community and little neighborhoods also to stabilize the filipino businesses and communities serving institutions the tenants provide support to the majority filipino tenants who lived in rent control buildings those are tenants that faces the eviction and harassment if they have to leave their homes the type of housing the aau has been engolfing all over the place and not replacing the type of housing aau is illegally converting to private dorms instead of the ongoing special treatment of aau we want in support of recommendations of the department staff and add on that aau has the rent-controlled units that are are illegally converted back to the city's rent-controlled units stock is

their quoted as an important tool people should be applying to and not rent-controlled unit to aau students, and, secondly, deny the illegal conversion of houpz to students and we want to see them pay the fines that the city has been waiting on kleenex from them the finances that can be used for existing housing or the small site acquisition fund with this we support the recommendation of the planning department staff and looking forward to the september 22nd hearing and we hope that you will reject the recommendation of aau thank you. >> thank you. >> hello my name is david wu an intern with son cam and a san

francisco resident we're here in support of recommendation of the planning department staff and to ask the planning commission to reject the academy of art university attempt to change the city's rules on student housing for the illegal actions and we ask the planning to require the academy of art university to return hundreds of rent-controlled units apartment back the the city rent-controlled housing stock the academy logically low converted and the academy of art university require to build now student housing foreperson the 50 percent of academies student enforcement and stop the special treatment towards the academy of art university and they obey the same laws as the rest of us do thank you. >> commissioners my name is

tony rob less represent the senior and disability action and a foundation goes bag to the i hotels we're not strangers to eviction crisis we're here or i'm here to support the recommendation of the planning department staff from our perspective can my perspective right is right and in my day to day vufz with people and from what i see we can look forward to lose housing that should be or the fully rent-controlled stock we've seen this on all fronts and people that be a.d. investigating effected are seniors many of whom lined up without a place to live and and shelter system that didn't accommodate the seminars and the waiting list to get in the disinherits they're no longer housed and ill health a

bad situation we ask that the rent-controlled permeated be returned that's wrong and for all there's a matter of conjecture who those buildings with 12k5ib8d assess if they don't they should and also you know aau should build new student housing to accommodate 50 percent of their students enforcement there's a old headquarters on had a streets the old triple a building can be converted to astonishes we thank you for your time and consideration.

>> good afternoon again commissioners i'm paul wormer i can't think of a whole lot to add what many of the prior speakers said so i will simply urge you to calendar the hearing on the proposals for the 22 of september and look forward to seeing the draft legislation perhaps even a little bit more than a week with in vandals i'm sure it will take some thinking thank you. >> sue hester i support the 22 of september continuance the hearing how did the academy get into this they had 12 hundred full-time students in san francisco when an eir was first pardon me what

an imp was required 25 years ago instead of filing of imp and asking the guidance on housing and other things when they bought 320 stockton they just did it then they - presumed they can avoid all costs and not build a damn stick of housing take the housing from the city so in the 25 years they've gone from 12 hundred full-time students in san francisco to 10 thousand students why is that that's a cancer does the planning department do the people of the city have the ability to say what i mean this

is wrong why is for profit institution family run profits going to the stevens family how did they get to decide the future of the city's hours that's what you need to start dealing with on the 22 of september please have a real informative hearing let the chips fall where they may i was distressed by hearing the issues settlement is a big issue to someone that the things illegally for 25 years and gotten a away with that with the planning department enforcement action to hell for a couple of years to try to get them to follow the law and take building permits out taking a building permits out shouldn't be are radical concept

converting the building usage flat planning code should not be be are radical but radical to this institution so you got to have a place where you say can they have 10 thousand students and housing is where the way they want to supply it after the people at a their tuition who is in charge basically say you have a role to have an input from the planning commission to the academy of art it's been lost in the shuffle i ask you are for the 22 hearing thank you. >> okay is there any additional public comment? >> not seeing any, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> thank you yeah, a lot of interesting

discussions but what we're focusing on a more narrow issue than this particular ordinance and it is the 7 housing sites and one institutional site that has been initiated permanent by the academy so that will occur regardless of whether we initiate for the staffs recommendation which incidentally has changed since originally prepared as it may but more on that to go a few side issues i mean a lot of discussion will housing but you know we have to have equal protection under the law i mean students are going to live somewhere maybe their parents and may live in a dorm or housing somewhere that they compete with others within the city there was a time when up went went to santa clara a requirement to live on campus

they/the philosophy in the local in latino taking the role of the parents from the parents while you're there they have prefix and mr. farrell in the 80s and 90s, the percentage of students that lived in dorms was very small because they preferred to live off campus they had nor freedoms and only recently has this number of students desiring to live in student housing increased because of the cost of housing has become higher and so there is a movement on the part of usf and i think even san francisco state university and some of the other universities to begin to provide higher percentages of housing so that's

sort an overview the years are gone had 100 percent students were housed on campus that's an overview but i did like the presentation from one of the attorneys from morrison further this issue regarding the settlement i don't know if we can comment but some degree city attorney can we talk about the settlement issue that was brought up by the attorney. >> deputy city attorney mirena burns. the litigation is not relevant to the approval actions before you today i'll recommend that the commission just move forward with not an approval action sorry it is an in violation of those planning code amendments i'll recommend you move forward with the planning code initiation for the calendar for today and if the commission is interested in an update on the

pending litigation we can certainly work with staff to have a closed session. >> i agree and more general are terms everyone is asking for mitigation of housing units lost or presumably lost when the academy of art university changed them from what is presented as residential units into student housing without permitted and the laws were different in those days but a process that should have gone forgot even then so i think the important thing that we have to somehow quantity this number it is a little bit vague when from what i understand the amendments before us deal with one and 60 units that includes the 3 units that staff is supportive of convert there's a single-family

and duplex and depends on how you count octavia which was previously supported by staff and now not an rh2 a single-family homes and combaeshgd over the years so there is an not a lot of history about you know when this became a group housing facility and what the exact status of that away was so my point in the discussion is that we i'm in favor of initiating all of them we need to study and found out in, in fact, residential housing with rent control and in terms of compensating for the loss of units i mean certainly through are afs tb that can be sclrd

that will compensate above and beyond what we do with those particular properties if we can ascertain there was a loss of hours it not out of the question there may not be a way this is restored either by not allowing the housing to continue where they are now housed as students or providing housing in lui of that which allows them to be housed that provides additionally housing that will be rent-controlled units or 100 percent affordable or some other way a lot of ways to go so the reason i will are supporting the in violation of the academy but not staff's recommendation i did a lot of research 5 hours reading staffs and project sponsors told her

