one of the major barriers this prevents people from enjoying places to its great to have the heat. i have a quick question i know i've put a number of trees own harrison street i know that harrison has a narrow sidewalk maybe it's not a question for you but i'm curious about the sidewalk and are we going something >> we're expanding the sidewalk. >> is that part of your work. >> and harrison going both get extended. >> that's great to hear. thank you >> okay public comment at this point or is there more presentations. >> no more presentations. >> we'll open up public comment

seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor kim i'd like to forward this with positive recommendation to the full board i apologize we didn't push this forward that will be voted on accepted 2. >> and a second reading on september 2nd so the motion to support in with recommendation we'll take that without objection. and madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. . then we are adjourned.

>> welcome to the san francisco historic preservation meeting for wednesday, august 6th, 2014, the commission does not tolerate any out bursts and silence any mobile device and when speaking before the commission, if you care to state your name for the record and i would like to take roll. >> commissioners, first on your agenda, is the general public comment, at this time, members of the public may address the

commission on items of interest to the public, that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the commission, except for the agenda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. >> and the public wish to speak on the item not on the agenda, come up to the podium. >> good afternoon, commissioners, what an opportunity, my beverly uptown i am the director of the san francisco violence con soar um, we leave at the corner of oak and goth and want to update you on activities that we have been doing around the golberg building and so we were here a few weeks ago and we wanted to update you. >> do you want to talk? >> why don't you go. >> okay. >> i will fill in. >> as you can see, in jackie hand there is a copy of one of

the best selling coffee table books of the year it is called the art of rub gold berg, so she reached out to his grand dot ner new york city. we all used to be in the garment industry and we had a lot of things in common, so his daughter jennifer george the author of this book did a trunk show of her designs and a book signing for three days in her apartment last week. she is giving ten percent of her proceeds to us, all of us, to have a report done about the feasibility of historic status for the building and so we are super excited about it and i brought the copies for you but i wanted you to see, jennifer george is his grand daughter and this is her signing her book. this is a little gathering with david chiu, valley, from supervisor breed's office. we are going to have letters from them soon. and jackie myself and rub's

grand daughter. and then sharon johnson, our friend who used to be at the department of status of women, and project homeless connect is a dear friend and so she was there as well and we want to show you how beautiful the clothes were at the trunk show. and so we were really excited about that and jackie hosted a dinner and a tea and maybe from that i should let jackie take over and tell you about the coverage that we received. >> thank you. >> thank you, so much. >> what we will do is start the clock over. >> sure, thanks so much. >> yes, we are very fortunate to get the nice coverage on the building as a result of our efforts with the building and with jek fer george the grand daughter. one of those was actually from the chronicle and so that is in your package. really nice coverage from them about the building and what we are trying to accomplish as well as coverage from the library, from some of their

historic departments and the chronicle has agreed and i heard yesterday, from them, that they are going to come back and do a larger piece that will come out in the chronicle pink section later this month. and so we are really excited about everything that is happening with the building and we are going to continue to fight for the building. one of the things that came up was also, that from a number of landmark related people that came to the events, was that how much they also appreciated the inside of the building, where he used to work and live. and so we are going to make as many efforts as we can to try and landmark some portions of the inside of that second floor as well. which includes some parts of our apartment and bef verly's apartment, thank you so much for your continued support and efforts. >> thank you. >> any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on the agenda. >> seeing none, we will move on.

>> commissioners, that will place you under department matters, item 1, director's announcements. >> good afternoon, commissioners, just want to call to your attention the residential pipeline report that is now being placed on the written director's report. it is something that we have been doing for a while as a result of legislation and request from the community and the board of supervisor to keep track of both number of units in the pipeline and those built and those entitled and we will do, and we update this information based on the numbers that we get from the department of building inspection on a quarterly basis. and just wanted to call to your attention that this will be an ongoing report in the director's report from here on in. that concludes my report thank you. >> thank you. >> item two, review of past events at the planning commission staff report and announcements? >> good afternoon, commissioners, tim fry, department staff.

a couple of items to share with you this afternoon. first is in regards to the interim controls for office buildings in pdr districts this was legislation sponsored by cohen that went into effect on july 15 and for the purposes of the interim controls, conversion of a landmark building to an office use in a pdr use is subject to 18 months to continual use and authorization from the planning commission. and in addition to that, supervisor cohen also introduced legislation on july 29th, to amend the planning code to place vertical controls on office conversion in landmark buildings and pdr districts. this means that the new controls will dictate how many floors can actually be converted to office and a slightly more stricter control than what is currently in the planning code. we will bring this proposed code amendments for your review and comment prior to the board

of supervisor's hearing and at the last hearing, the hpc requested that we calendar a more robust discussion on the obligation of the criteria or the lack of criteria, and so we are going to calendar the discussion, along with the review of those proposed amendments at the same hearing, so we can have a much broader conversation about both of those topics. second item that i wanted to share with you as you are probably aware there was a fire on monday at the hotel and the hpc approved a major permit to alter for the rehabilitation for this year and the project being reviewed by the national park service for tax credit purposes and there is a crew, working around the clock to pump water out of the building and tablize the site we have been in contact with the property owners and as you may have seen in the paper, the architect did mention a lot of the finishes within the lobby appear to be in okay condition

so that is good news and we will keep you posted on any additional repairs that may be required, as a result of the fire. third, item, on monday, tina and i attended the historic preservation fund meeting where kerri and cindy from the california office of historic preservation discussed statements and surveys and the methodology behind those types of documents and data collection, and the committee had a number of questions regarding the ohp's review of the historic context statements and survey and the city or the department's obligations under the certificated local government status and i had to leave that discussion early, but i have been in contact with the mayor's office and the fund committee to see if there was any sort of action items or resolution at the end of that discussion and i will certainly share those with you once i

have them. just to give you some background, the primary request for this discussion came from the fund committee, a couple of years ago after the mission survey adoption, where there was a discrepancy between the city staff's recommendation and what the commission adopted. and then, the ohp also had some additional concerns. and so the fund committee wanted to get a better understanding of how each of the bodies was reviewing the survey findings and how we can improve the coordination in the future. >> if there are any action items i will let you know in the next hearing. >> also at the last hearing, the historic preservation commission, requested a status report on the results of your budget requests and the staff allocation and we are going to have a report at the next hearing on august 20th and go into more detail about the

approved budget as it relates to the hpc. and then this past month i was on the east coast for two events, that i wanted just to quickly mention to you. one i was at the national alliance of preservation commission forum in philadelphia and it was a great opportunity for professionals in all areas of government, either state, local or federal level to share to network and to share, stories and discuss the topics and issues that were relevant to their cities, and as we have seen in other preservation conferences this year i think that there is an ongoing trend with the sorts of things that we are talking about how to produce the surveys efficiently and how to recognize the social and cultural heritage and how to expand the notion of how the preservation means and also at the state and federal levels and i am going to share some of

the things that i have learned at that conference with you at a future date, but in addition, last week, along with the handful of other local government representatives i was invited to attend a training on the federal rehabilitation tax credit program and it was helpful to gain a better understanding but also how we as a city and as a commission can help to promote and facilitate use of that and it is certainly timely considering we are at the verge of adopting or the state on the merge of adopting a state historic tax credit and so those certainly will be used in conjunction in the future, and learned a lot about some of the pitfalls that some of states have with having a state credit and a federal credit and hopefully we can learn from some of those experiences. and making sure that our own tax credits work efficiently. but again, i am happy to provide the hpc or the public with the additional information

on either event. and so that is a way to brain storm the improvements for our own program and i also want to mention kelley, and i am happy to announce that kelley wo ng accepted a position as a preservation planning on the code enforcement team and this was part of last year's budget and kelley was previously was a planner on the north east team and now moving to code enforcement and as was still working out the details of that position, and it is duties and responsibilities the over all intent is to provide applicants with more technical services and in particular, providing some expertise after permits have been issued or the cvas have been issued to help the applicants achieve the approval. but you will likely see her in the future but this new capacity and we will keep you

abreast of her backfill, once the hiring process begins. and then finally, in response to public comment, i just want to mention to you that the gold berg building along with two other buildings that have recently been requested for landmark designation by the public will be brought to you at your next hearing. just for discussion of the information that we have received to date, whether or not they should be included on the work program, and over all process. and we are preparing the notification for the property owners and tenants at this time. so once the notice and everybody has been properly noticed we will have it on the 20th hearing and we will prepare a packet for you, and your next hpc packet. based on the information that we have received to date. >> so that concludes my comments, and if you have any questions, happy to answer them at this time, thank you. >> one more question on the pdr on a future date, any ideas?

>> i don't know exactly when the legislation will be referred to us, because the board is in recess right now. in talking to the city trainer office we think that it will be early september. >> okay. >> maybe the first hearing or the third hearing in september is what we are aiming for right now. >> terrific thank you. >> i was interested tim in your discussion of the meeting for the historic fund committee. the discrepancy, i mean, what spured the topic, of discussion at the meeting was apparently the discrepancy between your evaluation of some aspect of mission delores and how shipo was looking at that and i was curious to know if it was substantive just in general terms and can you comment on that. >> sure, the mission, association, commission, to survey, of the mission delores neighborhood and the staff raised the concerns about the

number of non-contributers that were included in the district and it was one very large district that was identified and we also thought that based on the themes identified in the historic context statement that there may be several districts rather than one large encompassing district and that is something that we brought to the commission at that time a number of years ago. and there was some disagreement about that, or what the district boundaries should be and what was the appropriate ratio from contributers to non-contributers, they said that we don't agree with either side but more work should be done because there is clearly something of significance there and so at this time, the community has hired katherine petrin to complete a national register nomination that will thoroughly evaluate where the district boundaries lie justifying those boundaries but also the ratio of contributers and non-contributers and we hope at that time we will have

more solid footing to provide a positive recommendation. >> thank you. >> and last, one is on kelley's new position, and what are we calling that position? >> she will still be considered a historic preservation technical specialist but the job duties will lie with the code enforcement and zoning team and so she will be working on any code enforcement issues whether a member of the public calls and believes, you know, windows have been installed without a permit or not in compliance with the staff or commission's approval. but there certainly is an opportunity for us to expand or look at other ways that she can fulfill the duties or of this commission. >> we have the new conditions of approval saying that we are going to have staff go out and confirm before occupancy. >> correct. >> is kelley going to handle that capacity?

is that her... >> hopefully. we have not gotten to the point. we have implemented site visits as part of conditions of approval for some time now and it has been occurring or as-needed basis by the staff planner and makes perfect sense to have kelley accompany that planner to make sure that the work is being completed according to the conditions. >> on those checks, and occupancy time, we will have the planner from the project go out and maybe kelley will assist? >> the site visits are not always occurring at the very end. sometimes they are occurring at the various milestones if we have to see a window mockup or a repair example. that is usually when the planners are out there in terms of coordinating with dbi and getting out there before the occupancy is issued, we are certainly opened to doing that and i think that we need to have a bigger conversation with dbi first.

we occasionally do it, but, to be honest it has to and it usually happens with much larger projects, like downtown projects that have a long laundry list of approval. >> it is a hired consultant that we check in or something like that. >> exactly. >> it makes sense to do it as part of any c, of a and as we do it on a regular basis already. >> thank you, any other questions for mr. fry? >> seeing none we will move on. commissioners that will place you under the commission matters item three, president report and announcements. >> no report or announcements. >> item four, consideration of adoption draft minutes for the arc on july 16, and the regular hearing for july 16, 2014, i will point out one correction that was pointed out to me by the city attorney's office that karagin and the haden building was misspelled and will be corrected on page 2 of the regular hearing minutes.

>> commissioners and apc members, any comments or corrections? >> yeah, i am fine with the arc minutes, and one question and one correction, on the hpc minutes. under item two, bullet two, about to henry adams. we talked about a land use committee hearing, july 7th, is that the correct date? could we just check and make sure that that was the correct date? >> under that first bullet? >> yeah, under two. >> i will look into that date. >> it is a monday that is when they have the land use. >> was it after or before. >> it was prior. >> okay that is finally fine then. under six, the disclosures if we could change under my disclosure from last time, element if you could spell out

architectural group, in lieu of by his firm? >> certainly. >> great. >> thanks. >> commissioners? any other comments or corrections? >> and any member of the public wish to make a comment, correction on the either minute? seeing none we will close public comment and bring it back to the board. >> i move to adopt the minutes of the meetings on the 16th. >> i second. >> okay. >> on that motion, then commissions to adopt the meeting minutes for july 16, 2014, as corrected and amended, commissioner highland? >> yes, jonnck, yes. >> pearlman. >> yes. >> and... i >> i have did one announcement. >> yes, if i could go back, the realtor program went through the first group of 50, pacific

