comments, but they are not pertiment to what is before this body. he is correct. i know there are ongoing discussions. hopefully to consider certain areas of the city and a consolidation of where the academy operates. i think all of us appreciate that. following on ms. hester's comments. as far as the work, ms. ha has done, it is extraordinary. in keeping the tenacious leash on this. i know he only came on a year ago, following at least four other land use attorneys.

maybe he can move this along. that is a statement i made before. i appreciate the permits have been filed. i think the fact we must realize 100 permis filts filed just emphasize the disregard the academy has had to the planning code of the city. it totally emphasizes it. that is what needs to be kept in mind. >> commissioner moore? commissioner moore: this is like a career. i do think that the staff has done a great job to really hit on all the issues. and explaining what is

happening. magnifying the extent of what the issues are. if anybody else would drag this out, we would not be living here anymore. i am strongly in support of the department. that we would support carefully drafting supportive legislation to prohibit the conversion of the existing residential units, outlined in detail, planning comdde ammendments to address housing. to define what student housing really means. the more accuracy we can bring to the legislative tools, the

easier it is to track performance. what i find quite helpful, it is the fact there was a second appeal to the 460 townsend street. the designation you made. if somebody doesn't get it and has to appeal twice, bad habits die slowly. it will only be in the performance, it is going to be the length. and the repeated nature of what is not working, with the lack of tolerance. just enough is enough. the one or two intersections in the eir doesn't mean anything.

they continue to go around downtown empty, in the way of every possible pedestrian when people want to go home. they block intersections in front of academy-owned property, hindering everybody else. that students ride public transportation for the rest of us. i can work myself up to more frustration. performance matters. a changed attitude to all the rules that exist. and we catch any vagueness in the code and in the regulations. we will keep from bad habits.

>> i agree with the commissioners we are looking into non-compliance. 70% of the safety violations -- we are making improvements on the signs and can move forward. we have to remember the time in the past where the city was not doing a good enough job of calling for what were violations and enforcing this at an earlier stage. if nobody says anything you do this. it's not all a one-way street. on the issue of the other things, but these are not necessarily things that mayby be tangental, i was happy to learn

that the institute was also working with the lgbt community. i went to savannah awhile back. the college has done so much, with the single-screen theaters. the use them for teaching purposes and continue their operations. the same could be true of a place like this. they need to have renovation, and the two things were greatly together. by working cooperatively with the academy of our university, people can realize a lot of good things. the third issue is the threat to residential housing. i was not surprised but i knew

that the number of students in residential housing is relatively small. as of the registration, only about 1600, or 9.5%. this is not all housed in previously residential areas. there were other uses that were converted. the actual numbers were probably a lot smaller. and i think that if they provide housing, they will probably be better off. having been a student in the late 60's, we were going out to collectively compete with other people for the rented properties. they can sometimes find properties that are not residential and make them into residential usage. and this will help the situation rather than making it worse.

we are considering legislation for the housing of the students, and this is all different issue. i am not certain i support all the legislation that is proposed, with regard to the recreational usage. not in the context of what we're doing, building new student housing, with how everything comes together. and we were asking to be under the conditional usage. i think that there are a lot of good things that can be done and i appreciate this report. by working collectively with the academy of art, to correct the violations constructively, with housing issues and the other issues. commissioner fung: i will speak,

and do not share the same frustrations that have been submitted, but i think the academy is a great asset to san francisco and brings in stimulation to the city, and his perspective as fantastic. to the housing component, i do not believe that this is mandatory that this should be used as the academy housing. a small percentage, a smaller percentage of these things are used in housing. i would like an example of where the art meets the business, from the institutional perspective, and i would like those who attended the academy to pick up on this. and a master plan is in a good

idea. -- is a good idea. and if a response to the partners in san francisco. -- and i feel responsible to the partners in san francisco. >> i would like to commend the entire staff, for keeping on this problem, and i know that this has taken a very long time, and as commissioner moore has said, we have been dealing with this ever since the last term. i am reminded of certain incidencts that have happened over the years, the flower martin issue, the said to be brought up to the board of

