>> supervisor breed? breed no. supervisor campos? campos no. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim no. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener no. there are 6 ayes and 5 no's. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> colleagues, i think we have one 2:30 special order -- i'm sorry, we have two. i'd like to first acknowledge supervisor mar from district 1. >> thank you, president chiu. i'm just seeing if our honoree is here, and she is. colleagues, later today i'll introduce items on our agenda or i'll introduce item on youth empowerment in our city government that have originated

from our san francisco youth commission to increase youth [speaker not understood] in our san francisco board of supervisors. but before that, i wanted us to honor the work or continue our work every day to better support young people. and as part of that, i wanted to honor an amazing outstanding empowering individual who has really helped young people find their mission in life and helped to really give them a stronger voice in city government. her name is nyad abrohimian. if nyad could come forward. nyad has been working with our department of children, youth and their family, but she's helped to really champion the youth warrior awards in our city and fellowships for young people to work with city government and community agencies. she's helped to develop the youth empowerment fund in our

city and especially she's mentored and helped to award a number of young people each year. we call them the youth warriors. they're remarkable. they're inspiring and they're going to go on to do so much in our city government and in our communities. these young people have made a tremendous commitment to using their knowledge, skills, experience, talents, sensitivities to better themselves, but also to improve our communities and the city as well. youth warriors are nominated by community-based organizations in our city and selected for their strength and overcoming challenges in their lives and also their dedication to being positive change makers in our communities and city. nyad and others championed youth advocacy day which really shakes up this building in city hall and allows young people to have a stronger voice and for us as adults to work closely with them. they come into our offices. we've talked a lot with them

and they help to shape policy through youth advocacy day each year. i've had the honor of getting to meet so many of the youth warriors in the past couple of ceremonies honoring them and their families. i'm blown away by their commitment to their work and supporting many of the nonprofits and community based groups they work with. they work with compassion and drive to improve community-based organizations and their communities for the better. i have tremendous respect for nyad and her nurturing of these young youth warriors and i just really appreciate her work for dcyf. nyad, nana we call her, is beloved by the dozens and dozenses of youth leaders she's helped to teach and nurture. as a model of city employees, i would like to say nyad and the youth that she developed, i'm sad to say that she's moving on from dcyf. but because of her work and the

work of great organizations all throughout san francisco, others will carry on the work. so, with that in celebration of your outstanding commitment to our young people and youth empowerment, your enthusiasm for everything that you do and your dedication to the future of san francisco, i'd like to ask my colleagues to join me in giving her a round of applause in her highest commendation. (applause) >> first and foremost, thank you so much for this unique opportunity. i will cherish this commendation until my 75th year in the field of youth empowerment because i live to give every last breath i have for this field. even though i'm moving on from dcyf, i still will always wear my youth worker hat. i want to show how grateful i am to live in a city like san francisco, vibrant, social oriented and communitiv focused

and most importantly a community that city of oakland uses on youth empowerment and youth voice. not only do we have major organizations and commissions such as the youth commission advising the board of supervisors and the mayor, we have the student advisory council that advises sfusd and also the wonderful youth empowerment fund of children, youth and their families. 3% of the children that i had the honor of working with the past 4-1/2 years. we also have the honor of having such an amazing board of supervisors that has such a focus on youth, especially supervisors avalos campos, advocacy day, [speaker not understood] award ceremony. pat two years. again, i'm grateful for this commendation. thank you, supervisor mar. also, the few seconds i have up here because i know i only have 2 mines minutes. i want to urge each one of you to use your unique power to focus on children youth and their family. it is the most amazing investment you can make

socially politically economically for the wonderful san francisco that we all love. so, once again, thank you, supervisor mar. thank you to the board of supervisors. thank you, peter lauder born who is legislative aide to eric mar, dear friend, colleague and honorary brother championing the work i've been doing the fast 4-1/2 years in san francisco. youth empowerment family, thank you so much for being here and most, most, most importantly hopefully the hundreds of youth that i've worked with [speaker not understood]. i want to thank them for the opportunity to work with them and for the [speaker not understood] they're doing for our beloved san francisco. so, thank you so much. (applause)

