zero. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, commissioners on item 9 for capier 70 mixed-use district project a draft report please note the written comments accepted until february 21st, 2017. >> good afternoon commissioner president hillis and members of the commission i'm melinda planning department staff the item before you is a review and comment on the pier 70 mixed use project draft environmental impact report or draft eir pursuant to the california environmental quality act or ceqa and san francisco's local procedures for implementing procedures the item before you to receive the comments i'm

joined by my colleagues rick senior planner and alien inspirational planner and the technical specialist members of the team and the project sponsor is forest city and the port of san francisco are also presents the project sponsor kelly for forest city will provide a brief overall of the project. >> overview of the project. >> thank you melinda good afternoon commissioner president hillis and members of the commission thank you jonas my name is kelly with forest city and along with the port of san francisco we're project sponsors for the pier 70 mixed use project we'reer were recently before you in november of 2016 for the informational presentation to the commission on the overview site plan

as you recall it has been in the making for 10 years with the master plan the mayor and the board issued an issuance for forest city forest city has been working on the pier 70 project for the last of years over that period of time there have been dozens of events with thousands of paternity influencing the gilding principles most recently open houses in october and november that drew over 5 hundred folks this feedback from the community members fwloez flores into the land use plan to share what is created an urban waterfront district in san francisco those included uses you don't find in master plan with pdr and

significant components the mixed use and commercial office space to provide for an active place weekend and weeks ago days thirty percent of units will be below-market-rate as a reminder the pier 70 or special use district is 28 acres and the 7 illinois parcel in 2014 the pier 70 was first to go to the ballot in prop b in november of 2014 proposition x with the height from 40 to 90 feet was approved by 73 percent of voter with guiding to be provided by the project we know this approval was a

result of time and care for the from the community and make sure that input was requested in the project before you today indeed proposition x was endorsed by the dog patch association and the potrero boosters the zoning effect didn't take effect but waited a complete ceqa analyze that must take place a rezoning action that's why we're here one the key pieces of feedback in 2014 to make sure that note every building was built 90 feet the proposed project is a tight plan with the building from 50 to 90 feet and open space we said to be responsive to the community feedback about a variety of building height from 20th and 22 and potrero hill there is a back and forth

project from the potrero hill this view from 20th and third about the project and here's the view with the project i know the view if 20th street and further up the hill without the project and with the project and finally a view from 22 and wisconsin without the project and with the project additional features include the buildings totally more than three hundred and 80 thousand square feet building two and 12 on the left and right respectfully the proposed project site is oriented around the historic building with the key features with the rehabilitated buildings and open spaces the land plan for the project

before you is consistent with the 2010 master plan that identified key resources across pier 70 that is a significant or compact and identified the resources to be rehabilitated the diagram is the entire pier 70 master plan area and shows the rehabilitation in gray proposed across the site the architecture of pier 70 will be regulated by the pier 70 f u d and look forward to providing the commission with the presentation and proposed guidelines at meetings in the future. >> the proposed project is also included 9 acres of parks and open space with a waterfront park for the san francisco bay where it didn't exist before the team and field operations and other projects with the ones in

new york that gives a sensitivity to the industrial feeling of the site and make sure that the open space is an innocent to the neighborhood did open space is by the industrial use of area as well as the union iron works historic district in the artifacts is a corridor approach it includes a type of spaces with the children's playground and passage spaces and spaces for events context excuse me - finally to touch on the public benefits and the utilities and infrastructure the property project will elevate the site to protect buildings from the range of satisfies for 21 hundred other key features with the acres of open space and thirty percent of all units with the 28 site is offered below-market-rate additionally the project is

submitted to replace the projects for the folks another union building that space will be permanently affordable not just for the replacement of union building but the arts facility is four times that exist at the site to have the arts at the pier 70 in addition the project is the first privately funded development committed to the local hire requirement for the construction as well as an goal with regards to transportation the ground work is laid down for the infrastructure that serves the revitalization there the investment in the - closet to the pier 70 site is the central subway will increase that by 50 personality this will happen before the workers come to we

know the project must be responsible for the transportation demands first, the project will be designed so prioritize public safety and modes the transportation the project will have aggressive tdm with a transit as well as education and incentive program for pier 70 to drive less as a layer above this the eir requires annual monitor with a 20 percent reduction in trips identified to the eir and finally generates fee that concludes my presentation. >> thank you, kelly as a reminder the item before the commission to comments on the

draft eir and not the project as kelly said future informational regarding the project it's the proposed project result in the specific cumulative significant and unable impacts with the transportation specifically transit and loading and needs specifically increases in the ambient noise level and air quality and air pollution the draft eir found other resources historic architecture resources transportation and circulation, noise and vibration and air quality and wind and biology resources and geography and hydrology and city mitigated to

less than levels a meeting for the historic preservation commission or hpc comments was held on february 1st, 2017, i provided you a thought hpc letter at the hearing the majority of hpc 6 out of 7 commissioners concurred with the analysis in the conclusion of the draft eir and felt the measures would reduce the impacts to a lens significant level commissioner pearlman

disagreed with the conclusions in the driving and felt the demolition of the existing contributors building 15, 16, 25 and 32 and 6 will cause an adversely impact to the historic district that can't be mitigated to a level further comments would constitute i and f 4 building inspection commission to include a way finding program that reflects history the hpc requested more information about the site development and the circulation pattern and review order

which respond to all written comments and make revisions to the draft eir as appropriate those interested in commenting by writing i writing my submit their comments to the environmental officer in suit 4 hundred by 5:00 p.m. only on february 21st it end on february 21st the department will have responses to all relevant comments on the draft eir comments and september in writing by 5:00 p.m. >> i suggest the public hearing be open.

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>> gradually went down to the bay and from earth from irish hill was used to build that that history shouldn't be lost i hope that irish hill can be preserved. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is stephen philippines i'm align independent research historian i've brought a picture of irish

hill that he end of the 1800s this was what irish hill used to look like it housed 11 hundred people i've been an historian and never studied an area like a ghost town all that is left is a small piece of land that peter showed you i've been hard working to make sure that people understand irish hill all the hills in san francisco have their own history and reminder of what was there old structures irish hill has none that was a hill that disappointed i'm police department that irish hill will not be raised the lass last chunk of irish hill will stay but the viability will be impaired from this illinois

street you'll be able to see irish hill this is go through today it is still there but the building that are put there the view of irish hill will be obscured and affect the public access to this place parts of eir we're talking about the digging of parts of irish hill to make the road to the machine shop area the digging that will take place on irish hill is minimal 23 percent of hill by the digging can reveal my architectural and anchorage local things the hill is there not been touched for one hundred years 1918 when the last excavations were there i brought a few pictures to show you. >> okay. this is a woman

dress i found it on irish hill full of mud was the lace that it had this is a beer bottle from irish hill that was a rapid neighborhood slogans and beer was bottled before the turn of the century if you guys got hit on the head with that you'll be in trouble the head after a claw hammer and people on irish hill canned their own food i have here dr opium a painkiller that was recorded to be safe for children, however - >> it was easily easily miss

managed and killed quite a while babies sir, your time is up. >> >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is phil lived on potrero hill on missouri street i wanted to add my voice to the other two i'm a member of the a i a and seen the plans for development plans and i think that is really a shame we're not going to take advantage from what it looks like the particular supportive irish hill i think that if it were a more open space many cities have public parks open areas which give character to the neighborhood here's an

opportunity to make that a special spot in the neighborhood and from what i've seen they'll wall it off on 3 sides i'd like to say that i'd like to see this city and the port request alternate plans i'm sure we have alternates we have skilled architects working on this project a playground with a place it would be a very commendable and wonderful asset to the neighborhood and i just want to say that i think that is wonderful that we're saving pier 70 it is about time and i hope that it is i've studied pier 70 as cultural landscape important and

sensitive so let's try to get the developer on board with that vision thank you very much thank you next speaker, please and i live kooefrl the increase of 68 hundred new residents that will have an impact on the open space and recreational facilities in potrero hill and dog patch less than a significant impact i disagree with that the rec center will be used even though the eir or dir said there will

be there's improvements happening to the kooefrl with the park bond they not are making changes but opportunity to improve on the 9 acres of space including pier 70 further community 50 percent increase of residents to the area and it will have an impact on the function and usage of jackson park and so i disagree with that finding and i know there 0 needs to be cushioning for a reactional facility considerations for those impacts thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you commissioner president hillis i'm the

president of the jay hill boosters and remind you of the situation we're facing in that area with the neighborhoods in dog patch with written co-comments to the draft eir by the issues the draft eir get a full hearing if they're only addressing pier 70 to be a success we want it to be a success it is a positive roll model and thank you for the time for - when prop f sets the height limit of 72 percent with the support of boosters and the dog patch neighborhood association and that design for the development document will be coming will draw rave reviews in that document with all the good things that gone under the boundary of pier 70 didn't

eliminate the stresses outside of the projects borrowed i've gone on how dog patch and mission bay feels inadequate to fulfill this is dog patch has doubted it's populations and that's in the eastern neighborhoods ambulance not counting the mega projects as pier 70 which include mission rock and chase center and the redevelopment and the power plant and the public housing that is within the study area for transit for the project and that's in addition to the usf the dog patch neighborhood with the impacts to the university is exempt if mitigating the tools and taxes and fees so my neighbors have gone in detail and hear more before the transportation and

submit our written comments it is important there are issues that needed to be addressed i believe they can be addressed for a city working with us to address them that helps at the end of the day a lot of it is into forest city issue to address but the city and county of san francisco no fleet or private shuttles are alleviate the one hundred thousand trips from pier 70 in light of the other projects i ask the planning commission to look at the comments and providing those resources necessary to mitigate the impacts this and permitted for the assets on the waterfront thank you. >> thank you, mr. smith. >> good afternoon, commissioners corey smith on behalf of the housing coalition. speaking in support of draft eir here today and nevertheless, it is 10 years not making and certainly a planning process

that speaks volumes to what we have in san francisco and absolutely a milestone with our residential impacts we'll take every opportunity to maximum the amount of housing in the project itself by the market-rate affordable and this will going to the consortiums we've been talking about will be a wonderful benefit to speaking in support of it again, thank you very much. >> alison heath with grow potrero responsibly i'm limit my comments to putting too many people into the area the population growth is not less

than significant the number of residential unit has the potential to steady the total under the central waterfront plan all at once and sdpeedz the port of san francisco burdening us with the fair share the mix 2.2 million of square feet and 10 thousand workers on site shoppers and dinners no spice this development about generate one and 41 thousand person trips a day with mark farrell 34 hundred that concludes my remarks and unlimited - limited transit options the danger a 20th century car risk on classify with projections that have people coming and going and relying on cars what concerns me

and should concern you the draft eir finds in significant impacts in traffic ignoring the level of studies that were done by the developer last year under that los analysis a single development will bring thirty intersections this is a constant traffic jam think about what this means our air quality and public safety and emergency vehicles here we are with an environmental report that clouds the reality of so if i option in the future only 21 percent of people will travel by public transit frankly this is the problem relying on promises of patchwork of private shuttles and walkways have 50 percent of

people in automobiles about moving forward on this 21st area power plant the city must have a network of public options that we can stop pretending and put transit first. >> thank you, next speaker. >> mr. hall. >> thank you i don't have my prepared comments but want to follow up and second what go j r and alison said but maybe just to also add my little piece that is always you know about pacing and this is getting the infrastructure in time for what is - comes as a project is built you know it takes like thirty years put in

the subway you know and god knows it seems like to take forever when sfmta has money for them to spend that i think there is a recent article on that so what i will ask and add my comments to the formal comments that came to raise our attention to the issue of pacing and the fact that we've got as far as i'm concerned, a wasted asset down with the t line instead of mitigations sfmta will continue with this program and tps let's get specification in order for this project to be built they'll have sfmtas required to as a mitigation to put x number of trains you know what whatever 15

minute integrals on the t line gets specific with the timing and pacing and stop accepting basically mitigations that are platitudes not mitigations if they're not specific and no timing and no money they're not mitigations their platitudes thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on the draft eir? seeing none, opening for commissioners questions or comments >> okay. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much to the staff as always you guys do a fantastic job on the environmental analysis whether people agree with it are not a heroic effort so i definitely appreciate the efforts that the project sponsor and the staff

