commission and that subcommittee was going to vet the folks and make a report back to this full commission and this full commission will accept the recommendation. that was the intent of this commission so that was some months back >> president fong, kate from the city attorney's office. so to clarify it's your intent that the committee make a recommendation as a whole so all 6 members would make one recommendation >> that's correct. that's correct. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> i want to first acknowledge the passing of alicia kerry who will be sorely missed. the legacy of achievements are

all around us in the building and the many things we enjoy are in the historic preservation in the city so i look forward to closings in her memory. on another matter i had a very interesting i read an article i'll pass around. there is the san francisco granite are planning a first ever eatable garden on the sports facility. it's well designed. it has a lovely story to it. i don't know basketball enough and if there are conflicting languages like a basketball hits a tomato but the idea was very because the facility sits around with a huge mulch of planning

and it i. proud of this. i want to pass this around. while we normally don't comment commissioners i'd like to add that the port has a design review which is filled by 6 registered architects highly competent and very well suited group to commit and guide the design of all the port projects. >> commissioner. >> yes on a more light hearted note. i found an article in the new yorker about a planning commission in new york. it's a little bit different than the ones we have this has been amended by spike lee and earl

monroe sports fans. and members of the nixon rangers. i'll pass it around it was before the - i don't know the structure of the decision making bus it's appears to be quiet different than ours percent the director of the negotiation city planning department is also the chair of the san francisco commission. >> you want to take us in that direction. >> any further comments or questions. >> commissions if there's nothing we can move into item 8. >> thank you a couple of announcements. i think you may have heard that

the park in front of the 333 harrison has been made available to the public and that's been worked out with the parks alliance. the developer will own and maintain the park and the park will be open during normal business hours. i think it's right for sunset. that park is now available for the public and maintained by the private property owners. i also want to mention in terms of departmental personnel issues. joe's campos's has left the department and you may have heard that he left earlier this week. he had a new position and joshua

will be the interim but i'll be announcing a position for a new interim >> i heard you say you were looking for someone to take your place. >> no. >> review past weeks the board of appeals and the past prevention commission. >> this week we have a pretty short report. this is the last meeting. before next week. a couple of mondays ago at that time the land use heard a report on the land use parks department

and the municipal staff gave an overview and the stakeholders including the designers all talked about their experience in the program. moving a project through the design and implementation was so stipulated in the x accelerator and the board committee members talked about the equity and distribution. supervisor mary recognize the success of the park and is excited about the upcoming installation. and supervisor mar want to have the resources augmented in the city program. this week the land use committee

was to hear supervisor avalos amendment but he continued the hearing to comply with this commission interests and he pulled out the demolition controls so this hearing is calendar on the non conforming uses for september 19th. so as anticipated avalos will move forward after the board break. on tuesday the board heard an appeal - actually, two appeals are for the wisely facility. both the commissions come be used authorization and the departments sequa determination were appealed. the commission had approved it on july 6th.

and to make sure that the fire safety measures were pledged and you asked staff to continue to work on the design modifications. at the board meeting the appellants continued to raise questions and expressed that the department of building inspection would be upheld. the fire you code are non-discretionary and the d b i will not issue any permits. during the meeting flooding and safety came up. and supervisor yee asked for the height to be raised on the ground floor. the project sponsor agreed to make the changes. this project is located in supervisor farrell's district he

assured them that the project wouldn't result in any public threat. and then i'm not going to give you the full run down but there were a number of items that passed. one it is the mission acholic beverage. the sequa procedures ordinance which would handle the project modifications passed on final reading. and the formula for market street passes. 76 mission passed and the bicycle passed. and the ordinance that talked about the housing improvements passed. and there were 4 introductions of new ordinances i'd like to share. the first, you'll believe

surprised it's another formula to talk about retailers. this would expand the definition of formula division to include businesses that have 11 or more unit worldwide and include businesses that are 50 percent or more owned by a formula business and expand the mrablt of the other use types that are not currently captured under our definition. it will expand the formula applications and require a report. so that item will be scheduled. eave already you are not talking about talked to supervisor farrell's office and they want to hear about the impact study

as well as policies. in addition supervisor breed introduced a resolution that will support the prevention of the marcus books and urged it's current owners that will uphold the community. supervisor wiener introduced an ordinance that has to do with tax code to change the limits on the parking tax simplification from 5 to 10. this includes a planning amendment. and lastly as i mentioned inspire avalos split the file on his land ordinance uses. any questions? >> ms. rogers thanks for your report although we'll hear more about this later.

what sort of other i'd say was he going to include >> i haven't seen the final ordinance by it includes gas stations and gyms and types of facilities we don't consider retail. >> thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> we received an e-mail this morning. it speaks to land use asking the planning commission to establish further background to mc d and i'm probably not accurate on this >> yes, that's correct. it's an ordinance that was introduced by supervisor avalos it's not a planning code amendment but it is to require a report from this commission about how we regulate medical dispensaries. this report will be due lend e

by the end of this current year we'll bring it in early december and it's really a piece of work that the planning department does and we'll be incriminating on that while you're doing it. thank you >> thank you. >> the board of appeals did meet last time two items on the project on mission street. the first was a jurisdiction request. the appellant thought to appeal the determinations on section on the shadow determination. one was the amendment to the implementation that the rec and park and planning to 1979. under planning code section 295 it doesn't provide for an appeal nor is it credit card a board or license.