supervisors, and i am also reminded of the purchase of sutter st., where the lansbury theater was that, -- was at. i am waiting to see, after all the public testimony, the meeting where 90% of the people who were there did not talk about the scoping. there were talking about the greatness of the academy, and president miguel said that this was not hitting the mark. i am still waiting for some kind of demonstration by the academy, that they are trying to cooperate despite what the staff has just said. they went ahead, and maybe they

have not purchased any more property, ever since we ended this process. they were caught doing this again. maybe they have learned their lesson and maybe they have not. but the idea that we can cooperate with them, hopefully in the future, they will have demonstrated a little bit more in a pro-active way. this is like you have to hold a gun to their head. and once this happened, they take credit for this. that is not the way that i see cooperation going. and hopefully this kind of attitude will change in the future. commissioner olague: i have seen a lot of progress, ever since

you have taken an active role, and this has been at a different pace that we saw from the department. at the diligence of this issue. this has shifted. i want to thank you for taking the active role. this is like night and day. supporting the staff and making certain that there is a shift in the department, and how we are looking at this issue. people who have not been around, they are frustrated, to say the least.

and the hardest thing was the theater that was evicted, this was very sad. this was a sad thing to witness. i was going to say that i hope, what happens sometimes with these issues is that we see the laws that we have in place, we see these areas strengthened. and i noticed -- the rent control, there is no obligation. this is just across the board. >> this is across the board. >> this sounds kind of crazy. >> i had a conversation -- and she said to me that the rent

control ordinance -- they are not trying to expose the existence of the rent control ordinance. if someone is infected, they can seek assistance from the rent board. and that is the only requirement. >> -- >> i did not have any knowledge of this. you would have to contact a housing director. to my knowledge i do not know if there had been any evictions. >> at least they're not being evicted, but if they decide that they do not want to move, is this information provided to them.

they have a certain tendency -- they of certain rights as tenants? -- they have certain rights of tenants. >> an academy representative may address this. >> i am just curious about the rent-control and how this relates to their tendency -- tendency -- -- tenancy. >> they are assigned according to their designation. this is some for the continuing students and some for people over 41 years old and other graduate students. and they are moved in accordance to their year, and they try to accommodate the preference of their students. however, if they are moved

around, they may be in violation of the rent control ordinance. this may be at a particular address unless they do not pay the rent, or unless there are other issues. >> and this relates to the red- controlled units. there are some issues about this. >> we can return to you and ask the house and director of the academy of art to be present. >> that would be useful. >> at some time it would be useful, to sit down with mr. paul or ms. hester, to recommend additional legislation, to deal with these issues and some of their violations. do you have anything tad. and are there any questions? >> -- they have anything to add?

>> -- they have anything to add? >> i would like to commend staff in the approach they have taken to get to the bottom of this. but the bigger picture and you are addressing that is going forward, what is it we want of an institution this size? i testified in favor of the legislation to build student housing. or convert as commissioner antonini said, nonresidential housing, cannibalizing our housing stock is a loss for the city. we want to make it hard if not impossible to do that but easier for others to build dorms. the real issue is the buses. it's a symbol of how they have scattered to the womens of the

city. driven by opportunistic attempts to buy real estate. if you look, they have a bus line to that building, so they should kiss pose of that building and concentrate to mid market and market street where there is public transit. get rid of the buses, ride muni's, support public transit and they wouldn't have to have these buses if they didn't buy building like the star motel, or 220095 taylor street that has its own bus line to get there. that is the height of insanity. we are asking the city to bring sanity to this process and that's what the institutional master plan is to do, we are going to do that with the review going on, we can finally say