and those who have contributed thus far to the draft eir i'll be looking forward to seeing the response document i do believe there are a number of things that we've heard today and the commissioners will have to say and the written comments are substantial i'll be presenting written comments but today just a couple of things i'll highlight they hearing so we got a memo sometimes, we get things passed up to you say that was from the historic preservation commission and just sort of summarize their discussion and there was one dissenting commissioner that said that discharged the analysis of historical analysis impacts are mitigated through the proposed mitigations and i think i'll have a tendency to agree my on the only thing i'll

say i don't know if it requires changes to the project but for at least we'll be looking at having a statement of what are we called oh, what it is we'll be looking at a statement of overriding consideration i don't believe that the mitigation are proper for the historic resources for the amount of changes i feel the new development will be contextually and that's not the same thing as keeping those historic resources so a couple of things unclear and looks like the planning commission when i look at the list of approvals that need to go through the city it looks like the planning commission will be seeing the design for development i look forward to seeing this but it was not clear from my read of dir whether or

not the two paralyze that are set aside for parking structures are the only parking allowed on site that finding not clear so there's a table that says a different project option how many on-street parking and off-street parking will be allowed in the clear the off-street parking is 100 percent in the set aside for parking if they're not certainly that will be impact the traffic study and impact the month of it i think i'm sure there is seeing from my personal externals growing up in a place island near a city they have the set up the entire project and the only parking allowed in the site was one parking structure in the i'd like that 6th district at large impacted folks in a way when all

buildings have their own set of parking spaces i think that is for the impact how we look at the traffic study and hopefully clarified in the description great points on recreation typically for a large project like this don't necessarily very specific programming of the specific sites and open space at the this point that was not experience with mission bay and hunters point you don't see the exact programming, however, there are very few recreation facilities outside of site and hopefully, maybe an opportunity to do it different than other projects and think about that programming a little bit sooner so if we were have things like a baseball slashing volley ball

court maybe sort of pencil those in a little bit earlier than normally norman you'll see the programming later but a reason to do it earlier if we can and with that, i think a great job and it is adequate to move forward with the eir and looking forward to seeing the responses from some of the comments today and looking forward to seeing if writing. >> thank you. can you give an overview of the schedule and what ultimately will come back to the planning commission i know we have a fairly complicated traction with the lease development sorry >> commissioner president hillis yes, so in march we're anticipating the first round of reviews on the design for review and substantially my and all the

zoning map amendments and the final eir will come back to the placing for review and the port commission. >> not a da. >> there that be a da. >> offering that will come to the planning commission. >> there was confusion about the port zoning and whether or not we have we're the ones that changed the zoning or the port commission does that so thank you i want to echo you know the documents is well done and thorough and some of the concerns is about active recreation we've heard on other projects the lot on 337 where uses will be i know that we have issues about the land because of state limits but it will be good to see more of that along the waterfront or the projects inside the city and on the

design document i think that that will be critical you show great renderings in the presentation how the design fits with the industrial aesthetics and the shaping it is important as we move forward special in keeping the aukt it's. >> commissioner vice president richards and i'll be submitting my comments in writing, however, the beauty of public comment and public testimony we get preserves from many lens i recall the discussion an oak and the vehicles miles traveled how that fits where it fits and shipped to the averages, etc. and into the finding the analysis the summarized how current are they are they dated

1990 or 2000 and recall that conversation to make sure we are all on the on the same page in terms of summations of the numbers regarding i mean the numbers that some of the public bought up regarding the number of car trips a day these sounds like scary big numbers we're in are congested place when we have the 5m it is farther away a simulation was done and the numbers i have a hard time trying to understand when it will look like if i were standing there the 5m there were simulations and i i feel comfortable how the cars are gathering up in distributions, etc. that that would be helpful and mr. halls comments about metering not having the

infrastructure coma decade later and getting the ridership up to the average on public transportation we have something to think about we already have in the eastern neighborhoods the infrastructure has not - the demand for infrastructure and we're adding more load to a burdened situation i think in terms of mitigation? the exact number of fewer cars needed to get those people in and out to understand regarding the recreation space you know we already have a bans the projects we've heard a burden recreation system with few public amenities with the playground and rec center i think one of the publics point and maybe commissioner johnsons point finding how the open space will be to understand what the

load is on the other open spaces an actual program and if i want to play ball in an open space that kind of thing i look forward to moving this along and wait for other comments. >> commissioner moore. >> given the size of this project and the people that work on that the eir is sparse i attribute that to the thoroughness of the work into the planning and to the many questions that enormous numbers of people in various working groups have brought to the project that makes it more clearly structured eir and easier the one comment that the request to dig a little bit deeper into the history of the

settlement patterns of the area including the justification why we're moving towards the street grids he considers to be uncharacteristic in the district not a deal breaker but illuminating that discussion for the policymakers will go help than large specific areas it is difficult when juxtaposeed we'll have is an easier buy in i commend forest city for all the work and look forward for this to bring forward comments by which we can all support the eir. >> thank you. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i also want to say one last thing about some of the comments

from the public today and sort of probably some of the responses that will be get based on - for eir i think that is important for people to realize their based on the project sponsors project and the mitigation is based on the intention that the project sponsor can do when it comes time to talk about the city and county mitigations will reference laws or the regulations or rules that did project sponsor can put in place that may mitigate certain impacts but the eirs will not require the creation of a new bus line as as mitigation to a potential transit or traffic issue i think that is a little bit of a short coming of the way this process was designed but want to say that a lot of the points are well-taken and hope that our sister agencies are able to take those comments and especially the mta and really

think about the circulation of the some of the newer or improved especially bus lines in 3 area when i look at this thing i'm reminded of the hunters point shipyard originally the 49ers stadium a place all the busses comment come and the 49ers moved to sacking so no longer make sense i think that pier 70 is worth having the same conversation what is the circulation pattern looks like and make sure it didn't overlap with the plans and other transit agencies they may have. >> great seeing no other comments we'll public comment is closed. and comments will be accepted in written form thank you to the planning department and the city in getting us here its been a

long time coming and move on to the next item thanks. >> commissioners that places us on item 10 calle 24 special use district {board file no. 170028} planning code amendment. >> there is a big crowd for this we might want to - >> we'll take a two minute break to clear the room and bring in others for the next item. >> shall we take twoperfect. >> one second please. thank you good afternoon and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. to the planning commission thursday, february 9, 2017, i'm reminded members disruptions of any kind.

proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. commissioners, we left off under our regular calendar on item 10 for case calle 24 special use district {board file no. 170028}planning code amendment. >> good afternoon commissioner diego sanchez with the planning department staff i'll present the special use district, however, before i begin my presentation we want to present supervisor ronen's office for the mayor's office yes as well as also with the mayor's office with time to present to you thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner sheila from hillary ronen so like chinatown, north beach and japantown the latino cultural

district is a special place that attacks tourist from all around the world and a place that became a regional hub for the community and people come back for social services and all the weekly things their families may need and connections to a lot of cultural pieces like their churches and community-based organization but this place is hope home to many residents that live in the district and right around there and that's why supervisor hillary ronen in collaboration with the mayor's office so excited this was first piece of legislation she introduced to preserve this neighborhood what that cultural district so toxic in terms of mix of businesses that are there that that preserves legacy businesses and incentivizes they're prejudice

and for the unique features the district like small storefronts and mom and pop shops and the latino community and the rich history and it is a place that also is looking for ways to attractive and support new businesses on the corridor so with that, i also wanted to thank the planning department and particular diego sanchez and the mayor's office of housing and community development and folks in particular (calling names) and also the city attorney's office mirena burns for helping us with that work and bring to your attention one thing we learned in having conversations with the zoning administrator they found that the way they were interpreting it that looks like the controls on eating and drinking establishment might pertain to limited restaurants

that wanted to convert to a restaurant and was not our intention so asks us to make clarification i hope you as commissioners will forward a recommendations to the full board that we add language that exempts any limit restaurant that want to become a restaurant being part of controls thank you very much and away kin torres. >> thank you, thank you deputy director of office of economic workforce development and mayor ed lee - it is a pleasure to be here today to introduce and support the quatro suspending before you and on behalf of the the mayor ed lee with the office

of economic workforce development been a partner with supervisor ronen to bring this ordinance been a pleasure to work with folks to have a balanced tailored approach for the diverse character of this latino cultural district its been a long time coming and it is representation of the in active work with the exemplar work by sheila and diego sanchez from planning and others you'll hear from and others the work we have done in support of the kwaunt has been inclusive and build in the long time work serving small businesses and nonprofit organizations and supporting neighborhood and cultural assets within the cultural district and the greater mission area for money that invited and shops or otherwise enjoys the cultural

from the cesar chavez festive to programming and brav have or finding st. francis fountains the sales coffee and pops that is a special place it is in large part due to the characterization of latino cultural district is an asset to the city that corridor is stable we've lost businesses to rent increases but many have stated a real pressure exists to the stability of our existing businesses we've seep it from the we talk with and needs to be thoughtfully and the and tailored to the changes and experience regulations we don't take lightly we believe from a balanced approach will help to preserve those characteristics

for years to come to discuss that in detail i'll bring up a clearing from the mayor's office of economic workforce development or and look forward to working with you to support the latino are cultural district and our small business community good afternoon, commissioners in the following slide i hope to provide context and background of what has led and how we've got to the actuating district. >> as joaquin mentioned one of 25 corridors around the city it is an interdepartmental initiative we work closely with our neighborhood partners and local efforts one of the principles of the invested neighborhoods to build on the strengths of the cultural district in this next slide i want to

point out to a few things that clarify the boundary and between the cultural latino cultural sdrifbt that was recognized by the board of supervisors and the special use district the special use district is the red mar are an line the blue is where - it excludes properties facing mission street it folks on the character and the surrounding 24th street we'll be undergoing a different assessment for mission street but for those sets of regulations in particular that will focus around the character along 24th street and the surrounding area so some of the existing

characteristics that make up the district are varied and small storefront and the history and institutions they part of history a big part is working-class neighborhood that have had many waves of immigrants throughout the generations and in the lesbians some of them have been in operation for over thirty years and still there those types of businesses provided the opportunity to buy our property and be able to operate our business downstairs and live above that's part of character that exists within the district. >> now in terms of the latino cultural and why is that a latino cultural district why 24th street it is because of history small businesses as you can see i point to some of the things that exist we have 11

different cultural institutions that high concentration of murals and the cultural and the many cultural events that happen while the concentration is apparent there are other characteristics that are part of it with the small storefronts, etc. to preserve and retain those unique - it is not meaning we are overlooking improvements public safety or planning there are examples of the special use district the commercial district that developed their own set of procedures to protect chinatown has protected itself from financial institution and north beach from restaurant serving businesses the mission al colonel prohibits liquor store from coming in the late 80s

it's only one of those of the intervention to create a vibrant one part of many activities and services and efforts that we are undergoing currently on the ground this is an time of the how much of some of the institutions and businesses that exist that have been in operation for more than thirty years. >> we have is about 2

institutions that have been in operation important thirty years four on the legacy business registry it united states of america is a new program that has been established through the city in order to be recognized part of city legacy business through two commissions historic preservation commission and be approved small business commission so in terms of the historic nature that exists we are using the cultural district as an economic streaming attracting events created by business institutions the cultural district bathrooms a catalyst visitors and creates opportunity across the sectors so this timeline is just a representation that in terms of what brought us here and what has guided our process we began in 2013 engaging with residents and businesses and institutions and then the recreation of the latino cultural district in 2014 a six months process for feedback from businesses in the area about what they thought about the latino cultural district that was a recognition that didn't have restricts then we mondved on to 2015 with

the interim controls to protect small storefronts so there is is on the storefront the suv will replace this 3 meeting we introduced the conception we didn't say the legislation we were building up to it we held 3 meeting in on that but in between that we've engaged with numerous stakeholders one the neighborhood that led to the introduction in january. >> the businesses a high priority for the area for us we spirit it up into two with the investment we hired a full-time corridor manager to engage with the businesses with the lease negotiation and inspections or even facade improvements in addition to supporting the efforts around the cultural

district. >> so just to kind of give a quick overview in terms of the diversity that exists within the corridor in part a inspiration for why the regulations we have 23 percent in retail and eating and drinking is 32 and personal services 34 percent so we consider that a pretty health and safety existing mix in terms of storefront trend this spans a pretty wide range of eaters diane and cafe and bars have increased and displayed some of the types of uses in the pipeline it seems moderate has been at a health and safety pace, however, a

