that are serving the community at this time i want to hazard a guess that a lot of the residents that will in the sro's earn less than $20,000 a year and this market rate rental the income disparities i wonder whether someone moving into the market rate rental will be making 4 to ten times above that i don't think it will be a good mix i support the idea but there needs to be an affordable housing component in this thank you. >> is there any additional public comment on this item.

>> okay. not seeing public comment is closed. and commissioner richards. >> yes. question for ms. conor's you sent a great e-mail this morning i couldn't find it we had it would you be able to go over that for us and have the map of the site kind of point out the differences would be helpful. >> sure of course. >> i want to start with the 3 61 turk one the main issues that

was submitted at the hearing at the last public hearing there used to be a staircase that was located here now that's brought u brought into the envelope that is a main level set back so the community space - and i'll see so be able to consultant that the community space has to be slightly reduced in size some of the differences the 3 61 turk to noted an extra floor inserted at the floor let me

pull up on elevation real quick. >> so the additional floor was added at the lowest level of mid block portion of tush it is a down sloping lot so this is labeled as level zero on the plan so it is able to accommodate some units and floor one was split to four one at the front elevation and floor one a at the back to their concerning in the mid-level floor at the rear portion of the property so then level two has 8 bedrooms

that previously had 16 bedrooms that is the result of the amenity space and levels 3, 4, 5 have 18 bedrooms previously 19 bedrooms level 6 7 and 8 have 15 bedroom previously 19 bedrooms from the floor plan and this is the result in the increase of the size of rear bedroom those are anticipated to accommodate a couple of beds might be something for a family 1942 unclear but slightly learn

the typical group housing the total bedroom count remains the same pats 37 with those adjustments hold on so for las vegas worth a new celebrate to the golden gate that was discussed in the temp proposal a compromises was agreed for 7.6 that's what usual seeing in eliminates 4 units from the plan, which were distributed in our june 4th packet and due to this change the community space is a little bit more centered in the floor plan levels it through 4 no change

level 5 through 8 has 13 bedrooms previously each floor had 14 the loss of reduction was the eliminations of the floor plan due to the celebrate and the increase in size for the 4 bedroom units they've over 3 hundred square feet and the possibility they modest having might have two bathdz and they're going to be using a reflective material for the improvement of the lightwell. >> okay. thank you question for the city attorney since the project sponsor volunteered to included the inclusionary can we put that in our motion or finding the developer as voluntarily agreed to that you. >> kate stacey from the city attorney's office from the commission wanted to include that condition in this

project we first would like the commission to said that it would only apply to this project so those kinds of conditions the commission needs to think hard about and we will recommend adding in a few finding to explain that condition and also think that there is some need to think about basil_hawkins or other mechanism we recommend the commission adapt a recommendation of intent so work with staff and look at those issues for this project. >> okay. thank you. >> other thought prior to this i completely get the tenderloin folks indicating issues with the changes in the neighborhood just

to prove to the eir from sunnyvale project and that project we're trying to get market rate housing go housing for folks that don't afford a market rate so this make sense because you're really having economic diversities that is one of the whole points of you know trying to create neighborhood and quality whatever other good things that brings i think with people that can afford market rate housing have you to have the right protections and good sensitivity that project does it sensely and hopefully for the neighborhood we won't see the same thing happen here as in the mission once we do the mission 2020 a tenderloin 2020 i hate to be here in 3 years trying to catch

up i like the project and appreciate the developer working with the neighborhood i i'd like to make a motion to intent to approve with the language inserted around the volunteery mandatory should the market rate housing pass. >> commissioner if i may a motion of intent may have to come back with another motion to approve i think i mean, i can't say - give any certainty that the legislation will pass i think there is pretty strong sense that will pass and subject to the legislation but i mean since there's an agreement there's a willingness to move forward. >> maybe we can have the project sponsor come up. >> just kind of for the record

let us know your intent. >> i appreciate that opportunity ford has been working with the city attorney's office and with the neighborhood sense we started the project to include 12 percent burglar in the project and it's been as we can all see an interesting process we're committed to doing that one way or another and over time a method dissolution that allows this to happen to work legally for everybody but it is our intent and has been to make that part of our project. >> i see some commissioners want to weigh in i'll withdraw my motion i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say. >> commissioner wu. >> i also would like to support today, i think that the changes that have been made are good ones and shows the process works is there any way we can kind of

