public use buildings or co-location opportunities that were considered feasible or viable within the [speaker not understood] area. as of today's hearing the department received one phone call and four letters from residents concerning potential health effects. [speaker not understood]. the esthetic impact of the facility with respect to storage structures in the neighborhood and the condition of the building as it relates to recent fire damage of the attached single story former restaurant space at the rear of the property. staff has made the caller and those residents aware the city is enjoined with respect to considering a project as it relates to health effects. other than those standards sanctioned by the fcc. in addition, the full roof element would appear consistent with other elements found within the surrounding neighborhood. staff is recommending approval because the project conforms with the planning code, the

general plan, the wts siting guidelines, and the site has been determined to be the most viable site in the area. i'm available for any questions as well as the applicant eric wince. thank you. >> thank you. i'm opening up for public comment. douglass martin -- i'm sorry, project sponsor. thank you. thank you. my name is eric wince. permit me and i'm representing taint today on this application. i'm here to answer any questions you may have regarding the process we worked on. if you have any emf questions, i'm free to answer those questions. thank you. >> okay, thank you. now opening it up to public comment, douglass martin. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is douglass martin and i am a resident at 760

divisadero where they are proposing this wireless communications installation. and i understand that you are enjoying some considering ems concerns which was our initial -- residents do not want this tower for the radiation that it proposes to be continuously emitting. however, i would like to say that maybe i can show you some pictures and we can look at the building itself. i think that it is structurally very unsound and not up to code and, therefore, not an ideal location for installation of other construction. may i -- >> yes. i'm not sure how this works. >> it will go by itself. here we have -- this is the restaurant that is located behind 7 58 -76 0 divisadero. this fire happened six months ago. you can see the debris, the

glass and things that are left there have not been cleaned up by the landlord. i'll put another slide there. and still more, what i'll show next here is the back of 7 58 and 760 divisadero. what you're looking at here are the windows that were blown out when the firemen came to put out the fire at the restaurant behind us. and six months later he has yet to replace the windows. you can see the plywood. the electrical back up or what have you for the cell relay tower is supposed to be located in this third floor structure there. all of this just seems kind of ludicrous to me. i'm going to now show you pictures of the basement. this is what our basement looks like where our electrical and old tiny fuse boxes are. and this here wiring mess is what runs electricity to the restaurant that they're supposedly trying to repair.

~ you can see it even more close youv here. it's quite a jumble. ~ up here next i'll show you pictures from inside our apartment. this here is where a gas furnace was located until two days ago. the landlord just removed that so that pg&e could come in and perform an inspection to reroute -- turn on a gas main to our apartment again. it had been turned off for quite a while. but you see the mess here that is left, first of all. that is just the way the landlord left our house like this. what i wanted to get at is we are just now having gas restored. we have no heat in this building, that furnace which was illegal anyway, was the last form of heat in these apartments. there is no heat in the apartments. for the period of 2-1/2 weeks after this fire, we didn't even have hot water or a stove or an oven to cook with because, again, there was trouble with the gas main and the way it was routed between a restaurant and our residence. what i'm trying to tell you is

this building is not up to code. so, the landlord can get his house in order, please do not allow any additional construction or installation at this property. thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on this item? okay, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> well, this is interesting. i don't think we've ever had a situation where an individual has come up and talked about the maintenance issues of a building. i guess i would ask project sponsor or staff to say if any of these things would make it inadvisable to install the antennas. i mean, these are item that need correction, i would agree, but i don't know that -- i want know whether there is any reason we would not want to approve the antennas at this time. >> staff would expect that if the conditional use

authorization was granted, that building permits would follow and building permits and the review process, department of building inspection would demonstrate the building was up to code with respect to installation for wiring and the effect it may have on the residents in the building. >> and then i would guess i could ask if we have the ability to, you know, encourage d-b-i to pursue any deficiencies that may exist as a condition of our approval. >> staff would be happy to raise those concerns with our peerses at d-b-i as well. >> that would be a good thing. i'll see what the other commissioners have to say. >> commissioner moore. >> whatever avenues need to be pursued should be communicated with the person who just commented. and i think this is not in front of us. since staff described the processes by which building applications will be filed after this permit has been approved, there is a process which will probably hopefully

