for public comment on the items proposed for continuance (calling names). >> we support of continuance of divisadero did care so thank you for doing that we think that we want to make sure that the highest affordability requirement is placed upon this project i believe the ordinance you passed a couple weeks ago is making its way throats board of supervisors hopefully that is approved and we get the full affordability requirements for this aspect thank you. >> my name is donna thomas the owner of grove street the property immediately behind

divisardero street probably the most greatly impacted by the buildings and have the most adverse effects by the buildings i'm on vacation in october so when will i get to speak it you decided to extend this. >> right now proposed for october 20th. >> yeah, i'm begun all of objectivity. >> we ask you speak in continuance for the project and not on the project itself let's get you in touch with the contractor. >> is he here can i found out that. >> he's read behind you there. >> what other time besides october. >> okay. how do he speak if he's not willing to extend it.

>> i'm speaking in opposition of things on october 20th because it is the person who owns the property that is most effected by this project i feel i need to speak about the project there are certain portions major impact on the building and tenants and i'm not going to be here in october what do i do. >> thank you. we understand the situation and thank you. >> did he go now. >> sit down we'll get through. is there any additional public comment on the items proposed for continuance >> thank you, commissioners briefly on divisadero did care the project is ready to go but we've been in touch with the neighborhood over the course of the project and many times

discussed with the neighborhood put the bmr on site as short-term rental and we're working with the supervisor observation and staff to insure we can get those unite on site that's the reason for today and be back with onsite bmr's. >> is there any additional public comment? >> okay public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i think mike's on okay. >> they're a little bit twitchy right now. >> so i think in deference to the project i'll ask for a number two ab postponed until

november 3rdrd. >> commissioner antonini. >> well, i mean it would be a possibility but i'll stay with the date and we can move it in the future if we decide not a good date certainly the owner of the property could correspond with us in e-mail or other ways go than making the - that owner can come and testify what her objections to the project on a day not heard. >> commissioner johnson. >> i if it works for the full claurnld i'll be happy to move it but the candle stick park and to others in general we do take seriously written public comment and we integrate that into the thoughts of a project sometimes actually more helpful to have things in writing than the two

or three up here we're able to actually take it and think how it sdpraths into a project i think we had this situation with individuals that maybe impacted by the project try to shape our scheduled around vacationed and other accommodating schedules unfortunate that's not the way did works nice to doing everything we can but we don't work that way and no matter which way the vote goes. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> to the person that spoke we're available for invitations to come out to see your property and look at the plans and can do that before you are on vacation should the vote stay october 20th. >> there is a motion that has been seconded to continue item

one to august 11th and 2a to october 20th on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore. >> commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards no. >> a commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that passes. >> on item 2 i'll be acting zoning administrator and we'll continue until october 20th. >> thank you. >> that places you on commissioners matters consideration of the consideration of approval of the draft minutes for july 16th. >> any public health on the approval of the draft minutes not seeing any, public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore. >> move to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt the minutes on that motion

commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards commissioner president fong snoechlt passes 6 to zero. >> item 4 commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> just wanted to mention briefly in this morning's chronicle john was nieftdz to go to see what the displacement gentrification in denver architect and the thing have not measuredp to ours and depleted ours everyone that distances the planning process in the last section as the quality of work it is my job to point fingers other folks but the planning progress is a certain discipline and buildings with left to logical extensions of the shot

out of planning process thank you, john king. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further, we'll move on to we can move on to department matters. >> director's announcements. >> one brief announcement regarding the investigating officers by right a series of conversations in the state to get feedback from local jurisdictions on the governor's legislation we had been expecting a i think fourth version of the legislation to come forward that didn't happen i think the governor is waiting to here the feedback from the discussion we expect in a couple of weeks the next version the legislation so as soon as we get it we'll send that that concludes my report. for this week. >> okay. thank you. >> item 6 review of past events at the board of supervisors board of appeals and

the historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon, commissioners aaron starr at that weeks land use supervisor avalos wireless telephone consumptions ordinance the ordinances will one place a 10 year time on the macro sites in the nuked to remove the screeners for the pipes consistent with height limit for unscreened antenna and except and 3 deny the uncompatible application for antennas on historic buildings that on june 16th this commission voted to recommend approval with the findings to encourage the use of cleaner fuels for those facilities with no public comment and no comments from the members of the board for the record to the full board with a positive recommendation and next supervisor farrell and

supervisor wiener orientals for the adu this ordinance was before the commission on june 16th and the committee recommended the commission recommended to the board a positive recommendation with a 4 to one vote and by supervisor peskin was heard by the committee the previous week and moved to the full board without recommendations on monday the variance porcelains supervisors reached a compromise and allowing an unlimited number of adu's with 5 or more units and in filling underneath and in filling lightwells those will require 311 and wifrz and in terms of minimum unit size the department informed the supervisors that the minimum set will be prior three hundred and 50 square feet so for studios

and 5 hundred plus one bedroom with the adu for - supervisor peskin requested additional information in this regard to the board and lastly supervisor wiener agreed to prohibit the sales of adu's for to permeate buildings adu's and condominium will subsidize or sell and supervisor wiener proposed on amendment that allows the adu's in building undergoing seismic retrofitting and sold spacial when the program resumes they were passed at committee public comment was mainly 23456r of the ordinance with some caveats with the extension to create adu's some 0 thought no extension and then others for the entire envelope the committee voted to move forward as a committee report no recommendation at that weeks ago extremely

contentious board of supervisors the board passed the feasibility ordnance on the 100 percent affordable housing bonus program on its second reading and at the full board the supervisors took a break to consider the two competing adu's ordinances in order to decide when piece of legislation on a vote supervisor cohen's recommended to flip the $1 coin and the coin toss was one-on-one won by supervisor farrell with the minimum supervisor wiener requested points minimum would be three hundred regardless of whether the units is san francisco or a one bedroom in response supervisor peskin suggested making amendments to remove the minimum limits altogether and instead a uncodified section the platt report back in a year those amendments were made and the city adu legislation was

passed on first reading at the board with a 10 to one with supervisor yee against the board adapted interim controls requiring the conditional use authorization for the conversion of residential hotels this was sponsored i supervisor peskin supervisor kim and supervisor cowen we won introduction it was an interim controls for the conditional use authorization for pharmacies in the potrero hill supported by supervisor wiener that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> the board of appeals met last night but no action on items of interest this to the planning commission and met and adopted the approval for the first set of legacy businesses 9 applications commissioners on general public comment not to exceed 15 minutes

to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when oh, i'm sorry, i building we skipped an item. >> we did. >> item 7 record number 2016 at battery street a market-rate plan thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and members nick with the staff the item before you on abbreviated master plan i mp requires the medical institutions and post secondary institutions have only file a occurred imp that anticipated the institution and institutions located in the c-3 downtown commercial districts proposing to occupy one hundred and less

square feet may present an imp the police station can hold a hearing as the school occupies the site loans one though square feet in c-3 are eligible to apply in 2015 it was a small private school that offers a two year 4 semester software engineering program for the - allows students to learn the program skills and currently the school has 32 full-time students with future enrollment between 32 and 42 full-time students a staff of 3 full-time and didn't own any property in the city and county of san francisco for the purpose of academic or administrator use the plan is located on battery street in the

east side of battery 2w7b pine and bush streets the school will leased 4 thousand square feet of office space an is the subject property in october of 2015 it didn't call for an expansion beyond the space of the fourth floor on battery street any future plans will be talked about in the form of open update of the abbreviated imp by the planning code every two years after reviewing this imp staff believes that cantonese all the information and ask you accept that that concludes my presentation. of course, i'm here for questions if you have any. >> project sponsor please.

