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ome of the mitigation in terms of construction i saw quite a bit there i'd like to see more detail we have a sensitive receptor here in terms of schools that's abutting two different sides of the project and the rest of it as a school surrounding the projects that are surrounding this school so if we can have specifics around the conduct i know that generally comes from the project plan when you get a permit you file for our construction plan with the department of building inspection but it will be good for an impact and anything we can do all around further noise around the types of commit and all of that but if anything we can do for noise shielding those
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can be pointed out in the eir for this project. >> commissioner richards and it's interesting i'm sitting here and kind of here we go again one more time on the neighborhood what the effect is been i'm a neighborhood plan guy and grew up in octavia plan i'm wondering what's the difference i agree i'll come to that in a minute i agree with the potrero hill busters gentleman some of the status when i was begun i was watching this while i was eating we recognize the 25 year oufbz in the first years hournl honestly, i saw director ram quoted an article on twitter but the community benefits doesn't appearing for caught up up here
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market octavia sits american people market street here you have all those clashes around the development and not the infrastructure to support it yet that's a concern you know interestingly i went to 100 hooper street to visit the site i drove my car and drove round and round and round there are a lot of vacant buildings i've driven past hooper and already at 1601 mariposa there's an issue around transportation i'm concerned this will add more to it and 33 hundred car trips a day will add it to there's not much alternative not the infrastructure to support the
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growth in moving people around i'm worried about the impact on the school i agree with the commissioner moore and others you know we're trying to encourage families and here we're impacting the construction piece you have to have construction and side noise that effects elapsing it remind me of the draft eir it effected people at the seniors next door trying to regain memories and here we have young students trying to learn and noise dust and post construction for the shadow the shadows definitely the passageway will alleviate that and the age of in question
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i want to understand that are we using old data so make new models i agree i hope we'll see a changed project and move towards the superior alternated thanks. >> commissioner moore. >> i'd like to ask one more question that is jackson park we have acreage in jackson traditionally citywide baseball programs happen in the park at least if i see this it doesn't look inviting it is surrounded by a chain linked fence, however, an occasional stroll is somewhat difficult my question has the population increased the
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number like the rec and park open space is a program change or a ring with the harmonies of liberty; refinement how the park is laid out to stay adequate of all the needs of the surrounding area again i don't play baseball i used to play tense but it's difficult this year's in stroll or right to the park dogs are not ann an issue i there's a if he has i'm wondering are we effectively using the park to effect changes. >> commissioner richards. >> i hope we have an it possible on the monitoring and implementation report those
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things are fast and the department will take written comment until february 17th with that the commission will take a 20 minute break. >> good afternoon and welcome back to the san francisco planning commission regularly hearing for january 22, 2015 commissioners we left off in under your regular calendar on
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items 10 ab and one hundred hooper streets a discretionary review authorization and planned use authorization. >> good morning planning commission aim chris with the planning department before you today is a conditional use authorization and office allocation request for hooper street it requires the qualifying in the pdr zone one where the gross area contains pdr use as well as other criteria the project requires the pdr authorizations inform allow the planning code requirement for off-street car
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sharing and africa allocation to allow an allocation of 2 hundred and 84 secrets plus since the office space exceeded $24,000 square feet this is the first development to come from the commission which aims to extort the increase in the overhead stoke of pdr space in the city making it viable for the office space that proposed a must be source facility with truck services with a new 24 thousand plus thousand square feet pdr office project accommodated of three four story building a pdr north that building and pdr south building composed around
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41 thousand of al aggregate space it features approximately 10 thousand square feet privately opposed space at the southeast corner the project features 87 off-street parking space and two bicycle parking spaces and shower and locker facilities it proeptsz a comprehensive straight improvement which has been developed in accordance where the better street plan the project sponsor partnered with cca and sf made who motioning mission supports the local manufacturers and the implementation including the preparation of the business plan in accordance with the planning
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code the site is located in the northeast portion of potrero hill area man the roanoke, virginia city council plan is a block funded by carolyn and hooper streets and show case square the streets and sidewalks are largely improved and has permit structures to date the department has 6 letters of support from the dog patch and the potrero hill dog patch and spur a nonprofit organization and the carr trespasser boosters association copies of the letters are provided in our packet no letters e.r. comments of opposition has been received in addition the project sponsor has provided a summary conducted
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over this last few years in your packet the department has evaluated the proposal and the planning code recommend approval based on the conditions outlined in the staff report important characteristics include 4 hundred 27 thousand mixed use pdr project creates a pdr character that is well integrated and the pedestrian connections is compatible with the light and scale of the neighborhood it come lies with the planning code that is intended to make the pdr spates in san francisco economically viable it contributions 42 pdr space flexiblely designed to estimated to provide pdr jobs.
