and providing measurements and some additional information, all of them concluded that my property and the surrounding area, and the proposed development will further already fragile ground conditions. the technical engineers -- i'm sorry, i need a little bit more time. let me make a few last point. from the evidence i've provided, it is clear that my property is continuously unsettling. the proposed buildings will set

off some recommendation -- [chime] >> thank you very much. >> i need a little more time. >> you're allowed five minutes. thank you. are there any speakers in favor of the dr? ok. project sponsor? you have five minutes. >> thank you for having us, i will try to make this really clicked. i describe this project very eloquently and all i can say is that what we are proposing does not propose anything beyond the

foundation replacement. he still will have to go through the exact same exercise that they are proposing to do. the first level of this building has a height of about 8 feet. to level that to make sure that we get a ceiling. my clients have been born and raised in this house, the son and daughter inherited the house in 2009 and the like to create another unit to they can afford to live in this beautiful city. they have done drilling in the

soil testing. there are a huge project done, and we should shut out and put a moratorium on the old neighborhood, but there is no such they. and asked you to allow my client to exercise their property rights. i am available for any comments you may have. >> the speakers in favor of the project sponsor? you have a two-minute rebuttal.

>> i wanted to say that they are in developing their properties and the support that. they have the right the professional licensed engineers summarized it. they told me, i will have problems. i have a right not to spend my money to repair damages caused by the new development. in my initial e-mail, they do

whatever they want to do. the development not m. wald, -- involved, showing excavation. i am trying to make that point who the sponsors had to you as the members of this commission. i have a right not to have any damages. that's it. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor, you have a rebuttal, to minutes. -- two minutes./ >> i have an engineering firm as well. nobody has done any work to the foundation. there is no sign of stress, no

cracks, the building is completely original on the inside. any sort of settlement in this house, it makes me believe that they are not going to collapse the whole neighborhood. >> we are raised in this house, we just want to live in the house that we grew up then. our parents passed away two and a half years ago. we just want to rebuild. otherwise, we can't afford to. >> we have been in this house, so there has been nothing wrong with the foundation.

thank you. >> of the public hearing is closed. commissioner antonini: i think that many of the things that the requests are brought up are probably out of our province and would be covered because have the proper surely at proper protection is part of the entire building code. that is where it would be addressed more so than than buying the building and the fear that this would happen. has to be done on a way that there is not displacement of the property. the only thing i would say, i was trying to figure out who the architect was. there is no architect. there is no problem with the facades. how would like to see in the

staff work on this. you look at the building as it was rendered before and you are really not too sympathetic to the rest of the buildings in the neighborhood here. you also had a a tram that wouldn't have to be replicated of course. the mayor may not put it on and it will certainly be more sympathetic. the quality of the hope would be those that a sympathetic to the neighborhood and of high quality. those are some of the things that i would like to see done. i know that they are byrd friendly, but they would be even more byrd friendly.

-- bird friendly. i don't see how they are that attractive. >> the project sponsor, they have the bird safety glass, but there is no balconies, right? they just ordered ceiling glass doors. >> staff, can you work with them and to get rid of those? commissioner antonini, can you work with them on something to do with -- >> be residential design team has not reviewed this. it can go further. we had a similar iterations,

issues and, if you will. we understand the commission's direction. >> i know that on the ground floor, they are not rendered correctly. they are just applied. i don't know if they are even real stones. it is an integral part of it. gosh i think it looks better. when it was finished, it looked pretty good. i move to approve working with residential design team and staff on this one. >> the motion on the floor is to not take dr and approve

projects on the requirement that they continue to work with staff. on that motion? [roll call vote] [unanimous vote] thank you. commissioners, that motion passes unanimously. >> general public comment? if not, the meeting is adjourned.

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>> ok, good morning. this is a special meeting of the san francisco planning commission for april 5, 2012. just a little housekeeping. i will ask everyone to turn off their cell phones or other electronic devices. there is no standing up in this room. if you feel the need to engage in a secondary discussion, i would ask you to take those discussions outside. it can become extremely disruptive to thealso, we do nor friends. relatives, daughters, sons. whatever. they will be directed to the overflow room. the overflow room is equipped with a monitor.

they can see and hear everything that is going on in this room. when their names are called, they will be given time to come in so they can participate in these proceedings. it would be helpful if you would voluntarily give up your seats so we can save some time. also, this applause thing -- we are not doing that. it takes up too much time. respect the process and tried to minimize anything that would be disruptive. i will call role. each speaker will have two minutes and to speak. there is one request for a block of 15 minutes that has been granted.

there have been special accommodation requests for three people. they will follow immediately after. if everyone understands that, we will begin this meeting. [roll call] thank you, commissioners. we have a full commission for the special hearing. the item before you today, case number one-a, california pacific medical center long-range development plans. the next item -- the alphabet

of letters that follows four -- for 1-c. the proposed initiation, and 1-c is chavez street to campos. with that -- and i will turn on your microphone. >> thank you, linda. >> good morning, commissioners. i am planning department staff. i join you today from the mayor's office, the department of public health. we're here to give you an overview of the developments project. it is for the developer cpmc and of -- development of cpmc.

