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street it becomes fairly narrow you have more side swiping of cars and whatnot we're going to try to calm the traffic at the corner and come back. >> i mean he circle people to - i'm okay with this plan if you want to lessen the traffic but it will calm people and invite less people down the street i wouldn't mind seeing this all the way widen but compromise with the neighborhood i'm supportive of what is being proposed. >> commissioner richards. >> i'm generally in support of project i think the project sponsor and the neighbors have come a ironic way and the traffic off of fulsome coming and ooufrgz ralph as a cut
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through to the part of the street to the immediately e immediate north i think one of the questions i have are those mitigation letters enough for the stuff that is actually happening there they're good i go with what commissioner hillis said are they going to mitigate it you can't is it both was y claim have you considered anything else. >> i can speak on behalf of the department typically this project is subject to better streets and looking at the larger streetscape plan the department found the streetscape improvements met the intents of the code and kind of that aspect
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of the project so i'll let the developer speak on the options they're considered. >> josh from the sponsor we did consider there was a whole list of things we talked about with the neighborhoods we zoned in on the ones we thought we could get done we couldn't make promises to you know choosing the direction of the street or cobblestoneing the street we came up with a solution we didn't get done and didn't have all the agencies to approve is it enough i think that expending the bulb out further can help and we could get it done but i'm not sure of what else we can do the sidewalk
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there's i you can elevate the sidewalk and highlight it make it more visible but we thought the bulbs were a nice add we looked at other things but the best way to get it done and more sufficient. >> the other thing one of the commissioners that said we were talking about fulsome being further conditions of things how would the garage it's fit open fulsome versus ralph's and the question that is answered that was the memo would have addressed the conditions so i think that was a thoughtful piece i've supportive of that i don't support additional parking tall thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> i appreciate commissioners comments keep that in mind on
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the ones that are made i'll not support additional parking we're in a transitional area despite the negotiation between the neighbors and developer should not be over turned and number 2 the issue of the raised sidewalk i'm looking for the directors response the city itself doesn't repeating really support the speed bumps the sidewalk looms a speed tangle do question have the city's support on that. >> it requires public works to do those pbs has been doing these in some neighborhood i happen to live on a street in the mission for this very purpose to discourage through traffic it tends to discourage some traffic and slows down traffic. >> that's a standard tool in
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suburban community the negative sides of the speed tables are well known and making a lot of noise when cars continue to move fast they make noise i'm not discouraging it i would like to encourage the department to look further alley policies that help us deal with the issue of traffic through traffic potential other alleys that might have future garage entrances and come up with protecting the neighborhood formation and existing neighborhoods that we want to support to stay liveable we need to find ways to mitigate every increasing needs for oftenlogically cars moving through the alleys downtown
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there are several alleys downtown we've established throughout the additional retail i ouch find myself walking to have someone honking on me. >> i hope the department will actually start to develop protective elements including whatever that might be some of the things we've talked about today. >> i think what was a creative idea they visibly narrow the streets and that discourages people from dlout if i can narrow the street. >> and pavement color does that with the face moving to fairs as an architecture i'm post of the changes i don't think the
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building has significantly changed, however, the tweaks make it changed to is okay. so the ralph side is a positive change of scale is good and there's the fulsome side we've got enough changes in support of this and commissioner hillis. >> i'm going to move to approve are reconditional or how are we recognizing that. >> the streetscape improvements have been adapted but to be clear mention the additional improvements the project sponsor has adapted those changes as part of the project. >> including the installation of the race portion. >> right it's a high or visible crosswalk and how is it recognized the bulb out on ralph
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and the raised crosswalk and we'll adapt the revised design facade. >> we are not adapting the increase. >> right. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i think that is raised sidewalk it will be effective and as far as any kind of speed bumps or things along the alley i think their helpful i speak from experience in our neighborhood we have streets people like to cut through a car can go fast and hit them but it don't a lot of damage if you try to do it fast and see i think that kind of thing will be positive whether you need
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approvals from other departments i'm going to support of the motion i still would like more parking but it seems like we don't have the roads to get the additional parking so we'll have to go with what staff approved it is regrettable people have cars and park them someplace it is inrealistic we how hard it is to get to one part of attain i don't know how you take a bus to north beach i i'd rather walk. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much this is a far walk i would ride my bike maybe a quick question when i was reading the staff
