what he asked for and the set backs on the top floors moving the entrance to a more central location adding commercial space. we went from 15 parking spaces to 40 parking spaces and we have soeftened the ground floor and added the landscaping and so we incorporated the majority of what is proposed and a lot of what the community had to say and in the end we formed the strong partnerships in terms of community out reach and we worked with the affordable housing development across the street and mission housing and they actually will be handling the housing and affordable housing will be on site and working with the mission housing and to do the out reach. and corporation of new tenants there and also the local 22 carpenter's union and we formed a relationship with them and they are strong supporters of

this project thank you. >> that concludes the project sponsor presentation? >> yes. >> okay. >> so for members of the public who have already spoken, you will be given one minute if you choose so to give new remarks. >> to the project sponsor's presentation. >> and those, and did not catch the first speaker's name, robin, olkin. >> i am robin. >> right. >> as you can see, he presented his building it is completely out of character with the neighborhood. he can't even fit it on the screen how is he going to fit it on the land and the gardens is not that tall. and the buildings around the area are not that tall and once again i am really asking you to really reconsider the neighborhoods and what has happened in dog patch potrero,

mission bay, we are all as neighbors very, very upset with this project. thank you. >> thank you. >> i would like to point out some of the images could i have this? so some of the shadow analysis pictures is i can point these out are interesting time points that have been chosen and so if you can see here, the one chosen on the 621, it shows a (inaudible) in time that is not the time of concern. >> june is a time when we have the longest and it does not get dark until 9:00 so for them to choose a june shadow at 9:00 a.m. is relevant. and you can see here at the december shadow, that at 3:00 p.m. you can see where those shadows is going that is not even a complete shadow. it comes directly from the west

to the east and once the shadow starts to come around that is what you are seeing. so if you can imagine what the june shadow will have after 3:00 p.m. is right here. it is 6 hours away from when it gets dark. >> thank you. >> my name is olga kist and this is an exert from robert... the real book on real estate and this is how he prints... (inaudible) and engineering and this is how he presents his team, our most successful team consists of attorney, elizabeth air heart who specializes in

evictions, and... (inaudible) whose architecture brilliance could see the values in others do not. and very low rents on the rent control we would quickly pull the trigger and close the deal. our goal is to..., any way, you will get the plans quickly through the planning process. >> thank you. >> okay then two members of the public whose name i had called you can continue to line up on the screen side of the room. >> i did not have a order. >> sure. >> my name is carroll and i

have lived on utah street a block from the proposed project for 28 years and i want to speak about the green space requirement and have the developer to the defined neighborhood documentations and asking for an exception. the eastern neighborhood defined the open space as in many areas the amount of open space required is part of a new development would be increased additionally these open spaces will be required to be greener and more usable. >> the developer has decided to sacrifice the green space in order to create more density in the name of more apartments. and it is dead space and now that there is no purpose on trying to say that the requirements were met. and as you can see from the

developer's plan. the requirements in the form of the roof decks and the balconies on the east side and an open space above the garage that is 3200 square feet which is less than the 3750 square feet and as was said. the developer still need to put up fencing in that roof area to protect the people from falling and will see the 58 foot plan roof height and instead they will get an additional four for free. so while the developer is not previeding an area as defined in the en that should provide a space, consist of the natural setting and i believe that just it fits in the general plan to provide a living environment and the question is what does it look like, it is hard and how do you begin to quantify it and how do you provide for that and not imposing that on the current neighbors who chose to live here for the sun and some

of the best weather in the neighborhood and less density than other parts of the city. to me, to implement the spirit of the en plan this needs a place for trees, earth and soil and those things promote the negative ions if you are looking to quantify this and this effects the humans in a positive and healthy way. >> as well as the chance for them to grow their own food. and the people will go to vitamin d, which we know now according to the media, that most people suffer from a lack of vitamin d. and i would like to think that the commissioners really don't want us to be reduced to popping because we have not planned for reasonable growth and why you may argue and i am sure that the developer would and that there are adequate surrounding parks and that the tenants can enjoy and let me remind you that the surrounding parks in the area are at capacity and enjoyed and used by the residents and it will

over grade the parks and not be as green and helpful as it can and should have been. >> finally this is the first project in this area, that the others follow suit, then it will be reasonable to assume that instead of a few hundred using the other parks that number will be much greater as the subsequent developers will follow the suit and already used the over used parks. >> next speaker please? >> next speaker, please? >> excellent. >> i'm adam ringle 485 potrero and i have been a resident for five years. i am concerned with the environmental health issues. the project description admits that there are going to be

contaminating or digging into the hard rock containing as asbestos and i am concerned about that because i plan on living there for a long time and i am concerned about it and at risk populations including senior citizens in the clubs there is actually a music school and i am concerned about the effect that it will have on them. there is no safe limit and it is a known (inaudible) to adults animals and children. >> and the section, and 93, 105, and it requires the mitigation and to be developed and it is increased risk provided by the development.

