can see it. i got this yesterday. i was very upset because i remember it was either 1974 or '76 that sue hester put together an ordinance and the citizens of san francisco voted for it and it passed dealing with the height limits to be built here in san francisco. the height limit was 60 feet. after that was done, we came back, there was another ordinance put together by sue hester, because we were in the planning for the executive park. and i wanted a hotel, and i knew it was going to be more than 60 feet. but we supported the first one as well as the only area in san francisco is the executive park, bayview hunters point, that can be built over 60 feet. and when people of san francisco that vote for issues

and things and it looked like it goes under water, usually city planning is supposed to make sure that when planning is done, it's done for the people of san francisco, not just for developers. although you might say, oh, this looks good, i think this will will work, it's not what you think and not what you might want to think it would work. but what is best for san francisco. thank you very much. >> is there any additional public comment? okay, next item, please. >> commissioners, that will place you under your regular calendar. items 10 a and b for case numbers 2011.13 81 it and z for 1111 8th street, the institutional master plan and amendments to the planning code adding new section 249.67 to

establish the art and design educational special use district. >> hi, thank you, commissioners. andrea [speaker not understood] from supervisor maly a cohen's office. this is for a special use district that would facilitate the expansion of california college of the arts. california college of arts has been a key institution in the potrero hill, showplace square neighborhood for a little over two decades now in between both our oakland campus and san francisco campus, educate about 2000 students a year and 33 graduate and undergraduate programs. the primary location, which is one of the parcels subject to the special use district, is 1111 8th street, which is between cooper and irwin streets. but the college also owns a number of adjacent properties totaling about 6.7 acres. this special use district would allow the college to do a number of things. it would remove the size limitations on post secondary educational institutions so

that they can both construct new buildings in classrooms as well as expand some existing facilities and would also allow the construction of up to 750 beds of student housing on the site, neither of which of these items would be permitted under their existing pdr 1d zoning designation. so, the supervisor believes that this ordinance strikes the right balance in terms of facilitating the expansion of a long-term academic institution in our neighborhood as well as making sure that they're doing so responsibly and with the guidance of our city-wide development guidelines. so, the project sponsors are here today, david meckle from the california college of the arts. if you have questions about either the institutional master plan or the college's expansion, they've done i think a great job of community outreach. they've gone to countless neighborhood meetings as well as merchant meetings and there were feedback from the neighborhood has been very positive because i think that they're viewed as a very good neighbor over their long tenure

in the community. so, i'm happy to stay and answer any questions you may have. i also want to thank the planning department staff who has been really helpful in managing this process and we introduced this a number of months ago. i think it may actually be almost a year at this point. so, i think diego sanchez from your staff is going to give you a little bit more of the second any cal deetails about the legislation, but thank you for your consideration. ~ technical >> thank you. >> good afternoon, diego sanchez with the department staff. [speaker not understood]. collect of the arts cca, as mentioned earlier, i'm going to present to you in more technical detail regarding the proposed recommendation to the board of supervisors for approval of the proposed tax and map change to create the special use district. back to the imp, the imp -- california college of the arts inintends to expand its campus in the future including teaching and learning spaces as

well as student housing was mentioned, spaceses for public art, lecture, symposia, and exhibitions. in the short term, cca will likely use a vacant parcel adjacent to existing improvements to host annual events such as commencement speeches and annual fashion show. as mentioned cca has offers 33 degrees in subjects such as architecture, is ram i cans, fashion design, film furniture. ~ is ceramics. [speaker not understood]. planning code section 304.5 requires post secondary institutions and hospitals to have an imp on file with the department. plan review of the imp, the planning commission has the discretion to hold or do not hold the public hearing on the imp. reviewing the contents of the cca imp, planning department staff believes all necessary elements are included. according to the planning code requirements in 3.45 c and

recommends the planning commission to not hold a public hearing on the imp. the other item i'm here to talk to you about in much more technical detail is the proposed special use district which is going to be the art design educational special use district and will be proposed to be planning code section 249 57. this will facilitate continued operation of cca, providing appropriate regulatory scheme for potential phase expansion of the san francisco campus. specifically and as mentioned, the sud would permit as a -- excuse me, post secondary educational institutions without use size limits, allow student housing and establish a maximum of 750 beds. in all [speaker not understood] authorize temporary structures without public hearing, provide structures as allowed by the sud. of note, any student housing project in the sud would be subject to the standards for development, project review, entitlement process, and [speaker not understood].

