my prospective and i can read it over many we're trying to fourth the clarifications of it i'll wait to get the legislation. >> sure. >> commissioner richards. >> i'd like to see the legislation as well but to make a comment i'm not there are vacant lots left there in the back of substandard lots and things like that. >> commissioners commissioners if there's nothing further to general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission pifks pooifks 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. we have one speaker card. >> katherine howard.

>> good morning, commissioners katherine howard i'm here representing the group will healthy soccer sf.org the dauchl is important to get our website soon over 80 acres filled with tens of thousands of ground up tires it two toxic for standard land field but being sprayed on plagiarized heavy by children it could impact our land use in san francisco state senator said that the toishl land file could be linked to serious ills and for a temporary moratorium on the installation of those surfaces and parks in california

while the state conducts the study fields under constructing incarcerating or construction are to the impacted there is funding in place from current programs and the legislation is supported by the following groups i have a parked listed i'll read a few of the names action for nature broke international california nature plant society the center for environmental height the coalitions for san francisco neighborhood are the coalition for friends of the hiding park environment and human health incorporated and environment health california golden state adu bone society the golden state park alliance and the hate ashbury those are in about al tubercular order the

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cancer after playing on this soil. >> any public comment on this item? that you'd like to make sir, would you like to speak during this public comment. >> okay is there any other general public comment? >> thank you good afternoon jim south of market i want to talk about what was unique in the selma community plan the amount of participation in the process and the partnership we 1y50i9d that the city family when the plan finally pass i wrote when it comes down to the community planning there is no such thing as a best or highest use there need not be winners or losing what matters in our city is the balance of uses that's the

essence of smart growth i'll sorry to see the planning department is no longer helping to maintain the balance for two years i sat at the table with we reviewed policy decisions and in fine daily to come to the table of the land use it was adjusted upwards giving the spook last year's a fine return on their investment and an impact on the neighborhood we wanted taller ground floor especially our commercial district is to compliment the the existing pagers for the ground floor experience and to make those coordinates work we give them an center 5 meeting feet and 50 stories became 55 and others and along comes the developer who has discovered that he can cheat

his way through the ground floor active space rules and actually psychiatries an entire floor into emphasis plan the planning department said it allows the property to build to the height as many dwellings as needed and as long as they including but not limited to build it okay 6 sores from 55 and 75 feet 8 stories don't you understand i can tell you the intent, of course we looked at the full content the planning department has it didn't mean we will always support that tactic regardless of others

circumstances yet the whole special projects to come before this 6 stories and 55 feet and 7 stories and 69 feet and others of a gross violation of plan why do you think only 27 percent of the public now approved the planning department what their doing? >> any other general public comment. >> can i have the overhead if possible. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm amy founder the neighbors with potrero when we scour the properties let's

celebrate are developers past and present that actually developed assets that enhanced local cultural and let's help with the don't guess of the cultural let's celebrate assuming the ready brothers they're the vendors that did the cliff house and golden gate park and development the harding theatre in the examiner add for the theatres right here red in 1926 for the opening the purpose so welcome the center of the recreational life enhancing the environment this is interesting someone talked about our culture institutions and spaces as public utilities we need to

protect levin served at the embarcadero community for that a venue starting off with avoidville and gathering space like the ethnic studies program a worship there was a harding theatre that was blighted since 2003 when a group of developers bought the history theatre for $1.3 million to demolish it for retail and condos the neighbors prevented it with the help of the board of supervisors during that time the president pushed back against the project i first noted the theatre was boarded in 1927 the property owners took it

off the market when was purchased and last year they refused a $4 million oh, i helped to facilitate it would have transferred it into a library a $4 million offer that's where the community wanted the property owners have a new plan to develop 9 condo that will come up green again adjacent to the shackle without facilitating the theatre they want to build 9 units with our public utilities in the future if we can't allow to project to magnified of move forward from that bright so opening night. >> was your name and amy the neighbors for the embarcadero.

