>> the project i am working on is at 401 divisadero. i hope to come with you -- i hope to come before you with a project that you will be excited about. i might realistically need to make changes to that project. i think the most important part

is that decisions are made based on facts, not conjecture. that is why i wanted to make sure the record reflects what we believe are the facts regarding some of the statements last week. the two things i would like to speak on, one was that there were claims made and the square footage exceeds. this is the simplest thing to speak to. this just cannot happen. we are a huge company and we are so rigorous in the hiring of our consultants, it takes six months to get a consultant approved

because our of our security concerns. this would risk losing their license if they were misrepresenting something. in this case, the building we are looking at, the entire ground floor is over 4,000 feet. the portion that chase has leased is less than 4,000 feet, this is about 3900 for hon -- this is about 3900 square feet. if you measure in other ways, you get 3700 square feet. the bottom line is that we have agreed and welcome staff to come out at any time once we start building and there are walls there to actually measure space and confirmed for themselves and the board and any other group that we are complying with the

rules. i just want to put that on the record that it is our goal, my personal times before you. >> thank you. >> we will see you again. thank you. >> great. >> hello, my name is mary jane robertson. i have doing -- i have been doing a program called the -- profiles project in the city. we are really excited because this june, the ethnic dance festival is featuring the -- tried in san francisco. -- tribe in san francisco. i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to invite you to an event that opens the ethnic

dance festival which will be on june 3rd at city hall at noon. this will be a forgiveness ceremony. this is something that we will be doing to remind people that there are original people here in the city. we cannot always expect people to apologize to us. we want to invite you to this event that opens up the dance festival and to ask that you as commissioners on the planning commission always remember the original people whose land that we all live on. i want to thank you all.

can i also ask that i get to speak about treasure island. >> thank you for the invitation. some of us will try to be there. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am this year's national president. i want to come back to something commissioner borden said about disasters. the national level represents 80,000 members which has been called in haiti for more than a year. they have been involved with japan. i want to reiterate what you all know that after the '89 earthquake, we did a remarkable job in recovery. this is a model that cities look

to in terms of transformation. i cannot say strongly enough that planners and architects are important in this dialogue. i would urge the commission and the department in this effort to ensure that san francisco is as ready as possible. watching what has happened to japan, specifically the earthquake and the tsunami and the issues with the nuclear plant are unbelievable. this is a high seismic zone. this is driven by codes but also a long-range planning issue for the city. this will happen in our lifetime. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, commissioners. i am here to introduce myself in the context of work i'm doing on the community outreach front on

behalf of chase bank here with my colleague. i wanted to put a face to those activities that have taken place for the project you have heard a little bit about. while this project will not be coming for you in the formal sense, i wanted to make sure that you knew that there was people available to answer any questions that you have four others that might be in contact with you for this project as well as any others. i want to correct what i think are misrepresentations regarding the range of efforts that have been made to reach out to neighborhood groups, local merchants, and residence during the past several months. there were a few individuals who came before you during the last public comment opportunity and they explained that there would not be a conditional use permit. they said it was not their desire to stop the project but nearly they wanted an

opportunity for their voices to be heard. -- but merely they wanted an opportunity for their voices to be heard. chase made it a priority from the beginning, which is why they hired me, they brought me on, i happen to the neighborhood. they wanted to make sure that there was not reached done to the range of stakeholders in the area. we began by meeting with the two neighborhood groups in alamo square, neighborhood association, north of the panhandle. we continued to be in contact with those organizations, the leadership's made their cells available to answer questions. i've spoken to about 30 different individuals either one or multiple times. we have met with the bicycle coalition and have given them

and put on issues related to the project. most have been very supportive. i am following my presentation at the alamo square group. one of the individuals who addressed this asked whether it was an opportunity to sit down with chase. offered to set it up. it took a long time for that meeting to happen. because of our efforts, no one on there and wanting to do the scheduling and make it happen. when it finally occurred, the only thing we heard from the individuals there was that we don't want chase on -- and if they proceed, we will have to do what we are going to do. it was an opportunity that we had hoped would provide some feedback, any suggestions, requests, and fortunately it was a missed opportunity. >> there were a couple of things that were displaced and can you tell us where they ended up?

the chief place and the -- >> on that point, not in addressing your question -- >> if you can provide the information to ms. avery and she will let me know. >> i actually have letters from those of the of those businesses. -- from both of those businesses. >> is there any additional general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners, the next category is items proposed for a continuance. on this calendar we have item number five,, the treasure

island year balbuena redevelopment project. item number6 is case number 2004.0891e, an appeal for preliminary mitigated it made a declaration for a proposed project on 899 valencia street. please note that the mayor has requested that this item be continued to the call of the chair. >> with that, i am not aware of any other items being proposed for continuance. >> we will continue that item at this time for a continuance. the hotel. i would like to open it up for

public comment on items proposed for a continuance. >> hello, commissioners. i just wanted to let you know that we are requesting a 2 week continuance for the treasure island yerba buena project. >> that is on the 5:00 calendar. they cannot take up that continuance until 5:00. they cannot >> it is continued until april 21st. it will be continued. >> the eir specifications are proposed for continuance.

the informational item is there to be heard. >> we will not be voting on the project itself. i want to make sure the public comment for the eir is continued for two weeks. >> it will be heard april 21st. >> the public comment closed a while ago on the eir > >> that gets complicated. >> even though the comments have closed, on every calendar, there has to be a category to allow people to speak to this action. the public will be able to speak to that certification on that day, prioer to the -- prior to e

actions. the comment period is done. i do understand that. >> any comment will not be included in the responses to the document. >> is there any additional public comment on items proposed for continuance? >> -- commissioner miguel: i move item six to the date chair. >> on the motion of 5 and 6 for continuance, and item 8 to the call of the chair, antonini? borden? fung? sugaya? miguel? olague? those items are continued as discussed.

