include all existing rf. if it was approved in 1972 or recently, the rf image from it would be included in the report to the department of public health. commissioner sugaya: i would like to clarify that. thank you. commissioner borden: i want to thank the board for trying to make headway in this direction, because we have been asking for that for some time. i share commissioner sugaya's cynicism as to whether distance makes it accurate or inaccurate. that has become a kind of sticky wicket. the thing i would love for us to be able to get -- we are talking about making the state to confidential. it would be interesting to know how closely the map that was identified mirrored what was found, and how much greater or

worse the situation might be. i do believe, kind of to commissioner sugaya's point, if i am trying to sell you a cell phone, i'll show you a map with coverage, not gaps. on the other side, you will have lots of issues. i have spoken to most of the commissioners this week and had trouble hearing each of them on a cell phone at different times, or in some cases had dropped calls. i know there are coverage issues in the city. we among ourselves have those issues. it would be interesting if we could, in a confidential way, get the data not at this project or the site, but be able to look at the discrepancy between what the map says and what the actual coverage areas are. if you want to go one step forward and looked and marketing data, that would be interesting. in the abstract, which would not identify particular projects, but it would be nice to know in the trance department -- trends

department how things were looking. one of the things we said at the board of supervisors was it would be useful to have a hearing at the health department where people would be part of the process. the health department has criteria by which it makes decisions to determine a health risk related to antennas, which is why we do not have jurisdiction over this issue. that is not our purview. it would be helpful if people could talk to the health department or have insight into why they make these decisions this way. i will put that out there again. i will approach supervisor olague maybe to address that. again, we do not have that as our purview. commissioner antonini: before we act on this, project sponsor, there was a question about definitions of good in terms of

this particular project. what do we mean by those general terms? just so we can have something to hang our hat on as far as those definitions. >> at the pleasure of the chairman, i am the designer of the system. these maps with the berries covers -- colors you can see, i generated. they are based on engineering data and drive test data. we have backup drive test data, and buried in thousands of drug test data, for olympic canoe -- thousands of drive test data, for alembic ave. these are engineering maps. the red means there is poor to no coverage. in this area, driving in your car, you will probably get a drop call. the yellow is called marginal

area. you will probably get ok outdoor coverage, but no in-building coverage. in the green, there is good coverage. you will have in-building coverage also. do you have questions? commissioner antonini: i think that gives us a pretty good understanding of what the colors mean on this map. >> i am available if you have any technical questions. commissioner sugaya: just a quick -- to staff, can we work with the carriers to standardize that kind of language a little bit? assuming that the carriers all have similar engineering approach to how they talk to light their coverage. scott sanchez: that is something we can look into. commissioner sugaya: which they may not. scott sanchez: i would like to clarify whether the commission

wishes to adopt that additional condition of approval, to make that clear for the record. commissioner antonini: my motion included both. >> the motion is for approval with conditions, including the condition as read into the record by the zoning administrator, scott sanchez. on that motion? commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. president fong: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. >> that motion passed unanimously. now consider item no. 6. the zoning administrator will consider item 7 at the same time. this is for 371 and 375 11th st.. >> you have before you a request for a conditional use operation to expand an additional business use doing business as the dna lounge, located within a

industrial mixed use zoning district. the western soma planning district, and a 50-x-book the trip. it will create interior connections -- the bulk district. it will create interior connections to increase the volume of the lounge from 8000 square feet to 11,985 square feet. it will not result in expansion of the existing building envelope or square footage. the project sponsor is also seeking a variance from providing an off street loading space. there has been public comment only in support of the project. the five letters are included in the ks report. the department recommends approval on the grounds it meets all requirements of the planning code and has demonstrated it has adhered to the good neighbor policies affecting 803.5.