and independent studies there was there was not long term residential housing one a hospital and one a treatment center there are a variety of things that may not have been long term residential housing subject to rent control and one particular site many a lot of student housing that predated the occupation by the academy of art university and contained a mixture of some permanent residents that remain and tourist rooms some student housing we have copies of institutions that rented it for their students before the academy of art university was there so i think i'm not saying i'll not favor all these asks conversions but i think it is

better to study and make a decision second rather than preempting the decision but not supporting it in a kind of prejudice thinking towards not approving it i appreciate the work that staff has done but there's a lot of work to do and without a lot of detail the individual properties i'm in receipt of some documentation from a law firm that talks about administrative code 37.9 that exempts certain housing from rent-controlled those are hospitals, con vents and asylums and care facilities for elderly and others not in rent control now the point is that if you

converted practical backing or not allowed the continues occupation of the academy of art university they you know may not be compelled to make these rooms or units or whatever form available as rent-controlled housing in the future we have to look at them carefully and find out which ones will be in that states and if they're not going to be the case could be made you're better off at least housing some students and compensating with other facilities that would mitigate the loss of the rent-controlled housing a lot of the take one and 60 units i'm not sure that is inspiring true a lot of the baby units will not fall under

that and case in history where pre1978 units from park merced to statute of limitations and they're now use as dorms not in rent control so they're a lot of case and from 1973 property owners continue to operate the building and exempt into local rental controls not substitute assessable to the ordinance never the less if they fall into a category not rent-controlled units but age that would normally be those are reasons i think that it's an important issue and the sites are some are historic many of them have been

enlarged in terms of occupancy by the academy of art university and even some previous owners to that and whether this is appropriate for the area they're in or whether a lower density is appropriate more in keeping with the zone with that area those are things we have to look at it and certainly even though i'll not be supporting staff's recommendation i'll look at those each carefully and maybe staff is correct and maybe only 2 of them oh, on one farther of this now a institutional use this is an intern position it is part of western edition that is also earmarked for central soma and the current planned zoning for that area subject to change

is m u o mixed obvious office that allows institutional use it seems to me that should be looked at carefully that if you are going to disallow this use as that time makes it a preempted use it is contradictory in city policy we have to look at that one closely that summarizes my feelings about these issues and i gridlock appreciate the work that staff has done but the information is incomplete and have to consider things carefully about ruling out the situation. >> thank you. >> zoning administrator sanchez. >> just a clarify the academies proposal will be before this commission on or after september 22nd what is before you an action on initiating staffs recommended

proposal which is much less comprehensive than what the academy is seeking and so you're aware that is an in order to have our preferred alternative before you at the same time while considering the academies much larger proposal. >> okay. >> commissioner wu. >> thank you for that clarifications i am supportive to initiate the schedule staff recommendations for the 22 as i understand we'll hear both sets we've been hearing this issue in at planning commission for a long time and the public has asked us time and time again to get this done this initiation we're finally at this point with regards to housing i believe that rent-controlled housing should be available to everyone in the public to apply and any

housing before 1979 is rent-controlled not cheap what you more often but your rent is controlled as long as our a tenant we have an argument on van ness and it should be treated indefinitely i think that is a question to be heard on the 22 are later but i can be convinced inform text amendments given to this. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i agree with commissioner wu i think we should initiate the staff amendments and obviously the city administrative we'll hear both ordinances on or after the 22 and welcome that discussion commissioner antonini has already done a lot of that i'll be comparing the estn against each future action we're getting that was the purpose of that

many thousands of pages i have done some of it in regards to what staff did but doing it for all the issues on this supportive initiation but want to make within point that will be a request and a point that will be helpful for the 22 so we had a public commenter talk about you know bringing up some of the rhetoric and that's chapter language i'll not use that language but we're seeing sometime the larger the change that has been exposed on a system the easier it is to make the argument oh, this is the world we live in and who wants to go backwards latest i that's what people mean when they say

the system is rigged i just want to say gordon's i personally don't adhere to that i think that, yes there have been any properties that have been used by the academy by aau for those purposes and looking at those individually but holistically i'm not of the mind because there is was there is that today and maybe a turbulent position but it's service that potentially take care benevolent transition period i'd like for the 22 and i don't know if this is in our quest of staff or because not an institutional master plan as it is and estn and eir or of the project sponsor but i want to hear if we were to deny one of both ordinances what is the plan going forward i feel that is missing from the staff report

which make sense why it is not part of that the materials we've received thus far but i want to be informed other than what our decision either way means we're not necessarily forced either way i see us into a corner to move forward or one or both ordinances the fear of the unknown well, if the project sponsor said this the ordinances and the use continue to be illegal and no pathway to legalization where will the students go i want to answer that maybe that housing is not there and those students will be on the open market until aau creates their own campus maybe that's the answer want for hear that from one or both that's my request and comments and thanks george again to the staff. >> commissioner vice president richards.

>> i guess several things first, i completely agree with everything everyone said time to get this thing behind us i really think in terms of how we are judged in the future they're watching the decision we make and the rational for the decisions and what's hidden it the project sponsor representatives spoke about what is best for thecy and every time we've had this hearing wanted clear up benefits for the aau being here the financial benefits in terms of money and good things around the preservation and people not living here come and reside and exchange ideas and further tax revenue we begin gain by people living here and the aau is for profit paying tax backs three

hundred thousand miles of vehicle miles traveled only lightly loaded buses no one or two students and benefits for profit institution they'll not do this if they're not making money and drawbacks it requires maintenance it costs money i get it other things said i think the issue around what type of housing this is or isn't a red herring we have not a complete tourists hotels and residential hotels and student housing and dorms and regular housing and short term housing bans the length of anticipated stay is to have a student housing considered as a long term residential housing is a bit of a red herring the issue as to whether we

vacate those units and they go on the open market and time after time this commission rent-controlled didn't mean cheap but stabilized over time in 20 or thirty years not expensive but allows people to grow from the city a couple of things ms. chang a great job the needs forces student housing and the current student housing met by all the institutions ucsf and ucsf and the actions what will they get to this is a topic of prior commission discussion you said there will be 21 percent and i asked you to provide a breakdown i appreciate that you did so i was trying to - walk us through the breakdown and where a use is in tlegal outlet.

