start-up cost of a kitchen is prohibitive, so we over the last year have been working with caleb and his team and have committed ourselves to picking up the tab for that kitchen so we'll build it on our dime and allow these four to six of la casina bidets -- businesses to move into that space and take over the retail space, which we think is a great win for the project and for the city, i think it provides an opportunity for a new set of memories for a new generation of people who will be moving into this area. so, in summary, we're not here to argue that the loss of the concourse space isn't significant or those who voiced opposition don't have merit in some of their argument but we do know that you acted with conviction in 2008 when you approved the eastern

neighborhoods plan which set the land use strategy for this area and we hope you will support these projects that allow the city to realize that vision. i'm going to turn things over to paula from bar who will talk to you about the 1 henry adams project and then hand it over to david baker who will talk about 801 brannan, thank you. >> president fong, commissioners, members of the public, thank you very much for having us here today. can we move to the screen, please. >> and could you also state your name? >> my name is paula krugmyer. we have a collaboration on this project with john warden, our associates and also miller company landscape architects. with regard to the project data, i think you've all seen this, i think the point here on this slide is that the open

space that we're providing is nearly double that of -- of what is required in the eastern neighborhoods plan. with regard to the location, the context is largely very large buildings and i think the main point here in the interest of time is that we are providing housing in -- that is in very close proximity now to jobs and this is something that we couldn't necessarily have said 10 years ago but it's an important aspect of the development as a residential and mixed use development today. in addition, there are residential, other residential developments around -- in the immediate vicinity. the plans for the project, henry adams are right on to*uns end circle so this is an important knuckle on the city

grid, in line with the city neighborhood plan, we provided largely commercial and active uses at the ground floor and the north building which is on your left, this does not have any parking in it but has 85 dwelling units. the south building has the parking for the combined project and is basically the garage is lined with active uses. so, the parking structure serves both buildings, the publicly accessible use provides for the two building, the design shows dedicating or setting back the building 14 to 15 feet from the existing property line to further activate those commercial spaces and to help accommodate a unique condition with the grading there. in addition, we have worked

very hard to maintain the head in parking that's existing in that location to help the success of those commercial spaces. next is the open space plan and again, this is showing a couple of new things, one is that on the north building, on the left, we have a roof terrace, on the south bidding, the form is an h form, residential developments come in a form of the dome with the courtyard on the inside, here we turned the courtyards to the outside so the building is turned inside out, and this accomplishes three things, one is it breaks down the massing considerably especially with respect to its large neighbors, secondly, it improves sunlight for residents and it reduces shadow -- shadowing on the public spaces.

in terms of the proposed projects, the proposed view as everyone has pointed out is a six storey building, the commercial base is as required, 17 feet tall and that will help provide active uses at the ground floor, the building has classical proportions but in a contemporary style and they are zinc metal clad siding with plaster accents. moving around to rhode island streets, we are providing sidewalks with a bus stop, folks are currently waiting in the street, and this is showing how the massing is turned inside out and the courtyard is actively connected with the street. moving around to alameda and

henry adams, we see on henry adams in particular, there is no sidewalk, the cars are parking perpendicular which in fact we liked and the proposed view shows the other side of the h shape building showing again how the scale is broken down and again on the south building, we have the 17 foot first floor. the [inaudible] on the south building are cement plaster, that is stucco with zinc accents, and then moving down henry adams, we have -- this is a view into the muse and this is also showing that unusual grade condition that we talked about where the historic street dips down for loading purposes and with the old brick warehouses, we've set back the

building an additional 15 feet so we have a sidewalk at the commercial level and a lowered sidewalk at the street level and finally we're going to move into the muse, that is how that space looks today. if we were to move into the muse and look back, the pace is between 29 and 65 feet wide and has active uses lining both sides, this is the folks that would cross over to access the garage on the left and with that, we will move to 801 brannan. >> thank you, paula. i'm david baker, i'm working on 801 brannan, and moving right along here, here's our summary again, 68 foot tall, almost 43% of the units are 2 and 3 bedrooms, the 3 bedrooms are put on the ground level typically with the idea that

it's more suitable for kids that can come and go easily, almost 20 thousand square foot of commercial space which is a good amount and almost an acre of open space, then in terms of the parking, we had two garages, one of them contains residential parking spaces, we're at .72 per unit, 309 spaces, there is no special restr*ishes from previous approvals for cars, then a smaller garage that is to serve a personal space for la casina people, that's 15 spaces, there's a five car share spaces. the other thing we've done is put 38 motorcycle and scooter spaces, i think that is something that's coming because it's hard to haul your electric

