result of the variance and therefore what has been proposed for the design even though the there's a direct connection between the two i'd like is the following to some of the arguments made related to size of the building the third-story, the impact on the rear explicit resonate with me in particular instance but going back to the variance itself there are questions in my mind about the finding and the few look at the findings the first 3 finding especially from

more traditional or perhaps more historical analysis of variances and the issues that go into that i don't necessarily agree with the findings perform in particular instance question m in my mind is related to the rest that was thrown in my preservation because that's traditionally it was part of the overall review of a project but one of many factors that led to the review i would disagree with the z a in saying any other solution to this lot would not conform to the residential guidelines and team i think there are a number

of solutions that could satisfy that particular element but satisfy the preservation no and that bother me a little bit in the sense that the ability to take a position which i do want to say this the tail wagging the dog the fact the preservation established every direction for the project i'm not in agreement this is a historical building i think there is nice buildings there expensive buildings but the difference other than a history note between the middle-income over in the sunset or the other does the fact they're built approximately at

the same time nothing special that makes this a historical district but that creates the question mark in my mind because if the 3 findings are not satisfied by the traditional analysis of planning this creates a hardship what preservation has done they are the hardship they created a situation that is so different than what others have had to faced i'm torn about the question of the that enough to sway me in terms of going against the da's determination open the variance or whether i should go iowa i traditionally think of non-conforming. >> i will try to agree with my

fellow commissioner, i think he put it in a way i was trying to put it in i don't necessarily building this property met the variance requirement but after hearing this and going through the belief i think this is a situation that is caused by preservation and so i'm leaning towards approving the variance. >> i'm inclined in that direction as well i don't like this may be someday we hope but if that's the way it is set up it is that's applied uniformly than it has merit to it and again, i'm with you not pursue swatted the project per say is a

problem but that's not what we were here to discuss the meeting of criteria and i think this potential historic district creates issues. >> i agree i believe a lot of the issues were caused by planning specifically. >> i will add one last comment to the commissioners is that i don't think it was applied uniformly across the city i think that in some instances i can probably state those are at some point in time over drinks with the da there are arbitrary capricious decisions. >> this is the case that's in front of us now. >> sorry to look at this.

>> are you going to make a motion commissioner. >> i think i will but i'll lose. >> i'm not sensitive of the finding being valid and therefore i'm going to vote to overturn the variance. >> oh. >> number 1, 2, 3. >> madam president. >> and number 4 and 5 hard to argue that. >> we have a motion on the floor from commissioner fung to overturn the zoning administrator overrule the granting of the variance on the basis that finding 1, 2, 3 have

not been met. >> on that motion to overrule commissioner president lazarus no commissioner vice president honda. >> no commissioner wilson is absent thank you. the vote is 1 to 2 the motion fails, the granting of this variance is upheld. >> i have no other motions. >> okay with no other motion commissioners there's no further business. we're

(clapping.) >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank you all for coming out this morning it's a beautiful san francisco morning as it seems to be those dazed but a difficult morning as yesterday yesterday morning an 87-year-old resident of sunset resident named alfred was walk on this street geary that boulevard in a krouks on 26 oath trying to cross the road when struck by an automatic turning left onto endearing later in the afternoon died another san francisco general hospital this is not yet conformed we ronald reagan are

hearing that someone driving a motorcycle on 15th was struck and killed by an automobile i want to express you know on my behalf and everyone here our profound condolences to the family and friends and anybody that i know either of the individuals are who is impacted by the loss it is tragic that those people are losing their lives on our streets this is a franklin we're restore here the city adopted a goal a policy to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco and while we're not here to mourn their loss we certainly want to honor them and again offer our dlops we're here to reinforce the notation this

is is not accidents i want to ass ask us to eliminate accidents when we talk about traffic collisions in the street the word accidents suggests inability accidents happy but we've we've done by adopting vision zero we don't accept that the inability of people getting killed and sierra injured in our streets not something we're any longer than accepting and it is something that modern we're telegraph hill working together under the leadership of our mayor within the city but the greater san francisco community to make sure we eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco by 20024 there's a

number of physical improvements that are going into the streets we've already gotten 12 of the 24 so-called vision zero projects in the ground and here today to talk about improvements on gere and fulton ironically the two streets people lost their lives in the last two hours makes this real and impervious we're making the improvements and also importing the laws we're joined by the san francisco police department to step up to make sure that when people are traveling around san francisco no matter how are you how are you how their traveling adhere to the laws and it is about education outreach we look to the media to help us get out achievement of vision zero everything has a responsibility

anytime you step off a sidewalk go go that in but you automobile or walk that your traveling and aware of our surrounding so we will continue to doing the right thing to make the city save we need everything to do their part so we don't have to start press conferences in the future with press conferences like this we're doing a lot with the leadership from city hall the board of supervisors adopted vision zero policy and mayor ed lee has directed all the departments and exclusive branch of government to accelerate do everything we can to make our streets safer please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you, ed (clapping.) let me add that as we take a moment ponder the circumstances

of which those fatalities happen we are working very hard to make sure that there is less of this and today, we're in district one with commissioner eric mar who also joined strongly the effort to put their concrete work into vision zero to make that happen today, we wanted to demonstrate as part find an education and awareness campaign those strooirpz we called them san bernardino are a striping on the swauktsz that have in the past obey retired around schools and mid street kroger's are now going to be more dominant in our intersections beginning on geary street those are important one there are and do in fact slow down traffic and make people

more aware but also what ed reiskin and others have been saying in our street safety advocates we've got to make people more aware if we can make sure that ice are the first and not other distractions that the eyes see the crosswalks and people in the crosswalk using that it will penetrate people in vehicles to slow down and respect the people that are using the sidewalks and streets and the warns turns into a higher level of safety on the streets this is exactly what we're trying to side here you'll see the departments working i'm going to take physical action and laying down the stripes myself but more of this is going to happen because we as a city agreed we're going to put

serious resources into these our vision zero so that it is not just a a pronouncement we make those things happen on as many street corners as possible this is a relatively easier treatment to do but a higher awareness comes boo about it as we work on the compacted streets and intersections that require xylophones and a lot of other agencies to be involved in safety of those intersections and streets reich like we have probably a half block away on a very, very business intersects at the same time in in addition to the so-called descend are a striping we'll be taking a look at with our police department and our mta and public defender's office and others on the streets what streets in our city that we have direct jurisdiction where we can slow

down traffic on an official basis even a 5 mile reduction in the speed allows nor awareness and more care to occur on those streets and so we have named some of the streets that will slow down the speed on and we've already done so on sunset and some of the streets we to name more streets that has your signage and office those as well as our officers we want to insure the public we're working to redesign other streets completed streets and make sure that we present safety to be the preit is not necessary policy to be rkd in those streets but also you'll see me and the supervisors and ed reiskin as well as others making periodic announcements to keep visibility

on this serious topic of that he had public safety bicycle safety and driving safety to make sure that awareness is at its highest level and to make sure that violators it will be consequences and our officers are out here today sometimes, we might feel we cannot solve every if at any point we can keep a vigilant and dedicated effort to continue to educate and making those changes so this leads to a higher level of safety not about being help also but more action in lives lost that were going to take an opportunity to come even more concerted effort we need to make to prevent those things from happening we have busy streets it in san francisco

that's a indication of our economy but make sure that is complimented with a higher level of awareness for safety for everybody thank you for being here commissioner eric mar. >> (clapping.) thank you complair and director reiskin on the yes, ma'am of the responding district i'm going to put my notes aside i'm anger and inside mr. alfred 87-year-old mr. alfred yee on gary and 26th avenue outside of a senior center in 2011 a woman an geary we campground a 3 and 4-year-old open fulsome modify who was killed on 25 letting avenue in fulsome we've known about this for years how long will it take

to take rapid action on vision zero so as director reiskin they're not accidents they're killing basically we have to work on education engineering and enforcement i'm proud our r0r7bd station is here they are the one station that took a hard look at vision zero i want to thank the hard working men and women at the richmond station i'm raifr from the robert district i learned about that or this so my comments are from my heart three or four supervisors from the time after sophies death in the new year's time over a years ago we're looking at new york city and other cities with the bicycle coalition and walk sf and our

community coalition we've been advocating for this i'm glad it tom maguire with our sustainable streets is here my hope was we painted stripes that are important csa as we think about high injury corridors like geary and others we're looking at other practices and putting our money where and mouth is the culture of feeding in san francisco our community coalition office says the culture meeting meeting in san francisco not only pedestrians but bicyclists and other drivers at risk there are too many tragedies not only mr. alfred lee and others in the richmond district throughout the city the two children i mentioned the told her a two combrrldz hit in the outdoor richmond on fulsome

we move to lower the speed limit i hope that our city like portland and seattle have safe routes to schools i'm hoping san francisco iowa's what put our money where our mouth is and making the streets safe is a responsibility as the mayor said for all of us but the walk sf and the pedestrian advocates have been working on this for many decades we have to listen the coalitions the traffic lights like the new ones planned for 22nd and geary and 26th and geary like the ones near the senior centers i hope to

implement that around other vulnerable areas i as geary rapid transit moves forwarded how to implement the vision zero longer than geary boulevard i as a superintendant for the richmond i urge the mayor and director reiskin to move as quickly as possible to prevent the death in the corridors reducing the slightly and thirty mile-per-hour in many ways is not that much of a reduction but as asz our distributing that slowing down saves lives we'll see that on fulsome we need more help i want to say that the vision zero committee the board of supervisors are meeting i'm going to do my best to look at it becomes by the sfmta to move as rapidly not only in the

richmond but citywide i know that safety should be first as the mar said i'm here to say for the richmond district after the two tragedy deaths i'll do everything i can to prevent death for the future thank you very much for being here. >> thank you supervisor mar mar i'll say did supervisor has been one of the be strornth advocates longer than fulsome and geary but we are i will assure you working with the partners in the city to make sure that the transit improvements only geary boulevard is fully incorporating you'll see best practices in terms of the public safety at the transit liability and itself public safety at the same time, we're looking at ways such as the crosswalks or anything we

can do while we're designing the 0 project we're not waiting for the big projects we're putting in krouksz open geary i want to thank the mayor for his leadership in pulling the agencies together and engaging with the community and the advocates with the victims of the families to make sure that we're getting this work down as quickly as possible. >> we're going to i'm going to ask the mayor and the supervisor to help us lay the paint on the final crosswalk dozens along geary i want to recognize the director of sustainable streets and the liveable streets director who does the design and george who hearsay a field operation with the 0ur9 city to put the paint strips on the ground thank you, everyone for

coming out i'm going to ask the mayor to help initiative that painting of the crosswalks.

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