fronts. and having the interior courtyard is go it can be a windy area without providing open space that is protected by buildings around it. they g did very good community outreach there's a lot of support all over the place. my only comment about the design i'm not sure i like the color of the rust accent is i think the rest looks good but that's shocking when i look down franklin and pine that's the two accent colors so perhaps something in a dark green might be fitting in better that's a minor point compared to the

project. the affordables on site and there's you know, i would prefer to see more parking but apparently that's what they're choosing to have if the project sponsor thinks it's going to work and the more cars parked in garages they're not going to drive around the city. so i think it's a good project >> commissioner borden. >> i also any very supportive the project it's a great job when we had the draft eir concerns the partnering has begun a long way in fixing the blank wall and kind of the different ways of the facade and structure you have the breaking

up of it and the surroundings area is effective and the incorporation of the historic facade i guess we can't say historic building it's great to see those being incorporated i'm not a fan of the facade being close to the gas station it didn't go as well with the building. so that's my thing i also think it's great you're doing the one site affordable i recognize the members that feel their concerns are not addressed but i know the testament of the 3 associations being supportive and the neighbor across the street, you know, not unsupportive i also support the project and i will wait to make a motion - and

>> oh, there are a number the commissioners so i'll wait for other people to speak. >> commissioner hillis. >> i'm also supportive the scale is okay. i think it works well. and i like the design i like what out of done with the sedentary facade but i like to see the design continue but i agree with commissioner borden most troubling that the eastern facade the 1634 piney have a problem the building is not set back and appropriate not to be set back so you don't get any

sense of the volume i say we get rid of the 1634 facade so at least we know the building is set back it appears less like a facade >> is that the corner building. >> no next to the gas station. >> that's my comes overall. >> commissioner moore. >> i think this project has come a long long way it challenges our expression to look at the eir it fast tracks one of the questions but also adjusting the design the design has been adjusted it used to be basically a strangely mafgd building now we have a building

that lets us you walk around the block of a building that looks different on the four side i was interested if the food side but to the building when you look at it together it has come responsible i personally like the maintenance of the maintaining of the historic facades but i agree with commissioner johnck that dropping the third one at the gas station is a good move i'm interested in a modern building meeting the intersection of van ness and pine as riptd so the rightly of the elements are in the mid block of pine across the

street that's citizenly down an important thing for me in seeing how this developer worked the community but simultaneously on the corner of clay and vaep that project is a great project i couldn't be happier so if this developer works with the same architect and labor crew this is going to be a win-win. encourage all commissioners so those two things coming together i'm in strong support and move to approve that the - we have 3 portion to the approval >> there are 3 portions the first should be taken separately

for the environmental impact report and sequa to adapting is. >> i'll take the first service the eir and most to the other two approve the project. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. i'm in sympathy with commissioner hillis's attitude i've never found a facade to be a successful solution if you go to tell the truth and folsom there's the facade of a former industrial building didn't work.

other examples downtown near my opening technologist on sacramento street there's a corner building lopped off in the back it's not new anymore but the high-rise in the back of that and even a worse one on montgomery which retains portions you have to go down into the retail this is more sensitively done a couple on salt lake i'm not going to - i'm not to vote because i'm in favor of removing the one on the corner to the gas station

returning that to an urban design so the gentleman may have comments with respect to that option and similar discussions were brought to staff levels commissioners and the project sponsor is willing to eliminate that one building they have an image to present but handled at the administrative level just to speak for the facade with regards to sequa the eir review goes for is demolition and not the preservation effort so it will be provide to reference the past but you once they've removed or retained it's credit card a demolition >> one last thing adrian you brought oath union people and the union reps were kind enough

to keep the testimony short but can you give us a testimony of support here and (clapping.) thanks. >> good to see the supported i want to ask the project sponsor to show the image this has been flushed out to some extent. >> this is the building on the right it is incorporated with the white enclosure this is the entrance to the garage some kind of detail separating the white volume that denies the entrance to the garage and the green wall such they're separate from one

another. >> thank you. i'm also supportive of the project i feel challenged although though the routinely pipeline has been updated for 2014 above moderate housing or housing people with above moderate income i think that individual developers can optional do what they can do so put the b m r those think site those challenges are better addressed in the mayors working groups but wanted to make note of that. commissioner antonini >> yeah. i could go either way on the suggestion i think that's down well seeping e keeping the 1634 facade every one will be fine with me at the pleasure of

