item is there to be heard. >> we will not be voting on the project itself. i want to make sure the public comment for the eir is continued for two weeks. >> it will be heard april 21st. >> the public comment closed a while ago on the eir > >> that gets complicated. >> even though the comments have closed, on every calendar, there has to be a category to allow people to speak to this action. the public will be able to speak to that certification on that day, prioer to the -- prior to e actions. the comment period is done.

i do understand that. >> any comment will not be included in the responses to the document. >> is there any additional public comment on items proposed for continuance? >> -- commissioner miguel: i move item six to the date chair. >> on the motion of 5 and 6 for continuance, and item 8 to the call of the chair, antonini? borden? fung? sugaya? miguel? olague? those items are continued as discussed. commissioners, you are on item

7 a, b, c, and d. for .0422, for the utz. b, c, and d are proposed initiations for the general plan ammendments and the planning code text amendments. and for fthe -- and for the zoning map amendments. >> good afternoon. i am david allenbaum, subs tituding for matt snyder. i am giving his presentation but

i might not do this as nicely. we have three actions for executive park. from the general plan and zoning act. initiating these items will allow the staff and approval -- an approval period ended prenotification for these actions. i would like to give you a second presentation on this proposal. very quickly, for the orientation, executive park is located in the southeast corner of san francisco. just north of the county line and to the right of the city as you come in.

this is a close-up of the site, and also an indication of the other projects coming before you in the past, that have also been subject to your deliberations. the plan was approved in spring 2008 for the other side of the freeway. this product was approved this past summer, and outside of the city -- this was just to the south of these parcels. this is a close-up of the executive side, as this exists today. you can see that there are a couple of things i want to talk about in this drawing. the street that is labeled "executive park boulevard" is changing between a couple of

efforts. to the north of there are the residential developments that have already been built or improved, and what we're talking about today is out of the boulevard, and you can see that this is characterized by three large office uses, with a lot of parking assisted with this. this is bounded by the interstate, and the executive project that has been studied -- this has three components. the first of these is the general plan, and the zoning amendments, the development proposal -- and you can see, in terms of scheduling, this was published in 2010.

we had a public hearing in november of 2010 on this, and the informational presentation a few weeks ago. to talk about the general plan. what is before you today are three actions, and we are now ready to move forward on the request for the guidelines that will provide the framework and the specific requirements for development, and the actual developments are not before you today, and i will not be talking about those, specifically. we look forward to hearing on this. last month we provided a history of the executive park area, and the contents of the area plan, focusing mostly on the zoning and the design guidelines, to implement the changes that we

envision. and as you can see, the revised plan provides for new street network that will retrofit the current network to make it much more available for residential development, and so we have divided this place into blocks replicating this to the west, in little hollywood, and we have established the street irt within that framework, for the networks in following the street plan recommendations, with this area of neighborhood commercial

development, the local streets and alleys, and pedestrian back ways. the hierarchy of streets established listens the scale and determines the building character of the area that we will be claiming, along with the open space system that you can see here, this ties into the hillside, to the north. and to the state recreation area to the south along the waterfront. there are a couple of components, with a picture of the hillside improvements, and then, a look at the state park and how this context there at the bay, as this continues. and then, a couple of images to show you what we intend for the

smaller, open spaces as part of the development, primarily along the edge of the bay, with what will be a reconfigured way, and the urban squares would complement the open-space system. and as we focused on the planning framework, today, we're focused on the implementation tools. specifically, the design guidelines. the zoning needs to establish the land use that is not oriented to residential uses, and the land use is now oriented and higher density than the current underlying zoning would permit. this is to include a mechanism that would include a more

residential street, for the existing configuration. this is to ensure that the newly-created streets would be publicly accessible, along with the kinds of developments that are being envisioned. the zoning will lead to anticipate the reconfiguration of the existing right of ways, and infrastructure facilities, and finally, they have to rezone the heights to allow a range of types to this setting. the existing site, as you can see, is oriented to commercial usage, to allow residential development at a density of one unit for every 800 square feet of area. the proposal is to take this area that is now being discussed

and his own thus, for the underlying lots. the commercial and media zoning, for the predominantly industrial uses, at a higher density than the current zoning will allow. we're also proposing to establish a special use district, to address particular circumstances that are not adequately addressed, without providing use district designations. the existing block and street pattern are configured for a wide skills development, and as you can see -- this would establish controls in ways that

would break this up with a smaller blocs that are envisioned. and integrating the open space -- this provides the provisions that require each phase of development, to include the surrounding streets and the open spaces in juncture with the development of each space. this also anticipates the interchange, and i think that we have all been discussing this, probably in more detail when we talked about how we would reconfigure this, with different controls for this. this also allows portions of the site to transfer an allowed density to the other portions.

specifically, the areas circled in the slide, this is anticipated to be affected by the reconfiguration and the interchange. and in to the east, immediately to the north, this would be increasing as well. they have set up a mechanism for what would happen in those areas, to be transferred to the other places. and the new zoning also revises a high designations, in this area. they are currently assigned with a height limit, and in accordance with the vision laid out by this plan, the new

district would be created specifically for this place, to enable buildings to be built between the heights of 65 and as high as 250 feet. and there be a single zoning designation for this portion of the site, with new provisions in the planning code to lay out the different heights, the different controls are shown there. and this would do a couple of major things. this would enable a prominent street wall at the edge of the neighborhood, and this would establish a place that would route 3 -- allow free larger towers to be part of the development package.

and these are shown in the red. and there is the image of the skyline. we would have a closer image of this. the form that you would get under the current, proposed tight controls. moving forward into these design guidelines, i would like to give you an explanation of those, this will refer to the executive park design guidelines, to assert the further controls. it should be noted, there is the establishment of the design guidelines that do not require

initiation and are not before you during this hearing. and this is in the week prior -- the design guidelines are useful in areas where the planning department is generally silent, or the guidance is more useful with the zoning code. let's look at these design guidelines. this would establish a general strategy, for an overall redesign strategy for the entire department. i am sari. -- i am sari -- sorry. i am having a vision problem. i will start over.

and overall, urban design housing strategy for the entire department, and i apologize. >> are you ok? >> i just have a -- yes. excuse me. let me try this again. >> maybe we take a five-minute recess. we will take a 10-minute recess and will continue.

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