>> before i call role, if i could just remind all of us to turn off or silence ourself phones or any other electronic device that may sound off during the proceedings. [roll-call] commissioner moore is absent today. the first item is items proposed for a continuance. the san francisco overlook development residential project proposed for a continuance until june 14, 2012. item #2, the san francisco

planning code and zoning map amendments. to create three new named neighborhood commercial districts and amend the trade a shop definition in the planning code. this is proposed for a continuance until june 14, 2012. with that, i'm not aware of any other items proposed for a continuance. president fong: is there any public comments on these items? of the motion before you is continuance of items one and two as they are proposed on your calendar. [roll-call] thank you. those items are continued as they were proposed. commissioners, the next

category is the commissioners questions and matters. item #3 is consideration and adoption, draft meetings from the regular meeting for may 10 and 17th and your special meeting of may 24, 2012. following public comment and any corrections or modifications, you may have come might we ask you to adopt the draft minutes. commissioner borden: i would like to amend a may 10. under my comments, at the beginning of the second point under my comments, it says meat market. i said clothing market. it says upscale meat markets in the country. it should say clothing markets.

>> thank you. any other corrections? commissioner antonini: is -- president fong: is there a motion to approve? >> the motion before you is to approve the draft minutes as may 10 as has been corrected and may 17 and the special meeting of may 24. on that motion -- [roll call] thank you. those minutes have been adopted as we have discussed. are there any other commission matters? commissioner antonini: i have three things briefly.

first, our national golf championship, the united states open, is being held at the olympic club next week. the fifth time it has been held at the olympic club which may be more than any other site -- any other site in the western united states. i'm not sure how many times they have held at pebble beach, but it's only one of three or four different sites that it has been held in california and it brings up to 40,000 spectators and national attention and a beautiful man of -- beautifully manicured course. on a less positive note, during the time we did not have hearings last week, the wife and i were able to take our granddaughter to dolores park which has put up a fabulous new play area for the children and very age appropriate. the bad news is there was

graffiti and many of the things that had just recently been put in place had been torn up by vandals. my 2-year-old even noticed the keys of the xylophone were missing. i think we have to do something about this. we need some sort of legislation to put a severe penalty or fine on anyone convicted of this vandalism and graffiti and also have to try to somehow figure out funding for existing and future playgrounds for some sort of a 24-hour surveillance by police special patrol or private security firms. the amount we spend in trying to repair the damage would probably pay for security. this is something i would like to mention to some of the supervisors because there are a lot of articles in the paper about the vandalism problems when we invest all this money into renovating parks and playgrounds and the art of sooner fixed that they're being vandalized.

i think that's a big problem. one other item i noticed and some of you may have noticed is it's not a certainly a significant as vandalism on the playgrounds, but some of our street signs are being changed from a very easily recognizable with bold letters on a white background. i just recently found out some information from supervisor farrells' office that they said something with large and small caps are more recognizable. i think they are much harder to read. you may spot a few of them around town and try to figure out what street is. these are historic street signs, not the big green ones, but the white with and the numerals of

the block in this. we talked a lot about historical items and those are historical street signs. maybe we can find a way to keep them in there along those lines. i'm going to try to take up with people on a street level because apparently the ordinance was passed and took effect in january of 2012 and required all cities to have at the same kind of street signs or at least similarly it laid out. it is a little disturbing, so we will see where we go with that. commissioner borden: it is interesting you pointed that out. my st. just got a new street sign and i also notice the new parking stickers for the cars. i like the old font better but whatever. it doesn't matter. in terms of the u.s. open, it's interesting you mention that

because i work for ibm and we are the technology sponsor. we do all the behind-the-scenes stuff and it's fun for it to be local. i want to thank a member of staff and the enforcement to it. unfortunately, this commission twice approved a massage place and unfortunately this business chose not to fall by appropriate practices and enforcement has been taken against that location and i would like to think staff for looking into it. i noticed they were in violation of our condition just on the window screening and the fact that you could not just walked in. then i looked on yelp and there were reviews that they only saw men and i would like to think staff and it is unfortunate that is the case. it was a good lesson learned. i think commissioner wu is going

to bring up the issue of building code and i will be interested to hear what she suggests regarding a hearing on that. commissioner miguel: my wife and i just returned from two weeks in germany. by the way, all lot of graffiti there as well. the one thing that was totally missing was any accommodation for the disabled. there is virtually no what we call ada regulations there. at least in dresden, berlin, and munich -- the cobblestone streets make it extremely difficult for anyone with a wheelchair or a walker or even with a cane or just to has difficulty walking to get around.