the commission i like they've incorporated a little bit of the stronger corner to mirror the level of those retained facades to make it a lot a little bit more uniform on pine street there and the setbacks are very well appreciated so wherever they can blended the two together they've done more precastn. almost everything else as one speaker said is many older victorian building but the towers have a lot of precast and less glazing so to be more authentic to having the precast in there is going to make it blend in a little bit better

otherwise i'm fine with the project i think it's going to add to the housing stock and quite a demand for that people that are looking for housing at all income levels this addresses the market rate housing and that's a great project. >> o'connor we still he will have the motion. >> there is another motion on the floor i didn't hear a second. >> second (laughter). >> commissioner moore. >> i wanted to brief talked about the comment definitely not how to do that and as also the devil is in the details a much, much used phrase i'm confident with the prior detail this can

be done to make it an asset not like the inconvenienter the facades on pine is powerful and they have a recall i regret the things that are no there anywhere the housing how they join the setback is very respectful i think that's where the skill will be. >> lisa gibson i want to note for the record the proposed modification of the project or is modifications being discussed will not need an additional eir review it will relative in an

impact due to the fact of the don't guess if you were to fully demolish 1634 pine street it wouldn't result in a more severe environmental impact. >> thank you. commissioner antonini >> yeah. and defense of what's been done keeping the facades i heard something today, i think we agree with the neighborhoods that are is most vibrant are the ones that have the older buildings and have smaller discrete store front or discrete facades this might help on the retail aspect or the general feeling of being part of the neighborhood. i know that the developers can do that but it's more of a challenge to make it feel like

discrete unit the way this is done gives the feeling especially with the setback and it is pedestrian friendly through pine street s isn't there yet. it's done as well as it could be with the facades being maintained >> please call the question. >> commissioners on the motion for the environmental report. >> commissioner antonini and commissioner borden. >> commissioner hillis. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero >> commissioner borden. >> i recommend we approve the project for facade 1634 at the corner we recommend approval with the modified version of not

maintaining the second of that. >> second. >> commissioner antonini. >> procedural question it it looks like we've got 3 separate things the adaptation of the sequa finding. >> i should say adaptation of the sequa findings and the adaptation with approval. >> so commissioners on that motion to adapt the sequa finding and approval the conditional use authorization with the alternative design commissioner antonini. commissioner borden commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong >> commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 duo to zero. commissioners that places you on item 15 for 55 c at the 2048

carville street request for conditional use authorization members of the audience please leave the chambers quietly. we'd appreciate it. >> commissioners, i want to introduce you to a new staff member marseille as a current planner since november over 5 years of planning experience she's worked in the preservation planning in la as a city planner in glendale and holds a graduate

degree from ucla. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners marseille from the department staff the case is a request for conditional use authorization to advert a one thousand plus commercial space that was to a limited restaurant use. the project is located in the ground floor commercial space in the carville commercial district and within the carville sub district not needing any interior or exterior alternatives the operation hours are permitted within the carville strict it's recommended to addresses the issues of trash roefrm removal to make sure the

restaurant didn't impact the character of the neighborhood the department has received no communication in support or objection and the department recommends the approval as the restaurant meets the applicable requirements is requires the chufgs e conditional use authorization it's being under taken by the business owner to correct a notice of violation the business owner changed the use and began to work without the change of use conditional use authorization pursuant to the planning code and the planning commission shall consider the concentration of

the drinking and food served in the area. including the current operating kingdom of dumpinging the current section 303 is 25 percent therefore this edition is below the threshold. the project is a small owned business. this restaurant didn't displace an existing tenant as a tenant the tenant vacated the space for one month the detail operation hours are in inclines with the neighborhood and it is close to the metro line and meets all the applicable planning code and not formula retail use and serves

the neighborhood if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them >> thank you. is there a presentation from project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the project sponsor at that point increase no opposition we haven't heard from anyone we have no comment actually >> thank you. do i still open for public comment >> you can ask but i think we know the results. >> there's no one in the room. >> commissioner sugaya. >> i approve. on that commissioner antonini. commissioner borden arrest commissioner hillis. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on public comment there are no speaker

cards >> is there any general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. meeting >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and