coincide with some additional assistance to the people who spoke today. the comment i'd like to make is -- i'm not talking about the technical nature of these applications. i'm talking about seeing visual alterations to buildings in the context of these applications which concern me. i do think that adding this 4 something rather might not be as consequential on this building, but as installation of additional antennas require us to consider more and more buildings which are being altered in their very appearance. buildings of lesser or more importance [speaker not understood]. the impact of wireless communication facilities throughout the city are starting to be very noticeable. i don't have to discuss that because the director has previously stated his thoughts on that. but i do think that we have an obligation to very carefully

and which locations require what type of intervention and more really address the change in building nature, i start to not believe that we're going down the right road. technology is one thing. altering buildings to accommodate technology by changing the buildings is a completely different subject matter. and i think requires a different set of criteria than just sitting here and putting something on consent. so, i'd like to put that out as a note to us as a commission, to department as basically facilitates speaking with taint and verizon and whoever they are. i start to notice that i will not be very happy seeing these kinds of whatever they are because it does just doesn't make sense. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, i believe this comment is usually made by commissioner borden, but i'll go ahead. to the person who spoke and to

the at&t rep, if you want to have radiation testing done, at&t is obligated to provide that. that means both before, i believe, and after the antennas are installed you can request radiation testing in your units. i believe that's correct, staff. >> that is correct. >> right, thank you. so, maybe you could exchange information in the corridor if you want to pursue that. >> commissioner wu. >> also to the gentleman who spoke during public comment, i think i would advise you to take your issues to the rent board as well. d-b-i may be the inspection agency, but i think the rent board can help you with your grievances against the landlord. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah, i'm okay with the -- i appreciate the remarks by commissioner moore. if there were changes that were

more significant, we'd have to take a look and possibly not have it on consent. we think they're doing a very good job of masking the antennas and making it blend in nicely with the buildings. they are not just putting a box on the top or antennas that are visible without any cover. that is about a good as you're going to do. so, i would move to approve. >> second. >> on that motion to approve with conditions, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. and places you under -- excuse me, on item 11, case no. 2012.0718e - event center and mixed use development at piers 30-32 and seawall lot 330, informational item updated project design. >> good afternoon, president fong and commissioners. i'm joy navarrete of planning

staff. the item before you is an informational item. on the event center and mixed use development at piers 30-32 and seawall lot 330. we did come before you on february 28th with the earlier design, and today we are going to be looking at design 2.0. i have with me here people from the office of economic and work force development, gen matts and tam drew. also [speaker not understood] craig deckers and [speaker not understood], and they are accompanied by their team also from a com and star. other folks that are here if you have any questions, peter albert from mta, clark miller and jessie bout from strada and we have ellen warner and rick welch from the lawyers. with that i'll start with jen matts and we'll have our presentation. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, president

fong and commissioners. we're really delighted to be here today to unveil to the commission design 2.0. this is really -- what you're going to see today is a result of about six months worth of work, really taking into account information that we've heard from various stakeholders from you as commissioners when we were before you in february from staff at bcdc from community members that we talked to in the citizen advisory meeting as well as numerous other stakeholders in the many, many meetings that we've been having across the city. and we think that this design that you will see really very thoughtfully begins to better articulate some specificity around program open space and the maritime uses that we anticipate being at this pier as well as the buildings and the street level retail that will be experienced by pedestrians moving up and down the embarcadaro and the building topology and uses on

the seawall lot. i do just want to take a minute to say congratulations to the warriors for winning their graham last night. it was incredibly exciting game. ~ game and really the history of the franchise, it was a very exciting moment as the new team is really sort of coming into its own. so, i think we are here with a bit of celebrating feeling. if you have questions around transportation, around aspects of the project that are not directly related to design, or questions about schedule, we're happy to answer those at any time. thank you. ~ celebratory with that, let me introduce craig dikers, principal from [speaker not understood] to give you the design presentation. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, commissioners. we are here today to represent to you many of the modifications and adjustments that have been made in response to various state, city, local community groups as well as

