actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪ >> it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art center. >> is beautiful. quarkrights i would like to come here and join them >> afternoon, welcome to the regular schedule planning meeting of july 26, 2012. before we begin, i would like to ask all of those attending to turn off their cell phones.

as i announced earlier, if you need to take part in the secondary discussion, we ask you to take them outside. roll call. [calling roll] thank you. we have a full commission at this time. commissioners, the first category on the calendar are items proposed for continuance. item one, case number 2,011.0913 c 4-20 octavia boulevard lot bounded by octavia boulevard. further on your calendar item number 18 a and b and case

number 2,010.0158b 42712 broadway. the project sponsor has proposed a continuance. is there an agreement with that proposal for a continuance and staff is in support of the request for a continuance. with that -- i would just state for the record that 18a is the items that commission will vote for for continuance if they decide to do so. 18b would be the item for the zoning administrator to continue. with that, i am not aware of any other item being proposed for a continuance. president fong: any public comment on items for continuance? >> we certainly would appreciate a week to wrap up settlement negotiations. and

respectfully request mr. sanchez do the same. appreciate it. thank you. president fong: any additional public comment? commissioners? commissioner wu. commissioner wu: motion to continue item number 1 to august 9, and all items 18a and b to next week. >> second. >> thank you. we're taking iteaction on item 18a. on the motion for continuance of i'item 1 and 18a to august 2 -- [calling roll] thank you.

those items are continued as we have discussed. item 18b. >> we would note that if the to discretionary requests are withdrawn, i understand there are continuance to allow for additional discussion, that we will discuss the matter with the project sponsor. we we have the variant hearing here at the end of the regular planning commission calendar or continue it from that date to the regular calendar on august 22. we will discuss that. >> thank you. with your indulgence, it seems we have more and more people coming in. you have created a fire hazard for those of you surrounding the door. i cannot allow you to sit in that area. i need you to either come over to the other side of the room or wait outside until your item comes up.

again, you have created a fire hazard. i will call for overflow. they are working on overflow. when we call for overflow, i will announce it, and then we will not allow standing in this room at all. the meeting will stop until everyone has found a seat or moves to the overflow room. thank you. commissioners, you are now on the consent calendar. items 2-6 our consent items.

they are considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single roll-call vote of this commission. there will be no separate discussion unless a member of the commission or public request. the matters would be removed from the consent calendar and considered at a separate item. commissioners, i will read all of these items into the record. keep in mind item three has already been pulled from consent. for the record, i will read it into the record. item two, case number 2,012.0456x 41390 market st.. an amendment for the condition of approval for determination of compliance with planning code section 309. specifically the amendment proposes to extend the performance time for an additional two years for a previously approved project to construct an 11-story building containing of ground floor

commercial uses. the amendment proposes no changes to the design or intensity of the project as originally proposed or approved. item number three, case number 2,012.0348c 175 junipero serra " are to establish a child care facility for 15 or more children within an existing church. the proposed child care facility is within a residential single- family detached zoning district. item four, case number 2,011.1410b, request for a development authorization for approximately 48,500 gross square feet on the first, second and third floor within the mixed use of his zoning district,

south and historic district and 65-x height and bulk district. item #5 2,012.0672c 777 valencia st. to enlarge the use area authorization for a jazz club and restaurant approved under motion 18225 from 8595 square feet to 2015 -- 10,015 square feet and allow 2952 square feet of business and professional services on the second floor. item six, case number 2000 fall 0.0 to 74c 4542-550 divisadero street to allow over 4000 square feet through the combination of a big -- they get real commercial tenant space.

this was previously occupied by a growing and pet supply store. to establish an approximately 7350 sq. ft. grocery be an inter connection between the buildings with the grocery store customer service areas located at 550 divisadero. commissioners, these are your items on consent. keep in mind, item three has been cold. following any public comment on any of the others, which would automatically remove them from consent, these matters are before you for your consideration. commissioner antonini: i would like to ask for a clue so for item number -- 4 reclosabfor ree for item number 4. i have reason to believe i have

property within 500 feet. >> thank you. for the matter of reclosable -- >> so motion. >> , on the motion to recuse -- item number four. [calling roll] thank you. commissioner antonini is reduced. if you would consider two, five, and sick of this tix at this ti. >> 5 think we have to call item two four amended motion. >> for consideration this moment, 5 and 6. public comment on items five or six on the consent calendar?

