>> apologize the corner was obviously an important dies and as you look at the bays they march up to the adjourn and turn the corner with cemetery and michael said we took an opportunity in the last two weeks with the community to look at some support and the building we're happy with the end result. >> thank you if the commissioners have questions we'll be sure to call you guys up. any public comment on that item? i don't have any speaker cards. seeing one sorry >> commissioner president wu and commissioner fong and commissioners. i'm ted olsen the third-generation person i speak both as a long-term resident and

as secretary the swedish society of the issues of the swedish adjacent hall. i also have the letter from the president of the swedish society on behalf of the board and all members. i ask you to grant the conditional used variance to our long-term naibdz neighbors the property owners. i'm well aware of the developments along market street from van ness to castro we need the gray star units to provide the additional housing as affordable housing and others. it was initialed during the several years the associates relationship with the wong family extends over decades and

we've had our corporation and we're working together. the close cooperation by victor and others has resulted in gray star donating that for trash recircle. i've informed the association about the suggestions and that has incorporated many of the suggestions here. 3 of the 6 pie wenld corners at this intersection of market street and sanchez will provide 2 hundred housing units at

intersection alone. and there's more to be developed out of the starbuck's area. both of the commercial housing and retail shops will provide for the new commercial areas i ask you to grant wong and gray star the conditional use they've requested. mr. secretary i'll leave those >> good afternoon. i'm the project manager for the coalition i'm here to speak in favor this supports the mission of increasing the well located housing in san francisco. gray proposed this and we unanimously endorse it.

it's laid vacant and it's an excellent space for a development. it sunday night by amenities we want to commend gray for having this affordable 87 smaller by design homes on the parcel. we're in support of this site because it creates a mixed zoning. this creates a low parking ratio of 4.1 space per unit they look like they're increased their bicycle parking. so several landscape improvements will enhance this and finally the market value square will help the community.

we encourage you to approve this project without delay >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm joe the owner of 151 sanchez and representing the homeowners association the residential property adjacent to this project and by way of full disclosure i'm a member of the cdc. i want to rise in support of the project i didn't have a chance to write a letter but i outlined several concerns notely how this practice writing project can impact our property. we've worked closely with mr. gonzales and have reached an agreement in form of on there

pining agreement this hearsay underlined our concerned. i'm here for that today. we're in support of the wong family they've been a good neighbor and i've been personally be a neighbor of that's right. i'll not miss the sound of chainsaws every november and december because of the christmas tree lot. >> thank you. >> members of the commission i'm ricky i'm the owner of the property north i come from the work site where the work is underway. i come to support of the 2198

project it will help the wong's and the all renovation wouldn't have been possible. victor has helped our project on to their site and they've been great neighbors and the result is you have to better projects and that's good. the wong first name has been helpful you've heard about the one hundred and 50 square feet lot that makes our land operational there was no way to deal with the trash but it's very, very valuable. to you thank the team and hope you'll join us in having them as neighbors on market street. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon again david with the triangle neighborhood

association. d t and a is happy to support this project it's a testament to good corporation between gray star and not only other organizations. the project will bring needed housing and particularly important the so-called affordable housing to our neighborhood. many choose to pay the affordable housing fee number two, of having new dwelling units it does nothing to help with the income diversity in our neighborhood so that's something that's very, very important to a variety of neighborhood organizations a brief history the initial project that was proposed was really not supportiveable for

your standpoint there was issues we had concerns about the design and general actions with the general american swedish hall next door gray star said they'd never put the affordable housing unit on site we're grateful to gray star to see that how important it was for our neighborhood and agreed to to put the unit on site. i'm also proud of gray star in another area one of the things that we ask gray star to do is implement a company wide non-discrimination policy that protected the right of the gay and lesbian and transgender individuals throughout their

operations in into employment and rental and evaluating tenants. there's still part of the world s it those individuals are not protected by discrimination against law and it's admireable that they share our views. so we're really pleased to support of the project, and the only thing we want to ask is you encourage gray star to work with the other companies. the design that's been agreed upon is acceptable only with the raw materials they could use and we'd like you to be conditioned

to be involved >> general comment is closed. this is a very good project almost everyone has spoken to particularly the way it worked with the american swedish hall but sanchez street with the lower elevation on sanchez and the way it's set apart if market leads into two of the most charming streets in san francisco because of the sanchez that goes through the triangle and across streets and 14th and 15th this will preserve that feeling having it well-designed. i'm very much in support will move to approve >> president fong. i agree this is a strong project

and corner. this is not something that the planning commission should take part in this is a land use in an indirect way it keeps the owners and money in san francisco and the future for keeping the fabric in san francisco. i want to be a more on site this is a sort of larger project this is a corner location. i happy to like projects that have different phases. sanchez is a very different street than market and market is at all podium kind of structure but as you go down sanchez i like the version that's a little bit softer. i'm going to go along and support in project in the second

revision. they know how to treat a large facing building i'm happy to see the community involved and happy to chime into the project >> thank you o'connor. >> i'm glad to see this is being filled in its difficult in sections i'm happy to see this is a collectively positive effort for everybody to we in knowing mr. mann us and hearing about gray stone i'll expect this is not a problem and the choices a few things happen at the speed when those rendering are being going through 0 costing and the process you've

created makes i already the best neighbor so i encourage you to continue having the community involved. i see mr. mann us nodding a yes. i don't think we can condition this but i think we in our supportive of an ongoing relationship by the building exactly comes with what is community t is hoping for. i like the corner and side street it shows the skill we very much encourage on the commission >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> my motion includes i assume it's okay with the seconder the project sponsor continues to work with the designer and i

like what commissioner fong said whatever fits in pest with the houses along sanchez streets. that's a standard condition in our motion. >> so commissioners there's had a moved and seconded open the floor commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner moore. commissioner fong. commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. >> on the closed session of the variance noticing. thank you zoning administrator >> i'm to acknowledge them for providing us with the update i appreciate that to see this in

the context of the discussion. commissioner that places you under our discretionary review calendar >> sorry why don't we tak >> thursday, april 24, 2014. i'd like to remind did audience to please turn off see the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. . commissioners we left on and on off on your discretionary calendar request for discretionary review >> good afternoon, commissioners david lindsey from department staff the 6 avenue includes an edition with the

story family home it's set back 9 feet from the property line. the 18 hundred subject louse house is on the east side of the intern sunset arresting and the subject lot t is 95 feet deep within the zoning district. the lots adjacent are couped by single-family dwelling and there's generally aligned and each had editions constructed beyond the maintain rear walls. the notification for the project was conducted in october of last year and a request for discretionary review was filed

by the miller mick kinss to the north and cynthia smith to the south. since the packet ways sent to the commission we've received an additional e-mail from christen this would be in support of dr request and i believe this e-mail was sent to each of the commissioners within did last couple of days. i'll pass this. the concerns raised in the dr request include the following. loss of light and shadowing to neighborhoods property and loss of mid plain clothes open space and visual openness and the fact it is out of schedule and characterly out of scale. the vice president reviewed it

and determined the project meets the standards of residential guidelines in that the light loss and additional shadowing are within reasonable exception of the development impacts and the proposed you you are talking about e debt has minimal effects on the block spates. in conclusion the department finds is to be inconsistent with within the guidelines and didn't create extraordinary circumstances we ask for your approval that concludes my presentation >> thank you. can i ask for procedure is there one dr filer i heard you saying there's two. >> there are two filers to the dr the staff kurjdz people to

file separate dr requests but we can't preferential people from filing jointly. >> so procedurally we only acknowledge the dr requests so their entire team ca can be provided this. >> so dr requester you have 5 minutes. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm christen i represent ken miller and julie with regarded the property. the proposed expansion project at the rear of the project property will box in the light on the property and the project further threats the open space in the neighborhood. the miller ask for discretionary

go review in correspondence that the guidelines. carotid to the guidelines when expanding a little into the rear yard the impact on the expansion for light must be considered. i have some photographs i want the commission to review. this the photograph the miller mckenzies portion it was recently remodeled to add openness and light but you can see they have the light wells it create an abundant amount of light and have a rear yard openness. the miller and mckenzies were concerned about the remodel open their property.

they hired an architect to review the design so they know what kind of light and shadow would be occurred on the property are. you can see there's sufficient light that comes into the skylight and sufficient light onto the back patio. you get a sense of the scale between the buildings. the next photograph here is a rendering of the proposed expansion project and you can see there's significant shadowing covering not only one but both skylights. you can also see from this rendering the drastic increase in bulk that will happen.

in addition to the light aspect the miller mckenzies have concerned about the rear yard being blocked off. due the expansion extends 6 feet out. the current conditions of the property this portion right here comes out about 6 feet. it has minimal impacts because it has a sloped roof and it allows an open feeling into the background. with the proposed edition there will be 2 feet added on and bay windows will with extended out 10 feet from the miller mckenzie home. and you can see that it is a

subsequential wall from the open space and you can see the neighboring property they've be blocked off and they'll be trading off the open space for a view of basically a solid wall. the proposed project will be a dominating structure that's out of harmony. the roofline issue you can see at the bedroom and portion here there will be 1ib9 unbelievable in shadowing. the architect more the miller mckenzie incorporated a slope line it helps the shadowing and light. this was discussed between the architects and the project

sponsors but they backed out of the discussion. we have a significant mid block open space it's hive hive cherished by neighbors there's numerous neighbors have this built into the footprints of their homes. ms. mckenzie wants to share her thoughts with us >> i'm sorry unfortunately, your time is up. you can certainly add our comments during the rebuttal period. >> your time is up. >> okay opening it up to the members of the public who are in support of dr. so to restate it members who are

opposed to the project. >> good afternoon. my name is is cynthia i live on sipth avenue. i have lived and enjoyed my home >> i have to ask a procedural question are you part of the dr team. >> are you an architect or a representative of this in any fashion i'm sorry, i missed that. >> ms. smith is one of the dr filers. i'm sorry if your name is on the

application you can't speak at this time because you're a party to the team >> i was only presenting the thoughts of of the millers and mckenzie. >> she would have been able to speak if you provided her with time within our 5 minute time the rules and regulations of the planning staff says the dr team is allowed 5 minutes and that includes any dr person 0 on the application as well as their legal council representing them and any architect or engineer that has obey hired to help. >> so far no one has ever in the responses to the dr has every notified me of anything i've not received anything in the mail about this meeting.

so it was almost as if i was go forward on the dr. >> i don't have is copy well, it's in the application oftentimes with one application we forward that to whoever address is on the application for the dr i don't know why you weren't invited. >> the only notification i got was from kenny was left out of the loop totally and i apologize for the item. >> i apologize. >> are there additional speakers who are opposed to the project. >> hello, i'm morgan ben's i

live on sixth avenue north of the property proposed remodel. as neighbors to the north the amount of light in our kitchen and rear yard will be reduced as a result of the light that is negatively impacted the view in from our yard is reduceed we were told that this will have an impact on the property as well as the property of other neighbors it was suggested that the sunlight u result would be negotiable the photographs say we'll be suffering a loss of light and quality of life and also property value as a result.

we would like to say to the neighbors to the north we would like to acknowledge the persistence they sat when conducting their own remodel they were careful to preserve the light and space to our property their neighbors directly to the north and appreciative. they now stand to lose the benefits it's unfair. we recognize the need for those folks to renovate their home how much space is needed. there's a potential for this remodel to add the value to their homelands without diminishing ours. we respectfully ask you to create a compromise so all