are repositioning these projects in mixed income scenarios? in most of these, there has not been a need for communities on site. the surrounding strategies that support part of this will be connecting them into the mainstream community and there likely will not be a need for it. but if there is, the housing authority is paired and willing to continue that conversation. >>supervisor wiener: are you saying it is there until there is a plan to remove it? >> exactly. you said a better than i could have said it. supervisor mar: did you have

other comments? supervisor cohen: i just want to say hello and thank you for coming out and encourage everyone to be vigilant about what is going on. talk to your neighbor. this is a community building exercise. things are not set in stone. dynamic in a sense that things that are proposed can be taken out. there is some flexibility before myself and my colleagues start to vote on this particular project. don't be discouraged and be prepared for the long haul. this is going to be a long process. supervisor mar: i was going to think the project's community engagement project for a beautiful vision. i hope the whole community is

involved in the process. it sounds like the process has been a very deep one but more work needs to be done as well. we are going to continue this item to the call of the chair without objection. could you please call the next item? >> ordnance amending the codes to provide a contribution option for the establishment of a public art trust fund. supervisor mar: if i could ask people to please leave the room quietly if you can. thank you.

i would like to ask people if you could take the conversations outside the committee room please thank you. we are going to resume at that

meeting. you have already called item #4. we're going to resume with item #4. the item has been called, so let me introduce the supervisor and our president, david chiu. could we please reconvene? thank you. we are resuming. thank you. >> if you remember, this is a piece of legislation to provide more flexibility to our city

currently uses the 1% public arts the. there was only one outstanding issue the last time we met and that had to do with an amendment i have just offered that is supported by the mayor. just to remind you, the city currently requires developments over 2500 square feet. as this piece of legislation moves through the process, the planning commission an arts commission wanted to expand this citywide. the legislation expands requirements to all projects city-wide. since the last time the legislation was in front of you, the mayor's staff and i have convened several stake holders to talk about how this should be expanded.

a good approach to move this forward, and it is embodied on this paper. i will give you a second to get to it. we heard a lot of feedback that adding additional costs to residential projects might be challenging right now given many of our focus is on affordable housing and increasing opportunities for housing. part of the amendment i am offering would limit the expansion to only commercial projects. we're taking our residential projects out and dropping the threshold in line to the rest of it. instead of expanding the requirement city-wide, we would propose it be limited to the zoning district in the south of market and southern downtown areas because we anticipate this level of development is going to

be located in those neighborhoods. there are a number of zoning districts this would be applied to delineated in the amendment that you see. we are proposing to amend the legislation to at specificity to the grandfathering provision so that we do not certain projects that have already gone far and pipeline. right now, projects that have submitted a complete agreement on or after january 1, 2013, and we would like to propose language that says a development application shall meet any application for a building permit, permit or preliminary assessments of the conditional use or variants. there is one additional technical amendment. because the arts commission would have no role in the selection of review of on site art, with that, i want to thank

the mayor's staff and stakeholders who worked with us on this. this will allow us to expand at this requirement to the areas where we expect more development and focus on commercial buildings as opposed to residential buildings in the areas we are talking about. i would like to ask the committee to adopt this and hopefully move it forward. >> my understanding is these would be substantive amendments and the item would be to be continued. let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? we have one card and if there is anyone else who like to speak, please come forward. >> i am with the universal paragon corp., the developer of the project. we are very happy to hear about

the amendments that have been proposed today. the fee would have added additional financial burden on a project that is no longer having access to the redevelopment funds which were eliminated earlier this month. we support the amendment and look forward to working with the city on funds for the project and letting the public benefit with this project to be earlier -- to be realized earlier rather than later. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> which districts are you planning to expand to? >> south of market. it just commercial, 25,000 square feet.

>> district 10 would not be included? >> district 10 would not be included. supervisor mar: is there anyone else who would like to speak? seeing none , public comments is closed. the reason not to focus on strategic areas is to say the development will not be happening in those areas but it would be included if it was a citywide? >> it would have been included under the current language, though we did have a lot of discussion about large significant development project and what we what -- whether we ought to include this project. it is my hope that we do. i have heard of feedback that people hope the project did

include a requirement but the thought was if we were to saddle that with a 1% project, that would be a challenge. there has been a discussion that we should consider the arts as something that is part of that. for those types of projects, we should consider some sort of investment in the arts, particularly around community spaces, but that is not something i am proposing at this time. supervisor cohen: just for those members of the public to are watching, if you could explain our characterize their reasoning why you are narrowing this?

>> i would have been fined to take the requirement and apply it city-wide, but we heard from many folks that it would create additional challenges to finding financing to actually move for on those projects around the city. what we wanted to do was expand their requirement to those parts of the city where we would see significant development and there's a pipeline of large projects this would cover. this requirement would lead to additional art being part of future development projects, but because folks were concerned that it at -- that adding this additional 1% would this and sent housing projects, we did not want to add to that as we are going through an affordable housing trust fund conversation about what we can ask developers

to pay for. rather than complicate that discussion, we figure let's move forward with the consensus on where we can expand. as part of the affordable housing conversation we're going to have that will hopefully culminate in a measure to be placed on the november ballot, additional finance measures, we will probably end up thinking about this again. but i hear from you that you would like to expand this city- wide? supervisor cohen: yes. >> so do i., but i'm not sure the mayor agreed. supervisor cohen: 10 week table this? -- can we table was? >> i recommend we include the -- we cannot consider this next week.