so sometimes we rail at the regulations we are forced to put up with here in the united states and in california and in san francisco, but when you see the difference in other areas of the world, you realize that perhaps we are quite progressive in that regard. and the other thing, although berlin and munich are flat, there are couple of slopes, there are no hills. tremendous bike usage. from talking to those who lived there for some time, greatly increasing to the dismay of cabdrivers. but they do a very good job once you get used to it of designating their bike paths. pedestrians do not walk on those paths. sometimes they are a part of the

street. sometimes they are part of the wide sidewalk. they are relatively well designated either by color or marking and people observe them quite well. since that type of thing is coming to us, it was a very interesting to see how i got along. for those comments we get from time to time here regarding large construction projects and public construction projects, the public works starts at 6 in the morning. it goes on to whenever they happen to stop at night. they blocked the streets and allowed only one lane of traffic. there is no one directing

anyone. we may complain about how things are here, but we actually handled many of them quite well. commissioner wu: last night, i attended the final open house -- it was a great event and i want to thank the staff for all of their work. and see the support of the dpw and hopefully we can move forward with seeking capital on that. also yesterday, i attended the student housing meeting that the department put on the following the conversation we had as a commission about the student housing legislation. it's good to see all of the stakeholders working toward a compromise.

related but separate, as commissioner bordon pointed out, there is legislation going through the board of supervisors right now about the size requirements of efficiencies. it or originally went through the dbi commission and i asked staff to look for the best forum for getting information about that legislation and whether it relates to larger moves around density or has any impact on conversion, either incentivizing or not. just wanted to state that for the record. thank you. >> thank you. if we are finished with commission comments and questions, we can move on to the directors reports and announcements and review the last week in the board of

supervisors and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon. is going to mention those of the meetings that commissioner wu mentioned. we were excited to have the conclusion of the meeting with the chinatown commission and it was a very broad range of community support an interesting project. as usual, what we find these projects is it increases our possibility of getting funding comes to doing the planning work up front and it being ready to go for funding possibilities is a great way to go. we think there is a real possibility of getting funded. on this to the housing legislation, we convened a meeting of about 25 stakeholders or so. it was a very productive meeting and it did help us to get closer to a recommendation and we will be prepared to have a recommendation on the 21st,

which is the date we have scheduled of for that legislation. this meeting gave us enough information and positions of a range of people to formulate a recommendation. we think there will be work to do after this legislation is done, but we have a fairly strong agreement that the next phase of the legislation should move ford. i just want to highlight a couple of the meetings at the written directors' report. next wednesday, we will be having the latest public meeting on the central corridor plan where we hope to present a range of alternatives that we would like to study. we are proceeding into that phase of the planning effort. saturday, the 23rd, we will be hosting a meeting with our

partners on the green connection study. this will be a walked through that part of town to look at alleyways, gardens and those kinds of things. that concludes my report. >> it good afternoon, the commissioners. here for your weekly report on the board of supervisors and land use activities. eight washington was back before the board this week. this is a proposal to abolish the golden gate tennis club and construct a new health club. some retail and 380 some parking places. in may, the board upheld the authorization by an 8-3 vote. this week, the land use committee considered to ordinances, both of which would

allow for a height increase of the property. the board president joined in to the committee and a question that staff on the height change and asked why it was being related board toward downtown buildings and not the 40 foot residential buildings. the chair of the committee stated he would like to see reduced parking for the project. while there were close to 30 speakers, the hearing was much closer and that the majority of speakers were in support of the ordinances. at the board president's request, the item was referred out of the board without recommendation. on wednesday, the budget committee heard items related to eight washington. the planning department did not attend this hearing as port was the primary staffing agency. they heard ordnances considering the trust's ch