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developer working with a violence youth program we've built a genuine relationship not giving jones but careers to people not jobs but careers if you look at the pathway they're connected it's an remarkable amazing thing it is making transition in people's lives they've supported us in so many different ways from fundraisers genuine fundraiser and also the opportunity to save the lives f of kids not only in the selma but citywide we serve kids all over san francisco so having this relationship we've built with true mark you really appreciate it and honor it that's why i came to speak on behalf of they've waited this
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long doss because it's that serious i appreciate them and i hope you support their project their staff is amazing their cool and good people and i got a lot of respect i look them in the eyes their serious about transition thank you commission i'm humbled to be with you all >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tony from the local one hundred 4 in san francisco thank you for the opportunity to speak in front of you on behalf of the sheet metal workers i want to voices our support for the proposed demonstrate on webb store. the development will insure the local and direct and indirect construction of the jobs the
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local union supports this development at the 2455 webb stor stare and urges you to support n this for local jobs >> (calling names). >> good afternoon again commissioners tim colin this project was brought to us several months ago it's kind of a textbook adoptive real use i like the design and the activation of the pedestrian realm and the alley taking out a surface parking lot and putting in townhomes this is numerous helpful. were questions about the on-site and our members wanted to understand more true mark came back and there was a discussion
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at length why they choose that outcome i wanted to say on behalf of the housing action coalition we support this. we generally like on site but you understand there are occasions when the other options makes sense which is the case here. the other projects we've seen of theirs are all on site we really support this project and the choices they've made again, please move forward as quickly as possible. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners i'm peter garza i represent carpenters 22 and members who live and work in san francisco we want to voice our strong
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support for the proposed project on weber stare. we've been happy to participate in the summit pathways a program that was created that connect local youth to potential jobs true mark as shown a genuine commitment to the community and all projects. you've heard the first speaker talk about alexander one apprentices i think the carpenters can work with the portable general contractor to get more on the job that has the opportunity to start to build a career as on a apprentice. the project the old school of dentistry once housed 5 hundred employees and students and
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thousands of patients with limited parking the residential adaptive use redevelopment 676 residential units in the existing that building alone and 10 newtown homes totally 76 homes look at the beautification of the streets with bulb outs and on site parking with city car sharing and bike parking and use of the sustainable spaces and the green wall and traffic congestion in this area alone is to be reduced by 60 percent. it goes without saying the carpenters union local 22 and its members you're going to you to vote favorable they've
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proposed it on webb 080 stare to create good paying local jobs >> thank you is there any further public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore >> i'd like to say i'm quite impressed is by the transitional project. what was there what is there and has been standing around semi empty we see a relatively plan vanilla not a borrowing building p.s. that has a scale under today's consideration woint wouldn't be possible it's like a fortress that is out of context although it has the institutional digestion of being part of what was formally the full fledged medical center. - one of the moves to tear down
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the building a that's difficult to do given the size of this and the materials used but to be adaptive to residential in a sensitive way that transitioned in a very graceful way to fillmore is a strike of genius i'm improvement about how the building is transitioning and the open space wants to stay in further dialog but overly that's an exceptional building that i hope people will look at carefully because there's other adaptive reuses and i hope people will choose reuse research the tear down it supports true mark as the right company and i want to
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acknowledge all the points that have been made we don't hear that much details on projects >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. this is a special project for me in many ways i'm american people person that went to dental school in the this and it's in use up until the 30th of gin this month when we transitioned completely to the beautiful new school it's 455, fifth i remember this was a new school when i came ♪ 968 revolutionary the water came through the roof they knew that was never, if you will, it's potential the that other dentist