>> i have the honor of making the next presentation. colleague, we all have amazing neighborhood activists within our districts who stand out, who are selfless, who serve the community and we all have our favorite neighborhood leaders among that, and at the risk of really single and calling out these two individuals i'd like to invite ron case and carolyn nest up to the podium. ron and carolyn are the founders of royal polk neighbors and these two individuals shaped how i have thought about neighborhood activism because they were the very first neighborhood activists who i ever met over a dozen years ago. as some of you know, i live in the polk street neighborhood and over a dozen years ago at a time when the lower polk neighborhood was pretty challenged, i was looking around to see who was doing leadership and i came across ron and carolyn. and the two of them had moved into the neighborhood to start

their small architectural firm in 1998 and a few years later after taking stock of the issue in the neighborhood they founded lower polk neighbors and they have been managing lower polk neighbors for the better part of a dozen years. i came across ron and carolyn when their organization was meeting monthly with a hearty band of volunteers. and over the years they have tackled everything. organizing monthly clean ups, dealing with the drug dealers, ensuring appropriate development. just within the last few years they have been helping to organize farmers market street and art walk. they personally paid for more trees along polk street, helping small businesses, helping foster the history of polk street and just this past week i was incredibly proud when we did a ribbon cutting for a new soccer field on top of the parking garage in the polk street neighborhood. ron and carolyn, i'm not sure how you found the energy to do what you do, you have been

tireless, you have been selfless. you have had the patience of job. this past year the neighborhood empowerment network in acknowledging literally the contributions of hundreds of neighborhood activists called lower polk and the lower polk neighborhood the come back neighborhood of the year and that is all due to the two vixv who are in front of you. ~ individuals. i wanted to recognize them today because i am very sad so announce that the two of them will be, will be physically moving up north, but i know that you will be visiting san francisco often. i know you still have a lot of business in the city. on behalf of our neighborhood, on behalf of our neighborhood activists, on ball of all of us at the city and county of san francisco, i wanted to just take a moment and acknowledge two of my favorite people in my time working in community service and activism and that is ron case and carolyn nest. thank you so much for everything you've done.

(applause) >> thank you. thank the board of supervisors. as we all know, we don't do everything by ourselves. we have a lot of help. and i do have to say and i really want to appreciate the effort that the city has brought forward, dpw and other employee station, the board of supervisors, the office of economic development, all have really helped in this endeavor. i do -- i have to say something kind of personal. it's just wonderful to see supervisor chiu sitting at the top up there when i remember sitting with him at a small little table trying to figure out what we can do for the neighborhood. and we stayed back and watched. i feel proud. i feel proud to watch all this happen.

but also wanted to show appreciation to all of you. what you're doing has really helped the neighborhood, it's helped to whole city. so, just thank you. >> i just want to say it's been fun being part of the city that knows how. thanks a lot. (applause) >> that concludes our special commendations for the day.

colleagues, we have several 3:00 p.m. special order so i'd like to get started on them. what i'd first like to do is call up the first special order at 248-252 9th street. madam clerk, would you call those items? >> items 16 through 19comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the mitigated negative declaration and project approval on march 18th, 2014 by the planning commission for the proposed project at 248 through 252 9th street. item 17 is the motion affirming the approval of a final mitigated negative declaration under the california requiremental quality act by the planning commission for a project located at 248-252 9th street. item 18 is the item reversing the approval. item 19 is associated with the decision to reverse the approval. >> colleagues, today we have an appeal of the final mitigated negative declaration for the proposed project at 248-252 9th street. our consideration of this appeal involves an analysis of the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency and completeness of the negative declaration. as usual, i propose we conduct

our hearing as follows. first, to give the appel apt up to 10 minutes to present its case for the appeal. and then members of the public supporting the appeal can speak up to two minutes. that time the planning department will have 10 minutes to provide analysis of certifying the negative declaration. they will have 10 minutes [speaker not understood] following by the members of the public who may speak for up to 2 minutes. finally the appellant will have 3 minutes for rebuttal. unless there are any questions about this, i'd like to first acknowledge supervisor kim who is the district supervisor if you would like to make any opening comments. >> thank you. i just want to make brief comments about the project. colleagues, first of all, welcome to the board of supervisors meeting on district 6. i know the next three hearings are on properties in our district. this project is located in western south of market and includes combining two lots into one, demolishing a building and constructing a 15 unit building in a commercial

space on the ground floor. no parking is included in the proposal and the planning department has issued an amended mitigated negative declaration on october 17 of 2013. and i do look forward to hearing both parties on this hearing. >> so, with that why don't we now hear from the appellant. please step up. you have up to 10 minutes. >> thank you. i doubt seriously i'm going to need all 10 minutes because, first of all -- i'm watching the pretty numbers. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jakkee bryson and i am the appellant who is asking that the negative declaration be overturned. the main concern that i have -- in fact, i made a point of

