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mixed use development not far away at fulsome and fremont that will be a mixture as most of the numbered parcels are of market rate and a candidate but there's quite a few of the of those under construction so there's many places to be employed efgz been said and building to build 69 unit and, of course, the other part that was mentioned is a community facility district that is part of the development agreement and an affirmation of the sponsor of the agreement of 923 of the board of supervisors to set the rates that's been challenged by some but this will
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verify the fact this particular project will be on board as the rates as well as the cost of living increases in the proposal so i think it's a win-win in that ma many ways and i'm total in support of this i think it is very well done and looking forward to seeing this building completd completed. >> commissioner johnck. >> i'm also in support but a question on what this says about our fees i mean, if this developer is willing to pay 2 and a half times than our normal fee what does that say about our fees is it too low maybe this is downtown there's less office how is our fee if we can come up with an opportunity clause with the 13 how is the fcalculated.
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>> i'll be honest i don't know how the fee is calculated its done at the mayor's office of housing it is upgraded annually to reflect the changes in the cip and the amount of discount through the affordable units you've raised an interesting point the fee as an amount and whether or not that needs to be recease and perhaps we'll work to get a schedule on another day i apologize not an fester activeer answer. >> when is the fee recalculated thank you as the recalculated annually not that i'm aware of there's is a trigger i believe
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there's some authorization to have that fee upgraded annually but again, i don't know the mechanics how they come up with the number. >> okay thanks. >> commissioner richards. >> i echo commissioner president wu your thoughts on the case study this is the first on several we're going to see it's an affordable unit but with the fees tests not neighborly and we echo commissioner johnck's comments on the fee structure and things on the table we're having increases in the fees but the market is going faster than the fees are catching and have a policy or discussion i think it's a fair agreement 35 percent affordable rate and the people that are going to be lou buying those and
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i reached out to the council of community housing organization they've in support of it i make a motion to approve. >> second. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i want to say nice to see you both recently on the ocii commission i see a lot of this stuff here i echo the comments made but i'll add a couple of things i definitely agree with the hoa discussion about the task force what is there to be done i don't know if there's another answer than the having enough affordable housing stock and in terms of the fee i don't think that cross the board the fees are a inclusionary fees their calculations leaves a lot of money on the table when we come
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back to the nexus study we should look at the fees by product type of and neighborhoods this is a tower that's built over office relatively a large residential unit and 2, 3, 4 downtown area that i think that's a totally different communication thereon the buildings we're seeing in the eastern neighborhoods maybe that's a discussion across the board where we're not leaving money on the table and fully support this project one thing that may not not clear from the memo maybe everyone got it the dollars that will be applied to the 69 will come out to the six 9 units so the ocii is capped at $200,000 and the fees they apply to the you are talking about costs even though it costs for the ocii contributions it is for
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the 69 not going to the - so i don't think that is clear in the memo i wanted to say that but i'm totally supportive. >> director ram. >> thank you a couple of thoughts this question of fees and how their set will be part of the decision of the task force work and the people trying to schedule the december or january i forget. >> but the fees of the off site fees the actual components of the legislation are the approximate i didn't that was voted on the percentages are capped on the 12 percent i believe that the fees are established on the costs of contradiction i'm not sure that's typical in the city but
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we'll get more specifics on that before we have the hearing. >> thank you commissioner richards. >> i think one comment on the fees write was at we have an agreement to the fees the 13 point x million dollars is set in a year with we'll have a certificate of occupancy that will go up by x percentage so we'll get more information from the outside thank you. >> commissioners there is a we have a motion and a second to approval the development agreement and the question for dentist authorization. >> commissioner antonini arrest commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero before we precede those people standing in front of the doorways their causing a fire hazard those people need to find
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a seat or move to this side of the room please. >> commissioners that places you on item 10 for case no. riffling 22 x for 1010 street question for large project authorization. >> good afternoon rick with the department staff it is a large project authorization on 8151010 street under the large project authorization they've seeking w the planning code requirements for the rear yard and open space and the proposed project is demolition of the two-story
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transmittal buildings and a new construction residential 93 square feet with 59 dwelling units and sfoov bicycle parking spaces it includes a dwelling mix 38, 2 bedroom units and 3 of one bedroom units it has a public industry court on 1010 street and a rear squared it is located off the 29 street today we've received 210 east one he currencies that is opposed and since the project is located within the zoning district it is a tier a affordable housing requirement that requires 14.4 of the designated housing to be
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included in the project housing program the housing will have 10 affordable housing for ownership after analyzing that the department staff recommended approval with conditions the project complies with the planning code the project is consistent with the objectives and the policies of jeopardy plan it is located in a district where residential use it permitted and the project prudes provides a upgrade including the landscaping and common open space and a courtyard it has a hiring program and has 69 new dwelling units and has the eastern planning controls and pay the impact fees the project sponsor is here and has perpetrate a short presentation that concludes my presentation. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> thank you project sponsor.