>> dear members of the board i'm the parish manager at the school and did a great job of presenting our school and so i'm doing a short presentation the reason we choose san francisco the school has mentions had is an education school a 2 year education with an internship between the two years and using the base learning to train the best of the engineers of their generation as a result san francisco is the best environment for our school and based in the heart of the city the biggest tech companies helps our students to be part of this environment and allows them to be professional given the fact the attractiveness of the location that offers amenities

for great transportation, and good place facilities to come to be a contributor this the lives of san francisco thank you for your attention if you have any questions i'm here to answer them. >> is there any additional public comment? >> from the project sponsor guess not okay. on this item? >> may it please the commission i'm john jones i'd like to alert the panel the commission and speakers to a principle in the art of theatre you talk so that the little old lady apologizes to the little old lady in the back right now can hear you this not a

conversation all two requests to speak up you think what is important i hope you'll forgive me encourage the platform and it's use of microphones we can hear what is being said thank public comment? >> okay not seeing any, public comment is closed. and commissioner antonini. >> ask i hope this is loud enough gentlemen can you hear me how about the back right now okay. thank you all right. this is a complete institutional master plan for the institution that is modest in size but done everything we've asked them to do in the institutional master plans not an approval item i'm satisfied what they prepared to us.

>> commissioner that mass you on general public comment at this time this time at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. i do have speaker cards. >> okay. >> georgia swedish and mary gallagher. >> game-changer georgia swedish i'm here because i like to read the open homes on sunday and when i read them this

weekend 3 one on vic beggar and on harding park per not bother with the overhead and another one on eight avenue $4.4 million the critical thing they're sold as single-family homes but the really bad had negotiate units on vic beggar 3 units on the property information site it come up right away and think one on harper a two will not unit and on lake is egging degrees whether those projects come in i think people look at that property information website it is right there i only printout the one for vic beggar but says 3 units so those should get attention

and flagged and wifrz is that ab association where you're allowed to reduce them in size i look at the ones i come up with 20 units of existing presuming will i after i was at the adu hearing when people are struggling to do something i came to the city with 20 relatively affordable units and everyone would love me there's a couple of more i know about the units were lost one in fact, you have one on the 19 another one on 28 two unit maybe 3 at one point and a well known legacy business that was remodel i'll leave it at that on a happier note i had to make use of our

planning enforcement division because the project that you approved as a well, you took dr and reduced the bulk and removed the penthouse excuse me - the roof deck was in violation of our director order in march and i want to thank the enforcement people for their adolescence and hard work for ms. curby i think that is resolved i know that she worked extremely hard and i don't like using enforcement but when a error is introduced i'm glad you have the planning enforcement as ms. curby thank you. >> commissioners good afternoon for our record mary gallagher on pacific the dr

filer appointed the you go recommended in writing the sponsor should remove the 3 rear yard structure and here are the memos in the events you want to look at them again annunciations by seismic about the reversals planner said for an earlier version of the project all versions of this project were for a large building in front of or a large building and partial use this answers the sites the obvious someone reversed or let the sponsor out of the direction i've seen this three or four dmdz times i've asked a few planners and 0 gotten different answers one planner said the only way to add did you dot on a

staff initiated dr that this is the procedure over two decades and works for reasons i'll be happy to explain another planner said the sponsor writes an information not add a direction i asked if there was a written record and told no, we don't do that although there will be a record of sponsors request most recently found a page the developer made a phone number and got out of the rtd in writing we with justification those reverse always are behind the scene and had ufshgs dots direction not recessed instead the may plans back in february and then a set find plans

resembling the decision you'll see last may enabling you to render a decision more quickly and with more precision with a set of plans in front of you nothing we can do about pacific but make improvements for the future projects all i'm asking is is what sxhifksz i couldn't do for written comprehensive pubically available procedures that spell out this and ever other planning department procedures they provide us with transparency, fairness, and consistency the procedures are the best resource to train new planners and help prevent mistakes on demo problems time. >> thank you is there any additional public comment? >> okay not seeing any, public

comment is closed. >> next speaker, please. >> commissioners that places you on the regular calendar item 8 record number lombard street a question for a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon members of planning sharon department staff the proposal for conditional use authorization to add a massage with approximately 4 hundred and thirty feet on the mixed use building as accessory use for the hair salon doing business as as is lombard beauty slogan on lombard it converts on existing storage room into the establishment use no exterior

changes or expeditions to the envelope the property project establishment will be assessed by an external floor for the mess republican floor as far as inform open planning for the project site to date the department has no letters or phone numbers in opposition to the project the planning department recommendation is recommend that concludes my presentation. >> thank you project sponsor. >> project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners first time i don't

know. >> speak into the mike there thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners and everything or o everybody i don't know what you do so you guys ask me to - >> you can use this opportunity to talk about your project or explain why you feel it is appropriate if you have nothing to describe we can just identify yourselves and we may have questions for you. >> well, i was waiting for you guys to ask me. >> thank you you can have a seat now open up for public comment on this particular item. >> okay not seeing any, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i have a lot of questions i don't know why staff is recommending approval there is another massage establishment right next door

and also generally, we like those visible from the front non-not on the second story many are unfortunately been the source ever activities other than massage and we just recently approved i believe a medical marijuana dispensary f in the same neighborhood and know there is lots of molts in the area that have a reputation for crime so i feel this is in the appropriate use of this thing it maybe unnuke enough but not a second one in operation on the same street for the other reasons i've almost all of the what is your business or occupation in the past are open windows and the ability for things activities to be monitored not to be kind of on second story

behind closed doors so i'm not in favor. >> commissioner wu. >> maybe staff could explain sort of what are the regulations governing this kickoff spice and why it is here for land use approval here today. >> game-changer david mr. lindsey from department staff the massage use requires the conditional use in this district on the messing necessary that is considered in the first story although the second story is the space is assessed through the hair slogan that is the business on the ground floor above on open staircase and into a halfway with an open windows into the halfway it is considered to be an open

