>> regular meeting for wednesday, april 2, 2014. i'd like to remind members of the public that the commission do not permit many disruption >> state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll. president hasz. commissioner wolfram. commissioner honda. commissioner johns. commissioner matsuda. commissioner pearlman. we do expect commissioner johnck to be absent public utilities commissioner on your calendar public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's

jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda with respect to agenda items your opportunity will be reached in the meeting and each member of the public my address the public up to 4 minutes >> public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. commissions that places you under directors announcements >> good morning explicit john ram i want to let you know about a seminary i went to on friday assembly bill 1995 introduced by soon to be the speaker of the assembly tony at&t kidnaps to create a tax credit for store prospers. california interesting enough 33 other states have one and 4 that have a credit no western states

have it other states find this an important tool that helps to create investment in restoration of properties and this will create a 25 percent tax credit that applies to commercial and actually non-producing properties and also be a 5 berries bonus for housing pr there are a number of folks tracking it there's an interesting trading kind of grassroots effort to put. 0 on legislation this was in the works and it's something that the mayor's office is tracking with us as well, we're certainly supporting it and as we learn

about the details hopefully, the city will support it >> commissioners, any questions for the department of education seeing none, we'll move on. >> commissioners that places you under last week's reports. >> tim fry one small update regarding the planning commission the planning commission will consider the recreation and open space element at tomorrows regularly scheduled hearing on march 26 we finalized the link for the documents as well as the comments and at your request once adopted the planning commission the board of supervisors has is thirty days to either basically approve or disapprove the element and we'll

keep you posted on the 0 or on the developments and any comments out of tomorrows hearing. >> >> seeing none, oar commissioners, that places you under president reports and announcements. >> so last time i mentioned we have awning a an update on the realtor program so in terms of the record this is the four modules we came up with for the training of the realtors we took this to one agency and this is a statewide program and the state union were going to be the beta test our the realtor i took it to patrick union and we had 50

realtyors we were hoping to get 10 and all 50 signed up so we have four training programs that will take a minute but thank you to john from the california preservation we have staff members putting in time tim fry and richard and mary brown and several folks in the department are helping out i'm excited about it so hopefully it will be a statewide program in a couple of years. >> that's it any questions. >> this is only open for the realityors. >> is there a cost.

>> yes. first one is a discounted because they're the data testors then over to the arching i didn't organization to spread it out over the city. item consideration of draft minutes for march 5, 2014 >> commissioner johns. >> i think there's a tip gravel error on the first page irving is spelled with a i. >> it was submitted with an e. >> interesting. >> i know i had to make the correction. >> commissioners, any questions

or comments? any must be of the public wish to speak on the draft minutes. seeing none, back to you, commissioners. >> i move forward to approve. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes. >> commissioner honda. commissioner johns. commissioner matsuda. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram. and president hasz. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes and place you on item 5 commissioners comments and questions >> anything? we'll move on >> item 6 each puc rules and regulations considerations for the amends to the rules and regulations just acknowledging commissioner johnck absent you may want to continue the matter

and a have a full all members present that's up to you. >> commissioners, if i might commissioner johnck has tremendous exercise with this additional has a valuable opinion if you don't mind we'll continue this. >> can i get a motion to continue. >> make a motion to our next hearing. >> april 16th the. >> yes. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you on that motion to fine to april 16th. commissioner hyland. commissioner johns. commissioner matsuda. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram and president hasz >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes and places you under your regular calendar for the case g at the one

thousand 7 market street the consideration to recommend to the board of supervisors and changing designation. >> good afternoon, commissioners jonathan department of preservation staff i'm here to talk about the designation change for market street the james walker building and constructed in 18911. the change of designation was proposed from the trust. the proposed change of designation is authorized under the planning code for the redesignation when the factual designation where the building is rated to be individual or contextual importance it is on rated building category 6

contribute building that's based on the report by a historian which demonstrates when the rating was assigned little was known about the architect and at the time a large and unsympathetic sign obscured all the buildings. in order to be considered for category 3 status it needs to meet the first two conditions it's more than 40 years old outside of a conservation district and be judged to have importance and the staff has said there are several elements in favor that's a small-scale lost building and features

refined terra cotta or inments. of particular interest it is a 20th century flaw and is rare on market street. the final remit under the section is the building be rated very good in architecture design or to its environment this is one of the easiest to make it to the market street theater it should be considered excellent or very good to its investment that's that's not a justification the building is going to be used as an arts facility and the california bond folks will be here to talk about

it if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> thank you, commissioners any questions. >> commissioner johns. >> i thought the case report was one of the best i've seen in a long time so everyone that worked on it congratulations you did a great job. >> commissioners any other questions. thank you. we'll take public comment any members of the public wish to comment on this item? >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm michael corbett i am an architecture historian and the author of this report and author of splendid survivors that was the basis of the discount i downtown plan. i mentioned here it particularly

because the first time i dealt with t this building was in the downtown survey and the writing that of book 1967 guess 4 and 9. the way the evaluations were made by the kohlman system kohlman was a canadian who wrote a book on elevation of historic building i elevated he each the buildings then it was reviewed by 3 outside reviewers one was are from the planning department then we revised the ratings and that's what the final ratings

were in the review process there were very few that changed are strangely enough this building was one of those that sticks in my mind we didn't know what to do with at the time. for those we went i went out with the reviewers and looked at it each of the buildings and talked about what we could do we rated it a c building which is why it's a category 5 now but at the time, we didn't know what to do with and had no information. for the change of designation the first thing is new factual information we had a date of construction and that was it we

now know the architect and engineer - am i going to be cut off here >> 20 seconds. >> a distinguished engineer and we know the history of the building it was oakland by one of the first women archeologists to achieve importance and one of the fantastically things how many of the san francisco buildings that created income for a charitable purpose this is one. >> thank you is there any public comment? >> thank you, commissioners i'm daryl smith i'm the co- fined of the 59 or 09 culture store.