>> is there any public comment? >> okay public comment is closed. >> next item place. >> commissioners that places you under our regular calendar item 14 c its 12344 sutter street a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the commission i'm laura department staff project before you a a condominium conversion to establish an administration services within r.c. 4 strict the proposed used it an advertising agency that has one office in san francisco the planning code requires the conditional use authorization for such uses within the r.c. 4 district the subject property on the north side of sutter street

between van ness and oak street developed with a 3 story commercial building the building was constructed in 1911 as a dance studio but is called the overview lane ballroom but burt field and burt field auction how is it was arts activity the project site is currently vacate and the project will not displace existing tenants the virus is identified as an eligible landmark resource it was reviewed by the preservation staff and it was determined it has no adverse feature of the historically significant interior no serious modification are promoted other than business signage the proposed use as an advertising agency has 15

employees the housed of operation monday through friday from 8:30 to 6:00 p.m. and to date the department has no public comment staff recommends approval of the conditional use authorization and that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions a representative or the project sponsor is here and wants to address the commission. >> thank you. >> project sponsor please. >> good afternoon, commissioners joed from reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor or not as you've heard agreeing not plans on office space on sutter street this project will not cover up any of the historic features will serve as a work station and special station that harkens

back to the days it is important that the project sponsor preserve this as you'll hear from the project sponsor in a few minutes this project allows a vacant building to be given new life and allows a local company to expand they anticipate the employees that will be working there with restaurant and bars it is an ear that is subject to public transportation i mean off van ness and expected that most of the employees will walk bicycle or take public transit no parking required at the site and none proposed only a site room we all know that the city needs more office spoois space that is an excellent opportunity to add office space where nothing is taken away in a building that's

vacate they recognize the type of flexibility is necessary in order to preserve historic buildings this is a perfect project that will in about disruptive we've received no negative feedback about this project i'm going to turn it over to jorge even that will give you background on agreeing not. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm jordan the president of the arguing astronaut it was an advertising agency we served places in san francisco the melt aetsz the local chain the restaurants we have national clients we have wireless and last we did the

superbowl commercial you saw that last year so we're growing we've out grown our space at fulsome street and looking for quite some time for the property with character as a creative company is it so important to find the unique building that had to us a sense of soul and history ballroom is off the charters in terms of hitting this objective i grew up in the bay area i had a younger brother that tenant the ballroom and went to the theatre and saw great movies it as personal history to us and again as a creative company we respect what it is historically and seen some of the uses over the past years i think what is special the idea of bringing the business into it but for the history to preserve that and

bring more vitality to the neighborhood. >> any other speakers from the project sponsor. >> okay opening it up for public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i think? a good use it preserves an important building historically one that i remember having attended when it was supported at the avalon with janice joplin i left early because it was 0 so noise i didn't that was really loud better as a dance hall a than a music hall it got loud because of the ininstruments i think it is a good use i have a question

i noticed our action is authorizing the administration use but don't isn't it an office use allocation. >> it is a service use as opposed to office use. >> so not defined as an office use okay sound good i'm going to move to approve. >> commissioner richards. >> you think this is a fantastic project and i applaud your efforts. >> commissioners is there a motion and a second with conditions commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner president fong snaument 6 to zero commissioners that places you under item 15 at

18:30 ocean avenue a conditional use authorization good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the planning commission 89 in a of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a this is for the condominium conversion on ocean avenue the plant proposed to have a formula retail gentle murray's shore and target cafeteria that occupies 4 hundred plus square feet formally occupied by another formula retailer for recite i'd pharmacy it includes signages the target will employ part time employees and local resident the project sponsor has been working with the lgbtq community center and other agencies to insure

local hiring the establishment will have retail and a liquor license to sell alcohol the proposed hours of operation are from monday through sunday to date the agency get 13 letters of support and as well as one letter of opposition the department has also received two phone calls including parking and safety and trash and product availability at the establishment the two letters of support and those in opposition the publishing of the case report the department was included in the correspondence and the project sponsor regarding the improvements including the planting of trees and transcript and participation in various communities and public art and

