planning staff and city's historical preservation experts. i worked at one time when i was going to law school as to one of the schools there. the building is being advanced at the highest national level to ensure that we in san francisco have rich and cultural assets. i stand before you to share with you that as a trustee, we take our job and responsibilities extremely seriously to the point where we have been acknowledged the first in the west coast and san francisco. to bring about this

final adoption of the development of the mexican. >> good afternoon president chiu. medications -- members of the board of supervisors. i'm here the urge you to affirm the permit and wanted to read you a letter from the improvement district that addresses their support. dear supervisors, as you know the district is dedicated to the improvement of the neighborhood in general and the union square in general. we support this project. the development of the mexican museum would be a major addition to the san francisco

and the neighbors. the additional of the additional residents will add street light in the area. we have reviewed the study to mission and find any impacts in the park to the minimum. the union square business improvement district has voted for considerable work and contribution for improving the square area and union square park. we would oppose any project that would harm the park. in this case with the limited negative impact we support this project. thank you for your consideration and david, president. >> thank you very much. i just want to mention to members of the public we have a rule in our chamber of no signs because they are a bit disruptive to the proceedings. you are welcome when it is your turn to speak about what you would want. otherwise community with your sign. if i can ask you to

put the signs down. that would be appreciated. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i just heard the news. i didn't know this, president chiu and congratulations. well, i'm here again to ask you to approve the changes on 706 mission on the building that we have the mexican museum. this is it. more than 20 years of work for so many people. the goodwill has been there. few people are opposed to having this museum. yet we haven't built it. everybody is in favor of it. so i'm asking you to deny the

appeal and to approve the permit. this is it. one vote. and to do it in favor of the project to build the mexican museum. >> i want you to support this project. the funding that is needed to sustain this museum that's why i don't want to

reduce the height. i do realize that some people are upset because their views might be compromised that's why you have some contention. i also understand the shadow impacts are very minimal and they will probably occur very early in the morning in the union skar square area where most of those shops aren't open. i want you to consider the 20 years that the mexican population has had to wait. the treasures that need to find a home and all the stories that need to be told if you prove this promising, this has a legacy for future generations and tell the story of the many contributions that

the mexicans have contributed. without that we are not mexico. >> good evening, my name is marie and i serve for the chair of yerba buena garden. as an organization we are pleased to see that one of the many benefits including this project is the on going contribution of the management of the security. yerba buena garden is the jewel of the area and we are so happy that the partners is able to make the contributions to keep the park thriving. it's bringing new housing and mexican museum would add to the vibe of the area. please do

not delay any approvals any longer and please deny the appeal an allowing this project to move forward. thank you. >> i'm here to support the program. what's really unique about our program is we work with predominantly philipino families and the amount of pride they have for their philipino culture is amazing and the new pride they have for san francisco. i just want to

express my support for initiatives to keep our parks open and have open spaces, the community organizations that we work with other than help with this vulnerable population. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisor. i'm the executive director of west bay services. the union square occupy and precedent place in our heart in philipino. it portrayed the victory of the use against the spanish fleet that freed the philipinos from the spanish occupation that lasted for almost 400 years. as i understand it, the appeal was

because shadows would fall on union square between the hours of the 8 :00 in the morning. that is none an issue to stop the construction we support this project. >> good evening supervisors, my name is virginia and i'm from the yerba buena alliance. i'm here to speak in support of the mexican museum project. we believe this proposal will truly be an asset to the

neighborhood and only add to the vibrancy of yerba buena. the museum will reinforce the area to determine another venue of high quality and world class art and culture institution. >> we are also so pleased to see that millennium partners

offered gardens an annual gift of $55,000. we believe this is going to be a fantastic and essential contribution to the neighborhood and allow the yerba buena to flourish. please do not delay and please vote to allow the project to move forward. thank you. good afternoon. my name is rocio. i'm the executive of vocational school. for project development and project and hospitality and all this technology and graduated over 28,000 students who are parents of children in our school district. as a