thank you. >> i wish that the city attorney was here so i could talk about how it was noticed but the sequa was not and it could not be passed before the project and that is not right. and i could tell you about the people who did not get any environmental notifications, 64 low income families who live across the street. and no notifications, and as much to get the department to please and they are people to have the input and the health that effects their families and always maintains notice is adequate. and it was not. not for the lpa either. this is another non-profit. and raising in the services if

you read the pmd they >> a letter, and this should have been in the mmeg and you cannot select what goes into a document and not. and this, i don't know how to do this. thank you. >> this project could not be approved. two weeks later, successful shadow study and there has been no revisions to the plan and i am not sure how that happened. and the old building that they designed for the home and the whole point of that home was to reduce the math that had plenty of set backs and that explains all of that and made it four stories. and see how there is one, and ask him to show you his

rendoring and you will notice that. and 2002 case file and i will want you to note that the homes across the street are on the hill. they are advanced bed rock as the report appropriately stated they can't be drilled into, they could not do it. he was trying to do something which is not natural to the community. okay, now i am supposed to talk about noise in the next minute. here this might be of interest, he told the department that it is going to cost 7 million to build the project and he has since gotten a permit for the 4 million dollars. and it is something that he owes somebody and i wanted to point that out and notifications and the vacant lot and it had been a parking lot and he said that he was going to read it into the record and he did. the and the reason that we are appealing because he wants the truth and how can we not appeal

if you see something posted and it is not true? it is a vacant lot and you know that it is a parking lot. and it is your duty... and everything that this report right here. >> one second. >> thank you. >> sir your time is up. >> next speaker please? >> i live at 487 potrero. and apartment number three and on top of a lot of things that are being said here that are obviously of a concern to me that i have not even thought about is my main concern and the reason for coming here this afternoon and now evening just to speak my invoices is i feel like you know eleven and a half years ago i moved into that

apartment based on the view and the sunlight. and i have a lot of plants and this building is going to be built 7 feet taller than my building and i have a picture here on my phone. it should demonstrate that it will leave me with a view on the top of this tower. again. but, so i wanted to express that my cost of building will go up as i will have to turn my electricity on earlier in the day and my plants will suffer. and the quality of life will be diminished. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> hi commissioners. my name is dean, and i am the president of the verti club and

this is the new verti club when they built it? 1935, and if you notice this building is not very tall over it. i guess that they tore that one down in, and this was a photo in 1951. and that was probably the building that they just tore down and it is not that much higher than the verdi club. now the club, has a mandatory funding of significance and leading agency and have a significant effect on the environment and therefore requires an eir which i believe is not done and also in the historic preservation commission, the final measure, kl, and the procedures for promoting the view and the plan that the area requires that project involving new construction and moral

alterations built before 63, obviously the club was built in 1935 should be forwarded to the commitsing and i believe that was not done. and what else it says here. and so it applies to the proposed project and they are in the process of being adopted. and it also says over here that they are art deco style and motes with crafted plaster and this club has been around for a long time and my great grandfather was one of the founding members and my grandfather was a resident when they built this building. we have had a lot of great history there. and i don't know if anybody can recognize who that is in the picture. but that is just some of the people who have come through

the verdi, club. my biggest concern is putting in the guy apartment building next to a historical building and a place that has been around forever is going to kill the verdi club. and it is a club with a lot of old members. they already have a hard enough time coming to the meetings and dinner and dances, and with this monstrocity next door which i know that parking is an issue but it will be with these elderly people and i don't think that it will make it 100 years with building goes up thank you. >> those that are standing in line will come forward. >> dorothy and jean. >> i was born and raised in the potrero. and my father was one of the

original people to build the verdi club. he was the president for many years there. and i am very much against this building going next door and being that high, and they should take down a couple of things plus... and the residents and 47 parking spaces in an area that is already crowded and it is just down the street is the muni car... and they have all of the dliefrs park all of their drivers around there and what i am against too is this is an old building and it is in there the people that are coming in there i don't have any report for my neighborhood. >> thank you.