trend of taking over retail formula in the pipeline 4 new restaurant two of which are in existing vacant sites sorry and goes to what are we pope the main regulations can be split into two categories one threshold for eating and drinking establishment a cap of thirty percent along the corridor to try to preserve the uses that exist within there and the other is administration of the conditional use authorization so we're asking to trigger criteria that relates back to the character of the area and asking to add 3 new triggers for conditional use authorization one storefront morgue and one legacy business and one medical service for legacy business is if you're occupying a site that was

previously occupied by legacy business these are geared at trying to preserve the diversity of the businesses and protect the small storefronts the legacy businesses and provide an opportunity to contribute back to the characteristic of the area. >> so as a point of reference the next slide shows what triggers the conditional use in the current are triggered the conditional use authorization and in the blue are the 3 additional we're recommending as part conditional use we're proposing how to contributor back to the district they meet 4 out of 6 purposes those are important to the character of the that he represent many of

the things that our residents are doing and businesses will be encouraged to do for example, the trairldz with local artists and jewel makers and selling products in their stores they maintain have maintained their physical character there is a good example that came in they will change the use and became a restaurant and maintain the signage as part of history of the neighborhood so those represents the characteristics that are part of the district that are beyond the latino cultural aspects the history of it the essence of what makes the district and it's character. >> and this is another example of in past two years 18 businesses that have changed and so this is none of these would trigger the regulations that we're proposing today so it is

just a demonstrates that changes were allowed and changes that will continue to be we feel is a very specific approach to many of the characteristics in this slide different ways to

take into consideration when developing many of the regulations and will say we heard some people wanted more restaurant and other people wanted to limit restaurant and overall i wanted to represent in terms of the input and more places people i think can agree on than disagree on through the input of past few years and the with the community many much feedback that gone both an informed approach in this sud it beyond the meeting around the regulation but have been collecting information from the

district what are the importance to them. >> and see to the last slide i'll end with today, you'll hear many voices that deeply about the community some in support and some opposition and 34 with questions those regulations do or too little we find a balanced approach by a sense of community and city dialogue behind the voids we'll hear the personal connections to the neighborhood that we love it above all i did commission has harder about the people not included in art of progress i - we have an important role to find the common that unifies use it benefits the cultural and economic vibrancy of our neighborhood and the character of our city that diagram recognizes the strengths and the common goal bans what we're heard from the neighborhood from meeting and many voices in the center is our commitment through investing in the neighborhood and the actions we're talking to support and build on the assets within that area a vibrant corridor that preserves the cultural historic and provides serves to the local community the regulation contained are limited and balanced that will not solve public safety dirty streets and protest businesses from leaving or coming in the focus on

specific characters that preserves the localities that makes this area so special they allow for change and provide an opportunity for businesses to contribute to the area we ask you to support those measures and look forward to answering questions i believe my colleague will explain more in the regulations. >> thank you, commissioner the department is in support of

ordinance because it proposes controls that help to maintain the corridor as a vibrant neighborhood with the active character they build on the planning code controls in the existing controls draw southern out of a 25 percent threshold with the mcd in the location a 35 percent concentration this is being proposed help to maintain a difference set of diversities within the corridor and present one use from dominating the corridor requiring conditional use for the replacement of place addresses the needed of the character the will recognize that a city first created in the legacy business registry and then by votes in the past over 2015 prozac the general plan makes a mention of the long-standing retailers how they provide benefits to neighborhood corridors in the spirit and this as proposed to extend the land use controls for the - this is a novel control did benefits to the corridor - similarly the storefronts in the area electricity to the neighborhood character and provided an offering of bids and services requiring the conditional use shows their exceptional or extraordinary and compatible with the neighborhood and

finally all requests for conditional use are comparable with the stated purposes 6 purposes as mentioned first to say that physical improvement are contextual and the second to promote the vibrant arts and the 3 legacy businesses but provide neighborhood serving officers to the adjacent resident the 5 to build partnerships with the uses and 6 looks to sure local residents are considered in hiring positions the sud recognitions this stated purposes will be a multi agency issue regarding the proposed amendments the staff is in - to change hair business plan but

not violates the spirit of concentration controls eating and drinking establishment as being established ♪ location and like to provide the commission are letters for the case report first in support and some in other people's money i'll go ahead and give those to the commission >> that concludes my presentation. we're available for questions. >> thank you mr. sanchez and for the team for the presentation we'll open up for public comment i got about having speaker cards but keep the speaker time at 3 minutes if you find yourself repeating please keep it short up on the screen side of the room.

(calling names) >> go ahead. >> good afternoon commission herman the president the council of district and merchant associations we have a membership of over 23 businesses the welfare of our decide is not determined by the high-rises downtown but by the i think neighborhood and the residents in the neighborhood those businesses don't provide for the local but for businesses in a designation city sometimes when it comes to the effects of changes that happen in the community for example, japantown would not think japantown were

not being a special use district and this will happen if we didn't have a special use district in the mission or in kwaunt i can see like losing businesses like (calling names) i can see them not being around if we don't add this change to the special use district i ask you to support this change so we can preserve a cult community that that is go for the neighborhood and good for people to come and visit thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is tom i've been a resident of the inner mission for 10 years and lived in san francisco for almost thirty years and context

where in their comments are coming from i have a bilingual teaching and now teach at a high school spent 3 years representing immigrants mainly latinos against homeland security i'm one of the good guys and i think that is also you might not know it from comments that is a controversial measure i think that is important that as we think about that the people who are posing this in the bad people they're not bad people we're you'll neighbors and don't want the diversifyness that puts this country's to grip our neighborhood and split neighbor against neighbor i have concerns about this proposed district it can be characterized but awful close to zoning bans race

and ethnicity that is very toughy and as a lawyer i've been a commercial reality for the last ten years as a lawyer not sure that is legal, and, secondly, i think that is divisive you're telling business owners your background we may not want you here i don't want to live in a neighborhood based on the ethnicity i'm part of a racial mixed family my wife and daughter don't want that none of us do i understand that people resist change the fact is this is a city it is dime and cities change and the mission to the irish neighborhood and the latino neighborhood now who knows it is something else maybe in 10 or 15 years i don't know

it is dangerly divisive spray panting on the sidewalk we don't need more hate and deference i've concerned this has racial overtones that obviously the proponent are not they're good people with good intentions and so i would - my parting words this is really disastrous ground to be treading a often and regardless of what recommendation you make i don't think this should one more thing that pits neighbors against neighbors that should be friends thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm edwin the developer on 15 and valencia

i'm here in support quatro we're living in times more every different countries before me we may be intentional with our solidarity and sanctuary and the quatro street is a history that latino cultural is not for sale and hyper gentrification is a danger the community has faced immigration and the high eviction rate for people that have came to this country in quatro we need to preserve the history and be a beacon of hope for people thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello commissioners my name is lynn a 20-year homeowner in the mission and

20-year residents in district 9 and proud member of quatro in 1999 i support the latino cultural district as a special use district with strong reservation and requests for modification the planning commission needs to be aware that many people in the mission oppose the special use district and many people believe that the quatro has the best of intentions with the platforms are unintentionally holding the neighborhood back in undesirable conditions we hope - other people are concerned the development of the special use district did not take into account the need for services for all families with children in the mission and only focused on gentrification those voices need to be heard by

you the city personally i'm concerned about the conditions of lower 23 violence and a lack of cleanliness and feces and requirement for people to keep their storefronts clean i'm concerned the partnership between quatro and the city along 17 year partnership has not successfully addresses the issues and have allowed sub quality of life to remain unabated i am worried about the status quo and to me that is not okay 24th street need to improve i support the special use district and ask you do i want - require that the voices of one additional neighborhood group get on board to enforce the

special use district and have a say in the matter and two please require on an annual basis the city creates a report to be transparent which businesses are allowed in and which are denied entry in quatro and third because it is so many disagreement about the quatro have 3 years not 5 to reflect whether or not it is beneficial to the district. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is david i live on harrison street about half a broke from 24 street had my house there since 1977 i also am one of the 40u67b8 of people that runs the maps in the mission district didn't qualify

as a legacy business map is totally without money every two months a cultural dent in a dozen different venues an incredible music poetry and other art forms that are performed for free and i speak as many people speak about the loss of artists in the city and in the mission district in particular san francisco was a draining of its artist is a san francisco that is losing it's soul rapidly and the mission district is many musicians and poets and visual artists and dancers live and perform and as their forced outburst by the forces of the gentrification the city is suffering badly now the special use district is mainly focused on legacy

businesses not an individual artist their directly connected i'm sure as we lose our legacy businesses we lost the character the mission district and not so much as it is a historic legacy we're trying to preserve and nutritious i ask you give your approval to the special use district thank you. >> thank you, mr. coper. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon commissioners thanks for being here i'm in support of the cultural district i've been in mission district for 45 years 40 of those as a homeowner my backward as italian-american and my family's ties to the 1930s an artist and film maker and one the co-founder of san francisco back in 1979 and would like to speak

to you as an artist the mission district as you may know is subtitling known for the culture for its murals but artistic products needs an infrastructure we this is partly provided by the arts related businesses that are in the cultural district that's exactly what the special use district will help they will help these artists related businesses on just on 24th street there's a boutique and a theatre with the boutiques and these businesses need to continue to be there we've seen what happened i'm sure you as commissioners know what is happened on van ness street in terms of the late businesses many have been lost

when it comes to the mind of the gallery that is a popular successful incremental lost her lease that the business on valencia near 22 received a $1,400 monthly rental increase i question what tail be able to do about that as we know and discussed did special use district will help the lesbians and they need to be there and be there for now and for the younger generation for the artist that are coming up that will have this kind of support so sustain to have the great murals in the mission can't have the murals without the mural i was i'm an italian-american dissent and love north beach and north beach is a special use

district and that's one of the things that helped keep it the way it is that everyone can enjoy it so i'm asking you to support the same type of things for the quatro special use district thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm a long time resident for the mission district i'm originally from columbo and have two kids in the mission for the last thirty years raising my kids i'm in support of the permit for the district i'm a latino and mixed use and we shared two cultures there is a specific question i have the question about the changing the zoning from the art

- rto oriented district to the special and how that effects long time resident like me that wants affordable housing for his kids built with my own hands and be part of the community thank you for listening. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon colorado i'm a native san franciscan i'm a kaiser baby i don't want to say how old i am but i need to remind all of us that i consider this measure i support strongly as an out growth of the programs of the great society

basically the model city agency which was had projects across the country to improve the city's and at the same time maintain the characteristics of the different special districts so i had the opportunity or the prestige of privilege of working with the model city's agency when i was a fresh in city college and had the honor to be appointed by mayor george moscone to be a model of the mission community i was honored to be part of the committee where hernandez he was the chair and i was a student and i

learned a lot by participateing because the committee had representatives from small businesses, from cultural organizations and social service organizations that was a view unique combination of organizations that were considered to be models now that was 50 years ago and what happened now is this project is the fulfillment of that dream we need cultural development we need economic development and most of all in those times we need social developments every child who comes to the

mission and learners how to read a mural and read the history benefits the same is true of the source and also the quality of life we walk slowly, we greet people can we have small stores, and it's a personal relationship so because of those reasons i strongly support this measure thank you. >> thank you, ms. colorado. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is john one of the 4 co-founders of the lower 24th street became a neighborhood and merchants association three years ago-2 and a half years ago became a cultural district but i have to say one thing one woman gave

recommendations i've been leading for the last 20 years working my butt off i've not seen her in my meeting i ask you to recommend that with full recommendations to the board and it is like i was watching on tv last night how the chinese parade got starred in 1958 they develop it because they were self-identify with who they were as chinese let us identify as latino-american not as the irish

and italian one lived in the 1800s and owned 90 percent of the land but we've not just gotten here in the desert of no place of our own and chinatown and korea town has it all north beach all we ask our own to be able to develop our own district and our own way of doing things to self-identify and be proud of ourselves and go forward mexican-americans and proud of their culture not let money influence us like people have been in the neighborhood for less than 6 years where were they when i was working hard thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm teresa imperial

from veterans equality center i am here about the establishing our association is one of the participants in creating filipino cultural no south of market and we're also planning about the filipino cultural heritage district one of the model we see that works for small businesses for community businesses so we are very much in favor of creating this district and also to touch on other previous comments when the corporations colonel to the communicated they promise retails and jobs and they give all the planning communities have businesses have been here those small businesses have been here those are not protected so if big corporations create suds

why can't the community can create suds to protect our cult and a economic development and to - also to pretty much continue our legacy not about dps non-whites versus latinos or whites versus latinos but privilege protecting our communities from the voices of capitalism which we have a small power of so this is what we see when we are trying to create suds or special use districts thank you thank you. >> mr. boca. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm born and raised federal, state, and local also a kaiser baby myself i'm