>> the amendments from our initial look at the pipeline, we believe it would capture more projects even though it is in your district. even though it was at 75,000 feet and the supervisor is proposing to make it 25,000 square feet, even though it is and fewer districts, the lower square footage would capture more of the pipeline projects. >> the other thing to be aware of this deal legislation was focused on the downtown area. because the downtown area has expanded southward, we thought it was appropriate to expand that area because there will be a lot of large and significant buildings in that area and we thought it was appropriate to have the 1% arts requirement. this is a commercial development we do not see in most parts of

the city. i do know that was creating are burned in other parts of the city. >> this item before us, we are going to continue it for one week? >> we are going to amend it and continue it. i came to ask if the committee thought it made sense for us to amend the legislation and have an front of you and move it out for consideration and a final vote. supervisor mar: on the amendments come you could make changes to them and.

you could have it city-wide and it would be a vote for the three of us. i feel like it should be citywide. what miss rogers is saying about the existing projects and reducing the square footage, it helps a certain part of the city, but we want to see more public art throughout the city. i would join supervisor cohen in that sentiment. supervisor wiener: we could divide the file and that might make it cents and continue both items, be amended version and the are original and you could talk to the mayor's office or anyone else in the interim. >> i am fine with that approach. i hope there is one version that

includes this amendment. supervisor cohen: i'm not interested in duplicating the file, rather just hold off for one more week, including the amendments are proposed today. i just wanted to have the opportunity to talk to more people. i would like to make a motion we continue this item. >> we could add the amendment and then the continue it. supervisor mar: we have a motion and without objection? is there any other business before us? >> you need to continue the matter as amended to march 5. >> continue as amended for one week. any other business? >> the meeting is adjourned.

>> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of

the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accident in the studio. an oversized vertical sculpture

began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study.

>> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of egypt. he assembled a large rocks of clay into figures that resembled the ancient kings and queens. he credited a weathered appearance by rubbing glazes' into the clay while still wet. the misfires from his killed were brought in his backyard in his berkeley home. he called it his boneyard.

in the last year of his life, he dug up the artifacts from his own history, and the bones were rearranged, in the were slimmer figures with wings. >> even if you knew nothing about his life or career, you sensed there was an artist dealing with this fundamental issue of life and death, the cake, netting back together, and you feel there is an attempt to deal with mortality and immortality. there is a seeking of spiritual meaning in an existential stage. >> during his 50-year career, stephen de staebler worked to form and out of the clay of the ground and give it a breath of life. matter and spirit gathers the many expressions of his meditations. and gives the viewer and insight into the artist's life. learn more about the retrospective on line at

commissioner vietor: -- president moran: good afternoon. would you call the rollbacks -- role? >> i believe commissioners vietor and caen will be joining us momentarily. president moran: we have the minutes of january 12 in january 24 in front of us. any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, all those in favor?

the motion carries. mr. secretary, would you call public comment? >> general public comment. members of the public might address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction, but not on today's agenda. we have no speaker cards. president moran: i believe you have a couple at the rail. >> sorry. i did not see you. president moran: welcome. >> happy birthday. i do not know the number. i would not dare to say. but from all of us. [applause] >> [inaudible]

[laughter] think you very much. as the knowledge jackson -- esp inola jackson. it is a pleasure to be here today. i have a package for you, mr. courtney. you can make sure the rest of the commissioners have it. this is something that goes back to 1976. also in that packet -- i cannot talk about it now, but i have my budget in there. you can take it off line and give me my budget. i want to thank you. i have been talking with the staff. i would like you to know that everything is going to be working out with the southeast sewage plant. as you know, i have been one of your persons that has been

heavily involved making sure that the sewage plants do not leave san francisco, because i am getting calls from people saying, "we don't want it." we have to have it. it was put there in 1952. i moved into the area in 1948. there will be a lot of discussions. i am glad i will be working with staff. we are coming to a solution. the fact that we are bonded, bayview hunters point and this commission, at the hip -- you cannot slack me off. you're going to have to work with me, and i am going to work with you, to make sure all of us are happy -- not only the commissioners, but the bayview hunters point community. thank you very much. president moran: we look forward to working with you for another 79 years. [laughter] >> good afternoon. david pilpel. if there is not an answer today,

maybe staff can get back to me. the new advanced water meter installation in the city has been continuing to progress. i have seen more pullbox covers replaced. my understanding is that the old covers do not allow the are of -- the rf frequencies to transmit. the new covers are made of some sort of composite. have resource them, such that they are using as much recycled material as possible, and when they become not usable, that they too will be recycled? and what are we doing with the previous covers? are those being ground up for reused concrete? just a question of staff can get back to me. president moran: we will get back. >> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon, president, commissioners. my name is bruce keene. i am president of the russian hill improvement association, and want to thank you for your time this afternoon, and bring to your attention the worsening problem and future promise of francisco reservoir. it dates back to the 1850's and is the focal point of our neighborhood, but has not been used in decades, has fallen into disrepair, and has become a collecting place for trash in the middle of our community. located on the hyde street cable line, the ongoing deterioration has long been a concern of residents, and has gained the attention of thousands of

tourists who pass by every year. physical structure aside, the reservoir property provides views of the bay, out patras, and the golden gate bridge, -- alcatraz, and the golden gate bridge, and are used by high school physical education class is looking for open space. as a favorite place to watch the blue angels and the fourth of july fireworks, the reservoir will surely be popular during the america's cup races. but in its present condition, the reservoir not only reflects poorly on our neighborhood and the city in general, but also presents a public liability. the russian hill improvement association has worked to remove this structure since the property was first designated surplus in 1958. we do not believe the removal can be put off