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building. so we've certainly welcome any additional question that concludes my presentation >> thank you. okay. now >> thank you good afternoon, commissioners. conor for supervisor breed. xhoed introduced the suction u d and i want to talk about that that's an project that is great. they got the support of the hate ash bureau council and while the hate ash bureau association didn't exactly speak dirge about it >> we appreciate our approval opening it up for public comm t
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comment. >> calvin speaking for the council. if there was a project that needsed immediate support i'm not aware of it. in our may meeting we devoted to this project and two others outlining on page street i'll get to a little bit later. this was strongly supported many almost joy fully supported. it's a rehabilitation of an existing building. it will have minimal impacts on the neighborhood and we're delighted to be able to host 16 new affordable unit in their
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neighborhood. we have two other major projects on page street. one some 5 blocks to the east which will be the french american school moving into a surplus unified school district sighting for primary school classes. and it will create a significant impact on traffic and transit. in addition excuse me. in addition the boys and girls club an page street about 2 and a half blocks from this site about a 2 hundred and 50 square feet believe n it in play. we have this persistent problem along page street with the from whole good commissioner sugaya was concerned about off-loading
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the efforts open the part of the planning commission and they've not been successful with whole good. they still use page street primary staging parentheses for they're loading and unload we're talking about 16 whoerldz on page street. once the boys and girls club is developed the impact is going to be stith. i would strongly urge the department a redouble it's effort to make sure that whole foods, in fact, meets the conditional use permits. and does not use straighterer it is an i can't think and page street given the there density excuse me. the activity. your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners aim ted i'm president of the hate ash bureau association. we've also you see the wisdom of putting this project on page street at the 15 hundred that building has been there utilized and freak beauty go to waste and the suffering through gradual degradation. so having it serve a go purpose makes sense to us. we totally endorse that effort. when some days you have to pick up the pieces and gone. we urge your support n for this promise and i and thank you for
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your time >> i'm kevin i'm; right from the arc and 1500 page street is very, very important for you your buys for housing. i hope you approve this project it will be very much helpful. thank you >> any additional public comment. okay. seeing none. opening it up to commissioners >> i'm really happy to support this promise. they've done a good job and it's great to see stunt for people to live in san francisco and to stay here and make their lives here no matter their circumstances. i move to approval approve with conditions >> second. >> commissioner antonini. >> sorry staff. >> i'm sorry just two things read into the record.
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i want to go ahead and submit this read into the record and clarify we hope you support of the exhibit of the ordinance with the recommended department modifications. thank you >> okay. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i also agree this is a very good project and happy to see it come forth. i know we had a project some jurors that was not work to be opportunity. this is actually, one that's going to happen. it will leave the historic building in its essentially present state and provide 16 units for disabled to for the people. so i ventured support it i don't know we need to clarify the individual parts of the
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approval. we've got the resending su d and change the height that's part of the motion and finally, to replace the s r organization and convert it from 38 rooms to affordable housing unit. that's understood. >> i believe commissioner wu captured those in her motion. >> commissioner hillis. >> i'm very supportive. just a quick question for the architects. i've gone by those buildings i didn't notice the stained glass window is this a way to - it's a great building is it tree overgrown it's a great window and i'm glad you're keeping the entry authenticity strong and
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keeping it as a fundamental entry >> it's likely the tree will be trimmed at the we do the project to get to the brick walls to restore them. but you notice the window less it's actually melting down and kind of folding at the bottom so the recession will be a reconstruction of the window in and out just a tuning it up. >> okay. thank you. great project >> commissioner sugaya. >> she can't yes as the nature of stained glass you can't see that well nilts they aluminate it. commissioners there's a motions and a second for the scoping map
