embarcadero he passed away at 68. i got to know doug a little bit because of emphasis roll in the embarcadero he was a consultant of the transportation in seattle they were looking at removing their infrastructure there >> commissioners item telegraph hill receive of last events at the board of appeals the preservation commission did not meet arrest the board of appeals didn't meet this week but will be back next week and commissioners general public comment needing 15 at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when

reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. let me - >> sue hester i appreciate commissioner johnson about the large project he's is not the only one that is trying to figure out what's happening in the neighborhood i wish the excision to set a hearing in early october for having an active community hamburger for the planning department. i've been requesting staff to do such for the better part of a year because the records currently, the records are a

farce the real records are the electronic files and the e-mails. and no one it aware of it especially people i tell and a couple of people that did that on their own and the other attorneys. so getting the public record is a large large burden on the public especially, when they're not told their hidden. the mechanics of producing record is totally chaotic. the records themselves i used to get records from the planning department it's on the hearing and you know who the planner is you can ask the planner for the records that worked i have no problem with that but when it comes down to the electronics records and the requests i will reviewer refer you to the

ethnics commissions plan that come down last week there's enormous need for the public to talk about this not a 5 minute presentation by the planning staff after planning staff talking about how good they are but what's the public awareness of the process you'll find out a lot of the people on this side of the oil have a lot to say you have a hearing on the 25th in october you need a real hearing how to meet our public obligations in general and the records in general. i'm disappointed the ethnic commissions is not on the website i suspect it should be i

watched the ethnic commission hearing and i said holy hannah this is the serious discussion i've never seen this at the planning commission i think we're owed that >> thank you additional general public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is bradley i'm an architecture historian i'm here to raise the issue of a real crisis for a particular style that hadn't gotten it's due a crisis in the neighborhood where those buildings were built that is the brick felt pa trolley style is being paint

over across the city not to educate this about the style a mixture of the mission and that led to the spanish colonel we're seeing the rough text it is your duty breaking and entering brick that inspired the piece in brick making and the whole industry developing it was brought to a fine state in the 19 hundred through 1910 and was really initially in the 1990s by this style is not recognized as the bridge that's not the academic putter of recognizing this style we see the brick buildings often it's of an era but being painted

on the hillside in the neighborhoods, out in the inner west side those buildings are being damaged because is it's hard to fan gloss that type of brick it's bring out he will and processor prodding bricks that protrude forward on russian hill and hayes valley it's a real problem it doesn't seem to be addressed it all by the planning or commission it's a style that's being recognized before the portola style was being named at the time in the

journals in san francisco it's not a style for other cities in the east so i urge you to fill the campaign to sdourg the painting. thank you additional general public comment? general public comment is closed. . >> commissioners that places you under our regular calendar for the benefit of the public items 12, 13 abc and d will be called after 2:00 p.m. commissioners an item pulled off of consent item 7 for 34 are 63, 16th street a request for conditional use authorization you'll take up now. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and members of the planning commission that i'm with the plaintiff the item

before you is for conditional use authorization on 16th street the proposal of the change in the 8 hundred and a square feet into a restaurant to permit the sale of beer and wine on site. the existing hours of operation from 7 to 7 daily the hours will change to 7:00 a.m. no longer thanl 10 hours. pursuant to the planning code the non conforming limited restaurant can be converted through the discretionary review authorization because it is located in the upper market street as well as other neighborhood transit commercial districts all of which permit restaurants. duo to date the planning department has 5 letters of sport and 2 individuals in

opposition of the parking. the project is code compliant and for the section no off-street parking is required for the project, however, to serve up a good neighbor the applicant has been invited. the community will be responsible for the matters of the owners and occupants for the parking. in order for the project to precedes the commission must permit the conditional use authorization to convert on existing limited restaurant on 16th street. the department recommends approval with conditions and buildings this is desirable for the following reasons it's a