visually open not from the street that's true but open to visibly open on the shop that's part of it. >> thank you that explanation is helpful with that, i i feel comfortable with the project as proposed. >> is there a second. >> move to you approve. >> sorry. >> second. >> i have one question on- is this any way by ownership are connection to the establishment next door is there an expansion or separate sure. >> this is a separate ownership here. >> okay. >> great. >> commissioners there is a motion that has been seconded to approve with conditions commissioner antonini no. >> commissioner johnson commissioner moore. >> commissioner wu commissioner vice president

richards commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes passes 5 to one. >> and places you on the discretionary review calendar item the record number 2014003191 vrp at the bernal heights boulevard and 1025 - >> for discretionary review if i could ask those that are standing to please find a seat and not block the door and good afternoon planning commission chris with the planning department staff the item before you is a dr request for the building permits associated with the project on bernal heights

boulevard with the following numbers within the rh1 zoning district for height and bulk and as well as the bernal heights sud in the bernal heights currently the the subject property is vacate with only naturally concurring landscaping and slushes in vehicular assess a substitution of the triangle shaped lot that is 7 thousand 5 hundred square feet in the area up sloping into 4 new lots that would be 4, 3 level single-family residences one single-family home on each new lots it ranks in the floor from 27 hundred square feet to 34 hundred square feet collectively the four buildings will result in 12 square feet of new residential unit 4 thousand

is below grade and tussled into the hillside 4 three hundred square feet of usable open space and 3 buildings from front to base along the boulevard and on bernal heights fronts into bernal heights i'm the one bernal heights address in front of on 40 bernal heights at the top of hill from 22 to 28 feet and 20 off-street parking and bicycle parks and involves a 40 feet public right-of-way on the east edge that is designed with dpwed standard for city compliance and be fully landscaped to the top of hill in the form of stairs and landscaping to dates the project the department has received 5

letters of opposition and addition one letter of support the decreasing have a number of issues with the project including the project is inconsistent with the planning code with the residential design team residential design guidelines and the east slope guidelines and with respect to the front yard and the massing and the side with the detailing the project also exclaims the project is out of context with the scale of the neighborhood and would set a precedence for out of character with the neighborhood the project didn't resolve the bernal heights use another claim in which the the ed slope design board they believe this is a vehicles last year project and be improved with the differentiation the project is located within a residential district and

reviewed by the residential design team the rtc found the project didn't create any exceptional or extraordinary the project overall massing and form and scale to be appropriate given the height and bulk and as well as the typography of the site the proposed project is consistent with the residential character and meets the bernal heights east slope guidelines with the residential design guidelines the project is fully compliant with the planning code and not seeking variances or special entitlements from the commission therefore the department represents not take dr and approve the project as proposed that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you. >> before we begin with the doctor we advise the allocated time is 10 minutes phenomenon the project sponsor and 5

minutes for rebuttal and 5 minutes response. >> dr requesters please. great leave it there. >> hello, everyone thank you, commissioners for welcoming us to share our concerns about this proposed project we'll gather here to make the most utilization of our 20th minutes i'm betsy another stake the future of open entire block that is open space on the south slope of bernal heights the context you'll see on the screen a view of the sites i've lived across the street from the proposed project site for more than 20 years and plenty of opportunities to notice in that a special corner of bernal for

walkers and traffic north north-south and east and west cross across the hill a eclectic mix of styles for the small and other homes for the aesthetics of bernal heights i'm here i care about the future of this corner i'm not lonesome other one and 50 neighbors are following this project since introduced my fellow presenters and i hope to help you make a decision that addresses neighborhood concerns and be neighborhood character both of which it date have been incurred by the developer the recommendations for the neighbors building this project will are immediate a exceptional or extraordinary negative impact on the home we think long term as you will be as members of the

planning commission this project will not only upset the aesthetics will certainly both duo that but set a precedent for denser character for the typography i want to address two important presentations within alters background information you've received and the planning commission response to our dr application this regards the opposition to the project reading the background information and you might be left with the perception it is largely unopposed this as dr requesters we represent one and 50 people, of course not all of them are able to come up to be heard but many are heard i want to acknowledge and thank them and the neighbors that would be here they would the next exhibit a map on which you'll see

recommended red squares that shows concern about the project those letters were submitted total planning department and to the board of supervisors earlier in our efforts to give the neighbors a voice in the planning process to which the neighbors are entitled this map shows indeed opposition to the project and that has been disregarded by itself developer we're not anti development have major concerns the mass and scale of the project that places 4, 3 thousand square feet and luxury homes creating a zones wall along the street the second misrepresentation i want to address this project is consistent with san francisco planning code in fact, the plans are not consistent they're not consistent with with the residential design guidelines and the bernal heights east

slope building guidelines and section section 311 the construction of new residential building in our district shall be consistent with the guidelines of the general plan and the residential design guidelines in 1997 the sproirtd the california interpreted section 311 to not only consider the neighborhood guidelines but find that my building is consistent with the neighborhood guidelines that's an important distinction the next exhibit i'd like to show that section 311 is not the only reference section 2428 of this project be consistent with the neighborhood guidelines it states east slope guidelines use to determine the neighborhood compatibility of new construction turning next to the guidelines

in our slides as you can see from the excerpts east slope design those guidelines were created to protect and preserve bernal they were adopted by the planning commission in 1986 cover a wide range of neighborhood characters with side yards and architectural mass as noted in our dr application the plans for this development have not consistent with the scope of the guidelines and in fact, result in just the kind of development the guidelines we are created to prevent dense and undifferentiated with a high ratio of open space before i i'm going to turn it over to i'll all our neighborhood core concerns about the project first with 4, 3 thousand foot homes on the block this project is too big and dense for this location

and neighborhood although it maybe appropriate for other neighborhoods with large-scale they guest by bernal those 4 large houses are oversized and those don't conform to the residential design guidelines that protect the neighborhood character and finally we're disappointed with the process that has brought us from the good faith through an attempted mediation he stress attempted before this planning commission to the developer to the planning department, to the board of supervisors and now to you the commission we've consistently said this is too big for bernal in the hearing regarding the subdivision into 4 lots supervisors that were sympathetic shausz us the planning process is the appropriate form to advocate for changes to dates the developer

has not made changes to the chief unconcerns or concerns in fact, could have been a cooperative to a difficult one we seek our clofbl process moving forward with thoughtful and reasonable conformation on the developers part at least one and 50 think this is out of character and rubber stamped a reasonable process will he'd not ignore our concerns thanks for the opportunities to share with you i'd like to introduce my neighbor collin that will share details about the mass and scale. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is collin i'm 38 nebraska street in san francisco i want to focus on some of the specifications of the makings of

