3rd street because of the manner in which muni put in the t rail is a god awful street to work with. it is very pedestrian unfriendly and will continue to be so. illinois, industrial its life is being transformed. and everything you can do to assist illinois street, i'm really more worried about what happens on illinois than i am on 3rd. 3rd third is going to be third because that's what it is. the commercial possibilities of third street, in my estimation, are pretty dim. but illinois is going to become more important. and it will be the street that the residents will want to have unified, will want to look at

more. i don't know if commissioner antonini caught the comments on the colors and stuff that was made by the project sponsor, but there was very lively discussion at the -- excuse me -- at the dogpatch neighborhood association, that they didn't want a dull single-color building sitting out there anymore. we wanted to do something to liven things up along third street particularly. so that's very neighborhood-driven. what the colors ends up being or how bright they are is something else in not the immediate neighborhood, but the general neighborhood. david baker has done some things, again, using his

traditional bright colors in unusual combinations. so it's not going to be very different for the neighborhood in that sense. but i'm very pleased with the project, very pleased with it. president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: most of them don't do what they're supposed to do, and they teach us something about colors, which is probably an intent here. i believe -- i wanted to thank, actually, staff as well as city attorney's office of really stepping to the line, even last minute, to come up with a language for our approval, which indeed gives us some more certainty what's in front of us. the difficulties are basically somewhat nebulous and remain so for awful us. so i want to thank the city attorney for really helping make this a more concrete recommendation for the

commission and i move that we approved. >> second. president olague: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: i think in the future this is going to be an extremely desirable place to live, with a development, i think, that will take place hopefully at peer 70, and, of course, already issued the development for the park right across the street. so the comment about illinois, i think it be seeing some great improvement here in the near future, hopefully. >> there's several new businesses moving in within two blocks of the area and several higher-end businesses, actually, that have just moved in this year. >> the motion on the floor is for approval. on that motion, commissioner ant knee flee? >> aye. >> commissioner moore?

>> reigh. [[motion passes unanimously. [ >> commissioners, you are now at public comment. president olague: we do have speaker cards. mark kopka followed by kathleen johnston. >> good afternoon, commissioners, thank you for your time. i'm here to speak about 1731 15th street. and i appeared here last week for the hearing. spoke at public comments about the same building. and i addressed myself and others that we have grave concerns about this building. we are requesting that permit be rescinded. from the beginning of the process we've been perplexed about why a project with such a

magnitude of issues, procedural issues, could have been issued without proper reviewing procedures. we now have a better sense of what's going on here. an article published yesterday by the online news site, the building owner states that he plans to renovate and lease the property to recovery survival network. a nonprofit that manages nine single-room occupancy hotels in the mission and the tenderloin. recovery survival network operates a sober living facility based at 3032 16th street and is used to house the jerry hotel. and it's this property right here. it surrounded by properties owned by the jolish family. three large properties, which

if included that property, would be a parcel of 160 feet by 122 feet. the area is zoned for high-density transit-oriented development with heights of 85 feet or potentially higher. this is high-value san francisco real estate in a city that strongly supports its development. the properties are low rise and of little historic value. you can do a lot of things in san francisco, but evicting the tents of an s.r.o. is nearly impossible. if the hotel were to move and residents relocated, perhaps a few blocks away at 1731 15th street, problem solved. mr. jolish's entry into the development of social service housing is about a larger-end game. 1731 15th street is a small piece of a larger and lucrative property.

he was enabled by inside influences and a process and in the end neighborhoods were denied their rights. thank you. commissioner moore: for what it's worth, after hearing a few speakers earlier, i checked with miss avery about the next available calendar time. president olague: so we'll have an informational hearing about this, but even the bigger policy issue, and we're hoping the next available open calendar date is october 20. we'll try to fit something in at least for the initial conversations. and i'm familiar with the r.s.n., and they run, i think, some decent programs, actually, for what it's worth. i think we have to be looking at it from some of the issues you folks have raised and some of the bigger policy implications around just a lot of different things. so we're hoping to schedule it.

maybe we'll invite mayor's council on housing, and it's something i've been approached by other tenant applicants as well. it's starting to get complicated. >> i'm sure. president olague: yeah. >> i'm kathleen johnston. you guys know why i'm here today. i've been here before, and i have just learned that i can learn a lot about the mission by coming to these meetings. there is a lot that i learned about today. but i have to honey in the point -- hone in the point that there's absolute structural problems with the issuance of this permit. planning staff typically reviews the project and the intensification of use and the issues this one has that would have required a more extensive review to examine the issues of appropriate use, density, environment and neighborhood impact. although the permit application was filed almost one year ago, neighbors were unaware that

building permits were under review and that physical changes and intensification of use were being proposed. had neighbors been made aware of this project, as is required by the planning code, section 312, neighbors could have worked together with the project sponsor or failing to resolve their issues. neighbors could have requested discretionary review by the planning commission. failure of the staff to require project sponsors to meet with and notify neighbors, as is common practice, has deprived neighbors a valuable opportunity to have their concerns heard and considered by the planning commission. there are so many issues that have come up with this project, as you can see by the one that was just presented, that you can't expect the board of permit appeals to unravel. it would have been before the planning commission before it went to the board of appeals. commissioners sugaya, you were out of the room when carle gave her testimony. she's the name that lives right next door to this project and i would recommend that you look