additionally, the enlargement of the use secures an active use within its neighborhood, and promotes arts and entertainment activities which serve the city and region. this concludes my presentation. i am available for any questions. thank you. president fong: project sponsor, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is aileen. i am here on behalf of dna lounge and a pizza parlor. before i get into the substance of this, i want to point out that we did have a meeting and only two folks attended. i believe one is in the audience. we did not get any letters of opposition. there was no outreach to dna staff, who are always available, because of the nature of their business.

we will address what we believe the issues are, but i want to hope we can reserve some time to rebut any concerns. we are here on a conditional use application and variance, required under the planning of section 181 f, which is geared toward nighttime entertainment uses. it allows a non-conforming nighttime entertainment use to expand as long as it meets all the conditional use criteria and meets all the other criteria under the planning code, hence the need for the variance, because we do not provide a living space. as many of you know, dna lounge is been around for many years. it is located on a block in the city where there are many other nightclubs. it is an intense nighttime activity use. we have letters in the record from our supporters that say, "i have lived on the block, and when i bought my unit, i had to

sign a notice informing me i am moving into a block where there is a lot of noisy activity at night." the benefit of the project, in terms of addressing concerns about noise, is all we are doing is building a communicating walkway between the buildings. we have to do a subdivision map to do that. we are eliminating the lot line between the two. there will be more internal circulation space for patrons to enjoy dna lounge, get a bite of pizza, and continue to enjoy that activity. the result will be fewer folks on the sidewalk potentially making noise. again, that is a tremendous benefit. it keeps an existing news and enhances it, allowing dna to continue the program they are doing. the last point i will make before i turn this over to the architect is that dna does adhere very seriously to its good neighbor policies, and

implements them, is open to complaints. the women who attended the meeting said the we are open and will work with you. we said we would do that and heard nothing. i will turn this over to mr. anderson. i am available for questions, as is a member of the membership -- management and ownership of the lounge. >> my name is jason anderson. i and the designer working with dna lounge. i wanted to take a moment and perhaps draw your attention to a couple of items that might be of use to you. if i could have the overhead, please. on a sheet a02, there are diagrams that clearly illustrate the existing use, showing the ground floor. the larger building, the dna

lounge -- >> you can move the mike brim. >> thank you. -- the mic. >> thank you. the upstairs art gallery is currently vacant. the other diagrams on that sheet show unification of the entire new parcel as an aide to occupancy. but the communicating openings which bendix brought attention to can be seen on sheet a1, right here. right here, we have an existing dividing wall, which we are hoping to open, two six-foot openings in for communicating entrances between the formerly separate parcels.

the exterior elevations -- there are no changes to the exterior elevations. essentially, it is the two communicating entrances. it is an increase in the number of bathrooms and other minor changes to the interior, but no exterior facades changes. that concludes my presentation. i am available for any for the condition. thank you. president fong: any public comment on this item? i have one speaker card, jackie bryson. >> good afternoon, commissioners. it is good to see a familiar face i have not seen in a while. my name is jackie bryson, and i do live in the south of market area, not very far from the dna lounge. i am the person who walks around a lot as a form of exercise for

me, in addition to which, i am on top of graffiti, illegally done flyers, etc. toward that end, i have had problems getting down 11th street. gavin newsom was with me a while back. i am very eager for those people to get into the lounge and spend money and tell their friends and come back but they must leave that clear path of travel for myself and other disabled people. i had to come down here and go on record so that it will not be, nobody came and complained about not being able to get down the sidewalk. the flyer, i can take up in a

different arena. as far as the 3 ft. wide clear path of travel, we will need to make it said that jackie bryson does not have to turn into jackie chan to get up and down the street. back grex any other public comment? -- >> any other public comment? >> that afternoon. i am chair of the western soma citizens planning task force and some of you may know that i also served as the neighborhood representative of the entertainment commission for the last eight years. no longer on the commission and i have to make it clear i am only speaking on my own behalf today. i am also speaking as a resident