with the cocaine build the 345esh8 not the monster we're no support and mission housing on 24th street in the latino cultural district and we have residents that want to make sure that it thiefz those are indeed much needed controls one thing that is in the just about that note just about modifying conditional use authorization this is not just about jurisdiction mitigation not just about stabilizing commercial rent but turning an imperative into civic duty and openly saying we'll write the regulatory scrip you are this is about openly defined phobia by claim protections in the latino cultural district in a

gentrifying american city during the reign of a person in the white house this is has been in the works nothing exists in the silo and let the nips read not only do we have a hispanic cultural district in san francisco bull passed protection for the economic precedence in the city thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'll call additional names (calling names). >> go ahead and my name is susan i would in the mission district for 56 years and the founding director of the arts center we're seeing our 40 anniversary

that year we have i've been here long enough to see the blooming of the latino cultural district and seen it as a very inclusive community there it is a difference community and it doesn't - it doesn't exclude anyone we include everyone in the process the latino district is a beautiful district and like to see that continue to thrive and we can't do that without some of the checks and balances this ordinances offers and i want you to consider this ordinance very seriously to protect the heritage and legacy and the people that be electricity decades to make that possible to protect and to preserve our

cultural asset and our cultural businesses thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i have born and raised in the mission and live in the latino cultural district in growing up the mission district was delores park it was this big neighborhood now call it delores heights and van ness street i remember eating at jeff's a hamburger and get a milkshake for $11 the community is slung now this latino cultural district that is slung us when you look at 24th street you know, i went to york theatre and

the st. francis ice cream parlor and rooftop park is closed down which was starting in the 1800s the first mexican restaurant. >> closed two years ago i could go down the list of businesses that closed to make way for the expensive high-end businesses so pathetic what we are saying here is that it is not only about the mission district but about san francisco we are losing the heart and soul and the spirit of san francisco due to this wave of gentrification that has to be controlled and people talk about change i believe in change because a lot of things need to thank but when your displacing you know african-americans you wipe them out and promised to

bring them back and didn't as a city and looked at what going in the bay area we're not talking about the whole life it is tiny what we're asking for you need to look at the people that are here and let me say to the people that voted the mission district was native americans, i didn't hear anyone talked about the native americans the mission district grown up i grew up with irish and italians and african-americans salmons and filipinos and all kinds of latinos we all co-existed and lived together so today, i ask you just a little bit of peace of the pie save a little bit of this and.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> of latinos in san francisco thank you. >> thank you, mr. fernandez. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is mary and i'm jumping to get back to class i'm a student currently at the city college and i'm in the production and post production video class and i proposed to the students in my class an idea we're proposing ideas of highlighting quatro and there was one the top 3 topics that was voted to go on iv tv next month part of it i wanted to celebrate and honor the cultural and the legacy that is happening in the mission district and been happening in the long history and also to educate people about what a

wonderful gem for the city i think that is extremely important to know that and i think as the community that is one that when i go to japantown i don't feel less than i celebrate japanese cultural i love going to north beach i don't feel less than i celebrate italian and chinatown i don't feel less than he celebrate chinese cultural i don't understand the argument they feel lens they come to what we are prototyping the latino cultural district i hope they're feeling existed about the latino cultural my grandfather came from mexico it was extremely proud to be mexican and he instilled that in me and i i don't ever want to put someone down but at the same time, i

need to hold true to what i am and possible in celebrating the district thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon my name is berry i don't live in the mission by the sunset but 20 years ago i was the president of the merchant of market in castro and that neighborhood suffered through the.com boom and drastically changes and very, very painful times for merchant that had invested their lives and all of a sudden being confronted with astronomicalal rents and we fought back as a result people wanting to move into that area

actually come to the merchant and talk about how they can actually benefit the area and improve it for everyone we were successful i'm standing here in support of this measure today we need to celebrate our cultural diversity that is the reason so many people come here it is the basis of a lot of the economy i'm very proud to say i'm from san francisco where we have the kind of diversity that perhaps didn't exist probably anywhere else in the country thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> greetings commissioners i'm really excited to be here today, we have an opportunity to protect a unique san francisco

enclave by approving the latino cultural district this has a history of serving the latino families the latino cultural are celebrated as the chavez parade and the outstanding murals which we all cherish on the walls and mom and pop businesses create the necessities for feeding our families those priceless contribute that make us a district are fast disappointing not that along and frequented the businesses today that corridor is filled with high-end restaurants and expensive shops the latino families that were ones a familiar site have almost disappeared from the street your approval for this will protect

the mom and pop community serving businesses i urge you to vote yes on the modified commercial regulations that allows for the growth and at the same time helps the small spaces and stabilize the rents for mom and pop businesses in these a san francisco jewel and must protect and encourage it to this kind of thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm thomas ray i live in the mission right now but born in san francisco and has a very cultural heritage i'm irish my parents went to st. paul and everything evolved but what makes san francisco unique the cultural we have chinatown

and north beach we have japantown people around the world know those things yet we're taking it for granted i remember i spent a lot of time in the western edition you know and i saw that go away because no protection at all all the jazz clubs i used to attend the barbecue the businesses that employ people believe it or not these are important and got to preserve the businesses they employ people in the cultural and makes san francisco unique we're evolving and that's what i see it is sad and will valencia avenue be known 50 years from now chinatown will and all the things are important what makes san francisco what it

is thank you. >> thank you, mr. ray. >> next speaker, please. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i arrived from columbo in 1990 in the mission district and arrived i show only the latinos i wanted the mission district to be preserved and want you guys to help stopping gentrification because this is causing a lot of problems a lot of the people that identify from the mission district you know some of them got killed like you know after that he became homeless and shot by one

of the officers from the police station on 17 street and you know we want to keep the mission district a place of just no more gentrification thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello commissioners my name is paul tenant i first of all, i'd like to thank all of the city personnel especially those here from hillary ronen's office that have put in outstanding presentation to you in support of this special use district i've been a resident in the mission and within this proposed district for 40 years

i have for many years owned and operated a small manufacturing business in the bayview over the decades seen the core of our black community and middle-class dislocated to our great loss in my view i am in full support of this special district i believe the diversity of the community in the mission is for the most part i've been very fortunate in those years to have been able to buy a home so i have that security in the mission but i have to i have to tell you this is a working-class community i live in working-class housing stock and i don't know that there are a

whole love working-class families that can afford to buy this housing stock anymore so again, please you have my full support in all of this thank you. >> thank you, mr. weaver and i'll call more names (calling names). >> go ahead. >> commissioners the current situation of in the mission there are over 2000 market-rate housing in the pipeline and increasing weekly not daily there are seven hundred at least one walk distance to the cultural entrance distance with the new residents packing market represent will come an economic force that can easily transform

the mission and specifically the 24th street corridor we'll see high-end restaurant and stores replacing mom and pop businesses you have to ask yourselves do allow money unregulated market forces to determine to decide to do our planning for you about what mission district and 24th street is going to look like 3 years from now 5 years or 10 years from now are do we impact modified controls those are modest controls to at least offer protection for 40 for those in the neighborhood i think the answer is easy think i can what your answer is and my answer is the trourt was dedicated the

latino district a was designated by the board of supervisors for the city want to preserve and enhance the prominent latino working-class character the fabric had this neighborhood the creation of this special use district is the out growth of the creation of latino cultural district that's been a misrepresent year process with great deal of envision and involved the office of economic workforce development and the planning department it's been i don't know massaged through the map 2020 process and involved amuses members of the community like i said a modest proposal and in a way i see it does two things one is it is recognizing this area as special use district and from what i've heard from

people today that's speaking in and of itself that has a great deal of meaning secondly, it was modest commercial controls modest commercial controls and look at against other special use districts i think you'll agree and the third thing this is really a starting point i think that there are a number of other issues that we're going to have to deal with within the special use district thank you. >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> hi came from b.a. root my wife has - have a dream we have a business moved to 24th street for 15 years we get it two

beautiful kids michael and a girl michael is a student and my daughter i'm proud going to stanford university and i say we work hard when i arrived here to san francisco i knew the big family on trourt i didn't move to admission for 20 years i enjoy with former person a godfather of my daughter and my supply guy on trourt is option people i'm so happy how we grow we have- they give back to the community my kids they study and provide in school we work hard 16 hours a day sometimes, we pay

the school and then they work they working in 19 years and 1998 years old a program for example, any kid's work and they grow and they help you to take care of - this is amazing kids and helping on saturday and sunday i say the mission district is more than what it is it a family the cultural the family and values sometimes without money for afford a kid have you a dream working hard but the sad thing for after 15 years i have eviction in my place on 24th street my life in there who do that

how mission housing they need a place for giving a place in the new community i write right here. >> thank you. >> thank you very much mr. garcia. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is maria i've been lucky enough to live in the proposed culture district since 96 it is flat i can ride a bicycle and not get well, i didn't ride a bike on nob hill i've human i didn't dumb thank you

i'd like to is, yes i'm in huge support it is great i want it to happen i'm flufrtdz by the people that don't want it i think they're afraid we'll make them paint their houses in fun colors arrest so many barriembrl be like fresno chinatown and north beach, chinatown fisherman's wharf this is the reason people come so, now let's add the mission cultural district to it i think that is a great addition and i really hope you vote for it i'll not take my whole 3 minutes so

there. >> thank you, ms. sorenson. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is a annabel i live within the boundary of the quatro special use district i can't broadcast to be one of the founders but done my fair share of the work in the association i'm a student a community warrior a a good neighborhood i neighbor i've seen changes i've got student frustration i have witnessed the sadness and harassment of homeless, however, nothing i've seen has been as devastating as the forceful weight of the enforcement part of reality to learn the eviction of friends and neighbors and local organizations and businesses quatro offers a

careful solution community leaders crafted the - in public meeting over a couple of years of hard transparent work pardon the quatro sud is a good plan people rent for less 0 money so people could afford to operate businesses this is inclusive keeping people in the mission rather than excluding them by high-priced storefront we need them to continue to serve those of us would live and work in the neighborhood need childcare centers and more to serve our living community but the monocultural of restaurant it the opposite when we want to go to trendy restaurant we have to walk blocks further this legislation didn't impose a burden on anyone simply a clause to consider whether this is a

vibrant cultural and small town feel around quatro in closing that deliberate requirement of the use balances the needs of the characterization and community awhile accommodating the new uses that make us better thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> and i'll call additional speakers (calling names). >> hi i can use one minute my name is kate i own and operate alley cat books on 3036 street we're a legacy business as a small mom and pop business we are one rent increase away from extinction i want to continue to

support artists and writers and poets and my neighbors i support this legislation. >> thank you very much >> next speaker, please. >> afternoon i'm otis i'm a resident in the mission about a block and a half off 24th street and bought in when people were afraid to live there a lot of people talk about we have this community groups they've reached out to the community i didn't find out until i saw the signs on the street and thought it was interesting because having researched the history of the neighborhood i knew that was an indian-american neighborhood there was guaranteeing when the germany irish and italian were leaving the neighborhood gosh maybe you know what if they

adopted and keep the germany irish and italian and you know put in something oh, ugly just the same cuts the same way that ethic groups besides that i want to say there are a lot of fixtures in the neighborhood that belongs to one group or another it belongs to all people that walk the neighborhood not to one also conditional use that raise the barriers to get into anything regardless of who it is now, when i think of conditional use i think of lack of choice in the city forced to pay a lot of money at the walgreens or safeway i see if anything you raise the barriers to keep the little guys out the inside track get all these the

things and you know hey who knows what the neighbors will be in thirty years after the supervisors pushed this out of office once we need help in crime and people able to buy their own homes and need some issues the outside doors man to camp on the streets you know this is maybe trying to reranch the past that maybe to quote a former the president yesterday was yesterday we try to capture a little bit of tomorrow thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker, please. >> greetings my name is sheila i'm a mission district native born at the general hospital not kaiser and grew up at a 23 and

bryant from the port i'm not latino and in full support of quatro i see the big picture there is a difference between pushed out and leaving i'm lucky enough to live in the mission and work at the theatre a misrepresent cultural distance theatre located on 24th street and mission street and serves adults this corner has been a place for artists i myself grew up not knowing this will one day work but the business is going to be pushed out of mists 09 young people will not have the same opportunities quatro has been an amazing ally in the organizations to raise awareness they helped us security the legacy business status we found out we have on the other hand, and connect us with meta and