create a approve it and if it needs to come back because the legislation if pass we can somehow do it at the top of the list something like that. >> maybe kate can - >> i think i'd like to ask the city attorney for the particular question. >> i was asking for a way i'd like to support moving forward today but if you know it does need to come back to create some other different mechanism for the inclusionary maybe expedite it to get it on the calendar. >> excuse me. david i'll be willing to come back even at some fixed date in

september for an update on where we are in the process with the legislation is doing and we literally would like to see the project approved move forward today but gladly come back and give us an update with the city attorney's office. >> thank you. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much asking about the same thing i appreciate the developer offering to assist with informational presentation but i don't think that is the question the question is do we need to - is there any with you to take further action in the legislation didn't pass so i will have a followup question which say, i read it as if the legislation didn't pass there will be sort of a separate private agreement to still include the inclusionary units

so if i could get staff or the city attorney to confer. >> it itself a private agreement between the developer a but an agreement in place that will - >> sorry to interrupt. >> so that's what we're talking about from the legislation if pass the developer has made arrangements or some other agreement to fill in with the inclusionary housing great we've gotten advise in the past from the city attorney's office that we can't really condition private agreements in our motion so i'd like to make our lives easy and just is that the make a findings that thought existence of that private agreement that can we do that we're taking into account but i don't want to continue the approval on this agreement there's no action

coming back to us we don't have to do that it is symbolic. >> maybe if i could commissioners acknowledge of the existence of the agreement but on the record you're aware of the agreement the 12 percent affordable housing. >> okay. >> okay. >> i think i'd like to make a motion to approve with it being on this record there's a private agreement with t n d c and the developer to include 1212 percent affordable housing regardless of the legislation. >> second. >> i'm fine. >> by my question before you stepped up to the plate out was it was my understanding that the

nature of the developers accounting for the toefl period of time affordable housing was a form of private agreement with t n d c and lots of advice from the city attorney through other situations in the past we i'd like to take this opportunity condition private agreements. >> right. >> so there's something we can get an informational developer if the developer arnold agreed to by no further action to take to condition the affordable housing so i made a motion to approve with the acknowledgment that the developer made a private agreement. >> which was seconded. >> okay. >> jonas call the question, please. >> just trying to get that down so commissioners there is a motion and a second to approve that matter with conditions as

amending the motion to add a finding recognizing did 12 percent affordability through a private agreement with t n d c commissioners commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on item 13 for case no. 2014 at 250 howard street and beale street app an office allocation. >> i'm kevin guy with planning department staff the request before you is an allocation of office space under the limitation program it will constrict a new tower with a roof height of 4 hundred 50 feet and the building will contain 7

hundred and 667 gross office space and approximately ground floor retail and bloov parking if i could haveoverhead the lower area in pink is the lower areas of the site but drektd in green it adds 18 thousand square feet of open space at the northwest and southwest of the lot and the tower additional open space around 44 hundred secret is protruded within the redevelopment area there is open space at howard and beale street

this open space satisfies the sites for the previous sites at howard and fremont street the lot cantonese a deck with a retail use so this existing open space that be removed and replaced with open space on the block so the open space provided within the block 5 project before you will continue to satisfy the space for the open project the pavilion space will be stored and so getting back to the approvals the property is located between zone one of the transbay project area the controls by the transbay development plan within this area the staff from the investment & infrastructure reviews the projects in terms of the land use program and the

entitlement authority within zone one rests with the investment & infrastructure or the ccii rather than the planning commission that considers the 309 approval types that are commonly associated so the item before you is strictly to the oftsz allocation the ccii reviewed the plan for the average office towers for the included but not limited to program and adapted the related environmental finding the planning commission however, by the voters retains the authorities over the office authority component there is 29 square feet and on october 17th an additional 8 hundred plus secret is available for large building projects staff recommends the approval

the office allocation as outlined in the draft motion it meets the planning code for this particular action the project will add space and retail space in the downtown corridor if in a site that is currently underutilized the open spaces will cultivate and enlighten the streetscape it is consistent with the goals policies and procedures of the plans and once again the design has been approved by occ stat staff and ocii with the transbay redevelopment plan staff has received no communication in opposition thank you very much i'm available to answer any questions but before i precede i did want to discuss an issue one anywhere issue with the staff report the draft motion neatest to incorporate with the reference the ceqa finding by the ccii and i believe city

