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service the advantage of not having food services not as many operations that's one the advantages i want to mention there have testimony to the effect that some of the residential neighbors felt there was not assess i pistol that the residents should work with the implementation as it move forward it is typical. >> i would expect that is part of motion. >> commissioner moore. >> should the opening hours perhaps start with a trial period as commissioner johnson if it is dwoolt at night and the toddlers can't sleep we do have experience with that composition i'm in support of it being there
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tired of the ruin of theatres and being more increasing liability for all of us with the historic resources but is that an idea to consider a trial period by which it can be opened and proves to be successful and in support of neighborhoods it does what it does as generally loud in the court. >> there is an existing venue that is has a sound system that will blow the doors off and the entertainment commission has a buffer has acknowledged the rights someone purposes the buildings and enters into the venue next door i don't know if it is necessary not that kind of venue there has not been a performance for 10 or 12 years
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i'm supportive of this getting activity a beautiful theatre it is not the castro but let's get to open. >> commissioner antonini a look back an issue that can be addressed and certainly something that we can look at if this is any kind of problem. >> commissioners shall i call the question think outside the box on the motion probation officer approve that with conditions as amended to strike condition number 22 regarding the hours of operation adding a 6 month update after opening in the form of that memo and the sponsor work with the operation of the use and adding a findings that the sponsor shall try to promote the food as a business model commissioner antonini commissioner hillis
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commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner hillis commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and on the variance, close the public hearing and and setback variance with an intent to grant the rear yard modifications and take the off-street loading under advisement. >> commissioners for item 11 at 403 irving street. >> we video more business if you want to take the conversation outside that would
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be great. >> good afternoon. alexander the the item before you is a request for at conditional use authorization to legalize the establishment of approximately 14 hundred square feet wine bar and ground floor of the mixed use building located an iving in the enter sunset the subject commercial that space was occupied by a grocery stores that vacated the space and occupied by the project sponsor since march of 2014 the sponsor proposes to operate ban 8:00 a.m. and he 12:00 p.m. in a meeting space providing the catering services from 10:00 a.m. wednesday through saturday sorry focused on the production of california wines and beer
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the proposed use as an independent locally owned business the survey a total of 5 directing establishment including the proposed wine bar it makes up the linear feet the property this is the enter sunset is predominantly within a radius the subject business adds to the concentration of the eating and drinking and one of 6 bars within 4 blocks with 19th avenue, however, shindig about not only offer an constitution is contributed to the establishment and not effect the existing noise within the area duo to cat the department has 3
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e-mails and 1 hundred 88 letters of support including the merchants and no phone calls or letters in opposition to the project the department recommends approval with conditions in compliance with the codes and policies and is necessary and desirable with the surrounding neighborhood it is a business that focuses on beer and wine and space available for rent that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions. >> project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners by way of introduction i'm shawn i own this business with my wife unable to be here to care for our children a nature born and
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raised in the city lived here all my life and i'm happy happen to be one of the residents that lives 60 feet of this location the back of my house looks at on the back of chin doug dig we're not seeking a typical bar but educational calories around wine and beer we've have 6 classes with local wine and beer and food litter education in the first two education ear looking to hire locals that are instructors if in other areas reand have identified 3 residents that fit that career and understand many more the project is on the idea of selling ticket on the subject that will help attendees that
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will presuming be attendees and fucht understand what their buying in the steers dpaevents between beers on the food and literature have book signing and lecture e.r.'s on farming and food issues with the aggregate business of the u.s. we've got publishes that are interested in the space as well as speakers the ultimate activity here is to sell the ticket as previously mentioned and be programming in at least one of the events 3 nights a week on the other nights making the space available for rent for private events and in order to maximize the use of space wale make the space available during the day and
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plan to have 20 percent of that valuable time for nonprofits and community groups to use the space at no cost to be able in support of neighborhood the experience we'll provide will not only desirable to the neighbors but captor to the neighborhood and i'd like to mention api i've been in the business for 18 years and my wife in the event business for many years so to be successful we've connected with the police department and the park with the neighborhood not only my children can be safer by the neighborhood and want to mention in addition to the one and 88 letters of support 100 percent of the neighbors touched for the urban that are in support of
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this project i i mean that the parcels on the corner you have a lot of units that touch the back and side of the units as well as residential belief and the residents that live above the space are in supports as of this morning a letter from the enter sunset merchant we've received with written support of project so thank you for your time and open to questions if you have any and great, thank you. >> we may have questions opening it up for public comment (calling names). >> good evening, commissioners thank you for having me. john i'm i proprietor of wine bar down the street i completely