just to give you a visual, here's the map of the proposed sud. the sud is outlined in the red area as you see, 7 boundaries, 15th, eighth and irwin to the east of seventh to the north is hooper and channel and to the west is that harrow ~ teharo. commissioner, this allows expansion of a long established academic use that reinforces san francisco's role as a creative and educational city. by allowing flexibility within the existing zoning it also utilizes existing development standard to regulate future development and is on balance consistent with the general plan. commissioners, i would like to point out one error in the proposed ordinance in your packet. the proposed ordinance contains a typo in the subsection titled

geography line 12 on page 3. it references and assesses 39 12, the correct block is 39 13. i'd also like to call to your attention two letters of support that have come into the planning department after your packets went out. one is from the mission bay citizens advisory committee. the other one is from the potrero boosters neighborhood association. i'll give those to the secretary for your review. as mentioned, planning staff recommends approval to the board of supervisors. the proposed types of map change to create the art and design educational special use district with the noted correction referencing assessor's block 39 13 lots 2 and 3. this concludes my presentation and i am available for any questions. thank you. >> is project sponsor here? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm miguel [speaker not understood]. i like this overhead, thank you. my name is david meckel.

i'm the director of campus planning for the california college of the arts. and i first want to thank supervisor cohen for her leadership and vision on sponsoring this legislation and her secret weapon andrea bless for guiding us through the process because it's all-new to us. so, we were happy to have that. as diego mentioned, we're a well established college, 30% smaller than lowell high school. so, we're not going to overtake the neighborhood. we were founded in 1907 after the great earthquake and fire here in san francisco. we're a private nonprofit 501(c) (3), and we, as diego mentioned, have just over 900 students. that's our main building there. 35% of our students come from california, 35% from the rest of the u.s., and 20% international. i was just in istanbul three weeks ago to welcome our largest turkish class ever. so, there you go.

in the creation of our campus, as diego's outline pointed out, we've been very conscious about assembling contin with us parcel in the neighborhood with the goal of creating an urban campus. we look very forward to continuing to work with our neighbors, to pull this together, and to help on the infrastructure improvements and basically the quality of life improvements in this neighborhood. the lighter pink rectangle on there that's abutting 7th street is the new parcel we bought in march of 2011. and, so, about two years ago we sat down with the zoning administrator and steve and diego actually to discuss the best way to go forward and create a planning framework and a special use district was suggested as the best alternative. and then supervisor cohen introduced that last november.

we worked through the front part of it with with steve and sophie who were fantastic. and i'd like to thank them both publicly. in the process, sophie also answered the question of which takes longer to conceive, an sud or a child. congratulations, sophie, she beat us. and then we moved into environmental review with michael jacinto. i never thought i'd say the word pleasure in the same sentence with e-i-r. it was indeed a meerctioner r to work with michael on an e-i-r. he made it absolutely a breeze. thank you, michael. ~ pleasure. so, our sud map, this one show up better than the one diego had. here is five parcels and it shows the lot again closest to 2ad, empty lot. the two main things this sud does for us is facilitate the

fully allowed institutional use and enables us to add housing, student housing that is. once the e-i-r was completed and posted on the planning department's website, we went back out to the neighbors and to answer any questions around the e-i-r and the sud. we were on the agendas of all these neighborhood groups and made presentations and took questions and suggestions. and as diego mentioned, you have two letters from ka erin woods at mission bay cac and tony kelly at boosters. ~ we look forward -- you also should have i think in the packet some landowner letters including a letter from sergio and larry nibby who are the largest landowners around us. we look forward to working with all of these folks as we move forward in planning. the campus, i think many of you have been there. it's quite a spectacular

building, a 1950 [speaker not understood] bus maintenance facility. that we've converted into this amazing innovation space. ~ sitting atop that amazing space are solar collectors which we installed 14 years ago, and for 14 years we've had the largest solar heated building in san francisco, that is, until last week when the exploratorium opened. we're excited to have them join us in this commitment and honored to be second to such great peer institution. it's not just our building that's green, however. monday was earth day and we got named once again a green college by princeton review, one of only two green college in the united states. the other being pratt in new york city, our main competitor. we're full of young people, which means we are big bike audience if you've been in the building. every surface in the building has bicycles on it. we have 300 indoor bike parking

spots and nobody has better bikes than art and design students, let me tell you. we also, because most of our housing is currently in oakland, we run a transbay shuttle service, full-size buses that have raised carriages so we can get bikes underneath. so, we use the bikes on both sides of the bay. and this is the lot. if you've been down there, it's a little blighted. it was a bus washing maintenance and fueling lot. we've been working with the s.f. department of public health to clean it up for the past two years. there was all the tanks have been removed. there was one tank, some diesel fuel. and we're remediating that, removing the material. and we're expecting that clean bill of health soon. so, what will we do with that lot? we haven't done any plans yet. what the heck are we going to do with that? if you go by the school in three weeks you'll see us doing this, which is we'll be putting