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reporting i was confused whether i agree with them or not the streetscape was suggested by staff some seem their dbi and mta issues staff real quick which ones can be conditioned. >> the ones that the project sponsor agreed it are the better streets plan can be adapted as part of the plan it's a code requirement for the project so the commission has discretionary over addressing those elements you know for the project based on that planning code and thank you very much to clarify the parking ratio for this project is what. >> it basically changes based on the zoning district the staff illustrates i can get you it. >> that would be great and district is .5 and the
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commission has used that as a guide generally, the commission has improved the t district. >> i said to clarify what it actually was as a comment in general we have issues where the streetscape is thinking about the 16th and van ness project there were a lot of streetscape we continent condition and they have to go to other depended thanks. >> parking ratio. >> so for fillmore fulsome and it is permitted for 38 sorry
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.75 and .5 and .75 okay. thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> so i think that the gentleman last year last time we discussed that as a right it would be 72 parking spaces; is that correct okay. so that's what we're voting on. >> commissioners there is a motion and second with approved conditions with the bulb out and crosswalk with no additional parking. >> raised or high visibility. >> raised or high visibility very good on that motions. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to
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zero commissioners that place you on item 13 for the case at 800 indiana street for a large project authorization commissioners due to a noticing error on the agenda that doesn't specifically call out the sequa items unfortunately you can't act on that matter today, however, he can hear the matter take a motion of intent and have it placed and continue it to january 8th and have it fall on our consent calendar i apologize for that to the project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners rich with the department staff the project is a large are authorization and shadow findings for 800 indiana street under the conditional use authorization they're seeking
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the modification for a rear yard open space and permitted obstructions and dwelling unit and horizon mass production prior to seeking actions on the stimulate the commission must adapt the sequa flgdz which was certified on december 4th in the motion as commission secretary i mentioned there was an omission in the calendar so your action should you choose to take it another motion to paragraph or obviously modifications and continuance the proposed project includes the demolition of a two-story house and mr. stansburg 74 thousand secret and the new c of a residential story building
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with 3 hundred and 26 dwelling units and 4 shared car spaces and off-street spaces and bicycle spaces and an additional one hundred and 47 parking spaces it consists of 9, 3 bedroom units and 2 bedroom units and one hundred and 10 studio unions the proposed project has common open space for 73 units via private places and plaza it will incorporate a dog park underneath the offer pass on 30th street today, the department has received a few correspondents that primarily express support and earlier today the rec and park adapted the ordinance which need that
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the additional shadows will not be adverse the project will address the payment of the affordable housing fee the staff is in agreement with the proposed modification given the outstanding unit design after analyzing all aspects of the project the staff recommends approval it complies with the american people waterfront area plan and the project is located in a zoning district where it is permitted and has upgrades of bulb out and sidewalk shaping and dog park it is respectful of the neighborhood and provides a scale for a large block and fits the hiring plan and adams to the
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housing stoke and pay the appropriate impact fees the project sponsor has prepared short presentation concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. and project sponsor. >> thank you, commissioners my name is joe i'm with affordable housing lane we're the project sponsor and the owner and manager of this building once complete i have a long his of building along san francisco we helped to revitalize mission street and now we're thrilled to be joining the dog patch we set out to design this our primary goals to reflect a in this case fabric in the dog patch and we really building our success is tied to audio ability to come through
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so to do this we've assembled a skill team and then what we did was linked we prepared at community meeting and sat at kitchen tables offer the psa past years and see this an interesting place we have addressed the concerns and make that better we learned about the proposed design which parts are working and not as a result we've come up with first a design that the neighbors embraced but for example, we're going to build a public dog park you'll see it when the arithmetic through go through and turn it into a public amenity and you know really maybe a little bit above and
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beyond similarly we're going to transform the streetscape from in front of our site it is a mustache much wider sidewalk and we also explicit look at that in isolation but we looked to the neighbors fewer block stretch so all the indiana street can have it in a cooperated way we're proud to present i'm happy to introduce you our team dan, and others take it away and terrific peter with architects and hopefully on the screen we have on the screen excellent an overview of the project the site