>> sure clarify the 21 percent it is actually a little bit of a high estimate the way it is sclautdz that it gets the total number of beds and compares against the enforcement enrollment and the totals number is 1810 i want to make a note in 2010 the enrollment was 11 thousand plus if you take the total number of beds and measure it it brings the percentage of population student population accommodated to 16 percent so i wanted to clarify that. >> i'm sure it is directional

you see uc hastings and usf they're kind of on the lower ended and the other universities lalia clearly by the magnitude they need to up their ante walk us through. >> in terms of legality. >> in terms of number of by these 1810 and the number of beds in the building 6 hundred and 90 beds that's 38 percent of the beds legal. >> how many buildings. >> 6 and those are not subject to any action by any commission. >> correct. >> so 35 percent is legal. >> correct. >> that's 35 percent of student population. >> it is a percentage of beds so across 6 buildings one and 90 beds that are - >> so that you take the 21

percent and divided it by 10 give us about 2 percent. >> something like that. >> that's one way to look at that. >> i'm trying to keep is apples to apples no action requires 2 percent if you - >> a third 6 hundred and 18 hundred. >> the number of students so the enrollment so - >> right i see what you're seeing 690 it is 8649 of the legal beds what percentage the population is housed the legal percentage. >> 8 percent. >> i'm assuming the usf and hastings it bans the number of beds and students and get the percentage that's what i was trying to do and start where they're at and the actions where they get to be 21 percent so 8 percent is legal now okay.

that's one 90? 690 >> 690 okay. great and then there are a 7 buildings that require the legislative amendment 6 hundred and 21 beds. >> roughly 8 percent. >> 34 percent of total 8 hundred and 10 beds i've not down or done the calculation. >> okay. that's gets them roughly to 16. >> right and there then there are two buildings with require conditional use authorization and three hundred and 3 beds that's 17 percent of 1810. >> uh-huh. >> and there are two buildings that require either building permit or historic preservation commission review and in those two building is one and 96 beds. >> okay. >> i get it. >> so be so kind for the commission and public when you get a minute translate the number of beds and the number of

students that would be great. >> i'm absolutely supportive to move forward with initiating the planning code amendments i'll doing it not because i like the aau or don't like it is it the best interests the city the legal use on van ness is one between and 22 rooms or that's a great density and on van ness 2 dwelling units and currently for 20 beds that's a great density so absolutely supportive and why the staff recommend i'll support move to initiate. >> second. >> commissioner moore. >> the motion is on the table i'd like to ask the gentleman to seriously think about the

instruction comes from the zoning administrator and we're advised by the city attorney and very clear that is distinction between housing and townhouses residence versus dorms not a discussion point i could hear our arguments and not listen to the instructions that we need to basically keep in mind and focus on when we are asked to approval or disapproval something and on the discussion since last september some of the commissions sitting around including the director and staff have been working on this for 10 years many midnight and repetitive discussions about the same issues over and over and over and over again, i assume by now we're versed as what is what

and what isn't i'm all i'm asking is i hear the department considering in the grouping of buildings we're discussing we as the commission as well as the was the expectation of staff started to look at the aau was with respect to defining a core campus that allows us to think more comprehensive about what is good when we starting to talk about the reasonable group housing and academic facilities administratively support and students support as we are looking for groupings that operate this with the walking and class room over outline institutions across the country are adhering to and no rules the perimeters which all other major institutions use are similar enough for us to start to think

about project by project o projecting our decisions against the compass of the aau being a functioning communities together are metrics that will summarize in the better institutional master plan we can use as a guiding document into the future so again, i'm very proud of the departments work and am in full support of what is in front of us today. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. the reason up to this time supportive i don't think that it is you know the staff the two properties identified by staff certainly are great gains in terms of density as opposed to to what was there before what they'll revert to and improves

the amounts of students housing i have a policy with nutrition we had those initiation issues come up for years and years and strong arguments by that opponents not to initiate things would the implication initiation is tandem to approve i don't see that that way initiation means you initiated our k so that's why i support the broader position that includes all of the properties many of them may not, in fact, be worthy of commerce to student housing when we end up deciding you have to do your initiation and consideration and then take your action rather than sort of having a narrow and preempt active position that intimates

how the vote will be at the end i appreciate staffs input but better to have as we did in our may session the sites those are the 3 we're in favor of and the 4 we're against we're tentatively against and considering the position and i'll leave it at that and initiate them all and decide and consider them and make our decision so i just think initiation should, in fact, be initiation. >> and the other things that is sometimes lost i'm not saying that is necessarily a problem before you under california state law you can't force someone into the rental market what happens with the properties railroad owned and opted out about don't think some agreement as to whether or not they become

residential housing and is owner will have to agree to enter the rental market or continue in the rental market go if not a renter we have to consider as we look at those properties. >> commissioner christen >> one point one thousand vacant units be that is determined by super and the planning department i heard that i'm still trying to find the exact paper in my pile of papers and a project on grant where there was 16 units question cannot compel to are we talking about anything and any legal use is go residential register and chances are you want to rent and anything else is speculative. >> there is a motion and a

second to initiate thereby shall we continue scheduling for september 22nd. >> yes. think on that motion to schedule. >> commissioner antonini. >> no commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore. >> combhu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 5 to one with commissioner antonini voting against. >> okay. we're going to have in the commissions can i know we're hungry and here for 3 hours the broadway street folks are here i don't think that is will terribly long and consensus to hear it and then a substantial lunch break. >> very good commissioners item 2 was taken off the content will be considered at this time for case broadway conditional use authorization.

>> good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioners andrea with department staff the the item before you is a request for conditional use authorization inform authorize a change in use from a movie theatre to a live performance and bar for the boxcar theatre company it is locate on the basement level of the exist building on broadway between grant and stockton within the chinatown business district constructed in 1945 u 85 with of the world theatre until 1998 to not in operation as movie theatre for more than a decade the planning department requires the conditional use authorization for 0 demolition of a movie theatre it contains the proposed changes agency required specifically the movie theatre not a viable enterprise it was contacted by a lot of

nonprofits to preserve the theatre but no proposals changing the use for a live theatre helps to preserve the space and contributions to the evict or evict has received critical claim for the speech easy and recreates the 1920 where actress interact with the audience as the patrons move around the venues given the nature of the drafting of cocktails to received conditional use authorization for a bar use at the planning code didn't allow the accessory alcohol that said advertised for the most part is live performance where alcohol are subordinate to the use some concerns among the retained a conditional use authorization for the bar use my allow another

operators in the future to convert so a more disruptive dance hall or whatever and it addresses this issue under number 6 which require a new conditional use authorization as currently drafted the add condition will not require a conditional use in the business changes to others attempt like a night club or dance hall as the condition can't be tied to an operator the language has been used for another conditional use to continue the bar use senate's subject use cease to be and the updated language is distributed and contained in the draft motion. >> since publishing of the staff report 19 e-mails have been received in support of

