To note is there are 11 different design styles that are on this one block of parker, so the notion that theres a consistency or somehow theres a vocabulary that can be identified is just is just not true. I see art deco, classical, edwardian, english, storybook cottage, new england cottage, spanish, and storybook, all on one block. You can go anywhere in San Francisco, and while there may be important people that lived here, architecturally, theres nothing different about this structure than those on other 25foot lots. Thats a standard in the city. What i think is true is that there is a jordan parks file, but it just doesnt happen to be on parker avenue. On commonwealth, the next block over, jordan, and palm, the upper picture shows sort of grand houses developed in the 1920s. Theyre all set back equally, theyre all two stories over basement. They all are set back equally from the street. They all have larger lots. A lot of them have garages in the back, they have side yards. This is
Minor deviations from the provisions. Please recommend that the new uses that were not described in the draft eir be eliminated including flexible retail which as noted before us and not permitted in district two. Or, social services, or other services because the public was deprived of the opportunity to even comment on this in the e. I. R. As you can see, from the drawing, he used and the developer site plan the modifications shown the Community Preservation lookalike would achieve the same units while both using a required project open space, Natural Green spaces the public has used for Recreational Purposes and retaining historic list of characteristics. We ask you recommend against all of the items today, send this back and have a community and city Planning Project as this one that has been totally dominated by the developer. Thank you. I did call the novelties, let me call a few more speaker cards. [ name indescernible ] if you line up to my left, youre right. Good afternoon. I
They do not work. Thank you mr. Miguel. We have a shared concern over parking. In lieu. Thank you, supervisors. Im here to im excited to be here today because it sounds like we have a couple of things in common we all want our housing, we all love trees. That is some place start from. Where some of us differ, i live down the street at california and arguello, im wholeheartedly supportive of this development. Every weekend i have a choice of my 2yearold daughter, do i go down to the commercial corridor on clement street, or do i go down to Laurel Heights . Every single weekend i choose the clement Street Commercial corridor or because Laurel Heights does not offer the commercial diversity, or the vibrancy, that is needed to make Laurel Heights even better. I would love to see this Development Gets built so that once i have more than one child and i have two have other apartments in my neighborhood, where i could stay. Whereas there is a low amount of apartments in our neighborhood. I wh
Therefore, it has no merit as opposed to see the potential for good restoration. I think this is a critical piece. When people talk about were losing San Francisco, theyre talking about not that we dont want anything new, but they see too much of the beautiful things that define our character being lost. We can marry both. This is an important priority. And it needs to be a priority of our next director. Thank you very much. President melgar thank you, commissioner. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners and, thank you, president melgar, for allowing us to come and speak to the commission about this item. Im anastasia, im a tenant and housing advocate. In my view, a new director has to recognize and respect San Franciscos history, architecture and its people and acknowledge that our city is not for sale. A new director must not be cow towed by big money. The arena numbers show too much marketrate housing as opposed to too little new housing for lowincome residents is being
When considering the nature of the retail. Related to that we need to consider if this is a Retail Destination clogged with traffic with people coming to shop. Is that appropriate for the neighborhood . The proposed lengths of time for the project. I have a 6 yearold daughter. When i saw 15 yearold timeframe my daughter will be a junior in college when this is finished. That is mind bo mindboggling. 15 years of disruption to the neighborhood for that amount of time, i would argue this is not a fair or equitable or just or project to the neighbors currently living there. Lack of affordable is a justice and equity issue. We cant solve that in a way that is just or equitable to the People Living in the neighborhood. I would ask you look out for the rights of the people in the neighborhood is the retail too much of a destination . Is the timeframe of the project appropriate for the neighborhood. Thank you for looking out for all of San Francisco including this neighborhood in your decision