this project that betsy outlined this is a key lot in bernal heights if you're on the street at the fulsome looking across the hillside this is a prominent position a critical development see this area of bernal heights and we run the risk of ended up with a huge ugly inappropriate development right here you may say they're one large lots or 4 large houses that is currently open space where you regard them as individual homes or a block of large homes by the mass and scale are out of character the residential design guidelines underscore the connection between building scale and neighborhood character i'm quoting here from the design guidelines 2003 essential for

building scale to be compatible with that of surrounding buildings in order to preserve the neighborhood character scaled buildings will seem i think compatible and inharmonious with their surrounding we've spent a lot of time looking at this project we have one and 50 neighbors are engaged on this project we're concerned about the way it is moving forward right now. >> if we look at mass in daily and try to understand the density ratio of those houses compares to the houses in the immediate vicinity the mrntdz plans are for 4 large new luxury homes averaging 2000 one hundred plus square feet of liveable space on lots one thousand plus square feet in addition the 4

large homes include state and federal hundred non-liveable spaces garages and roof decks point out that roof deck are out of character and easily could be removed if you take those ratios and compare to the existing ratios existing nearby homes average 13 hundred and 13 square feet of liveable space on lots averaging 2000 and 64 square feet this is referenced in our petition as exhibit 9 and it under skwoerz the fact the developer is a proposing to flip-flop the amount of square footage on the size of the lots in short the proposed project will put roughly 8 hundred additional square feet of liveable space on the 4 lots that are already smaller on the

neighborhood average. >> i mentioned earlier the position of this lot as you approach this lot from the nebraska street this is referencing exhibit 6 nebraska street is a steep street and crest of the hill con frovend with a wall of building maybe 4 luxury homes it is not going to look at 4 homes but a large mass of buildings. >> the mass exacerbated by the fact this lot is at the top of a hill and as i mentioned a lot that is visual from throughout the neighborhood none of the changes we've requested of the developer really bad have had any significant impact on the issue of mass ratio we understand that he's made some gestures around facades and

this sort of thing our key concern the shore scale of this this is the type of development inappropriate to a neighborhood where there are small residential homes throughout i will reference and reinforce the length between mass and neighborhood character neighborhood character not about the color of a facade it begins with the footprint of the homes the relationship to the surrounding homes and their relationship to open space. >> neighborhood character is protected by building guidelines and neighborhood guidelines these buildings will destroy the character of neighborhood and not do anything to protect the character of bernal heights going forward into the future i appreciate your time and pass the microphone to melissa shore that will talk about sunlights thank you for your time. >> that's correct collin i'm

melissa i've accident on nebraska street for 18 years one the dr requesters and representing kathy who represents the south organization that is at work today i'd like to focus your attention on nitty-gritty issues and talk about the front setbacks or lack thereof as well as the side yard turning to the setbacks first there's two reasons that front yard setbacks should be incorporated in the project they're not one the code and the other one relates to the safeties elements that is in the code as well as chris the planner noted section 32 of the code and so forth the setbacks are needed for if one building is adjacent to a property in this particular

in the code adjacent building is defined in part of where a the subject property is separated by on undevelopment lot by less than 15 feet 1051 is separated from the proposed development by less than 40 feet and separated by an unimproved street in the illicit definition didn't capture this the code is identifying the neighboring buildings so in my contentions it is shouldn't this code a capture that snanls the the subject property is separated by an unimproved streets of a distance less than 50 feet nicole the house in the development should be setback at the same rate as the houses that are adjacent or more than 25 feet even if you don't think this is

strongest argument the bernal heights guidelines indicate the front setbacks must be conformed on the adjacent or near adjacent homes as mentioned the 5 homes closet to this development are, in fact, setback have front yard setbacks of 25 feet now the project sponsor and the planner suggesting they work beyond the adjacent homes because they're not relevant payroll and to establish that the patterns the neighborhood is supports a lack of front yard setbacks but this analyze it flawed there are 18 homes between the 6 hundred and 12 hundred blocks that face the avenue and 13 of the 18 in fact, have front yard setbacks greater than 15 feet and 5 on that

boulevard have they lack the setbacks the pattern as a relates to the avenue sets the homes back off the street by approximately 25 feet morph it is definitely not appropriate to use the shoe box construction homes on bernal heights boulevard or other places on pro hat even to justify the lack of front yard setback those george washington high school were in response to the negative impact that the homes have on the neighborhood turning quickly to safety we know the project provides for 8.5 feet sidewalks those sidewalks are nodded setbacks the setbacks serve a different purpose and the lack of the setbacks is problematic there has on a significant increase in traffic ♪ area due to changes on mission

and cesar chavez cars are taking the route over the bernal hill down getting this off the ground and pro hat even to avoid the congestion and caesar chavez you need to understand the sidewalk fronting the development is the only sidewalk on pro hat even avenue that is traveled by the neighborhoods young and old macro their way to the bus stop in front of the the bernal heights address there are their way to bernal heights hill and traveling pro hat even to get to the shop tennis user since the garages are flush with the situation there is absolutely no way for drivers to see anyone on the sidewalk that tare backing out of their garage how will they see the 3 years old running in front of their dog arrest walking with their owner you'll

not see is this creates a hazard that is easily avoided it is true there are houses in bernal with garages flushed to the sidewalk but again - they were constructed before the bernal hills guidelines and need to have buildings that conform with the guidelines it is clear this development is not consistent with the neighborhood and absolutely not shape the reconcile we pray you'll take up the dr and leave the front yard setbacks turning quickly to the side yards it is clear the 40 foot minimum should be included in the design of this development the sponsors included a 3 feet the guidelines say 4 feet we want 4 feet

quickly we want 25 front yard setback and 4 foot side yards and i know you want that so quickly i'd like to pass off to my colleague betsy will sum up our contention we have one minute 35 we have a lot to share since we have two dr requesters >> a view the sites all you have to do is come in on the location and try to imagine 4 monster homes we invite you to the neighborhood and see for yourselves and take into account we want to also point out not hard to address do mass it is clear a few suggestions look at the reproduction of 50 percent

and set the hundred dollars far off the streets this is consistent with the guidelines and 3 right bernal heights and not 4 too big for bernal that's our closing remark yeah. no roof deck. >> okay. did that conclude the dr requesters presentation we need to keep those doors open i see a number of seats in here christine another announcement. >> take a seat if not go to the overflow room 416. >> okay. at this time we'll call for speakers in support of dr requester not part of dr requesters team. >> so michael

(calling names) for convenience folks that want to speak whoever is first line up on that side of the room organ yourselves. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is terry million i'm the secretary the east slope design board you've heard a very good summary of our thoughts about the design guidelines as he apply to the project we had two or three meeting with the project sponsor and unfortunately, we ended up without being able to support the project because of changes we requested over those meetings and you heard highlighted in previous testimony and i like to

say that we would hope that you all can do something to make that project more in con forms with the design guidelines thank you very much. >> hello, i'm michael i was asked the commission to look at a couple of things paratransit height the existing grades for decades was the sidewalk level and when the water department put their tunnel 0 through brer natural whatever a fence made and all of a sudden the height requirement is going up you know the height limit goes up from the fence height that was eventually built by a family member and not a developer that's kind of weird and i'll request an environmental impact

there is a tunnel was supposed to be 40 feet and the tunnel machine they make the tunnel closer to the ground i request some kind of environmental review before that kind of thing this house is built the two of the 3 on powell hat even sit directly over the tunnel it is fairly close they're digging down so i just request that you look at this thing alternate plus on the tunnel on one of the properties they'll have to be moved at the extension of the taxpayer where will the fence go who's property will it go on all i'm asking is you look at this stuff. >> thank you.

>> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is mike eave lived in bernal heights since 1983 a few years ago some of the fellow neighbors literally demand the demolition cruise stop working that would have dramatically accident the east slope they prompted the city and planning department to create a design area it requires community review before a building permit could be approved in 198 six the planning commission accepted the bernal heights east slope building guidelines those guidelines are an effort to retain the spirit of the neighborhood and establish the criteria for new housing design it insures as much as possible the exists of east slope unique character

the goal of the gals was to prevent a development like this one i director direct you to the monitor in front of you, you can see 5 big box houses on the street now 40 after the adaptation of guidelines this development on pro hat even is a modern version the big box houses a half a block away they recognize as inconsistent with the neighborhood while the proposed development any come o conform to the letter of the planning code but it was approved by the planning commission go for instance, the wall that the created is heightened by the steep slope of nebraska street here's the photos near the proposed project you'll find

similar ones they range from preearthquake to siding 20s and 30s and postwar homes an eclectic list that contributes to bernal heights character the developer suggests the four houses share the materials as one development and that's exactly the problem he wants to put a development in the middle of a neighborhood of unique single-family homes it is the very definitions of out of character in fact the east slope wrote the board feels the building is too much of a project we request you take advantage of this unique sites to distinguish the stop signs as you consider our requests ask yourselves will it to insure the east slope unique character as required by the

guidelines that were adopted by your predecessors thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon my name is steve i've lived across the triangle for 26 years i want to provide overview the community met where the developer that included the east slope neighborhood meetings and the all of a sudden mediation with david chjiu and those times the developer acted in good faith there are highlights at the proposed mediation supervisor david chiu separated the two sides the developers position he'll make no changes so the mediation was scheduled no mediation occurred the developer responded for the east slope

design board and failed to ask for changes our face to face interactions he's been aggressive and bullying they've ended with threats what do i do to punish the folks in the neighborhood the developers are tearing down the notices about the development and this meeting today this is infringed on the neighbors right to communicate and removed over thirty notices within a 3 week period approximately, one week ago the large public notices were posted on bernal heights boulevard were torn down our neighborhood is a wind tunnel and despite that the developer tore down the notices the large notices have not been replaced on bruno heights boulevard not in place and pa maybe effected the participation

in today's here the communities have been ignored and they've focused on the stairway and slain u shaping may or may not be a positive addition narrow sdaurdz or stairways - which attracted underaged folks with bottles and trash for the neighbors to deal with and no plan for maintenance we're asking the planning commission not to approve this and require the developer to operate in good faith and honestly comply with the east slope guidelines thank you for your attention. >> good afternoon thank you very much for the commission to hear my thoughts i live on nebraska street downhill from this property property

i've been watching the unfettered luxury housing fail to solve any of the city's planning issues just to be clear i'm in support of sensible two scale development it fits into the character those properties are out of scale to the surrounding houses each one of the properties between 2 and a half and 3 and a half times the square footage of my own house down the street i can only surmise the building is greed in today's market each one of the properties will sell for more than $2 million that is not a good argument those properties present a wall of milked

townhomes they remove parking space and reduce sidewalk access to the only place a sidewalks placed on the road and it removed excuse me - reaches the parishes necessary for increased of the population and density i'd like to see a more reversed and respectful proposal for those properties in my neighborhood thank you very much. >> i was asked to read a letter if herb than yesterday and address to commissioner president fong and the honorable members of the commission so for right now please consider herb my name is herb i live on fulsome street in san francisco i'm unable to attend the meeting and give my neighbor permission at the discretionary review on

at all on thursday, july 21, 2016, like the other neighbors that border this i'm concerned of a development it is careless and i live in bernal and seeing none, seeing large-scale homes unprecedented for in the neighborhoods are built in the neighborhood with excess mass and scale and too many parts of this neighborhood east slope the east slope design review board i watched as this 0 project i stated any concerns the project sponsor said what do you propose he said cut down the size by half and address the setback and real side yards he simply smiled and turned away and said nothing that's the level of coordination

the project sponsor has shown after several meetings it is clear they're not listening and addressing the concerns no changes to the design conditions to ride the wave of flaunting his proposal in the face of neighborhood objections over and over the project sponsor has not respect for the guidelines that looked to to protect the long term and short term impacts thanks to the commissioners to take those concerns seriously. >> okay. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is winding on chapman street i have one simple plea that you, please listening listen to us and take what we're sailing seriously i served so for two years on the redevelopment commission i understand first

hand what it is like to be where our sittings the hundred and hundreds and hundreds of pages you have to review and how deeply you rely on nicole the planning commission and their report but you know, i just have to say when i was reading do the overall dominant over all massing the surrounding buildings it's not true adjacent building has been repeated over and over are out of character with the rest of the neighborhood as betsy said proiblg the mo the most powerfu statement to have you get in a cash and drive 0 through the neighborhood the pictures in the packet all of them show very

small one thousand to 12 hundred square feet homes except for those 4 big as said the east slope was created to combat we don't want this development to be the new standard we understand san francisco is changing we understand we need homes we're not opposed to that we want to keep the neighborhood character thank you. >> good afternoon i live on the corner of apprentices street a block west of the proposed site looked on that project for 26 years and never creamed it would be developed i've enjoyed accident trees and when i discovered it was oh, oh they'll have to make them as big as the other houses

to the fetter this is a place that we want not to make it bigger and not only has this developer i mean as far gotten away with two or three parcels into 4 parcels and building on every part of that space i strongly obtain to this staircase that is built in the right-of-way i consider that a theft of little open space will be left once those giant buildings let's hope they don't get built i hope you'll see this is senseless to approve this out of scale that the staircase is like a carrot to the neighborhood and on the open space a carve out street right

away we don't need another staircase this is a staircase that the neighborhood approves in the bernal heights improvement committee approved the last staircase up nevada street so it is like stealing more the open space and should be left to some kind of consolation for the outrage of a development thank you. >> hello commissioners noisome a barbara i live a block from the project i watched the improvement infrastructure project funded by prop a and prop k this haded with the massing seems strictly on the