individuals from the areas surrounding the project. a number of changes have occurred and we're going to go through them in detail. but before we do that, we thought it might be interesting to raise one particular issue that has been interesting to us in terms of the connection of this project to the overall urban experience of the waterfront along the entire bay areas of the san francisco city limits. there are a number of features that we all recognize along the waterfront. the waterfront is composed of both natural access points as well as architectural features, all the way from golden gate bridge where the presidio is now being redeveloped, or the palace of fine arts or the buildings there and how they're used, fisherman's wharf that we all recognize and of course now to the ferry building once the embarcadaro has been removed. there is the next point that really is china basin where at&t park is, below that pier 70 is for review for development. ~ under review for development.

i wouldn't call it a gap, but a long space that interrupts this rhythm of architectural features along the water front that punctuate one's experience as you walk along the bay. you might felt that yourself. our proposal is not just to create meaningful waterfront access, but also to create something that feels in line with the rhythm of architectural features that define the shoreline as we see san francisco today. so, that was just one small point we wanted to raise in terms of the larger urban vision that the project represents in addition to waterfront access. the next thing to point out is that there is a tremendous focus being put on the development of this pier in terms of managing the pollutants and other issues that are being sort of -- i would say are component of the decay of the pier as it sits today and to provide more meaningful access than currently exists beyond the fence line that keeps it from

public use as it stands presently. we have always shown you this image, and this is the only image you'll see, i believe it's old except for site plan. everything else will be new. we wanted to remind you a big part of the idea of the project is to create meaningful north-south visual access as well as east-west access and to draw the bridge pier beautiful bridge pier into the picture to the party so to speak. and there is a way of making this building connect to its negative spaces, open spaces as much as it is through the design of the objects themselves. so, here is the most recent renderings that have been created and i believe you have in front of you. this is a slightly aerial view, not too high, but mid level view looking back towards the northeast to the bay bridge pier and to piers 28 and 26 in the distance. you'll see that we have maintained the essential conceptual idea that we're framing between the elements of retail and landscapewe as the event center itself.

this view towards the bridge pier. and of course back in the other direction towards brian wolf park. here you can see a site plan that was proposed in version 1, and circles showing the primary areas of change have been significant number of changes that have occurred. some of them rather crucial to our original design. if we start up on the eastern edge of the pier, you'll see that the one time the roof can't lever cantilevered out over the water. [speaker not understood]. at the northeast corner the building came to that proud point there and occupied most of the northeast corner of the pier level access. so, very big changes have occurred there which we'll talk about in a moment and we've moved the building, the arena building to the west a little bit to provide more access to the waterfront. and you'll see we've adjusted public access points at the northwest corner of pier 30-32.

provide more meaningful access up the center stair space which you see goes between the retail functions. and down at the south end we've adjusted public access space there to be more meaningful. we moved the site, if i can just point here. the public plaza that you see in this area here to the north on the seawall site has been shifted into a space which allows for public access. more porous access to the seawall site. we also deconstructed the hotel component into two individual components rather than one. here you can see the site plan as it exists today and i think more importantly -- i'll set this over here -- this is the outline of many of the components from version 1. so, we have removed the can't letter out over the water to provide a minimum 40 foot of access space along the eastern edge of the pier. ~ we removed the rather dramatic

feature which is bringing the building right down into the water and instead we've replaced that with more meaningful open access space for pedestrians as they move along the water front. we created a more intimate setting for the central plaza between the event center and the retail. and you can see that we've minimized the retail space roof lines to make these components more i'd say compatible in scale with other feature that people experience along the waterfront. the little red square at the top there is reds and we've been in discussion with the ownership of reds and they've agreed and are interested in moving their site to the southern southwestern corner which you can see the little white square there in the southwest corner, the little plaza. and you can see the two seawall side two components of the hotel with a little bridge crossing between them and a passage and courtyard there to make the building more porous in that area from main street. if you notice, that little walkway which i can point here,

