the oversight body. the board noted the short time we have to fill the spot to get it up and running, but they did appoint staggered appeals -- staggered appointment so that half of them would be for four years and the other half would be for two years. the board felt this would help them find qualified appointments yet get people immediately on board who are ready to do the job. job. e af legislation introduced this week that i would like to share. the first concerns financial- services and would add those services to our definition of formula retail and regulate them in that same manner. that will be before you with the next three months. also, and it -- a hearing on the impact of our fee deferral program and how that might be affecting affordable housing. that will be at the land use

committee hearing in future times. also, a hearing request was introduced on the status of dissolving the redevelopment agencies and the city's plans to approach that. that will be up coming at the budget and finance committees. that concludes the report unless there are any questions. >> thank you. commissioner sugaya: who sits on that -- >> the appointees include [reading names]

>> than there are three others. i don't know that those have been made yet. >> are they all city staffers? >> free of the mayors for our. a< mr. lee is the director of te mayor's house -- the part of housing and that position is required to be that union that represents the majority of employees in their redevelopment agencies. he is with local 21. commissioner moore: there was a second part to the supervisors motion on the america's cup and a upholding the approval -- would you be able to power -- be

able to paraphrase that? i felt was a strong policy statement made people concerned about the implied development rights of the event authority for a least four or five years was delineated by the president and i thought it was a very strong motion which i think was unanimously supported. kenny paraphrase that? i cannot. >> that was the report i got from staff. i can look into that and report back to you next week. commissioner moore: we all felt uncomfortable about the top vagueness and there's a strong message sent by the board which i very much appreciate because we would not have had the ability to fully present it the way it was. commissioner antonini: just a suggestion for the director.

i'm interested in hearing more in the future about their role to urban development rights transfer. if we could get a report on that, it would be great. particularly important in san francisco because we have landed other counties alone by the city and county of san francisco. this would also apply to injure jurisdictional situations and i think that's a great tool for us. commissioner moore: i want to support asking for a specific meeting because that gets into a discussion about how the department will work with regional agencies as well as taking on to have a joint representation in san jose because that's the beginning of a much broader discussion. >> thank you. i am not aware of their report for the board of appeals but i

can announce the historical preservation commission did not meet this week. with that, we can move on to the general public comment category that has a duration of 50 minutes. at this time, members of the public may come and address you up to three minutes on subject matters that fall within the jurisdiction of this commission. the public may not address you on any agenda items listed today, only on matters of interest not on the agenda. i do have speaker cards for you. i would just remind everyone that this category has a duration of 15 minutes. president miguel: [reading names]

commissioners. i am the girl back and i don't ride part -- not to confuse me with the other person. -- i don't rise bart. i come bearing glad tidings. whether or not you realize it, you gave me a homework assignment and that was how to help resolve the apparent disconnect between the board of appeals and the planning commission. poll business of the address labels, i told you i would look into it. i communed with cynthia gold

stain. -- sent the gold steen. i have her fax something to me in case the snail mail did not get the original to me. just the facts. as we discussed on the phone this morning, here's a copy of the draft minutes of the port of appeals meeting in january of 2012. i am sending you a copy of the business tax regulation coat, article one, section 12, the provision that requires the board of appeals to send out notification to owners and occupants of properties within eight -- within the radius -- as

we discussed, our office maintains the will labels from an outside a vendor. the staff at the board prepare the notification postcards and send out mailings. what i can do is leave my copy with you and getq i checked my mail before it came and it did not show. you adopt this policy and that will get rid of the disconnect between the address labels being needed here and some morals. the other thing that is of control to me is the neighbors who need to be notified of a change of the building more land usage, inside, outside -- even

if people are going to be remodeling their kitchen, the workmen are going to have to go somewhere and that does impact that neighborhood. >> a good afternoon, commissioners. it's ironic this city has been awarded a pavement to parks program, yet we are supporting a parks to pavement program. this project will remove over 7 acres of natural gas and -- natural grass and met no and replace it with artificial turf. it will also add up to 60 ft lights that will be on every night of your shining down on the ocean beach until 10:00 p.m.

