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state your name for the record. commissioner fong, wu, borden, sugaya, commissioner antonini and hillis are expected to be absent today. >> first on your calendar is consideration for items proposed for continuance. item 1: 2011.1146c o. masry; 4155 575-91166 1701 haight street - at the southwest corner of haight and cole streets, lot 001 in assessor's block 1248 - request for conditional use authorization under planning code sections 719.83 and 303 to develop a wireless telecommunication services wtss facility for at&t mobility. the proposed macro wts facility would feature 122 roof-mounted panel antennas housed within individual faux vent pipes. related electronic equipment would be located on the roof and in the basement. the facility is proposed on a location preference 6 site limited preference, individual neighborhood commercial districtt within the haight street neighborhood commercial district, and 40-x height and for continuance. sf 112341234 it's proposed for continuance for january 23rd. item 2. item 2: 2013.1695t e.watty; 4155 558-66200 request for a planning code amendment - pursuant to planning code section 302, to allow non-conforming secondary structures that exceed a property's maximum floor area ratio limit to be demolished, in whole or in part, and reconstructed, if certain findings can be made by the planning commission though the downtown authorization process section 3099. the ordinance was introduced by supervisor david

chiu and is identified as board of supervisors file no. 13-1059. the planning commission will consider a resolution recommending this text amendment to the board of supervisors; adopting findings, including environmental findings, planning code section 302 findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan and the priority policies of planning code item 2. sf 212341234 is proposed for continuance february 26, 2014. items 3 a and b for case no. 2013. item 3: 2013.0628ehuvx e. watty; 4155 558-66200 300 post streetat the northwest corner of post street and stockton street; lot 016 in assessor's block 0295 request for a determination of compliance under planning code section 309, to allow a major renovation of the existing 37,234 gsf, 63' tall retail structure currently occupied by levi strausss and adjacent public plaza to accommodate a new retail tenant apple, inc.., within a new 23,470 gsf, 47'-8" tall, retail structure. the determination of compliance includes review of the project's compliance with the findings outlined in board file no. 13-1059, which would enable the reconstruction of a noncomplying structure, pursuant to planning code section 188. the project site is located within a c-3-r downtown retaill zoning district and 80-130-f height and bulk district. the building is listed as category v unratedd within article 11 of the planning code, and is within the kearny-market-mason-sutter conservation district. on february 5, 2014, the historic preservation commission will review a permit to alter for case no. 2013.0628h. this action constitutes the approval action for the project for the purposes of ceqa, pursuant to section 31.044hh of the san francisco administrative code. preliminary recommendation: approve with conditions proposed for continuance to february 6, 20144 3b. 2013.0628ehuvx e. watty; 4155 558-66200 300 post street - at the northwest corner of post street and stockton street; lot 016 in assessor's block 0295 - request for a variance, pursuant to planning code sections 145.1 and 305, to modify the ground floor transparency requirement along the building's stockton street façade - the project proposes a major renovation of the existing 37,234 gsf, 63' tall retail structure

currently occupied by levi strausss and adjacent public plaza to accommodate a new retail tenant apple, inc.., within a new 23,470 gsf, 47'-8" tall, retail structure. the project site is located within a c-3-r downtown retaill zoning district and 80-130-f height and items 3 a and b for case no. 2013. sf 312341234 also proposed to continuance to february 26, 2014. item 4. is proposed to continuance to february 6, 2013. item 4: j. ionin; 4155 558-63099 election of officers: in accordance with the rules and regulations of the san francisco planning commission, the president and vice president of the commission shall be elected at the first regular meeting of the commission held on or after the 15th day of january of each year, or at a subsequent meeting, the date which shall be fixed by the commission at the first regular meeting on or after the 15th day of january item 4. is proposed to continuance to february 6, 2013. sf 412341234 >> further on your calendar we have received request for continuance for items 3a and b and those are proposed to continuance to february 14th. i have not received anything from sponsors and it's up to you whether you want to take that matter up now or waiting on the calendar for the normal course of business. >> is the project sponsor here? >> apparently not. >> i think we should wait until the item number. >> that would be my recommendation. that's all i have. i have several speaker cards. >> okay, jason runner, samuel lee cole and rick mel tloe. >> good morning, my name is jason oranger with the united service workers west and for item no. 2, 3a and b and i definitely support a continuation of these items. as you know aclu submitted a very detailed letter regarding the historic aspect of the environment. one of the historical review folks is will this be sufficient time