there's a city attorney that reenforces this but with a advise the staff rejected their appeals so they filed a jurisdiction request and sought the board to accept the appeals and the board voted unanimously to not accept the separate appeals. this would be separate on the preservation determination which was unanimously upheld by the board of supervisors last week as well as the eir. so that was resolved. then we heard the section 109 which is appealable and the board of appeals heard that appeal last time and upheld the

planning commissions in this matter. we don't see a lot of the appeals another item that's similar is the office of allocation we don't see many of those and there's a city attorney memo that says the board optional needs 3 votes to over turn it not 4 vote. so i wanted to highlight this. the thirty 9 is a permit license or a permit or license and variances all those have to have 4 votes it says that in the charter so they just say the simple majority.

i'll inform the board about that >> commissioners there was no historic preservation commission this week i believe the city attorney has a comment. >> president fong from the city attorney's office. i wanted to add my own presentation of alicia kerry were that he was on the lands marks board when i started in 1989 she was very good on the historic issues but she brought a practical approach because of her work in the field and she had a marvelous sense of humor. >> commissioners if we can move on to general public not to exceed 15 minutes.

this is within the jurisdiction not to talk about the jurisdiction. however, this is your opportunity to aid the empathies specifically members of the public if you wish to commit on item 14 for case 220 for sixth street this is your opportunity to do so. with respect to other items your opportunity will be afforded when we get it that in the minutes up to 3 minutes. i have no speaker cards >> any public comment? >> sue. i think i've participated in every single zoning back to the early 80s and i met alicia kerry

when she was the head of tenacious tenants. the sense ability she brought to those meetings and this commission is one that commissioners and staff all almost to ocher don't pay attention to. she was advocating for tenants on green con hill annoy everyone thinks that's upscale housing and the reality is we have upscale housing down. but i really appreciated having a person who lived in the neighborhood involved in planning issues that was advocating the tenants prospective. you have to pay attention to those. not all tenants are wise and not

all people that advocate for them are wise. but when i read the paper we had a big battle on this area. the unit there are being 345shg9d for $6,000 a month. $72,000 a year. who affords housing like that. and you also read the same real estate sections that i

>> face to toward me or the other way? okay. the green sheet is not ready for television sets but i'd like to have it put in the

record at 1601 on larkin. this is the petition that we've started about saving the little church if possible and certainly using it for community use. we had a person do this photo and if you read what the reasoning is if we never collected a single signature it's a convincing petition but we started to collect some signatures. and the meeting we plan to let the neighborhood know is this coming monday. the issue is not monthly o mostly about the church but what is the presently of the

neighborhood and developers. because neighborhood groups don't negotiate with developers they can't take money from developers according to the attorney who was the president of c s f m and the other people who are coming are also people who've been involved in the neighborhood organization two former supervising one on the cf m association. what can associations do and not do. so, anyway robert garcia had made a flier. now our flyers we have obscenity written on them now and the same kinds of things that were

written on the church like tear down the church that church sucks and is ugly. and so there similar. our presenters were interfered with. and the developer wasn't there so he get this and preceded to write to bob and i think it's mostly coming about at&t boxes although he was the director. in cleveland i got a letter and a phone call is why are you, you know, it's very disturbing >> yes face up ma'am.

>> hi praise the lord. i live right next door to the you going good hotel and i sat on the board for 4 to 5 years. i got to see about the building for 2 had the $3 million or somewhere in there. i voted on some things that it would be low income housing and not affordable housing. what's happening is that i think mostly housing is about this building and the city came out and talked to me one time and i told them about the grounds how

it's been kept. they said they'd put poison down to keep the rats from coming into our building. the side of the building they - when they tear this building down it's going to create a lot of problems for the seniors because some have respiratory issues. the planning commissioners won't come out and talk to us so we can figure out how to secure our building because our building it looks good but there's gaps in the doors and everything where rodents can get through. and, you know, i'm scared we lose a lot of people because we're seniors and stuff i'm

scared. all i want to do is have something come out and talk to the resident in our building about the safety and what can they do about when they get ready to tear this building down. i have to start now because i might not be around much longer. i'm fighting for the residents and the noise pollution there's like 3 on the left side there's 3 people that really can't handle that noise and air pollution because they have respiratory illnesses. i need someone to come out send somebody out there to talk to

us. please. >> thank you. thank you >> any additional public comment? okay seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners that places you under item 10 by travel before i start i wanted to introduce this topic a few weeks ago and they wanted some current information current traffic in the city and you requested a presentation by the sf travel. i'm pleased to introduce the president of sf travel and from the office of economic workforce development >> thank you, commissioners and

it's my pleased to talk about the hotels and demand and what we see going forward. to give you a little bit of background the current made up of our visitor in san francisco is very different. we're very positive and that's why our economy is doing well especially, since the visitors contribute so it's important for the tourism in this city. currently our visitors are made up of four groups one is meetings and conventions which is about 20 percent of our business and the leisure does

the business and a transient people are coming here for meetings and that also includes airlines cruise and stuff. last year, we saw about 16.5 million visitors and they generated $19 billion in our economy. she support 16 thousand jobs and that doesn't include the small business owners that benefit from a small percent of their income. it contributes over $16 billion in pay role. we face losing a potential demand in economic opportunity because the moscone center search-and-seizure is at capacity. the moscone center is not large.

in fact, there are two single hotels that have more rooms and space than the moscone center hover it's the most demanded convention center. it generates overnight hotel stays. to give you an idea chicago convention center is very successive. our clients are asking for additional exhibition space they want more. 21 percent of all revenue is generated because of the convention center. i