that's this walkway -- hard to do -- there, that little walkway lines up with main street. and as you're coming down main street you have a view straight out to -- actually to the bay itself. we've moved the residential component which is the southern portion of the seawall site as far south as we can make it to provide as open space as is possible between water mark and bayview place immediately adjacent to beale street. and we have also minimized the footprint of all of these elements. they were over the general guidelines before and now they're below that, they're about 9,000, 9-1/2,000 square feet in floor plate. ~ this is a general upper level view across at&t park to the bay bridge and beyond. some of the new towers that have been incorporated into the sky line and they're currently undergoing construction. so, we'll see them in the near future. and if you look closely, we feel that there is a sort of a general stepping down towards the waterfront which we're

trying to pay homage to the general direction of city planning that's has given us with regard to the experience along embarcadaro. i'm sorry, i put the wrong button there. there you go. this is looking back from the financial district up in here again, across to the east bay and oakland with the event center placed out on the eastern most edge of the pier. these are some of the numbers that have been evaluated over the course of the last few months. you'll see that we have, in fact, reduced the height of the event center. there was a number of issues being presented to us regarding height. it's not easy to do. i can tell you that. people worked really hard just to get it done as much as we have been for about 10, 10 or more feet. so, a lot of efficiencies in the engineering that we're working on there in terms of the height. the retail areas have come down opt on the arena side. you can see there from [speaker not understood]. the seat capacity has been fixed. i'm not sure if you want me to go through all of these numbers.

is that okay? keep going, then? parking spaces have come down from 6 30 to about 500. we've provided a minimum of 300 valet bicycle parking spaces. in addition there are open bicycle parking spaces being placed outside of the virginia lay parking, about 100 of those. valet ~ the event square footage come down dramatically 770 to 730, roughly a thousand square feet. open space area has increased from 50 to 53%, about 6.7 acres. it's nearly three union square areas of space available for the public to enjoy the sky. there is a new addition of the temporary deep water berth which has been placed on the edge of the pier. not a berthing facility, an overflow, allows access during certain times. year. we've also increased from 0 to 40 feet access along the eastern edge of the pier. and we've provided now you'll

see several ways in which you can view into the arena directly and, of course, see out of the arena to the surrounding landscape. that's a new feature. in terms of the seawall site, we have adjusted these figures also. some of them have gone up so we've increased the residential scope from about 160 to 200,000 gross square feet. the hotel has moved from about 160 to 178, but the retail has come down at street level a little bit from 33 to 29 and we've also fixed the parking spaces around 260, and we've provided a more porous floor plate. one thing i should note is that the two components you saw in the past, each one was 150 feet high. perhaps you recall that. there were two ties of 150 feet high. we have lowered the hotel component to 105 feet. we've lowered that component 50 feet which is we think a rather significant change. we have, though, on the other hand raised the residential component from 150 by 25 feet to 175. so, we come down 50 feet on one

side and gone up 25 feet on the other, and we think -- we believe that the massing is appropriate on the site with those changes. here you can see to the left the water mark tower which is 235 feet. the towers beyond that are higher, the residential component at 175, significantly lower. it's about 100 feet lower than water mark. and then the 105 feet units there in the distance. there is the event center and the retail in the view back to the bridge. at night you can notice that there are a number of features that have been integrated into the design including a very large dramatic bay window which looks from the two-story lobby out into the east bay and directly into the pier, directly adjacent to the 40 foot space that is available on the pier level for the public as they move along the outside of the building. so, you can look up and see inside the building as you're moving along the pier edge. here is a view of the northwest corner where we have incorporated a new very grand stair that leads people up to the top event level entrance

plaza without having to cross the support traffic that goes into the building in this location. that's where the support traffic. and the only entry for vehicular traffic is at this northwest corner. there is an additional where that little square is, a small a-d-a access point. you'll also notice, i think i forgot to mention. you'll see along the northern edge of the pier three boat facilities that -- little boats. one on the far left is designed for water taxi use. the one in the middle which we'll talk about in a moment is for fire boat use, and we have incorporated a fire department station onto the site itself, not off the site, but actually in the site. and the third pier at the northeast corner is a pier for ferry service, inner bay ferry service. there is a considerable amount of maritime access developed along the northern edge of the site. in terms of the northern edge you can see some of those docks now. there in the middle is actually the fire department which is incorporated into these

