department's analysis of the situation is very clear and actually not very difficult to take apart. this area is oversaturated. we also have a letter from the chief strongly recommending against a liquor license here. i would like to make a motion in support of the recommendation and disapprove this conditional use application. president miguel: is there a second? commissioner antonini: second. generally, i am a believer that, you know it's not necessarily the alcohol, but the behavior. you could put the number of outlets in certain places and you wouldn't have a problem and you put it somewhere else and you do. but that being said, i think the neighborhood has made a pretty good case that you know they feel there is an oversaturation and it appears looking at the map that that probably is the

case. and i probably will be supportive of the motion. it's just too bad that we don't have more of an ability to get rid of those liquor licenses in those establishths that have a record of problems. mentioned, that might be able to do it but for this one i don't think it's going to work. >> there's a reason that conditional use approvals exist. they exist for certain areas of

san francisco, they exist for certain types of businesses. and there are reasons for that. and liquor is one of those that is under that consideration. it must be necessary and desirable. the department's conclusions i think, were very well reasoned. i would be supportive of the motion. there is a saturation, without doubt, and one of the things we have to understand is that once this body and the city ok's a conditional use or liquor license, it's out of our control. it's up to abc. state agency. in the vast majority of instances, to control what happens. it's out of our control. and that is why this body has to

be very very considerate how they deal with these. >> i agree with saff recommendation on this. whenever we look at whether or not something that isn't allowed is necessary, desirable, the issue of oversaturation is one that we look at as is -- whether it's alcohol or something else. though i do respect the work of the noltes and mr. lewis and the work they do to approve their neighborhood, i don't agree with them on this particular issue. i do want to encourage people, it sounds like he's an hops player, this proprietor he runs a good business, he's respected in the neighborhood, it doesn't sound as though we are going to be approving the license. i do agree with a lot of the comments of commissioner antonini, he's right.

a few bad players make it difficult for them, somebody who is a decent proprietor running a good dizz -- a good business, makes it hard for them to move ahead when these come before us. perhaps we can work with this proprietor to find ways to make his business successful in ways that may not involve the sale of alcohol. so you know that's what i'd like moewd hopefully will be able to work with him and also the neighbors, sounds like he's an honest person trying to run a good business, so you know work with him to achieve those goals, you know. >> commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i'm interested in the commissioner's forward-looking comments, perhaps there is a time to see

that the bad operators are weeded out so that the others can sked and do what -- can succeed and do what is part of a good neighborhood. there are liquor stores or establishments with wine and perhaps the good stores need to come together and talk about growing support and weeding out che ones which don't. we need to make sure the bad ones don't survive. >> i don't know if it's the role of government to do that or not. if you believe one side the market will take care of it.

obviously -- that's why we have rules, i guess. that isn't what i was going to talk about. the bargain bank, i used to buy wine there but i assume the reason they were able to exup and down is that they already had a permit or c.u. or something to sell liquor and therefore it got bigger. in terms of calla i would imagine there's going to be some city push to try to he re-locate a grocery store there. i would think. so even though there might be a hiatus in which calla goes away i believe the city is very strong on trying to encourage and maybe through oewd find an operator that will come in and it may even be i would think it would be a new

development. i would think that the current building and parking lot situation is totally underutilized and that there will be some kind of development proposal coming forth. that may take a while. eventually i would think that the desire of the city anyway i can't guarantee that would be to have some kind of mixed use development in that location, including a grocery store. >> commissioners, the motion on the floor is to disapprove the conditional use authorization. on that motion commissioner an to nee nee. commissioner moore, commissioner segay;. commissioner miguel. thank you, commissioners, the c.u. has been disapproved. you are now on item number 13. case number 2009.1100c 1095

market street. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm tim pi representing the planning department, the request is for a conditional use authorization to convert the building at 1095 market street from a 61000 square feet commercial office building to a hostel use with up to 94 rooms. associated uses within the hostel will include approximately 2500 square feet related to a restaurant approximately 3500 square feet related to nighttime entertainment and two rooftop terraces that total approximately 850 0 square feet. >> since the distribution of your parkts -- packets, two letters of support have been submitted to the department and i'd like to give you those for the record. one is a letter of support from san francisco architectural