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support this project i had the pleasure of this business they're great to the neighborhood their residents, they've visited my establishment with connections i have no opposition and it is gives the neighborhood more diversity we have customers that go to private events we get asked i don't have the space so thank you. >> good afternoon how you guys doing i'm directly reginald from the coffee comment next door from shindig on irving i run a coffee shop next door i have known them and before he came to his space was a little bit run
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down and wasn't very friendly any employees would come into early and nerve because people sleeping in the doorway so i've been able to he's let me have meetings in the space with my employees when i needed to i've actually since he's the neighbor and right around the corner had to call him my alarm has gone off he's walked down to make sure the store was okay. i'm all for this all the employees love the space next door and all the people that come to the coffee shop we serve a lot of people in the neighborhood and people love the space the way it looks and he's a great person and his family is amazing his wife they've been getting coffee from
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us since they've moved into the neighborhood it is amazing i want to see it move on tuesday. >> great, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners my name is jack i'm a native san franciscan born and raised in that neighborhood i'm here in support of frank and his establishment i think he compliments the neighborhood and offering a service hard to find especially in that neighborhood and he does if with a lessons that attracts curiosity from the people and i'm in the neighborhood often i see people peering through the window and say hey, what a great space that is beautiful i hear
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nothing but positive comments and people that look inside i don't see any reason why it shouldn't be used for his purpose and he's a good person devoted to the space not only a business owner but a resident lives right around the corner he is devoted to the space and to his work being he is lives there thank you for your time. >> good evening my name is jim i'm here many in support ever the restaurant and i also am a small business owner in the neighborhood i live 10 blocks away i want to echo what the people said before me spanking how it live evens up the
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neighborhood and speak to the type people san francisco needs to run small businesses i get emotional i talk about small business that the backbone of our country we need more small businesses in a city that is changing so much and we're seeing so many different big projects happen we need to remember the small little projects that add to the neighborhood i've gotten to know him and his wife for 12 years sorry i just think when we have opportunities to support people if san francisco that live in san francisco that own homes and send kids to the schools into a place they live in our obligation as a city to support it it adds to his fellow neighbors and none opposing this
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project thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? okay not seeing any, you've got some good friends here commissioner richards >> i don't think i've seen a project with such support of 100 percent i think this is a complimentary use and sir, you should start counseling on the project sponsor and happy to move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. great project in a great pollutant neighborhood we have many pollutant neighborhood from 1 time to 7th street is great from the streets further into the sunset a great area to walk around for the reasons stated and educational on beer and wine i'm very much in support.
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>> there is a motion and a second to approve that matter with conditions commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 12 union street this is a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, members of the planning commission sharon the the item before you is a conditional use authorization to establish the retail use an joe locate on union street in the vacate ground floor he commercial space with 15 hundreds secret of ground floor relevance from the paparazzi the neighborhood xherlt district the proposal and tenant improvements
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to the space no expansion of the envelope as far as the consideration currently has 57 store worldwide with no existing locations in san francisco the promote project louis allows the first joe independent retail store in san francisco according to the project sponsor mcd there is 41 formal empowering establishments within the union street neighborhood commercial district restaurants, retail, personal and financial establishments the existing of former retail establishments is approximately 70 percent of all retail businesses within the district and 20 percent of the commercial retail street frontage the subject project will add an
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additional retail establishment increasing the contemplation of establishments to 18 percent and will increase the formula retail use in the district based the frontage of all retail within the three hundred foot radius of the project site 7 of the retail establishments are former retails 22 percent of businesses and 21 percent of commercial frontage at the ground floor the proposed use contemplation will increase the contemplation of formula retail use businesses to 25 percent and not onlyly effect the ratio the formula retail use street frormg within the industry and mcd that are few similar establishments within the district which specialize in cosmetic and fragrance and staff and homebody
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pursuits within the district to dates the department has not letters or phone call in opposition of the proposed project the department has received one letter of support of the project from the union street association the parklet recommendation is approval with conditions that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you project sponsor please. >> good evening, commissioners i'm taylor with barbary coast consulting i want to briefly introduce the project from our prospective and the uniform support we've 80 so far received as mentioned earlier we have received a very glowing letter merchant are exciting and the neighborhood and a preapplication meeting a small number of people and neighbors and shoppers were supportive of the project and excited to see
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joe mellone come into the neighborhood with that, i'm going to turn it over to kathy with joe mellone thank you. >> hi i can still say good afternoon we're very excited this office of this project on to my left is that's okay to my left is jonathan a colleague. >> excuse me. very quickly in sfgov could move to the computer thank you. >> thank you. go ahead. >> so i thought i'll give you a little bit of background who is joe mellone joe mellone is a british lifetime with the fragrances with a center core of the arts so for those who know the brand you you know there's a lot of personal touch in terms of the way we wrap and we know that
