>> is is the regular meeting for the san francisco planning commission. have the new year, everyone. let me remind everyone to turn off your cellphone spirit and in the electronic devices that the sound off during these proceedings. because we do not have the usual president and vice president, the rules state that the members present must elect a chair for the day. >> move to let commissioner fong to chair today. commissioner mo[calling roll]

commissioners, the first category on your calendar, items proposed for continuance. item one it is castro street, proposed for continuance to 2009, 2012. item two is 2011 at 080.0207c. item three, 2011.0101c, 405 valencia's street. further on your calendar, item

number 17, case number 2010 for 900 acres street, please note the project has been withdrawn. this matter is no longer before you for your consideration. item number 19, case number 2011 .1249c, supervisor campos has requested you continue this for two weeks. i am not aware of any other items being proposed for continuance of this calendar. commissioner fong: comment on these items or continuance? seeing onnone -- >> i would like to move to continue items # 1, 2, 3, and 4,

to the dates specified and items # 19 i believe to do you worry 26. >> yes. commissioner moore: could i ask for the specific date on 2500 bryant street? >> that is going to this 26th of january. commissioners a sugaya: i woud like to make sure no one is an audience for item number 19? ok. >> for continuance of item number 19 to jittery 26 and

other items on the calendar? -- to january 26. [calling roll [ ] that motion passes unanimously. for the record, i did not call roll. [roll call] commission yourborde 6nener bors den is expected. we can get to the consent calendar. items on consent are intended to be reseeded -- routine. there will be no separate discussion unless a member of this commission, public or stopped makes a request. matters would be removed from consent this co in considered as

meeting or a meeting in the present. -- a meeting in the future. there is a request for conditional use authorization to establish a wireless telecommunications facility consisting of panel and tunnels -- antennas and associated equipment located in the crot garage with a location for preference to the location site. it is part of the verizon wireless communication network. item six, case number 2011. 0951c for 371-375 11th street.

this sinthis will increase the f the lounge. it does not include any increase to the existing building envelopes or floor area. this is not identified as a formula of retail use. the project is s.l.r. identified use the street. item #74371-37511 street. this is request for variant to expand the existing nighttime use as the dna lounge. commissioners, as you consider item no. 6, the request for a

conditional use authorization from of the zoning administrator will consider no. 7. alfollowing any public comment, these items are in your hands. i will note i have our requea rn 5 and 6. but these people would like to speak, it does remove them from consent. commissioner fong: rev. ronald gordon. i'm sorry. hang on. >> if the rev. would like to speak, you understand it will pull them from consent. before you speak, does the speaker for item number six

still want to speak? commissioner fong: jackie bryson. >> we want to take these items up now as projects or call them at the beginning of the regular calendar? >> we will call these items again later. thank you. mr. zoning administrator, you will consider items of and at that time? thank you. we move on to commissioner questions and matters. item #8, consideration of adoption of your minutes from your last hearing of last year, the first one from october 6, 2011. from your special meeting of november 17, 2011, and your regular meeting of november 70,

2011. your regular meeting of december 1 year get your special meeting of december 8. in your regular meeting of december 50. following any modification, i asked you would stop the drop minutes. -- adopt the draft minutes. commissioner fong: any comments? a motion. commissioner more: motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you. motion on approval of the draft minutes -- [calling roll] thank you, commissioners. any other commission matters? commissioner fong: commissioner

antonini. commissioner antonia menini: congratulations to christie the lobine olague, even though we on voted different ways, supervisor olague was always open to discussion and compromise, and i think someone has said that politics is the art of the possible and she will do well because of her item -- attitude in that regard. item two, most of you know the 49ers are playing in an important game against the saints this saturday. they are played at candlestick park, which is the site of more nfl playoff games than any other stadium in the united states, partly due to the great successes of the 40 miners in

the past. -- 49ers in the past. my third item has to do with personal experience talking about formula of retairetail tro find a battery. over the holidays we have had a land line that has gone out. it is a tone that is able to be removed from the land line and walked around with. apparently may be all that is wrong with it is the battery. unfortunately, radio shack did not have it in either did at&t. i was told to go to batteries plus, , which i think the only one is on a bush near van ness. would we have to look at the could additional uses for formula of retail, we have to take into consideration issues