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>> the authorization of office space represents 4.4 percent of the cap is designed to be capable with the pdr uses and estimated to provide up to 2 thousand office raeltd related jobs it will attribute $6.5 million that will been city of san francisco and the project is necessary and desirable that concludes my presentation. but in closing i'd like to introduce the director of the department of workforce development mr. todd. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> commissioners todd director we have a motion and a second going great to see you we've been extorting the pdr success in 2011 lounld the comprehensive
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department of workforce development to grow the businesses in the city since that time thousands of pdr jobs have been at and countless businesses decided to stay that has increased the demand for efficient pdr space in the city to accommodate those businesses to keep them in the city last year the mayor launched a 5 point pdr plan focused on new development of pdr space on public and private land this is the first project through legislation that is supported by supervisor david campos's and supervisor cohen approved by this commission and signed into law last year hearsay a innovative model and you know this is in addition to being one hundred and 40 thousand secret of new pdr space it is the first
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to be developed in the city over a decade it is significant the partnership this is developed between sf made and the developer to insure that and create a 50 thousand square feet building which chris mentioned shares. >> vision and mission to keep those in san francisco whoa whether jewelry's or barkers e.r. anyone in between i want to thank and commend sf made as well as the developer for working together to get it this point and thanks to the staff as well as john and laura are and others the from the office of economic workforce development in closing last week we heard the mayor's state of the city shared prosperity pdr jobs are at the core by insuring the contractors and intention of
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jobs that provide good entry-level opportunity for you'll sfoldz we're in support of the project thank you very much. >> thank you project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm dan representing the ownership the hooper street i'm going to excited to present this vision located in show place square i was active that the local community in the oriental formation of the eastern neighborhood plan and actually served ownership on the cac i'm familiar with the plans prelims we're proud we've assembled a topnotch design team here for the project we've worked hard to design and capture the guiding principles we congregates race
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part of the eastern neighborhood just to remind the commissioners number one to provide i sufficient space for pdr uses including the good jobs for retina resident and bring innovation to the city's economy and finally the create an open facility that is critical before i i'm going to turn it over to kate the executive order executive director self-defense made our nonprofit development and pete are the architecture i think or want to thank director ram and his staff the mayor's office our local supervisors office malia cohen and the on that supported that so with this kate. >> good afternoon, commissioners well, for many you, you who have been on the
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journey with us it's been two years to work together with the support of mayor's office of economic workforce development the board of supervisors and many of you to reach this power point we're going to venting to build the first new manufacturing complexities the city has seen in almost two years the time couldn't be soon enough the manufacturers that was shared has been growing over the last 3 years since we've been engaged with the sf sector it's grown more than 10 and 12 and 13 percent new jobs were added for working-class san franciscans for people that have less educational background and yoipth youth this will be home to 4 hundred and 50 jobs for the
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folks in the community we've designed the project incomprehensive bringing in the manufacturers that are currently in san francisco to define how those buildings can accommodate a debar ment or food manufacturers so those are jobs and manufacturers that we currently are in the city and it will provide growth opportunity for them. >> i also want to comment on the specialness and the innovativeness of the project team we have coming together this is the first time we have in san francisco a nonprofit as an industrial developer partnering with a for profit entity and the city to bring it to fruition this is a model on the the east coast if design this
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allows us in the ownership of one of the buildings to secure long term affordable manufacturing spates as an additional component of this project the last comment i want to make is that some have raised the question how does this work my answer is i think authenticity an vandal this project as you'll see it was thought about intellectually how to combine office and industrial use on site you see the sin i didn't see between the tenant and the manufacturing and in an eco system that will create and we're proud to be part of the project without further ado i'd like to introduce peter. >> good afternoon, commissioners peter can he get the t is this
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working. >> how much time do you have left 5, 4? 5 minutes >> first i want to say i've been involved thinking about pdr for some time and very excited is to be involved in bringing this project before are there are a lot of issues that we sorted through and thought-out very well in n this project about bringing office and light industrial pathotogether this project is an exemplar for possibility and i think also it's done in a way that provides a benefit to the neighborhood and welcomes the neighborhood in site i think you're familiar with the because of potrero hill and it's right there surround by cac so we're nested with cac
