eight letters and emails and support of the profits, including support from neighboring residents and businesses. the planning association for the enrichment and the school. at the lincoln park association like the hours of operation limited to 7:00 until 10:00 weekdays, 8:00 until 10:00 on weekends. the sponsor is proposing hours from 7:00 until 10:00 daily. they would have that extra hour on the weekend at the lincoln park association would rather they not have. the department recommends approval of the use with conditions as it complies with the planning code, observances -- advances the general plan, activates a vacant storefront, and provides an import neighborhood serving use for the area. i would be happy to answer any questions. thank you. president miguel: thank you. project sponsor? >> we are all very familiar with

this site. that has been abandoned at about five years. i think a lot of people are excited to have it reactivated. this community needs it neighborhood services. would you believe that cbs fits that bill. i will turn it over to charlie, cvs' regional manager of operations who will tell you about about what the store will do for the community, and then i would like to rapid of -- then i would like to wrap it up. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is charlie, the operations regional manager for a cvs pharmacy in the greater bay area. i have worked with them 32 years. as the regional manager, i will be the one responsible for

making sure that we are both responsive and committed to the community. cvs is excited to begin expanding its presence in san francisco and provide the san francisco community with quality health care services. we are uniquely situated to not offer not only entry-level positions but also professional positions to stimulate retail activity in a time of slow economic growth. cvs has grown since its first pharmacy in 1963 to be the no. 1 provider of prescriptions in the united states as well as specialty pharmacy and retail climate to be used in the store. our mission is to improve the lives of those we served by making innovative and high quality health and pharmacy needs both safe, affordable, and easy to access. we've established a presence in

the bay area since 2008 to acquire a longs drug stores. we hope to provide a new option for health-care services to the san francisco community. we also offer health and convenience type items. we are committed to being engaged in the community where are pharmacies exist. for example, with the van ness locations, we have partnered with the local schools, with educational services, with senior wellness programs. that type of engagement we plan to continue at the clement street. more recently we have worked with the mayor's office of neighborhood services to support the center for young women's development through a new program outreach to women working and living on the streets. we have been a proud sponsor this year of the ocean avenue

annual holiday decoration program as well. thank you very much. president miguel: thank you. >> as mr. crawford said, we have done extensive outreach. i want to summarize that. we had two well attended meetings in june and late july. we have worked closely with jim, with lincoln park neighbors. they are also in support. the lincoln park homeowners, friends of the park, friends of lands' end, and a handful of other merchants very close by to the site. i think all of them are very excited and interested in this project moving forward quickly. we hope that we get your support today and i would be happy to answer any questions. thank you.

president miguel: one speaker card. jim? >> good afternoon, mr. president, commissioners. i am the president of the lincoln park neighborhood association. i stand here to agree and approve. it is great to have a neighbor that has been involved in one of the goods stores. we support cvs, we support fresh and easy, and fresh and easy will be operating from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. we understand that the pharmacy is an important aspect to any community and allowing access to the pharmacy products, madison's from 7:00 a.m. --

madison from 7:00 a.m. monday through friday is a good thing, but we would prefer to have unity and uniformity for both stores. we would like to roll that back to 8:00 a.m. until saturdays and sundays. other than that, everything is agreeable to us. if that could be trimmed to 8:00 a.m. saturdays and sundays, we would greatly appreciated. president miguel: thank you. is there further public comment on this item? if not, public comment is closed. just for the public record as much as anything, i go back 20 years with jim working on this project, although i have purposely not involved myself in the their discussions or votes that the planning association took on. i kept away from it on purpose. it took so long to get anything

activated on that space that everyone was really having a problem when albertsons closed. i believe everyone in the neighborhood would have preferred to see a full-service grocery store come in and take their place. there is absolutely no question about it. it i know there were offers made. that is not going to happen, unfortunately. the reasons why, obviously, i have not been party to all of those discussions, but it does not look like that is on to happen. it is unfortunate because that is how that building was built and that is how negotiations were made. bifurcated the building between cvs, which is an excellent firm, nothing against you in that regard, and fresh and easy,

which is not the type of store that the neighborhood originally wanted, we will have to see how that works out. there are some doubts in many people's minds, but that has nothing to do with this particular item that is before us today. if i can ask just one question, i know cvs has been in effect, and i think you used the term retail climate, and actual clinic that operates in conjunction with their pharmacy, not as a separate physical location but within the physical location. is that being planned for here? >> with the acquisition of longs, there were no clinics which is the brand that cvs uses in store. none of those were planned or in

existence in any of the stores. that would really depend on the needs of the business and the needs of the community. president miguel: right, thank you, thank you. is there additional public comment? commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: thank you. i was thrilled when they built what i think architecturally is a really good mission revival style. unfortunately, probably not because there was not a need for store there, but because of internal problems at albertsons that it had be closed. i am happy to see it reactivated. i guess the question i have is, this approval is only for cvs and does not involve a fresh and easy, and they do, i believe,