at that, because she has incredible credentials as a progressive and she's done a lot for this city. you have no idea what this neighborhood was like, and i just want to quote something from the mission local article that mark brought up. one of the residents of valencia garden said it was so dangerous in this neighborhood, so crime-ridden and drug infested -- and this is when the old valencia garden was there -- and so horrific that an old-timer told me finding a parking space in this neighborhood was never a problem. finding your car when you got back was, and that should be a concern to the people coming to these new restaurants that are being built. in case you haven't noticed in the san francisco papers, the way these prisoners are being released is not because they're good citizens, it's because we have a budget crisis in the state, and we're the ones that they're being forced on. thank you for your time.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i live on in the neighborhood and i'm here to protest for the property at 1731 15th street. i'm an interior designer and architect for 30 years in san francisco and work a lot with builders and developers. as we know, it is very difficult to have permits and review every site. and basically what is bad here, this property is made for 21 rooms, and now it will come to 53 rooms. and basically what we ask for you, commissioners, is not just to make a decision, but also to help us to send back to the planning code for us to be sure this is the code and the permit

for san francisco. and we don't -- we understand it is not only for you to decide it, but for us -- for you commissioners to help us to go forward with that issue. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> commissioners, back again. i'm in district 5, and this issue of priority warehousing came up years ago in district 5, and the whole neighborhood became outraged. it was actually proposed by reverend brown and right next to the fill more. and i didn't pose them coming in, the patrolees, because i happen to be a good friend of amos. and it was just that simple. but the fact is after hearing the interpretation today of

section bull tin number -- it's only bulletin number four, section 312-b, which the effective date was december, 2001, i really became concerned, because now what's happening in the mission is going to happen in every district throughout this city. if we're going to take the new interpretation by the zoning administrator. so i'm asking for a clarification from the zoning administrator of code section 312-b which says subject notification of change of use in n.c. districts. because what controls who's coming in and how you're going to facilitate whatever is proposed is the change of use, not the designation, whether it's group housing or institutional housing. and so there's no exemption within 312 to exempt out paroleees in group housing. unfortunately, the zoning administrator gave that

impression today. that was my take on this. and i might say at that time the emotions were so great in the district that people told the reverend brown, if you like the parole ease so much, why don't you rent out a room in your house to one of them. that's what it came down to, because we're really looking at the quality of life here. what is upsetting is we don't want to happen in district 5 what's now happening in the mission district. because the fact is there was a bifurcation of the process, and while we all understand the jurisdiction in question that the board of appeals and commissioner sugaya, the fact is it's only after the planning commission had taken the question of jurisdiction up that, on an appeal of that question, for instance, was there an increase of density can the board of permanent appeals then direct it.

you're making the board of permanent appeals the primary interor of this question which is -- interpreter of this question, which is outstanding. we are now getting ready to go for a full-blown initiative process, because we're not take anything chances. because families and neighbors want to restructure to help the quality of life. and no one is against president olague: thank you. i think as we start to see more training programs and people being re-integrated into the city, that i think we do have to look at where folks are going to be housed and how. and i think we're all on a similar side. we're all progressive. we've all supported these types of projects before. so thank you guys for bringing up these issues. so we just have to -- hopefully october 20 we'll start some of those conversations. is there additional general

public comment? are you here for general public comment now? ok, seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is at journed. >> tnk you. [meeting adjourned at 8:45 eastern time.] . . . . . . . . . . .

>> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the

priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor -- local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. ♪ >> many san franciscans are not aware that there is a civic art collection of numbers almost 4000 works of art. preserving the collection and maintaining it is something being addressed by a new program

called art care. it is a way for citizens to participate in the preservation of the civic art collection. with me is the creator of the art care program. welcome. the reason we wanted to interview you is that the artist in question is peter volkas. why is he so important to the history of san francisco art? >> he is a very famous ceramic ist. knowing the limitations of clay, he got involved in bronze in around 1962. he was teaching at the university of california, berkeley. >> your gallery celebrated the 50th anniversary of continuous

operation. you are a pioneer in introducing the work and representing him. >> i have represented him since 1966. i was not in business until 1961. he made a big deal out of working in clay. the things he was doing was something never seen before. >> it is a large scale bronze. it has been sitting here of the hall of justice since 1971. talk about what happens to the work of art out of the elements. >> the arts commission commissioned the piece. they did not set aside money for repair. it has slowly changed color. it was black. it has been restored.

>> it has been restored to the original patina. >> there was no damage done to its. i do not think there were any holes made in it. they have been working on it for six or eight weeks. it is practically ready to go. i am very excited to see it done. >> over the course of the arts in richmond program, we have added almost 800 works of art into the public space. maintaining that is not something that the bond funds allow us to do. this is why you came up with the idea of art care. >> i hope we get the community going and get people who really like to be involved. we will give them a chance to be involved.

if you are interested in art, this is a marvelous way to get involved. there is work all over the city where every year ago. -- there is artwork all over the city wherever you go. my idea was to get people in the neighborhood to take care of the pieces and let the art commission have the money for the bigger pieces. >> i was talking to the former president of the arts commission yesterday. the 2% ordnance is something he helped to champion. >> it is all over california and other states now. we really were the forerunners. it is a wonderful thing to bring the community into this now. people have seen art being put into the community. this has not been touched by any

graffiti. it just faded over time. it is so open here. there is nobody watching this. i think that is a plus to the community. i hope the graffiti people do not go out there now that i am opening of my mouth. >> i want to thank you for the 50 years you have already given to the city as an arts leader. >> i started in to briberon, i's only been 45. >> you have championed his work over these years. >> it has been exciting working with him. it is one of the highlights of my life. >> thank you for being part of "culture wire" today. >> to learn more about the program and the list of public arts in need of maintenance,

visit the website. thank you for