you heard the draft environmental impact last month and we wanted to point out some of the comments you may not have seen. the golden gate audubon society said in their letter that they identified only seven birds species at the soccer field. however, just one volunteer has identified more than 64 species at the site. we support youth soccer and we believe there is an alternative to this project that provides more playing hours while protecting the habitat of golden gate park. we are asking you consider the compromise alternatives as follows -- renovate the field with natural gas and no night lighting. renovate west sunset or other playing field in san francisco with improved lighting services and some night lighting for youth soccer. we would like to mention some of the birds that were ignored by

the draft environmental impact report, just to give you any impact of the treasure we are going to use. i have a list i'm going to put on the screen. the canada goose, a turkey vulture,'s bray, read tailed hawk, read at shouldered hawk, peregrine falcon, md., calif. gulf, western goal, mourning dove, hummingbirds, i'm going rather fast -- woodpeckers, ravens, crows, swallows, night hatches, mockingbirds, chickadees, waxwings, robbins, warblers. etc and -- etc. and so forth. with bubble warming and the rise of sea level, this will be more important. the need for these up land

refuges will become vital to the survival of the species. we hope this will be covered more thoroughly in the final environmental impact report as well as supporting the compromise alternative. thank you very much. president miguel: thank you. >> linda chapman for nob hill senior housing. i've been to the federal district court to try to get the filings and so forth and on link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c the city ought -- the city attorney had a long conversation with you. what day are contending is that there is -- you are

substantially preventing them from exercising their religious freedom. the statute -- this is a ludicrous argument. in the federal civil rights office, if you approved of the facts of your case, you would still not be able to get a finding under the law. we could move for a summary judgment ann& there must be a procedure here to terminate this. anyway, you have already heard in a line with the alternative is that we propose. the mission of the church, they say, is transforming the world. the specific actions they have done are establishing institutions of higher learning, starting shelters for children and the;'t mention building urban housing.

the mets this believe the buildings should be recycled when they reach the end of their useful life. the institution must associated with methodism are applied and bethany. they tore down their building and replaced it with senior housing in 1968. it is not that the city has a conflict with the church. there is a developer there who has a contract and we need to help and facilitate the church not being completely manipulated by this because they don't understand how much can a contract force you to pursue a civil rights casegñ win because the court judgments have already established it does not apply to them. it applies to situations -- if they wanted to tear down their church and build a better sank where it -- the letter sanctuary, it could apply to that. or if you said the theater was okay but you cannot use it for

religious assembly, it would apply to that. not something but they don't want to use it for religious purpose at all and just want to demolish it. it is not at the methodist church is unsympathetic, it's that they are locked into a contract and don't understand what the alternatives are and maybe neither does the city attorney. president miguel: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i would like to talk yet again about the eight washington project because it's one of the more unusual land use questions we have faced before. our friends have raised a whole litany of complex arguments against it, ranging from proposition 13, a little vacation rentals, increased

consumption of jet fuel, everything except cruelty to baby seals. but we should not be confused. it is a simple issue being discussed. the folks who opposed development and maintain building houses for the well-to- do is such a poor policy choice that it should remain a surface parking lot. they proposed a become a bike transit center. but this is a curious example. i understand correctly, that park is built on land donated by the city of chicago and whose amenities are under root written by mcdonald's, the well-known health food chain. if a bike transit center is being proposed, why doesn't the san francisco bicycle coalition's support it? why have we not heard from them? it's also interesting that if

the neighbors are proposing this center, they have omitted mentioning whether it would pay a nickel and rent to the city. it should be clear that the public and be donated by the city to remain a surface parking lot because some local labor's will not tolerate a single change to a private swimming and tennis club. in our experience, this is a bold and unusual position to take because these folks are saying that not only do we want the surface parking lot, but we reject the payment and fees to the port. we reject the 25 million to be split between the port, city and infrastructure financing. and we assuredly not reject the payment to the mayor's housing department to support the housing affordability. this last one is astonishing and painful. our cities need for housing subsidies have not diminished. in fact, it only ever grows.

worse, it looks like it will be expected to absorb many of the people, projects, and commitments resulting from the demise of redevelopment. [tone] my question to you is does it seem like a good bargain for the city to reject the benefits offered by the project in order to preserve a surface parking lot? president miguel: is there any additional general public comment? if not, the general public comment is closed. >> commissioners, you're now going to hear the public on the agenda items. if the agenda item has been reviewed and a public hearing has been closed, the opportunity to do so would be at this time. each member of the project may address the commission up to three minutes in this category. the only item on the calendar this would pertain to would be

item number nine, case -- for a 49 julienne ave. we do not have speaker cards for this -- yes, i do. >> [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for your time. i wanted to -- by extreme frustration -- on the program director of the northwest community response network. this is a regional outrage intervention in crisis response service. we operate in that mission,