>> next speaker, please? >> whoever is waiting to speak can come forward. >> i am aliza and i am here to speak on the construction analysis. we believe that the construction analysis on the 480 project and stand in the smaller project and the data can tread well and rolo dated december 14th, has determined the declaration on the project and it appears to be on a design with the excavation and the project that is described as the six story building and the mixed use building and the 16 foot excavation. the records show that the

review for the project that the 16th at the excavation, sorry. and it is written in 2000 was used for the preparation of the environmental analysis that resulted in the 2012 next declaration and the new faith one esi was written in january of 2013 which postdates the negative declaration that dates on the 2004 report for the five story senior resident that concern us. and the firm that did the analysis was extremely concerned about the potential damage of the vibrations to the nearby buildings including the club and the excavation phase and... (inaudible) to prevent it from damage in the phase when it was said... and the new

proposal and refers to a 16 foot escalation which could create a new set of issues including the ground water issues and the project is located at the base of the subservice that controls most of patrol hill and the engineers insisted on it during the project and making the adjustments during the calculations as it proceeded and assurance that that is the case with the projects developed on this site and due to the extremely hard substance it was insufficient has been taken and as we understand so far the proper will be done as far as any approval for the development. they state that they are in the report is based on an limited subdivision investigation, i am sorry, subservice investigation due to the fact that it was so hard that they did not want to

continue drilling. if any variations of undesirable conditions are encountered during the construction or if any design changes are made, more investigations will be warranted. according to the engineers. significant assumptions... that they don't really and they can't... >> thank you. >> your time is up. >> next speaker, please? >> my name is marcy and i am the director of resident service and this evening i am representing the residents of the mariposa gardens and so i will be translating on their behalf. >> i used to work at the verdi club and i live next door and i think according to the building it will not be in the club or the parking spaces in san

francisco is already a problem and everywhere you go. it is nothing new to us and i think that it is going to make our community more. and i don't see any problem with creating a building there in the potrero community and it is going to help a lot of people and a lot of families and the parking spaces is just a big issue in the city. and so i don't see nothing going on there. and thank you. >> my name is (inaudible) and [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> i am a resident of the

mariposa gardens and i am here to support the project. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> it is actually a beautiful project that is happening to the area. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> we really just like what is there right now, which is nothing. [ speaking in a foreign language ] it don't believe that it will effect anything, you know the surrounding neighbors at all. thank you. >> we have one last resident. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> my name is ws rodriguez and the resident of the mariposa gardens. [ speaking in a foreign

language ] >> i am here to support the project because this is actually going to be a better it is a good project for the neighborhood. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> i believe that it would actually beautify the area and i am just here basically to support the project. [ speaking in a foreign language ] thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is larry delcado and i am here to support the project and i am the director of the mission housing development corporation and i would like to commend the project sponsor for the efforts in reaching out to the community, and reaching out to us and to the neighbors across the street at mariposa

garden and there were a series of meetings where the folks were here to come and see the presentations from the project sponsor and they had an opportunity to ask questions and you know, many of you know that mission housing has build affordable housing in the mission district for over 40 years. and you know there are some projects that come along that we support and some that we don't support and we do support this one. this particular developer was very sensitive to the community. and asked for ourself, in fact, in doing out reach and also in or once the project is under development to help to identify the folks that might be interested in the below market units. and so, i can say that even years ago in the 40 years ago, actually when we developed the

mariposa garden across the street there were many folks that came forward as they did today to oppose mariposa gardens which is a 63 unit affordable housing development. and so i don't know, i hear comments back there and i can't make them out. but i just like to say that in our experience in the san francisco mission district we have seen seen the folks that have come out and the folks who have not. and these folks did extensive out reach and want to commend them with that and we are anxious to work with them and for the neighborhood to be developed the way that it is and to remove the bliet that

exist theres now. >> i have two more cards, other folks who would like to speak come on up on this screen side of the room. >> when we support a project that is what we do. this is a great project for the community and it is great for san francisco and it provides what the planning department wants or what the mayor's office wants. what the board of supervisors wants and that is housing, and multifamily housing, that is the flavor of the century.

we believe that is what the city needs and what to support this project. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> greedings my name is candy and i am a pile driver and we are affiliated with the local 22. and i have got a call from a young lady who i have never met a couple of weeks ago and she is currently involved with san

francisco city build and her first question to me is, do i want to be a pile driver? i told her no. i said, you want to be a carpenter, you live in the city and you can learn so much more being a carpenter than playing in the mud like i do. and it is no a no brainer if it is a parking lot and you are missing residentials, units, why not put them in, maybe i could call and get sheraton in the union and help her get hooked up and maybe four years from now she can buy an apartment there, that is cool because ne girls just want a chance to get started with life and get their own place and start their own families and that is where it stands. they are waiting to go to work. and waiting for these buildings to get started. i support this project. any further public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >>