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commissions under 5 mayors i admire supervisor cohen your efforts to work with the mayor to protect pdr and the designer district was created in the 70s and is one of the great examples of pdr in the country that is an effort by a multiple billion dollars real estate firm to bypass the local zoning laws to make a whole a lot of the money. i think it's hilarious the design of penn truce and how this will help. understand what we're talking about we're talking about recreation and parks department people for people that make furniture and sell it and fabricate and replace that with
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photos of what they were creating. someone said india it has no relationship to the strict it is a combination of groups coming possibility together and working as the previous lady talked about. i think you should reject this and perhaps send it back to the landmarks board and ask them to hear from everyone they didn't hear from the first times around >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm warren i'm a designer. i walked by those show rooms and into the show rooms on a daily basis. i'm only one designer i do over $10 million a year for those show rooms that's a lot of
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money. marketing was sort lying through her and she knows she was. some people when they get on the line they've got to go one way or another if space could be located in other buildings why doesn't penn truce relocate why break up a community that's been here over thirty years there is no need for penn truce to be in this area they steal our ideas its will breaking up and busting up an industries that's been here a long time i urge you to take 20 pounds in one hand and
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now 5 pounds in another hand and walk 20 blocks there are a great great deal of of us over 35 it's difficult to walk one block one way and 3 blocks another way and 5 blocks another way willie brown where are you when we need you. don't do it >> next speaker >> good afternoon, supervisors steve i'm not here to speak on 2 henry adams but item 4. i apologize. i represent several owns of building in pdr g not pdr d.
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i'm asking you that consider one amendment to item 4 on page 3 line 21 right now line 21 says that excited uses of an existing uses bandit for 90 days you lose that use in the pdr use >> can you tell me what line. >> hold only. >> on item 4. if i may take a moment i have an updated legislation i want to circulate to you. >> so hopefully, we'll resolve this issue simply that 90 days increased to one hundred and 80 days. the current period is one hundred and 80 days to make that
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consistent >> is there any additional public comment on item 3 or item 4? supervisor cohen how do you want to handle were you going to have the project sponsor come back up >> i'll be brief i want to clear up the leasing numbers at times we refer to the design center as two buildings to be specific henry adams there's 77 leases in place and 31 are month to month. since our last hearing and subsequent to meeting with supervisor cohen we've been able to convert those to longer leases now have the 31 there's 15 remaining. the maximum displacement for the
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project with penn truce is a total of 8 tenants that represents less than 21 thousand square feet. as we continue to see contraction in the galleria more space will be made available in addition to those tenants there are 5 tenants that have subsequential debt collection average 10 and a half thousand dollars in awe rears. we're going to pay for relocation costs to make sure they find a home in this district. i want to touch on briefly what is katrero boosters we agree the viability of this district is important to us.
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so with this project moving forward with its landmark and understanding the conditional use this project will be before you again. we plan on working specifically with each and every tenant with leases so conceptually those tenants find a home in this neighborhood. it's also important to note that after this conversion this project that recommendation 80 percent office and 20 percent pdr this ground floor pdr is being preserved will be single-handly important to us. and i think we've i will strutted we've show the importance of this neighborhood
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through the long term and lastly i want to ask you to approve that landmark so we can engage this body as well as the community to work through with the tenants >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on them three or four seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor cohen. thank you, everyone for coming out to the project sponsor thank you for your time and fort in reaching it out the tenant and the to the tenant and designers everyone this is part of the conversation i applaud you for getting this together quickly your autograph heard me and i've expressed concerns about the tenants not being part of the conversation. one of the - so there's a couple of things first to decouple the
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notion this is an item we're dealing with had to do with landmark designation has little to do with penn truce per say. you've heard in the public comment it can be any company. but i still think that there's still a significant amount of confusion about what will happen with the tenants. the project sponsor mentioned 8 tenants total displacement lost i disagree with that, i think there will be more tenants lost and don't believe that the i believe that the market has con transacted die to the downturn of the economic placate but it's
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coming back the journals and perils have indicated this contraction that the project sponsor is describing happened across the country and the industry but has documented it's coming back and i believe that definitely to be the case. allowing office and landmarks is for its to retrofit but this market is through the economic downturn so that isn't the spirit of code it isn't the spirit of landmarked legislation. i agree there, there has been an
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loophole and i look forward to closing that loophole to modify this parking lot part of the code and critiquing create a carrot that the building developers will create for pdr space. i've expressed my discomfortable public library and prifg with the thought of occasional obligating the previous office space we're not talking about one building ladies and gentlemen, but a total of 15 and so the approach here is one of surgical precision you can't take a sledgehammer to cover everything. i do believe the building is beautiful and deserves landmark states, however, the decision is not about the designation of the
