today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure.

>> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage.

everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in

single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better

to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else.

>> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe.

>> we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many can claim that and you have an historic building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor ping-pong table and you have got the art commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class.

>> it is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. ♪ >> welcome to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, january 23, 2014. please be aware that the commission does not trornt any disruption of any kind please

silence all electronic devices. and when speaking before the commission please do state your name for the record. president fong. councilmember ford. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore and commissioner johns and commissioner antonini are expected to be absent. item one case is for continuance in 901 is for february 26th. and the next case at 875 california street is continued until february 6th and the last case at the 1701 hate street request for stuns is for february. item 4 for case an amendment to

the planning code for formula retail use is for february 27th. commissioner we have received a request for item 17 from the promise sponsor to continue the matter inindefinitely because it's listed under the regular calendar and there might be here people that want to speak and mr. the the request for discretionary review. i have no speaker cards >> thank you any public comment on this item? on items proposed

for continuance. >> we will tomato take up item 17 when the item is called. to any public comment on items proposed for continuance. >> commissioner borden. commissioner hillis and conspire wu that passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you under our cds. they're considered to be route by the planning commission and maybe acted upon by a single vote no separation unless the staff requests and it will be considered at a future hearing. item 5 case at the 1940 through

42 mason street and item 6 case at the 435 jackson street request for continual authorization and the next case at the 365 jackson street and requests for conditional use authorization i have no speaker cards. we did receive an men and women request from sue hester, however, we had the staff to talk about this and her issues don't apply to this particular case there are no speaker cards >> any public comment on this item? or in items 5, 6 or 7.

>> is there a motion to remove 6. >> i move to authorize the approve 5 and 7 commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner sugaya and commissioner wu. smoomdz that places unanimously and item 6 will be heard as the first item under our regular calendar >> item 8 consideration of the draft minutes for january 9, 2014. >> is there any public comment on this item? on those drafts minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed.

commissioner sugaya >> i move to approve the minutes for january 9th. >> commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commission chair wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes >> i went at the request of some neighborhood folks in the bayview to look at the site where the mother brown special project for the homes structure. there are so many interesting businesses like a chemical will he testing lab it tests toxins in the food and it's where tests are conducted. another place i saw next door had mick tractors and does a lot

of work around pets and par suddenly. it's favshg to see this. and their concerns are whether or not the location of the shelter, of course, is appropriate for what the needs are and the other concern is whether or not there's actually, the population of the homeless population in the neighborhood to continually of the shelter. there are concerns around whether or not there's social activities in the neighborhood in terms of social services. it was interesting to talk to them and hear about their issues and to learner more about it are i recommend that other commissioners this is interesting just generally to see the types of things that are happening in the city. second i went to the retail

focus group that president fong was there and it's interesting and i look forward to disbursing that further >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. i want some clarification from staff probably to the mayor's office. mayor ed lee announced as part of his housing project thirty thousand now housing units but it's not clear i don't think what that thirty thousand was referring to. there's entitled projects to the tune of 50 thousand in the pipeline report that includes the evenly and treasure island and park merced and another 3 thousand that are entitled. it also, we also have around in the pipeline report around 7

thousand seven hundred units that are that have plans and so could we get some - is he referring to thirty thousand new units on top of the pipeline do you know are those included in someway >> it will help to get clarification. my understanding it's thirty thousand unit to be built some of which are entitled many of which are entitled. so try to get that number built in the next of years >> but it includes all the stuff in the pipeline at the moment? okay >> if there's nothing further we can move on to directors naunlts. >> commissioners, i wanted to report to you on the last

meeting the housing task force we had a very good discussion last week about a number of comments and a number of ideas that both departments put on the table for addressing the current housing situation we had the idea of seeing which one of those items can moved. tomorrow's meeting we're going to annoyance the lists from the departments and we've been asked to respond by the mayor by the end of the week. we need to report to him what actions we're taking in the short-term actually short-term and midterm and long-term. the short-term actions are the actions that can streamline our processes like having the departments doing a parallel

reviews and actually several folks have raised looking at making sure we prioritize projects that are one hundred percent affordable or have a higher level of affordability. we're also reviewing some administrative changes. so we will be preparing a draft memo actually staff is working on it right now we'll certainly share that with you all and disbursing that with this task forces tomorrow afternoon to get their feedback. certainly, if you have any more questions i'll talk about that no more detail >> item 11 review of past weeks event board of appeals and the restoration he meeting they

didn't meet yesterday. >> and there was no board report board of supervisors report they didn't moot this week. >> in this case we can move onto the public comme of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda with receptor to agenda items you'll tunnel i opportunity will be for another when it comes up. for up to 3 minutes you may address i have no speaker cards >> any general public comment? okay seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 6 from the consent calendar was pulled and we'll take that matter up now. >> good afternoon vice

president and members of the commission i'm from the staff. the item before us is to establish an office doing business as on jackson street in the special use district and the jackson square historic district we propose to have an office in a commercial space previously occupied by a gallery is there any additional public comment? in antics and it's a design firm and design blifts it has the design in the district. to date we've received and letter of support from the jackson district a petition of support signed by 11 merchant in the jackson square district. since our packets have been

received we have received one letter of support. the department recommends approval and building it's desirable for the following reasons the proposed office will with a be a commentary use for the designers in the district and the district use is combining it's two fronts on jackson street. the proposed office is 16 hundred square feet plus and won't effect employment in the area. the project provides an actual use adjacent to the sidewalk level and will remain open to the public and there are design dismays for open office for

transparency into the space. thankful been unable to have a tenant but the vitality of the historic district will remain the same and it will be retrieved. it will be more locally operated offices by allowing the architecture design office to be lope local. it meets all the code. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> thank you. is project sponsor here? >> hello, i'm melissa the ceo. i'm the designer for the firm >> do you have a presentation? >> oh.

>> if not - and we didn't anticipate having any but have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> we'll take any public comment? and ask you to come back up. any item? seeing none, public comment is closed. . commissioners? commissioner sugaya >> yes. thank you. i think the staff analysis has some flaws in it. first of all, the jackson square special use district has a specific language that says that all decisions of the planning commission shall be guided by the following factors the continuous of the enhancement of the ground floor uses that are critical to the character of the district, and, secondly, the transition and of the retail

starments that reform to the district. it mentioned the density of employment. it goes on to say the su d further makes the finding to preserve the historic resource and no other use can be demonstrated to preserve the historic resource. i don't see how an office use is comparable with those particular requirements. when in fact, office use is already constitute 42 percent of the uses on the ground floor vs. retail which is at 25 so we're adding another percentage that doesn't sound like a lot but this is the same we have every time we look at the shadow

ordinance which .01 doesn't present a shadow but when we look at it grouping that's when we have some issues. it says in the basis for recommendation that the office expects he less than 10 visitor a week with you also i can't see how that then generates active use at the ground floor. i would imagine if you're a retail establishment your expecting 10 people in the morning or afternoon i don't know how many this establishment gets but i don't understand the argument that the office will remain open to the public. does that mean i can go in the

front door and warned around and talk to people as i please. we had an office on the ground floor. our door was open nobody ever came in except to find out about the historic status of the building but we wouldn't allow people to wander around. so how can we make the argument this a public use. for those reasons i can't support the additional use >> thank you councilmember ford. >> staff can you address some of the concerns of commissioner sugaya. >> the character of the district the retail uses are not what you normally see for general retail that is open to the public. many of the retailers in jackson