35-year resident of south of market. i live within a block of the 11th street corridor and have expertise in the area of neighborhood nightclub relations. there is no doubt that there have always been bad players on 11th street. the dna lounge is not one of them. their security has always been excellent. they have developed a particular expertise in handling crowds, especially those under 21 since they got their type 47 liquor license. they made major physical improvements to the building, tens of thousands of dollars worth of structural improvements to mitigate sound issues and they work very well with the neighbors. the general manager did attend

this, leadership council meeting a couple of months ago. and the group voted unanimously to support this project. these are among the real grown- ups 11th street. i fully support of their application to expand this entertainment use and i hope you do as well. thank you. >> any additional public comment? >> hello. i am -- i read one of the letters that is in the packet. i live on north fixed-rate something like 200 feet away from the lounge. i have lived there for eight years. i have lived in the city for 15. i wanted to restate i moved to the area at explicitly because of places like the dna lounge. i love being near there. there also a neighbor. when i heard about the

combination, that sounded like an awesome thing to me. i have been to other places that are like this, more unified, awful restaurant and performance space. it is a great kind of thing to do. it is also my live around the corner from this. that is all i wanted to say. >> thank you. president fong: any additional public comment? >> commissioner borden: this issue of making sure the sidewalk is kept clear, i know that happens to people and i know that there is stuff that looks after the sidewalk. all -- this is a very good neighbor. overall. i would advise to make sure the sidewalk is kept passable and move to approve with conditions. >> second. commissioner sugaya: i wanted to

know the changes are fairly minor. the entertainment space remains the same. there is perhaps additional second floor space that could be used. it seems fairly minor to me. commissioner antonini: i know of other establishments that have connections between, there are two parts. under two different names but it helps the flow lot. people could come in and out in different places but could connect between the two. it would be one. with assurances. i think the standard approval conditions that the killing will allow space for a sidewalk passage. -- queueing would allow space for sidewalk passage. you have to leave space on the sidewalk for passage when you kill up. i am supportive. vice president miguelcommission

concerned with fostering and maintaining the right environment. i am comfortable supporting. president fong>> the mission --n the floor for approval. thank you. on the variance. president fong: noting there is no physical expansion of the building. there is a communicating opening between two existing buildings. there is no increase in this area. that would be all for that item. >> thank you. >> with your approval we will hear this next item regarding

the budget and take a short break. >> thank you. commissioners, we will go to item number 12. this is the fiscal year 2012 to 2014 program budget. >> good afternoon. this is the first of several budget presentations for you for the coming of two fiscal years. as you may recall this is the first time the department will be preparing a two-year budget for fiscal years 2012 and 13 and 2013 and 2014. i wanted to give some preliminary comments and our finance minister -- manager will present the details of the budget. you have copies of the powerpoint. a couple of things. one of the highlights of those accomplishments of the current and recent fiscal year, to remind us all that while some of our work does have very extensive time periods, we have

accomplished a lot in the last year. namely, eirs and approvals of parkmerced and the executive park north. the america's cup terminal. america's cup and cruise ship terminal. the glen park plan. many projects related to the puc water system improvement project and the largest of those being the calaveras dam. eir's in midstream include the transit center plan, the academy of arts, cpm see, the mexican museum, and the western soma plan. all of which should be coming to you with this fiscal year. the environmental planning staff has done a lot of work this year related to the bay area air quality management district.

and those regulations which have taken an enormous amount of time this year and have affected a lot of development projects. there has been some recent court rulings on the case which we will be bringing to you shortly in the next few weeks. on the legislation side, a few highlights. the restaurant legislation that you recently passed on to the board, student housing work and the first safe building ordinance are three of the highlights we are seeing. we're seeing a record of number of legislative proposals by the board. we're seeing 40 or 50 pieces of legislation a year. one of the things we will -- we are looking at in the new budget is whether we should be actually adding additional staff to that function because of the sheer amount of legislation. there is more legislation produced than any other part of the city code. a lot of time has been spent on the academy of art. and just a note that the board

of appeals have issued their first appeal, decided their first appeal related to the historic preservation and the upheld the decision in that case. on the preservation side, we have finally completed all the eastern neighborhoods surveys which i am pleased to say and the board -- commission has adopted a number of administrative procedures for certificates of permits to alter. finally, the long-range planning side, the housing element was adopted late last fiscal year. the better streets plan was adopted, the part blend plan was adopted. we initiated the central corridor plan for the fourth street area. we produced some of our initial thoughts for the future land use scenarios for that area. of course we're continuing to work on a number of urban design and park projects for the city received the latest round of proposals for the park place for the coming years.

