>> the planning commission is back in session. commissioners you're on item 13, the monitor report follow-up hearing. >> good evening, commissioners.

here to do a quick presentation for you on the follow-up from the market monitoring report and hopefully hear from a few of our c.a.c. members. as you recall we were here a couple of months ago providing you a presentation on the monitoring report for the racket octavia report and the monitoring report. today i'm going to focus on the key recommendations that the c.a.c. made and where the department feels that there's room for us to respond and some issues we are really working on. the first key issue is affordable housing. i think a lot of the -- it about the exclusionary housing program. as you are well aware there are recent state rulings that require us the state inclusionary and it limits our policy choices. next week, i'll be back to talk

to you about a land altercation for market octavia. we see that as a really good way to get inclusionary housing to happen within the planned area if we can't require council member tatiana kostanian: be on sight specifically. -- if we can't be on sight specifically. the redevelopment agency has secured the sight on central freeway and we are expecting housing development. the first someone open on market and octavia. there's another comment about conditional use specifically around parking requirement and conditional uses. i know you've all heard about whether a parking fee was

within the planned area. our staff has made the traditional five findings to make the case for a conditional use and also looking for the requirement that the parking piece specifically has and those talk about the design impact and on the neighborhood. i think there are a lot of questioning among community members. they would like to have more clarity in the planning code around that. internally, we've had some conversations, some brain storms, although no solutions yet. should the commission think we should have more guidance or specific conditions when considering parking fees, the department can conduct a small research and work with the c.a.c. on that and any other stakeholders. another big issue is the fee deferrell program which you remember was adopted a year ago. it was a legislation sponsored

by the mayor's office. what it does is it offer as delay when the fees are collected or most of the fees are collected. the idea was to help sort of stimulate the economy and get developers over this little hurdle. the program sunsets automatically three years after it started so it has about two years left. we've only actually had one new development project take advantage of it. a number of them are sitting at the gate kind of weating to get their financing together and that was sort of the intention of the program. so hopefully we will see a few more move through before that moves through sunset. but we don't see it as the main reason the impact fees aren't coming in. there is also a suggestion for the city to provide a bridge or some way to fund the community improvements until the impact fees are collected.

and we -- i don't know that a bridge loan or any of those types of programs are available. we are working with other other agencies to have other funding opportunities and this kind of goes into the issues of connecting transportation with services. you know, the impact fees are supposed to fund about 30% of the total package. so while tim packet fees haven't been rolling in quite, the other agencies have been working pretty diligently to secure grants and do additional planning. i thought i would show a few additional planning of the more interesting projects that we have going on. the first one shows you -- if i can get the -- shows you the market octavia area and the orange area is what the t.a. is calling their core study area for the octavia circulation

program. and they're going to come out of the project probably in a couple of months with three key transportation projects that they're going to help the settling of octavia boulevard within the planning area. and with that their thinking about how to fund those projects. so this would be way to balance that 70%. another project which i have spent a lot of energy on and i'm excited to see move forward is the hey street program. let me turn it the right way. there we go. just sort of an overview but this is one of the major projects that came out of the planned area which has the good fortune of having a low price check so we are able to achieve that with impact fees. we plan -- the m.t.a. plans to construct this this summer. so by school next year we'll be seeing two-way traffic on this part of hay street between van necessary and g -- vaness and

goff. another project is hay street two-way. this is -- if i can orient you for a minute. this is goff -- if i can orient myself. this is goft street and this is market street and this is hape. currently this block, only this block is one way. we're going to make this two way so that the bus can come on down here. it saves the bus six minutes each time it comes through. this is a really important project. it also comes with a lot of beautiful work, a beautiful pedestrian amenities designed by nick perry in our office who also helped with the transportation interface. and then finally, of course -- ooh. there ice a lot of bicycles and

persons that are happening. so all of the city hand been able to create a formal bridge loan program. we have a lot of funding sources of the infrastructure needed to support the growth and the planning area. and there were a number of key issues mentioned that had to do with a variety of nontransit transportation issues. and i'm going to go through them pretty quickly. a lot of the are things that the department doesn't regulate. one of those is car sharing. you may be familiar with recent legislation that has made car sharing more easily accessible to private parking amenities. so we're seeing the blossoming of car sharing and market octavia in public but also in private properties.