scooter up to your apartment and we have 39 bicycle spaces, so this is the -- it shows the plan and i'll go through it. the thing -- i guess the take away is like the zinga building next door, it is a very large building and the units are above, i'll go through the diagram. this is looking basically from the front of 1 henry adams and i think the take away here is howell this building fits in with the large massing of the large commercial spaces, that's zinga in the foreground and 801 brannan and 888 -- it's where arb and b is moving into, we did a take-off on the corner of the zinga building, and that's -- it looks really -- i think

it looks good and it also serves as an entry, there is a service alley there which we're proposing to -- because it lines up, it's a private alley and it has transformers and entries to their garages, we try to key that service aspect but to add some additional activity. you get a retail corner space there. this -- we're calling this the pleaded section, essentially there's insteps with balconies and it has a higher [inaudible] skin, and on brannan street, there's building there, the plan calls for breaking that up to 200 foot chunks and we've broken up to five pieces. the first one is a through the

block muse, we call it market muse, it's 40 foot wide and it goes through to the private alley. at least it shows it on the street, we have an interior skin that comes out at that point. you can see commercial underneath it to the right and a common space for the apartment on the left. this shows our landscape architect is cmg, this is the space they did at the plaza and we're proposing a similar type space, it is an urban muse, not tremendously lush but an urban space with a lot of flexibility. then the southbound gap, we're calling it lincoln square, it doesn't go all the way through but it leads to this green space which would be [inaudible] do you want me to stop, or i can -- i don't have much longer. >> if you want to wrap up, that's great.

>> there you're looking into it, it's a publicly accessible, basically a park open, except at night, there's redwood trees there, cmg's concept and it's bigger than this, this picture is on third street, it's 90 by 125 feet, so a significant open space and the three bedroom units are rounded at ground level with stoops. very urban space, it would divide this property from the future affordable housing, it's a 40 foot muse much like this, pedestrian, three blocks base, you get a little commercial space, it's got stoops, then there's the retail, you can see it goes all the way around, it's not pink in real life. this shows the building and you can see the dark color we're proposing, quart 10 there, they're making -- being contextual with the historic

buildings in the area. this is that retail 17 foot clear there with uses that are smaller divided up. this shows some recent retail we did on gough street which is not a nice treat but it's real possible, it's not retail if you do it right and questions, feedback, thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. baker. >> okay. opening it up for public comment. celiashumen. >> [inaudible] hester, these are two different case numbers, i wish you could do more than three minutes for the public because we have to speak to two projects, and you acknowledge the difficulty by giving more time to the project sponsor.

two projects totally. >> commissioners, this item was called up, both of these items were called up together. it has been your practice to allow three minutes for each speaker. it is the pleasure of the commission chair to change that. >> let's stay with three minutes, i have two speaker cards here, if there's not an overwhelming amount of people, we can revisit that. (calling speaker names). >> hi, thank you, good afternoon, my name is seal yeah shoe m*n and i am here on behalf of the owner of 1rhode island street, we are a property that is diagonal to the 1 henry adams street project.

we're happy to see that parcel being developed, it will be a good thing for the area but we do have some concerns particularly with regard to the height of the building. we feel that it would create some shadowing issues and some esthetic issues in terms of the relation to the surrounding buildings. we -- there are, you know, i was reading in the eir, they were commenting the project would not substantially alter the existing pattern of heights and would not disrupt the visual continuity of the existing buildings, but we feel that it is basically, the height is an issue for us. none of the existing taller buildings in that area are more than four storeys high. the two additional storeys would make this i think -- have

a huge, huge negative impact to the visual of the area. the existing tall buildings that are there do have smaller buildings surrounding them and this 1 henry adams would definitely take away an entire block of some of that visual relief. other issues for us have to do with parking issues. we understand there's certain zoning and regulations but we think the reality is although transit first is a good thing, if we have residents moving into this area, especially many of them coming into the city from out of the area, you know, probably takes jobs in the high-tech sector, they're probably going to have cars with thel, whether or not they use them to commute on a daily basis is one thing, we're wondering where these cars will be parked. we don't have available street parking for the small businesses and the customers that are there right now, so we

are concerned that there will be parking issues as a result of this construction. a lot of our clients in that area are designers, they come from all over northern california, they have to drive there so we're concerned that will put further stress on the businesses in the area and finally, pdr zoning, 1 henry adams street sets a precedent of the pdr zoning in that area, with select buildings in the area, with zinga and now the 1 henry adams street project, they have been given approval for mixed use and office occupancy, we urge the planning commission to reconsider further relaxing the restrictive pdr zoning for the adjacent property as well and i thank you very much. >> thank you. >> karen? >> if your name's been called, please come up to the

microphone. >> i'm sorry, i do have two other cards. david woodside and richard stephens. >> good afternoon, commission, i'm david whiteside, i'm a small business owner in the area, i have a number of small restaurant cafes and i have been in that capacity since 1999 and prior to that, i had a consulting business and currently have one as well since 1979. as i've seen the area change since i've been there for quite a long time, it's been through many iterations from the days where it was set for the streets of san francisco and