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building. i know it's the project sponsors thought to convert this to office space and many of the folks came into the public comment referenced we're building office space. should decision today sets the important precedence. by i like about san francisco among the small neighborhoods there's a dedicated design station and this design center made me proud high-end goods but are partnering with folks that are blue-collar workers and more importantly employing them a that's important to our economy in the city we can strike a balance to support of the maintenance of the buildings but
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can't do that and go about doing that by displaying long term tenants and liking like i said eating the entire pdr building i know it's a beautiful landmark building but i'm not comfortable in forwarding that so i want to if at you will impossible join me in tabling this item >> (inaudible). >> i can speak on 3. >> tabling or continue to the call of the chair. >> continue to the to the call of the chair i've put in language for the amendments late in the game. i introduced those interim zoning controls in response from the concerns from the potential
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of conversion of the office space in the pdr as a result of the landmark resolution this will expose a requirement for any building that is in the pdr one d and g zoning district it pay attentions to that of displacement for pdr tenants that require a tenant relocation plan as of component of conditional use requirement this is an addressed layer for the certainty in an uncertain area like our former anywhere described this is a continued pull from property owners and tenants this on a commercial
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front as opposed to a residential. i have two amendments to the resolution that i understand are non-substantive the first one is on page 3 and in the further resolve closing clause i'm going to change for the time for address time to see whether or not their office space was abandoned additionally, the second amendment is the counterfeiting applies only to landmark buildings so colleagues, i ask you support those are two amendments today so we can have a robust public process in place for pdr spaces. it's important to note that the conditional use will note that all the stakeholders will have a say but the conversation the conversion of buildings into office space so i make a motion
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to amend >> ; right with respect to item 4 supervisor cohen has made a motion. >> actually, i'm happy to accept this are those the amendments that were presented by the gentleman for the landmark for one hundred and 80 days. >> we'll take that without objection. those are adapted to item 4 and then schoen your intent to move item 4 to the full board with positive recommendation? >> no. >> oh, item 4 and yes with positive recommendation. >> two motions on the table for item 3 motion by cohen to continue the item to the to the call of the chair and with respect to item 4 a motion by supervisor cohen to move the
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item to the full board of supervisors with full recommendation i'm happy to support both motions supervisor kim. >> so with respect to the item 3 to the call of the chair we'll take that without objection. and went to the motion to move item 4 to the feedback full board with recommendation we'll take that without objection.. >> great, thank you. thank you very much. madam clerk call item 5 >> item 5 is on ordinance e-mailed the code forever the rental for the seismic retrofit.
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item 5 is co-sponsored by the mayor and myself. >> good afternoon patrick for the city i want to thank you all again over the last two years we've take the opportunity great steps to make san francisco safer we passed the retrofit ordinance last year just to remind you this protects 60 thousand people in the city and 7 thousand local workers that are employed we have legislation that established legislation for poorer people and gives low interest loans this is the same effort that takes a specific change to the rent owners and
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amends it for tenants that are unable to park in their parking spaces only when a mandatory parking issue. it provides a clear mechanism for the landlord to sever parking services during the retrofit and this is unclear we have been working with the tenant activist community to come up with a fair and balanced framework if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them and as well as the director of the rent board is here as well >> thank you, sir. did you have anything to add or are you here for questions >> terrifically colleagues if no questions or comments we'll open open this up for public
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comment on item 5. come on up >> good afternoon supervisor i'm charley representing the san francisco apartment association we've supportive of this legislation and thank you, supervisor wiener for your leadership as well as supervisor chiu and mayor ed lee. and as well as pacific with the earthquake safety implementation committee. if there's any comment i believe that a 10 percent reduction is more equal to the partially and in the beginning of this legislation a 10 percent legislation was the number takes into consideration around but we're nevertheless, in support of the protective we believe it has circulate for an issue and many of the members are starting hair seismic work now we're supportive of this >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item 5.
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seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. colleagues if there's no comments or questions can you have a motion to move item 5 to the full board with positive recommendation. we'll take that without objection.. okay we'll take that without objection. that will be the order madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> there's no further business. >> all right. then we're adjourned.
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since i was 17 really the only thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. >> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan
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and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so that's my pleasure. each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people
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give me a reputation i can't buy. people love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. >> fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the community aspect i really enjoyed. >> i think it's important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge.
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission i've lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and san francisco. or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born
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