physically going down and counting the number of parking spaces on 9th street between howard and folsom. and i was very surprised at what i had seen because there's been a change since the -- since the report was made back in november of last year. there were, on both sides of the street, a total of 23 parking spaces for cars and six parking spaces for motorcycles. most of the block on which this particular project is located has been red curbed by mta and i really don't understand why that is. it's a rather interesting sort of hodgepodge of where you can

or cannot put your vehicles. there are vibrant businesses at either end of the block. there is a japanese restaurant at folsom street. there is a clothing store at howard. there is a motorcycle sales and repairs place literally right in the middle of the block. there is a residential, i think it's an apartment building that has the ground level where the, where the japanese restaurant, the cake gallery, and there is sort of a hush-hush business that's in between the two. there is a furniture, custom furniture place. most of the -- again, we're talking eight parking places and the planning department has certified that there is a

deficit of 23 parking spaces if this building goes forward as planned. and the 9th street corridor, actually between market all the way from brannan is used to access highway 101 and there is a steady flow of traffic at all times. i learned by contacting the department of public works, bureau of street use and mapping, that there are going to be curb ramps put on all four curb at folsom and 9th street and that the sidewalk is due to be expanded, expanded like about 6 feet so that there are going to be at least one to two parking spaceses removed from the few that we already have. i have nothing more to add to

that except that the idea of people circling round and round and round and round to try to find a nonexistent parking space to go where they live is a bit absurd. and to go round and round and round and round to get to a restaurant that has no parking spaces is even more so. so, with that i don't want to take up any more of your time because i'm very anxious to see what the other side has to say, and i do value your time very much. thank you. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any questions he to the appellant? if there are any members of the public that wish to speak on behalf of the appellant, please step up. commissioners, ray [speaker not understood], san francisco open government. i think we need to come to some sense of reality regarding automobiles and parking in this city. you can't keep cutting spaces from residential areas and expect the city to be in any way habitable.

many of the apartments that are in this city right now, in fact, a vast majority of them have no parking and, therefore, the residents are relying on street parking at all times. i myself know what it is like to come home from work at 11 o'clock at night and have to drive around 18 blocks to find a space where i leave my car knowing that it's in an area now where i'm going to probably come back and find my window smashed out. i really have a hard time understanding why anybody would want to build a building like this and not increase its long-term value by having parking. having parking in the building makes that building more valuable. you can either give the spaces to the residents or you can receiptction them out or you can do something else. and what it does is give you additional income, additional long-term value of that property. ~ rent and in addition, it helps your neighbors. it doesn't put them in the position of having to deal with

the fact that you didn't want to pay for parking for your own building. and that's really what the choice is. it is a choice between people who want to build a building and intentionally leave out the parking and say to their neighbors, well, tough luck, you're just going to need to deal with it. or people who are more farsighted and willing to say, you know, it is also in my best interest to build a building that has parking. i will have an easier time getting high rents and better tenants because they will be able to afford to have parking and at the same time i will be servicing the neighborhood by not hoisting my lack of parking on my neighbors. >> any others wishing to comment? ♪ park it up park it up give it a try won't you park it up park it up city give it a try

don't make us drivers cry don't make a grown man cry won't you park it up ♪ >> colleagues, any other members of the public wish to speak in support of the appellant? seeing none, why don't we now go to the planning department. >> good afternoon, president chiu and members of the board. i'm [speaker not understood], a senior environmental planner with the planning department. with me today is victoria wise, the deputy director of environmental planning and kay [speaker not understood] who is the environmental coordinator for the mitigated negative declaration which is the subject of today's appeal hearing. on may 12th, 2014, you received a detailed memo responding in detail to the issues raised in

this appeal. the decision before the board is whether or not to uphold the department's decision to issue a mitigated negative declaration or to send the project back to the department for additional review. i'd like now to turn the presentation over to kay [speaker not understood] who is briefly address the main points in our appeal response. >> thank you, noni. president chiu, members of the board, i'm [speaker not understood] of the planning department. to continue, the department found that the proposed project would not result in any significant effects on the environment that could not be mitigated. thus, a mitigated negative declaration was appropriately prepared. it further includes the merger