other businesses cultural centers and nonprofits so we can collaborate and be continue our programming that is beneficial to the community in this crazy crazy time this nation is changing and it is scarey we in san francisco as specifically the mission have a duty to stand our ground and say at least here, here money can't buy everything different a welcome and aforethought and the washer and immigrants are welcome those moderate regdz will help to secure the mission where this stays true thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is susan i'm with the plaza 16 coalition build the marble not the monster and thank all the city staffed

that working hard on that diana and sheila i know that a huge amount of effort was put into that i mean, i'll not repeat how much everyone in san francisco loves the mission and benefits from having a latino community where your white or black or asian great to have a latino community in the city what i want to see or is i've been working with the mission action plan 2020 group for over a year now and in many of the meetings we hear ero from the city staff i understand that that tools they have a limited they can't do this and that and they understand the mission district is on fire but their

tool in the toolbox is limited here a tool you can have and use i'm hoping flash assuming since the mission district is on fire i'll pick up the code and use it thank you very much. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> and. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is rick i'm also a member of the plaza 16 no monster in the mission and have an office across in the side of monster as the tenant in the red stone and association strongly support this special use district because we and 16th street feel the same gentrifying forces throughout the mission that we think this special use district on 24th street will preserve the diversity of this neighborhood will protect us on 16th street and a step to

present of the blandness in the mission and throughout the city thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is naomi sound i'm with ace californians for community empowerment and 21 year member of the mission district i won't repeat everything that has been said because everybody has said what i feel, however, what i do want to talk about is the idea of diversity as nfl the argument is huge by the people in power

it is used when people that have let them speak up for what they need and what we want you i think that is important to look at the facts that this is a small part of city but yet very vibrant and very important the fabric of this community it is a big deal the idea of diversity is often used by those who don't want to give up power and money people who need was it due to them anything else if we want to

talk about who should live here probably very few people in this room actually belonged in the land so do we want diversity i i did not want to see the businesses go the way of the fillmore the fillmore was an african-american community and i miss it i did not want to mention cultural district to go and the mission the latino cultural to go i'm filipino and i want a filipino cultural district in south of market and i i want latino cultural

district. >> thank you. >> in depth. >> my name is disciplinarian and i came to the san francisco in 67 to join the san francisco mine troop was active for 34 years until 2001 i know one thing from traveling the world capitalism if you're going to make choices for businesses in hopes of influencing have to put down the monster in new york we came back with $25,000 we mind to move into the mists renée and rebecca who become the cultural mission in nicaragua i know they

can't buy a building on trourt we can't have you white guys there i'm not speaking against controls we said as friends we'll not do that we'll find someplace else we want to treat street close by no insult to our friends not litigated not decided by governance or government there is a real danger i'll hate the district to become district 9 there is a place for all lens over there it is difficult for government in dealing with social issues is to trust the random aspect of things and provide controls aon rents or things like that and subsidies support not control i

mean this is curious a socialist i'd like to see the whole thing controlled that will not happen and not the best format but in terms of the republic of san francisco we have a difficulty we need wisdom rather than other aspects so i love the mission i have a little on south van ness and people are afraid to come down to the mission and go to noah valley with not career so we have the.com as an issue and rent control works i support not doing inclusion thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker i'll call the remainder of the speaker cards

(calling names). >> thank you. >> good afternoon planning commission i'm tony robles i'm an opportunity of the manila tinseltown heritage foundation our legacy the i hotel and a american neighborhood on carter that was chipped away and lost we know when you lose a neighborhood you lose a community that is very, very hard to bring that back i'm urging to as in favor speaking for myself speaking in favor of the 24th street and working in coalition to establish the filipino cultural district in south of market that is something that gathering steam and people are actively involved in the community process again, i building that is really

a matter of cultural equity and maintaining a distinct favor in diversity as the previous speaker said we live in a capitalism society it don't make no damn difference we're here to say that's not so we the fact not cultural equity we have to establish those cultural district to begin with so i believe it as step in the right direction and it has my full support as being the on behalf of my organization manila town heritage foundation thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello commissioners. i'm

sharon from i'm a mission artist and part of cultural coalition and involved with the cultural network we've seen times hundreds of studios leaving the mission dance studios a crisis in our culture and have saviors things our mayor has said that is important for us the local activists to join with city officials i agree and glad the mayor's office is behind supporting quatro because this is a place hopefully where the activists what count on your support the nation appears to be defending all lives matter known

as for white supremacists and we as one of the beacons of astronomers and social activism and things in the world need to stand up and take action and say we have lost many communities within the city through inaction and the slow mo' magic government meant the closing for the loss of one of our major community resources the modern times bookings on 24th street and as you've heard rooftop park couldn't get hundreds of community members have left the sierra club can't afford to be

here and hopefully insighting against the course of nation right now we need to stand up that is one of the few things to act now and as a creative artist in the city it is time for us to depend on you as our representatives to start fighting for us for the community not for corporate interests for us you can release us to do what we do nation wide for tolerance and community this is the best protection the support of our cultural diversity not codifying you know not allowing for growth and change it is saying we respect and we value our culture and diversity and our community as a city and that is one place to put down our foot and say yes,

it didn't doesn't matter ever change to make the best decision. >> thank you, ma'am, your time is up. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is arnold blue i'm a resident of the mission district no monster in the mission the marble we'll tell you about the marble soon i have so much to say i can't do it in 3 minutes i think i'm pretty much you'll vote for this i think that is super common sense and a moderate proposal it should pass unanimously we know it will but it is a teacherable momentum a lot of the folks in the country and city need a

history lesson about yeah, but let me just rattle some things off all lives matter not a black history month because no white history month there is more a whole bunch of these ; right? a no black history month and no latino cultural district because not a culture district for everyone else we have this thyself community and also i hear all well stuff i hear the 3/4ths is 3w4rig9d 24th street raise your hand if you think that 3/4ths is not one of the most vibrant beautiful commercial cords you've ever seen in our lifetime it is one

of the most unique and special commercial corridors i've traveled to many cities all around the world and 24th street is beautiful i've heard the word those folks representing the quarter are decertify this community is in the decertify i know their welcoming and embraced the folks in the community all they say let them hang onto a little bit of cultural district if you're like me you were shocked and inferior i cannot by the easement granted to the pipeline you think to yourselves

are we going going to keep cheating the medical examiners and keep taking their land are we never going to learn that's the same thing with the latino community will they ever learn. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> >> hi commissioners my name is mary part of the community organizer and 16 coalition build the michael not the monster although with the historic community in san francisco since the 1800s we've been here a while i was on trourt next to the mural and lived there most of my life apple st. peter's church and if

this mural remind 33 me we had to fight and keep the life hood of the community and tland and cultural appropriation we get to celebrate our culture with this and not fear we'll losses that two my friend came from other country and felt they had to assimilate those businesses that have held down and making me who i am today, i have the mission to thank for that i'm sure you chinatown and north beach and any other neighborhoods are grateful to have this culture where they would have lost it otherwise i also hope the filipino community and many other

communities that are looking for special use districts to keep their culture get f that i know how important to keep that we want a place we belong and call home while we're displaced in our homes almost everyday and just last week to folks who have said the folks who have advocated all lives matter thank you for reminding me and being here in san francisco that's the same stuff that tells us who we are and not hide so the folks in the room that are spouting and being deverify - and lastly because i live on 24th street 24th street is one the safety

place of people of color so for those who feel unsafe that's the only place considering the place a heightened police presence and - i want to support that special use district and just show my part of being a latino ♪ district thank you >> thank you, mr. ramirez. >> good afternoon, commissioners mission resident and like to say that in the country been here 17 years ago and i came to the mists because my english was i don't speak english so i felt safe and not isolated i think this is a situation so for the chinese community and filipino and every community with all the

contributes that the latino has made to san francisco i don't know why we're not having a latino cultural district i hope we have more resources to prevent displacement and for latinos a small business owner - started hiring people from places i hope we have more money for the programs to have jobs - and i hope this latinos nominations is provide for money more affordable housing for working-class people that are displaced in the mission i don't want to repeat but as someone that has been in the mission worked for a nonprofit and part of the coalition build the marble not the monster i support this thank you. >> thank you. >> and two additional speakers

(calling names). >> go ahead mr. hoe. >> i'll be quick i'm half italian and celebrate we have north beach and chinatown and hoping to celebrate that weep have the latino cultural district welcomed by mission residents of all gender and cultural and i thank them as my brothers and sisters i heard comments today about racism and distinction and crime and uncleanliness and that sort of thing i that we all know that's code for gentrifiers that want the mission to go i'll call it down down at a much more rapidly

pace than now we have to fight so i also want to thank deanna and the city folks that are worked tooifrls over years putting together a very good program here you know, i wish it was larger in physical scope and in protections but i believe they've done an excellent job of balancing and providing tools for the protection of this community thank you thank you, thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is ann i can't i was born and raised in san francisco i'm a fourth-generation san franciscan i'm from the mission district i was baptized st. peter i'm 41 enrolled and live on shaerlz an

american historian i'm in support of quatro i've seen many changes to any neighborhood there are less families, there are less retailer and restaurants with affordable prices i make it that to the frequent all the lesbians i go to (calling names) for food and produce and la palm and thankful for galleries and the exhibitions one the problems with the rapid changes is the loss of memory and history i mediated people in san francisco that think that is amazing i was born in san francisco that's unfortunately there many people in high school that cannot afford to live in san francisco i don't have as many people to say what it is like to go to high school where i did they have to live in other

places my mom and i are in support of quatro we love san francisco and want to stay in san francisco and in support of keeping the unique thinks of our home the mission thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon corey smith on behalf of the housing coalition. i think we're guilty of it and guilty nationally is they do a great job of speaking about the problems we're trying to solve overtime we're shooting towards end we get lost in the path of how we get interest there are better solution we're trying to match up i read an article in october of gangs of city hall

did a wonderful job of talking about the moderates but came they expense of the current resident it - i know i fall on the side i think about the future and what is coming next one of the examples i'd like to use the state of california has to accommodate a population the size of los angeles over the next 8 years and next 8 years following that we've been involved in the magnificent conversations the pain and what is going on no denying that what has happened really, really unfortunate so we don't want to discount that in any way people are hurt as a general rule and support transit oriented housing basic urban housing

that said we're not 9 only ones we can completely understand and expect those factors we need to be weigh as policymakers you get to figure out which problems to solve which is more important and gray always but an interesting dilemma we have the opportunity to work together to halt displacement within the mission district to support the creation of housing in the outlying neighborhood in san francisco and in the regional as a whole one of our favorite cities south and data from uc berkley karen chapels report about displacement. >> - the independent reports from the california - almost.