fact that there are predators backyard and the existing public right-of-way no reference to the eastern sloping the purpose to currently the developers to beaked their facades and discourage this wall of - excuse me - on the pictures you've seen vision zero it seems to me with these introduction of garages you, you can't help but create a degree of safety hazard but ought to be paying attention to the hazard that is transferred with the line of sight with the garage doors flush with the sidewalk there is no line of sight it introduces new hazards to pedestrians passing by and seems that ousted to be paengd and more concern

for keeping the pedestrians safe thank you very much. >> okay is there any additional public comment? >> okay not seeing any, now bringing up up to project sponsor please. >> thank you commissioners good afternoon john with reuben, junius & rose on behalf of the project sponsor patrick and karen that provides a great opportunity to create for new single-family homes awhile creating a landscape of the staircase to be accessed by the public built on vacant land consistent with the open space

and building spacing if i can get the projector here. >> i'll just keep on going to speak to floor area the buildings with typical in size so for family-sized dwelling in looking at the handbagable space they range from 2000 to 2200 square feet and the bedroom count in each ranks from three to four bedrooms so we've got role nice family-sized housing with three or four bedrooms a piece we don't see this focus on family housing and you know, i think that 2000, 2200 square feet homes will not be considered a monster home you see two bedrooms that are 2200 square feet with so many talk

about will take away the residential design guidelines and the east slope guidelines that are is the massing does that fit in with the neighborhood character, of course, we don't see the floor area from the outside and not necessarily relevant to whether or not the building themselves fit in and a so thanks for the projector and here's the rendering with the buildings rendered in you'll see the building step with the typography as well as the existing homes on the block bernal coming down hill and the bernal homes second story at the street one home we're putting on bernal will be second story and the existing homes on asian pacific islander hated even

we're doing three story and the homes up slope on bernal keeping the bernal homes 2 stories above grade and looking down on asian pacific islander haitian hat even and keeping 3 stories and going down grade 3 thousand square feet below grade so it is built into the home with the type of topography one other thing i mentioned in terms of spacing in the neighborhood it is actually, the 40 bernal is 2 streets away from the adjacent neighbor across the street you have bernal heights boulevard and the streets we have a distance of separation as you're going uphill and homes considered to be impacted but i

think the real essential of the project is well spaced and family that continues to maintain a significant amount of open space taking into account the diagram here so the green areas are the areas where the home is not builds above grade if you look at the 4 buildings their respectly taking of 43 and 53 and 56 and another 56 of the lot of the newly created lots this is in contrast to the homes up the street from 46 to 78 percent coverage most of them in the 50s and 60s we're actually constructing allows above grade mass than on the block

one of the positive results with the meetings with the east slope design doesn't do the homes were to read like more families and diminished with materials and has the family feel the neighborhood now kind of getting into the open space 202/3rd's of the bernal heights frontage it will be setback 23 feet with trees and others shaping those homes are here only go above grade on bernal by half to a full floor and screened with landscaping as you can see an image of that here. >> so as you're looking at bernal mostly landscaping with one single second story home at the top as you come around you have the

unimproved street this is open space and public land and street trees that are going to connect that open space with the new public staircase as also mentioned in addition to the street trees we're expanding the width of the sidewalk over 8 feet the sidewalk will increase in size and that's the gem of the project that is providing this pubically assessable landscaped public staircase it is a great opportunity to ride the public access to the street not on area that is particularly welcoming to folks that enjoy and be on the space that will provide new connections in the neighborhood and new public visa takes this is you know taken on maintenance will be written into the obligation of the homes adjacent one of the modifications made as part of

discussion with the east slope board to make those homes actually assessable directly to the staircase they'll be taken care of you know legally bound to take care of the staircase we've done a lot of work and had two meetings with the etc. slope designer board and other 2 meetings with the neighborhood in general heights have been reduced again, the mason has been shift those are positive conversations we were at the board on a challenge of the subdivision of the lot and the 4 lots that was unanimously denied so we're - we think this is a really bad great opportunity to provide 4 new real three and four bedrooms not huge roughly 2000 square feet and sensely providing open space to continue with the

neighborhood family provides open space as you can see from the diagrams results in the new public staircase and benefits the city with the new family-sized houses for those reason we respectfully ask the commission to approve the project if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them. >> i'm sorry karen the proje sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners first, let me say that i live in bernal heights myself i've lived there for the last three or four years as a builder of small homes i personally want to say i've not been in front of thought that commission for 4 years but you know you reach an impasse you have to do what is best for everything. >> i think the word we should

be focusing on here is? family housing we're building here a family neighborhood family those are not condos not townhomes we know that vacant land is you know is very hard to get in san francisco when we get it doing everything we can to deal with that you know families in san francisco didn't matter who moves in the fact you're trying to create a home for a family are anyone that wants to move in you can't go in there in the vcr and 60s at the built homes in bernal heights they were 15 hundred square feet now these homes are you know 2000 square feet or 2200 three and four bedroom homes if that's not what the city needs or

requires i don't know what the need as far as i'm concerned, a perfect fit in a good neighborhood for good names so in saying you know we started the project we worked adamantlyly it as far as i'm concerned, with the neighbors we reduced the square footage from the original plan by a couple hundred of square feet and reduced the heights of these houses by 8 feet of bernal heights boulevard and 3 feet only each of the houses on asian pacific islander hat even we started this application we met with the planning department and they're the ones that gave us the guidelines of. >> thank you your time is up. >> okay. >> okay speakers in support of project sponsor.

>> hi i currently live in the area which is also a nice quiet neighborhood like bernal heights i lived in bernal heights for many, many years and totally miss that is a transition from sun to fog which i haven't seen the sun all summer probably won't i've been looking for years to give back to bernal heights we have a large extended family and need a lot of space spy daughter-in-law family is their health is will failing and need to get them in to 2 of the four homes is perfect for my son and children and their parents it is neither here nor there impossible to buy a home in the city as it is to find a home with a legal space to put our

parents is non-xoivent and here they are offering two such spaces i appreciate no one wanted their neighborhood changed those houses do drag us in the 21st century and nothing new since the vcr a50s and 60s really bad want i really bad need these homes this is a real life issue with families getting older and have to take care of them and no space in a 12 square feet home. >> thank you. >> commissioners good afternoon john o'connor it is rarely we get an opportunity to come in front of the commission where 4 families

very moderate homes and 2200 square feet of living area three or four bedrooms and preserve quite a bit of the open space those homes are consistent with the neighborhood and are much needed for families in san francisco i'll ask you to approve this project today thank you. >> thank you. >> afternoon commissioners i'm michael a builder in san francisco for 20 years i grew up on a farm mom and dad and had 5 kids the girls one room and the boys another room 3 boys in one room and 2 girls in another room with a 3 bedroom house i wonder how in modern times we

