>> good afternoon.

this is the regular meeting of the planning commission for september 22nd, 2011. if you could turn off your telephone, pager or electronic devices that may sound off during the proceedings. if you are filling out speaker cards, you can put them on the railing and i will pick them up. [roll call] president olague: the first

things on a calendar are items proposed for a continuance. the 135 el camino del mar, proposed for a continuance until october 27th, 2011. the next one is for 2424 polk st. for an deafening continuanthird is the japan towl use provision, this is also proposed for indefinite continuance. item #4 is -- this is important to point out this is only for the variance case for parole street. -- peralta street. the design administrator has

determined the variance is no longer necessary, so the item is being removed from the calendar. id is only shown because it's continued to this specific date, so we needed to show the trail. further on the calendar, under the regular calendar, 15 01 15th st., staff is requesting continuance until october 6th, 2011. the project sponsor is in agreement with that. with that, i am not aware of any other item on your calendar being proposed for a continuance. president olague: any public comment on the items proposed for continuance? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am in north mission property owner. i am concerned about 1501 15th

street. the staff report gives the developers everything are entitled to under the code, yet the promise to the community under the plan are ignored and abrogated. in every instance, the developer maxes out, but there's nothing on the corresponding give side and tiling the neighborhood to have livability. we are looking at a parking -- >>president olague: this is noto speak to the item, but to speak to continuance. >> i hope we have continuance going on to allow staff to work with the neighborhood and come to some sort of agreement, especially as relates to marshall school. president olague: thank you. >> i am here on the 135 el camino del mar continuance. i support the continuance. i did a time she with what

happened in and where we are, which is not very far. but we are here today. thank you preheat president olague: -- the thank you,. . president olague: public comment is closed. vice-president miguel: i moved to continue the agenda, plus item number 14. president olague: for the motion to continue, item 14 to october 6th, [roll-call] thank you, commissioners. the items are continued as has been proposed. commissioners, you have won consent calendar item, considered to be routine and acted upon by single roll call

vote. there will be no separate discussion of this item unless a number of this commission, the public or staff should request and that would remove the item from consent and content -- considered as a separate item. this is item number five, for the 13267 a, a request for a conditional use authorization to allow a wireless telecommunications service facility that consists of six panel antennas which will be a facade and rooftop amounted to a six-story mixed use building as part of the at&t wireless network. following public comment, which would automatically pull this from the consent calendar, this item is in your hands. president olague: is there any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. there is public comment?

ok. in that case, it will be coming off the regular calendar and we will hear it on the first item of the regular calendar. >> with that, we can move on to item no. 6, consideration of the adoption of the adoption of the regular meeting, following public comment in any modification and/or corrections you may have, we ask you approved the draft measure. -- a draft minutes. commissioner miguel: is there any public comment on the draft minutes? public comment disclosed. -- public comment is closed. on the motion to approve the draft minutes of september 8th, 2011 -- [roll-call]

thank you, commissioners. at any other commission manners? commissioner moore: i wanted to ask the director, staff and the mayor's office to talk with us about the san francisco foreclosures and how they are affecting the city overall. there was an article in the newspaper, and while we are very aware of how foreclosures are ravaging the rest of the country, we live in a healthy city where foreclosures are not as noticeable. however, this particular article indicates there is more to be concerned about than what meets the eye. perhaps the article over stated that deal, but perhaps there should be a discussion about a because many of the decisions we're making are affecting the

city at all levels, and support city, support structures etc., getting the feeling which neighborhoods are hit and which parts of the population are affected and geographically how it plays itself out would be very important for us to take into consideration. i ask the commission to support we asked for such a presentation or somebody that can fill us in. yes second thing is, on a much brighter note, there was an in a screening of a movie last night in the kabuki theater of a film shown at the toronto film festival. commissioner fong was good enough to pass our names around. the name of the movie is "urbanized." it is a phenomenal movie about cities worldwide talking about

urban issues and how people in 40 cities across the world are attacking the broadest range of issues. they're talking about it every thursday, how the rest of the world addresses these issues is inspiring. i hope the entire planning department and anybody interested in city and suburbanism -- and urbanism. i encourage everybody to see this movie. it's mine glowingly wonderful and i cannot speak more glowingly about the experience of having seen it last night. commissioner antonini: one subject we frequently talk about is transportation, which is where much of what are planning revolves around. i came upon a buck, a pictorial