before i turn it over to keith, a couple of highlights for the coming fiscal year which will be affecting us in our work plan and budget. the most significant is the permit tracking system. that project, now that we are in the implementation mode, i am pleased to tell you that project is under way. we have to develop as well. we are developing a serious amount of staff time. we have eight fte's. it is very important. because as i said to several folks, this is a 40-year investment we're making for the city and it is important we get right. our preservation staff will be initiating some new surveys and community outreach work funded by a certified local government grant. we're looking forward to that work. the long-range plan, the city wide planning staff has proposed a new initiative called better neighborhoods programs which you'll see in your budget.

witches -- which is a new focus on existing neighborhoods, specifically commercial districts. we will be getting a dialogue with some neighborhoods who are seeking to strengthen their communities for policy and improvements and not necessarily through zoning changes. this will focus on how to strengthen the existing districts without necessarily doing a longer range neighborhood plan looking at zoning changes and height increases and that sort of thing. we will work on the transportation -- we have been working on it for quite some time. we will begin the eir for the transportation sustainability program which is the program that we used to call -- this is the program that will be restructuring how we do transportation financing for development projects and we will have a major impact on the ceqa reviews for those projects. that is under way. legislation will be introduced very soon on that.

that will require an eir. and the eir will start within the next few months. finally i am pleased to report that finally after several years, our new communications manager will start next week. i am pleased that you will be joining us at long last. with that, i will turn over to keith demartini to give you the details on next year's budget. >> thank you, and good afternoon. i have some handouts for the public. if anyone would like a copy of the presentation. thank you. it is my pleasure to be here today to present a draft board program for the upcoming two fiscal years. going over first draft of the on -- upcoming budget calendar for fiscal into what the current

projection looks like. and over what the mayor's budget instructions have been for the upcoming two years of how it affects our department and going to more details about each division's work program. starting with the calendar, today is the 12th. we will present a draft of the program to you and next week to the historic preservation commission. in february staff will be presenting the draft budget revenue and expenditure budget for the department, followed by coming back to the commissions in mid-february to go over the final work program and budget in order to submit our department's budget on february 21st to the mayor's office. over that -- the next couple months we will have dialogue between our office and the mayor's office about finalizing the budget. we'll come back if there is a need to review the changes at which that -- time they mayor will propose his budget on june

1. i will continue to keep everyone updated throughout this process. moving on to a projection for the current year's operating fund. in a memo that i distributed to the commission's last month i had provided a projection at that time on the department's operations and at that time i was projecting approximately $600,000 shortfall in the operating account. due to mainly a lower volume the department was experiencing in permits being reviewed at that time. since then, volume has ramped up pretty substantially over the past few months especially on some of the environmental pieces. on the revenue projection has been updated and i am projecting -- not projecting any shortfall whatsoever. that is a good sign. this information will be used as the baseline for our base of

revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year as well. moving on to the upcoming budget cycle, this is the first year that all departments will be required to submit a two-year budget for fiscal 12-13 and 13- 143 the mayor's office has informed departments of its general fund projections and those two fiscal years, you can see the general fund is projecting a shortfall of $262 million in fiscal 12-13 and i and 13-14. there are many institutions built into these figures. this does assume current staffing levels across all city departments in the current fiscal year moving forward. it also reflects financial ramifications of the passage of proposition c, pension reform. requiring greater contribution from employees into account. it does assume continued slow and steady economic recovery