items proposed for continuance. items 1a and b for case nos. 2011.0430e and x - 480 potrero avenue, appeal of a preliminary mitigated negative declaration and request for large project authorization are proposed for continuance to july 18, 2013. i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment on items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> move to continue items 1a and 1b to july 18th. >> second. >> commissioner borden. >> i'm confused. i thought this was the one that we continued last week to the 11th. >> right. >> oh, i see. thanks for clarifying.

thank you. on that motion to continue items 1a and b, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 po 0 and places you under your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which ebit the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or in future hearings. there are two items under your consent calendar, commissioners, items 2 and 3, case nos. case no. 2012.0391d for 524 vienna street, request for conditional use authorization. and 2012.0603c - 1881 post

street, request for conditional use authorization. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment for items on the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner borden. >> i move to approve items 2 and 3 on the consent calendar. >> second. >> on that motion to approve items 2 and 3, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> and commission chair wu? >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and places you under commission matters, item 4, consideration of adoption minutes for june 6, 2013. >> any public comment on the draft minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner borden. >> move to approve draft minutes from june 6. >> second. >> on that motion to approve draft minutes for june 6, 2013, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore?

>> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> and commission chair wu? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and places you under item 5, consideration of adoption, an amended 2013 planning commission hearing schedule. commissioners, this comes before you because as it turns out, next week there are no items on calendar. and also maybe more significantly for you to consider september 5th and december 5th. september 5th turns out to be rash ha shana, and december 5th actually ends up being the last day of hanukkah. there was a suggestion ~ that this body consider taking a longer break, extending it summer hiatus in august into that september 5th hearing date which coincides with labor day as well and the day of rash ha shana and to add back december

5th when, generally speaking, there are enough -- large numbers of breaks between thanksgiving and christmas and new year's to add that hearing back to your calendar. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the proposed hearing schedule? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> yeah, given the circumstances, i think this is a good suggestion because we always seem to be busy at the end of the year and our hearings are constricted by the holidays when we're going to be off at least three sessions. so, i think this is a good way of doing it. >> commissioner moore. >> i would agree, and i think it fully reflects we are much more able to balance our thursdays so i'm in full support of it. move to approve. >> second. >> on that motion to adopt the amended 2013 planning commission hearing schedule, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye.

>> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> and commission chair wu? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and places you on item 6, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm sure that all of you were saddened to hear of the passing of james gandolfini yesterday, a young age. it sounds like we're probably not going to be seeing a feature film, another feature film sopranos because i know he's had a lot of different actors play superman, but in my opinion there's only one guy who could play tony soprano and he's not with us any more. >> commissioner borden. >> yes, two things. first, i know that you also saw that orchard supply actually filed for bankruptcy [inaudible]. if we had, we could end up with [speaker not understood], but that was an interesting

development. also earlier this week i got to attend an economic development boot camp in fresno put on by the german marshall fund and they had this great firm called street sense. they have been working on retail corridors and actually working with the planning department of washington, d.c. to put together something called vibrant streets which is a tool kit that allows communities and neighborhoods to be active and to how they create a vibrant neighborhood street. and this is really unique because they bring together planning, real estate, stat, and a whole bunch of information and they talked a bit about the trends in retail evolution from the 1950s through '80s or malls where the saying now they're on the decline. they talked about the shift of what they call power center kind of retail which is the big boxes, the home depot and how more of that retail is starting to go online. and that the type of retail that is flourishing is the specialty or commoditieses for

the retail which is price and convenience driven and relates to discretionary spending. they said there is no formula around how much of that specialty or discretionary retail or what is ideal, but that that's kind of the trend. i thought what was also very fascinating is along with that, they found -- they looked at great streets throughout the world, they have a methodology, specific methodology they looked at and they looked at what was kind of the common factors and they of course did not tell us all because they sell this sort of information. but one of the things that was interesting was that less sidewalks is less important, but undergrounding of power lines was more important. it was really interesting when you look at the data kind of what it tells you. ~ the other thing that was fascinating is the shift in american -- the way that we eat, they said 70% of dinner decisions are made after 4:00 p.m. in american households.