south of the market, the tenderloin and other associated neighborhoods. the central hub of service is 1850 mission street. it's a fiscal agent and a central hub of service. i am concerned and frustrated about this project because the potential for the lack of combat ability that may come down the pipe is the project does continue. the parking lot to some might seem a lot for parking spaces. it serves as a safe haven to run community programs, special events, groups, it is a safe place for are used to gather and receive services during peak crime hours. often in that parking lot and in the bacteria are building space, we are able to post parking lots for the mission district community. it is a neutral site and a great spot for us. given the lack of space and light san francisco, it gives us

the ability to post events and have gatherings there for under served and have a shield around the high risk use -- high risk use we have in san francisco. what concerns us is the compatibility of having condo's built right next door. as it is, we are dealing with a construction project on the other side of us already that has impacted our ability to deliver services. but we want to work with that a little bit. be it the zoning out there that will benefit the community in some way, in essence, we want to deal with that. a project being considered on the 49 julian avenue would impact our ability to not only have services and have a safe place there but just the space in general -- we cannot imagine a construction site kicking off right there in our backyard where we actually provide the actual services. i know it's hard to understand.

i wish you would come look at our services and see what we do and how i construction site right on top of our services would directly impact us. it is a very real and concerning the issue for us and for the use we serve. -- for the youth we serve. we already have had the police called on us because of the use that the neighbors see in the parking lot. these are the challenges we deal with on a day-to-day basis. having condos that oversees our activities and looks at the kids we're serving, we're majorly concern this will be harming our kids left and right. [tone] that is a serious issue we've had to deal with on a regular basis. i would like to strongly urge you to consider that. "y

>> good afternoon. i'm here to reiterate this project -- these two projects are not compatible. the services we provide are for you through -- for youth you might judge by the way they look. they have a safe place at this site. my concern is when it comes to condos and a development like that, people who buy condos have certain expectations of what they want when they come home. they certainly would not want to have noise, they would not want to have 20 kids barbecuing at night. but that is the service we provide and it is the service we have been providing for many,

many years. té look at that, at how compatible is and how fair is that to outweigh the needs of the hundreds of kids and clients we serve over the financial gain of one development group and well- being of a well-to-do family in the mission. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is tracy brown and i'm here to request this item be postponed until a committee can be -- until a community meeting can take place. there is a lot of anxiety for the partners we currently work with and we are not sure how this development is going to impact our services. i know that victor was asked to

facilitate a community meeting and we were not able to schedule it because there were other negotiations going on between us and the project managers. i would urge you guys to postpone to these conversations can continue and we can have the opportunity to meet with the owners. we need to discuss how this project will impact the ability of us and oyou heard about are n and we also offer a food bank which over 1000 people are served weekly. we have flea markets on the weekends, it is not a good use of space and how that will work out is going to be very challenging and is something we need to actually sit down and figure out. i know you have received several letters urging you to allow that discretion to take place and try to work it out.

it is my understanding this project has no affordable housing and there's no question of who will come there. this has happened before in the city during carnival when they're selling condos on harrison. there was a disclosure letter and when people bought the condos and people knew there was a carnival event and yet they complain that organized and tried to shut down the event. we're fearful this is a possibility that these new condo owners, even with the disclosures, would try to shut down some of these services. the thank you for your time and consideration and i respectfully request this item be postponed pending a community meeting with the owners. thank you. >> a good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the director of mission

beacon community center and i'm here to speak against 49 julienne the checks we postponed the hearing. i believe this is not a good it makes use purpose to have condos there and i say that because they are in partnership with others organizations and i feel personally that san francisco, we practice and an inclusive democracy. i'm speaking for my program and numerous partnerships. we're not feeling the input from the community is being valued year. i especially request you require a community meeting, that the owners have a community meeting. there are several surrounding neighborhood programs that serve disenfranchised communities. where will they go once the condo owners come in? they will want to change the

culture of the neighborhood. where are you going to send the native american house when they want to have their sweat lodge? where are you going to move the food bank? where are you going to send this seniors? where are you going to send the community members to gather and partner with us as our community hub in the community? there are many, many organizations that utilize that space and we partner with them and we support asking for a community -- for a community meeting silicon make sure this is the best use of your time and our time. thank you very much. president miguel: thank you. >> mr. president, members of the commission, i'm here representing the board of directors. subsequent to the prior meeting

we had on this subject, a committee the committee of the d on december 15 met with the owners of 49 julian avenue and their representatives to discuss programs on site. appraisal of the property by a san francisco appraisal firm. on january 5, offered to purchase the property for an amount significantly of the appraised valueitt:÷7y and it ws subsequently rejected with no reason whatsoever. we believe that an acquisition of the