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amendments and a motion to approve the conditional use authorization as amended by staff. commissioners on that motion commissioner antonini concord. commissioner moore. commissioner moore: . commissioner sugaya. and commissioner wu and president fong. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. commissions that places you on 19 a and b. at the 2353 lombardy street and the zone administrator will consider a request for rear yard modification. the project before you is a conditional use for the creation of a lot of size in excess of 10 thousand square feet. the project involves demolishing a single story vacant space
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longed on the south side of the street to create a 12 thousand plus loot lot it will contain two bases that total 289 hundred i won't tell and 24 dwelling units above. the department rooms approval with conditions. the excited vacant space is 24 hundred i won't tell and was occupied by a recuperate. it's locate on both subject lots and it's uses as uncovered parking. there's an easement on number 26 from a rear awe butt lot this provides assess into lombardy street. the promise be requires a rear
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modification of the site where the lot is 59 photo deep. the department finds the proposed project and the new lot sis to be appropriate and desirable and that will allow a mixed site along a major highway. the proposed new lot will be summarily. additionally the lots have historically been used is a circumstantial lot. the new believe has an sensitively looked at soourpd the building material. due to the new lot worth of one hundred and 31 feet setbacks have bun used to modulate the building for the building scale
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and 3 c zoning. furthermore the project is consistent with the objective it will help the family housing and vitality lists the neighborhood. the department a not aware of any opposition to the project as to date and the staff passed out some simultaneously information. and that concludes my presentation if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. thank you >> project sponsor. >> good afternoon commissioners gary g architect we're the architects for the project. this we started this project about a year ago we have been going toometers with the staff and neighborhood. it's been a collective effort i
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want to thank the staff and neighbors input. i think you may have seen some of those. this is the as we open up here. the project site as it sits is a one story one and a half story restaurants with parking on the east side and south side. it abuts yards along here. we've been working with the staff to try to get the rear generated variants and a set back conditions.
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here again what you see where the tree is actually the proximate location of the west property line. the front here along the lombard street again it's a one and a half story restaurants building with parking to the left. here again, you, see presidential approximately that's where the property line by the tree. there's a chevron station. again, the site conditions the conditions that show in this area here. is where the variance application for the rear generated is approximately 14 feet by 22. because of the odd shape of the lot we're asking for lot
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permission on this area above the pompous we comply with the rear yard conditions. again as we come into the project there's a commercial space as described by the staff report we have parking behind that and bicycle parking in the endanger that complies with the bicycle codes. we have 7 unit per floor. 18, two bedroom and 3 bedroom units. we have worked with the staff to come up with details which we have here. one the major concerns was the quality of the space and we're working with the staff we get input from the neighbors about
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the roof-deck. not doing much justice to the elevation is in your packet. this is why we the staff asked us to generate a rendering your rendering in the packet doesn't have the trees we put the stresses in here to have some scale. again, the two conspiracy an open the right and the endanger entries are on the left. we worked with the staff to get the details to emphasize the entry. we're using a kidney arrest trim it's going to be a solid door with ascended arrest veneer. we're happy indicts a go situation of nature material
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with the facade. islam i'm available to answer any questions right now if you've got questions. thank you very much >> thank you. we may have questions for you. commissioner moore. >> public comment. >> i'm sorry. i'm off today aren't i. public comment on this item? okay seeing none, public comment is closed. now commissioner moore. >> i'm happy to see something happening open the lot because it's so dated and un plaza animated that anything it better than what's there. having said that, i would obviously in the spirit of what we're talking about would like to see on site variable with you, ask for that
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>> the project sponsor is paying the in loop fee. >> okay. the only other concern i have and i'm sure you've thought that it i would prefer to see the ground floor commercial area to be through the sub differential into smaller increments. that part of lombardy has the ability to serve the neighborhood and i don't want to see a chase type i see it carefully the formal retail using the largest square footage. we like to see the mall retail from the same way shoe store. we had the discussion with the project spokesperson.