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as everyone understands is the long warehouse and it is a long existing warehouse next slide thank you not too much happening on the street but on the next street the street park development that has the wide landscape opportunity this neighborhood daich is a great accomodation building character so our approach to replace the large fingertip with 3 ding buildings restore it and have a mid block building each designed by a different architecture team and they share a common and active frontage along the
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townhomes and four shared common spaces and a pattern of openings between building in the mid block and opportunities for the endangered pocket plaza punk waited by a plaza and the park that joe talked about under the underpass the streetscape has rich landscape and pocket parks doesn't with the dog park at the end is part of a landscape from 18 to 20th street dog park is that area underneath of the overpass quite tall about 50 feet and 9 thousand square feet there closed the dog park and lighting is all maintained by avalon bay a great compliment to a streetcar
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and then in 3 dynamics if indiana you see the fingertips become 30 pieces of architectures which step back and open up all that carefully worked out with the neighborhood i'm going to turn it over to owen. >> thank you owen with the planning and architect the south side of the site and the building slides ranked the existing former railway it is the industrial pass when trains roll up indiana street our building gives express to this rail easement we've divided the building into two pizza piece other than the south side on the left is following the level of the easement and there it was
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originally planned to 5 stories we've lowered it down to 4 stories from feedback from the neighborhood it has actually a long internal property line but still a facade to the street and we've reconciled this problem with vertical bay windows that protrude i understand i said street, and, secondly, by he south setting it back from the property line it t it protects the angle the easement to the north to the right is a anchoring ground floor lobby it has a nice feel and curving profile that provides light and
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air and more open face to the 3 public facades and acts its it way in transition to b and so building b consists of a line of townhomes in the next slide those are about 3 feet set back you get a nice continuous terrace and the stack of two-story bays on top of that horizon frame the next slide public department of transportation waited by a piece that encaps the lobby lodge and that's the central place the gathering areas for the push mid block on that site next slide the section you see the central practice these and it con strict the street and kaumgz the street
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and compliments the landscape footage next slide and to dan. >> daniel with solomon architect we're the architects for the northern section of the warehouse it's called a we've destined that as what we call a finger plan 3 particularly bars around the squared up and down the street along the freeway our design resonates with the qualities that gives dog patch pittsburgh that's special charm in several ways it picks out the the rhythms of the neighborhood vertically propositional to the neighborhood it replicates the handsome brick
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of the street building across the street with major openings gather into a double high quarter and deeply recuse as traditional brick masonry it creates a street footage along indiana with intriguing entries and the street footage is animated in the middle of of our stoops in the ground floor unit and in the south side with the glassy lounge and common dogwatch on the northern corner facing the new dog patch park thank you. >> so just to take a few minutes inform conclude thank you to the staff and also on the
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environmental side fantastic to work you with we've working hard to make sure we put this tangibly better we're proud we've done it testament to the project we have a unanimous endorsement and here to ask you to join and approve that project. >> (calling names). >> i live a block away from the site since this project is rather large for our small neighborhood no southerners from the neighborhood from the beginning, however, the project sponsors engaged with the community and represented the project until they delivered the
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design and as was mentioned sdma you know unanimously supported the project 800 indiana street will bring significant and meaningful benefits to dog patch community and much needed housing and stunning architecture and new dog patch park i strongly encourage your approval. >> thank you. next speaker. and good afternoon rob pool again along the architects they presented the projects to us earlier this year our members were authentic it is not good the way it was along the transit line and by breaking it up into 3 spaces it created numerous
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streetscape improvements and gone above and beyond with their streetscape plan the dog park is a fantastic edition and overall this is a great project i hope you support it as is on behalf of the coalition happy holidays happy new year and all that you do thank you. >> next speaker >> good afternoon again, i'm janet the president of the dog patch neighborhood association i'm here he representing the neighborhood we met with the project sponsor for a couple of years now and they have done a great job actually redesigning the project from the original project the previous owner we're thrilled
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what they've come up with to get a great design for the neighborhood one of our concerns was being able to see potrero hill from dog patch the previous design eliminated that they've done a good job we don't feel cut off from potrero hill we asked for 3 bedroom units we're really to to ask all the developers they're doing that putting that in for us streetscape is really great we're looking forward to that the off leash dog park we hope the city will finally endorse the non off leash.org park it is a people park bus a de facto dog park we hope this will help
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