been rushed. it's been stretched out. and if it goes much longer, i don't think that thing will ever get redeveloped because anybody's going to be afraid to come in and with the regulations. let me comment on a couple of things that have been mentioned so far. our building has the common area hallway that only has light wells. it only has light wells. we've never had a problem with light. we never had a problem with air circulation, mold. as far as heat goes. it's the richmond. we don't get any heat. so those aren't issues anymore. the rendering that we show here, obviously you need light to supplement what's coming in. we don't think of it as a dungeon. it has light wells. regarding parking, my understanding is that the dentist who wants to move in

already has a client base that's already used to parking in another location. so it's not going to be a big leap of faith for parking. i've used the bust -- bus. it's not a big deal. plus, this is a transit corridor. it's a lot of public investment in something. you want to slow that up with a lot of parking. anybody who tries to put parking on that side will find there's no room for anything else. and so i'm afraid that it will just stay the way it is. more over, if you put parking in it's going to be a curve across the side walk. it makes for a lousy streetscape in an urban area. for all those reasons, i think that the project as its been developed and with that one reservation that was mentioned that it would be lowered to the height of the bui it, i think we should vote in

favor of that. thank you. >> good everyoning, commissioners. i'm the owner of the project. i would really like to emphasize some of the things that -- the reason i've tried to build a building is i formed a foundation that's a nonprofit foundation called smiles live. and i own the san francisco chapter. it's a national foundation that -- it's a nonprofit and treat kids who cannot afford care otherwise. my thesis was access to care. and i feel as an immigrant myself who came here without anything, it's my responsibility to help kids who really are in need. so on the smile for life topic, i purchased this building a while ago.

it's been a struggle for me to try to start something on the side. i have a present office at 3412 gerry building. there's no parking. there are a lot of kids taking proper transportation and in general finding means to find a way to go get the orthodontic's office. you will excuse me but a lot of children who are underprivileged and in foster care and things like that have a very difficult time trying to get ort donic care in anything. when i went torres den si, has a line of people that are waiting. some people are not qualified for medicare. the difficulty is also when we do qualify children for our foundation, they need to get their cavities fixed. they need to get their teeth taken out. they have to go across the whole city. one of our board members is in

downtown. they have to go to pediatric dentist on mission. and they have to go to go to oral surgeon in west portal. after that they end up in richmond. so, you know, for those kids who are disadvantaged now we're creating more obstacle to start care. my desire in this building to have a multispecialty clinic -- to have different specialists, an ort donic, an oral surgeon are -- where there's a collaboration of effort finding ease of space. i've gone above and beyond to accommodate the neighbors and we've had five neighborhood meetings. for the sake of moving the project alone, i signed a contract with a neighbor. and i said for the sake of moving along, we're going to remove the fourth floor. so we took the fourth floor off trying to be accommodating.

i really appreciate your time and hope that you can support us. >> thank you. >> i'm a recent high school student. i leave for college next week. i've been a recipient for smile for a lifetime. i have brateses that you can see -- braces that you can see provided by the doctor. aft a big nonprofit organization and other ways through the boys & girls club, i deal with kids who do not have a lot of resources. i've had to go through different offices such as one on mission street, one on gerry street, one on sacramento street to get services for my braces when i feel like this office is created. i could go to one central location and get, you know, all of my needs taken care of.

also with transportation here in san francisco in terms of how costly that may be that may help children such as myself, you know, get the resources better. a lot of the kids -- a lot of the patients or young people by way of that, we all catch the bus. parking will not be an issue because we all bus in. going to one location, it will make the house go to other locations around the city which i've been doing way more easier and the -- the time will be cut will get better. you know, treatment. and it would be better for the recipients of this program. i will be with him for t and i pressure it after this one location to serve all my needs instead of having to travel and bus around to go to these

different places and it will help my fellow friends to get the resources they need in a timely way. thank you. >> good evening. commissioner. sorry to keep you wait, keep you guys so late. i'm here to speak for my peace. my name is juddy. and the last name is fauna. i'm the owner for one of the university 402 8th avenue. i purchased the unit in 1989. so i've been looking at this ugly building for the past 20-some odd years. and i'm so thrilled someone is willing to spend some money to demolish the building and construct a new outlook on our block. i just want to say that i am very happy and i'm in favor of this construction. thank you.