where it the item is such a specialty item and really not realistic to expect your neighborhood hardware store or even something as another formula retail outlets like real shoadio shack, there is the rean is that way, and that is you have to have such a huge volume of all its to be able to specialize in only about a rise -- batteries. to always you our decisions and the prism of how realistic is it that local firms can always apply the items of particular institutions. i this wanted to point out. i hope to find a battery in the some time near future. commissioner more: i have a list

of congratulations. the first one goes to supervisor olague. i wish her the best of luck. i think it will be fantastic. the second congratulations those tgoes to mayor lee for his swearing in of new mayor. the first one out of the issue is the thought of establishing a trust fund for affordable housing. i read an outline in the paper of what that is supposed to entail, and i am extremely excited for that being a step in the right direction, something i think this commission will be interested in an interested and help realizing. the third congratulations goes to director [inaudible] .

he is mentioned in this great article. as we see the demise of san francisco, he has jumped in to establish a new oversight office. i am not sure if i am using the proper names, to which one of them was named, one of which is director williams who brings planning expertise, including a lot more to anchor a discussion that will require a lot of attention, particularly many of the project that will work on at the board for a long time. i see that as a very powerful step in the right direction as we all move in the discussion on the rise of redevelopment. not all cities are prepared as we are, and i wish everyone left on this difficult journey. i have a comment to make on an ordinance establishing new

guidelines for performance and other regulations regarding installation and placement of wireless communication. the city of burly gamingame on monday instituted a note ordinance. i have a copy of the ordinance to pass on as the city day -- city has compared with eight other cities are doing. i would give her the ordnance and acreage hurt to contact people in their planning department to see what has been looked at so that our own work can support what others have researched. that is, i think, it for me today. i wanted to thank the planning department for including the christmas pictures from the party. i thought it was very thoughtful. it brought a lot of smiles to my face. the last thing i would like to share, [inaudible]

is closed. they moved the catering business to another location. >> i apologize. i was not here. >> it there are no further commission comments -- commissioner sugaya: i spent my christmas hiatus so i have nothing to say. [laughter] >> thank you. with that, we can move on to director report, announcements. >> thank you. happy new year, everyone. it is good to be back. if you will bear with me, i might lose my voice halfway

through. i am still struggling with a cold. i have several announcements today, and i wanted to give you some information about the successor agency and the status of the redevelopment agency and how that will affect the city and the department and the titular. first, i wanted to offer our congratulations from the department to christina olague, we look forward to continue to working with her, and of course, the mayor. he gave an interesting and well as receive speech on sunday, and we really look forward to working with him over the next four years. secondly, i wanted to announce there are a number of intern's today. we have an unusually large amount of in terms that are helping us out of the current moment. they are unpaid interns helping us out and volunteering their efforts for us. they are all working 18 hours per week on a number of

projects. and let me travel off their names. you can stand if you are. andrew, casey, david campo, roman lopez and tiffany lerue are with the department right now. and [applause] several of them are working on land use surveys or of doing the information, which is very valuable to us, and something that can only be done on the ground. some of them are working on improvements to the public information website, researching the vacation rental website, and others are working on mapping are not useful -- national register historical district. most of them will be with us for three months, and we're very grateful for that.

>> where are they from? >> they are from all over the place. i'm sorry, i do not have the information with me. i wanted to give you a heads-up about a noticing issue that will affect next week's hearing. there are two projects that you will not be able to hear for reasons that are not clear to us, the san francisco examiner did not publish the notice. in one case it was not published at all. that is 8 washington. in another case, 1415 ocean avenue, the conditional use it was only partially noticed. it was a very unfortunate series of actions. i do not understand it.

these items will be continued to next week so we do not have to continue the larger notice. there will be a newspaper notice for both of those in time. it is a frustrating action when that happens, because we rely on the paper to make sure we meet legal obligations, and they simply did not do what was necessary, but we will have consent -- specific continuance hearings when you take action. another item i wanted to mention has to do with the wireless applications, which are obviously coming at you very frequently these days. there has been a number of appeals at the board as you know. the board of supervisors has recommended the commission consider adoption of a new procedure related to wireless