>> from the legislative analytical office shows the same thing it basically says that areas have the highest levels of - we're not agree on everything i'll hope and look forward to working with you passionate people to move forward and one of the ways to do that together a building housing in the outlying neighborhood of san francisco thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi good afternoon. i'm a 47 year resident of the mission district in san francisco san francisco is the international city has it's famed cult community and i grew up in the mission in the place people are talking about not family-friendly because it was family-friendly that place was community

friendly that place has given me the values that i hold today personally i would never ever, ever go into that anyone else's community to try to change that you because my momma taught we when you go into the other people's homes you be respectful and celebrate. >> thankful for the hospitality that he people provide you i'll never do that and that's what is happening people are come in and trying to change what we created and this one's was mexico by the way, you know i'm a commissioner only ocii and some of the language that i have researched when ocii would back in when this was created the language of blight and cleanliness was the same language that justin herman talked about when they looked at

urban renewal i wish we would have protected the cultural richness of the fillmore those who oppose this proposal have an interesting i've been using the same language there's blight they're afraid not safe not clean or say we want more diversity which means the less of us those are code words that our current president is using against other people as a gay latino i see if many understandably and sorry for people probation officer bought it maybe their reality agents told them your investment is in communities our investment is in the people of this

district and in that latino cultural district so i ask please support this thoughtful and engaged program and proposal that is before you today thank you, thank you. >> good afternoon you commissioners i'm a organizer with the people demand economic right we wholeheartedly 100 percent support this and the regulation and support this amazing organizing drive that has been going on for years and you know, i think you know what can i say that's not been said the mission district the immigrant entry point and continues to be continue that we want to sustain that and nurture and grow it those regulations are not a

photo of picture of some by gone area but regulations to protect and nurture our now generation also our next generation of entreprenu7ers of the community members - those generations of families that sustain those communities through the blood shed and the hard times we're not trying to take a picture or photo of some by gone era or some by gone population folks we're still here and we're still hanging on and we're struggling, and other parts we're thriving but we need those regulations so we can continue nurturing so our families can thrive so can

be open and welcoming place but we have to community-based beyond the rhetoric of displacement and rhetoric of equitable policies that's your job as commissioners so we support it and i hope you vote for it thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is eric i'm the president of the quatro cultural be district i'm a 55 year residents in the mission and own my property i was raise in a family of small businesses on 22 street and on 26 and valencia and it was a bad location so i experience and what they're

going through now those regulations i think are very moderate some of the things that it wasn't entailed to do to encourage you know more mom and pop businesses to stabilize the rents on 24th street and preserve smaller spaces and retain local hiring and products and services for the local community i also quickly want to read a letter from a sister in chinatown dear commissioners on behalf of the child center i rise in the port of cultural go mission district as we hold on the fabric and rich history of the latino community but has been under continent threat the chinatown zoning mixed use deposited in 1986 we are aware

of the thoughtful zoning to help the fabric and small businesses the quatro special use district so better control happened neighborhood change in a way that effects small businesses and consistent with the planning code chinatown and the mission district have two vibrant immigrant neighborhoods that continue to make san francisco great and the forces are in vital places that's why in that important thing we urge you to uphold the quatro special use district thank you thank you. >> is there any additional public comment on item number ten the quatro special use distri district. >> we'll close public comment and thank you open up to commissioner questions or comments. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> thank you, everybody for

the great testimony you gave you wrote a lot of notes from a far away place i hope i make sense i read the staff report and i actually see a few people i've met before in my term as a commissioner resonated on my first week as commissioner i went to a plaza 16 meeting and sir, was part of the meeting and the folks in the meeting were telling me what they wanted me to see in the mission and wanted to have change and wanted the city to you know work with them on the process and said have you gone to the neighborhood cac and spark he said uncle open that committee and start organizing dude between the city process within the legislative branch and executive branch do what you

can do put prop i on the ballot they worked with the system and now they have worked with the mayor's office and supervisors especially supervisor ronen the department and city attorney within the process to get this modest piece of solutions in the map 2020 overall solution i really applaud everyone for doing that now on the specifics i'll pull the staff report up i made notes that resonated with me neighborhood page 4 legacy business the neighborhood corridors character is greatly influenced by retails and institutions the establishment play the identity collar landmarks i look at cellist variety store

and they went out of business after 85 years we had the upper market and keiffer person telling me he thought that was a good i wish our neighborhood had that the first one our number was obliterated i started this in any neighborhood we looked solutions this is one kind of the tool in the toolbox as someone said something to do to actually try to achieve the other page 5 a neighborhood commercial corridor is influenced by the size and scale of the institution establishment for storefronts and provide a sense of scale and eye and the

human - attracts i started this hearing, talking about the vacancies in my neighborhood we add more and more retail use on ta on top of the floor plates the small businesses are doing well on noah valley street we carved out a bank of the west development we put in a 5 hundred square feet it is planning the character the neighborhood cvs is out of business and those small businesses are there i go to a unique street has businesses lined up on the streets and ones in the western edition and probable in an african-american district i don't know if it is pretty much the rest of the western edition those days someone brought that up as well the uses of development should compliment the catholic the fact

that we're tailoring the entitlements to specific criteria around legacy businesses which by the way, prop j was passed that started the small business registry thirty businesses are eligible only 4 to the best of my knowledge have been certified but focused on those that criteria it is acceptable the rooftop park park no longer there and the thing that sold me on being able to punish page 17 of the staffs presentation we have a have an art gallery not special permission and a booking or sorry a coffee meet and a personal service go to a

computer store i'll not come here for that on the displaced legacy businesses we voters in san francisco recognition is unique to san francisco fly all around the world in the u.s. no place like this it is chinatown if so north beach and hopefully quatro that make this city special and really worth modest regulation to support it rather than preserve support a couple of more thoughts often some of the public comment you, you know even those folks have been coming here month to month and there are other people come and say this was an irish and italian neighborhood one time they left on they're on accord to go to daily city the

people in the sullen patch are going to be pushed out i witnessed van ness street in the 90s and thought i was a lot stupider and thought that was a great thing make van ness street a playground for a white kid from pennsylvania and look at it now it was you know a bunch of high-end restaurant and fell fast some of the last businesses are getting evicted there so it is kind of in my opinion a flaw of where we don't want to go small business said something about inside the structure as not clean i have no idea where that comes from i think if quatro and the neighborhood want to clean you were the neighborhood clean up the castro they did it at us bank and

helped the neighborhood out you know improved the image - just a second here's a word to me a double speak for was it wrong with some of the arguments the word choice when someone says i want choice they're putting their individual freedom over what is good for the community we hear a stabbings want to go in i want choice to go to get my coffee i don't care if it puts all the other businesses out of business and sanitize my business looks like atlanta when i hear choice the hair on the basically, my neck goes up i see we have historic

district they're about physical structures cultural district are about businesses and the people that actually inhabit those districts this is one that is living not just safe people mentioned hey, let's try to allow a lot of growth and mr. smith i was hesitant he talked about the version of what they think actually, i thought that was a murder and really welcoming and open dialogue and people get together and talk that is rear those days we have new development and told people and businesses let us do our social experiment you get out of the way and we'll bring you back i don't think we talked about with density bonus program and relocations of business is a

good idea once they're gone they're gone you can't bring them back a lot of time goes by and once they go to antioch they're not coming back so for all the disconnected thoughts he strongly support this and think that is a good social outcome for the city. >> thanks commissioner johnson. >> okay thank you thank you to everyone that came out and thank you to the staff and thank you, again to all the community members across commissioner vice president richards starting about the same time we interacted with that issue in some way i want to start some of my comments so they'll be smiling at this. >> sometimes as a commissioner

that is challenging because even for businesses that have a lot of people involved we may know that something is happening but really only get the details sometime 14 days before the hearing and the tools are comments that we spent a lot of time and are up and down vote to recommend something or approve something i want to start my comments i have a lot of issues with the way it was put together and i think there are some i don't know what we see before me achieves the goals that everyone wants to see and maybe there might be further recommendations we can put forward to the board of supervisors to think about but what i see here i don't personally see that it achieves

the goals we want to what i'm i heard in public comment and from the staff report and discussions about map 2020 that want to actually someone put that best in the communities and have economic perseverance for the businesses and the latino cultural district and defend against gentrification and maintain the ability particularly for latino but for anyone else that wants to open a small business that you know don't have to be backed by big money and contribute to the culture that's what we want but not necessarily see what we have here gets us there honestly obviously this measure you can changes the small acquisition program we we need more the city to have first

right of refusal to extend leases for legacy businesses we need commercial we can't have rent control but that will keep a few people here they are saying some people are with only rent away from eviction none of this helps that problem absolutely nothing i'm reilly changed when i came in today oh, my gosh this will be terrible and today is the day i think we'll continue the discussions whether or not we want to make recommendations but as it is written i have to use you know my not supportive but to make the board of supervisors making sure we are achieving the goals and this is actually something that can be put into action and specific comments i hope there will be conversation here i can potentially change my

mind or proven wrong so appreciate that the differences will be encouraged to get as a legacy businesses commissioner vice president richards pointed out there are 4 businesses in the corridor that are legacy businesses and 22 that based on their history and the information we know of could be on the list i certainly hope they're able to make that and also the other part of property tax there are for smaller 8 hundred square feet businesses 36 hundred for the landlord and 5 or 6 employees and 26 thousand for or 35 hundred for tenant so i hope that that had been useful i think that is over a number of businesses that contribute to the district but would it that considered legacy businesses bus the legacy business you have to

have been open for thirty years there are a number of smaller sites smaller commercial organizations and institutions that have not been around for thirty years but contribute to the latino cultural district and that's the only criteria we want to have. >> speaking of criterion when i go down the list of the cu requirements i have a number of questions and i'll go down my questions and hopefully again, they, be answered by staff and are we proven wrong so the first one goes for let me just get to page 7 where those are all listed i'm assuming what is on page 7 are the 6 additional understanding for a cu. >> it is a summary not the

exact but the summary per the statements yeah. >> i get it. >> i'm assuming one more time sorry diego that the projects that needs the cu that requires those additional 6 finding in summary will have to meet 4 of 6 of them. >> as it is written yes. >> perfect i think that is something that again, this is get into the weeds overall i a agreeing in summary when you have a project that has to meet 4 of the 6 i'm thinking of the examples they need a cu because it is either. >> merger taking over a legacy business closed less than 3 years or a medical service of the types of projects which ones meet the 4 of 6 and challenged how we would make those finding

make the findings that are here you can stand up and maybe you can. >> one that have the clarity all cus need to make the finding not just the additional 3. >> okay. that's okay i don't understand that from the staff report helpful. >> any spaces needing a cu regardless of a new one we are changing or adding additional projects that needs a cu even the ones that needs to meet the requirement okay. >> i'll go down the list and maybe talk about them one by one enhancing the character where will go resee the improvements and how and how can that be implemented and finish all 6 and answer for number one i just - this is not - this was

triggered by the fact that the japantown sud wasz was referenced in the staff report i like the japantown sud and like what we did with north beach and had projects in japantown that came up and specifically a pool and there are a couple of residential projects we had people that were involved in the creation of sud japantown and say that some of the structure thought how the aesthetics for those projects made that challenging for new businesses to come in and in retrofit were strong not that i agree but can you see me to want more detail what we mean and as a commission determine whether or not a project is enhancing preserving or enhancing this through physical improvement for new

businesses changes to the facade that is necessary highway will we be determining that. >> the second one the artists production of offering i'm totally in support i question it especially, if we're talking about a space that is smaller but 8 hundred square feet a small business and they're not their primary type of businesses business what examples will are we have they're supporting it through public art requirement eir a new mural or some other additions to artists in the area he i'd like to have details how any given project coming to us is meeting that line the third one preserving the legacy businesses to the quatro

district that one i don't have an issue but who is going to meet that if you are replacing a legacy business it seems like we have a - i wonder who meets that; right? getting a cu and presumably a new better to be safe than sorry business or institution they're not preserving a legacy business unless we mean something else and this is i'm speaking of your we have cus and clear on the findings and the next one preserving the goods and services inform to a wide range of residents i agree and wholeheartedly support it but again getting to how are we - what will be given to us to know they're meeting that bar and what's going to be the

enforcement on that so i read wide range of residents as among many things affordable how will we mandate that with price list and a business has to raise prices to stay open will they be in reach of that finding of the cu i wonder about this forming partnerships are local institutions again high-level what i'm and when it comes to institutions what counts so when i think of the coronation of members that are part of putting this together - they've got

goals and a legitimate group will re have thought that they were coming together what's the line of the partnerships you exist so we can approve or disapprove and next local residents to me that means a lot of things and i'm again for it i'm thinking full-scale the projects that come to us what will we prove that is happening does that mean you're hiring locally if you are i mean not pdr really in the cu district there but would you have training again, i just need for specificity or we're putting in place the cu a permit a license something that

the planning commission takes seriously i don't know how i'll know that 4 of 6 of these have been met for the projects and then finally and go back but skip out the comments i feel i've been talking a lot i have a problem with one area of enforcement i agree with the headlines we're going for so the staff report may noted that the same type of not a way for the department to be informed and enforces if this is a legacy business that is closings the business and closing the store nothing about the building code or planning code getting an additional permit the only way to enforce if it is a lesbian on a registry that will have presumably and add the t.i.d.

