulative number of smaller constitution for a guidance including mr. Albert mentioned earlier thank you au. Thank you. Fumingat 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 3 minutes. This section is not supposed to exceed 15 minutes i have seller speaker cards. Okay. calling names good afternoon and welcome back from well deserved vacation this testimony pertains to other neighborhoods on initial comments on august from tthe your own guidelines and the 21st 2016 draft promised neighbors a 5month period of neighborhood u d g draft subcontractor and the fundamental to those guidelines is the idea this Good Neighbors make great neighborhood and great neighborhoods make good grades please work from the neighborhoods want our pride month of commentary and Public Outreach and the community and the neighborhood organizations must be con ductduktd planning outreach to involve bio last night engagement between the Decision Makers and the staff and local land use groups additionally theyre going to propose the comments needs to be expended as theres been insufficient time to conduct and incorporate Public Outreach into the n u d c draft brother the Planning Commission, Planning Department target gate of october 80 were asking for the indefinite deferral or extension of final consideration of the u d gs until the 2017 xenld residential guidelines has bn been property and embedded which should occur communicating curling with the perspective unusual guidelines and not happen without the interval corporation the results is the creation of the january 21st u d g executive summary and the guidelines themselves the neighborhoods cant tell whether they are intended to apply to citywide including the n r zones district or in just mixed use or other places as well and whether or not there are intended to replace the existing your own guidelines element thank you very much. Next speaker, please. And folks that have called or have speaker cards if you want to line up on this side make use of 15 minutes. Good afternoon commissioner my name is lisa im the president of the liability Hill Neighborhood Association and speaking as a concerned resident since any board has not taken a position on this matter were concerned that the we only heard about the document draft your own guidelines and by happen stance we were under the envision the commission will revitalize the guidelines roughly around now in the fall and became aware this entirely new document had been drafted and that caused a serious concern for us particularly because we were promised 5 months in the draft document it talks about Public Outreach and review from february to june of this past year and none of which occurred the urban Design Guidelines cantonese language that maybe the over arching review document in all of districts for all buildings and this raise he pretty serious concerns for us in the low, low density liability hill is a Historic District and this really causes some concern so we would ask particularly that you postpone the target date of adoption is october it 22 for the your own Design Guidelines until the Public CommentPublic Outreach and has to be accomplishments together and not one ahead of the other thank you. Common sense and commissioner good afternoon aim matt i a cofounder of the neighborhood counsel and a 34 resident of city last month the noah valley and the Telegraph Hill submit correspondence to you and the planning staff advising of the serious concerns with the roll out for the guidelines and two nights ago we hosted a Community Meeting notifying other organizations to share their concerns they might have one of the things perhaps the most important for the scent that these the adaptation of urban guidelines so be approved the Planning Department pro tems promised the Community Involvement in an external review and the simple fact that has not happened and perhaps the more importantly was the proposed relationship of the urban guidelines and under this proposal it appears that the residential George Washington high school will be marginalized subordinate to the other guidelines and most important tool for the wellbeing scale will be rented omnipotent i point out to the case report we since then were told the guidelines might im quoting mo