attorney has some relatively simple language to read into the record that effects that change. >> commissioner president fong and commissioners kate stacey from the sdoofsz we ask you be explicit about the ceqa finding i'll read into the record it is all in the preamble the 6th paragraph at the beginning of the paragraph that begins with the final eir contemplated before that i'll add this sentence the commission hesitate reviewed the eir and addendum and at the end for the reasons set forth in the ccii resolution no additional environmental review is necessary and in the staff report i would incorporate

a paragraph from susan mick son and the staff report about the mitigation measures the proposed project is subject to a mitigation and improvement measures identify in the eir including for wind safety and emergency services soil and historic resources, hazardous materials - visual aesthetics, traffic parking, non-motorized public information and air quality and water resources utilities hazardous materials and light and glare and occ will enforce those mitigation measures to be explicit that each decision maker is required i can work with staff to make sure that language is included

into the motion if the commission approves it. >> okay. thank you. >> opening it up for public comment i'm sorry project sponsor right. >> commissioner president fong and commissioners andy with reuben, junius & rose very excited to be here appreciate our patience when you thought you couldn't fit another one into downtown obviously busy doubt with lots of construction kevin gave a great summary why this is unusual you're not approving the design but the zone ggd if you recall in 2006 the transbay plan was essentially supposed to be primarily if not all residential plan that is still the case all the parcels up and down fulsome street will remain residential this is a unique aspect of zone one a couple years ago when occ put

the rfp together they made a wise decision to put it project out as an office project one office is just about the right light and generates numerous amount of money hundred and $72 million that will fund the transbay tunnel and it is about subjected to millions and millions of jobs fees and up to $35 million and back to the basic urban planning it is a great office site it is right downtown it is about as smart a grove and intensification about oriented development if you're scoring those on those issues that is getting another 10 on this score it is a great recognition

location i'm going to turn it over to lee who will talk about the presentation and then to the architect >> thank you andrew commissioner president fong and commissioners thank you for your time to consider our project i'm a promise with gpa open and company park tower on block 5 we teamed up with another chicago developer and together our firms bring over hundred years of experience in developing both office and residential projects. while we're not based here in san francisco gpa open is involved in block six and seven for that project we teamed with mercy housing we have also bid

on other tjpa sites on block 8 not the successful bidder on block 5 we formed a good working relationship with all those t at staff with occ and tjpa this one this site when we started on this project the architect we worked with planning and occ very, very closely to get to where we are today, we're proud of the design and for the lead architect others architects that is working with the san francisco office of solomon who is the architect on block 6 apartment project i'd like to perp thank all at occ and mr. haney we're excited about this all i'm going to turn it over to scott from give me partners to give you a presentation on the project

thank you very much thank you lee can i have the monitor thank you hello commissioners my name is a scott i'm a principle that the architect firm of give me partners to present the tower you probably are familiar with the site located in block 5 in the transbay area it is essentially at the corner of beale and howard i think you've seen this this is in the red zone along with the open space where we are providing on the site and providing open space planning for the parcels n-3 and one. >> the site is very - the building i should say is designed specifically for the site we've looked at the locations of the virtues from the building and we really tried to maximize the views towards

the building the high-rise of the building is fantastic views towards the bay and the low revised is close to the base has a dynamic relationship with the transbay terminals design of the tower is essentially you take a mass and the second slipping slide to provide floor plates that provides to the requirements of the different size the smaller at the top and bigger at the base with a nice lobby and 35 foot plaza i'll get into later we further go through the staircases they have a dynamic and visual connectivity to the transbay terminal this is an image of the tower looking north on beale you see

the massing the tower and those architecture terraces both on the southeast corner and north northeast corner of the tower. >> this is a view of the transbay terminal looking from excuse me. from 9 transbay tower and the terraces and if you're looking south along beale i apologize for that this is an image that had the aerial prospective of the tower you get a sense it is blending in with the neighbors but sets itself apart we like to point out the massing works well, the massing with the towers to the left you get lower as you worker your way towards the bay. >> the tower itself is really

made up of 4 plates the larger the mid-rise gets smaller and, of course at the high-rise the smallest floor points. >> the ground floor has retail at both corners you can't see that with the text but the lobby opens up to howard where we'll have this plaza that i'm speaking about roughly 35 feet tall it will be designed is with certain generous seating and planting and small retail and influences by the art we're going to put in the plaza the terraces themselves have a nice kind of appearance to them but very useful for the tenants and also an attractive element from the exterior of the building it helps the building to stand out base of the building certain