this commission has had presentations about legacy businesses and maintaining legacy businesses in san francisco and this is exactly the kind of business that we should be allowing a slight expansion jeff took overrunning the business from his father who started the business as a starting started working in san francisco as a collect took over the business in sunset or robbed and made their way to laurel heights what exactly is going to be taking place in the new space the store itself is like a lot of hardware and variety stores they have a lot of stuff and materials for people to buy and quite frankly sometimes stores like that get accredited

the new says that a called stan kitchen featuring only home wear as was said it has a separate storefront enter from the street basically, all the project sponsor is going to be doing knocking a hole in the wall so that customers can get from one storefront to the other the project sponsor jeff is here and we're available for any questions thank you very much. >> okay any public comment on this item? okay. not seeing none, any public comment is closed. commissioner richards and completely agree with project sponsor this is kind of a dying breeds of businesses we want to make sure they stay in business for many more generations my concern the second floor front will remain the front door and

there's a whole variety in the castro. >> yes. that's and that's part of what we've decided with of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a of planning department staff and it fits about the formula retailers. >> i make a motion to approve with that stimulation and commissioner antonini and yeah. between standard and cliflz are the only two varieties stores left in san francisco that's too bad there recent a lot of times when they fit the need and i wish we had more in other neighborhoods but great to go to lowell i'm supportive. >> nice to meet you guys i've bought many, many greeting cars

and licensed. >> commissioner richards cow can you have the second storefront open during regular hours. >> commissioner moore and if they'll open another store something else they'll get preferential treatment there is a motion and a second to paragraph that with conditions to include the second-story door. >> commissioner antonini. >> commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you under our cohere calendar items 13 ab for the case third street those are

mandatory discretionary reviews. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the commission i'm jeff planning department staff ms. the application for a marnd or mandatory discretionary review for the property on third street project site on the west side of third street and in a zoning district and 68 height and bulk the proposal to demolish the mixed use building and construction of a new 6 story building commercial on the first floor on a lot of 25 feet wide and 90 feet deep a 7 unit residential building for parking garage underneath and the rooftop and elevator mandatory discretionary review hearing is required for the removing removal of an existing dwelling unit and the

neighborhood notice was implemented and no discretionary reviews were filed we've received one e-mail and no comments in opposition to the project the department recommends that the commission does not take discretionary review and approve that for 9 following reasons the project sponsor has - to be more comparable with his lot the project will result in a net gain of 6 transmittals with four family sized units given the scale no significant capacity of the local street or muni the project meets all planning code with the plan that motion carries i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners danny the architect

can we get the - arrest the slide oh. >> this is a aerial view of the context of the project what you see is an pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. space with large industrial buildings and quite small single-family homes so it is really the full range of architects here you see the typical simple industrial building mostly single materials you know very, very sort of abstract and then the kind of smaller scale of essentially sort of work type hours that was built for the shipyards it is the mr. chairman of those two

architectural context that became the architecture problem on the one hand have this traditional architecture that is repetitive and quite dictate and this type of architecture that is singular and large-scale made of one material very start and kind of very prevalent language in the complex that is one doorway from our project on third street as you can see this campfire language is part of the architect of the context that the bigger scale and those this distorted types of bays from this project that the sort of inspiration for our continuation of the language of merging the

industrial and the domestic so here a view of third street and our project on third street as a sort of continuation of the new scale of residential buildings and another verify of our building with those folded bays that are in the sort of saw tooth language of the industrial buildings singular in the think building and detailed like the industrial buildings and here you see the existing buildings plan and our new plan with the expanded rear yard and the matching locality which responses to the lightwell of the adjacent building this is a dinning room showing

the allowable heights of the project and the actual height of our building which is a full less than what is commented this is our interpretations of the industrial type of bays and formed to the requirements of the typical bay window and the various floor plans of the project so essentially the section and the front and rear elevation with the lightwell and without the lightwell and the use of the building so like all our projects around the city we've tried to respond specifically to the particular and unique earth that is in the project and to show you some of the responses on sutter street we worked with the tradition of the wedding cake architecture on octavia and