a tent up, closing 8th street and we do this in the term events including our fashion show. and that model is actually walking on 8th street. that's a dpw supported fashion show. we just paint the logo on the street. [laughter] >> but we haven't had a workers' comp claim yet. i keep thinking we're going to tip over on the asphalt, but they make it. we hope to hold the fashion show next year on our lot. happy to answer any questions you have. and i want to thank director ram for giving us amazing people to work with. it was really great. >> great, thank you. we may have questions for you. we're going to open it up to public comment and i have a couple of speaker cards. ruth bessin. rod manaught. and dick mill et. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is ruth berson. i am the director [speaker not

understood]. san francisco museum of modern art. i am truly honored to speak on behalf of cca. a an active partner in the cultural initiatives in the bay area. s.f.noma has not only had a long established career and history with the college, but it's one that continues into the present and into the future as well. as you may know, our museum is going to be closing in about a month for 2-1/2 years. and we have been thinking a lot about our interim program and we're going to be collaborating with a number of arts institutions within the bay area. among them are the jewish -- the contemporary museum, museum of african diaspora, oakland museum of california, [speaker not understood]. cca is among our collaboraters on this project and we're looking forward to opening an exhibition in their brand-new gallery in the fall of 2014 while we're closed. further, our curators regularly teach at the college in the

visual studies program and also curatorial practice. they also serve as advisors to mfma students. happily, even more happily, cca graduates are among our own staff members and are currently on the curatorial staff in photography and architectural design departments. the interconnections between the college and the museum of modern art are numerous and tight. you just heard from david meckel. he serves -- he's been a long-standing head of our acsessions committee for architecture and design and i've been very fortunate to serve with him on the architecture selection committee for the expansion of the museum as well. one of the other members of the acsessions committee for amd, asher [speaker not understood], is on the board of cca and our current artist trustee at s.f. [speaker not understood], is a distinguished professor industrial design there. i thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of cca from

s.f. [speaker not understood] perspective and my own personal perspective, cca is an integral part of the arts community and the cultural landscape of the bay area. we can't imagine life here in the city without them. thank you very much. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm rod [speaker not understood], co-founder of save the hill which is a coalition of neighbors who are dedicated to the health, culture, heritage, and scenic beauty of san francisco's potrero hill. i'm here today to offer our full support of establishing the art and design education special use district for the california college of the arts. cca is an extraordinary institution that is widely valued by the neighbors across potrero hill and showplace square. on the issue of the sud ordinance as well as many other efforts, cca has always been a model good neighbor.

the college has conducted itself with complete transparency and engaged the community to hire effective outreach and collaboration. we greatly appreciate the college's smart rehabilitation and reuse of its existing building campus. we have great confidence that cca will use its new property and equally smart and thoughtful ways. i strongly urge you to support cca by approving its sud ordinance. thank you very much. good afternoon, commissioner. my name is dick mill et. i'm vice president of potrero boosters neighborhood association. i've been in residence of potrero hill for 45 years and i've known cca since day one. they first came to their [speaker not understood] 17th street campus which is now the bomb squad and have been probably the best thing that has hit potrero hill in development.

architecturally, they are the nicest thing that has been around there. when they moved to their new campus, we hope that they will be able to buy this piece of ground which is going to be kind of tough on them. they have always been very outgoing. they have always invited us to their events and invited us to share their facilities. and when anything comes up, they come and talk to us immediately. we wish other projects of the developers could do as well. i'm here to speak to enforce tony kelly, the president's letter that he submitted. thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? sue hester speaking for myself and the fact that i was involved in the inchstitution master plan when this was drafted back a long time ago. ~ institution

it is a pleasure to endorse this project. would we had institutions throughout the city that were as forthcoming in complying with the planning code and in being a good citizen. cca has been an exemplary citizen of its area and of the city. and nonprofits seem to get it. and if there is justice in the planning department, and i think there is, you will enthusiastically support everything that is before you from the cca. they are really a good institution. thank you. commissioners, ron miguel. i'm actually here for something else, but i couldn't let this one go by, having been a neighbor for many, many years since i came to the hill.

this is one of, if not the premiere general arts institutions in san francisco, and we're proud to have them in our neighborhood. they have been very publicly involved with the city and with the neighborhood. they hosted some of the major first and latter meetings on the planning of mission bay itself. ~ which i was involved. you note that as opposed to certain institutions in this city who wanted to take student housing by taking away present housing that we need, here you have an institution that will actually create new student housing. that's the way they do business, and that's why we support them so much. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. opening it up to commissioners. commissioner moore. >> this is easy.