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was behind the construction of this make sure the windows were made very narrow at the top so the students won't be distracted by the views they had the windows covered so you weren't tempted to look outside so what's been done by the true mark traem team is a magnificent and it's going to be up to $5 million that's a huge amount of money for 76 unit and a higher percentage are 23 brrmz bedrooms or more and thirty percent have 3 bedrooms they'll be friendly with the open spaces and the size of the units. and the town houses step down
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you may not see that on the pictures they step down one-on-1 between webster street and fillmore to accentuate the drop and the improvements to burke lane increasing the wicket to 3 feet and i particularly like the treatment on sacramento and webster when the school was first time opened they come in on the stairwell this will make that more welcoming i'm in support of the project i see we have other commissioners move to approve it >> commissioner borden. >> i'm not going to belabor it's a great use of taking on old building that's not toxic and making that much more
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interesting i love the integration of the town houses they're all part of one project i'm thiflgs supporting this. >> you ought to be glad the my dentist office didn't move downtown (laughter). >> commissioners there's a motion and second and commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. >> i think he'd like this project so i vote. >> commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously and places you on item 13 for the next case at 1518 slope for
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conditional use authorization >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners i'm with the plaintiff the request for conditional use authorization to establish a beauty supply store as sally you beauty supply with 16 hundred square feet within the shopping center the space was occupied by jamming before he play which is volunteering relocating and the placing is an 0er7b9d shopping center that provides a variety of goods and services to the adjacent neighborhoods and anchored by lucky supermarket. the existing density of the
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formula retail uses is that 6 percent of retail. there are no other beauty supplies stores within this and it supports the high ratio of formula retail and based on those ouldz in the case support the department recommends this that concludes my presentation. and i'm available for questions >> thank you. project sponsor >> good afternoon, commissioners melinda. i'm here on behalf of the project sponsor we're riveted excited to be here to present this project i have robert a manager for the sally beauty and others that represent the land use & economic development committee shore shopping center.
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this project is requesting conditional use authorization to relocate this within the lake shire or shore shopping center terror a national retailer of beauty supplies and have a respiration for the first choice with consumers alike they have operated successfully for 20 years and primarily serves surrounding neighborhoods it will be an ideal center there are no other retail uses that over the high-end care and beauty supplies they're going to occupy a space at the south side of the center another company relocated to it would displace
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my other organizations. they will have - they won't expand. it's stimulated they'll hire 5 new employees including a manager and lakeshore plaza is sally's second location. we're confident that sally had are help the surrounding neighborhood capable with other national retailers in the area. at this time, i'd like to invite of robert the manager at the sally beauty to talk about the interest in the location >> hi. first time ever talking about in front of the compilation i'm
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nervous. on behalf of the sally beauty supply i'm excited to speak about you today and to, you know, ask for your approval at your new site we have one in san francisco and we've been trying for a long time to get one out at lakeshore and our manager and location is excited because she lives two minutes from the location she's excited to have the opportunity to open a new store per the company has been around for 50 years this is our having year anniversary we have stores around the country by one of the things unique to sally is that when we open stores in cities it's becomes local very
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quick and our managers really establish themselves with the local as long as in the community and that's what the local residents get we give them great products at great prices to fulfill needs and create a great atmosphere. if few have my questions i'm here to answer them thank you, again, for thank you for the opportunity to speak >> that's all the comments i'll keep it brief my questions let us know. >> let's see if there's my any public comment sooepdz commissioner borden. >> i move to approve. >> second and commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i had a question i'm
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very much in support but to staff workplace the c go 3 and stones town there's no need for conditional use for formula retail i'm not sure why we need conditional use for shore plaza it's almost all formula retail. >> mr. from the staff yeah. it's a technically formula retail area and no hamburgers and yeah. according to the motion that's correct. >> commissioners there's another motion and second to approve this project with conditions. >> commissioner antonini.
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commissioner borden arrest commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong would be so kind to acknowledge you are viewing this in the executive chambers and i vote i >> and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on public comment i have there are no speaker cards >> seeing none, public comment is closed and meeting adjourned. leaders. >> hi everyone i'm patrick the
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director of earthquake safety forever for the stoifbl and we have the ryan white fair to teach people about the made sure soft story ordinance and connect them with the services they need you can save thousands of lives and if those buildings are rooiftd people will be allowed to sleep in their own beds while the city is recovering. >> we're here at the earthquake ryan white center for people to comply with the ryan white or do a ryan white on their property to connect with the resources
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they need. i came here wondering what to do as a owner of an apartment building moderate to comply with the must rules that went into effect last year >> we don't want to go to 10 different events people said so we advise people of the event. so we try to be incentive not everyone is going to be able to come 0 so this fans the afternoon and the einstein >> i've decided to be here it's amazing to see all those people's here it's critical to be prepared and to recover from disasters as finishing as
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possible. >> i've been to a lot of shows and this one was a trufk turnout a. >> since the structure the building represents the super structure the lower part of this particle on the buildings on the corner they shack quite a bit. >> so for the floors above as shaking that top floor is fog go-go have no more mass and we saw in 1984 more structure destruction where we're ryan white this by adding a steel frame typically you want to brass in both directions and see how strong the building is. >> we've adapted a thirty year implementation program i worry
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about that was a retrofit requirement this is what we do to mitigate the shom and have's evacuation for the people and our partners. i had questions about what kind of professionals are involved in this i want to start to put together a team of people to help me get through this. i'm a structural engineer and i'm thrilled at the quality of the contractors and engineers >> we've taken one civic awesome and put all the vendors in one place. >> you have financing and engineers and contractor and they come here and every we're rebuilding are that the office
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of the city of administer and the depth thought i environment and other partners. >> all those things one little piece of a resilient piece of - >> and i felt more positive about things i thought about how to pay for this. >> we didn't want to have one financing option it didn't work. >> we found information about financing they are different options for different types property owners. >> we've seen them offering financially and a pool of styles for a complicated way of saying they'll be able to pay back
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their loans over the next two years. >> we have 3 options and secondly, to get a loan for the ryan white and the third becoming in the past program participants in that. it is encouraged along coastal easier where we have set time like sand and a high water table to a cause the sand to shake i'm going to get this visitation on the same bridge you'll see the water come to the surface this knocks the foundation over and pushes out the ruptured pipeline
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>> it is intimidating i'm talking to people as a layman who needs help. >> this is a difficult process for people to navigate we're only focused on outreach so we've got the informational and we've spoken to many different owner groups and community groups all across the city. >> outreach is critical for the retrofitting program the city has to get out to the community and help people said what they have to do and do it and raise finances so this program is an advocate and resource for the community. >> so why not skip to the theme. foremost and most to come we've
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been presenting community meetings and going face to face with community owners and helping people understand what to do >> you may be wanting to know about the sf green but this will allow you to have is a loan for the property so if you have the property the loan will be summoned by the new owner and this is pay back for your property taxes and the low rates this is a fantastic option. >> i'm in favor of the program obviously we're going to have a earthquake this is from an investment stewardship. >> after a few minutes with folks even if you don't agree you understand the concept. >> we've talked about being
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able to do this now we're going to be forced to do this it's a good thing but to pay for it. >> it's not only protecting their property but every dollar is for mitigation it truly is protecting our investment overall the city. >> it's the right thing to do. you can look at the soft story building and theirs like the buildings that collapsed in the earthquake and your shufrtdz to see this >> people are getting caught to get this done and if people can find a place in our homes of shelter it will keep people in their homes. >> together we'll work out of
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getting out of 0 disaster and making the community bringing back to what we love. >> as a level of folks we've talked about we make recommendations to make everyone mitigated their soft story problems no other jurisdiction has tried to tackle this ordinance and we're set to have our program complete by 20/20. >> the quality of the people are here because of the leadership. >> it's a great conversation statewide how to do this and i can only stress this enough if we didn't have the community of
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the san franciscans that are concerned people, you know, talking about our financing is options and our engineering requirement if you altercated all our work it's consensus driven to provide options we don't have one path but one relative for people to get there. >> it's been an excellent consumption of the services i think i'm going to need if i go through this yeah, i'm very >> turn off all of your cell phones or pagers so that we don't get interrupted and we would like to thank