project and additionally staff received two indications from several people that abuts the property for continuance of this item today since many people are out of town and unable to attend, however, the residents have submitted amends directly to the commission their concerns include using the alley as a point of entering and exiting potential smoking and loiter during and after the shows in the alley in what will be a residential street and under boxcar theatre the project proposes to use the rear alley as one of the 3 entries with 80 of the 200 will enter into the rear alley and straurlgd over the course of 40 minutes and the stewart actress will be present at the intersection columbia and

vallejo to minimize the destruction of the residents and the alley will not be a smoking alley nor more exiting the performance the staff recommends approval and it consistent and the proposed business a locally owned and operated and well located to chinatown and north beach neighborhoods that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions. >> okay project sponsor please. >> good afternoon. thank you for hearing us i'm the general manager and with others jeff our operations director boxcar is a unfortunate organization incorporated in 2007 and during the past 10 years produced more than 60 plays and provided entertainment to tens of thousands of people

thousands of low cost tenants for the residents boxcar previously operated two theatre on near 6 and hyde street and boxcar lost the leases to both spaces over 8 months between 2014 and 2015 we received support from city's nonprofit displacements mitigation program to relocate to 644 broadway in 2015 the owners of 644 broadway are incredibly supportive of the arts and provided favorable lease terms and rent-controlled unit over the 25 years with no reset to masters and has a general allowance and plus free rents and discounted renter during the first year of

operation it has been remodeled will serve the theatre for a reviolation of law of boxes car show speak easy the speak easy being stand as an open ended run but provide a complex with two spaces a shared let the record show and a donor lounge pardon the opposite of this theatre will provide a lot of jobs and 45 actress and a stage coach 16 and a staff of telephone 70 employees in san francisco the theatre has been built to accommodate 20050 people etch night up to 4 times a night one thousand customers to apron news the shops after performances question hope to operate the

space to folks and off-street parking after-school programs we hope to partner with the society and other goes to offer screenings with local interest began construction on the project in december with our planned opening and we delayed the opening financially that was not until august earlier this month an additional fee will be needed without the bar we've spent 2 and a half mental illness this is a lot of money to raise the cast of the speech easy is in rehearsal we've sold more than 16 hundred ticketed for performances beginning august 26th the economic consequences of a

delay in the oscar pistorius of theatre will be significant we'll have to layoff actress and i don't know how much money we'll need to raise part of our financing includes a one-million dollar from the bank of commerce that jeff and i personally guaranteed i own a home and have two children but default on that loan puts my home at the reflex on the other hand, approval will constitute a victory we're creating a nonprofit arts space in a neighborhoods that is the crossroads of culture and straerment this is a rare opportunity to add to the art spaces that is at risk i urge you to approve that project i'd like to summarize the outreach efforts we reached out to the chinatown development corporation and met that he site we've have been an ongoing

conversation about ryan and eir can how to meet the community needs roys suggestion with the asian-american to find opportunities for collaboration we met with e ;line vera in the benefits district and received a letter of support from the cvd we made a presentation to the north beach business association and have a letter of support from that organization and sent project information to the association dan but not able to have a meeting we contacted chinatown neighborhood association to support the theatre and i believe that richard outline is here to speak about the project i'm not sure he's still here. >> we met with the residence of kenneth the alley the the subject property and the offices

of dpw bureau chief and the meeting had many building owners on broadway we had a full discussion about the concerns about the use of alley and our security plan based on that meeting two years ago, i met with ray and russel and david 3 people that moved into rex place since the meeting he gave a tour and had discussions about the use of the alley and exchanging e-mails last week, i had an additional meeting with russel and perry from the planning department was present and participated in that meeting we discussed the project with the tenant representatives from 660 broadway and come back to us with concerns we've received letters of support including body shop and tony of pizza and

the slides house and is stinging rose and as hong kong restaurant and central subway and tom and others we've received letters of support from the residents including amy and kim and jack and rob and others formally from the california loan funds we we met that commissioner christensen and supervisor peskin to inform them about the project and seek their advice regarding the community outreach and discussed with the office of economic workforce development and that's the scope of our outreach we've tried to be quiet thorough we're committed to being good neighbors and created a security plan and is entertainment commission to mitigate any impacts on the neighborhoods

we're also prepared to go beyond the plans to protect the quiet enjoyment of their homes and to stay in dialogue with them. >> thank you that's my presentation. >> thank you open up for public comment. (calling names) >> folks if you want to line up on that see of room and cue up that would be great (calling names). >> mr. chin if you're ready there. >> payroll.

>> how are you i'm george chin the primary restaurant it is your for broadway and 660 restaurant the golden restaurant in pet central the primary tenants cup 70 thousand square feet and rep this for 2 1/2 years ago now asian and chinese with retail and marketplace and restaurant bar use we plan on we're fully funded so good news and we'll employ part of community over three hundred employees mostly from the chinatown community and pay plan to pay thirty percent more than the average wage with full benefits we think we'll be quiet

an additional to the chinatown rehabilitation project that the mayor support and also bring some vibrancy back to the grant avenue corridor especially in the evening in the last 2 1/2 years had the pleasure to work with the landlord and the boxcar promises principles their professional and have the community outreach i'm in full support of what they're trying to do that with regards to the issues with the restaurant i think that unfortunately you know the building was shut down for many years they've had the luxury of having a quiet street a public street for many years us that's also a egress and we

have chatted with some of the neighbors with regards to this issue our trash from the old mountain in the back area and have done things that created a trash room that smells don't get into the alley for the residents there we understand that it is the noise will be an issue so we're going to drag out the trash to the corner of columbus and vallejo and take the trash and the com possess and make that for the gardens and asian herb garden on the roof and took out some of the compressors and put them on the roof that make a lot of noise will not bother them we're made a lot of efforts to accommodate the neighbors it comes down to operations what we do and boxcar and hopefully, we you know can get along and make that happen.

>> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi thank you my name is judy i'm an artist i've been living in chinatown neighborhood for about thirty years at the same address on broadway between brandon and stockton street today, i'm here to support and obviously seek your support to this very initiative one of its kind engaging theatres it is speak easy theatre it is located in the 644 broadway i think that it is a very important and very exciting and i would say encouraging to see

an art group joining chinatown arts theme people come to chinatown basically never really think of art to do art maybe come into the shop and get a t-shirt and gift shops i want to address that chinatown has a lot of potential and it is not just $0.99 stores, restaurants nothing wrong with that, i think that it is time to grow we shouldn't limits your potential i think we shouldn't have had the opportunities to help chinatown neighborhoods to expand to move forward to move forward to just generations so this is got to say be brief

i'll port thsupport that. >> hello commissioners i'm chris one of the owners on 644 broadway i support the cu permitted in front of you my partner jeff lee and i bought this in 2013 at the time that was entirely vacate and not only was 644 vacant but 5 other buildings along broadway's gold mountain was closed for nearly a year theatre closed for 12 years and the office tenants are vacated i was familiar with the area and the buildings my wife is asian i've attend any asian weddings and loved gold mountain when it become available i thought that might be a wonderful opportunity for our development company so we think purchased the building we went

to the later than you think lunch and met the riverside and asked them how can we outreach to the chinese community vice chair d.c. b.c. make back march we said that we would ask them to encourage them to continue encourage you malcolm and norm reading to identify local movie and restaurant operators had been would interested in leasing the space perhaps we find an operator to maintain the theatre and make it available to our organization whole thing needed that was mr. functioning and, in fact, i went on to say maybe a jazz club he know that the

reverend likes to play he introduced us to the culture center and steve and unfortunately, we toured the property with both groups not a good fit so we listed the property and hired a theatre consulted and we went through and two years later at that time, none was interested i gave andrew. >> list of folks we did outreach that we the tour that the different reasons turned us down but primarily abused the economic viability of the that's where we're at you're very exist for broadway boxcar an interval part of what we're doing with the san francisco film and artists and producers and writers a creative place and proud of it as part of the

culture that we were trying to create a culture in line with the beat neck culture but the folks there creating - >> thank you, sir, your time is up. >> >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is eric we own the place on kenneth the problem i did not want to shut their business down but work with them but we have issues okay for the first thing if you can hear this this is unexpected one nights a bunch of people walking through the properties this not right. okay

we lived there a long time the city helped us and the supervisors clean up the alley use to be garbage cans as their dump sites for the restaurant we cleaned up the alley and made it safe and now they'll throw if all away they want a stick to bring people from the back alley and to the theatre if they could do it quietly at night we have no issues those people clamming the gate they have three hundred people in that location how many slavm gates will we tolerant before we go to bed this is ridiculous and the other problem i have is this business never posted anything to tell us they're starting a business they're doing construction and having a

business at the same time and we asked them why usually in you open a store with a permitted nothing was posted and this is not right. >> i would like to work with those people they apply for license for 644 broadway and that's the way it should be in front i never seen a store that opens from the backdoor okay. it is okay for them to use delivery in the daytime but at night people are sleeping in the alley in our home this is our home we made it we built it can we're friendly request everybody not easy to have a quiet place in san francisco this is just not

right. >> the other thing is please read the e-mail because some of us couldn't make that is important we want to put our point through for everyone thank you for your time. >> please repeat what's your name eric. >> sorry thank you, no problem. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon my name is charging ran i'm the resident in kenneth we've lived in the alley for more than 10 years i love the quiet it is clean and open space so when we come home my sister come and work at night we feel safe walking throats all over the place now with the theatre opened in the all over the place they they you never

heard about the alley as with an entrance and one night i come back around 11 a bunch of people in the alley and screaming and yelling he was really scared and sometimes i see people that are drunk and people screaming i saw people drunk they can't walk they have to be carried by something else their smoking and yelling so, now i was really scared when i go home imagine you single leases walking home at night you see people drunk and walking around you have no idea who they are this causes environmental issues in the alley i see a lot of graffiti after the theatre is done using the alley

those are after the thooet uses of alley there is a lot of garbage and smoking in there and a lot of time i see people drunk and vomit on the floor. >> overhead please on vomits on the floor and walking traits alley we smell pee and some people poop on the alley sometimes, the smell is in our house after we go home we can't sleep they're screaming and talking about two loud and smoke too but i know that sometimes they good beyond one a.m. we can't sleep and sometimes, i have hard time and difficult

difficulty and the smoke is leaking into my room and have a hard time sleep that can you see me problems in school and work i have a basically a lack of sleep and file number going through physically and logically traumatized they they are more than one entrance but we only have one entranceway thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm own a home on columbus avenue i'm one hundred pro business but against them using the alley for entry and exiting give you a little bit of

background not designed it is a service alley nearly pitch-black and secluded and people getting out hanging occult and smoking and urinating and vomiting i've been there a long time it is north beach is dirty enough there is actively a videoconference of a bunch of people knocking over a door that leads to a fire escape above our building this would noting not have happened if people are not coming in the back your address an back to the drawing board used that address for just and exit the all over the place is not the way to do it i come to work every morning i come there is illegal dumping and always a mess that will make that worse i

imagine the cigarette butts. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello all the commissioners and all the people here i live in the area and today because the time is limited i want to request as well as a little bit more time let me explain to - so the perfect the area what it looks like is that okay. okay. yeah, here; right? >> first of all, what that looklike it the picture is 2002 what that looks like the area okay

i want you to look at what is the area look like before okay. >> fortunately, i keep the pictures that's 1, 2. >> 33, 4, 5, this one is the before one hour before i come i see this in photo inside of the folder because if 2003, 2002, 2003 all the residents in the area have

supervisor supervisor peskin asked to - (inaudible). >> can you talk into the microphone please. >> because someone sited this and allowed. >> can you talk into the my case please. sorry fran 10 have a permission allow them to put garbage can in the area because everyone already unfortunately, i kept - the letter the permission but fortunately, i still have 30's letter from the city so i want to leave it here you guys take

into account that and in the 2010 supervisor david chiu chu asked us for the fran 10 - the garbage can and the current put the lock on it. >> thank you, ma'am, your time is up. >> ma'am, thank you, ma'am your time is up. >> please, please. >> next speaker, please. >> >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is richard i'm chinese

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you transaction and i'm the interpreter i'm john a resident there for 10 plus at nights there is a group of strangers that come into the alley and someone calls them

into the 644 broadway into the back and someone brings them in and at night loud we need to rest at night i ask what business are they doing business if their brer through the back ynlt the front at night we need to rest and with the noise it is hard and asking the business owner where's our hereto in this if you how do we exit where's the plans for exiting the alley is as wide as 16 feet what happens what is the plan have exit and is that about money wrapping what about our lives that's his comments. >> thank you very much.

