Good afternoon at this meeting will come to order. Welcome to the may 3, 2021 of the Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting. Im chair of the committee. We are expecting Vice Chair Supervisor Dean Preston shortly. Supervisor preston im here. Supervisor melgar also Supervisor Peskin. Committee clerk is erica major. I like to acknowledge Sfgov Tv for staffing this meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 health emergency, city and employees of the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber is closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Precaution is taken pursuant to the stayathome order. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgov tv are streaming the Callin Number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunitie
minutes and when you have 30 secondsremaining you will hear a chime indicating yourtime is almost up .i will announce your time is up and take the next person . our practice is to call a quiet location, clearly and slowly and mute the volume on your televisioni d like to take role at this time. commission president koppel . [rollcall] thank you commissioners. we expect commissioners chadand diamond to be absent today but we do expect both to return in november . first on your agenda is considering items for continuance, 33971 epa the dwelling unit density exception for corner lot in residential district plan amendment proposed for continuance until november 15 2021. items 2 a and b case number 2019 02 611 cua, 5116 third street a conditional use and variances proposed for continuance december 9 2021. further commissioners on your regular calendar items 9146 cua at 247 upper terrace conditional youth authorization expecting to be continued to december 9 2021. and under your d
when we reach the item you are interested in speaking to , please press star 3 to be added to the queue. when you hear your linehas been unmuted that is your cue to begin speaking . each year will be allowed three minutes and when you have 30 secondsremaining you will hear a chime indicating yourtime is almost up .i will announce your time is up and take the next person . our practice is to call a quiet location, clearly and slowly and mute the volume on your televisioni d like to take role at this time. commission president koppel . [rollcall] thank you commissioners. we expect commissioners chadand diamond to be absent today but we do expect both to return in november . first on your agenda is considering items for continuance, 33971 epa the dwelling unit density exception for corner lot in residential district plan amendment proposed for continuance until november 15 2021. items 2 a and b case number 2019 02 611 cua, 5116 third street a conditional use and variances propo
you would also have to do this with additional agencies coming in. that is not a roadway, right? right. it s only a sidewalk. it s a pedestrian walkway. commissioner johnson: yes. and in addition, the connection had budget issues, liability issues. what were some of the other options that you had a question about? commissioner johnson: i think that was there were two on here. consideration all options on page 2. oh, right. the other option was allowing the connecting the driveway directly to the hoa s private driveway. that s part of the reason that the suit came about. it is a private driveway, not a public street. we don t have the ability to mandate that. the hoa didn t want the connection to take place. they didn t want this particular property owner to connect his driveway to their private drive and on top of that even if they were not opposed to it the engineering with the slope to not have to cross over at least a portion of burnett avenue, paper street
that because part of displacement is home values go up, people already feel cost burdened, they feel like they were already kind of on the emgem edges, and so they feel like they need to sell out to take care of their families, and we should be thinking just as much about that as we do of displacement or people that are being evicted from their homes or otherwise forced out. i think that s more the case in this district that maybe is not the case in other places. and finally, the whole confluence of talking about cultural neighborhood and retail, i think those two topics crash together in the excelsior. i understand from this report but also from other information, this area struggles with vacancies, and i think the change in retail and how ground-floor businesses are able to stay afloat with how the economy is today is something we should be thinking about. we should not only be protecting businesses that are existing and figuring out what we can do to help them stay, but es