so, that's the shift for vibrant streets in terms of the opportunity around a push for more restaurants or things in that space. and what they found in the most vibrant commercial corridors is that the 60 or 65% of food or food-related establishments seem to be what makes the difference and a lot of these more vibrant areas. the other thing that was kind of amazing that i thought it also brought up was all these kind of vibrant commercial corridors, there is at least one non-retail, non-cafe kind of component. something that's cultural and nonprofit, something else that brings life to the city and bring people to the street other than just the retail or eating and drinking experience and having that kind of anchor cultural sort of institution was also critical. so, anyway, i just thought it was really fascinating and if people want to see the tool kit they developed for the district of columbia available for free on the nonprofit called vibrant streets.com, you can find kind

of the tool kit and they have a whole list of different stages that you go through. but it is all about the community being the stakeholders and holding and driving the process of springing the kind of retail mix of the neighborhood. i thought it would be interesting. i don't know there is a way we could ever have anyone from this group come talk to us, but the way they have this insight into the trends and where things are going would really help us, i think, when we think about those spaces. and what they've actually said is they work with a lot of developers who build these projects and the spaces they design are the wrong spaces for retail and they have a whole host of reasons why that is true and it would be interesting kind of to understand that so that we could see be sensitive to the retail. often when we're approving projects, the primary concern is about the actual housing or the up stairs, but we don't think enough about the downstairs. ~ see >> commissioner sugaya. >> there is an article in the paper called third on third and i think in the bayview they're

frying to start up an arts walk on the third thursday or friday. ~ trying anyway, to kind of emulate the first fridays in oakland, which i thought was interesting. also, there was a piece in the business times about a brew pub or something of that nature wanting to open up on 65 taylor street. i don't know if that's come to the department yet, but i think the idea is that they want to sell like 155,000 different kinds of beer and to take advantage of the mid-market change that's been going on. 65 taylor is right at taylor and turk, which i remember very well, in the case that involves a relocation of a grocery store and also the relocation of a liquor -- beer and wine sales in that new location which we denied.

and there was a tremendous community concern about selling alcohol, not only to take out, but also to consume, i believe, in that area. and, so, it's just an alert to the department that i think it needs a conditional use permit from the commission. i'm not sure about that, but i believe it would. >> i'm familiar with the use in the same article. i don't know if they've yet come in for the permits. this would be on-premise sales versus off-premise sales which was the grocery store. i'll look into it and make sure they have obtained the proper permit. >> thank you. lastly, last saturday i was a moderator at a morning session for an all-day forum on social heritage in various communities in san francisco. and the morning session, there were various communities

represented in town, chinatown, the filipino community, south of market, the bayview and also the mission district. and there the presenters gave us an idea of what kind of cultural and social heritage resources existed in the communities. quite apart from historic preservation, which deals with physical fabric like houses and billions and things, this was aimed more at festivals and dances and language and that kind of thing and what sustains those ethnic communities. the afternoon, there were presentations by representatives from the sterling bank and their program to help small business. there was a gentleman from, i think it's called the geller foundation at university of san francisco where they have a program to assist small and family businesses about how to run those businesses and sustain -- sustain their retail

and businesses in various neighborhoods. representative from san francisco heritage and professor from southern california whose specialty is the barrio -- barrios in southern california and has written several books about sustainability and cultural resources. so, there are about 80 people in attendance and i think the upshot of this is we will be considering some -- a document from japantown concerning their cultural and social heritage next month. and then the people i think there in attendance want to continue to see what can be done in the other neighborhoods and to build upon this initial meeting. thank you. >> thank you. kumar. >> i wanted to thank the director, the zoning administrator and staff for including in our packages copies of letters of determination which in the past we never saw, but we're reading along of how you determine when

somebody wants to legalize or whatever, asking questions to you and you laying out of how you decide and what the rules are what you do decide. it is very interesting to me and i appreciate that you are including them. ~ commissioner moore >> commissioners, if there's nothing further, we can move on to department matters. item 7, director's announcements. >> thank you, jonas. good afternoon, commissioners. just a couple of announcements. i think as you know, the board approved the designation of our first historic district since 2003. finally the duboce park district was designated last week and the mayor, i think, had signed or will shortly sign the legislation. secondly, the department is starting its kind of more robust public outreach program, and the first will be -- we will be attending the sunday streets on the great highway and at golden gate park.

that happens sunday july 7 from 11 to 4:00 on the great highway and we will be having staff at a booth with plans ~ and activities that we are doing in that part of town. so, that staff will be able to answer questions of the public in that part of time. and we will be attending several of those over the next few months as well. and as a reminder, we will also be doing a number of kind of educational seminars and webinars and different planning topics in the coming months. so, they're still being organized. thirdly, i wanted to let you know about a searsies of workshops we're doing with the market octavia neighborhood related to the adoption of that plan which called for what are called living alleys. these are workshops to design some of the alleys in that neighborhood. the first of those will be a workshop on july 9th from 6:00 to 8:00 at the hayes valley recreation playground center, 6 99 hayes street. this is a two-year community based program to design and

implement a network of living alleys in the octavia area which is called for in the plan. we are doing this in concert with the neighborhood, mta, dpw and we -- the idea is to get to a point where we design concepts for three alley ways in that neighborhood which could then be implemented over time. again, that's july 9th from 6:00 to 9:00 at the hayes valley playground recreation center. that concludes my report. thank you. >> commissioners, item 8, review of past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon, commissioners, cynthia hayward, planning staff. i'm here to give you a report from the board of supervisors meeting june 17. there are five items to report from monday's land use hearing. the first was the better market street plans and the better market street team provided an update to the land use committee and their presentation focused primarily on information that will be presented at the public workshops that are scheduled for july 17th and july 20th.