broken window industrial buildings to the design center coming in and starting to revision of that area by henry adams. anyway, to get to the point, now that there has started to become a residential neighborhood, it's been a positive to our businesses, but what i'm feeling and what other businesses are feeling, there is a we, it's sort of almost there but it's not quite. there's not enough people living in the neighborhood to provide businesses with -- to stay open on the weekend and there is very little night business out there. i feel the addition of these two buildings would provide just what we need to present the massing and the attraction of other businesses to make it so that we can be more

successful, have longer hours and not rely only on lunch and coffee business, so that's why i'm in support of these two buildings and in particular, 801 brannan, so thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> a couple of more name, sue vaughn, caleb [inaudible], thank you. >> good afternoon to members of the planning commission, my naifp is rich stephens, i've been a business owner for 25 years. way too long to tell you all the changes i've seen take place in that amount of time, but if you were to look at the show place square area today in which 801 brannan and 1 henry adams are a part of, it's vibrant. there are jobs in the form of zinga, adobe, add vant, ab and

b coming into the area, with all the jobs going on, it makes sense to add the mixed use development with housing and with services. it gives people a place to work, to live and to live life. it's a wonderful area and i think the developments will only help the area. there was a time when the concourse and 801 brannan and bh the ice factory of 1 henry adams were good for the area but i encourage you to embrace the change, this is the time and the direction of the neighborhood. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> good afternoon again, commissioners, sue vaughn with the sierra club. i'm going to reiterate the sierra club's position that there should be a maximum of .5

parking, personally, that may -- i think that's too much but that's the sierra club position, .5 parking and i'm going to put this book right down here, high tide on main street, we don't know -- every car we permit pushes us closer to the tipping point and the tipping point is climate change, melting of the icecap, melting of antarctica and greenland icecap and sea level rise. this is not a scare tactic, this is real and we need to have this reflected in the decisions we make here in san francisco at the planning department level and planning commission level. and i know that i work in this neighborhood and with one of my co-workers went out to a public event regarding the project a few weeks ago and he asked

about public transportation improvements regarding, connected to this project and the response was there were going to be 4, 5 car share parking spaces, there needs to be more coordination between the planning commission and parking in terms of increasing our transportation. in addition, i'm going to show you the letter that i included in my comments for the sierra club right here regarding transit freeway oriented development and this is an example of freeway oriented development. again, i said earlier, this is ringed by a lot of freeways, people can get on the freeway and zip down to the silicon valley and this is not the kind of development we want to be encouraging. if we are truly going to

address climate change and i know there are regional efforts to do that, i would encourage you to go as low as possible in parking as you can with these projects. thank you. >> hi, commissioners, i'm caleb from la casina, i wanted to say they've been gone out of their way to understand what the needs of the clients are, we work with 33 business thaz are in various stages of incubation and are looking for physical space in the city, the large majority of our businesses that have a large percent of our businesses have graduated outside of the city because that's where affordable real estate exists, the investment of capital of spaces that they can occupy is a unique

opportunity for our client and something that's pretty impressive to me and hopefully we can see in other developments as they come before the city. >> thank you. >> ms. hester, i took when you jumped up to speak on this item when i called public comment as your public comment entry and as you know as a stickler of policy and procedure, -- >> i was making a procedural comment. >> but you are speaking a second time >> i'm not speaking a second time, i'm an attorney, i raise procedural objections. >> you're aiming for an appeal to the board of supervisors, thank you for being so rude. >> is there additional public comment? >> good afternoon, president fong and commissioners, my name

is michael mcken na, i'm with the business development department here in san francisco and although normally i come before you to speak in favor of development and projects, today i have a question about the urgency to entitle a project with a developer that is in the midst of sale proceedings, and so to add entitled projects, currently in san francisco, we have close to 30 thousand entitled units yet to be developed. we want to add more entitled units to the portfolio of a lane duct developer instead of this project being developed by the new developer, so selling pipe dreams to the community about projects that could be built but are basically now just becoming something of an entitlement to sell to either equity or avalon bay, whoever inherits these two particular

projects is still a concern. i would like this project to be moved forward and continued until it can be brought forth with the actual developer so we know of true projects that are going to be built rather than the idea of project conceptions that can be sold throughout this city and passed on between people that may or may not build them until we have some real truth into development, so thanks. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, the public comment portion is closed.

>> because we can, and the cars are there. and so that was going to be a lot of my comment, and i would like to say thank you, for doing three weeks ago out reach to the concourse. it is three years too late. and i didn't hear anything. all of the out reach that here has been done on the concourse. it is done by me because of the planning department refused to do any out reach because the owner of the site did not give a list of tenants. out reach, and the green festival and everyone else, was not done because the planning department has ruled