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rehabilitation of the would do windows and painting the walls and cleaning and painting the anniversary historic stole and planning i painting the gaud rails and in kind replacement of floor tiles and decks and revolver and in kind of stabilization of railing and new flashing and many replacement of existing plate tile with the 23408 edition with the new compatible toil in a muted tile measuring 12 inch by 24 inch laying in a pattern in that finish to simulate nature stone. based on the spivengz and a
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correspondence with the design team it meets the standard for rehabilitation and proportions for article 10 for the following reasons. the proposal will address the requirements and in the 2008 addition for the proposal respects the character and a designing features and the landmark district. the architecture features of the building will be maintained and that replacement materials will not affect the overall this and the materials will match the material in design and texture and all new materials for the 2008 addition will be deafened
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as contrary all the rationed. based on those finding the department recommends approval of the project with the two issues. prior an example of the proposed combrout will be forwarded for review and approval by the planning department preservation staff and the mentioned elevations showing the new partner will be forwarded and approved by the preservation staff. the department received no public inquires for general information about the project. i have just been informed today that the project sponsor would liquor to discuss the possibility of a different tile selection as part of the department we feel support the selected toil within our project
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sponsor toil that is the lighter color may hazed important compatibility with the existing landmark district which is much more muted tune, you know, stone or a masonry attach material. i'll let the project architect who is here to prepare a short presentation review some of the details on the work as well as present to you some of the changes we have not had a chance to review. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the project architect. we are addressing problems that were caused by construction
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defect. the new part of the building was clad with a slate toil which is a natural stone and i believe it compatible with the general colors within the historic district. the problem is the slate contra covert we're forced to remove it and place a tile that minimum ice cream the slate. we've had a person who helped us and said a material that minimum ikdz the slate is not acceptable so we're trying to find something pits agreeable to the owners. the owners want something that matches what they already have on the building. the building is we documented
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it's obey in movies and the accent color on the building went from light to dark gray. some of the colors are still there the dark gray is close to the color of the slate that the owners went to go back with a porcelain but we having had historically a lighter gray. instead of a bacon color to go with the light or dark gray and also this matches the building historically. we have samples of the toil including the toil hates suggested by planning. >> this is the toil suggested by planning it's in your packet.
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>> it's actively any questions ice cream what's on the montgomery street facade. and a could you hold up think the first one you had from planning >> it had shades the light gray and the bailgz. >> can i ask a question. so the brown one is the one requested by the department and what's the gray one? >> either. >> either of those would be acceptable. okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> and that's the end of the presentation. >> yes. thank you. >> all right. commissions any
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questions. >> i actually have a question. so this was built in 2000. >> 2008. >> and the citywide was approved at that time. >> i specifically remember this one. this is beyond a secondary facade it sits so far back you have to roll look for it to see that interest so my recollections there's no issues to cabin with with discolortion we were happy just to see the building >> it was only brought before the commission this time around because of the change in the material and anything that is secondary materials there's
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stone tile vs. porcelain toil that's the reason it's brought before you. >> thank you. any other questions from commissioners? okay. we'll open up comment? any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. back to you, commissioners. commissioner pearlman >> you know i don't see any reason why the color is even an issue here. if it can't be seen from the street the owner should have some say and the light brown and gray are so close in terms of reflexion and light in the area duo i don't see where we should interfere with something donates not visible at all and at least let the owner do something and why not let me let them rope
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that >> i'll comment it is slightly be visible but it's so far back and it's a better alternative in color. uncommon >> i agree with commissioner. >> it's technically visible from the right-of-way. >> commissioners. commissioner johnck >> i move approval of the staff recommendations but agree the owner should choose the color. >> i actually have a comment i don't like the dark gray i'd be fine with the light gray it's visual from the street.