former board member of the san francisco unified school district and president for 2 years, i'm very sensitive to the tremendous amount of time that you have to invest supervisors. i'm not going to repeat all the benefits and reasons why this project should be supported except to ask you to support this project. you know that the culture and value of the mexican museum will strengthen the education sensitivity and self-esteem of our youth that need this kind of encourage many. i ask to support this mexican museum at last a reality. a gift to the city, to the children, to the youth, the latino community and everyone of us. thank you for all your work and thank you for

supporting this project. >> buenas tardes. i want to go back and show you what we did to get the mexican museum, the piece of property in yerba buena. the yerba buena, as many of you know historically was for mexicanos lived back in 1800s. they were the shipyard workers. it interesting that here we are before you today 20 years later asking you to vote in favor of the mexican museum. i want to bring to your attention that this city of san francisco voted to give 1,000 feet to transtower. 850 to 51st

street. 750, 600, there was no issue about shadow. but yet, they created shadow in 10 parks. and not 1 person got up here from the four seasons to protest about shadow. it got approved. every step of the way. yet the mexican museum has been an appealed every step of the way. let's talk about shadow. all of these projects, right here behind me ten parks. shadow. mexican museum, union square. 0.06. this building has gone from 600 to 500 to 480. we

hope that frida kahlo will be able to have her artwork in this museum. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. let's hear from the next speaker. >> hi. my name is rocio. i part of the youth program. i'm here to support the community benefits fdot soma that is part of the mexican museum in our neighborhood. thank you. >> thanks, next speaker. >> hi, fernando and i'm here from united players. i support the mexican museum project. >> hi. good afternoon, my name is juliusa. i'm part of the organization called united players. oom -- i'm here to

support the mexican museum project. thank you. >> good afternoon, president chiu, district supervisors. my name is rudy corpus. i'm the executive director of violence prevention program in the soma area. the program is 18 years long. we originally started in district 11 and was also in 10 but has made an impact in every district here, in every neighborhood. proud of the bay area. i'm born and raised in the south of market. i raise my family there and i'm very very supportive of the project that's being built in the 706 mission, the mexican museum project. i truly believe the diversity. this is san francisco, we encourage that, in the soma there is a lot of

filipinos and a lot of everybody else. i believe with the museum there, diversity is stronger. i know the city supports diversity. i want to acknowledge supervisor kim for being a champion in our neighborhood and standing up for the things we need. i just want to acknowledge you and salute you and thank you for that. [ applause ] >> thank you, next speaker. >> president chiu, supervisors, my name is rick smith. i live across the street from the project site. towers next to the building will be home to their neighborhood. saint rejis has this -- i'm grateful for

the potential come of the museum and for the benefits in the sale agreement for a needed pedestrian study in the area and pedestrian and development for the open care in the south of market. thank you president chiu and for advocating in the community benefits. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm 49-year resident of the san francisco mission district. i'm here m support of the museum. it seems like many have advocated for this place. please deny the appeal. thank you. >> thank you, are there any other members of the public? >> hi, my name is edmond. i would say -- good morning

america. have you noticed i said -- i was here in the earthquake in san diego. i got hurt working with mexican workers. as i see americans are leaving here, all the buildings that we are building here have a lot of mexican workers building these high rises. you have the jewish museum, all of these museums. i often wonder why we don't have a month for mexicans. we have a black history, asian history month,

lgbt pride month. we don't have anything for mexicans. zapa set said it's best to fight on your feet. it is time for san francisco to have 24-hour secured diversity working. yes we can. >> are there any members of the public that wish to speak on behalf of the project sponsor in any language which you choose. okay. seeing none, why don't we hear back from our rebuttal by the appellant? >> thank you, president. tom again, one is that the public benefit being provided to the

city is good for the city but they do not mitigate a significant i am mpact that have a shadow in open square. only one of them shadow that. the adequacy of eir is before you. you have to find that the eir complies. what's happening here is interesting. the report is dated may 8th. 1 day after you deny the appeal and certify the eir, the source of the new information that there are in fact feasible alternatives or mitigation measures that would reduce that significant impact of shadowing. you have to contend with the fact that you have an eir that ignore that