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we have milling multiple distresses on that fates and it would be divided into smaller spaces we made that flexibility. >> equip especially it's not showing two doors because any retail establishment wants to have the two doors. it requires potentially back the hours corridor in order to allow multiple tenant to a use the space. i'd like to see the small adjustment even if it's just stashed so show it can happen. just like sxhopg who helped worked open face tracking small business legislation we would liquor to side smaller tenant service those residential i
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think - >> we could put a smaller portion. >> i think that would make a stronger project. >> commissioner borden. >> i'm happy to see this site i live a block from this acidity. i'm hoping all the restaurants will be successful so this is a great use for the site. i know the site next door where the gas station used to be is not >> it's separate. >> i know there's a issue with that. >> but this is a good use for the site there needs to be more housing. and there's not a lot of lots in the manor are a a. i recommend the variable
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>> it's an important transit corridor from marina county and a san francisco. >> i'm going to move for the remedies for the doted lion be added to the ground floor for the wall. >> second. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i also like the project but i'm happy to see the 18 unit have 3 bedrooms that answers the need for people who want to raise a family they can have a second bedroom to address their needs for a short term period of time or a smaller family. i also think that the flexibility in the retail space is important because lombardy is not a walkable it's walkable but
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not the most pleasant place to walk on that's why small businesses end up on chestnut and peer and city councilmaner so i think we all may have a preference for smaller commercial unite we're to go take what he can get to make it work. hopefully someday we'll do something on the corner lot where the domination was. but optimum in support >> thank you very much. >> commissioner moore. >> is this project going to be constructed soon. >> of course, with our site permit but their clients want to go as soon as possible. >> commissioners, if there's no further deliberations 13 there's a motion and second to amend to
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>> welcome pack to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for dumb. i'd like to remind members of public the commission didn't allow disruption and when speaking before the commission if you care to please don't state your name for the record. commissioners we left off in your regular calendar. 15 d request for discretionary review >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm david lindsey from department staff i'm discussing
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discretionary case 15 filed been an altercation permit application to add a ground floor of a semistory house on the properties open the west side of the street between euclid to the south of laurel village the second would be behind the two car garages. the dr request was filled by peter who resides in a two-story building diagonally cross the street from the subject prop point public position was summarized in the staff report we've since that time, have
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received many additional public comment and in summary i'll give you the total including the comments received from the pass week that includes both letters and signatures the total being 20 in support of project and 22 in opposition to the promise. the dr requesters and neighborhoods concerns with summarized as follows there's a feel that the existing neighborhood character a single-family in nature and a second dwelling opt would be inconsistently with the neighborhood character. others feel the size the significant building is inadequate were multiple unit and that the addition of a second opt would bring additional parking congestion. it that the loss of the single-family how did would result in one affordable single
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family houses that's contributing to families leaving even though cities. the second unit would set a precedent to convert others in the neighborhood and the addition would increase the probability of delapgs since it's renter occupied and even though existing tenant with consisted to be incritter neighbors. this planning commission supports the project it purports to add a second family opt. a district which allows and encourages two dwelling opts per lot. the surrounding neighborhood cashier is, in fact, picked that many multiple houses coexisting
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for decades. all moefktsz to the building would be within the existing believe envelope and the buildings 2 off street partnering spaces would be r0i7bd. north america in summary the project hair not extraordinary and rerecommended you not tack discretionary review and approve the project >> thank you. dr requester. >> thank you president fong. >> if there was ever a permit that called out for discretionary review that's this one. for decades san franciscans have tried to keep it available for san franciscans. it went all the way to the sxukt with wenld holmes said it is not
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the request for the land you might say holmes established the standards for discretionary review in a case involving exactly the same land. laurel house is developed on world war ii during a housing crisis. it was developed a as carefully mix it maximum misses housing decent within the complnts of the infrastructure while making the community attractive to families. it's a releasing developer who's business has been to purchase buildings and create a steady stream of rental income. it would be in the middle of a row of family homes with a
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disruption to the planning of the homes developed over 50 years ago. it would disrupt the neighborhood and it's no wonder the neighborhood hats rallied. they have a pabt hadn't of telling commissioners what they want to hear. it was sold as a condominium project. but now marketed at student housing like a minnesota don't remember. the project as all the necessary permits. when the permit folks worked a few blocks away he represented to the owners he was very experienced to get the san francisco commission to give him permit and
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