want to go backwards are we r50ik9 people like other countries that have one child for the future because the it is good big to have a big family in the world of what is going on it is confusing and it would be hard to negotiate with the neighborhoods because one gets up and wants 25 feet on the front of the lot and another wants something else and another one take more off the sides what did he want a first story with no parking do we want a big family home my house is not for everybody 12 square feet doesn't suit everyone some people are a

merry satsz i can see from the picture that that the neighborhoods put up and the developers they're quite different you see through the houses their setback and when you look from the other streets your locating over the houses besides the landscaping to block you so i think that has very, very reasonable project if they take 25 setbacks on basically you take away too lots completely and get two houses so, i mean i don't know where you bend open a site like this and how you negotiate with people that is total unreasonable not ceo he has a one plan attack oh, no one says take off the roof deck i hope you approve this project thank you for your time. >> thank you. is there any

additional public comment in support of project sponsor. >> okay not seeing any, dr requesters a rebuttal time. >> thank you, thank you for the opportunity to address a few things that came up i'm glow as many as i can capture i know there is a lot of passion around the developments we want to stress before you make a decision come and try to translate into real form and understand that mass as perception of what good big for bernal heights can't be determined by numbers we're talking about the experience of the neighborhood as well as something that appears on paper a staircase is permitted a root to the neighborhood and neighbors didn't perceive the staircase the staircase was

added at at earlier point in negotiations as a kind of replacement for changes that address our concerns about the mass a decoration of a large box we didn't ask that is a hazard second you know identifying this as families maybe see but not affordable to many families to say they may families assessable is isn't true i want to point out if this year families that require this much square footage why do we have to accommodate four of them at the expense the neighborhood why not 3 that's what we want to stress if have to be four can it be 3 homes and as far as the square footage of the houses the developers team has been talking about this in the range of 2000 square feet of liveable family well add more

square footage for a garage those are not modified 2000 square feet homes i live in a one square feet home with an elderly mother we manage to do fine there was talk about the trees a 6 foot fence and trees added are no substitute for the feet lost over the fence the 6 feet fence. >> the project sponsor has shown some new drawings that seem to give the virtual there is a huge gap between the houses i'd like to remind you those are 3 feet about this long 3 feet hard to imagine it will give it sense is space as your approaching from asian pacific islander hat even from nebraska

i invite you to do that for yourselves that will look like a wall those houses will that tower over houses across the street i want to underscore that. >> oh, okay. he want to point out talk about compromises earlier in the planning process to height reduction and a other things in terms of the overall mass of those buildings those changes made let's go difference and, of course, nothing to alleviate this will be a huge wall so i'd like to conclude by seeing the proof is in the site look at it you'll find a triangle hard to imagine shoe horning houses why 2000 plus

square feet and that is a good question i hope you've ask yourselves thank you for your time and hope you've heard information that is useful to you. >> project sponsor a rebuttal. >> thank you, commissioners as we've you know had in a lot of cases a confidentiality the various policies in san francisco and i want to emphasize again, the opportunity of this site we have a vacant piece of land not dealing with the housing stock we're modifying this is zero we obviously are encouraging housing in the city as much as possible but not at the consensus of neighborhoods encouraging in a was that is sensitive to each neighborhood that's why we go through a rigorous design review with the

guidelines to say we should cut down the houses or why not we're ready to gave me in a review and an appropriated design of these buildings we feel strongly that the homes are consistent with the existing neighborhood they are consistent with the various guidelines so it in his mind it didn't serve a purpose to get rid of of a home and chop off a floor to do it let's do it for a purpose; right? let's all the fellow the existing neighborhood character with respect to the staircase on unimproved carver street we added 3 to the east slope design board if there's a strongest desire not to do it we did it as a response and thought it was a

nice community benefit but we don't want to stay we're putting our foot adopt it is a nice public benefit so again, i'm emphasis that you know four homes, three or four bedrooms each we don't see those only 2000 and 2200 square feet from what we presented we feel that is consistent with the guidelines and the existing character of the neighborhood and an appropriate project we're here if you have any questions. >> good afternoon, commissioners consulting one thing we have to recognize in regards to this project the way this site is laid out i was wondering if we can have the overhead please i have been involved in city mr. haney and design in our great city for the last 20 years and

one thing that stand out with this project personally i think that almost i don't think i've done any project with that situation with that - these four buildings do not effect anybody we have 3 homes on asian pacific islander hat even that are facing the street you know across the street two homes which face each not this building so we have no shadow issue no privacy issue we are bringing a great opportunity to improve carveer street with great escaping and increasing the size of the sidewalk so i think i know the change is tough especially with people living in the area for a long time we feel that we'll be bring something to the neighborhood on the other side of the street

the smallest home second story with the bernal heights boulevard nobody around is no shadow and privacy issues in front of that no homes for 2 blocks almost i feel this project is reasonable and we're available for any questions or comments you may have. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. that concludes the public hearings and opening up to supervisors commissioner antonini. >> thank you very much actually at the before even this meeting i made two separate visited to the site on sunny days the last speaker encap lasted this is a plateau on bernal heights boulevard and houses below it on pro hat even what a perfect site no impact on

no one else and i carefully not did sun it is 3 o'clock on the 21st the 12 of july and since the longest day is the 21st of june even on the tool in the tool belt or 12 of july it was to the south of the homes on pro hat even ablow the homes on the boulevard in light impact on the homes faster up or below i know what possibly the obtain oversees can come up with after seeing the beautiful site people what find reasons i'll try to answer first of all, i'm upset this is masters because we built

single-family homes those expensive because unlike brisbane built a lot of single-family units we built none and have a few sites available this is one and a few other sites every time a site comes up someone has a reason not to build single-family units and we labor market densest didn't hurt 4 homes rather than 3 or 2 much better it means additional people able to buy homes in san francisco that are dense low sized but raefks as pointed out by one of the speakers today, people with multi children or multi-family members prefer a home bigger than 2000 or 2200 square feet is

hardly large the reason by the entire home is bigger because of the very requirement of bernal heights has for at at least two housing two parking spaces for the ones that are in the neighborhood of 21 hundred square feet and the one over 22 has to have 3 so the very restrictions requires nor parking is one reason why the total footprint of the homes is are larger than they could be. >> and somebody brought up the parking problem i was there i can park anywhere and i did have quite a bit of a climb to the second site to look at the home on bernal heights boulevard so the staircase would have been welcomed i had to walk up one street and up the other this

make sense to me and this is a very steep sites so you know a challenge to build on it i was thinking you know it can't be used for anything else you can't put a park people low roll down the hill and $4,000 square feet or one thought is below grade so they're using as much as below grade to get the greatest square footage with the lowest impact and the idea of a 40 feet at about the same time with the paper street carveer and not a staircase that's wonderful nobody can say it has an impact on the homes further east so they're also a large a lot of open space on rose else koran as appointed by the project sponsor this is this