taken the victorians and reinterpreted it in a contemporary way? our project of building contemporary architecture in the city responding to the context and being good neighbors in and respectful of the surrounding i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> we may have questions for you. >> thank you. >> any public comment on this item? not seeing none any public comment is closed. >> commissioner richards i have a question for staff as i was reading this dr it took me back to the first day on 26th after a commercial office with a residential we voted to demolish the building to build housing and it was a appealed to the

board because we said we wanted more housing and bedrooms and the board voted 10 zero to uphold the appellant that brought the case to the boards i've been looking this apart to the architecture this is mentally one way or another what we did brown-bag i'm trying to understanding from the top unit in this building a condo it is not under rent control and not occupied 26 avenue was not occupied so the commercial space is exactly the same thing. >> your question is it in rent control. >> no do to being a residential unit. >> so the one on 26 i thought it was - >> 3 units i can't remember. >> and i stand corrected i

thought it was one you're sure it's not under rent control. >> my understanding 2 or more. >> i stand corrected. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much necessarily 91 percent love this project i do i love the for the most part it is multiple units and i would have professed for the parking to be in back of the building but the lot joining another lot not something we can do i'll make one comment for the designer of the building that is a soapbox i have to jump on the first designer of the building i like the way that the sort of saw face of the architecture reflects the buildings that are next to this is actually the one of the things i've noticed i go to the dog patch a lot i

appreciated that the only o only thing it is a little bit dark and gloomy i know the glass facade i'm not sure if this is a renderings or what but if we could find ways to light even that it is mostly a glass exterior for the framing but maybe the architect can address that. >> the renderings the plating is actually new glazing system between the two sheets of glass a honey comic material means when you look at it directly through it, it is very transparent but as soon as

you're at an am it is more o pack so it is available in two colors you know darker color and we are going to use the white color the building will be a lot lighter and the city is obsessed with white buildings in san francisco all the buildings are white because all the pictures i see of the city that are when the city was beautiful and becoming what it is were black and white and it was terry take care han ran so the building will be light and the renderings dark. >> that brought any 92 up to 9 k through 12 percent i love it i hope the interior they consider

pastel in the future the other thing love the project supportive in the soapbox it was a mixed use building and although the use phase on the bottom i believe was empty for a while on art gallery or whatever i got and always make that pitch for retail space along third street we've seen buildings built workplace dog patch that are part of the eastern neighborhood they make the argument they don't need the retail space so have buildings up on the third street that don't consoled retail it makes it hardly harder it makes our job difficult we're seeing spaces that were mixed use now left with fewer and fewer retail space not for this project but

next week we have a project off of third street they say the foot traffic is only third clearly that's not always the case good job. >> commissioner antonini and well, one of the crazy the project conserves the neighborhood character and the staff said that will constructing the replacement building as the malayans and roofline it looks like everything is punched windows we don't see too many all glass windows in dog patch that's not compatible with the neighborhood and even in the stricken out building and definitely windows it seems to be out of place to me in the dog patch so i'm sure i can be supportive of the

design but the rest is a great idea provides housing and single-family units and very good use. >> commissioner moore. >> thanks god we can still design good contemporary architecture it's a great building i'm glad you have the ability to have a white comic materials i wish i could see an example but knowing in the past your rendering are darker then what you want to do i feel comfortable and in full support of the building i like the way of interpreting the bay i think it is a small building and good juxtapose indication i move not to take dr and approve the

demolition and i'm not sure from the demolition is part of our approval it is that's what i'm asking for . >> second and commissioner johnson. >> just take commissioner antonini definitely understand the sentiment there's a number of new projects and what not you have sort of larger glass windows and the facade is not hundred percent glass so there's persistent for this style. >> there is a motion and a second to not take dr and approve commissioner antonini. >> commissioner johnson and commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 68 to zero and places you iuoe on general public comment i have i have no speaker cards.

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>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it

was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only

on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants

and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. >> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department

of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many

after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the

cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation.

>> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this a manual can opener your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent.

that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses. >> and your spare glasses. >> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight. >> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to

secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building good

proon afternoon ladies and gentlemen. the meeting will come toor to order. to my right is supervisor scott wiener who is vise chair and to