book with a text on the muni and there are very many interesting things in that book. it was one of the nation's first man to play on transportation systems. most of the others were private until 1913. they did some really marvelous things, mostly by building tunnels in places like stockton street, 26, and the cut through to allow street cars to move quickly to various neighborhoods. an interesting statistic is that the daily volume of muni is > bart, golden gate transit, but if they said it, it's probably a fact. the number of people to take

muni per day is astonishing. we're moving a lot of people on a given day. one interesting statistic is we have a portion of muni, the metro system. it has six different lines, and two of those lines, i'm not sure which ones, each carry more volume individually than the entire santa clara valley transit authority like whale system in the south bay. how there is one down there, but nobody rides it. ballpoint of this exercise is to make the public aware and talk to your representatives at the state and federal level and let's get funding where people use transit, and that is in san francisco. let's try to, and a spirit of was done many years ago, explore the idea of more transit in its

own right of way. the ability to move people quickly other than competing with traffic on the street were possible. that's a really interesting situation. we see on a day like september 11th when we had a game at candlestick, we had a game that at&t park, we had shakespeare in the park, we had more than 120,000 people for those events alone. they did not rise muni, -- they did not m all rideuni, but many of them did use public transport. commissioner miguel: there was a noontime forum this week on middle-income housing. our director was one of the presenters as was ted egan, the city's economist. they did go into what you were discussing. it was well attended, and it was

very interesting. also during the week, i met with people from the armory. one of the department noontime forums was on windows. we often get a subject comes up in front of us on replacement windows, which ones not to, so for me and many in the department, it was relatively educational. yesterday, i met with the executive medical committee of st. luke's. commissioner sugaya: i don't know if i missed it at the last update, but apparently they are now in ownership of the former culinary institute building. are they supposed to be doing that? i guess you are not supposed to answer that.

it is our understanding that further purchases -- i don't know what the situation is but it seems this needs to have some of vetting somewhere. the other concern is i don't know what it's historic status is, but i did not look it up to see it there was a landmark or not. the access to public spaces on the interior, that is a concern i would like to voice at this point. commissioner borden: we're always talking economic development opportunities here. there's an organization called the urban desolations. they help do voskhod improvement programs and write business plans and help them be -- that

they have an event coming up called to blocks of art. all of the different galleries and restaurants will be open and there will be art displays and the goal is to get people down to that neighborhood to see what is going on there. all of these new businesses have come in and some of them are struggling. they are struggling because people don't think to go to sixth street where there are stories about crime in that area and this initiative as a way to get people down and the neighborhood and to the vitality that exists and encourage people to come back. it is october 14th and its in- between market and howard on sixth street. i will make sure there are some e-mail, but i want the public to know because he what we spent a lot of time doing is trying to improve neighborhoods in commercial corridors and there

are neighborhoods where wonderful things are happening, but they need support. president olague: a lot of them hire locally. a lot of them are really great places. i does want to share my enthusiasm for the film " urbanize." we stuck around and answered questions after the second showing of the feld. there was a lot of enthusiasm from audience. it was a really good crowd. i agree it should be mandatory. i was getting jealous when i was watching scenes from bogota, colombia and what they have done with bicycle lanes and sidewalks and roadways. i was looking at other cities and thinking why can't we do that here? maybe we will hear from that --

maybe we will hear about that later on today. commissioner moore: i lost my train of thought. the rapid transit -- it was one of the things we were saying ourselves, it would be really fresh and grab onto projects that have proven to work across the world. that's what the movie is about and it is really inspiring. commissioner antonini: i was able to tour an area of a future project that won't come before us until next year.