have their own conditional use, if i am not mistaken, because of the amount of time since it was a store? >> i will not speak for them, but fresh and easy controls the site and at cvs is leasing the space from fresh and easy. fresh and easy it is when the construction, getting their 10 improvements -- given their tenant improvements are done. commissioner antonini: if that does not have to come through more process, that is even better. i understand that any grocery store reduce could continue with another purveyor of that was the case, also, so that pretty much answers my questions, thank you. secretary avery: motion? commissioner antonini: i move to

approve. commissioner borden: second. secretary avery: commissioners, on the motion to approve -- president miguel: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: i was just want to comment, in terms of the hours, could you talk about opening at 8:00 in the morning instead of 7:00 in the morning on the weekends? i think i know the answer, but -- >> my comment on that is our hours of operation are dictated by our customers. although it is nice to think that monday through friday is a typical work week, that is not actually the case. although we would have no reason to open up our pharmacy at 7:00 on saturdays to disturb any residents, if it became a need it based on the needs of the

community, then we would reserve the right to want to open at 7:00. again, the access to prescriptions can sometimes be a very urgent and very timely thing. that is the only reason that we would like to be able to have the option of opening at 7:00 on saturdays and sundays. commissioner sugaya: i am not strongly with that one way or another. commissioner borden: i tend to agree. i don't know that one hour makes that big of a difference. i realize some people may have weakened commitments or some people's jobs require them to work on the weekend. obviously, if the store finds that nobody shows up before 8:00, they will change their hours. but i personally don't see any reasons why not. i just think people have very

complicated lives and a lot of people are taking their kids to soccer games early in the morning. it might be advantageous, particularly talking about the pharmacy. i live four blocks away from a 24-hour pharmacy, and i cannot live without that. [laughter] commissioner sugaya: i just need to hurry the meeting along because i have a prescription waiting at my pharmacy right now. president miguel: right. i am making the presumption at the moment -- i would just like the motion to specify what hours we're talking about. secretary avery: as proposed. president miguel: ok, i just want to be clear on that. secretary avery: commissioners,

on the motion to approve as proposed -- [roll call vote] secretary avery: thank you, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously. commissioners, you are now on items as a, b, and c. a and b are for case number 2,009.0765ddv, 12b is a variance for that same case, 374 fifth street, and c is 4235 o'farrell street. it -- and c is for 235 o'farrell street. >> this project was continued at the last hearing. the original proposal was to

convert the existing three- story, 47-room tourist hotel into a 46-through market rate residential hotel with a single room occupancy group housing rooms on the second and third floors and a new pet house on the roof deck. 23 of the rooms are replacement rooms from 235 o'farrell street. the subject property is required to maintain a rear yard of nearly 19 feet at the second and third floors. the existing building covers the entire rear lot. therefore, this product is also subject to a rear yard variance by the zoning administrator. at the hearing on september 30, the commissioners expressed concerns regarding the number of shared bathrooms, the size of the rooms and the residential hotel, and operational conditions. in response, the project sponsor provided the department and commission with detailed

information regarding other residential hotels and the city and revise their original plans. the total number of rooms was reduced from 48 to 46. the shared kitchens of the second and third floors were removed and a larger kitchen and pantry space was added to the ground floor. the original proposal included no private bathrooms and the rooms. the supervisor pause proposal includes four rooms with private full bathrooms and four rooms with private full toilets only. they include 10 shared toilets and showers. the revised proposal adds showers. this was presented at a community meeting on november 16 and subsequent follow-up meetings. based on the commissioner's comments, we added additional uses of approval. the new conditions would require a view of the operations

of the hotel six months after the opening and to provide that review to the planning commission. the project sponsor would have to appoint a community liaison to deal with any issues that may come from the neighbors. this week, the project sponsor and one of the d.r. request jurors agreed to a set of conditions of the project. it is important to note that while some of these conditions may overlap with those approved by the department, the department does not recommend the commission incorporate them into their conditions of approval because they are not either in the department's purview or cannot be enforced by the department. at the original hearing, the department received five additional letters of concerns from nearby residents. based on the proposed revisions an additional conditions of approval, the planning department recommends the planning commission take d.r. and approve the project as revised and with proposed additions. i am available for any questions you have. president miguel: thank you.

project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the project sponsor and the operator of 374 fifth street along with my colleague. to give you a little bit of background on me, i have about 15 years of hotel experience, operating 40 and that single room occupancy as well as operating 50 units tourist hotel and full-service hotels. i also have experience turning around s.r.o. that our needs. recent price i have done our the hotel on sixth street, located at 1756 street, and also working at the baldwin house hotel. these are the places where there was a need of rehab as well as better management.