securities the department understands this is to the satisfaction of the location regarding loading they'll have loading before 9:00 p.m. and target has an intent to sell goods and not impede on the establishments based on the data from the second quarter of 2015 approximately 12 or 6 percent of the establishment workplace the ocean avenue are formula retail this will increase it to 7 percent it is previously occupied by another formula retail it is not accounted for in the target population of the 73 or 2 percent of the establishments fall into the quote/unquote retail category

and the subject property also falls walgreens and others this includes groceries and laundry mat and others and as empathized of the establishments in the district more than any other youth category in order for the project to proceed the planning department must grant conditional use authorization for the sections for the formula retail general merchandise store and accessory limited restaurant this is the straub within the ocean avenue the department recommends approval believe this is desirable the project will not significant will i reduce the formula retail and fill a vacant establishment within the district meets the applicable requirements in the code and

comparable for the surrounding neighborhood that concludes my presentation. elks. >> thank you project sponsor. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and other commissioners and planning director ram i'm john the regional development manager with target and based in minneapolis and i'm here today to give a brief overview because it is a new format for target different from our gentle merchandise store we have in the city target combresz expressed it's new small store concept and its design store convenience and quick formatting at leans 20

thousand square feet it is 1/5th the standard of the general merchandise store the target express as opposed to is designed to merchandise for the needs of the local neighborhood for example we did extensive outreach for this project last year and met with a number of the members within the community and had individual meetings with the ocean avenue association both with the street light committee and the executive board with the western park association, with the ocean view action commission or organization and what we heard from those meetings was that the residents had needs for certain produced and services not within the neighborhood right now and that's again as i said the

whole idea of target express i took the product sleekz we're hearing was missing in the area back to our headquarters and we've incorporated t a number into the store again not something you'll see in our stores there is a common do you remember those are local stores and the important focus on local shin and differentiation i know that's not a new concept but for target it is and we're feeling existed about ass as a matter of fact we opened two altercate expresses for the first two really within the country other than the one

in minneapolis the one in the financial district and the other in berkley in the downtown ear and if you ever have a chance to invite you'll see the product selection and the store lay out and design is different between the two of them and what you'll see on ocean avenue if approved that is different it will be tailored to what we see in ocean avenue the other thing about the small format there's closer communication and contact between the store folks and the guests as we call them so we're able to get constant address immediate feedback not being statistic but based on the needs we're hearing from

there's one other part to it interesting to point out that as part or targets online servicing online products the whole realm of them can be picked up at the store you can order online and rather than having to have it shipped to our house you may not be there it can be shipped directly to the target express store and picked up in our neighborhood there are one hundred free patricia's within the existing development right now but again the idea this is a neighborhood store rather than a regional designation so we don't see that parking is going to be a particularly strong problem here there's going to be a lot of

pedestrian bicycle uses and great muni streetcar line stopped outside the store oh, one other things in terms of the team members 50 team members total for the store for all obviously in different shifts and we've had a strong involvement with mission hiring hall was mentioned our residentscy rate or the number of local san francisco residents working in our two city target stores on the one that opened on bush street is over 80 percent it is quite strong number we're very proud of that and finally i want to remind the commission of targets giving program 5 percent of our

profits go back to the communities where we have stores and in 2013 that amounted to over one million dollar that was spent in the city of san francisco on schools and local nonprofits that 5 percent is again, a part of corporation bylaws it is something that's written into our corporation every year we have the financial well-being of the company with that, i'm here to answer any questions now or after the rest of the public comments if there's questions i'm more glad to answer them. >> we might have questions for you, you can have a seat and open up for public comment opening it up for public comment i have a couple of speaker card

jose mendosa arrest daniel weaver and others. >> good afternoon. i have been a resident of the terraces since 19984 i live locally there have been a lot of changes in the community joining the homeowners association i was a traffic safety person we discussed the ramifications of business on ocean avenue and how it had an impact on the community when we lost the survivor way on ocean avenue a lot of people were upset a lot of the homeowners were concerned and elderly persons where are