commissioner borden: i move to approve a items 5 and 6 on the consent calendar. >> second. >> on the motion to approve a items 5 and 6 as their proposed on consent, -- [calling roll] thank you, commissioners. commissioners, will you now consider item no. four on consent. >> yes, i will. president fong: any public comment on item four? >> i guess we don't. [laughter] president fong: public comment on items number four?

commissioner borden: move to approve either numberfour. >> second. >> approval for item number four -- [calling roll] thank you, commissioners. that item has been approved as proposed. mr. president, i would assume items 2 and three that have been pulled from consent will be considered as the first item on a regular calendar. thank you. to move forward on the calendar , we are now at commissioner's questions end matters, item number 7, consideration of adoption draft minutes of your regular meeting of may 24, 2012, and june 14, 2012. president fong: is there public

comment on the minutes? commissioners? commissioner antonini: move to approve the imminence. minutes. >> second. >> thank you. motion on the floor for approval of the big of the meetings of may 24 and june 14, 2012 -- [calling roll] thank you, commissioners. the motion is passed unanimously. commissioners, item number eight and item that is very dear to my heart. it was continued from the last week's meeting. this is a briefing of the subcommittee on the activities of the subcommittee for the commission secretary search. i would just mention that the material we are supposed to be

before you last week, and we apologize for that, was sent this time. hopefully you have had a chance to review the draft job announcement and list the venues for posting that job announcement. we ask that if you have any corrections or modifications to the job announcement, that you let us know today. and if you have any additional subtractions from the list of the news. with that, i will turn it over to the chair of the subcommittee, commissioncommissr antonini. commissioner antonini: as reported last week, we talked about the meetings we've been having, and we did have to continue the meeting from july 25 to august 8 is the next meeting. before us today is the draft announcement, as was pointed out by secretary avery for your

comments, and in the from the public also, and also, the venues in which this announced it would be posted. trying to cast a broad net to attract candidates for this very important position. i would open it up to comments from other members of the subcommittee, members of the rest of the commission, and the public, of course. president fong: public comment. in a public commenany public cot for the subcommittee for the position of secretary? commissioner moore, and the comments to add? -- any comments to add?

commissioner moore: i would just like to assure the rest of my fellow commissioners that the work that went into this indeed had the broadest spectrum of input, including the members of this commission, and commissioner antonini as a chair and commissioner borden and myself as other representatives, a complementary group of people offered different concerns and historic preservation. i think those were the most honest and candid discussions i have had a long time. i am very comfortable supporting the acceptance of this particular document to the fullest extent it meets all the concerns and requirements. i would ask the rest of the commission supports the document.

let me add this was done under the watchful eye of secretary avery herself who is obviously supporting the full spectrum of qualifications needed for the job and was anchored by mr. battista. i think there was a complementary group from the department itself. h.r. was there sort of the we had a very open and transparent process. >president fong: this is an action item, right? >> commissioners, if there is no change to the document, there is no action to take. commissioner wu: i am happy to see this draft job description. i think what to think all of the

subcommittee members were working so hard on it. i think it is the rope, but i was looking for the custodian of records, and i like seeing the deal will appoint about what that might mean for the commission -- i mean for the department for the secretary to see the public face. again, just want to say tahnhank you, and i fully support this draft. >> no, just to -- the letter, and i believe all of you have a copy of the letter that was signed for this commission, and the historic preservation committee has gone forward to ms. callahan, the executive director of human resources. the job announcement can go out, however, i will say it there is

not resolution on the classification, the commission has the right to come back together and decide to either accept the classification as offered, except with of the modification put forward, or two separate your commission secretary. it will be up to you at that point. at this point we can still put the job announcement out, keeping in mind that this process has the potential to change. president fong: commissioner moore. commissioner moore: would you please clarify that this commission has the right to appoint based on the history of this commission, but it is historic preservation that might have to consider hiring at a different job classification. >> i do not want to -- because i am not an expert in human

resources, and certainly not for the city, but i would say that my classification was derived at because of the combination of functions i have done over the years. it would be unlikely even if you separate it out that you would have someone at the same classification. so if you separate out, i would imagine that each commission would have a different classification for their commission secretary. it seems to me, and this is just a personal opinion, that it would be appropriate for a combined function to share the classification, or to have the classification that i currently have, or somlar to it. i cannot speak for dhr, simply do not have the expertise to do so.