union was the company, they sold like literally the first day that they announced it they have 100 more to put there. >> there is nothing further we can move on to item 5, commission comments and questions. >> commissioners? johns? >> i don't know whether i should call her commission johnck but she has been teaching a class at the university of berkeley and the particular subject that was discussed when i attended out in the marshes, i guess was two weeks ago, where it was the history and the development and i guess that you could call it the restoration of the salt

ponds. and that commission professor has written an extraordinarily interesting article on the history and the development of salt and salt production in the san francisco bay explains among other things the movers and shakers behind it. the historic events in alaska, and in nevada that precipitated the development of it. and so i suggest that if anybody is interested, they could perhaps ask the commissioner to send them a copy of the article. but it is just extraordinarily interesting. >> thank you. >> commissioners any other comments? disclosures sha that we need? >> i recently took my class on a field trip out there and it is a fascinating piece of history. so i am happy to send it

around, it is in california history, summer issue. but any way, i do have question, i note that on september 3rd, which is our next meeting, that there are no items on the calendar. and i would request consideration or of a cancelation or if there are items then that we should know about them or how do you want to handle? >> i think that we have one more meeting before then? snement correct. >> right. >> let's take it up at the next meeting. >> yeah. >> i think that is good and we can get an update from staff. >> okay. >> terrific. >> thank you for pointing that out. >> commissioners anything else? >> seeing nothing we will move on. >> commissioners that will place you under your consideration of items proposed

for continuance item 6, 2014.0448 h, a continuance to august 20, 2014, as well as your rules and regulations consideration of adoption are also proposed for continuance to august 20, 2014. i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. >> do we have any discussion among the commissioners? >> i think that it will be a good idea. >> thank you. >> any member of the public wish to speak on these continuance items? >> seeing none we will close public comment and bring it back. >> i move to continue. >> second. >> moved and seconded thank you. >> on that motion to continue item 6 and 7 to august, 20, commissioner highland? >> yes. >> johnck, yes. >> johns. >> yes. >> matsuda. >> yes. >> wolfram. >> yes. >> hasz. >> yes. >> and it places you under your regular calendar for case

number, 2014.0359. 201 buchanan street, request for appropriateness. >> good afternoon, the house is landmark 47 on the west side of the street between lasat and waler streets. the east lake style residence was built in 1882 by john nighting dale senior. and the property is subject to a mills act property contract approved in 2013, and i have attached the associated rehabilitation and maintenance plans and they are on the way with the project and if you have not had a chance to walk by the house it is looking fantastic. and the photographs in the case report reflects some of that work. the proposed project, calls for a construction of a concrete stair and a trash bin storage area at the south west corner of the property and alteration of the non-historic sun room

attached at the rear wall of the historic residence, the stair construction will include cutting and opening the existing concrete retaining wall removing a three foot wide section of the historic railing and installing a new gate and safety railings along the top of the new stairwell, the gate and railings will replicate the design and however have a smooth finish which will distinguish them from the historic weather worn rod irand. replacing the window and skylights, the sun room is not visible from the public right-of-way and the upgrade will require that a fire proof para pit is installed along the property lines and however you will see in the conditions of approval we plan to work with dbi to lower that as much as possible. like i said the property is subject to the mills act property contract. and with that i would like to

go to our findings. you may have noticed a slipped up, there is a typo in the findings referred to the alamo landmark, it is from an old template, but this findings do reflect this project and the nighting gale house. we have found that the proposed stair will provide safe entry and egress from the basement level without compromising the historic character of the sight. the stair will be located at the fornorthwest that is formally distanced from the historic home and that stair will be constructed of concrete and material that is used for the historic retaining wall and however it will have minimal detailing. and the new iron railing and gate will largely match the design of the historic iron railing as to not to introduce a new and distracting element and however they will be

differentiated from the original railing and due to the modern finish and the trash bins will be located in the side wall of the stair so that it does not have a prominent presence when viewed from the street, the door will be wood to match the material of the doors on the property, however it will be designed on a simple manner. for the regarding the proposed sun room, the sun room is a later edition which has no architectural significance and the alterations will improve the compatibility of the feature with the character of the building and the work will replace aluminum doors, with the light and doors, and the framing will be compatible with the building without mimicking the original building, the pyramid skylights will be replaced with a lantern shaped skylights that relates better to the