allegation to the contrary each sites has 43 to 56 percentage the lot coverage that's moderate especially compared to the homes that fill the sites have no separation between them i don't like those their funky looking 1950s or 60s but much less of open space than these have so and then looking at there was some complaiven about the heights the project sponsor has reduced 8 feet off of the height of this 40 bernal taking off a floor and about 4 feet open pro hat even the total heights on bernal is 21 feet 9 inches and the others are 26 and 27 which is very moderate in his mind it

is certainly compatible with the height of homes in the neighborhood so i don't really bad see any problem there. >> and you know this is the kind of thing that pass people there are foe choices when you're trying to buy a new family and as far as the open space privately owned not public open space a lot of people like looking at out you don't own is it is better to be built for housing and not sitting there it is useless space on the commission we look at each project that is done very well surfaced the roof deck i'm open to the roof deck i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say they're short but can certainly sport any modification through i don't see that is

necessary and as far as the setbacks where this is 3 feet on the sides or 4 feet is really bad didn't make too much difference a setback and detached homes many homes in the city the vast majority have no setback their wall to wall on the sides so you know i'm not sure bernal heights probably averages quite a bit of room they're small houses but typically in san francisco we don't we have more attached homes and rather get a large home i'm fine with a small modification i don't think that is necessary but the builder is a bernal heights resident this is a very good project i'm completely in support see what my fellow commissioners have to say. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i guess question for staff

please. >> so the guidelines for the south slope of berry nan natural woob adopted by the commission what's the legal force they have or the requirement for the project. >> i am not it is inherent we review the guidelines as part of our overall review in collaboration with the residential design team. >> is there anything in your opinion i if so a one to with only here's the guidelines of bernal it was general anything that jumps out at you in terms of veering off the guidelines. >> yeah. that's a good question if i can get the overhead i think part of difficulty with this type of project the uniqueness the site itself i want to provide some context. >> okay. thank you.

>> can you pull the my case over. >> can you pull the microphone closer. >> it the a picture of sanborn map we see do site this project is essentially it's open block occupying its own entire block the agenda you see the 5 buildings have the, you know, singular facade that is from the front property line but see the 3 foot story presence entirely across a block immediately those houses front nebraska and the another perimeter you have side yards both houses abutting this across the project site up the hill along bernal heights

boulevard other chufrts of 5 buildings of the same era and architecture their consistent second story presence adjacent to the site. >> in your opinion that's why the guidelines were put in place to avoid what you're calling out. >> so i guess regards to the concern of mass you know and bulk the guidelines you know you look at the guidelines we're trying to be considerate of the height and depth of the adjacent site this is a well defined mid block open space those compliment very well another important thing to note by looking this the images you know typical lot width and depth along nebraska and in the neighborhood in general this

sites - we see the width along nebraska from 25 to 33 feet in width with a lot depth of one hundred feet this site is just apparently unique we have at the triangle shaped lot in which those lots about are created to meet the minimum width and depth in the requirement. >> i'm sorry what's the percentages. >> those percentages are showing that building area footprint to lot area ratio and this is sort of the existing mid block of preexisting building adjacent to pro hat even and this kind of shows the proposed block that will compliment the thoroughfare you know mid block.

>> as i look at this map this is informative the lots covered to the immediate neighbors is less 43 and 53 percent. >> it is compatible and going back to the typical lot size and width and depth you see positive as a 450 feet width and 60 foot width we're trying to deal with the unique depth and width in the neighborhood in general. >> what's the city's situations and guidelines anything that jumps out at you with the uniqueness we're peering off the guidelines. >> no the balance is consistent with the guidelines. >> and the direction of the guidelines. >> that would be helpful a question for the project sponsor mr. lee and kaplan.

>> thank you. >> so as i look at the august 30th letter from bernal heights east slope design review and look at the 5 items they've identified as suggestions for improvement one of them jump out wow, that is far off if you can take each one it will help me a lot this one here. >> i know in the. >> the initial. >> life. >> okay. great. >> that the first goal we had was about deattaching the homes. >> they're asking - the

uniqueness one center homes the other home is adjacent to carveer street an unapproved student. >> if you shifted every building one foot over except the carefuler. >> the two end homes are facing the center home of '85 asian pacific islander hat even. >> because i saw in the map that was produced a space on the far side where a yard you can move the building one more foot not into the public property into accident side yard. >> house. >> is there a side yard you

can - >> yeah. >> if you move everything one foot. >> we can shift 9 foot to the left. >> that extra foot that's not a big deal. >> that's great. >> one down considering the flat roofs on all four buildings what can we had to make it look - >> yeah. i guess that was initially i think your concerns were because really bad unique lot and for families are anyone else optimize the open space we put roof deck you, you can't put a roof deck on a pitched roof. >> on the subject roof deck i looked at the submittal your team did as and looked at the neighborhood i'm not sure i see

roof decks this commission has a special interest in roof decks almost a fetish. >> we're those are the roof deck in the neighborhood i don't see any one of the issues to see see roof lines if we don't have the roof deck we can hopefully pretty easily created i'm not a designer what the mass not to create something that is funky but. >> variety. >> i think the gentleman is needing his head i don't know if it effects the roof deck putting it smaller. >> if you look at the schematics of the new buildings the roof lines are tuff in elevation the tap graph.

>> if we could get the oh, no you've got it. >> one could say their somewhat varying. >> but we can work with the staff to speak with that in the east bernal heights. >> that's great. >> then the same garage doors and this stuff is minor at this point >> and commissioner just to that point they are small wants and we are responded by willing to continue to work with staff to continue to refine that yeah. yeah. >> one number 2 i walked up saturn streets the little go entrances off the homes they're facing board street or douglas street are interesting they provide a second in and out the

building and another set the eyes looking at the steps will be open to the homes facing unimproved carveer. >> tha that's scratched off the list i'll give the project sponsor time to time speak into the microphone please. sorry about that commissioner vice president richards we've been working hard to get a response from the project sponsor and didn't address the offer sized mass and at the wall you'll get as. >> walk across pro hat even or nebraska street those homes will fit a floor above the current homes own pro hat even avenue i can't stress those bernal

heights slope guidelines were put into place to restrict the shoe box construction you and the project sponsor keep on looking at making nor modernized homes of the shoe box construction is odd to keep on justifying you thi scombrufts y. >> the neighborhoods i'll be honest can't have that both ways a lot of square footage devoted to parking if we were asked to get rid of of parking the neighborhood would go crazy you're creating space for parking may or may not be something that is noted as we moved with an mta meeting we've talking about different modes of transportation. >> fascinating. >> thank you but commissioner antonini you have everything cut into the fold what appears