and the committee asked the team to continue to provide periodic updates to ensure the project moves forward expeditiously. and the next were the c-e-q-a ordinances. both supervisor wiener and supervisor kim's c-e-q-a ordinances were back before the committee. supervisor wiener noted this is the 11th public hearing on his ordinance. supervisor kim stated that she was pleased to see the two ordinances moving closer to each other in content. and supervisor chiu said he believes that the 11th hour is at hand and that the ordinances should move out of committee and to the full board. supervisor chiu proposed a series of potential amendments. they were not made in the committee level, but they will be addressed at the full board. both supervisor kim's ordinance and supervisor wiener's ordinance were forwarded to the full board for potential consideration next week. there is still a separate ordinance from supervisor kim that is pending for hearing

before this commission and before the historic preservation commission. and the second ordinance would establish a process for appeal to the planning commission of the environmental review officer's decision about modifications to a project. supervisor kim's second ordinance and the potential supervisor chiu ordinance addressing the same issue had been scheduled for july 25th before this commission. next was a project specifically zoning for 90 9 tennessee street and this would change the district of that property ~ from public to urban mixed use as the property is now privately owned. and this new designation was consistent with the adjacent parcels, and the land use committee concurred with the decision of this body and moved it on to the full board with a recommendation. they also heard the mission bay south redevelopment plan amendments and the land use committee forwarded the amendments with a

recommendation to the full board. and then lastly, the cpmc project was heard at land use on monday. on monday, the board land use committee heard the development agreement as well as the associated amendments. and as you know, this commission approve the revised projects for cpmc on may 23rd of this year. at monday's hearing the land use committee forwarded the project on to the full board. they did make several technical amendments to the da and i thought that two were particular of note you would want to hear about. the first is supervisor chiu sought a compromise to the commission's proposed amendment to remove the 7:00 p.m. closure for the garage at cathedral hill. he said a compromise which is the closing time will be set at 9:00 p.m. unless arrangements have been made for residents or institutions in the area. ~ and then secondly [speaker not understood] had included in the da a -- some information about

the noticing requirements for the da and this commission had specified who would get the notice, but did not include a duration of noticing time. so, the land use committee suggested a 60-day notification period. this week at the full board, supervisor wiener's package of amendments regarding mobile food facilities, food trucks was heard, and all three related ordinances passed on their first reading. one was a planning code amendment and the other two were a public works code amendment that would detail the locational and noticing requirements for food trucks. and the second was transportation code amendment related to permitting and licensing. and then by way of introduction, there weren't many, one that i thought would be of interest to you was that supervisor avalos introduced a resolution regarding historic "street signs" in the excelsior. the resolution would add the original street names as china, japan, and india to the current

street signs for excelsior, avenue ~ avalon and peru streets. [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. >> [speaker not understood] the first was an adoption of findings for [speaker not understood] fillmore street. i mentioned this to the commission a few weeks ago, [speaker not understood], they do not have 11 or more stores in the u.s. they do have nine stores and leases for two more stores, one in healdsberg. [speaker not understood]. that is a different process than we had in the past where we had not counted establishments that were proposed, only those that were actually open. the board adopted findings, the findings would be issued in 10 days. there is a 10 day rehearing period. once those findings are issued,

we would revise our policies to be in line with the board's decision and interpretation of the planning code and we would amend our formula use affidavit to reflect that. so, people will have to testify whether or not they have leases for 11 or more stores. and also noted the name ms. rodgers had mentioned in the past, there are some larger formula retail use control changes that are being proposed by some of the supervisors, district by district, and, so, the department hopes to work holistickly and come up with overall solution to some of the issues coming up related to formula retail. the other item was 1 spruce. this was a discretionary review that the planning commission heard in april. the commission unanimously approved the project. that was appealed to the board of appeals. originally scheduled for hearing in july, but the parties had come to an agreement. there was a hearing last night, it reduced the size of the addition slightly and did some landscaping. so, all the parties seemed