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binding fragrance is personal we very try to teach people how to create hair own signature fragrances a couple of things you might not know they like us we have a nice little business for candle and lemon sprais sprays we teach hoping people how to set up their home appropriately it is teaching things like a grape flute be candle and it makes our house happy and we do a lot of with the personal gifting and ♪ picture and usually one the things that people love is giving a gift to someone else a little bit how we fit within a
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community well, we like to make our place a home for play and activity while we're committed to teaching to letting people compressor /* explore and discover and how to make basis let's if someone wants to have a party we give lots of things go on you, you know we'll go directly to their home as well but we also celebrate things to like birthdays and bride maids people kwoiment their wedding party and do parties in the store for us a community and being close and intimate it is important and important to support the brand a passion for
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giving back with a local garden trip a few steps away gardens are a source of the inspiration over the past year sponsored and working closely with local charity with brooklyn and came in landlords an organization in dallas that he built a beautiful 0 was for the children and underprivileged area that was fantastic right now we are working on long island with an historic library to create is very first reading garden in long island it's important and when we looked at you know locations because you obviously we only have one store in solon the west coast we really wanted to make sure it was a unique
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area were there wasn't a lot of spores maybe light space in terms of none like us doing what we do a duplication like a enhancement on the street and wanted to make sure that we could be at home and feel at home with the local community we had time to spend with the local community within 36 hours so i'm going to ucsf's jonathan this will take you through the location hope you, too think this is a good idea >> thank you, everyone good afternoon the exterior a beautiful building the landlord put in a lot of activity and from an exterior prospective we plan on doing minimal introduce
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an awning a. >> and leave the door black and leave the planters in front of the store see the planters to engage and talk about the fragrances a moment for us and opportunity to welcome the community moving into the space we here's a quick lay out 15 hundred square feet and the bow technical takes up frontage in the front the piece of our stores is the discovery table it attracts the people and our key feature is the tasting bar we explore the tame petersburg and see what happens behind the main bow technicutiq
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plaintiff we choose the cream and black our brand and give us the opportunity for launches throughout the year an active before that happened with products a platform to display that table is our discovery tasting bar it is a great moment to attract the community. >> in closing another view as you can see the back area as matthew was discussing gift giving and enlist wrapping a point every product is hand wrapped with the paper and the bows are chosen by the clients
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so that the experience is acquit it is quite ceremonial and great, thank you. >> and i guess questions? >> okay opening it up for public comment if there is any? >> no public comment public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore. >> since former retail is not what we're talking about it fits the union square we're experiencing quite a few vacates the building is appropriate to the use and so the smallness of the operation i personally have questions about formula retail i think this falls with that discussion partially because it as we look back at the early 70s union street is really the 1 neighborhood commercial street which kicked off what we experiencing in minus the
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formula retail but, however, union street has to reinvent itself i'm interested in seeing not vacant storefronts but active retail it creates a formula to compliment the lieflt setting i personally don't have any problems i think from an overall aesthetic it fits and it is union street merchant support the project as they seem to i don't think i'm supporting the project. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i'm supportive it is a very good product of fragrance for men and women and a lot of people really like it i've heard of it before even before today and what's nice it is only the first store for john malone in california that cac can bring
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patrons to union street like to product and a lot easily to come to a store more of an experience as opposed to buy it at a large department store it is possible but have a positive effect on some of the other stores in union street and so i'm supportive and most of the to approve. >> second. >> commissioner richards. >> first of all, the compliments to the staff the project sponsor the map you provided was fantastic and to see what is around there 18 formula retail in the district only 22 percent within three hundred and feet and it is complimentary and really a good shopping experience i very much support this project. >> there is a motion and a second to approve that with conditions a
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commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and sxhorng so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> commissioners, that places you under your 13 ab for the case at spear street an office authorization as well as a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon rick department staff the item before you is the conditional use authorization and office authorization for the project at spear street the proposal includes a change of use of 400 thousand plus square feet to office use on the third and fourth floors it will retain the cu use on the floors one hundred 9 thousand square feet specifically it is requesting a
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conditional use authorization to establishment a non-residential use and authorize to date the department has not received any letters of opposition just as a remembered in the future from the project applies for another change of use it will be substantially have to draw if the office allocation it is applicable for the next 10 years the department staff recommends approval the project is the applicable planning code and consistent with the policies and procedures of general plan in the zoning district that permits office use and approximately 4.1 of a small office space available for allocation and the project sponsor is present and available for any questions that concludes my presentation.