northern edge. we wanted that edge to be kind of a working feeling like some of these working piers that we find in san francisco. if you look closely just next to that little green area there with the stairs up, there is a little red dot. that's actually a window. we're working with the fire department so you can walk by and look in and see their fire engine which would be a lot of fun for people. the fire engines don't use the pier edge. they actually come in and out of the service exit that everyone else does. although the pier edge is available for emergency use at all times. there is a gabian wall that collects stormwater at the end. we're looking for [speaker not understood] quite an environmental sensitive building. oh, ghosh, i guess i'm done. i didn't realize that. >> you have a few more minutes. >> okay. there is views at the top of the building which look off to -- this is on the upper level looking off to treasure island, looking back to the financial district, looking into the arena itself there is a window that's available to the public. and when you're in the arena

you can look back out that window and see the bridge itself. this is a huge section of seating that's been removed to accommodate views in and out of the arena. the eastern edge as i mentioned has this new 40 foot access point and there is also this -- a continuation of the public open ramp, rather, that moves alongside the building that takes you up to the top where you have a public 360 degree panoramic view of the city. this is the southeast corner where we're proposing a new park instead of a water inlet as we've had in the past. and that park will also have interesting features that makes it comfortable for visitors. the new plaza has new trees that have been aligned along the edges. we're programming this plaza in different ways for different types of events. we don't want all the space to be used in only the same way. different degrees of intimacy and crowd use. at night looking along the edge where reds is where there is this other small parka as entitle to the pier edge, and the open access ramp that goes up to the top of the building where you can actually look back into the building as well as look out of the city, it's all a-d-a acsebastiantion i

believe in all locations. looking back out towards the southern edge of the pier where the branimore park s and there is direct access to the park. you can see the a-d-a ramp and grand ramp. people playing, impromptu musicians and farmers market set up on the edge of the pier. this is looking towards the east early mott morning perhaps when there are less people you can see the different ramps and how direct the access is along the waterfront. there is new retail, we have new space between the retail buildings that give access up to the top of the entry level plaza. this is a great picture because it shows how the retail fits in with the height and width of the existing pier structures just to the north and to the south of this new facility. so, we're working very hard to keep the rhythm of these pier buildings in place. this is looking from -- sorry, the north towards the south with the seawall site to the right. hotel components and the new retail component on the left with a number of features that help it fit in in terms of scale to those other buildings.

this is the retail component again from the south looking north and i guess you could mention very quickly there's reds china house there on the right which also frames part of the experience here. this is a very important diagram. i'm almost finished. this is standing across from the embarcadaro at eye level looking back at the site and the same view at at&t park same angle we're starting to create. we're still working on these drawings, but you can see there is the event center in the back. so, the buildings in the foreground, about 45 feet high. the arena in the back which isn't so far away at this new height, still feels like it's only about 45, 50 feet high. that's because of our idea of moving it to the east as far as possible. if you compare that to at&t park, this is only 45 feet high. it's only half the building. so, it creates a much more dense wall to the experience along the embarcadaro. then the event center does because we pulled it so far away. we're still woing on these diagrams. but there you can see the two

of them over the top of each other. there's the seawall site and we're finished now. just [speaker not understood]. a little glass bridge that goes across between the two hotel components. there is a 40 foot high podium that runs between the residential and the hotel component that's no higher than the water mark podium that exists today so we're staying with that level. it's also lower than many of the other podiums that move up and down along the embarcadaro in this particular place. our key feature here that is we don't want to have kind of a flat top across the entire site. we want to create a little bit of variety in scale and forms as you move along the embarcadaro as you move along this stretch. i believe that is the last image. thank you. >> very impressive how you ran through that. thank you. [laughter] >> i didn't want the beeper to go off. thank you. commissioner, thank you for allowing me to extend a little bit of extra time. and they may have