this meeting of the historic preservation commission to order. >> good afternoon and welcome to the historic preservation commission regular meeting for wednesday, june 18, 2014. like to remind members of the audience the that the commission does not permit outbursts of any kind please silence any mobile devices the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this point >> president hasz. commissioner wolfram. commissioner hyland. commissioner johnck. commissioner johns. commissioner matsuda.

supervisor farrell. commissioners first on your agenda is the 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 for the when it is n reached in the meeting i have no speaker cards >> any member of the public wish to speak please come on up. >> hello, i'm jackie this is beverly upton going to hand out packets i e-mailed you early this morning about the goldberg building when beverly and i reside in. we're seeking our consideration for the building at days hearing you'll add to your current

designation landmark program that was constrictions by a cartoon it author and designed by bernard joseph mr. goldberg was born in san francisco and worked at the san francisco chronicle. this contains two residential one retained by the artist for the recent communications with the goldberg family i have an compassionate letter that was delivered to supervisor breed. we have an exterior dishonesty of the building at the cover of our packet. beverly and i job to job the goldberg family we ask this building be added to our

landmark program. the building where we reside is currently flowing the ellis act and we realize the act will not stop that but we want to make sure it's preserved for generations to come >> thank you jackie i'm beverly i'm the executive director in my day job of the domestic violence commission. good afternoon. i'm here as a san francisco citizen i can walk you through the packet we've put together we live at the l r goldberg the ruth was a pricing prizewinning cartoon it and when you see the water heats the

kitties tail and the symbols run that's how it gets it's orange juice in the morning there are competitions around the country they have one at stanford we'd love to see more activity around the work and we can do this by preserving our building you can see it on the cover of our packet and interior photos of jackie's flat i've been there 23 years we each have significant others and animals and we love our building it is being under the ellis act we want to make sure that it stays whole for the city so you can see some of the interior shofts jackie's

apartment and see ruth goldberg short biography he was born in san francisco and his dad was a commissioner on the police commission and rubbing be passed away but was born in san francisco in 1883 i know some of you are involved in the historic architecture and the same gentleman joseph who sdund the building was the architect on this be building so again, it's a san francisco treasure. i will stop and say that in our neighborhood you've all driven through it in hate valencia as the guess so are being bought and sold generally within one or two more owners their torn down and made into condos there's been a book written about the

art of rubbing goldberg by my husband his daughter an a a letter and his daughter is going to do a book signing and the photos of the original plans are in here as well as the stamp from the building that was permitted in 1811 >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and commissioners that places you in department matter number one matters. >> good afternoon tim frye with the department it includes information about the preservation element on your calendar today and as you may be aware the commissioner has been

reappointed to another commission at the sfmta directors if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> commissioners. seeing no questions or comments >> we'll move on. >> item 2 review of the past commission staff reports. >> again tim frye with the defendant a couple of comments one is the proposed designation for 2 henry adams was heard at the committee and supervisor cowen the sponsor for the proposed designation i'm sure you're aware of you unanimously forwarded our positive recommendation for the designation at your march 5 hearing nearly 20 of the members spoke including tenants at the this hearing and public comment and supervisor cowen's questioning was geared towards

the use of pdr use without question everyone understand the historic significance of the building but there was a lot of discussion about the pdr conversion in a positive and negative sense but i think it's interesting to note that most of the comments were in favor of the looked designation that includes the tenant perpetrate there were a few public comments in opposition but the majority were in favor, however, at the end of the hearing the land use committee felt more discussion needed to occur between the property owner and the existing tenants to be continued to july we have offered technical assistance for the upcoming meeting and will keep you posted

on the outcome of the july 7th hearing. and finally some have asked about the rehab of the building this was unanimously approved by a c a some ago the staff visited the site and moot visit for the stucco repair and replacement so work is moving along they have a scheduled completion date hopefully towards the end of july we'll bring it back and show you some photographs and the owners have been amenable to come back and giving you an overview if, if you so wish but we'll keep you posted on the progress. that concludes my presentation. unless you have any questions and commissioner hyland >> just a question tim on the

people that were speaking no opposition to the landmark what was the nature of the opposition because of the pdr issue or was it qualified as a landmark. >> all the comments were directed to concern over the loss of pdr space in the property there were several comments that acknowledge the building is worth protection it's an an tecum historic point of view. >> commissioner pearlman. >> you explicit talk about what happened at the planning commission it was a lively event. >> that's a good point i don't have my formal comments there's one item on your agenda the discussion about the pdr by steve we've asked and based on our requests asked steve to

present that exact presentation for a similar dialog and report back to the planning commission any comments you feel are necessary to forward to them. >> is there any additional public comment seeing none. >> that places you in commission matters in regard to the pdr item and for the benefit of the general audience that will be called out of order and called after item 7350 bush before draft presentation review and examine so that will be called out of order. >> commissioners item 3 ports and announcement and none. >> item 4 draft minutes for the ar c june 4th hearing and the regular hearing of june 14,