this is what we as a city want you to do, to get you to do it, we will give you incentives, regulations, and penalties and that will end up with a fairly central campus in the mid market area. thank you. >> thank you for that. so -- president miguel: director rahaim? >> just a couple of thoughts. i want to thank christina on all her work this. we are in a different place than a year ago and i want to reiterate what we said the last time, the deathal cooperation on this has been very, very substantial and fairly unprecedented so it's actually quite helpful. i do actually -- and i know the commission has been frustrated and impatient on this, but i have to say a bit of thanks to the academy for working with us much more closely, they are at a table on a monthly basis in meetings that i chair and we are

seeing substantial progress. on the issue of the legislation, we think, and i think chris mentioned this, there is a package that we will bring to you, if not january certainly the first quarter of next year, some of it is related to the recent legislation supervisor duffy put forward, but there is legislation that would help with regard to the ray approval process of student housing and the definition. finally, i just want to say on the issue that some of the speechers and commissioners have raised about where the academy should or should not locate, we have had discussions about that and scoped the e.i.r. in such a way that it allows the commission, eventually to help make that recommendation. in other words, to help guide the academy as to where it might be more appropriate for them to

go. market is certainly a place we are talking to the awattmy about and that is included in the eir. it gives all of us an option when the e.i.r. is complete. i realize there is frustration but it's going to take time. we are moving in that direction and i just want to assure you with that we are doing that and i think moving finally in a pretty positive direction. president miguel: thank you, commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: one last comment, my comments were not directed at the speaker directly, but generally at the academy. president miguel: commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: just one brief question regarding the housing issue and i may need

clarification going forward. student housing could be defined as dormitories, i think, because they are owned by the school, would be reverbed for those who are stunts. if someone was no longer a student, they would no longer be able to be the roadway sensors dent there. >> it's attached to the unit as opposed to who is in the unit. >> even if it's owned by a school for the purposes of student housing. >> some of their building are just apartment buildings? >> i guess it depends on the definition, not traditional dormitories. that's where the distinction is. ok, got it. vice president olague: , that's confusing. president miguel: let's take a 15 had been minute break. clerk: we have one more item -- no, item number 9 has been

withdrawn. president miguel: yeah, 9 has been withdrawn, we have 10 and 11. let's take 15 minutes and try not to take more than that. thee

hope for their legislation. >> good afternoon, commissioners, thanks for your time and consideration on this we agree with the staff's recommendation to work on this ordinance and hold off on any board action until after the commission has a chance to review it january 15th, we would like to thank you for your support of the predecessor of

this ordinance that created access street frontage uses and look forward to staff coming up with similar street frontage controls for the residential districts. i will save a lengthier philosophical discussion for january at that commission meeting. >> ann marie rogers, again, just to go through in detail what the implications of this were to be, if we were to use the nc3 districts as a reference point. we would take any use principally permitted on the ground floor and if they were permitted there, then we would allow them to be principally permitted below in the rc districts, similarly, if conditional use was required for use in the nc3 districts, it would be also allowed in the rc district by conditional use on

the ground floor below. now, when you are looking above the ground floor in the rc districts, we would again still look to the ground floor of the nc3 districts, but anything principally or conditionally permitted would be conditionally permitted above the ground floor in the rc district. so that's the bulk of the proposals. then there are a few recommended tweaks and policy adjustments that the department feels is required. formula retail is controlled by conditional use authorization in a portion of the van ness, pus but only those parcels that face van ness avenue. secondly, there would be a conflict created? the limits personal uses are

listed as permitted in the rv district. that's a little inconsistent, we all right have controls for how they shrug divided. we don't want to prejudice back to 231, but to keep consistent, we will just use the same nc controls, secondly we are proposing adding as use citizen limit. any use size over 6,000 square feet would be conditionally permitted. we feel this is a mine another change, most use of that size would already likely require a conditional use authorization. and then next providing that liquor sources be principally permitted on the ground floor in rc district, unless otherwise specified. much of the area in the tenderloin is in north of market special use district which has an outright prohibition on