smalllogically owned business the coffee shop has been operating in the space since 2011 the project meets all the requirements of planning code and is not formula retail use in the immediate neighborhood that concludes my presentation. and if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> thank you project sponsor. >> hi. there have been as mentioned a couple of neighbors that came down with complaints that's in the file i want to address the complaints i'm iris and my husband and i own the cafe and live across the street. i think that's an important

point we're permanence that live across the street it's more important to us that the cafe continues to be the welcoming neighborhood cafe we want to make sure why it's clear why we've asked for the conditional use authorization we want to include beer and wine into the menu we want to say keeping the cafe a through the is not easy we're here in an attempt to keep it open. i want to go through a couple comments one is rewarding parking one of our customers lives in the neighborhood and the majority of the cafe customers he drive to the cafe

and our employees that's false. also with ice cream place a half block away a large portion of their customers drive to their business and take up the spaces in the neighborhood. one neighbor has a complaint about parking double parking on her little street light near the cafe and she's come into the cafe a couple of times and was one of them asking her to find of the car and it was not somebody in the cafe. we understand thatics place has parking space problems in the neighborhood we ask you not associate us withics. the first few most we are that

open we no longer encourage outside food in the cafe for more than two years. regarding the noise concerns our customers are artists and moms and dads and bye alexander beer and wine to our menu we don't want our menu to change our atmosphere we need to sell alcohol is go brought forth. other local businesses sell alcohol as a good source of revenue we're president that additional revenue stream. the same neighbor that asked the question said since we've signed the lease he can't be empathyic

to our situation the city planning process we're participating in helps to have change we signed the lease to make the change. in closing i want to reiterate lift ev'ry voice and sing by adding beer and wine to our menu it will help us to stay awe float and satisfy our customers. thanks for your consideration and opening up for public comment (calling names) >> good afternoon, commissioners i live on harry low streets off

of 16th street. the reason i'd like to brings a comment about the cafe is because their customers park in our drivers they also park on harry low street blocking the access in and out and in the yellow zone in front of our building which is used by two of my brothers we moved there in 4968 by resdrement e developments the parking situation i've asked people they come from the cafe senate file if he please remain standing explanation not to park in the yellow zone and they said when we get through with our sandwiches we'll move we're in business at several locations since 1938 so it's a family owned business and it's now in the second-generation so i would

appreciate our consideration in denying the access to build a full service restaurant they have no parking spaces i admit parking on 16th street is very, very bad but we also have our situation when you live on harlan street we maintain the streets and have no problems this is a situation that is coming up now i'd appreciate our consideration >> thank you. next speaker. i'll call a few more names

(calling names) skew also i represent a mature adult who is lout to get a glass of wipe i'm a medical student i don't think it's going to become a route i didn't place because they serve beer and wine but it will offer an important service federal or state to the neighborhood. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi commissioners the city planning process is not only good for businesses but for residents and business owners they run a successful cafe i've been living near since 2007.

i think that my main concern there are a plethora number of plays that sell beer and wine we don't need another business my bedroom window overlooks this business. there are a lot of people that go to cafe senate file if i they're saying it's no longer advertised the main concern is not only parking but nice i've never seen someone get quieter after grinning a glass of beer the restaurant didn't place their notice i don't know if i need a picture of it i have it here instead of posting the picture facing 16th street they posted it on an in ward slant on

the door but anyone walking on 16th street wouldn't see it so i'd be cancerous if they anyone commented saw the sign that's the ended up of my comments i don't think we need another plays selling beer and align i wine in the castro in a placing place that's zoned for the purchase but their request here is they knew this was a limited restaurant space when they leased it i can't be empathying >> as you've called our name come to the podium (calling names). >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm josh white i'm here in

support of the application i live directly above cafe senate file if he and lived there ever since it's opened i found the employees and customers to be exceptionally polite and i've never had concerns about noise or concerns about route i didn't clients i have no reason to building that will change in the responsible owns of cafe senate file if he are granted the application i believe they've been an exceptional care and caution addition to the neighborhood they're the perfect neighborhood cafe and you know, i have a professional job here in san francisco and if i had the slightly concerns that my nilt would be disrupted by them

serving wine and beer i'd be opposing the application. just a couple of quick points to respond to the speaker before me i think did notice was posted in a way that was clearly visible i walk by the cafe everyday i saw it everyday on on the issue of parking my prospective was created by the ike's customers i share that opinion that most customers tend to walk rather than drive to cafe senate file if he >> thank you. >> hi my name is benny come

here to speak in support of cafe senate file 70 if he applications i've been attended the cafe for years years and years i used to work there. i am you know, i think that the neighborhood needs a lot more of the establishments that cafe senate fiophi sophie. customers park in my derivative from ike's two and three times a day i'm incentive to this i

promise you people don't drive do cafe sophie i walk there arena around the castro i live across the street people walk there it's a neighborhood cafe it's the kind of place we need i mean, i'll just leave it at that >> is there any additional public comment and hello my name is shawn simon i'm an employee with cafe sophie the manager i'd like to say today we've been growing our business over the last 3 years this has been a good edition to our neighborhood. we've made a lot of friends

we've made a lot of built a lot of unity there this is about growing a neighborhoods character in bringing people together per we serve a respectable client tell r with a diversifies background of prospect we've become known as a sanctuary or low-key environment in the neighborhood most of our customers now we've been granted a bike rack in front of our spot bicycle to our cafe and we're looking to be able be able to extend our business into the are early earning to become an alternative to geological to the upper market businesses as well as the church street businesses

but we'll like to be able to tie those two business districts together. this is to come to him to a bar to joy one or two glasses of wine or beer in the evening it's important to connect the businesses to church strit streetcar to the castro upper market currently there's not a whole lost businesses connecting between that and that's all thank you >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? >> hello, i'm julie la simon i

work at cafe sophie we're establishing a reputation of a low key honest to goodness spot to enjoy yourselves a lot of our customers are professionals who just want to unwind and relax we very much offer this environment. yeah. love it >> thank you. is there any additional public comment okay seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >> thank you. i'm in support of this project for a couple reasons that have not necessarily been brought up first which one is choosing a place particularly for diner and part of the application is to extend their hours from 6 to 10:00 p.m. that includes a lot more people having their final

meal of the day and more emphasis on this meal when i'm looking around for a place in the early evening hours i like to have a glass of wine or beer and i avoid a place not offering that. it's not a consideration of lunch for me because railway that's included with my lunch so if you have later hours you know you have to be able to offer people that have this as part of their evening meal it makes sense. an additional impact this will have in an neighborhood that has a lot of establishments is negotiable and as far as people coming to this place i think

most of the planters will be people who live in the neighborhood or live fairly close and take public transportation there. understandably it's an area with little residential parking a lot of people that have cars have to park them on the streets as well as 9 establishments but that's not the fault of that particular establishment so i'll move to approve >> second. >> for the public that we're concerned about the yellow zone can staff tell us who to call whether there's a cars illegally parked in the yellow zone. >> i believe the mta and they have enforcement agencies that regulate those parking inappropriately that's the appropriate person to call there's no parking requirement for this lease.

>> so i don't think the parking problem is tied to this project but there's a challenge on the street so that the mta is the enforcement agency. >> commissioners a motion and second. commissioner antonini. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. commissioners as mentioned earlier items 12, 13 abc and d will be called out of order therefore that places us on item 14. at 490 south van ness question for a large conditional use authorization we've received a question with to continue this to september 18th >> we'll hear from the

supervisors first. >> thank you commissioner president wu i'm from supervisor campos office we first want to say that the sponsor has worked with the community and has been willing to reach out there's pockets of the community we want them to context with that's the pta on marshal avenue that's one of the reasons we ask for the continuance one race point i'd like to make the sponsor after speaking with them has accepted to send a continuance and we're still pushing our deal to month so we hope your