i was successfully able to turn those places around, which are not too far from the proposed project. the proposed project of 374 fifth street s.r.o. will be one of the unique s.r.o. hotels in the city. we have done a survey which gives an idea as to what this hotel is offering compared to general s.r.o. hotels in the city. we will have a large community kitchen on the ground level, which is about 600 square feet, which includes plenty of storage, three cooking stations, and plenty of dining area. we are also operating a roof deck, which is very rare in s.r.o. hotels, according to our survey. there was only one with a roof deck providing over 1400 square

feet of roof deck. what we heard in the last hearing in september, where there was more need of project back and shared bath, we've added several bathrooms to the building. it shows on the chart that we are providing about one bathroom per 2.4 rooms. in terms of operations, the signed agreement with us to propose -- to comply with our house rules as well as the visible roles and policy that the city has a place. we will be providing 24-hour desk coverage as well as surveillance cameras to wrap the property to ensure that the place is safe and secure. -- surveillance cameras

throughout the property to ensure that the place is safe and secure. in the past eight months, we have met with neighbors, for committee meetings as well as investors separately, to hash out the issues they have in terms of past management of the place. we have never managed this hotel on day-to-day operations. we agreed to the conditions that were proposed by the neighbors and the d.r. requestors, which are included in your package. without taking a longer time, i'd like to turn this over to the project architect. thank you for giving us the opportunity to represent our updated project. i will be here to answer any questions you may have. thank you, commissioners. president miguel: thank you. >> good afternoon.

my name is patrick. i mean the architect of this project. it -- i am the architect of this product. after the last hearing, we have taken your comments into account. we have made changes to the plan through the comments, taken those into account, and these changes are beneficial to not only that tenants but the neighborhood also. i'm going to show you the plans as we have changed them. inow we have a kitchen that we have consolidated into the ground floor. the previous kitchens work on individual flores. there were approximately 120 square feet. this kitchen is approximately 400 square feet. it is a lot more than the two. this has seating and storage and

a common area for cooking, and is located so it is easily accessible to everyone. in terms of the use of this space, we see it as a socializing area. it is very visible for control of the whole area. on the right side we have this area dedicated to a restaurant that we hope will be used to enhance the neighborhood and for use of the tenants also. the floor plans. this is a typical floor plan for the second and third floors. the blue areas indicate the bathrooms. previously, we only had a three bathrooms up here. now he have added four bathrooms

in total. there are two more full baths on both floors, for full bathrooms, and for smaller bathrooms and four, and bathrooms. these are located on the side of the fifth street where we felt the tenants would not have easy access to the bathrooms and the back. in addition, all the rooms have a sink. i think this is very essential to these rooms to keep their privacy. the roof plan sshows the recreation and open space, as required. it is approximately 1450 square

feet, and i think this will also be a plus to the project. also, in the basement, i have plans, but we have spaces for bicycles. there are 16 spaces for five sickles -- there are 16 spaces for bicycles. the elevation, as it is now, it is boarded up and run down inside. this is a detriment to the neighborhood. but the with the sponsors are planning on rehabilitating this building, we will replace the windows on the face of the fifth street. these windows are an adequate and they don't belong to the building. we will replace them with something which is more and character. we will replace the boarded up openings on clara street, and in

general, the facade is going to enhance the building as a whole. and now if you have any questions, i will be able to answer them. and i will turn it back. thank you. president miguel: thank you. i have a number of cards on public comment. >> hello. good afternoon, commissioners. i have been chair of the redevelopment committee on the south of market. for quite a number of years. one of the fundamental definitions of light is an --

one of the definitions of blight is in an empty and abandoned building like we have now. we want the building reactivated and a niece. he has been empty for four years, and it shows it. we would like to get it filled with residential units. the advantage of this particular design is all the buildings are residential. you don't have the torras units. in an s.r.o. hotel, the worst problems are the people who come in for a few days and recap back and leave. the fact is permanent residence is a positive thing. in the old days, it was so bad, even among the street people it was not as -- it was known as an atrocious hotel.

it has been turned around. sam has the will and the ability to change it effectively. most of the concern seems to be about the drug and behavior problems, yet a lot of the discussion seems to be about kitchens and bathrooms. one has nothing to do with the other. it is all about what happens at the front desk. the primary purpose of the front desk is to pete -- is to keep people out who will be disruption. we support this project. we want the corner activated with competent management. that is what we're looking at. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am catalina. i would like to agree that we but like to have all the residential there.

we don't want any tourists there. i have lived here so long and i live right across the street, at the mcalister house. we have a lot of work to do within the s.r.o. and i think i would really like to say i have seen some of these commissioners down on the streets and they know who i work for. we're trying to straighten that out with our own policies. i like to see that. if people who have drug problems are put in one location and people who are sick, when i go to the west hotel as a woman representative, i see a lot of oxygen bottles, a lot of poor people. we're moving towards baby boomers become older. we are not all bad people. we're just subject because of the economics are not there, you