finance committee meeting for wednesday, may 14th, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be sharing this committee and i am joined by supervisor john avalos and breed and, we will be joined by eric mar and scott weiner and i want to thank the members of sfgtv as well as the clerk of the committee, linda wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices and complete the speaker cards and all of the documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted items will appear on the may 20 agenda. >> a few procedural items we have a long agenda, we will take a break from 12:30 to 1:20 wherever we are at that point in time, and given that it is a 90 degree day, we don't see that very often and so we are without coats over here at the board of supervisors and with that madam clerk, could you

call item one? >> hearing on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. >> okay, thank you. colleagues, and members of the public this is a hearing that i requested, and the third of hearings that we have had over the last few weeks and this hearing kicks off the focus of the subpopulations of the over all homeless population here in san francisco. today's hearing is on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. and we have again, met with the department heads and the city staff and the different service providers and advocates and community leaders in the area, and we do know that these very subpopulations have unique needs and there is much cross over between them and so to look forward to exploring this over the upcoming weeks. >> we know from the recent homeless point in time that women account for 27 percent of those who are percenting homelessness. but, it is also alarming to know that women and families represent the fastest growing groups of the homeless

population nationally and that among homeless families 90 percent of them have a female head of household, but we also know in particular that women who are experiencing homelessness face additional safety concerns and it is alarming that 15 pepser of females reported domestic partner violence as cause for the homelessness and 12 percent of the women who are experiencing violence, while they are homeless. we need to do better as a city and we will and i look forward to that discussion, in terms of families for me and many of us at home as a father of three it is auful that we have families living on the streets here in san francisco, and it is a positive sign to see as many homeless populations have recently began to decrease, but the number of persons and families experiencing homelessness has increased nationally here in san francisco and we have at least, 679 families who are experiencing homeless and by the way by the count there are 2200 students who are homeless

or marginally housed it is stressful for the families to deal with circumstances like that, in particular for children who are going to school it is a completely different ball game. and we also know that our wait lists for the shelter haves grown. and we are experiencing a 6-month wait list for family to get access to shelter and we need to do better. and as with all of these hearings, i hope that we can use the information that we talk about today and the discussion to really look at what is going well and what we are doing right and what we can do better in the future, and so we are going to have a number of speakers and public comment and as with before, i would like to invite, devn the director to kick things off, thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee and today is the beginning of the ex-expanded committee participating in these hearing and i want to acknowledge london breed for being here and appreciative of her work on public housing and supporting families and accessing public housing as all of the committee

members and i want to say that i looked in the room today and i was pleased because i know so many of the people that are here today but it is great that we are going to hear from them and there are a number that live in the grand southern hotel and i have had the privilege of meeting with them and visiting the grand southern, and joining supervisor campos on that tour and meetings and really seeing some of the challenges that families are facing when they are under housed and living in sros and i think that we are really blessed that our providers and homeless family service area and the domestic vie liens programs are some of the best in the city and i think that you really see incredible work being done by the individuals in this room and supervisor as you indicated, to start out talking about women who are homeless in san francisco, 27 percent of our homeless population is female. and there was a recent, uc san francisco, study, by dr. alise rilely that found that 25

percent of homeless and unstablely housed women have been sexually or physically victimized in the six months alone and 60 percent have experienced sexual or psychological or physical violence, most of the violence against the women is not from a primary intimate partner but from partner who are not primary partners and neighbors and people on the street. and former partners and so forth, unsheltered women are extremely high risk of continued violence and we take this very seriously which is why we worked with the human services agency to change the reservation process so that the women no longer have to stand in line, over night, putting themself at risk of violence and now i want to commend and thank hsa and i know that joyce can speak to this and as a result of using this process and seeing the increase demand for women, it has been shifting to add more women focused bed. one of the things that we also

want to do that i know that hsa shares, is that we have had an emergency winter shelter program for many years and it is for men only, we are interested to see in this coming winter that we have the interfaith council participate and offer a come parable space for women in the emergency winter shelter program. in terms of family homelessness, president obama through the inner agency council established a goal to end it by 2020. we must quickly begin to change the current trajectory of family homelessness. and first, i have to give special thanks to lynn and mark of the sales force foundation and many other private funders in san francisco who have made it a priority and i can also acknowledge the work with compass. and they made many