>> hello, commissioners, my name is kayla boat. i'm 22 years old. i work for youth line part of shock. we're an s.s. project providing a range of services with con -- conservative use of services. i helped this nonprofit that has free access to dental care. that provides orthodontics as well as general dentist tri, things that would require -- dentistry, thing that would require surgery. it's all low income use in between the ages of 11 and 18. these are all youths who like myself would not have access to dental care. these are youths that would not be able to afford braces, getting a root canal. and these are -- you know, things that are very important that need to be addressed.

so far we're in the process of treating now. unfortunately, only one are able to get here because transportation is an issue for them. having them go to a bunch of different places would just be a farther barrier and our goal is to give access to more use. we're trying to double the amount of youth we serve. and you know, it's all free services that we're providing. it's very important for you guys to look at this and see -- what we're bringing for these youth. otherwise the youth that you're going to be hearing from next, these are kids that need root canals, things that if they don't get treated now, can lead to them having to lose teeth. it's really, you know, they have serious kid issues. we're hoping that you would take this into consideration. thank you. >> good evening, commissioner, my name is joe paicci.

i'm a licensed architect. i currently work for patterson dental. we design dental offices, all the specialties that dr. kalicka mentioned. what i'm here to talk about is the amount of space to correctly design and facilitate a dental office where it is perio or endo or what have you. the key to be able to correctly treat the patient the to get them in and out and make them comfortable and make sure that the dental team has the tools to do their job. the more we chop up the building and you know, the light well, there is an issue between the 3 '9" -- i could tell you from experience in designing 500 mf plus dental offices every square inch in

precious to make sure that the serving community in the way that the doctor wants to serve them and make sure he can provide the best care for the children that need it. every square inch is precious. we just hope that you can -- that the compromise can be reached so that the project can proceed because it is a very big need in the community. i can tell you from experience on just the community side because we deal with a lot of nonprojects. we sponsor some. we help them when we can. it's unbelievable how much people are under served and have a project move forward that can help the community locally can be tremendous. again, i just wanted to say the more we cut the building down it's really going to impact the ability for the doctor to serve the community. thank you. >> any other speakers in favor?

>> good everyoning, commissioners. my name is joseph langer. i've been serving this community berkley and marin in the capacity of a rabbi for 37 years. this case has presented one of the most challenging times of my life being that -- that joe and sherry o donahue, the kalickas, the pauls are members of my congregation. you can imagine we have a serious problem here. and i request the -- from the

godfather of our congress gregs joe o donahue for permission to address my concerns here. i recently went to joe's home and said let's find a way to make peace here, let's find a way, a solution. i said are you making some money in this deal, joe? joe reassured me that it's not a money deal. it's about bringing light to people who have been deprived of light. i went to my friend who lives right next to our school who provided for many children and just in our school to have orthodontal care. i asked him what can you do here? we'll do anything to accommodate the lees.

and i believe him. i request with the legal advisors and the powers that be and with the patience of the commission to find a solution to -- that it could be a win-win situation because i believe that we have honorable people here that are looking for the welfare of the community. thank you very much. >> i'm mr. william, i'm the project architect. i'm not actually here to speak for myself tonight. ms. sheryl parks the director of the planning assessment was going to read this leter or speak to you. unfortunately, she's ill. so she's asked me to read it for her tonight. dear president and onable commissioners the planning association for the richmond park was established in 1970.

our purpose is to improve the way of life. ms. eva chow requested our presence at a preapplication meeting. i attended the preapp meeting along with another colleague. she had a representative from the jordan park neighborhood association and former supervisor jake mcgoldrich with her. park also attended another meeting between the project sponsors, ms. chow and concerned neighbors. par fines from the meetings attended that the project sponsor has been more than accommodating to the d.r. requester by reducing the building height by reducing the fourth floor, installing matching light wells, august 12th, 2011 meeting.

extending the original structure and as requested by the planning department. in addition park fines of the proposed project would be a welcome and long overdue addition. the services the project sponsor would provide our neighborhood is unique and beneficial to our residents. we are pleased that the project sponsors and that the owner to the smile for life foundation recognized by the california legislature assembly. i ask that you approve this project with no further modifications or delays. thank you for your consideration thank you board member representative, land use committee. sheryl schultz. thank you. >> hi, good evening. i'm here to speak on behalf of joseph franks who is a 15-year-old foster youth who

was awarded a smile for lifetime scholarship. i can attest to what kayla had said previously which is that the beneficial nature of the scholarship is something that he wouldn't have received without any kind of scholarship given to him. the ort donic care is pretty crucial. and also given his logistical situation, i think it's difficult for him to find any kind of general dentistry care near an ort donic care. so having a one stop shop so to speak will be extremely beneficial for him as he relies on metro and the generosity of his foster mom to get him where he needs to go. thank you. >> thank you.

>> good afternoon, president and commissioners. my name is edward romonov and i am a project manager for dr. kalicka's new dental project. my job is to get the building developed that will adequately meet the needs of all the dental care professional offices. we need to bring together in one location. 4333 gerry boulevard is known for this kind of project. but it's now a vacant eyesore. i'm deeply concerned about the financial viability of this new building project. if we lose more office square footage for benefit of our neighbor. we can barely fit our program in the 6100 square feet of

office space currently proposed. we want to ensure the quality of life of the residents next door as well as having a new productive building. please carefully consider the impact to the richmond district community of taking away more space that would otherwise serve the doctor's patients. also i would like to mention that we will -- were contacting the system parking where the smart and final is in the huge parking lot that anyone can park for $10 for 12 hours every day. in the same time i contacted kenneth yang operation manager and he provided me with a

letter which says this letter is to confirm that we will provide monthly parking spaces based on the lot number for that company located at 350th avenue, san francisco to dr. kalicka and other doctors upon request for their new office low cailted at 4334 gerry boulevard, san francisco. thank you very much. >> are there any other speakers in favor of the project? >> ok. d.r. requester, you have a two-minute rebutal. >> thank you, president fong. steve williams again. don't pick the need of these tetants against the continued

viblingt against providing dental care to children. that's a false dichotomy and you know it. that's not the choice that you're facing here. there's nothing to legally compel that used to be in this new office building anywhere. it's a shame we didn't get the offer earlier. it's a shame that we wouldn't agree to continue it so we could work out the details of that. we wanted to work out a solution. they referenced the agreement and how generous they're being and all the changes they're making, et, etc. etc. but look at the changes. light wells three by three. there that's nowhere. look at the light wells they don't even match the light wells. nothing close to a written agreement that they reached. they handed something to us today and to the commissioners today that came a little bit

closer to what they agreed to in writing a year ahead of time. so ask yourself, what's really going on here when these plans are put up with these little tiny light wells that will devastate these s.r.o. units. i wanted the solution that we wanted to try to reach and this was handed to me by commissioner su guy -- sugaya. it's a deep light well that faces off against these light wells. we need a deeper light well to get any lights into this units at 40 feet. by the way, they keep saying they reduced the height. it came down to one foot. but it only came down one foot. still 40-feet stall. we need these to match these light wells and a smaller light well up here that will allow these stairs to fit around these two windows. no giveback back here. they said we still want to go

40 feet back here. so that is a workable solution. i think that that will -- will get light into these and you won't be moving windows and all this other nonsense. but we would accept that. could you turn that around the other way. -- could you turn that around the other way? all right. thank you. ok. project sponsor, you have a two-minute rebutal. >> thank you for your patients, president and commissioners. in terms of what we would propose that we do with this project, we recommend that this commission take d.r. reducing

the height to match the adjacent buildings to the east allowing if a decorative parapit facade. we would enlarge the light well by 20 feet deep. and a 10-foot extension to that creating a lightwell that is three foot deep for another 10 feet and to relocate the -- relocate four property line windows inside that light well. we could follow this and create a -- another light well over here without removing this property line window but i think it's beneficial to our neighbor's property because this is providing light for rooms that already have light. i showed you the photograph of where that property line window

is. we could relocate this window in here to another unit, create a 30-foot light well here. there's a portion that we cannot extend to three foot -- 3 '9." i think that we'd get the best possible resolution. we get to haves the office building that these smiles for life foundation and the doctor's various practices need and we've going to protect the light an air to any extent possible for the building next door. thank you. >> thank you. the public hearing portion is closed. commissioner comments? commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini? : well, thank you. i want to tell you that all trips do not have to be uncomfortable as was mentioned earlier, i would hope. and there are some people who

take bus. a certain percentage of patients do come by public transportation. some drive and some actually do ride bucks. so it's a mix situation. and i think that what we really need to do here in terms of the parking issue is just simply ask project sponsor to, you know, explore parking in the area. there is a lot on eighth avenue near clement. my accountant is at 338. i've never been at the lot when it is closed to being filled. there is parking available less than a block away from the office. but i can see it could be an issue particularly for staff who are going to be there all day. so i would encourage project sponsor to look around the neighborhood and see if he can purchase some parking for us, staff members at least. patients -- actually have

happier patients if he could final -- find places to park. it's not a kfpblet i'm just making that as a suggestion. as far as the -- hear are some of the modifications. but i would kind of agree with what mr. paul had said and that was a situation whereby we have the matching light wells and we continue this -- i think he described a 30-for loo long -- 30-foot long. the remaining so feet would be a light well. it should let a lot of light in there. mr. paul, if i could ask you a question. there's the two solutions that

have been forward. the first solution is yours which is moving those property line windows to put them at a position where they align with the 30-foot long light well and the other solution which was proposed by dmpt r. requester was to leave the windows and have a second light well that adjoins the two northern most windows because i believe those are the ones that are stacked and then the one window that is to the south would already be included in your existing well, i believe. >> yes, that's correct. >> i'm just saying why that is less desirable because it looks like in their proposal your well ends during the middle portion between their two light wells. so you actually would use that space for some of your interior fixtures, a staircase or whatever you may choose to put there. >> thank you, commissioner antonini.

>> if we could go to this overhead drawing again. if we could do a 20-foot light well here and encompass the existing property line windows that are to the south and create a notch which for the existing property line window that's to the north, it's going to be very inconvenient for us for our building. it creates a very ack war stair at the top, i think. but we can manage it. i think it would be a better building for us and an improved situation for the resident at 4330 if we rather than building this light well here simply relocated this property line window forward and extended the light well to include it. >> so all we're talking about moving one property line window because the ones to the south are going to be included. >> that's correct. >> i