extraordinary institution, garner extraordinary support, do extraordinary work, and that is basically as simple as it is. it is an extraordinary institutional master plan, one which we have been looking for from institutions other than hospitals whether some would do a good work. i suggest we put this in the library as an example of how to do it. this is not only clear in terms of its academic mission, of its spacial needs, of its spacial district building including its role as a neighbor. i couldn't be happier to have observed this institution operating at the front tier, transforming the frontier, and creating new frontiers for themselves by the way they teach and by the way they use their space. ~ i actually went out to meet with dean meckel just a few days ago and while i was standing on the upper floor, i said, was this forgotten as an

oversight in it seems to be just a no-brainer. and it seemed as if in the planning and all the work surrounding we have done in that area, that has just been an oversight and it's really with that attitude that all of the questions one could ask have been answered. i'm really glad how staff took on the project and how indeed there was a mutual ability to create something which is far, far larger than what we see here. i think the possibility that this school offers in terms of how it teaches and what it teaches are phenomenal. it is one of the institutions which just does not seem to do the talk, which is easy to do, but does more than the walk because i observe things which i would have had loved to do while i was studying architecture. they're at the cutting edge of using technology, at the cutting edge of using practical

applications. from my point of view, they're the best experimental school i've sign for a long time. it's almost like a p-d-r laboratory type of institution. i love the way how they use the space they have, not kind of just cluttering it, but ease toy do at any architecture school, but using it as shared flex space where different students ~ occupy the space, move in and out, and share it with others, the fluid boundaries between designated art spaces for particular graduate students do certain kinds of things, but need to share and be [speaker not understood] with others. i think it is the most amazing teaching environment i have seen. so, i'm in full support of it and i'd like to jump and make the motion that we approve. and i assume we need to read the motion into -- >> diego sanchez with staff. yes, you do need to recommend it approval of the board of

supervisors. there is one more error in the ordinance i'd like to point out so that you can adjust your recommendation to them. there is also another error with reference to block 39 12. it's found on page 33 line 13. it states block 39 12 lots 2 and 3 should be 39 13, lots 2 and 3. so, if you can adjust your -- whatever your recommendation would be, to include that correction. thank you. >> i appreciate your [speaker not understood] enthusiasm. [laughter] >> if somebody could help me what we need to do for the two related items if we are calling them in one, that's what i would like to suggest we do. >> commissioners, they are called up as one. there is it actually no action required for the first i'll item, 10 a. so, the only action you have to take is a recommendation for approval or disapproval ~ for the -- to the board of supervisors. >> we would recommend approval. >> second. >> commissioner antonini.

>> yeah, i think this is an excellent project. and particularly in keeping with some of the other things that are happening in the area, daggett triangle has already been approved. we had a hearing yesterday or commissioner moore and i heard about kaiser outpatient and housing development not far from there. so, it looks like we're having cultural institutional and housing uses on previously industrial land that is no longer, you know, suitable for that use. and, so, it seems like this is a very good conversion. i have a couple of questions. dean meckel mentioned a figure of 900 students. the report says 1900. yeah, okay. it is 1900. with 500 faculty. i guess my question for mr. sanchez or whoever wants to answer it is part of the plan is to allow up to 750 beds for housing.

it would -- probably that would be more than adequate given the fact that many of the students are not resident students, but that is apparently agreeable to the institution because i would feel i don't really know why we have to have an upper limit on the number there. >> i think, you know, as you know, you'll recall two months ago you approved one of the first student housing projects at ninth and mission, we master lease 200 beds. we feel between capacity at ninth and mission and the co-located housing we'll be able to fit within that. it's actually a higher number than what i had suggested to michael jacinto. [speaker not understood]. >> i know you talked about the shuttling in oakland. [speaker not understood] teaching institutions are there, students would shuttle over there for certain courses there.

but to the extent shuttling may be for students who live in the east bay but wanted to be closer to here, i want to make sure we have the ability to house them. >> yeah, we feel we do with that number. >> okay. i forgot about the 200. so, thank you very much. a couple of other comments. it mentions that temporary structures can be erected without any public hearing. i would assume that, you know, as the -- even though it's a special use district, as the campus is built out, we would have some review of what's being done on the campus, especially design review of the buildings. >> diego sanchez with department staff. i believe the zoning administrator would enact types of approvals, [speaker not understood] in addition to any type of design review. >> yes. the other issue, too, any building permit would require review by the planning department and in some cases those would also require conditional use. so, that would be -- those would be reviewed by the planning commission. >> yeah, not that i think they

would not do a wonderful job on design, but looking at adjoining projects, which we have oversight over and we're carefully working on the architecture for them, we want to make sure that, you know, the same oversight applies here to make sure it's compatible with what's being approved in other areas nearby. >> i think the other important fact to note is these would be temporary structures as well. i think that staff understands this clause to help cover the year-end events that mr. meckel talked about, the fashion show and the commencement. >> actually, mr. sanchez, i was talking about after -- i know temporaries do not need public hearing. when they go to put permanent facilities on there, there will be process for -- >> yes, all of those housing projects would follow the entitlement process, design review of the umu district. >> and also any of their campus buildings that might be built, i would think, too. >> yes. >> okay, very good. it sounds wonderful to m