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thank you. >> thank you project sponsor please. >> good afternoon steve with the digital the owners on the property of spear brought copies of the project it is fairly straightforward project we own two buildings on the block and as intended to develop 360 spear what an internet exchange weekly the current san francisco and we're at an office component is complimentaryy for the tech companies and access to companies that ♪ proximity and other opportunities in san francisco given the space and the
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availability we find the conditional use complimentary a community meeting where we had an open house and 360 property and invited the local community members to see a presentation and ask questions we had somewhere around thirty participants and some really good questions nothing that seemed like major opposition we tried to maintain good relationships around the buildings over the past years and continued to also be a good neighbor overall it is the wrap of project if need be we'll turn through the plans that the basic project is to provide 49 thousand, etc., etc. secret square feet of office to fit within the requirement the entire fourth floor and a portion of third floor we'll get is it marketed and look at the
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tenants and bring it into the building in 2016 so - that's our project >> okay. >> we might have questions. >> okay. >> opening it up for public comme comment. >> sue hester from san francisco reasonable growth we're starting to see 49, 9 and 2 types projects and i'm a realist about how building permits are preceded in the city hopefully e hoping that my colleague was here raised the same question on 16th street the planning
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commission needs to come enclose the position that explicitly says that building permit that is honest building has to alert the building inspection they may need no approvals of the tenants improvement without it being in the planning department why don't i say that i've read the files those are being approved without rooting through the planning department and coming in it 10 years or 2516th street and they deliver in anyone in the city can hire someone to go to the building inspection and flash a permit gateways a new this every industrial building has on office every use possible has an office the only way that is really 49992 permanently or
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until they come back with an application there is a condition that tells buildings they may not improve over the counter for anything planning department knows the difference between offices use and accessory offices okay. except how to deal with the offices in that building and convert it like this it needs some attention because the department is soliciting people 49 secret and john a ram that is on open secret we have a lot of 50 thousand square feet and a tight entrance so i'm asking the
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commission to be realistic and enforce the damn code put a condition they can convert 49992 again not the rest of the third floor or other places in the building thank you. i'm going to stay a one 35 he checked the plans and you can't see that you is there any additional public comment. >> okay seeing none, public comment is closed if the project sponsor comes back with on a additional request for office allocation if the big office allocation or- >> thai trigger the 50 thousand square feet the amount of small cap will go back to the small cap pack and it will be looked. >> i have a question for the
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city attorney i'm hearing what ms. hester said explores conditions on the project sponsor i think that sound like a condition on staff with the building inspection is it done. >> kate establishing if the city attorney's office there may be some imperial mechanism like putting a note staff may be able to come up how they coordinate. >> that's a reasonable request i'll definitely support it the motion to approve with the scion be put. >> second. >> on the file. >> parcel. >> commission just to clarify the condition of approval it will be encouraging outreach with the department of building inspection regarding the future
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permits. >> i don't remember the terminology but we'll snag projects forgot the terminology. >> we have a parcel information database but generally dbi didn't have access more of an internal cooperation and work with them what's the best methodologies. >> trust you on that commissioner antonini. >> that make sense two weeks ago we approved the digital realty and you know it they also have one on main isn't too far away make sense that some of the usage experienced into office as by the project sponsor the fact that you need to have it for the businesses using the i s e want to say be closer to the storage
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facility themselves and have sort of the hands-on experience is make sense to do this and i appreciate the fact it we brought up the point that you can if it were to be a large anywhere space going to the large gap i'm supportive of the good blends to have the office space there. >> commissioner wu. >> i want to ask staff to explain i don't know if there is a usual what's the planning between staff and the dbi where's the crack. >> from mined the it belies on the definition of the project from the sponsors end dbi will route it according what the sponsor tells them the project if in their only coming in with a interior permit with no change
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in occupancy then up to date necessarily get routed to planning for example, but when dbi seize a change in occupancy or some other kind of exterior change it gets routed. >> it raise a large issue of the enforcement overall thank you. >> commissioner johnson. >> yeah. thank you. i agree with commissioner wu and i don't want to belabor the point i don't understand the motion the problem if they get an approval for office space the difference between small. >> large cap might get lost on the department counter maybe a subsequent change for the half of the fourth floor realistically what is it we can do i did not understand the