it is that san francisco overlook. it's a very interesting area on the western part of san francisco and i think everybody was able to see some of the beautiful things that have been done. there are trails up there that connect over there on a nice day, it's a great walk. commissioner moore: i received calls regarding the armory and people suggesting that we ask the historic preservation commission to weigh in. it's a very difficult situation, particularly when preservation is normally not ask on this project, but i think we could ask for them to look at and give us their thoughts. >>president olague: i also received those e-mail from the

owner of the armory and from commissioner martina's, -- commissioner martina's requesting -- i gave that request to the department so that we asked hpc to review that. we have already made that request. >> commissioners, if there are no other comments, we can move on to directors' report, directors announcements, and the review of the past week's events at the board of supervisors and historic preservation commission. >> his good afternoon, commissioners. where are tentatively scheduling an informational hearing on november 17th with regard to their purchase the

property. we have said repeatedly we are not -- they're not able to buy properties, it how we use them and control through the permitting process. that is the situation we're in with the academy at this time. just some scheduling announcements -- tomorrow, i will be speaking at the annual san francisco business times structures breakfast at 8:00 a.m. along with the mayor and several other speakers. i will be covering some of the of long-range planning along with the central core plan we're getting underway. the commission is off next week due to the jewish holiday. i will be taking a few days off and the bill will be in charge during that time. thank you. >> a good afternoon. i'm here to provide you with

your weekly report on the board of supervisors and the planning and its land use activities. there was one item this week wanted to share. the city center special design district. this commission recommended approval of this sud associated with a proposed target store. at the time, you recommended adoption of the ordinance with to recommended modifications. the first was the large freestanding sign be reduced from the proposed maximum of 35 feet to 20 feet and a maximum with not exceed its current vengeance. the second request for modification was that the four new signs should be visually distinct from and a subordinate to the existing sign. at monday's committee meeting, the ordinance was amended to include the second

recommendation for the blade sign, but not the height and weight. the land use committee forded the ordinance to the full board for this tuesday's hearing. on tuesday's hearing, it passed on first reading. also at the full board this week, we had a couple of department-initiated ordinances'. the first was a standard for bird safe buildings. you approve the policy document and recommend approval of an ordinance that would implement the document. last week at committee, we made to modifications to it. first, they amended so it would specifically apply to city-owned properties and second, the amended controls on wind generation. they removed a prohibition on wind generation urban bird habitat and said, required any wind generator be monitored going into the future per existing regulations. last week, supervisor mar signed

on as a sponsor and davidchiu signed on as a co-sponsor and it was an ant -- unanimously approved on first reading. commissioners, you heard these ordnances on june 23rd which would amend the says zoning map, planning code, but these speak to improve code readability of the board approved on first reading. there were no new introductions this week and the zoning administrator asked me to give you an update on the board of appeals. there was one item this week of interest. it was on the in street, the restaurant called the brickyard. this was the third hearing on this appeal. the last hearing was intended to

allow them one final opportunity to meet with neighbors and submit modifications. two alternatives were submitted by the permit holder. the first involves permit a closing all but one of the five patio doors. you may remember at your hearing, you required to doors to be permanently closed and allowed to to be open as weather permits. the second option involves the replacement of the doors with a wall and single door providing access to the patio. the neighbors did not support either alternative. also at the hearing was the entertainment commission inspector who discussed his readings and provided an overview of the noise ordinance. after hearing public comment, the board expressed dissatisfaction with the permit holder and their efforts in working with neighbors. the board expressed concerns about the adequacy of the conditions imposed by this

commission. the board discussed other possible alternatives. the board first voted 3-2 to uphold the appeal and to not permit. that motion failed. the board optimally voted unanimously to approve the permit was the condition that all of the doors but one be permanently closed, requiring the last one to be a self- closing door. another item was continued, so we will give you more on that when that happens. that concludes both reports, unless there are questions. commissioner sugaya: i just got a comment on the directors' report. he is going to attend the breakfast. it would be nice -- i ender's stand being a structural supplement that it is structural engineers, but it would be nice

if they mentioned the architect. commissioner moore: would you explain to me, the commission made recommendations on the geary sign ordinance, or the parking signs would be placed. we were told there would be other alternatives. how was that address? >> my recollection of that item is these were the original staff recommendations, but they were not incorporated in the commission's motion. the commission's motion only had two recommendations -- >commissioner moore: that is an incorrect recollection. >> i think in the end, you chose not to wreck -- not to change the parking signs. president olague: