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outside those chambers in room 416 and 421 when your opportunity to speak make your way to this room commissioners i'd like to take roll commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner richards commissioner johnson is present. >> commissioner first on your agenda items proposed for continuance item one agreement for disposal of municipal waste on the landfill in salon county the appeal t is appropriated until may 21st and the next c and d on market street conditional use and variance are
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proposed until may 21st 2015 further under your question of question of calendar commissioners items 14 ab and 15 ab d and b and we're in receipt from the project sponsor is request until may 7 and the dr requesters are a here and not in opposition to that for continuance i do have two speaker cards for that. >> okay. >> melinda and robin. >> hi good afternoon melinda i'm here on behalf of project sponsor for item 14 and 15 we
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are school board asking for the may continuance we've received different requests for the recent uses and project design and working with the planning and planning department to provide this information and make sure the department and the commissioners have accurate and complete information about the project we appreciate your willingness to grant the continuance and the project sponsor to allow us so. >> thank you. >> hello commissioners my name is robin tucker i'm the chair of the pacific avenue neighborhood association and the dr requester and i've commended to my group has commended to a continuance i did want to make a statement to the commission this has caused a
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significant inconvenience for my organization and the neighborhood leaders we even flew someone back from india early to appear here today it is my hope it is legitimate reason and that all effort will be made by the project sponsor to accumulate us and in a more convenient way the next time something like that comes up and appreciate the commission continuing those items. >> is there any additional public comment proposed for continuance okay. not seeing public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore. >> i never pressed the bottom at the previous meeting. >> uh-huh would someone like to make a motion?
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commissioner richards >> sure move to continue item 1, 2 ab and 14 ab and 15 ab. >> second. >> on that motion to continue commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero to be continued as testified. >> commissioners, that places you under your under consent calendar commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests, in which event the matter shall consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing.
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item 3 case cu a on scott street a confusion and item 4 at 3822 conditional use authorization and item 5 for the case cu a on hate street conditional use authorization commissioners, i do actually have one speaker card for item 4 for 24th street so i'm assuming this person jim would like to pull this matter off of community. >> if you want to you have to pull it off of consent if you're in support they're may not be a need to make comments. >> if you're not in support we'll pull it off very good
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shall we have that at the beginning very good. >> any public comment on item the consent calendar? >> if you want to speak to the matters on consent we have to take them off of consent all right. very good. >> any public comment on consent if so had it that is. public comment is closed. >> commissioner wu move to approve item 3 and 5. >> on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and item 4 will be considered as a first item under your regular calendar.
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>> commissioners, that places you under your regular matter. >> commissioner antonini marry most importantly beat la beat la beat new zealand's too on another matter in receipt of a matter to the bay area council i've sent to the commissioners about the high rising costs of hours date 3 slash 17 2015 that makes good points you know building less housing than expanded is a big factor in driving up costs it not something that the dot com and california is neglectful in
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building houses it hurts the economy and makes housing more difficult and talented people leave the state another recommendations they're in favor of the things to building affordable housing but we have target individuals specifically rather than you know helping saufts them to find housing particularly people that be critical in the operation we think to public safety and others and the final comment in sum mansion we need to bystander one hundred thousand more housing in addition to what we have it is a very good piece and answers questions and points us in the right direction we'll have that made available for the public i received it from matthew reagan
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and we'll try to get it in the public records. >> commissioner richards. >> interestingly enough an article in the chronicle noah valley cashes in on growth because the neighborhood commercial district is growing up a lot of development this is the first time we're going to hear and second in today's colonial david leigh political professor is circulating a ballot initiative to allow public comment to be streamed live as it is offered on line as well as anything on the agenda to sign 50 people to - not every item we hear can be squeezed into a small box i've seen
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telephone pole signs on and on on this issue all overtime and has a good chance of passing how to implement something of this nature and the last item is in our last hearing on the d dr i said to have a discussion how the thirty properties forwards to be legalized. >> commissioner moore. >> yeah. i'd like to report to the president the commission as a whole we had our fourth subcommittee an rules die it was a very good meeting, however, the issues there are 5 are quite complex we need to put more meat on the bone in order to bring it
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forward we'll meet again on may 14th and hope by the time we have accomplished what we set out to do the second thing for a long time i've been interested in the issue of the institutional master plans as a progress that helps us understanding the existing and future plans of major institutions in the city i've talked about that probably 9 years and have supported many good institutional master plans, however, salaries or there's a valuableness i want to put on our action agenda we have a recap on what led to the original legislation to the master plan it is quite usable, however there were people involved around i've asked it to be on the agenda item the next
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thing the commissioners comes down comes for future meetings following up on what commissioner richards said i've forgotten in the heat of the battle last week, we should please set meeting dates for hearing the 38 porjz that will come before this commission as cus or drs the hearing is not tied to the dir and could i assume one could wait until after the closings of commission comments of the dr comments and then start scheduling them i look to the adopt to help us schedule them to start sometime in may an under take that.