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motion. >> i think at that point it is before us the way to flag it if there is a change of use on the subsequent floors that will be the mechanism you know hopefully that dbi will recognize a change in the subsequent floor that will tip it to a large cap situation again there are layers of what office projects some projects that contain office accessories to dbi might not see that as a good use and might not route this is a large issue as looking at when the change of use a number ever years ago a memo when projects come to us all the categories that come to planning i think this is a good time to look at you know an update that kind of memo and see the better ways to partner to make sure those changes come to us
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commissioner johnson if i understand the motion correctly it is to internally put a flag on the permit tracking system any future tenant improvements will be routed to planning. >> future that is internal. >> to be fair a part of the issue that methodist was raising not necessarily we won't catch a change of use but plied clank of use property owners say this is a ready office not proposing a change of use this has happened in several locations the dbi has not routed the plans they look at plans and building it is utilized when it is not. >> i understand that as well i think that is what i'm trying to say part of the reason the 49 thousand square feet part of one
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of the froorz not the entire fourth floor and partial felt third story it is so o to say half of the third floor is office i don't see over-the-counter department staff between one half of the third story i'm trying to be realistic this is a larger conversation and revisit it especially we'll have the sort of office allocations prop m allocation fleeshg i'm not sure i guess to keep the flag not sure that will get to what we're talking about thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> i'm interested in the technology integration into the dbi something in technology by which a red light to a footnote
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in any databases who makes them and where they were things that can be done is there oath depth and data sharing that allows for the extra footnote a question i'm hanging on. >> commissioners i heard a motion i didn't hear a motion. >> i'll second it. >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> so there is a motion and a second to approve this matter with conditions as amended to include that planning flag this property for any future tenant improvements to be routed to the planning department commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and place you on item 14 at 135
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townsend street. >> good afternoon rick department staff the the item before you is an office detriment e development authorization for 49 thousand plus square feet at 2 henry adams street the proposal is a change of use of the 49 thousand plus square feet under self-storage a retail use of ground floor retail space the proposal will undertake the laefls of a new roof deck and stair penthouse the department has received one letter of support and one of omittance to the project on november 18, 2015, the historic preservation commission granted a certificate of appropriateness for the exterior work at noted in the motion after analyzing all aspects the department staff recommend with conditions the project is with
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the planning code and consistent with the objectives and the project is located in a zoning district that encourages the growth of office development and the project is an allocation of 1.4 percent of the cap available that concludes my presentation. the project sponsor has prepared a short statements i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you project sponsor. >> thank you, john with reuben, junius & rose on here on behalf of the project sponsor as mentioned it is the conversion of the retail soft story building to office use i'll start by having jim come up to give you a give you a little bit of background of the building. >> good evening, commissioners my name is jim field the owner
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and applicant for one 35 townsend street a color bagged i was born in 1954 and 55 my dad started the base called custom paper products on townsend street and he operated this businesses for years and years until the two-story and the trung was obsolete and a problem to really with the congestion and all the growing amount of people in that area he moved the business eventually but supplied many companies he had a great little business going on townsend street nevertheless, i spent most of my youth grouping on to section between second street and third street about thirty years ago my dad and i
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bought a second building with storage in that building for that entire time i think we partially waded through a lot of changes we have been there to the some pretty tough times in many market seen high tech and seen clank if the ball park we have a vision i have a vision for what i think townsend street can become and part of what we're doing in police vehicle the application trying to fulfill that vision for townsend street part of the reason wear trying to moved on this i think the storming has become more obsolete and incomparable with the area part of there are rental truck coming and going and cars in and out of the
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building a problem with the level of pedestrians in that area i think we wanted to see retail brought that's why 40 percent of our storefront as retail and doing many go to be a nice addition what we hope is a community in that area we would like to see the building can't do with tenants want to renovate, upgrade the seismic and do the ada life safety so all those things currently a building tied to the two neighbor buildings when our building was built two brick buildings on every side of us as a whatever company built that we're tied to the two buildings we have met with alice rogers