>> next speaker, please. >> there we go hi, i'm tyler thank you for hearing us i'm in support of boxcar construction and use of back alley an vallejo have the i believe i'm a sounds like engineer and auto engineer i work with the founder we're a plus production studio and i'd like to start out with saying i'm like i said in full support of back alley i think that is what need places like the speak easier sorry the boxcar theatre with the speak easy to colony the neighborhood and first-class the economic of north beach and the viability and like to bring out in support of any testimony for the boxcar theatre the the boxcar theatre

has paired with us in business and brought us $7,000 worth of business in the last month they're a great company to work with and pair with and i understandcy sympathy sisters with the concerns of the backdoor neighbors i moved here from hawaii and lived on a private subsection and been through this where certain requirement need to be meeting the demands of the parties and seen it successful and i do understand the concerns overall with noise applicants and night life so i also building that over the process over the next couple of months and years we'll work together to create a liveable environment and situation for all the neighbors and parties and end up with a conclusion that allows us to

co-exist peacefully so that concludes any testimony thank you. >> my name is jeff lee and my partner kres spoke earlier unfortunately, the director the chinatown neighborhood had to leave i want to read his letter to you on behalf of chinatown neighborhoods i'm here to support this project this empty theatre alone been closed for many years and this project will create jobs and revives the community as you may know within the last 20 years 5 chinese movie theatres dr. been clotted and a few restaurants closed in chinatown as a result a few hundreds jobs have been lost and

quiet under 7:00 p.m. no entertainment to attract people back to chinatown we need more entertainment programs in chinatown by approving that 0 project i'm sure about bring people to chinatown and improve china town therefore on behalf of the chinatown neighborhood association i ask for your support for the benefit of the chinatown economy thank you, commissioners. >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm tom owner of the music and sounds as adapted business from fourth and townsend i understand the difficulty of relocating a growing southern concern a small business if so difficult to be a small business and also to be an arts organization speak easy has been an incredible

source of over 70 jobs the people i've worked with that recorded at our studio is talented and capitaable musician spent 4 to 10 years in music school and not only paid in addition to the 70 employees but a resource for my company the 45 arcs actresses that are involved are talents for our company and provide jobs to them by offering them as resources for our clients i can speak to the quality and the personality and the tings of the boxcar company and they have a plan only a small number of

people coming through the alley at night i'll say i work there i colonel pose and currently working on a film that keeps me there late at the night i don't see anyone in the back alley has nothing to do with and any destruction in the alley not because of the clients they just have an occasional meeting people come in the front door now there's no sense that people are going anybody in the alley has climbed over that fence at the beginning of alley and gotten there on their own accord any testimony about the damage that was done there not the clients of any associates in the building so as a resource for historic content not only great

entertainment it is also historic replica of what life was like in san francisco and as much will be a real asset to the community thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm nicole the artistic director i want to read do executive director. >> sir as a member of the prorlz team. >> he had to leave i'll read what we wrote. >> this is from brad the executive director of theatres dear commissioners i'm the executive director nonprofit service for the regents with actors around the bay area i am speaking in support for several arraigns this project the home of the speech easy will have employment for all actress

and a host of custom and on the speak easy will not run a few weeks but has scores of actors manipulative like the north beach neighborhood and the speak easy has actors talents the inclusion of the ecology adds to the artists and indigents enhances and enhances the culture life of the city adding new art eric and enrich the culture lately the projections folks are long-standing members each have contribute neiman to

the work with the nonprofit performing groups and an initiative commercial entity continues the important work within the culture community seller brad iverson thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? >> from folks we have not spoken if you've spoken we may have questions but if you've spoken have not spoken if you've spoken we may have questions but if you've spokenh have not spoken if you've spoken we may have questions but if you've spokeno have not spoken if you've spoken we may have questions but if you've spoken - >> thank you. any is there any additional public comment? >> >> okay public comment is closed. >> first observations and questions first of all, all of us encourage new entertainment, new businesses opening in the area that area of chinatown slash in which is a great place to have live entertainment

i know the alley very well and spent time as a kid and with mr. chin turning over a little bit of questions within the operating hours in those documents i don't see what the hours actually are you understand a seating capacity sold-out place opportunity but this alley is really a unique one it faces the backside of many residential unit and assess the front door i think this commission has approved many, many bars whether they're new or existing restaurants or credit bureaus a beer and alcohol and full alcohol and it changes the dynamics we hear about it after the fact and alcohol served people exit they have the

intention of leaving but smoke and wait for an uber car that can be managed i'm curious about from mr. chin that the designated point if the theatre or china is open and the broadway entrance becomes at this point the main entrance and maybe. >> address the bigger vision how you want to use the entire building other activities in the building that. >> right - >> primary entrance for the retail it as 4 story we have retail marketplace spanning one feet on the broadway side second story is more designation and there's fine dining restaurant i'll be the executive chief called 8 tables one of the entrance proposed that is it is

going to be high-end cuisine 4 or $5,700 per person one of the plans to have them valet park in front of moms and pops restaurant and the interior quietly those people are dressed for fine dining be to go through the alley as opposed to going through the retail it is a public street a elevator that takes them up to my fine dining flas place it is not a bar or something that is your honor, controlable we obviously have made a lot of plans to make it nice with the garbage rooms and moving the com pressors and so forth that is the plan

- it is not like a walk by traffic you know thirty or 40 people dining in a fine dining restaurants is reservation and guiding them counsel a public street this is our legal secondary entrance that's what we plan on doing our operations on the broadway side. >> okay 0 your plan to use the alley for boxcar exit entry and once you get 8 tables open use the alley for preliminary exit entrance. >> has to do with with boxcar hopefully make it quiets for everybody and i think some of the pictures from years ago maybe that was gold mountain and

restaurants i know we'll open a fine dining first class we're in support of their business ace proposed buses how they operate hopefully, they'll have high is it so as i do and not cause a problem for the neighbors i certainly will not but in regards to the fine dining we have multiple stories of operation. >> maybe i can speak to the property owner the landlord. >> okay thanks yeah, i'll ask you after this thank you. >> you've got the different tenants within the building cool and great different uses i mean it's your understanding multiple businesses will use

this this is a large frontage on broadway's street really the commercial entrance historically this was the back service garbage entrance at one time when it was gold mountain. >> i can speak to a couple of things you mentioned one the building is 4 story the basement is leased by boxcar that's what we're talking about and china life will have on the first story with the main entrance off broadway in and out and they'll have an entrance to half of the second story with they'll have a bar that goes within the lounge that also off of broadway's we're bringing some of the customers their fine dining customers down the alley of the miss technical and there's a red elevators they have valet parking and someone will guide

you you'll go up and eat and leave so china life impact is minimal 95 percent of their activity will be at the front and broadway the reason people in and out and some of the reasons the creative people like this building is bridges the gap between north beach and chinatown a lot of creative people in music and 10 affirm makers and san francisco film society a nonprofit they have groups of 20 film makers under a grants program they like took creative and some days in chinatown and others days coffee and north beach and talk about the new theatre plan a public street the gate was put up, i believe it at the time the building was vacate and they put the gate up to keep people out unfortunately over 3 years the 6