commissioners, you are on item 7 a, b, c, and d. for .0422, for the utz. b, c, and d are proposed initiations for the general plan ammendments and the planning code text amendments. and for fthe -- and for the zoning map amendments. >> good afternoon. i am david allenbaum, subs tituding for matt snyder.

i am giving his presentation but i might not do this as nicely. we have three actions for executive park. from the general plan and zoning act. initiating these items will allow the staff and approval -- an approval period ended prenotification for these actions. i would like to give you a second presentation on this proposal. very quickly, for the orientation, executive park is located in the southeast corner of san francisco. just north of the county line and to the right of the city as you come in.

this is a close-up of the site, and also an indication of the other projects coming before you in the past, that have also been subject to your deliberations. the plan was approved in spring 2008 for the other side of the freeway. this product was approved this past summer, and outside of the city -- this was just to the south of these parcels. this is a close-up of the executive side, as this exists today. you can see that there are a couple of things i want to talk about in this drawing. the street that is labeled "executive park boulevard" is

changing between a couple of efforts. to the north of there are the residential developments that have already been built or improved, and what we're talking about today is out of the boulevard, and you can see that this is characterized by three large office uses, with a lot of parking assisted with this. this is bounded by the interstate, and the executive project that has been studied -- this has three components. the first of these is the general plan, and the zoning amendments, the development proposal -- and you can see, in terms of scheduling, this was

published in 2010. we had a public hearing in november of 2010 on this, and the informational presentation a few weeks ago. to talk about the general plan. what is before you today are three actions, and we are now ready to move forward on the request for the guidelines that will provide the framework and the specific requirements for development, and the actual developments are not before you today, and i will not be talking about those, specifically. we look forward to hearing on this. last month we provided a history of the executive park area, and the contents of the area plan, focusing mostly on the zoning and the design guidelines, to

implement the changes that we envision. and as you can see, the revised plan provides for new street network that will retrofit the current network to make it much more available for residential development, and so we have divided this place into blocks replicating this to the west, in little hollywood, and we have established the street irt within that framework, for the networks in following the street plan recommendations, with this

area of neighborhood commercial development, the local streets and alleys, and pedestrian back ways. the hierarchy of streets established listens the scale and determines the building character of the area that we will be claiming, along with the open space system that you can see here, this ties into the hillside, to the north. and to the state recreation area to the south along the waterfront. there are a couple of components, with a picture of the hillside improvements, and then, a look at the state park and how this context there at the bay, as this continues.

and then, a couple of images to show you what we intend for the smaller, open spaces as part of the development, primarily along the edge of the bay, with what will be a reconfigured way, and the urban squares would complement the open-space system. and as we focused on the planning framework, today, we're focused on the implementation tools. specifically, the design guidelines. the zoning needs to establish the land use that is not oriented to residential uses, and the land use is now oriented and higher density than the current underlying zoning would permit.

this is to include a mechanism that would include a more residential street, for the existing configuration. this is to ensure that the newly-created streets would be publicly accessible, along with the kinds of developments that are being envisioned. the zoning will lead to anticipate the reconfiguration of the existing right of ways, and infrastructure facilities, and finally, they have to rezone the heights to allow a range of types to this setting. the existing site, as you can see, is oriented to commercial usage, to allow residential development at a density of one unit for every 800 square feet of area. the proposal is to take this

area that is now being discussed and his own thus, for the underlying lots. the commercial and media zoning, for the predominantly industrial uses, at a higher density than the current zoning will allow. we're also proposing to establish a special use district, to address particular circumstances that are not adequately addressed, without providing use district designations. the existing block and street pattern are configured for a wide skills development, and as you can see -- this would

establish controls in ways that would break this up with a smaller blocs that are envisioned. and integrating the open space -- this provides the provisions that require each phase of development, to include the surrounding streets and the open spaces in juncture with the development of each space. this also anticipates the interchange, and i think that we have all been discussing this, probably in more detail when we talked about how we would reconfigure this, with different controls for this. this also allows portions of the site to transfer an allowed

density to the other portions. specifically, the areas circled in the slide, this is anticipated to be affected by the reconfiguration and the interchange. and in to the east, immediately to the north, this would be increasing as well. they have set up a mechanism for what would happen in those areas, to be transferred to the other places. and the new zoning also revises a high designations, in this area. they are currently assigned with a height limit, and in accordance with the vision laid out by this plan, the new

district would be created specifically for this place, to enable buildings to be built between the heights of 65 and as high as 250 feet. and there be a single zoning designation for this portion of the site, with new provisions in the planning code to lay out the different heights, the different controls are shown there. and this would do a couple of major things. this would enable a prominent street wall at the edge of the neighborhood, and this would establish a place that would route 3 -- allow free larger

towers to be part of the development package. and these are shown in the red. and there is the image of the skyline. we would have a closer image of this. the form that you would get under the current, proposed tight controls. moving forward into these design guidelines, i would like to give you an explanation of those, this will refer to the executive park design guidelines, to assert the further controls. it should be noted, there is the

establishment of the design guidelines that do not require initiation and are not before you during this hearing. and this is in the week prior -- the design guidelines are useful in areas where the planning department is generally silent, or the guidance is more useful with the zoning code. let's look at these design guidelines. this would establish a general strategy, for an overall redesign strategy for the entire department. i am sari. -- i am sari -- sorry. i am having a