but a change the staff report wouldn't know unless someone in the neighborhood told the planning department and it is an enforcement thing i don't know if i can enforce this on people keeping an eye on that. >> in my given situation i'm pope hoping people will be fair but the system will be set up for uneven treatment you know people could be targeted if their thought of as that operator or their business is not preserving helping neighborhood character and other businesses that perspective is not there and no enforcement again on the same types of changes and unless have an objective way to let the department know those changes in

i guess in operatorship are changing operator. >> operator i'm really challenged by that and don't necessarily need an answer sitting up here right now we'll not maybe get an answer but hopefully the board of supervisors will take into consideration and maybe go back to the comments about the cu. >> we'll go way the first one not too a lot long ago at the formally encompassed this kind of continue i'm thinking the abuse that was shown on the presentation there was a significant sign where which was preserved and it was part of condition of approval something like that has happened and as mentioned painting a mural on

the or i'm sorry. i'm looking at the wrong one but renovating a storefront configuration has to do with with the some sort of retail expansion period this has been looked at the could be other sort of physical improvement easy for us i'll say to identify the second one would be this also happened happens at the pie the operator hangs artwork from local artist and here allow an artist to pant a mural or participate in the walks that was something that was mentions in public comment this is a long-standing 11 years of more or less aspect to the art and the third one i agree right off

the bat you'll be able to meet the legacy business if for some reason a change of plan requires a cu for example, if you want to expand you want to merge that as cu that's one way to make that we are preserving the viability the fourth one also happened to actually, it happened has chicken pie something where a children menu is offered family nights and offer a new goods and services you can continue the operation or reinvest in the tenant improvement in the legacy business and as the case report mentioned some to your point of enforcement are out of the realm of what we do this is why we are relying on the partners and the macy's and other agencies to

help us with enforcement on this well the sud recognizes this is something that happens on the corridor for example, a jewelry store that invites other artists that is building a partnership with other artists you could provide goods and services to other vendors and be on the ref and giving end and offer space in an establishment or services at the local vendor or coordinate sales and the last one we'll be relying on the mayor's office of economic workforce development to help to facilitate hiring agreement and mou that type of thing we understand on some of them the planning department is what we do for enforcement on some of

those it is novel we try different things in the district we asking other agencies to help us with - i agree there are issues with the tenant to tenant changes we acknowledge that we're going e doing everything we can we don't necessarily i don't have a solution or - would you like me to comment more or? >> the office of economic workforce development so on the issue of how are we going to see about enforcement one case that i saw similar to say selling retail goods up front right now a neighborhood commercial district; right? one business that has other providers using

their kitchens like an economic partnership; right? part of that to get a license they have a sell goods and services at the storefront otherwise that is something else on a you know how will you moderate that over time this is an example of how one of the things right now is currently regulated someone has to a go by and and complaint half a had the planning department had to go out there and show me the goods and services are there. >> it is difficult i think that is at times challenging but one of the examples i can think of similar to the proposals to enforcement and working together we are very much on the ground in terms of our office and work looking at the trend and things happening in the neighborhood i know that that is another way to provide and sure and help our

goals for businesses to be part of neighborhoods our goals for them to be in compliance and some of those are big by nature we want the businesses to be able to prop and fit their model and tell us how they can be helped and contributing back an opportunity to contribute back to the neighborhood and want them to tell you the japantown the purposes you must be in compliance with the japantown or not be guidance this is valuable here we're trying to create categories of how this applies not just with the cultural aspects but the characterization that goes beyond the workforce those these things that exist that businesses are doing that's why that's how we formulate it

those purposes is in an forest effort to the spirit ivy do actually have to your earlier question i have answers to our earlier questions i have provided to slide in the packet only one tool of many i can go into that when you're ready for me. >> yeah. one second. >> so thank you for the answers on the requirement i think that got to 75 percent that was helpful maybe the answer is not for us 3 out of 4 i challenge with the planning department and the planning commission setting conditions on a business that we are not able

to verify at this time so for example, when you're talking about employment and workforce training i'm highly aware of the mayor's office of economic workforce development fantastic staff fantastic lots of programs and don't fear there will be my lack of effort but having been involved in trying to get workforce training and hire local hire and tax credits through the city with the ymca and the hotel it is very hard and only requires the best effort so i'm really challenged to have that be a condition of authorization under a cu when this is not something we can verify at the time of a hearing and at the end of the day, we can't even guarantee that will happen because the best is require best efforts. >> commissioner can you jump

in here. >> the issues your raised are actually sole correct in the sense we're creating a set of criteria for shaping businesses in the district that are going to be challenging to review and are going to be challenging to enforce none denies that we've been back and forth quite a few months and more specific and less specific i guess the bottom line for the department and the reason we recommend approval on this we think that by creating this mechanism for some additional level of review and requiring commission review that helps us identify businesses that clearly are not within the keeping of what is going on; right? it is easier to identify businesses that will not be in keeping with

this i will argue because of process requiring the cu that there will be more scrutiny in the neighborhood and staff level and commission level we can address some of the facility issues i'm not convinced that is clearly not going to address all the issues on 24th street there is a moderate recommendation and many issues and in fact, some that have the issues you brought about the first street are issues embedded in the map 2020 proposal we're exploring so i guess my only point this is experiment alisa miller and map 2020 i believe that is worth doing that will help us add a

level of securicrutiny ivy hope goes forward i think that will and my comments are so strong i believe that something like that is needed and to protect the businesses to make sure we are not spending all the effort on things we see cus we can't achieve goals case by case we'll be getting into the weeds and had the right ability to make sure we are getting what we want that's all and thank you very much. >> appreciate it thank you. >> thank you commissioner melgar. >> thank you and thank you

i have lived and/or worked around the admission lived here my whole life and i am going to support this this is needed i do wish that was stronger i do wish there was a connection between what needs addressing and what we're doing to address it we're clear in more enforceable be that as it may it is important because a experimental step to put something on the books i think that 5 year report back here is great i wouldn't make that shorter except if we you know needed to - if it clearly is not working i think that you know the

retaining and enhancing and prompting the things we want to do will take enforcement and will take neighborhoods vigilance if i am a impact fee about history and a admire of chinatown how they came together in the 80's to do what we did we have chinatown because of the merchant that work togethered it took neighborhood organizing not just you know planning and enforcement it took everyone together to get that preserved i think that that is an opportunity for us to do the same on 24th street this is a first of a lot of the work that still needs to be done and to your comments about the small site program acquisition program and needs some other

support that are real in terms of economics of a business on 24th street we also have to do that as well that didn't come unfortunately, we, work hand in hand but the goals we're achieving is achieved and lastly could not let some of the comments go by that equates latino businesses to the lack of cleanliness that bumped me out that is flat out racist i have to say i'm glad that folks came out and spoke i appreciate the communities involvement and be supporting this. >> thank you i too am supportive i think that we've been here a lot talking about projects and plans in the mission how we can battle some

of the facility issues of affordability and gentrification but i agree think outside the box this twurt as commissioner melgar said a special corridor whatever we can do to preserve it i think things like keeping the store size small is a great way to maintain the businesses that are there so i think this is great we had some of the same questions commissioner johnson when you did the japantown how that worked and i'm sure not perfect but it gives the neighbors and the merchant and community kind of a hook in if process unable to determine how the business corridor grows and evolves this is one tool we'll

see anothers coming down the legacy businesses will be able to get fund and support from the city and be under the commercial rent control and evolve into something i think that is a great first step and extremely supportive. >> commissioner moore. >> today is the day the ninth circuit is halting the immigration ban this is. >> (clapping.) >> to basically, that's not an commissioner hasz applause to be the ninth credibility but the qualification of the latino voice we've been working on this on specific projects on jell policy statements for more than 3 empowers i appreciate the directors saying to use it is a experimental nature requires all of us to basically each time a

project come forward to roll up our sleeve we together can develop the tools that ultimately make that tool that exists in north beach that exist in nancy pelosi and north beach and chinatown and soma fight for the interpretation of their corridors this is just a beginning to today is the day i make a motion to approve. >> second. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> just a couple of quick points as commissioner johnson was talking you said you wanted to be proved wrong up want to persuade you and piggybacking off of commissioner moore's comments we're trying new ground we want to allow for creativity this gives us that we'll learn and this is a proposal to us so we can know when we think that

is unbound. >> out-of-bounds it is going to be a little bit more work i'm willing to go down this road a tenant to tenants issue allows for we don't want to freeze everything but allow for change and other portion that requires a higher level of scrutiny i've persuaded. >> commissioner moore. >> i don't think we have of time and not a moment just yesterday, i read an article i forgot to mention a few blocks on thirty 14 and 26 street one block out of 26 street outside of the boundary a hundred and 61 square feet zero bedroom unit

that is selling for $499,000 a wonderful first square feet cost of one thousand plus square feet dollars per square feet those things are harboring at the edge of this board i'll hand this out for you to see i'll leave it at that. >> commissioner johnson. >> okay let me ask mr. sanchez a question or two we talked about experimentation for us and the general public comment what happened at the end of the 5 year look back and/or that is challenging for us to adjudicate some of the fees what's the process to adjust our finding are the programs we're talking about here. >> well, we'll do propose legislation to fine-tune if

things are not working we'll justify adjusting to take away a cu or add a cu or remove that's the purpose of you know it is a intern process it is experimental. >> okay. >> just to be clear we don't have to wait 5 years if something is not working 5 percent. >> you'll see that with a proposal to fix it. >> i want to throw out there and staff probably will not be happy with adding more work but i think that the thing within the 5 year period as projects come to you and as we learn about the criteria the commission has it's own policy to further interpret those you could employ or adopt those to give for directions to the

community and department those those criteria will be interpreted. >> a final question for the director so some of the comments i said here today, if i were to support this can question communicate that to the board of supervisors i did not get into we talked about the whole calculation of restaurants in a radius to get it percentage we talked about polk street mcd and there were multiple conversations how much challenging for staff to run those calculations sometimes, i want to make sure we are not replicating and challenging this - >> sure so this will be the same process that staff will have to do whenever a restaurant eating and drink use that requires a cu right now they need to do do three hundred feet and check for the 25 hundred

threshold run the city calculations okay. >> all right. >> and then in terms of my comment with the mcd adding a summary for the board of supervisors. >> i think that will be done through the resolution i reference of referred referred to the a - >> you present the opinions and the discussion that happens. >> okay. >> that's important to do that. >> okay. >> thank you so again, thank you to the city staff and director rahaim i know you've been involved in forming the policy and thank you very much. we see a lot of familiar faces you've been here for years in the mission we know that is hard

working and talking about formulating policies we appreciate everyone's involvement. >> indeed. >> commissioners there is a motion that has been seconded to deposit the recommendation for approval. >> will you be accepting supervisor ronen's suggestion that she mentioned at the end if they choose to include the exemption for a change of use for a change ever restaurants. >> accept that change. >> as amended regarding do limited restaurant amendments submitted by supervisor ronen commissioner johnson. >> commissioner koppel

commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. >> (clapping.) >> thank you yeah, the commission will take a 15 minute break. >> good evening and go welcome back to the san francisco planning commission regularly hear 2017, i'd like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. commissioners, we left off on item 11 for case 1101 van ness avenue this is conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm chris at the planning department staff and the item before you is a conditional use authorization to allow the adjacent mc-3 for 0 the installation of 3

identifying wall signs on the camtc hospital building at 1101 van ness avenue the project sponsor proposes so have 3 signs with the maximum height and street frontage in planning code section for signs in the rc-4, however, the planning code section other peoples that community needs are different if hospital and medical centers in our district and allows the use of mc-3 more across the street in mc districts across the street from an 34508 and the commission in serving the signs made permit signs that steady the stated standard to meet community needs for accurately identified medical institutions

with the exemption of flash lights and moving signs are prohibited as property on the corner of geary and franklin and post street and franklin street identify the hospital and the emergency department entrance and on critical corners four is hospital and multiple pedestrian approaches to the building in emergency situations and both of the signs exceed the rc-4 on behalf of curve per section sign number 18 as property is critical for identifying the public brans entrance ab on post street exceeds the street front in combination with 22 along polk street the the metal and panel system and consistent many

color and today, the department that receives one e-mail from the public if the folks on behalf of the nob hill association the project sponsor has met with the members of that neighborhood and residents of daniel court several times the neighbors major concerns was a brittleness of sign the project sponsor will dim the signs and involve the neighborhood when we finally list the light level the project sponsor also reduced the size of a couple of signs per the neighborhood associations request to alleviate the concerns pertaining to the conditional use authorization and ms. morgan has sent a letter of support dated january 20th following revisions in the packet the department finds it

necessary and desirable and compatible and recommends you approve that with conditions for the following reasons one the project will provide additional identification for the buildings approved for conduct and not affect the overall design the building and two the project will approve the traffic around the hospital by more clearing identifying the hospital and the emergency department from a distance and much vehicular and pedestrian approaches and 3 it meets all the requirement of planning code and is consistent with relative olympics of general plan this that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions as well as the pardon. >> thank you, ms. alexander project sponsor 5 minutes if you like to present at this time. >> they.