cases, and that is -- and has asked the department to implement a procedure on a couple of cases as part of their procedure on the appeals. it would require that applicants to hire a third party under the direction of the department to look at coverage and capacity issues. there would be a third independent party to look of the coverage and capacity issues. the board has asked the commission to add that as part of your regular submission application for the wireless facilities. until such time that that would happen and for projects already in place, the commission could consider adding that as a condition of approval. we can talk more specifically. there are a couple of cases today on the agenda. we can talk more specifically about what those projects come up, but i want to mention that now because i think it may be a

good idea for you to schedule a hearing to request us to add that as a policy matter if you think it is a good idea to do that. the board specifically made that request to the commission. it might be a good idea to schedule the hearing, have a discussion, and then see how you want to proceed. >> no. 5, i wanted to mention a housing trust fund that commissioner more attention. there was a meeting just before this meeting that the mayor sponsored was several supervisors, and scorto set up e housing trust fund. he has asked me to be on the trust fund. we will be looking at a number of alternatives for funding the affordable housing with the goal of getting something on the ballot in the fall. obviously this is especially

important in light of the disillusionment of the relati tt fund. and so that is a substantial loss of funding that we're looking to see if we can make up as part of this process. we will continue to update on the trust fund as well. i did want to give you a little bit of information about the redevelopment agency situation. as you know, the california supreme court upheld a minute 26 which requires the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. they struck down bill 27, which was the bill that would allow agencies to continue, have they made a certain payment to the state each year to make up for the loss of funds that would have otherwise gone to school districts. the bottom-line effect of that is that all redevelopment

agencies are automatically dissolved as of february 1. there is not even an action taken. because they are creatures of the state, the court ruled the state has the right to dissolve them since they have the right to create them. the a.b. 26 allows each jurisdiction to create a successor agency. the purpose of the successor agency is to carry out the contractual obligations of the redevelopment agency, the legally-binding contracts that were in place up until now. so in the case of san francisco's agency, the mayor has introduced legislation, and that happens on tuesday that what designates the city itself to be the successor agency. that agency would carry out obligations, premier li three areas that have legally-binding development agreements, and that

is the shipyard, hunters point shipyard, mission bay, and portions of transbay. primarily those related to the former freeway parcels, of which there is contractual obligations. that is -- the successor agency will have the power of design, entitlement review and all other actions. they cannot enter into new contracts. they cannot enter into new redevelopment areas or anything like that. they are only charged with carrying out obligations that were already in place. the successor agency, which is in fact the city -- i should say it also transfers the assets of the redevelopment agency, which there are an art critic large number of properties and buildings. anall of the other assets will

be transferred to the city administrator's office. the successor agency will be overseen by what is called an oversight board made up of seven members, four appointed by the mayor, and three others. one afforded by march, the school district, and city college. -- one appointed by bart, the school district, and city college. the mayor submitted four names, and i am one of those. the other members denominate no, the finance department with the city, and the union representative for local 21, which is the union that represents the largest numbers

of employees of the agency. what we're now going to have to work through is, in terms of the department's role, all of the actions we need to be involved in in areas that are not one of those three, the redevelopment adrienne -- areas that are not one of those three that will be under the responsibility of the successors. they have no legally binding contracts in place. we will take over the entitlement for those. in many of those areas we are ready to have entitlement. there is some conflict between the planning code and redevelopment code, so we will have to work that through to figure out how that will affect our work and how we move forward with what controls all of those things. there are a lot of unanswered questions at this point. since it is not on your calendar

today, it is difficult to have a discussion. if you want us to schedule a hearing on this, we can certainly do that in a few weeks. it may make sense to do that when we have a few more of the questions answered, six to eight weeks down the road or something like that. with that, i think that concludes my presentation, unless you have any questions. thank you. commissioner more: can we ask for clarity? i would like to ask under item four, independent expert looking at these applications. are there independent experts in the field are ready? i would be very interested in seeing that happen. >> i believe there are. we believe there are experts that the wireless companies currently are not using.

we have a number of names we come up with. >commissioner more: i would like to express my concern for the many great employees. i hope there will be room, even in your department, to give a home to some of them. >> we are certainly looking at that. thank you. commissioner antonini: a few questions. i want to get them out there. first, on the noticing problem you mentioned. is there any ability to get from what ever publication we are using to announce this coming in this case it happened to be "the examiner." i know from my work some years ago, we always had a pay stub and then you would always have a draft of the actual paper before it was