continuation or just in kremently inching forward because we support a full environmental report. i don't think it's sufficient time to do that. we have not heard any response of the concerns that we raised at the last meeting here and the concerned submitted by the 9th. but we definitely support a continuation and we hope that you will do a full review of this project because we think it's very complex. there is a legislative component, there is a variance, there is a lot of pieces to this and to this point they have been considered all separately and independently. thank you. >> samuel cole. i'm a security officer and have been for at least 44 years. i also

encourage this continuation as well. i am a member of the sclu. we are at least we help 40,000 members as security officers throughout the state and of that, we are we are 5,000 members here in san francisco. so, we have worked very hard to bring the standards of the security officer industry, and we would like to see that at those standards continued. so, we definitely want this project

that's been built by the by apple so that they are applying themselves to ceqa in order that the standards that we have established, the standards should continue. so we do encourage you to help us do that and we appreciate it. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, dan frat on with genius and rose. i'm here on behalf of apple. we are looking to presenting you this project on the merits. we are not able to do that today because of a

glitch of noichlt -- notice, we would like to bring it to you on february 6th, you will have a full document which responds to the aclu's concerns and you will have a decision at that time. there is no need to delay to respond to the aclu's comments. they have been aware of this since october. they have submitted comments in december when the legislation was to be considered. that was a month 1/2 ago. since then planning staff has been working diligently to respond to those comments as well as the comments of the architectural review committee. the apple team has been as well. i would say that we will all be fully prepared on february 6th, if you feel any information is incomplete or lacking in

anyway, the time to continue is then, not now on the suspicion that perhaps the materials won't be complete. thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm rick mel tloe with apple. we are working with the project to get it to this point. we see no reason for the delay and we would like to see the project continue on its current path and be heard on february 6th. thank you. >> is there any other additional public comments? okay. seeing none public comment is closed. and commissioner moore? commissioner dr. roscoe

>>commissioner kathrin moore: move to continue on the second. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. shall i call on that motion to continue items 123 on the motion to propose? commissioner borden? aye. sugaya >> aye. commissioner wu, aye, commissioner president fong? aye. so moved commissioners. on the matter of 3b and the matter is continued to the date specified. >> commissioners that will place you on the consent calendar. all matters are considered to be routine by the

planning commission and maybe acted upon by a single roll call of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless the public or staff request. which the item will be removed from the calendar. item 5. item 5: 2011.1146c o. masry; 4155 575-91166 1633 taraval street - along the south side of taraval street between 26th and 27th avenues, lot 041 in assessor's block 2399 - request for conditional use authorization under planning code sections 741.83 and 303 to modify an existing wireless telecommunications services wtss facility operated by sprint. the proposed macro wts facility would replace 22 panel antennas, with 33 panel antennas; with a single antenna mounted behind a faux parapet extension, and within 22 individual faux vent pipes. related electronic equipment would be located on the roof and in the parking garage. the facility is proposed on a location preference 6 site limited preference, individual neighborhood commercial districtt within the taraval street neighborhood commercial district, taraval street restaurant subdistrict, and 65-a height and bulk district. removed from the calendar. item 5. sf 512341234 please note this action constitutes the approval action for the project pursuant to ceqa of the san francisco administrative code. item 6. item 6: 2013.0544b r. sucré; 4155 575-91088 410 townsend street - located between 5th and 6th streets, lot 002a in assessor's block 3785 - request for an office development authorization, pursuant to planning code sections 321 and 845.66, for approximately 76,000 gsf of office use from the office development annual limit. the subject property is located within the wmuo western soma mixed-use officee zoning