as a reminder come cpmc, currently operates a four- hospital system. to comply with laws regarding care hospitals, cpmc plans to modernize its facilities through a citywide plan of care. as part of its plan, cpmc will construct five new buildings. at st. luke's campus, the plan is to construct a new five- story hospital. the siting of the new hospital

allows the old hospital to remain in construction. it will connect streets in recognition of portions of san jose avenue. after the hospital is demolished, cpmc will construct the 5 new--- a new-storey hospi. at the west side of van ness, cpmc proposes to construction of a new hospital. across the street on the east side of van ness, we propose the

construction of a new 230-room office building. was the hospital construction is complete -- once the hospital construction is complete, cpmc will transfer to the new cathedral hospital. at the bayview campus, a portion of the service -- surface parking lot, who proposed the construction of a new medical office building, also referred to as the neuroscience institute. although this project was originally proposed in 2007, it was overturned by the board of supervisors. the project is now being evaluated and will be up for approval at the same time as cpmc's other near-term project. there have been no substantial changes. land use approval. there have been no land-use approvals. in broad strokes, they include an eir that will include all

campuses. there will be more dates in detail in the next slide. it also includes map amendments, a general plan referrals, conditional use authorizations at the st. louis cathedral, and several other approvals letter not directly under the purview of the planning commission. the action before the commission today is to initiate the general plan amendment. as noted in the staff report, the planning commission by law is the only body that can issue these amendments. this is a correction from the date listed in your packet. while you are not being asked to

take action on the general plan amendments themselves today, i will provide a quick overview as to their purpose. the specific general plan amendments are as follows. at the scene looks campus, there are two general plan amendments. the map would be amended to increase the height of the hospital. at the cathedral hill campus, there are five amendments. the first is to protect the the van ness area plan. to provide a higher density medical center. the second is map one of the van ness area plan. the project will be to designate these sites for the medical center and increase the global square-foot area ratio for the hospital at these sites. third is a map two of the van

ness area plan. the fourth is a map four of the urban design area. lastly, met five of the urban design element. this will be designed to permit those dimensions of the hospital and m.o.d. site. initiation of these amendments is not a formal recommendation of the project. rather it allows the planning department to provide notice for public hearing. the planning department recommends you initiate the hearings before you today. with that, i will turn it back to ken rich. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners.

it has been a long road and we are happy to be with you today. staff, as you know, spent a large amount of time working on this project. really the last several years. the really intensively for the last year. i wanted to spend a moment telling you why this is an important project. there is a state mandate to make sure hospitals are seismically safe. we have a particular interest in making sure we have up to date emergency facilities that will still be operational after an earthquake or disaster. second, cpmc's facilities constitute one-third of san francisco's hospital beds. legally with the project as proposed, with a large regional medical center at the cathedral hill and smaller community hospitals at st. luke's, will help the health-care needs of san franciscans. third, this will be the largest

construction project the city will see in the immediate future, generating 1500 or so other construction jobs. this was recognized in the last economic strategy document for the city. in recognition of the importance of this project, working on this development agreement, as well as on the cpmc project in general has been a major staff effort with all of the agency's you see on the sly. let's get to the development agreement itself. you have the summary agreement and the entire agreement in front of you. the mayor has been clear from the start that the project only makes sense for the city if it comes with certain commitments from cpmc toward a set of public benefits. very broadly, these include a

commitment to st. luke's, a commitment to support for affordable housing. the dea is a contract, the purpose of which is to codify these commitments. ones adopted by the board and assigned by the mayor, these can only be modified by board action. before getting to the specific obligations for committing benefits, i want to go through some of the heat general terms. as you know, -- some of the heat -- some of the key general terms. it is effective 30 days after

the mayor assigns the ordinance and has a basic term of 10 years. as you will see in a few minutes, under the development agreement, cpmc may not open the new cathedral hill hospital until it opens the new st. luke's hospital. the obligation to build a new openness it looks begins once cpmc begins construction on cathedral hill. the other obligations -- and there are many -- are triggered once legal challenges or resolve or when cpmc begins building. vesting of cpmc development rights is a major focus of the city. most of the obligations are obligations cpmc of. -- most of the obligations are obligations of cpmc. approval for the five-year term

projects are bested by the d.a.. impact and application fees for these projects are frozen. long-term projects, which are those other projects identified in the long-range development plan, but not the five we describe today. these to not have approval invested by the daa.. however, the city may not create new categories of impact fees. new categories would not. the d.a., together with a separate vacation ordinance and transfer agreement also affects the street portion that has been closed for many years, ands