another comment was about regulating vehicles in the planned area and that's a really fascinating idea. i don't know that we are ready to engage on that issue. we're really focusing on on-street parking. one of the pilot projects or one of the s.f. projects is in market and octavia. bicycles, there's a lot of support for bicycles and have a list of all the bicycle projects that have been completed in the planned area, if anyone is interested in that one as well. i just read an article about electrical car fueling options and apparently there is some agency in the city that's going to create a plan to make sure available citywide.

the last issue that was raised is coordination, the c.a.c. and how it's been going. there are a lot of really interesting ideas about updating their website, get a mailing list going. we're working with our technical support staff to see what we can do. we've been meeting for two and a 1/2 years now with market octavia and the c.a.c. we have a list of priority projects. these projects are including things that have been implemented the hays street and the hape street two-way. and they're familiar with our agencies and they're starting to see it as part of our work program. we've also recently with sarah dunna phillips have been working with the c.a.c. to make sure that everybody's on the same page and there are a lot of opportunities to learn from

each other. so we look forward to continuing to improve that process. i'm available for questions on any of these issues. >> thank you for your presentation. >> sure. >> at this time we'll take public comment or any member of the c.a.c. that would like to share some thoughts with us. >> jason henderson, i'm the vice chair of the c.a.c. and also i have a newsletter from the hays valley association and it hass an article about the importance of housing. i just want to quickly cover three things. first of all, in terms of the c.a.c. meetings themselves, they've been very collegial. they run very smoothly, sometimes too long. they've been very thorough.

and it is -- i think -- it's a good model for land use planning. so i comment the planning department for doing this -- it from this angle and i really thank staff and the whole process has been really good. it's been, you know, two years and there hasn't been that too much development and that's because of exogenist forces. the "l.a. times" had a story about how rental infill urban housing on the coast l.a. and san francisco is the only gain in california that low density smog is not happening because of fuel prices and because of a general situation in the housing market of california and we're starting to feel that pressure. woods is from atlanta or texas

depending on who you ask. and the one that wants to do parcel p is also from the east coast. and that to me says that the city should really stand firm, that these guys really don't have anywhere else to go. they need to be in these urban markets. this is what they have to build and they have to build. and so all of these arguments that are are coming out about well, if we don't reduce our inclusionary component or if we don't have the parking that we want, we're going to walk away. i think that's a bluff gauze they don't have anywhere else to -- because they don't have anywhere else to go. i think that's an important point that you guys should keep in mind. about the parking issue, i simply urge the commission to work the committee advisory committee on coming up with -- especially son parameters on what exactly are compelling reasons because i think that's

been very vague and ambiguous. i think that the issue that commissioner more has repeatly raised that they need it for the financing but we still don't have any sort of immingpir can evidence. i think when you dig into it you'll see that yeah, they're going to have to sell the units for less money which is actually good for affordable housing. so, you know -- also, one thing that i've noticed particularly with 55 laguna and with this parcel p, this big one on fell is that they're often n.c.t. and r.t.o. but the developer tries to do all r.t.o. they try to say, oh, we, because we're half n.c.t. and that's .5 to one and we're r.t.o. which is .5 to one. they say since we're within both, they either try to average it or skew it towards

the 1.75. on the affordable housing, you know, i would just -- again, i point out stay solid on the inclusionary but also, you know, i think a couple of projects that have been permitted might being coming back like the 55 laguna but also, i don't know 555 fulton seems to be in limbo as we. and you know, i just hope that, you know, as these guys come back to say that they have the refines that we stick to -- refinance that we stick to the original sbitement has been. i think it's a pretty good process, template and model. i think the rest of the -- i hope the rest of the city will have better neighborhoods planned. >> mr. le vits, you're on the c.a.c. also aren't you?