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>> i see zoning administrator sanchez notice ably wringing his fred so terms of hearing the various applications it's been our intent to wait to the n rb process to bring those before you and discuss those sooner but i believe we can only calendar for disapproval. >> that's correct commissioner if we don't wait until the dir is complete only two options denial or continuance we can't approve a project that is the attempt that's one thing but i think what we're hoping to do and bring the informational basis our strategy for how to bring those 38 to you in groups
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because there are so many projects. >> but i know we're 0 not to have a discussion can we ask the department instruct those to what they think the issues are i'm total unaware that a the course because it will involve a significant amount of additional time and perhaps we could together with the city attorney have a more robust discussion in the next week or two. >> commissioners commissioners if there's nothing further to department matter item 7 directors announcements. >> good afternoon commissioners since i have nothing urgent in the interest of time i'll wait. >> past events of the board of
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appeals. >> good afternoon aaron star planning staff at the land use commission supervisor tang's massage establishment ordinance was on the agenda they heard this ordinance the item was continued until may fourth the land use to continue to work on the grandfathering clause also on the agenda the noise regulations relate to places of entertainment 24 ordinance will amend did planning code for the purpose of the planning department it will require the planning department to notice the entertainment commission for the projects within 3 hundred feet of places of entertainment the planning commission heard supervisor breed's legislation and the planning commission relayed approval the modifications to one refine the
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entertainment outreach process in order to including exclude 80 those to the residential building and second riders the sponsors subject to the outreach process to conduct the outreach prior to the application to the planning department and 3 reduce the timeframe for the planning department to receive comments or recommendations for the entertainment commission from 45 to thirty days in month case all the commissions recommendations were integrated into the revised ordinance at the land use commission all of the commentsers were in support with the residential development progress as the land use commission members spoke the need for the hours for the late night tenant that is essential to the city's
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character the land use commission voted unanimously to in favor of recommending the owners to the full board and on the agenda two landmark designations for on golf street this was sponsored by supervisor breed the historic preservation commission heard this proposed landmark designation last year and unanimously recommended approval to the board of supervisors there was only comment in favor of labor designation the property owner was not present the land use commission voted unanimously to remedy the landmark designation to the full board the other landmark designation was on market street as long as the swedish-american sponsored by supervisor wiener they voted unanimously to remedy the landmark designation to the
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board both the building owner and others recommend it. >> at the full board this week the off-street parking ordinance sponsored by supervisor breed passed it second reading the housing balance monitoring and reporting ordinance sponsored by supervisor kim also passed its second reading the approval the 5 conservation areas was adapted and the landmark designation for the swedish-american hall was heard and passed it first reading there were 3 introduction the first one was for interim zoning controls for the neighborhood commercial districts sponsored by supervisor tang next one was the planning code amendment for the rincon hill master plan supported by
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planning and finally supervisor campos short-term rental owners was amended and also retained this week that concludes my remarks. >> any public comment on this item? >> okay public comment is closed. next item, please. >> commissioners, that places you under your general public comment not to exceed a period of 15 minutes commission on items of interest to the public that are within the jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. i do have several speaker cards. >> (calling names). >> good morning, everyone. mr. president, and commissioners, i have copies of my remarks for you will have you my topic that monster homes in
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san francisco if it is the norm as in many areas the neighborhood character it certain to change the residential guidelines organization complashltd with surrounding building and b open space and maintain the light in adjacent properties the devil is in the details so it is most more what is scale and doubling the square footage deny comparable scale do no harm to neighbors evaluating proposals in any project subtract from a neighbors light is that fair views are not sacred but the neighbors are and i'm here to advocate that the planning staff reinterpret the distinction of what constituents open space all
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parties unhappy can be gained by the beguiling fascinate oversees with the aggressor having the disadvantage of the uninformed this is highly unfair falling off the skyline is e graegz which ended up creating the coastal commission maybe we need something similar rather than the lure of more, more more in the interest of time i'll skip private investigator 3 by private investigator 4 not forget the economics as the marshall swift guidelines added costs and the property sales market is suffering 15 hundred a square feet each square feet is
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worst $1,150 in san francisco so if you like sole map give the applicant they walk away with a cool million dollars with profited life is a zero-sum gain someone domains and someone losses already the fox is in the henhouse a two properties are adding a third floor many more will follow and i last your your incubate and this is on your watch to the hour is late you can stand up against this even a small step like verizon is in the same class as horizon is the first step.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm georgia i live in noah valley i have a similar issue but it is not exactly the same by close i've been here before may i have the overhead please i've talked about false this is the 1 on jesus street this is the house i've shown you that and then there it is now it is bigger than the adjacent house when is 6 units this is going to be one unit it is interesting i met a neighbor an chatting nothing he said they asked the project manager could you preserve the rear yard more and bring the house afford and it is no, i can't do that they couldn't pursue it they gave up
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and i guess my question is if this had been treated as demolition or even gone for a variance would they had to move the house forward and protected those people's backyard this is another one i found the other here's another 1 on 24th street off of diamond there's the house as it was now, it's historic here is today it looks like the christ i didn't museum no new york this is up on 27th the original house and that's the
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one i took about a month or two ago and this is the one the other day i have messenger and mr. sanchez is really nice he responded to my overwhelm and i'll write back to him and thank you and to the appropriate people in the building inspection i guess my point who is going to take care of this is the the building inspection or the how do you figure out this i felt bad for the people on jersey street when are we're going to know about the residential guidelines because as the previous speaker said those are for people that are really, really troubled by the loss of what we perceive to be
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their mid block open space thank you very much. >> i believe i'm next donald green i'm in lowell heights i've been observing the number of gas stations in the city i know the board of supervisors passed a code change some years back concerning the use of service station the dispositions are changing my concern we should have a citywide review of the gas stations and the policy towards increasing pumps that increases or reduced the price and the attractivenessness of auto and the public safety from increasing traffic in and out of gas stations the citywide study there are 73 stations in almost all parts of the city 19th
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avenue is one so if you guys could have the planning department took a longest view in addition to look at some you'll have an overall apply supply in the city if you want to have a larger number of becomes or smaller and where and how that's my suggestion i saw supervisor farrell yesterday he thought it was a good idea thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm john of todco group i'd like to update you on some important positive progress we're making in the central selma area which you see on the on the from
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the director that was put out a new concept foresight specific conceptually big developments in central selma this is an outcome of our dialog and in particular not just the open space but they're proposing to require that 3 of the leaguer parcels include affordable housing sites for affordable housing in selma without that we are not going to have future sits no selma prop k won't be realized we won't have the sites to build affordable housing those are big steps and i appreciate the staffs responsiveness on the one side you see our detailed look at the complex of the 4
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