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>> okay light gray (laughter). >> for staff recommendation whichever. >> do we have a second. commissioners there's a moved and seconded to approve the light gray option or the original staff recommendation. on that motion commissioner hyland. commissioner johnck. commissioner johns. commissioner matsuda. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram and president hasz. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 11 for case 1115 >> pardon me i need a recustodials. >> i make a motion for a recustodials. >> you can recuse yourself.
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item 11 the union iron works i believe there's a requester inform a recall >> i make a motion to recuse commissioner hyland. commissioner hyland. commissioner johnck. commissioner johns. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram and a president hasz so moved, commissioners, that motion passes commissioner hyland is so recused. >> good afternoon, commissioners department staff. the project before you is a nomination of the national historic register it was perpetrate for the port of san francisco. in its capacity as a certified local government the city and county of san francisco is give the authority to comment on the commission and it will be
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forwarded to the commission of the office of historic presently. it's a maritime district 10 non-contributing resources this includes the cranes and segments & of the rails and this is for the criteria a and criteria c. under criteria a that the nationally significant for the steel house shipbuilding in the united states and it's shipbuilding and it's wartime vessels. under the criteria c it's local significant and the physical record of the trend and architecture. it began in 1884 about the construction of the shipyard and that ends at the close of world
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war two. it was the end of the construction on world war two. 0 as an industry leader from the spanish american war the union iron historic district is associated with the american shipbuilding industries. the department argz usa agrees for its architecture and design it illuminates design specifically shipyard architecture. it got a revision and it revise the boundary to include the
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richest hill from the 901. the revisions to the boundary occurred on packages 146 and 47 and on a b d and 17 and 18. you've been provided copies of all the revised packages and asks for comments from the commissions. and in conclusion as commissioners asked to over an opinion as to whether it meets the standard and it was to be forwarded to the office of prehistoric observations. nancy golden beggar is present and has prepared a short prevention and march is here to answer questions. i'm available for any questions that concludes my presentation >> thank you.
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>> once you start speaking sfgovtv will subscriber to the screen. >> i'm nancy i'll spend the next few minutes covering the 2 hundred package nomination. union iron works is one of the best preserved of the shipyards. it's also one of the longest operating shipyards in the country it's 65 acres that includes number one contributing structures as well. we prepared one statement for
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criteria a and one for c that has 1834 to 1830 significance. and this boundary evenly cups it's maximum period of time construction 178945 and also includes irish hill. as you can - union iron works opened in 188 had the two world wars were periods of especially robust activity and growth. during the 19 state of these the site included 6 main buildings and a wharf. building 1 this or that and 14 is located prominently on 20th
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street and was engineered by dr. during the course e malice. it was a machine shop and it connected in the middle in 1914. in the late 179 it was at the cutting-edge of the materials management it was an on the part of and it's driveway dock was known cross country. it was built on 20th street and designed by perry and a hampton who designed the sharpening building in golden gate park. it has a world war 2 era at the rear. those were some of the vessels
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that were built and unfortunately love of the graphics are lost. the earlier part of the 420th century. it was constructed in 19 hundred is the only building left and it's one of the first steel framed buildings on the site. i'm sorry. in the early 20th century there were some interesting architecture developments reinforced concrete was trod and several more prominent architect design buildings and also a number of u actually telethon buildings were destined one was building one hundred 2 and this
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was designed by architect charles wheat and that is of reenforced concrete. another building building 109 replaced construction on the same site. this is also one of the first steel framed and corrugated metals on the site. we'll now look at 3 different buildings from world war one all built in 1917. the first is building 101 that is a steel building all clad what stucco and most importantly the office seen of vertigo was filmed here. this was also constructed and is
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concrete framed with masonry with annoyed office and warehouse uses and has beautiful brickwork. finally, my favorite building 115 and 16 uses an concrete frame. i included this warehouse in berlin it shares many of the same features as my favorite buildings. the little facilitates constructed between 1813 and 36 many of the other yards close down. in 1941 to 45 was a period of