condos have gotten used to their private lane but empty for 3 years no traffic and all of a sudden people back and forth and some people go out the back and get coffee and come back that's the history like anyone else if i've been there 3 years and no people in the alley with a fence what is difficult that's why we meet with the folks and the planning commission spoken to him. >> i think that is clear that while the gate is up for 3 years prior to that gotten was operating for 12 years not the primary entrance a service entrance. >> it's never been used as a primary use. >> the reason two reaps from the neighbors is because gotten mountain agreed to move the trash through the alley it used to - when the

gate wasn't there people from in which found a place to go to the bathroom that trisha showed you and then people coming and going all night long in the alley they put up the fence they have one and 25 employees they most came throats back i don't know how long the gate was up i know that people will come and go. >> maybe speak to the hours of operation what you'll do as far as you propose to limit the access and getting people hours of operation, etc. >> we have a plan i can hit the bullet points it is what we've agreed to as part of further so we've agreed weeping

we've notify the people using vehicles and not park personal vehicles in the alley and arrange for the trash it on the broadway or vallejo curb line no trash trucks and sweep and power wash during everyone performance period to remove any - just to keep it clean and instruct our employees only to enter from the broadway side and we'll prohibit smoking along the restaurant by any employee day or night and station dedicated security agent on the lot line so if anyone come up the back stairs not allowed in the alley to smoke and during the period people are entering so our hours we do our show our entry times are strargd

we're keeping with the speak easy we don't want a crowd of people people to come in gradually. >> and what time are the showtime's. >> their straddler entrances between 7:30 and 8 o'clock. >> so two shores. >> no 7 o'clock and the entrance times are strangled one third through the alley with 20 people each at the 4 entries. >> is those showtime's. >> no the show is running whether the enter the theatres. >> so at the reserve slots at the end of the night two-hundred hundred and 40 people in the

club. >> what time do we exit and for thursday and friday and saturdays exit time 103, 4, 5 not proposing alley for exits sunday's nights we enter time 8:15 and we took our accuse from the meeting with dpw who informed us that noise ordinances must be observed over 10 and smoking not allowed in the alley that's what you're security plan it based on. >> so i thank you. i love the creativity i understand the entry i ran a wax museum i understand any chance you can have people enter the alley but exit on broadway.

>> yes. >> would that retain the ambiance i understand they drive and run around the corner can you have everyone exit on broadway. >> it is hard to anticipate we know we must be quiet our intention to test it with the earlier showtime's and fine with the 8:15 and if we succeeded then we will be consider it viable if not at do you recognize we'll ban it. >> okay. i'm going to let other commissioners but at the at least open to using the entry but having people exit.

>> commissioner vice president richards. >> i'm really confused. >> okay we're approving an alcohol permitted for the boxcar theatre as an, an last year use. >> okay restaurants and office. >> yeah. >> the question i have then is why do you need to center people glow the alley. >> i mean, i don't know there was a gate gate put up by dwp sometime in the past can you help me out or staff. >> i put that gate up a long time ago. >> zoning administrator does anyone know how the gate got there. >> sit down for a second. >> let's let staff. >> one of the issues we have go ahead.

>> so i've not been able my understanding that dpw will put that temporary gates in certain alleys responding to the nuisances attributed like loitering and vomiting and public drunkenness i believe this case intend to be a temporary alley to keep people out. >> the owner has additional information may be actually installed that gate but perhaps under the authority of dpw this is a public alley. >> we put up the gates myself and residents in north beach nothing good happens after midnight people have the access to a dark alley their urinate and vomit they'll party and break into my boarding it is

available. >> it is illegal. >> aaron peskin gave me the permitted i have permission aaron peskin excuse me - >> so what has access to the gate who has a key. >> i do and the residents. >> the building at the end of the alley have access. >> no idea but you can walk out. >> the garbage people have a key. >> we put the cans in the streets no more in the alley. >> one of the ways i got my start if civic life through noise complainants in the upper market i lived close to a bar he and kept up it is only 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock i'm in bed because of the work shift we had a case the zoning administrator sanchez

realize on a bar supposing a noise ordinance is in place you call the police 200 times and those 200 in his of no sleep was because of the establishment and the process is long and go to the board of appeals and years go but you have a have a hard time having people leave in a dark alley 10 or 20 people having drunk i can't see it 16 or 14 feet wide people are living there i was one and 50 feet away from the bar across market street 200 and 50 feet an incredible inconvenience that is desirable but not the programming it is compatible get

our ambiance that make sense especially 10 or 11 you have no control over your customers might be a bouncer i think it is not workable i'll support having them come in but not leave through the alley. >> commissioner moore. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> i'm very much looking for commissioner president fong and sxhifksz experience in this matter i live in a neighborhoods in a residential neighborhood a restaurant was established 20 years ago on the condition they made a deal with the neighbors to support them to the quiet at the 10 o'clock and you can set our clock to that performance the ambient noise is much, much amplified when it is quiet at the night in a small alley

through the amplified because of the sound bouvens back is disruptive to living and sleeping etc. i would support the idea of access as part of performance the ambience through a dark alley this is the theatre california thing the existing will have to occur on the street because of the traffic being broadway the one thing i want to ask the zoning administrator and look i am concerned that the alley with the gate given it is full occupancy in the building will not be more assessable for the fire department i see you're raising our eyebrow a question that the fire department will look for live safety issues in this case of the an emergency and not existing an alley as

well as the adjoining business will have to exit i want to keep that on the table probational limited entry and limited and specific times, yes but exiting at any time no >> there have been multiple building permits a mix of uses in the building the building department has approved newcomers permits for this building i don't know whether or not the issue of this restricted potentially restricted assess sorry about that the alley was brought to their attention but certainly preliminaries and we can have this with the department of building inspection and dpw to make sure that all relevant codes are addressed and they've to highlight as commissioner vice president richards cancelled this is just for conditional use for the bar so any conditions you place on this restricting will be limited to the bar use

other restaurant uses that are in the building not subject to those restrictions they're not before you as part of the conditional use authorization so and also, we also can't preclude any egress under the building code not your intent but really restrict the access to certain hours. >> so sorry. >> the other point is that i'm in full support of revised clarification that mr. perry submitted to us a few moments ago and that business owners to item 6 with the accessory so other verbiage that is important i'm very appreciative your bringing it up at any time this will change to a few bar that will not be acceptable under any circumstances this particular very well phrased amendment is

something we should incorporate into a motion i move to approve with modifications. >> do i hear a second. >> sec yeah. >> we're not quite sure. >> that commissioner crews the stipulation that the access it can only the alley be used for limited assess but not for exiting for the theatre. >> i think if i may i think the commission wanted to put a time limit on that right. >> i'll definitely. >> 8:30 was what was talked about. >> that's correct. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i think aside from the all over the place issues a terrific ideas the whole china life and the 8 tables and speak easy will envision the area and through back to the settlement

north of broadway's a number of varieties of different things so this remind me of tony and i'd like to take the opportunity judge's wedding the audience participation that is i'm if a undertaking in favor of the monoxide that make sense and fire code- the exit will have to be left open for emergency you can't leave someone there that can't get out because of an emergency and the property owner i hope will take the robot for make sure that the alley is kept clean if that's fine with the maker of the motion. >> that's i think a condition. >> yeah. >> i appreciate that. >> definitely what we are expecting.

