disabled person to live on and also, accessing ramp on the east side. >> yes. >> i am sorry on the south side of the property. and i also confirmed with the project sponsor that this ground floor, okay, there have been no cooking facilities or any kitchen, that is because it is not allowed within rh1 d district. and in other words, there will only be accessory living space, to the main floor above. so, the question that i ask is what is happening if there is no elevator in this, how is project sponsor going to get up to the kitchen or the dining area on the upper floor? >> according to the current plans we do not think that the wheelchair can access the second floor without an

elevator or a lift. no the regular living requirements, probably would have to be served from the only kitchen on the second floor. >> okay >> serving food. >> yeah i mean, i would want to ask for a notice of special restrictions on this to make sure there is no kitchen put in there and normally i would not want to see a door, but i can understand the access issue, it sounds like project sponsor wants to spend most of his time living in that lower area, even though he can't access it it is still a single family home and should remain that way. >> additionally, if the commission will allow me, the ground floor will also have reviewed and we believe that it meets the ground floor room addition matrix with the stairway connecting both floors without the wet bar or kitchen

facilities. >> that i think is important in my opinion but there is also a question about a change between the earlier renderings, and i guess that this little space, it may be a south side and i am not, the same side as where the entrance is to the living room on the lower, it is marked that it will be a lawn area, i think that there have been some plan to pave that and it has been eliminated. >> originally, along the south side they were proposing to pave it. >> yes. >> completely. but the plan has been changed and stead of paving it, they will plant along that south side spacing area. except that handicap access accessible ramp. >> there is no reason that the rest needs to be paved and i think that dr requestor and the rest of the neighborhood would be appreciative of the green space there. thanks a lot. >> you are welcome, thank you. >> and i also am familiar with

this area, i drove out there it is not far from where i live and there is a great change between santa ana and boneto not going in those houses whether you have ocean views from the rooms on san bonito or not, i can't really say it will be requestable whether they really exist and i have doubts that a two foot change in elevation is going to eliminate the views even though the views are not protected by us. but, it seems that great change may not be enough to allow every single house on san bonito to look over the topps of santa ana to the ocean. and so that would be the first thing, and this is well drafted, and this is one of the neighborhoods that is well maintained and the houses and

the houses are maintained and the houses are well maintained and they are single family homes as they should be and so it is important to me that it stays that way. >> commissioner sugaya? >> i just have a quick question is the project architect here? that is okay. i want to ask you a question after this is over. is there a motion? >> so to staff, or for the nsr, can we, not take dr, but also have an snr or do we have to take dr. >> take dr. i mean that i could say that as a matter of course, the conditions that you place are what the planning code requires any way. with the planning code does not allow for them to have cooking facilities on the ground level, the nsr will be redundant to that effect but the commission desires that you will have to

take discretionary review to add that condition. >> commissioner antonini? >> yeah, so i would like to make a motion and to take the dr and at a notice of special restriction to not allow cooking facilities on the ground floor. but otherwise approve the project. >> second. >> and on that motion and commissioners to take dr adding or requiring that an nsr be recorded, and the cooking facilities of the lower portion of this project. commissioner antonini. >> aye. >> borden. >> alicia winterstein. >> moore. aye. >> wu. >> no. >> that passes five to one with commissioner wu voting against. >> zoning administrator, what say you? >> close the public hearing

grant the variance and if you would like a copy of that letter contact the staff planner. commissioners, if there is nothing further on this item, we can move on to public comment and i do have one speaker card. >> great. >> thank you. >> there is no name, but the resident of 195 west portal avenue. sorry. >> thank you. commissioners. appreciate the opportunity to talk to the item four, which is previously come up on the consent calendar. i'm a long-time, resident of 195, west portal avenue, which is the apartment building on top of 199, west portal avenue which is the location for the proposed urgent care unit. i have lived there ten years. and i feel that i know the

building, and the neighborhood well. i am not hear today, to oppose the project, but i am here to raise some issues that i feel are not adequately addressed, in the staff report. >> sir if you could raise that microphone so it will pick you up. >> is that better? the first of those is parking. the staff looked at the size of the project and says that it did not meet the off street parking but it did not look at the situation with the on-street parking. west portal and especially during the hours of operation can be a nightmare and i think that was not considered, there was an additional feature of the location that i would like

to point out. if you look at the last page of the report i know that you may not have this. here is the property and right in front of it is a crosswalk as well as a fire hydrant and this is actually a very important crosswalk, the block between 14th street and bacene is a long block and it is difficult to cross. there are two trains moving down the block and there is a cement, there is a cement curb that runs the full length of the street. and this is the only place where non-able bodied people can actually cross in the middle of the street. i know from experience that people who go to the antique store use that as a loading and unloading place as well as the people who load and unload from the apartment building. so it is my belief that if there is a difficult street

situation, and that this will end up being a virtual, patient loading and unloading area. and that could be very difficult and cause access problems. the two other concerns that i have in my few minutes left are i don't think that any consideration given to the medical nature of the facility and they didn't talk anything about hazard waste disposal or chemicals that are fox i toxic or flammable and thirdly, i want to say that ates real request putting a medical facility in a 1926 wood frame building that is... >> thank you, sir, >> your time is up. >> thank you. >> and i request that goes back to the staff for the study. >> and sir.

the item was approved today and it was on the consent calendar and the time to speak of it, about the project was at the time of that item. and we did offer the public comment which would have pulled it off of the consent calendar but that occurred at 2:15 today or 1:00 today. >> right. >> and your time is a little bit off. but i appreciate. >> the work requirements kept me from it. >> and in the future you can always e-mail or call in advance of an item. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there any other additional public comment? seeing none, the meeting is adjourned.ñçççç

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♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the

center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream

kind of came as an afterthought. they alized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public

school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on

communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and

reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is

that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome.

oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪ ♪ >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push.

that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits.

it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still do their art. it is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. how could that be?

it is the relationship that you have committed to. it is the vocation. no matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. whether it is a large scale or very small scale. the need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. welcome everyone it's great to see you here. welcome everyone. our topic today is urban regions and 20 percent of the people produce 50 of the out put and people are driving in the econom