2014. >> commissioner questions or comments. >> commissioner. >> i believe that i asked the president to inquire of the city attorney whether or not we could at some point have a presentation focused on the issue of what happens if the presentation is made to the commission and the facts that are stated in the presentation end upon which we base our donation turn out to be not true whether or not there's niagara anything that the commission can do i didn't see that in the draft minutes. >> oh, you didn't see the comment. >> in the draft minutes. >> got you. >> i didn't want it to slip through through the cracks. >> that will be in the city attorney comments.

>> we'll rereview that if i'm correct that's commissioner pearlman's. >> no commissioner johns brought it up. >> okay item 57. >> take a look at that. >> all right. commissioner wolfram. >> i was wondering about the format there's a section under 5 where commissioner pearlman has a bunch of comments and commissioner moore is upset maybe it was recorded that she was upset it sounds like she was here. >> actually a continuance of the comments but we'll make it clear. >> make it clear she wasn't here only hear say. >> any other questions or comments.

any members of the public wish to comment >> i move to approve the architecture review committee and the ones for the regular hearing with the discretions. >> thank you. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes as corrected. commissioner hyland. commissioner johnck. commissioner johns. commissioner matsuda. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram. mraupt u president hasz so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under item 5 commission questions or comments >> commissioner matsuda. >> one disclosure i had a brief conversation about 350 bush i'd like to make an acquire to see that the r l goldberg building be placed on our agenda for

consideration i was wondering that you passed out earlier. >> commissioners tim frye planning staff the form i passed out was the rec and park department elevation that occurred of the rubbing goldberg in the octavia survey to give us some level of detail that's on the planning department i'll be happy to if you decide to add this to your work program i'll look at that and bring it to you at a future date we haven't had an opportunity to review the plants report. >> commissioner wolfram. >> i had a similar disclosure the gentleman called about 350 bush and had a brief conversation he asked if i had

questions i hadn't reviewed the report but i approve the commissioners suggestion we look at the goldberg. >> commissioner hyland. >> the disclosure our the preservation the architecture group offered the draft we're reviewing that was done in 2008, and reviewed with the city attorney and it's okay for me to participate in the discussion and the contract w is over and closed i had no involvement. >> commissioner pearlman. >> i was contracted by the gentleman i didn't speak but ripped with a message on 350 bush and i also enthusiastically support commissioner matsuda's review of getting the goldberg building i think that's great i didn't know about it and i lived 3 blocks from it.

the other thing as a matter of fact we've gotten this in our packet today from the board of supervisors that was a meeting on yesterday this is not necessary for us and thank you from the board of supervisors that was a hearing yesterday so we need to its just a piece of trash >> any other questions or comments. >> commissioner hyland. >> one announcement for those who are aware of the castro street light project it's not under our purview it's gone spectacularly well, it's ahead of schedule and important probation officer to bring that out and mention people that are responsibly. nicholas perry from the city planning leadership supervisor

wiener, of course, and dpw with the john dennis and then the contractor who i think should be recognized as well the brothers. i haven't seen a project run so smooth with all the possible disruptions if you have not been out there the sidewalks are open now >> thank you. seeing no other comments or disclosures >> commissioners that places you in your regular calendar case six the light rail art installation requests a certificate of appropriateness. >> good afternoon department staff the proposal before you is the installation of the metal box and the light rail the passive gold is 3 hundred street lamps from the embarcadero in

2008, the sculpture designed the street lamps and the tops were designed in 1916 the proposed boxed are part of the light rail installation designed to with stand from the embarcadero to dennis avenue and continue through 2018 nord to have the project done we proposes one hundred boxed please tell us between the embarcadero and van ness the box s are 11 and a half inches wide my designed to match the width of the polls they're to be metal and panted to match the poles placed on the location of the temporary banners and near the center of the pole. in order to run the wiring

electro the pole the project proposes to derail 2 small places into the pole it includes the maintenance during the duration of the light installation and will be installed. the department preservation staff was brought to the architecture design committee on they're meeting and at the ar c meeting we got the design of the maintenance and the removal of the proposed light rail utility bongs. the ar c commented the boxes detracted from the goals and the agreed that the powell's poles installed will be preferable they need to be e 4r07kd to shape the box and the ar c recommended they be