district, and 65-x/85-x height and bulk district. this action constitutes the approval action for the project for purposes of ceqa, pursuant to section 31.044hh of the san francisco item 6. sf 612341234 request for an office development authorization. i have no speaker cards, commissioners. >> okay. thank you, any public comment on the items of the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner wu? with >vice-president cindy wu: move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner moore, sugaya, wu, fong. that passes unanimously 5-0. places you under commission matters item 7 comments and questions. >> doesn't appear to be any. >> very good that will put you under department matters. item 8. >> thank you. we'll be presenting our first on the series of hearings on the budget. two things to report on, last night we had the public meeting on the release of the first phase of the urban forest master plan. we had a very good turnout. we probably had 150 people in the room. supervisor wiener came. it was a very good meeting. the focus

was on the street tree issue and how to maintain and grow that over time and along the maintenance of that issue. part of much of the discussion was on the maintenance of street trees which the city has been of late turning over to private property owners and the goal of the plan is to allow that the maintenance responsibility to go back to the city. supervisor wiener has been a strong supporter of doing so. it was a very good turnout. there is money already for the next year's budget to continue that work into the next phase and we are working with our partners with partner alliance and urban forest to move this forward. the second thing is the housing task force resulted out of the mayor's directive. we had the first meeting last friday. that is being chaired by tom of dbi

and cochaired by myself. there was about 20 people in the room. we went through a little bit of getting organized meeting of the first meeting. the goal of the task force what we concluded was the goal, president fong is on that task force as well. it's to develop short-term recommendations that we can implement without legislation that would help housing protection especially for low and moderate income housing. that secondly would require legislation and thirdly to develop some long-term policy regulars on moderate to low income housing. that task force is meeting again tomorrow with some initial thoughts from staff of both departments who will go over those. the mayor has asked that we respond at least to the corrective initially by the end of the month. the task force will continue to meet afterwards to talk about these long-term policy questions as well. that

concludes my report and i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you. if there is nothing further commissioners, item 9 review of past weeks on the historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm here to give you your weekly update on the board of supervisors planning and land use. this week there was a lengthy hearing on the roll out of at&t u verse. staff were there. this hearing is promoting installing cabinets. surface mounted facilities and suggested improvements for the process. supervisor wiener opened by providing background categorical exemption granted for these documents and this

document was an appealed and upheld by the board of supervisors. the current projects and procedures was reviewed on the directive order and memorandum of understanding. of the original 726 proposed boxes, 185 have been approved and there have been 2,000 protest to date. of the approved surface mounted utilities 236 have been installed so far. dpw confirmed that planning has been folded in the application review process and our department is actively involved in best practices and mitigation for these boxes which include agreeing.

and dpw did confirm that each application they receive from at&t is routed for review. we provide comments and recommendations in the appropriate mitigation and greenings. at&t responded and disagreed with the suggestion that at&t should fund the maintenance for the greening of these utilities. there were approximately 2 hours of public comment provided. members of the public described various frustration. supervisor weern will address the issues. and there were ordinance to the parcels rezoning. one was the general plan ordinance to incorporate parcels left out of

previous rezoning and second ordinance would adjust the zoning map. this commission approved these two ordinances unanimously on october 10th with a minor modification. since then supervisor kim has sponsored the legislation and amended the recommendation. there was no public comment at the hearing and supervisor wiener asked a couple questions to the western soma plan. the staff responded that there were no height changes or no new restrictions on the zoning. nafk -- in fact it would allow for office uses. with that the land use committee moved the legislation ford with recommendation of approval. also at the monday hearing was a rehearing of the fulton street grocery store special use district. as i reported last week this this is the ordinance that a ccompanies the