if you could share some thoughts. >> thank you very much commissioners and director ryan for hearing this. i don't have much to add from what has already been said so i don't want to repeat mr. henderson our kirsten what they've already said. i did this the last time i was hear. i just want to read d vision statement from the market octavia plan which is really the basis -- basic idea of this plan. if you'll bear with me. envision an urban neighborhood that provides for a mix of people of various ages incomes and lifestyles, a place where every day needs can be met on a short walk on a system of public streets that are are easy and safe to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. imagine a plan connected to a city as whole where owning a car is a choice not a necessity and streets are inviting public

bliss spaces. i think this sort of drives our focus here when we talk about affordability we're talking about a neighborhood that is inclusionary of all different types of people and this is a very important component of -- of the market octavia plan to make this plan work. and then the transportation. we talk about parking. this is also very, very important. we've said for many years, we welcome new residence in our neighborhood but when they bring their cars, it's problematic. we're already indone dated with many -- inundated with many cars on our streets. we've got franklin, falon and hope and now since the tearing down of the central freeway and ok tafe yeah boulevard, we had

buchanan and laguna are becoming major thorough fairs. i had it an experience where i was assaulted by an angry driver, motorist and sent to the hospital at laguna and page. just the other day i was walking with my dog and a driver ran the stop sign and almost ran over my dog. it's just the neighborhood has been inundated with this traffic. and we just can't take it anymore. the bike route is not a bike route anymore in the morning and on weekends. they have to run a gauntlet of car there is. and it's -- it's -- so it's becoming -- it's not the place that this plan invisionened and if we're going to add more residents, we have to be very cautious about adding more cars to the neighborhood. we just can't take it anymore. so i think the issue of issuing

the c.e.u.'s is a very important issue and the affordable housing component is an important issue to make this plan what we all foresaw it as. so again, with what mr. henderson said, stick to your guns, when considering parking and when considering affordable housing these are very important issues. >> thank you. >> i don't see any one in the audience other than those who have spoken. so i guess we'll end the public comment period. if anyone one o you want to add to this, we will add the comments of any of you. commissioner moore? commissioner moore: it's actually quind of heart warm -- kind of heartwarming to sit here how a successful plan creates the next successful

chapter, a mutual support and engagement with each other when success flies which makes it very easy for us to really continue it in the state of basic principles particularly when it has the mature thity which this plan has. other projects where the maturity of the planning fell far short and those are projects with major consequences and i regret that they have not weathered as this plan has. i have a couple of questions for you. i'm really intrigued by your idea of affordable housing. chow you do that? -- how can you do that? are we viewed from private to

public? >> there are two programs that i mentioned. one is -- is along the octavia boulevard and it used to be freeway. that property was transferred to cal tran part of it from the redevelopment agency to the affordable housing. they're required to develop affordable housing on those sights and they have plan which probably is changing. they have a plan to do that with specific different target populations. the other piece i mentioned is actually legislation. i'll be back next week to talk more about. but it provides additional alternative. rather than paying your inclusionary fee, you could as the project sponsor purchase a piece of land and that would be most likely within the planned area and give that to the mayor's office of housing or to the city for the development of

affordable housing. commissioner moore: that is something that we had several approvals before and i'm intrigued to have that as an alternative because i believe it gets harder and harder because the inlieu fee will find the sights where it can be built. i want to have an on sight of affordability which blends in a way that you don't even know who lives there. we are not close to that buts that slightly a different legislation. >> the land dedication option is something we did incorporate in the eastern neighborhood. and the idea there is that part of the issue that the mayor of housing has with providing affordable housing is simply the affordability of the land.

and a portion of their property can be donated and they can still develop their property with their own projects. in fact, you'll be seeing a project in this neighborhood which is actually proposing this option. commissioner moore: to build up market octavia where it doesn't have those parcels other than the freeway parcel which gets me of the next -- to the next point. we have some very heavily traveled streets within market octavia. they're really difficult. and for all intents and purposes for them to drive. in those cases i think it might be interesting to also talk with mr. raji on the housing community and see what impact we might be aware of, be that

noise, be that particular par tick lates and housing issues. i think it would be a fair thing to do. it's not a hindrance but something to inform ourselves what type of technology we have to think of in order to not create a house impact in this heavily traveled corridors. the other thing is lane use and proximity particularly affordable housing in larger numbers, proximity to community services is extremely important. and that is your ability to work to a kindergarten and that's to have within walking distance an elementary school and a park. when you have high concentration of urban affordable housing