of existing, two existing lots on the subject site. demolition of two existing one story, approximately 15 foot tall buildings currently used for storage. and construction of a five-story 55-foot tall, approximately 18,700 square foot mixed use building containing 15 dwelling units and approximately 2,900 square feet of ground floor commercial use. the department's responses to the concerns raised by the appellant can be grouped into two primary points as outlined in the appeal response. to summarize the points, i will address despite [speaker not understood], the fmmd adequately recognized the impact relative to parking and found that the project would not result in any significant impact with respect to parking or transportation. and despite appellant's a sr.tionseses, appel apt's due process rights were not violated during the 2012-2013 planning commission hearing. it asserts the project with

respect to parking had not been adequately analyzed in the smmd and raises concerns about a loss of availability of on street parking in the project site vicinity. at discussing [speaker not understood], the project will result in a shortfall generating parking demand of 8 spaces and long-term demand of 16 spaces based on the planning department's analysis impact guidelines for review. it will not result in shortfall that will create hazardous conditions [speaker not understood] bicycle or pedestrian, or proposed park, parking demand [speaker not understood] and parking spaces within the reasonable distance of the project vicinity. the appellant has presented no substantial evidence demonstrating further -- the potential is parking shortfall would result in a significant transportation impact.

the potential parctiontioning shortfall that may result is generally considered to be [speaker not understood] rather than the physical impact of the project under c-e-q-a. since the smmd was published november 7, 2013, changes have been made to state law so that the esthetics in state law [speaker not understood] for project that meets certain criteria. as discussed in the appeal response, the project meets all criteria therefore an eir if prepared for the project would not be considered adequate in terms of parking for impact under c-e-q-a. the appellant also asserts that her due process rights were violated because she was not given the opportunity to rebut. her testimony october 12, 2013 planning commission hearing, the appellant's due process rights were not violated.

during the october 24, 2013 planning commission hearing, the appellant was provided with 10 minutes before the planning commission to provide her concerns about the pmmd and equivalence with the planning commission rules and regulations. [speaker not understood] and/or sponsorses, rebuttals are not included as part of the hearing process. the appellant did not specifically request a rebut before or during the hearing. therefore, the appellant's due process rights were not violated. in conclusion the department has found that [speaker not understood] the proposed project will not have a negative impact [speaker not understood]. staff believes that the appellant has not provided any substantial evidence to refute the conclusion of the smmd. further environmental review would not change the results. regarding environmental effect

nor provide additional information for review topics. the planning commission upheld the planning department's [speaker not understood] of the october 24, 2013 hearing. for these reasons, the department, therefore, recommends the board uphold the fmmd and deny the appeal. that concludes our presentation. thank you. >> colleagues, any questions to the planning department? okay. at this time why don't we hear from the project sponsor. >> good afternoon [speaker not understood] consulting. we started the design of this building a couple years ago, 2-1/2 years ago and we have gone through extensive environmental study, whether it was historical or [speaker not understood] residence and design of the building. we work with the planning department to come up with what

you see before you. the issue of parking, you know, we looked into it and how we felt was that with the two exits required,edth lobby it take, the residential lobby and the parking entrance, furtherance of parking in this building would eliminate the commercial unit at ground floor. and having worked on my office around the corner from my building, i know how important it is for the businesses, you know, at the sidewalk level to develop and we basically decided to do this with no parking. we are following the city's transit first policy and we feel that this building is a good addition to this great neighborhood. i'm available for any comments you may have. thank you. >> thank you. are there any members of the public that wish to speak in

support of the project sponsor? okay, seeing none, at this time, the appellant, ma'am, you have up to three minutes to provide any rebuttal. please speak into the microphone. this time i'm going to be able to show you pictures which, although a bit dated, will give you a measure of what this particular block look like. this shows where the building is located. immediately next door, this little white thing, it's called a fire hydrant. it's not going to go anywhere.

the fire hydrant has with it a red zone for the fire hydrant which isn't going to go anywhere. there is no parking there at any time. the restaurant that i was talking about at the end of this block and this is the apartment building where people live. this is the parking lot and there is a furniture store. there is aden tal building. ~ there is a dental building. as you can see, there are a number of businesses already vying for the extremely limited parking, some of them creating their own parking if you under what i'm saying. and it's amazing that they haven't been ticketed yet. i haven't made my phone calls. across the street there are even vibrant businesses, but we don't have pictures of them. there is a mattress