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rapid development and one hundred and 45 features were modified and up to 10 thousand people worked at this at the time in 3 different shifts. this is building 12 also known as as the new yard and it was built to construct anti5ishg9 concurs. the mold lot this is on the second floor has amazing views. building 6 was known as the light warehouse and that warehouse is 5 hundred and 12 photo long and present a integrity iron works on the plan. building 105 was constructed in
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1937 and incorporated one wall of an easily 179 building so therefore it's an early pattern of facadeism. there were many worker amenities those included washer rooms and cafes and fm the yard didn't only include buildings but includes structures and objects and various landscape features including signage and fragments of the rail lion that moved things back and forth. there's large cranes and, of course, the iron fencing. thank you. i'm open to questions if you have any >> thank you very much. commissioners any questions or comments commissioner wolfram >> i have a question about when
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does something become archeology. even though there's no integrity is it potentially an item of anger metrological >> we actually went back and forth many times and included the slip ways one through 3 as sites because they were we know they were border over and they do expiate. there's in the location of the slip ways. we did actually at the time the nomination to include the slipway and slipway 4 was also included. it's an interesting question
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>> commissioner johnck. >> i have a similar question getting my degree. i have a copy of the nominations that was the first draft from about two years ago and i think it's from. you've added irish hill that's super and i'm wondering i was going to get a new copy of the report >> yeah. >> we added the slip ways. >> edify the loos last few months it's improved and we have comments from the shipyard and almost perfect now. okay. thanks >> commissioner pearlman. >> i know that everyone is excited begin about the hill but
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- >> originally a lot of the folks who worked in the iron works lived and played in irish hills there were bars and broth eldest and you'll kinds of things it was a little neighborhood for the workers. later on it was, you know, bethlehem didn't liquor this unsatisfactoryness at their to the steps it was used to fill in a lot of the areas of union iron works that were later built up. as a feature it was both was used as you know, both supported the workers and then it was
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cannibaled to >> is that 5 percent or was it a significant hill there. >> there were streets yeah. >> did illinois go up and over irish hill. >> i'm not sure how the streets function i'm trying to see if any of the lubrications i have role show irish hill very well. it has streets it's hard to envision from the little bit that's now there >> no, no it was just a - and it just acknowledges it was an important part. >> thank you. commissioners any other questions? thank you. we'll take any public comment? any public comment on this item? seeing none, back to you,
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commissioners. >> i'll try. >> commissioner pearlman. >> i think this is fantastic. i live in the neighborhood well, more than 5 hundred photo away but i've walked through it many, many times and walked by it three or four times a week and gone to some the events i've been in some of the buildings. there was one event that sarld were part of the historic group and talking about building stipz ships that's an amazing history and report. i haven't read it all but i'm thrilled. but thank you for all this work it's really, really substantial. thank you >> thank you. commissioner johnck
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>> i support in resolution of finding. i think i don't whether i brought this but i support of the resolution. send it to the ship. i want to comment the environmental history of that industrial acidity is very important, too, and that's why as a historical hill it's a fascinating project >> it's been spread out all over the site. >> i make a motion to adapt the draft motion in your package. >> i second it. >> then on the motion to adapt the support of the names to the california office of
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preservation for the national registration. >> commissioner johnck. sxhorn. commissioner matsuda. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram and president hasz so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on your final agendized item the certified local government annual report, review and comment >> good afternoon, commissioners tim fry department staff. i'm here to present just a few highlights from the c l g annual report in your packet. i'm sure you're aware of this is a requirement for the department the period covered by the annual report is october 2012 to
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september 30th, 2013. after the commission has reviewed the report then we'll afford a the final draft in compliance with our agreement were i apologize for the templates that is something the state give us in modifying it but i want to point out a couple of things to you that i thought were of interest and based on our conversation earlier this conversation talk about the goals and if there's anything else we want to audio. over the reporting commission we've reviewed 24 applications for appropriateness and 12 for major permits to alternate.