satisfied and the board adopted those changes. and i'm available for any questions. >> commissioner sugaya. >> oh, sorry, never mind. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. tim frye, department staff here to share with you the results of yesterday's historic preservation commission hearing. i did have one or two small announcements just to follow-up on commissioner sugaya's comments regarding saturday's san francisco architectural heritage summit. the department was a partner in that summit and preservation staff presented on the city's current landmark designation work program with a focus on the recently designated sam jordan's bar as well as our current work in the japantown and west soma communities to document social and cultural heritage in those neighborhoods. and we felt it was a great opportunity to continue a conversation that started at this commission at the end at the historic preservation

commission last winter. and certainly when the jh comes to you and the [speaker not understood] would like to continue that conversation about how the city can better respond to documenting that heritage throughout the city. one other small announcement was on july 11th, the department hosted a no zac clinic within the [speaker not understood] district. this was to provide technical assistance of the mills act for property openers within the newly designated district. there was a great turnout, over 25 property owners showed up, lots of questions and a lot of interest in participating in the program. those applications will go to the historic preservation commission and the board of supervisors this fall once they're submitted. and we hope to carry that mills act clinic on to the other existing landmark districts in the city over the next year. in regards to yesterday's hearing, the architectural

review committee met before the hpc hearing to review the design and provide feedback on two items. one is a new office development in the south landmark district of 272 brannan. overall the arc was very supportive of the contemporary design and gave the architects a minor design feedback to improve the project. the arc also reviewed some design modifications to the belie buildings at [speaker not understood] montgomery street. as you know, these buildings have been in a partial state of construction for almost two decades. so, it was good to see some movement on the project and the overall proposal will be before the historic preservation commission, hopefully by the end of this summer, early fall, and naturally there is a lot of interest in that project. and that project will be noticed to the community and the local neighborhood

organizations. once we have an application formally submitted. the full hpc had a very short calendar. they reviewed the e-i-r for the ferry terminal expansion. i think most importantly they provided review and comment on a national register nomination for 6 30 sampson street. this is the u.s. appraiser stores and immigration station. national register nomination is being initiated by the gsa. the commission was very supportive of the nomination but felt the documentation could benefit from a little more information about san francisco's role as a gateway city to immigration, especially on the pacific. and at the prepare the nomination to expand that documentation. so, with that, that concludes my comments unless you have any questions. thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> mr. frye, thank you for your

report. this is kind of a general question, but i think it particularly is important when you deal with historic structures. permitting has to be gained for any kind of restoration work ~ obviously. and is there a time period for permits? it's often seen projects are begun and sit in limbo for years and they're eyesores. do we have any i don'txv on those type of things? >> we do. a certificate of appropriateness generally has a three-year validity to it until it expires and -- the sponsor would have to go back to the hpc for review. in case of the bellie buildings, [speaker not understood]s have been obtained during the course of the project both of which have expired and why c of a would be required to resume the current work. >> thank you.

>> commissioners, item 9, case no. 2011.1356e - central corridor plan, informational update. >> good afternoon, planning commission. joshua switzky with department staff. so, this is a brief update on the central corridor plan process. we are now in phase ii of the planning process. phase i was comprised the last couple years in which we basically created the big vision, developed the strategies to fulfill the vision through proposals for zoning and height and public, ground improvements, that culminated with the publication of the draft plan which you now have the hard copy before you to read at your leisure. the plan was published in april. phase ii of the planning process is sort of twofold. one is the environmental analysis process, the notice of preparation for the e-i-r was published in april and that e-i-r is now commencing and that should take, as you know,

some time, probably 18 months to get through the whole process about a year before we get the draft next spring. but during that process, while that's going on, we plan to keep this project on the front burner and continue to delve into the critical details of fleshing out the plan than recovered by major prep sails [speaker not understood] so forth in the plan. i'll go into a little more detail. that's the purpose of this briefing. phase iii is the culmination of the process where we bring it back together after the e-i-r process with implementation measures, ordinances and so forth for your adoption. for the next 18-month period, how do we know which issues identified. [speaker not understood]. secondly, we held a public meeting last week which was well vetted, 40 or 50 people were in attendance. we asked what do you want to talk about over this next year

and a half? and thirdly, we're here to share that list with you and get your feedback. so, the makeup of these topics, the goal of this phase is to really delve into some of the key details that haven't been flederction out to date. some of the broad basic proposals in terms of land use and building heights. we spent the last two years working on those and talking about those and we really framed the alternatives and those alternatives will be analyzed in the e-i-r, as well as i'm sure some other alternatives. while we wanted to continue to get people's feedback and read the plan and digest it and sit with the mainly components for the next many months, ~ major ~ we're hoping to delve into it in finer grain than land use and urban forum proposal. so if i could get the slides on the screen. we can just run through the topics. so, this is a synthesis of the list that we developed on our own as well as the things that came up at the public meeting last week. so, the first category would be