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from the south of market neighborhood group they're going to help us with the retail we have a vision we think is a shared vision of trying to bring more life and garage to it street i'm excited request working with them we have an agreement mou you'll see in our package from the soma group supporting the group al listless was here to speak barbecue but unfortunately had to leave so i think that is all i want to unsettle we're looking forward to work working on bringing this together we have a lease for the buildings we've been working on 80 this building for two years have a lease with under armor to bring their group for health and
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fitness division and all lieflt and community lieflt thank you very much i appreciate your time. >> thank you, commissioner a couple of other comments west portal or with respect to the zoning district we obviously office is a principally permit subject to prop m not in any pdr protection zones outside of the supervisor kim's pdr protection ordinance area but of we were in f it because of a retail use self-storage is highly disfavored not permitted ♪ zoning so self-storage use is not permitted it didn't activate the street and draw a number of workers to the area and not create jobs this project will
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restore the facade of this historic building which was approved by the hpc roach the parking and the thirty foot curve cuts better forever the pedestrians and create a neighborhood serving retail use we'll have voluntarily reached to the out to alice and rincon hill and the merchant association working with them they're in support of project and jim mentioned under armor moving their technology to the building and they're a well established copy company here two doors counsel from townsend at the commission not a lot of things that building was eliminated in a pdrs use we're not doing it here we have the project and our tech is here if you have any questions and
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respectfully request you approve this office allocation >> any public comment on this item? >> that was the woman that left. >> okay public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> yeah. as pointed out office is permitted in the mou where self-storage is non-conforming in mou not an active use not many jobs and brought up the other thing to renovate, upgrade the historic building an article 10 building the other thing is there are probably other self-storages in that area and unusually had you go to self-storage not whole in on a hand-cart you load a truck in the east bay a family home they want to save furniture and
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treasurers we got a storage room a couple of miles away once you're in a truck not any difference a block or two miles somewhere in the vicinity not in soma and the other thing under armor are an excellent product and moving to san francisco part of their operation i guess their health and fitness from texas i'm not sure it is texas most of time businesses are out of california to texas he it's good we're getting someone coming this way in a pdr protected business i'm in charge and move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner moore. >> i'm interested in why storage is in the retail definition i see a value you've captured here in taking self-storage to office is not properly regretted in the fees
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we're las vegas i am read the to have the department elevate that discussion in order to not penalize but properly distribute how we collect fees we're a new uses very, very specific how the actions this particular case it might be based on an old definition a time that is appropriate relative to the overall transformation in the city at large with older buildings i see the value to capture we've not alleged i want to hang that out this is a good example i'm in support of project i like the project think that is a nice adaptation and sensitive done but the issue that i outlined is extremely
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important to me i'm not sure if we can resolve this with respect to this project perhaps the city attorney or someone else you can't can address that i'll see from my historical sense prior to the eastern neighborhoods self-storage was a pdrs use there was a time it was considered pdr directing your attention that was morality as what is a use more pdr not having a lot of people coming and going as opposed to to the self-storage so given that thought process i think we felt this was appropriate to we can indefinite revisit it per you're suggestion or having that suggestion you know we're going to the central soma that is an
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avenue to which this could be definitely addressed in those terms. >> the city attorney wants to weigh in. >> kate establishing if the city attorney's office i'm not sure what commissioner moore you mean by value added when the city assesss an impact fee we're going to to study of impact of the project and to establish a nexus between the impact on the neighborhood are impact on the city as related to the particular kind of fee i'm not sure if the city has conducted a nexus study or shows the difference in impacts on any of the normal fees we collect if this was defined as a retail use now an office use without that study or without that nexus connection i don't think the commission could establish
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assess a fee on this project at this time unless staff can tells you that the nuking analysis has been done i would say in central soma or other plans the city is certainly do the nexus study. >> it is a core of any question i'm not suggesting to amend the process had a nexus study is required i'm talking about policy the area is transforming with the specific boundaries to south of market, etc. i think that would be timely for the planning department to gather the other part of city family to discuss value added to the nuking by which we'll consider had a fees we're las vegasing i appreciate that a small core the forward leading thought as i said, i. in support of this what
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