we've been - we moved into the walker building in 1991 for the professionalism arts the programs directed towards artists and also we're engaged with the evolving neighborhood of the mid-market corridor. i came out i came up to say thank you for considering this that's been our home since 1991 and a valuable incubator in mid-market we take care of it, it's a beautiful this and thank you for your consideration >> thank you. thank you >> any other member of the public wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed oh. >> hello, everyone i didn't

know what the context was to be discussed but i work for youth speaks i the lunge store was one of the venues and it's an important placing place in the central corridor. thank you >> thank you any other member felt public wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. back to you, commissioners. commissioner johns. >> well, i think that mr. corp. bit and those folks did an excellent job they've made a strong case for it and i move that we adapt the recommendation for approval. >> second.

>> thank you first and second by commissioner pearlman. >> yeah. mine was a exempting comment about how these things open our eyes and thirty years ago when was it designated to a category 5 we're asked the question about needing more information and don't do something hastily i used to go by that on the bus and walked mid-market many times i was struck at the orientation that's a rare thing and such an interesting unique thing you don't see in san francisco interest pits one of the things that opened my eyes we have all those things i'm excited this came forward because now i need to pay attention to all

buildings thanks it was an excellently written report and support this. >> commissioners any other comments before we call the roll. >> on that motion commissioners to adapt the recommendation commissioner honda. commissioner johns. sxhoout. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram. president hasz. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes and pneumanow for the city hall's presentation >> tim fry i want to introduce the city hall fellows that will be presenting to you this afternoon (calling names) the city hall fellows small teams project was the come a time that was concluded in our packets this week the restoration of pass industrial

lighting. the fellows team worked with myself and kelly wong of the preservation planning staff and the documents was an anti growth of the reoccurring theme we developed in the eco project many aenths and other industries within the central area were interested in a document it engaged dialog and adaptly reusing those buildings it's a natural candidate for the small teams project and we're curling in the beginning of the project the commissioners comments will be incorporated with the

public's comments we'll make public in the support future open the planning department and hopefully, the department of transportation of building inspectors i want to take the opportunity to thank the foelz team and with that, i'll let them present and look forward to any comments on the ice ability of the report and the case studies and the overall content. thank you >> you go ahead and start speaking sftv will turn it on. >> thank you, commissioners for having us i'm david with the performance division. >> i'm with the controller's office. >> i'm pike. >> you guys have to pick one

mike. >> i am on the project. >> i work in real estate. >> so as tim mentioned i'm going to go over briefly where this project brought us and what we've come up with. this was in the eco district in the central corridor this area of the city is going through growth in the subway project and many new offices look to locate in this area. with the development in mind we want you to know the green building is the one already built and coming to relocation and adoptive projects the stakeholders engage in the transformation and the planning department noticed many people have an interest.

we use this as an opportunity to deal with that and create the document to inform people as we went about their process we have a 28 page document it's intended for the common person it focuses on the light industrial building built in the first quarter of the 20th century. the audience we have in mind are architects and developers and building owners and anyone interested in the transition in the city. we wanted this to be a document that will get the conversations going. and we wanted to approach this document from a may or may not prospective how we can see this working for the tenant and not only for the energy savings but an incentive to use those systems. >> so in the document we choose

to be consistent with the current literature and want do to explain passive energy it's a statistic approach for air and solar cooling to accommodate various energy demands we have incorporated energy tejz technologies and led lighting to be part of the decision because san francisco climate is moderate energies can be applied to many of san francisco's building. if you look around city hall you'll find passive energy for instance, how to move air around and windows retain heat >> in department of public

works this document we wanted to make sure we understood what would be useful for tenants to let people know what's in the document for anything that was a central baseline this to building design if it was useful to use it would be useful for tenants and developers we collaborated with san francisco's planning department with tim fry and kelly wong who provided the expertise to work with the eco program. we said to help identify building sites and particularly neighborhoods that would be good candidates for intestinal for rehabilitation. we interviewed architects and

redesign contractors for windows and developers from the selma area and talked with them about the projects for the future as well. they directed us to a literature review we conducted a literature review to some of the key documents the green report and eco district documents and various technical papers we realize the green ordinance building provide baseline legal framework that if followed would help developers to a threshold. we used those two documents asia the framework and the secretaries framework of sustainability we could disstill

a road map for a blue print. finally we looked at various case studies the main thing we've learned is even to every building is different and you're not going to be able to do cost accounting we can make people better conservative to make building more efficient and from the improving the tenants experience of the environment >> so the graphic we developed that is in the report is a guide for successful rehabilitation it will break it down for the average person research which includes the understanding of the buigs