555 fulton project. when you heard it you made several recommendations last fall to change the special use district including asking the supervisor to work with staff on language that may use that is affordable to the neighborhood. no. 2 an allowing the size for commercial uses for tenants and no. 3 increased signage controls. supervisor breed stated she is still considering whether it be permitted at the site but wanted to move forward with the project. she did adopt the more controls. this week with the amended ordinance was

recommended for approval with the full board and on tuesday the next day the full board passed the ordinance on first reading. also on tuesday full board approved the child care facility oversight to the newly created office care. this is by yee. and lastly new introductions that i would like to share with you. the first is a resolution from supervisors kim, avalos and yee that is urging the mayor and police department and mta to adopt a vision zero 3 point plan to permit an action plan to reduce traffic fatalities to zero for education and enforcement. no. 2, supervisors mar, campos, avalos and kim created an

ordinance for fractional ownership in a building containing two or more dwelling units and review such projects for the planning code and guidelines and would also require any application for the conversion of any existing building from one ownership to fraction lied ownership to building and planning codes. lastly supervisor wiener introduce an ordinance that would sclud affordable housing units to provide at least 20 percent of their units as affordable units. the item that will be amending in the planning code will be scheduled before you in the next three 3 months and the other items were provided for information.

>> commissioner sugaya? >>commissioner hisashi sugaya: yeah, on the fulton street. what did they vote on exactly? >> this is ordinance that would enable the development from 2010. this commission had approved a previous ordinance at 2010. that expired after 5 years. this year you included the formula retail. that part has not been added. it would enable the development at the grocery store to move forward at that site. >> it's to provide affordable. >> that is correct. >> secondly, in terms of the boxes are sf puc exempted from having to provide locations and size and whatever calculations

for the boxes that control the intersection? >> i can look into that. i'm not that familiar with that. >> the ones on bush street are 5 feet high, 4-foot wide and maybe 2 feet deep. i'm assuming the at&t boxes are no bigger than that? >> they are actually larger and horizontal on the ground. we can check the details. i believe those were approved like the at&t boxes, they were approved as a group, as a whole like when the at&t boxes had their environmental review. >> it's not a big thing. >> it's a good question. >> commissioner moore? >>commissioner kathrin moore: i would recommend they particularly address those locations where those three

objectives collide. >> thank you. and the board of appeals did meet last night. one of the things of interest to the commission is the project at 1050 valencia street. the board of appeals took action on this item. you heard this in december of 2012 at the corner of hill on valencia street. the board of appeals took action on december 11th and added conditions to the permit related to construction activities and that's to address concerns of the adjacent marsh theatre but they also took the 5th floor off the building and their considered written findings relating and they submitted argument that the state board does not comply with the state law in affordable housing act and continued the written

findings to the rest of february to allow additional briefing to address this matter. i would like to thank cory tieg for covering while i was out and he did a tremendous job and much appreciated. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, tim frye, department staff. i would like to share with you a few items. the commission voted to maintain commissioners carl haas as president and commissioner and drew wolf as vice-president. at that time commissioner haas maintained the appointment of the architectural review committee of pearlman and who from with commissioner haas as the member. they also considered a

request for hearing for a certificate of appropriateness at 260 union telegraph district. which was approved by staff to construct a roof deck within the district. the hearing requester contents the building constructed in 1987 was not built according to code and and actually constructed taller than the allowable height limit. planning department staff presented that along with our code enforcement staff and dbi and proceeding with admin. after testimony by the requester and the property owner, the commission determined that the planning department operated within it's jurisdiction on the administrative delegation and denied the request for hearing. >> the commission also

initiated article 10 landmark designation for 210 adam street currently known as the design center and the gerg an and hayden building. this is the first hearing of the two hearings where the commission will weigh the merits of property as an individual landmark for article 10 of the planning skoed to vote by the board of supervisors. the commission also gave a positive recommendation to a piece of legislation to authorize and rezone the church, a local landmark at 133135 golden gate avenue to be rezoned to c 3 and be able to also take advantage of the transfer development rights program. finally the war memorial complex certificate of appropriateness for the veterans building. this is a previous c of a that was

approved. there is a small design modification on the top portion of the roof which required a review. the commission supported the modification with an amendment that the veterans be invited to the mock up of the new skylights with the other mock ups that will be presented to planning department preservation staff. that concludes my comments unless you have any questions. thank you. >> thank you. okay. next item, please. >> commissioners, it will place you under general public comment not to exceed a period of 15 minutes at this time. members of the public may address the commission that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. commission except agenda an items. with respect