issue, actually have that information withheld until the day after you certify. that's why it's still before you. the e ir has not gone away. the building built in 1904 with two additions adjacent to it. that's not a slip of the tongue. that's common sense. that's how it's used in article 11. the planning department and the project sponsor have tried justify the hide of this building in terms of it's compatibility with the erinson building in the district by referring to other taller buildings in the area in the district. it is important to note that none of those were an approved subject to article 11 for different reasons. pacific telephone building has been

there since 1925. it's a contributing resource to the district. the saint rejis was built in 2004. so it didn't get approved under article 11. 33 new montgomery were approved in the early 80s. you are an approving a height that is higher than the predominant of this district and this building. finally it is interesting that kma, the last report i have gotten has attached to the letter.

>> thank you, colleagues, any further comments or questions. if not, this hearing is now closed and this matter is in the hands of the board. supervisor kim. >> thank you, i want to thank many of the members of the public who are here today. it's certainly always difficult for a supervisor when there is a disagreement amongst the resident in terms of a project that is being proposed before them. but representing a district with a lot of growth and a lot of developments, i think it's important to always look with the consistent lens when we approve or reject proposed projects. the sed for the project will be coming to us for a later part for the board meeting. specifically on the appeal of the major permit to alter, you know, many of you

were here during the appeal of the ceqa or the document and i have a lot of concerns around the adequate studies around traffic and shadow and open space or others, my concern is other spaces than others, my concern with working with the variety of agencies that we are really thinking about south of market where people truly live. a lot of the poets -- points in question that i ask in time is asking our city to be pro active how we build for this growth. that being said, we move forward with the eir as being adequate and i expect more for them to approve larger projects or our water front.

within this appeal, one of it's, i'm really considering hpc consideration around the erinson building and the major features of the conservation district. i believe hpc has done it's due diligence and will be making a motion to move forward item 48 and table item 49 and 50. >> we have a motion by supervisor kim, can we get a second? second by supervisor avalos. >> thank you, i want to thank all the members of the public that have been working on this issue for many many years. i want to take a moment to explain my own thinking about where things are. i happen to think that the issues involves in this appeal is quite a closed case. i know it's not a perspective from most of you. one of the charges that we are

asked to make is whether there is a significant impact where we have analyzed all feasible mitigation. the height of which the building would not shadow union square is 350 feet. the building proposed is 480 feet. i think you have heard that there is not a huge amount of shadow that will cast for about a half hour during certain parts of the year. proposition k was passed in the 1980s and since then we have seen shadows erode the quality of life in our parks. as a couple examples in herman and bow decker we have seen by the project sponsor zone 37 percent. in partner square, 39 percent of the available sunlight shadow.

saint mary's 52 percent and 32 percent of union square is shadow. that's why i asked the partners to resolve their differences. i want to remind you colleagues for those who are not following land use. i think we came close to this matter. when discussions started about two weeks ago, the appellants in this case were at 350 feet, the project sponsor was at 480 feet, there was a gap about 130 feet that was attempted to be brinld. -- bridged. the two sides got close. the appellants were willing to consider a height that was 75 feet taller, the project sponsor was considering a height that was 35 feet

shorter. they have come to 25 feet. we have decision in front of us on whether or not to cast the vote for the appeal. i plan to vote colleagues with the rest of thoun matter, but i want to state my vote is for the mexican museum. for an institution, i think all of us want to see built and all of us want to see done. but let me share my concerns, colleagues which is i think because we weren't able or haven't been able to bridge 25 feet, that is project that will be a subject of litigation because of this very appeal. this is a project that is likely to see at least over the next year a major ballot fight over shadows. that was something i was hoping to avoid. if we can't, so be it. i want to take a moment and

explain the backdrop on this. i do think that both sides were very genuine and wanting to see an end on this. unfortunately we are not there, i will be supporting the supervisor and her motion. i think i was a little bit optimistic and i do hope that maybe some day we can resolve the issues around the mexican museum. >> thank you, president chiu. >> supervisor campos? >> thank you mr. president. again, i want to thank all the parties that have been working on this project. it's also good to see former supervisor ma her in the building. i too have