>> good afternoon. this is the regular meeting of the planning commission for september 22nd, 2011. if you could turn off your telephone, pager or electronic devices that may sound off during the proceedings. if you are filling out speaker cards, you can put them on the railing and i will pick them up. [roll call]

president olague: the first things on a calendar are items proposed for a continuance. the 135 el camino del mar, proposed for a continuance until october 27th, 2011. the next one is for 2424 polk st. for an deafening continuanthird is the japan towl use provision, this is also proposed for indefinite continuance. item #4 is -- this is important to point out this is only for

the variance case for parole street. -- peralta street. the design administrator has determined the variance is no longer necessary, so the item is being removed from the calendar. id is only shown because it's continued to this specific date, so we needed to show the trail. further on the calendar, under the regular calendar, 15 01 15th st., staff is requesting continuance until october 6th, 2011. the project sponsor is in agreement with that. with that, i am not aware of any other item on your calendar being proposed for a continuance. president olague: any public comment on the items proposed for continuance?

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am in north mission property owner. i am concerned about 1501 15th street. the staff report gives the developers everything are entitled to under the code, yet the promise to the community under the plan are ignored and abrogated. in every instance, the developer maxes out, but there's nothing on the corresponding give side and tiling the neighborhood to have livability. we are looking at a parking -- >>president olague: this is noto speak to the item, but to speak to continuance. >> i hope we have continuance going on to allow staff to work with the neighborhood and come to some sort of agreement, especially as relates to marshall school. president olague: thank you.

>> i am here on the 135 el camino del mar continuance. i support the continuance. i did a time she with what happened in and where we are, which is not very far. but we are here today. thank you preheat president olague: -- the thank you,. . president olague: public comment is closed. vice-president miguel: i moved to continue the agenda, plus item number 14. president olague: for the motion to continue, item 14 to october 6th, [roll-call] thank you, commissioners.

the items are continued as has been proposed. commissioners, you have won consent calendar item, considered to be routine and acted upon by single roll call vote. there will be no separate discussion of this item unless a number of this commission, the public or staff should request and that would remove the item from consent and content -- considered as a separate item. this is item number five, for the 13267 a, a request for a conditional use authorization to allow a wireless telecommunications service facility that consists of six panel antennas which will be a facade and rooftop amounted to a six-story mixed use building as part of the at&t wireless network. following public comment, which would automatically pull this from the consent calendar, this item is in your hands.

president olague: is there any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. there is public comment? ok. in that case, it will be coming off the regular calendar and we will hear it on the first item of the regular calendar. >> with that, we can move on to item no. 6, consideration of the adoption of the adoption of the regular meeting, following public comment in any modification and/or corrections you may have, we ask you approved the draft measure. -- a draft minutes. commissioner miguel: is there any public comment on the draft minutes? public comment disclosed. -- public comment is closed. on the motion to approve the

draft minutes of september 8th, 2011 -- [roll-call] thank you, commissioners. at any other commission manners? commissioner moore: i wanted to ask the director, staff and the mayor's office to talk with us about the san francisco foreclosures and how they are affecting the city overall. there was an article in the newspaper, and while we are very aware of how foreclosures are ravaging the rest of the country, we live in a healthy city where foreclosures are not as noticeable. however, this particular article indicates there is more to be concerned about than what meets the eye.

perhaps the article over stated that deal, but perhaps there should be a discussion about a because many of the decisions we're making are affecting the city at all levels, and support city, support structures etc., getting the feeling which neighborhoods are hit and which parts of the population are affected and geographically how it plays itself out would be very important for us to take into consideration. i ask the commission to support we asked for such a presentation or somebody that can fill us in. yes second thing is, on a much brighter note, there was an in a screening of a movie last night in the kabuki theater of a film shown at the toronto film festival. commissioner fong was good

enough to pass our names around. the name of the movie is "urbanized." it is a phenomenal movie about cities worldwide talking about urban issues and how people in 40 cities across the world are attacking the broadest range of issues. they're talking about it every thursday, how the rest of the world addresses these issues is inspiring. i hope the entire planning department and anybody interested in city and suburbanism -- and urbanism. i encourage everybody to see this movie. it's mine glowingly wonderful and i cannot speak more glowingly about the experience of having seen it last night. commissioner antonini: one

subject we frequently talk about is transportation, which is where much of what are planning revolves around. i came upon a buck, a pictorial book with a text on the muni and there are very many interesting things in that book. it was one of the nation's first man to play on transportation systems. most of the others were private until 1913. they did some really marvelous things, mostly by building tunnels in places like stockton street, 26, and the cut through to allow street cars to move quickly to various neighborhoods. an interesting statistic is that the daily volume of muni is > bart, golden gate transit, but

if they said it, it's probably a fact. the number of people to take muni per day is astonishing. we're moving a lot of people on a given day. one interesting statistic is we have a portion of muni, the metro system. it has six different lines, and two of those lines, i'm not sure which ones, each carry more volume individually than the entire santa clara valley transit authority like whale system in the south bay. how there is one down there, but nobody rides it. ballpoint of this exercise is to make the public aware and talk to your representatives at the state and federal level and let's get funding where people use transit, and that is in san

francisco. let's try to, and a spirit of was done many years ago, explore the idea of more transit in its own right of way. the ability to move people quickly other than competing with traffic on the street were possible. that's a really interesting situation. we see on a day like september 11th when we had a game at candlestick, we had a game that at&t park, we had shakespeare in the park, we had more than 120,000 people for those events alone. they did not rise muni, -- they did not m all rideuni, but many of them did use public transport. commissioner miguel: there was a noontime forum this week on middle-income housing.

our director was one of the presenters as was ted egan, the city's economist. they did go into what you were discussing. it was well attended, and it was very interesting. also during the week, i met with people from the armory. one of the department noontime forums was on windows. we often get a subject comes up in front of us on replacement windows, which ones not to, so for me and many in the department, it was relatively educational. yesterday, i met with the executive medical committee of st. luke's. commissioner sugaya: i don't know if i missed it at the last update, but apparently they are

now in ownership of the former culinary institute building. are they supposed to be doing that? i guess you are not supposed to answer that. it is our understanding that further purchases -- i don't know what the situation is but it seems this needs to have some of vetting somewhere. the other concern is i don't know what it's historic status is, but i did not look it up to see it there was a landmark or not. the access to public spaces on the interior, that is a concern i would like to voice at this point. commissioner borden: we're always talking economic development opportunities here. there's an organization called the urban desolations.

they help do voskhod improvement programs and write business plans and help them be -- that they have an event coming up called to blocks of art. all of the different galleries and restaurants will be open and there will be art displays and the goal is to get people down to that neighborhood to see what is going on there. all of these new businesses have come in and some of them are struggling. they are struggling because people don't think to go to sixth street where there are stories about crime in that area and this initiative as a way to get people down and the neighborhood and to the vitality that exists and encourage people to come back. it is october 14th and its in- between market and howard on sixth street.