commissioner moore: i would like to add the comments that i think the commission took the responsible attitude to combine the commission's with one secretary where the work is significantly larger, and i do believe the letter offered by fong and chase addresses this issue sensitively and up to be forward after today's acceptance of where we are. >> the letter has already gone to this callahams. callahan. president fong: i think the commissioners for purchase of it on the subcommittee and look forward to the next phase. -- thank. >> thank you. we will forward the job description. we will finalize this and send it on for processing. i would say the next meeting of

the subcommittee with the approval of the job announcement will be to discuss interview questions. those have to be done in closed session. as part of that, and probably an open session later on as we talk about criteria for greeting the interview questions, the subcommittee is still needing to consolidate, so that we did not -- at the moment we have quite a few, and we want to bring that into a more manageable project. they will be meeting in the future. part of that will be closed session to come up with the questions for the interview. president fong: great. thank you. >> is that extend to how the interview will be conducted?

aiming toward a subcommittee situation again, or whether the commission's in their entirety will participate or has that come up yet? >> no, that has not. the subcommittee can discuss this, but we will have to come back to make recommendations to the full commission. the decision will ultimately be decided by the full commission, unless the fall commission. commissioner antonini: this is commissioner comments now? i thought he was on commissioner comments. if there is no other comments, we will move on to item 9 on the regular calendar, which is commissioner questions or matters. commissioner moore: i am

wondering if the city attorney could give us an explanation due to the fact that i have never on my time seen a commission decision and board of supervisors' decision move to the potential of the ballot box. i understand sufficient signatures were submitted for that to happen. in putting this on the ballot suspends a hiring freeze. >> deputy city attorney, susan the walls. we can give you more in debt update, either later today or next week, but in general and a legislative decision can be reprimanded within 30 days of that decision through the collection of a certain number

of signatures and other procedures. in terms of moving forward now, i understand the board of supervisors have an opportunity to consider the project's one more time before it goes to a vote of the people. that is what i know about this point, but if you have other questions, i would have to look into that at a later date. commissioner moore: i was curious about the process, because few of us have seen it under the microscope. it has not happened for a long time. it would be fun to hear. i have a second point while we are asking questions. we might want to ask what the

real entitlement process really should or should not do. we have over the past six-eight months because of economic downturns be -- been bombarded with large projects, and i am not referring to anything on today's calendar, but i generally want to know like on concern -- consumer products, the date of operation. do we have something as well? do city plans change? we are sometimes carrying projects are around 48-10 or however many years without actually taking a more closer look at it. revisiting an architectural solution, revisiting some of the land use assumptions. is that anything that would be in the interest of this commission to consider? i would ask that the mayor's office but for economic development, and everyone else

could, but i think it is an idea, given that we have rarely have this new development project on the city for too long. commissioner antonini: thank you. in response to the question from commissioner moore, i think there have been attempts at ballot measures, but i do not think any of them in the past got enough to qualify on the planning commission. i know in another jurisdiction, there was an attempt for and demonstrated action. there is time concerns and everything else. i think the city attorney will brief us on the various parameters around these types of things. on another note, i am really encouraged to see the spirit of cooperation between the branches of city government in the past few days, with particular

reference to the ballot. and the measures that will be on the ballot, like tax reforms. while we still have to look at these particular measures in detail, it is encouraging to see various branches working in harmony. i am hopeful that spirit of cooperation continues until next tuesday as the board of supervisors will consider my reappointment to the planning commission and would like to continue for another four years and that might variant and institutional memory is for the issues coming before us. almost everyone knows where to get a hold of me, but for those of you that did not have my contact information, you can call me day or night on my cell phone. i turn it off at night, so you never would be up in the middle of the night.

i have received comments from many people over the years, but i want to make sure we cast the net as broadly as possible so everyone can get ahold of me if they have issues or concerns. think you very much. to go off this morning's newspaper had an article about the item on the agenda today. the article made the same error that people make all the time with it, and testified before the commission on an environmental impact report. a draft environmental impact report has to have a hearing before the planning commission, and when people come to testify at that hearing, many people make the assumption that they are testifying about the project or plan, and that is