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that seeks the opportunity for us to create a linkage with them the existing site didn't have a lot to speak of channel is closed off where they store r vs and hooper is in a great state of disrepair this is a walls inaccessible site so there's really a great opportunity to bring this back as a meaningful piece of the neighborhood our comment for the building starts with thinking about the history of american industry that's an albert connecticut building those are working horse buildings that served any masters we want to create something that go really going
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to support all kinds of uses over time so just quickly going through the evolution of the project that's the available mass we wanted to on it up to provide proper light and air and wanted to create a public space that links the neighborhood to the use at hooper and cca and take the public spaces and link them to the network of spaces in mission bay the green spades there so we introduce what we call the alley which makes that linkage and then think of hooper and alley alleyway as pedestrian spaces bicycle and pedestrian friendly and move all the loading and trucks and box trucks to the
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reestablishment channels a nice use of friendly pedestrian and that kind of more loading were added uses then we make linkages through the block to make sure there's pedestrian assess to the larger block and worked with staff at planning to reduce the massing of the building and articulate the openings of the mask of the building the result is kind of a workhorse of american people industrial building you you can see it butts on the sprayer pdr outdoors on the ground floor and they were quite high their 18 foot 3 high they on up around the building to activate the space and looking at the plaza you're looking at could be a pdr
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use that has food service like side class or magnolia as an example we envision that is as energizing the plazas so as you can see the kind of stent of the pdr it really wraps hooper both sides of the alley and vascular has a large present on 7th street all those locations can allow accessory retail and each of the pdr spaces on the alley have on up doors to connect to what's happening in the alley and in the europe left hand corner is the multi story pdr building so this plan, which is a little bit light shows the loading
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strategies he have two semi docks sgrarthd into the channel we have box truck parking and 86 off-street parking inside the building and 22 on off-street and showers sgrarthd in the building. >> your time as expired we'll give you a few more minutes as this is the transportation linkages to the project you see it is well served a 10 minute walk to caltrain their linkages to the 19 polk and fillmore and the 5 e fillmore within walking distance and the project sponsor
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will provide the linkage to the bart station and conflict and the third street rail and the eir showed in significant traffic impacts so as you can see the public plaza we see it as something else that kraits creates a place gather there's a large event space to have makers or an event place to pause and sit it's, you know creates a really in what capacity amenity it is a straight up concrete this has a scheme that's a mod listed system that's intended to breakdown the scale of the building and express the number of individuals that live in the
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building as opposed to one big corporate entity so the skin works to break down the scale you can see hooper street developed at a greener place for people to sit street furniture and lots of green the project sponsors have agreed at that underground the utilitys this is looking from 7th street as you can see looking into the alley the pdr space with the roll up doors and the bridges connecting the office above and the potential retail space and the products made on site can be displayed or showroom or pdr detail and then the dedicated
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manufacturing incubator has a pdr place that opens into channel and the 3 block connection to the plaza beyond and then in closing this is a view of the plaza that really speaks about the project that brings together all the different uses on the site with the neighborhood and i that we're really excited about what this maples to the area and to the manufacturing uses in the city i think it is an amazing and exciting place to thank you we're here to take questions sorry for going a little bit longer. >> thank you for your presentation i'll call a number of cards
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(calling names). >> commissioners ron some of you and i know i remember back when pdr was not in our lexicon a term that was actually invented by even though san francisco planning department and now we take it as something that is everyone should know what it means we talked about in the last couple of hours and just now about the eastern neighborhoods i found it interesting in looking at our agenda you had the last project housing and this project pdr within walking distance of each other it is exactly what is envisioned in the eastern neighborhoods plan when dan murphy talked to three and four it seems like 10 years ago he didn't have control of the property it was a vision
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tonsillitis that's the type of vision we appreciate in inform this is totally underutilized where you're walking or biking it is not assessable what is going to happy is decade what should and where it should happy it is being designed in accordance with what san francisco made take their own building and which was not in existence in when the term was put button is lexicon with the large alley and the plazas that serves as an interaction space those of you who are conversant with current work environments know the old cubicles and private offices are being torn down