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>> once you start speaking to the presentation sfgovtv will turn that on. >> okay. great. >> good afternoon, members of the planning commission thank you rick for your presentation i'm jonathan here on belief of our corporation we're a vertically sgrabtd contractor of multi housing we're based in santa clara and i'm based in san francisco just a brief summer 69 units with on site affordability with 10 utilities on c street one to one parking in addition to car share on site i specifically want to keep that brief but talk about the process over over the course of the last
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year given in the located in the middle of the dog patch association we've spent time with the association and stakeholders we came down with a project that allows the maximum in the area and after going through italy arbitrations we were able to hear the feedback having to do with height and massing and articulation and the overall design the dog patch is a unique district in san francisco you could be walking done one mid block in the neighborhood and following by commercial and what have you the feedback we want something unique and blends with the upper development we don't want you to max out on everything we
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brought forward design in both meetings in the dog patch association as well as the board and neighborhoods of the project and came forward with we we have we can address the height and preserve existing portions of the building i'm here today with john with the architecture he's our architect we wants to talk about the design and the segue and, of course, we're available for questions. >> okay. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you for your time to present some of the details about the projects we've put up other slides i'll walk through carefully. >> when you speak sfgovtv b will put it up.
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>> this is the results okay. the first slide is the site plan i have have few photos to walk around the neighborhood photo number 3 at the top is 19th heading down 1010 the existing structure that's there new is renovated and added into with brick additions and metal and horizontal and vertical additions it's a mishmash of things we would like to highlight how we kept one of the structures and this is the view looking at tennessee street it's a little bit washed out we have a great landscape with the green strip from the curb and set the building back ten feet and have a green strip with a pedestrian
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experience in the lower left slide we saved part of the structure and taken the roof off and keep that and make that an open space area to people walking down the street to enjoy the landscape that's not grading gatdz over and over private it illustrates in the rear yard courtyard is an open space that is a religious we have complete parking on tennessee street it is we're taking advantage the street slopping to get the parking access completely you don't see the cars their hidden in the main pedestrian way we have we're meeting the bike rooms in the basement and car
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share located within the parking garage and the next slide is illustrates on the corner the main corner the part of the building we're saving we're to make that the highlight of the project and the rest of the project we're breaking down the massing and trying to articulate 20 to 25 foot wide town houses or massing to break down the scale of the project this is just a view the project we want to make sure we light the sidewalks we want to see that as improving the neighborhood illuminating the courtyard it's a safe project this is the secretary view how and excavated the streets we
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have stoops along tennessee street towards 19th the land strip along the parking spaces there and the landscape strip across the building in the inn set the existing view in black and white and the color view we're proposing the material are we're showing you brick as the existing material and their sustainable we have plastic and increment and citing and some wood paneleding concrete that's the presentation i'll stick around for questions thank you. >> we'll open this up for public comment john and susan. >> thank you. i was out of the
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country for a year on state university business i teach design at san jose development but all in the inspection of responsible and good design 815, 25. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> street has a name so if we're going to be sending this fine brick building to the gallows gives it the name of the building we've seen the rome don't be fooled by earth designs that's a wolf in sheeps clothing and presents a dangerous precedent what will remain of this building if the project goes ahead only a amputated fragment of the brick facade
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colliding with that will be ill coordinated alcohols with decorative grid there are 3 reasons to save it one is the architecture stream and two the social and cultural history and 3 an opportunity to do what dog patch does better than other neighborhoods in san francisco and i adapt and reuse brick buildings are rearer than our victorians i can count the brick buildings in dog patch they range from the charming police department to the majestic park they have faired pretty well this building deserves the merit the same treatment they have the social and cultural history the buildings speaks volumes an immigrant from china and years from hard work and their own business with great pride they
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yes, ma'am battalion with red, white, and blue the food company in english two foot high letters and chinese characters 4 foot high this building this brick building is dog patchs only testimony to chinese-american history in san francisco florida the building were in chinatown or fisherman's wharf or north beach it would be untouchable solution is adapt reuse and as i said co-joined with mixed use is the genus of dog patch that is only my 3 minute summary for you but this comes down to 3 options reuse of existing building as is a commercial and nonprofit cultural building with internal structuring and number 2 would
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be as a - >> thank you. sir, your time is up. >> thank you i'll send in. >> full report. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm susan i'm vice president of the dog patch association in the not so distant past i had an opposition to proposals in our neighborhood, however, in the past year or so i've spoken to a handful of project proposed for dog patch 1972 a direct result of the people listening to our community rome development fellows this trend a trirpgs feel of the project from the first meeting the developer heard that was important to us
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to help maintain the character of the neighborhood when we offered design suggestions they came back with a better plan unanimous support when we voted to enforce the project please join join us and approve that design. >> is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners commissioner antonini. >> i think this is a great project i think it's a good reuse of part of the historic building and i i would like to make one suggestion to the architect looking at the views that were given us you've got an area that goes along tennessee street it goes along both streets you have a
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sides that is a gray color i would suggest you consider the possibility of having that side have more if a masonry color it will blend the two together your new facility is different by changing that siding i think on one side you have the color but on tennessee if i'm not mistaken it doesn't have one i suggest that see what the commissioners have to say but it don't a lot of good things. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i echo commissioner antonini's comments i am sympathetic to the public comment to maintain and preserving older building but i think in this case, the addition density overcomes some of the
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potential consequences of getting rid of the building that's there i will say that the building itself in terms of the facade needs to be blend better with the remaining fade from the older facility and colors will help this is something that is an prevail the developer can work with the staff my question for my second question for the developer or project sponsor or staff whoever knows the area answer answer why wasn't ground floor retail considered thanks again for the map authorization it is good but i look at the projects and think about the projects already built and people moved in there's a birth of people serving the
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retail i don't see the ground floor retail other than the one on 22nd or something like that so discuss thank you. >> i think the department didn't feel that ground floor retail in this particular location would have served in the dog patch area third street and along 22nd street are the primary incarnations and given the proposal with the ground floor dwelling unit we found it a strong proposal overall. >> thank you. i'll is again, we had so many projects coming up in the area i don't feel the need to have that fight over this particular project this design works but in general we need to think about the third street the t line and the cars
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whipping up and down the lanes and mta is talking about the traffic calming and things that might change that characterization of this street but it means that people that live in dog patch people don't walk to third street and actually outlet there's no neighborhoods you need to get our hair or nails done there's one store i live in that area so we need to rethink that of there's ground floor units their room to think about how to extend the neighborhood services into the eastern part east of third street in dog patch when we look at those prongs we need to think about and not saying people will be able to walk to 3 e 22nd street that's the main
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commercial district there. >> thank you commissioner richards i echo what commissioner johnson said about the rail it will activate the street i think i was actually for the design of the building until i got in newspaper the reason in the old design the new design looks like a shelf so i recommend you put the windows back it is like a wall now that's my recommendation. >> commissioner fong. >> thank you. well i'm excited about the new housing units here but i want to share commissioner johnsons thought if there neighborhood in this area if we're going to try to build it out make accommodations now for commercial use see i don't think a grocery store within the
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walking distance to think about how we over lay that commercial use and what is it becoming a neighborhood obviously. >> commissioner richards ii guess my question to commissioner johnson would you support a continuance on this item and have them go back and look at it incorporating the businesses on this project additional some more design lemons like the windows. >> commissioner johnck so maybe we can ask the developer about it have they considered it i have concerned about the building that has folks have raised it looks like a relic there's issues below it but have a way like the lobby to make it feel anymore like
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keeping it is good kind of that half keeping it open space doesn't work is there solutions like putting retail or making it a fungal building than it is. >> yeah. thank you jonathan all very good points and points well-taken we'll have those debates over the course of two community meetings and the additional meetings off site with the board members we've gone back and forth and people echoed some of the comments about third street being the areas they want to activate the reason for preserve the non historic or the corner of the building was so there could be
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space open to the sky that can be activated like a lobby to a hotel as you're walking up and down content members could pass through and seating and benches we've agreed with the dog patch neighborhood association with our hoa that will allow for a mechanism for them to contact our hoa in the event they want that space for a social gather for the health and safety a hand in hand process to come up with hopefully there this is the solution. >> so i somewhat agree that is a tough sited for retail but i'll be supportive of including our motion i wanted to look at the design the materials you're using are good and a quality facade but a little bit more unified i