>> and you know otherwise the rest of it sounds like a good solution and you still have the entry there it is supervised it is limit to a period of time early in the evening and after the show go out through the front i think that solves all the problems and obviously have to work out i'll assume that there's enough existing through the front the other exit is not necessary in terms of the secondary assess sometimes you have to have a certain number of exits maybe for emergency but that will be something else that will be checked as part find code i'm supportive. >> may i ask zoning administrator for this particular boxcar use if there are other uses that eventually open in the building do we

approve the usage of the alley like this similar situation or that comes up or not. >> not before you they're already permitted uses they're not subject to conditional use authorization. >> to clarify this restrictions under the egress. >> can i offer a couple of things added to the motion for discussion and that's sounds like weird he know it the gates when it closes is noisy and echoes in the alley it is sort of like the slammer at the alcatraz any way to buffer the sounds of that opening and closings but the second thing as part of security on the entry

people coming in i think that is important to have a greeterer in custom at the gate and at the end of the hall yelling this is this way important to have someone quietly guide them into the - i think this as great idea very, very exciting business. >> commissioner antonini. >> oh, yeah i was agreeing with the modified motion to it sounds like they have provision for the guarantees at the gates and the entry and that will have to be coordinated with the residents and the gatekeeper to make sure the keys are distributed to those who needs to use them. >> commissioner wu. >> i want to clarify the motion it is to allow the cu with the restrictions that there's no customers to exit or

enter after 8:30. >> that's right. >> thank you. i'm supportive. >> but we will still use their staging plan of the limited number of people coming through the alley that's still not changed that remains as is. >> and as the maker of motions are you accepting the guarantors of the gate. >> absolutely yes. >> i am. >> sir. >> can we make the times cut off times 9 o'clock we have a low price late entry ticket. >> i think 8 o'clock is 8:30. >> people having dinner this is the beginning the evening. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> question for project

sponsor so the theatre is on the same level as the alley or go up steps to get to it go down. >> the below ground. >> so you'll clearing let our customers know don't go out thirty this door a. >> and personal and security guards at the top and, yes direct everyone out the front. >> i'd like to make that condition of approval someone directing people out the right way. >> i'd like to ask the motion maker a six months review after is first opening. >> i think that will be a staff reporting to us. >> thank you. >> great supportive. >> i assume the motion already includes a community liaison of

a phone number and all the typical things i think that mr. perry has built that in. >> very good commissioners commissioners, if there's nothing further, we'll move on to there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions as amended by staff and the commission to allow alley use up to you 8:30 p.m. for entry only and exiting through the broadway street ingress and egress and guarantees stations at the gate and the project manager maintain the gates and 68 most look back. >> commissioner antonini. >> did you have the personnel directing people out that's what the project sponsor volunteered. >> yeah. but not exits. >> having someone direct the people. >> the condition as a person

at the gate and at the door not someone yelling down oh, where today go interaction between the door and two separate things that commissioner vice president richards is asking forgive upon exiting someone to guide people out to the broadway side and not the alley. >> very good commissioners a.d. the two conditions commissioner antonini. >> commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and okay commissioners, thank you very much for your patience and your hunger pains why not take a 45 minute lunch break the planning commission will go

into recess the zoning administrator will continue with the hearing for items 17 b. >> so those persons that are existing this chamber do so quietly excuse me - folks still business to attend to. >> excuse me - folks if you need to speak do so outside the room please. zoning administrator we'll go to item 17 b for case no. 21 street. >> thank you jonas and unusually give the project sponsor 5 minutes and any public comment 3 minutes each. >> game-changer with reuben, junius & rose representing the project sponsor i'll keep it fairly brief first of all, thank you for the zoning administrator

to hear the item i wanted to recognize the project sponsor the dr requesters have withdrawn they've ward's open this project and is revisions i want to thank the two dr requesters ms. kennedy and mr. the gentleman for their participation and wanted to acknowledge among other people commissioner vice president richards was helpful in facility some of the coordination so i wanted to really briefly talk about the project plans and prescriptions it is clear what it is so you and staff have received an e-mail with the revised drawings so e-mail you've a written list of some of the changes we've agreed with the project i want to be very, very clear on the records that what the project is and that we are asking the zoning administrator to approve the evaporates from the rear yard administration based on the updated drawings and the

description that includes the items rather than given the time limited and glow the exact restrictions line by line i'll give you a clear reference so more specifically you have an e-mail from me that was addressed to the two folks with a copy to the project sponsor as well as the two dr requesters and stated for 44 p.m. that e-mail includes the updated drawings as well as the detailed list of product provisions that is the project we like you to consider when you consider the variance request in general you know you'll see from the restrictions we're reducing the scope of the project that means that the caesarean we're requesting is reduced in scope as well when you consider the variance request and hopefully approve that and issued a decision if

you want to include the specific details about the rising in the product discrimination we're fine with that but i think i want to briefly mention the surveillance application we provided findings go as well as that outline the justification we believe is there for the issuance of the variance and you have all the information you need in terms of making the decision i'll keep is brief we have a full team if you want the architect to give you a full presentation we can do that and the project sponsor can answer questions and the two dr requesters aren't here so perhaps i'll leave it at that and if there's any questions please let us know and confirming i have received the revised plan day tuesday, july 27, 2016, and that will be the basis for any decision today

and move to public comment. >> is any public comment on this item? 17 b seeing none, public comment is closed. being inclined to grant the variance on the revised plan some of the concerns but i appreciate the rice plans and look at it of the typography and the relationship to the adjacent proposals it is appropriated and meets the 5 fovkd for the grant of the variance and public comment is closed. and anyone wants is a copy of the deny and going into recess and the planning commission will reconvene after their lunch break thank >>