heritage, the other from a nearby property owner. the subject building is a category one significant building, identified under article 11 of the planning code the historic preservation commission hearing on october 6 last week the h.p.c. granted a permit to alter with conditions, for the exterior work associated with the project. this was included in your packet for your reference. the department recommends approval of the project and believes that the project is necessary and desirable for the following reasons. we believe that the project will have a positive effect on the neighborhood the project doesn't propose any offstreet parkering o-- or loaded and is excepted from this provision of the planning code and is consistent with the city's

transit first policy. the sponsor is also collaborating with larkin street youth services to provide employment opportunities for emancipated foster youth and formerly homeless youth and the project sponsor is here and will be able to go into more detail about this collaboration if you so wish. the project sponsor also submitted as part of the requirements of the conditional use authorization a market study this market study concludes that the project would have a significant market demand in this neighborhood at this location and would further support san francisco's position as a tourist destination. finally the project would serve to strengthen and extend

the continued economic viability of an existing, historically significant building identified under article 11 of the planning code. that concludes my presentation, unless you have any questions. the project sponsor is also prepared to give you a short presentation on the project. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor? >> good evening my name is samuel johnson i'm the project sponsor. we've taken what we take to be the best parts of a boutique hotel and a european hostel and squished them together. it's not just a place for you to sleep it's an environment where young travelers can meet and greet and have an exciting time together much like a melting pot. we picked san francisco because it's a gateway city a lot of

public transportation, we picked the building because it has great bones, it needs a lot of work but it has a good look which we like. we are very committed to the community. our family has had a 10-year working relationship with the area and would like to continue that going forward with the job internship program, taking kids through the hospitality and hopefully we'll find some kids who like hospitality enough that they wish to stay with us. i'd like to lastly speak to the structure and infrastructure before passing on to our architect. we've had the building since april of 2008 and when we first investigated it, we found that the entire infrastructure was shot. it's mainly original 1905 equipment, plumbinging, electrical elevators, and what not needs a complete redo we did a structural investigation on the project, on the

building, and found that in its current state it would probably not withstand a major earthquake. with that, i'd like to pass this over to steven lee. thank you for your time. >> my name is steven lee, i'm an architect, we've been working with simon for the last 18 months on this project. in our limited time we want to highlight the rich history and the salient architectural improvements we propose for the project. just so you can see then eprojector, this is the location site. it's on the corn over market an seventh street adjacent to the court of appeals, across from the u.m. plaza and across from the new federal building. little bit of history about the building, the project is an existing nine stories including a basement steel-framed building with unreinforced masonry. it has a wonderful renaissance

baroque appearance with sandstone lentles and detailed press work facade. at the time this was a bustling corner. quite active store front very populated, retail store front area. so the building was constructed in 1905 by a local san francisco architect who was a pretty good architect considering the building withstood the 1906 architect. but it did not come out unscathed. it sustained quite a bit of damage. on the right hand side you can see the interior was destroyed partitions collapsed and on the left, you can the windows were blown out during the earthquake. in fact, on the stevenson side they had to do quite a bit of repair on the facade, a lot had

come apart and they had to rebuild that particular facade of the building. the building was rehabilitated shortly thereafter. unfortunately, they rebuilt it using pretty much the same materials so you still have a lot of hollow clay tile partitions there. since then, the building has undergone quite a few changes. here's a picture of the building as it stands today. as you can see at the very top the corners -- the cornerstone has been removed, it was removed in 1952. the ground floor store front was also removed as you can see in some of these pictures here. the ground floor store front was removed replaced with aluminum store front windows and red shingles and some decorative awnings for the retail and signage. also the store front at the very corner of market and seventh, you can see here was

stepped back if the actual street facade. the main entry to the building was also altered, it was covered over with stucco. the wood store front was also removed and replaced with an aluminum store front. our proposed project is really to rehabilitate the 1095 market building back to its original luster and integrity, using a sensitive approach compliant with the secretary of the interior standards. with eplan to use high quality materials that are in keeping with the nature of the historic building. as you can see it sustained significant damage in an earthquake. we will updatetózóvróy?y ñ3ózïs.tet=?t?y9

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