>> the speaker card a nike part of project team your this fine great my additional so we'll open up for public comment my any public comment on this item? >> seeing none, none public comment is closed. and open up for commissioners commissioner moore. >> the applicant has gotten a number of challenges by the neighborhood since the project has different zones across the street a senior living facility the questions raised by the communicated community were probing questions i attended one the meetings at this time the puc property it was in the same page an independent piece of powerful what is in front of

u.s.s. not complies with the code deadly with a very large building i believe that the general discussion has changed the as i understand in a manner that are compatible with the setting that occupies not just the large lot but also building by which by size are typical for the area for that reason i think the signage in the very targeted location is appropriate and i'm in support the question i'd like to ask the department director rahaim is it will be interesting to said the building from a large context of the other approvals in the general areas the streetscape plan the brt of the historic land pools and new fixtures including do moment signs on the sidewalk approved

by puc i've asked the applicant to provide a page i think they'll be accept and expend are has sent i don't know but good for all of us a welcoming gesture to understand the questions and if this would be put at a short informational picture that would be helpful to all of us. >> was that a motion. >> yes. >> second. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded. >> commissioner johnson pursue commissioner moore commissioner melgar commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and commissioners that places us on item 12224 townsend street conditional use authorization. >> this i'm chris at the the

item before you to establish a parking garage along townsend the project sponsor, please. >> want the planning commission to approve the self-righteous and 60 on-street parking with tenant parish by valet staff the proposed hepatitis c u hours of operation will generally be from 65 m a to 7:00 p.m. and close after the special events after hours egress and ingress are not permitted the the subject property has 3 large garage doors that provides ingress and egress their vehicles that occurs on the street as a one-way street they

want the commission to approve that the condition that the first 25 feet along townsend street been mandated to be separated from the parking with a demissing wall with a commercial usage for the storefront on march 10 of 2011 which ultimately authorized the temporary parking use the commission debated whether that was appropriate the determination was made that the commissioners would like to see an active use test location but is downturn in the economy at that point, they allowed a part-time use in 5 years time needed to see a active use along the townsend frontage and future that is transparent windows that are sit what did you do along

the transit ordinance preferable student its been inevitable our article 10 and licensee listed on the designated work program we have a few phone calls regarding the project and most of correspondence has been positive regarding the conditioned use as a public parking garage two individual are pdr use instead of parking and no letters have that on submitted in indirect support or opposition to the project with that said the department finds that to be necessary and desirable and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and recommends you approve with conditions for the following reasons the project will continue to provide on-street parking in a relatively small facilities and not substantial traffic to the area or adversely affect the

traffics open an adjacent street, and, secondly, the short term parking and the unit that concludes my remarks and 3 the public parking garage will booster the restaurant bar and entertainment establishments in the area and will not affect the offeral design of the allegedly fourth a active use for the storefront along townsend student will booster the pedestrian experience and provide simplest to the surrounding neighborhood by requiring an tussles along townsend street is 2, 3, 4 keeping with a support the characteristic of the historic building which has storefront windows and 6 it mooefsdz meets autos app believable policies of the general plan that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions and the project sponsor would like to make a

presentation. >> project sponsor 5 minutes. >> just a that concludes my report. the cu the chair has the for another to modify that time. >> you don't. >> given a long day i mean. >> i hear you start at 10 i i understand. >> can i have the overhead, please? just to come we turn it on and expand it a little bit 0 it seen more clearing and start my 5 minutes thank you. >> thank you, thank you okay. >> good evening here real estate department parking operator here's the operator right behind me the parking operation has been there over 10 years and the proposal for to continue the main issue were talking about tonight is the wall i appreciate planning department

staff support of conditional use permit itself as it did 56 years ago i was here 5 years ago presenting the same case ace a consideration of putting in a wall then for reasons i understand and are valid today your commission decided not to require that wall the wall is not cheap that has improvements around the fire rated and triggers it could cost between thirty and 40 thousand and the garage activity not a retail tenant and the public will see a solidify blank wall for several years that will be a realistic project for reasons i'm talking about this will

really not happen before the entire building is redeveloped by one the development that are proposing to buy the prompt more than 5 years ago the project sponsor hsa had talked to lease the front area for other than parking and found a restaurant tenant 9 planning department felt there were too many restaurants in the area and putting in a restaurant prohibits prohibits the entire building the restaurant will operate in the first 40 feet so i report this not to blame everyone but point out there are certain situations beyond the control of owner led in the i think ability of of the an active tenant we started another 4 would be great if i had having another minute or so staff wants

to see the proposal as i mentioned so and i want for the staff request we not put in the restaurant a restaurant there today and my client questions the faster than of now requiring an active use when he had one in the past my client is questioning the fairness of the statement from staff that if this year not a wall built there one 90 days of today, the inspire garage partition will have to shut down completely it has been there over 10 years and no complaints of my kind the giants that spoke how important it was for this to stay in operation given their lack of parking that is, of course, less and less over the last few years the active use probably will be

mr. there but for the central soma delay i don't want to blame the staff the eir consultants has to do with but circumstances - the important things to remember the vendors were making did proposals today all have tussless i'd like to talk about the interior this is townsend street here this is a lobby that has to be kept there are officer on the second floor reachable through the stairs and lobby that means the spaces in the 25 feet would be on either side of the lobby one here one here given the distance of 25 feet with the wall given this is

thirty feet the facade that faces 47 do and 50 this is a space of seven hundred and 50 square feet there will be a lot of tenants and neither the parking operator nor the garage owner it interested in paying the improvements and the retail tenants will have to make their own improvements this is a shell and improve the lobby it is basically in poor condition and not much improved and fix the facade the retail facade has to look nicer than that looks over a lot of money not a retail tenant we think a wall will be here and question the wisdom of putting the wall today, people can see through and they see people parking their cars this

is not the most active use but probably than we see with the wall i appreciate your support. >> thank you. >> we'll likely have questions. >> opening it up for public comment i've got one speaker card glen. >> all right. my other speakers on this item next year seeing none, public comment is closed. >> what's the historic use it 19 it designed as a garage. >> it was built around 1935 and built overflow room in the department what confirm as as an industrial use i think energy and later before this use that was an automobile repair shop for the last automobile and that

was their prior to the period 10 years ago when the operation enhance began - the last industrial use in the history was in the mid 50s. >> thank you. >> and it was a pdr use until 5 years ago and they submitted it for a change of use for the parking use they surpassed the required 3 years to get the permit and got it last august that is a question whether they can technically the planning commission can rescind the parking use back to pdr but if you continued use this as

parking we'll keep that in place one thing he mentioned the 90 day timeline we did not request that as planning department staff that was the project sponsor that requested that they have 90 days to get if change you have use for the tussles we're not putting a deadline on that. >> i want to thank you very much for explaining that i want to spin the idea of a parking garage mr. radulovich is not here telling you we can't have parking anywhere i believe that the use is covert not even the 25 foot tussles will make that more active give that is a walkable building i started to ask myself a different question the parking garage is used with 35 independent spaces and 60 spaces in tandem.

>> can we recreate to make is an electrical car parking. >> with the giants who are now the warriors and everything else moving down it there we'll be short of parking i thought about electric charged vehicles and thinking about densification and specific cars for one smart car like the cars occupy one space you create additional capacity in what i will building a forward-looking way of creating spaces one idea to not necessarily ask for activated frontage because we have so many

rain water spaces converted in new buildings you walk down the street and look at the neighborhood at the new building not attracting retails and it didn't have much land for a proper rain water space where are the bathrooms and stock exchange can we look at the forward-looking garage that slightly does more and still look at this other continued garages i'm asking questions i've not discussed but like to have a different discussion. >> sure. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i think i agree with commissioner moore this i'll make a motion but i agree with a forward thinking comment we've talked about the dog patch use i think that will

be a perfect test case in the future if it continues on a parking facility to look at the the forward thinking the interest would automobile buses autonomous seconds to think of the buildings to pack them in closer so have the egress and ingress and not the uber's and the lyft and whatever shared vehicles type of companies that will be using those cars circling around the streets waiting for a ride but those buildings function as a locus for that reason i'm definitely in support of this and to your point commissioner moore i think once we have more of a pathway on this future of parking sort of facilities in san francisco that will probably be a legislative and regulatory change had that retroactively imply to the parking but for the

location i think that is perfect for where it is and also the experimentation with the future looking dog patch reuse scenarios to mrauft. >> if we have a empowermenttion or policy framework for the future of parking facilities in san francisco i'm titling it take that note copy writing down that would be further regulations and retroactive i'll not come up with the future of parking right now. >> i want to jump in the back of planning not having thought about that. >> forward leading yaudz can i

clarify the motion commissioner johnson's motion includes staff's recommendation for the first 25 feet active non-parking and wait a second wait for the first 25 feet will be. >> this is the first 25 feet. >> 5 feet. >> it is parking. >> huh? >> so that will be a change if okay sorry let's go back. >> staff is making the recommendations to alternate it with the first 25 feet tussles. >> okay. >> do you want to hold it. >> let's make an additional comment i thought i read that in the motion i thought that was in the motion. >> can i ask alexander a question on the tussles would that be any use or does that

have to be retail or pdr or tussles. >> active commercial use restaurants or and there's - we don't clarify as office as a tussles. >> not pdr. >> not as commercial active use. >> commissioners chime in i'll comment whatever it consistent but have a paramount frontage for active uses a list of them within the district they are somewhat limited to a narrow subset of uses that can be out loud on the ground floor pdr will be a consistent use down there so retail, etc. >> a small office.

>> no they'll not be permitted and pdr is not active but allowed under the. >> zone yeah. >> not under the recommendations it be active; is that correct. >> correct. >> so the project sponsor how far is that 25 feet. >> rick gladstone are the upper market office going back here if you look at this line here's where the wall might be at 25 feet. >> right. >> i believe the mezzanine is shown here goes here i get it. >> and end here. >> not on the other side. >> just over here and it is a bunch of small offices if in area. >> on the empowering cumber i

mean, you're argument you don't want people looking in and seeing a blank wall what are they looking now. >> they're looking and seeing parked cars and handicapping spaces and parked cars and . >> how many spaces. >> the proposal to put 8 bicycle racks people seeing people going in and out of bilk racks unless a wall there no reason to do that. >> right the bicycles you'll charge for bicycle use. >> no they're available for the community and if that's a you condition of approval not for the patrons they don't need it but the community benefits more than the code requires for parking of bikes the proposal to put in 6 to activate behind this class and the handicapping space

and valet parking here where people enter are right here so, yes this is not an tussles or tusslactive use - t code says an example of use is this angle active use no, but more active use what the - of course. >> i think the notion if there something between but wall- i like staff's recommendation but be open to modifying it for pdr use there but i think having something beyond a parked cars is kind of in the front off townsend street is important and kind of a principle we always

have here so - i'm supportive of staffs recommendation perhaps broadening it so pdr allowable use beyond the active use and commissioner vice president richards. >> what's the long term plan for this building. >> several developers have come to the owner and me in meetings with the owners and one proposal is for a hotel and the other for office the staff has told the hotel developers that they want the first 20 feet of the facade to be preserved entirely maybe 22 feet so any new development will start actively where the facade end the old facades turns and continues to 20 to 21 feet wanting the developers to keep this and build other stories in

the rear at the back but none of those developers have come down to enter into escrow. >> a question for staff if they cut off 22 feet didn't that destroy the building. >> sorry what was that. >> in the landmark program hallway but landmarked as article 10 the resources on to itself would the destruction of the first 22 feet be allowed. >> it will have to go to the historic and environmental review process they went through the process for the hotels which was the planner on this and there was have many concerns of what they're proposing but said

they'll have to go through a historic resource for the process. >> can you help me out it looks like central soma coming here you know we have already the d d i i'm sorry. i'm so tired the d dr comments they're due monday they're talking about a temporary solution and being rezoned whatever we did he think will be temporary in another 5 years so i could go either way. >> yeah. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you i was go back going to go without the staff represents to have the active frontage for all intents and purposes this seems to be temporary in central soma and stand by my comments if this

is there longer how central soma community-based organizations this is an opportunity to be a test site for some of the sort of experimental parking we should be looking at and a as a city i don't know if this will arbitrarily happen with the space cut outs is if you look at the other side of the town there is a bar right next to it to the letting left and to the right on rich i know another bar and directly across the street is the parking for safe way i'm just not certain that graduating an active frontage in this day for all intents and purposes we know will be temporary the schemes of the things really gets us anything sort of weighing for the pros and cons and seeing what staff

recommendations that's a motion. >> second. >> just for the sake of argument looking at one sites the mezzanine above look at the fad facade of this building the windows are not open and seven hundred and 50 feet of pdr could be useful to look for pdr space doesn't have to be well, pointed can be rough space. >> well, i guess. >> one side on townsend street. >> one side of the building under the mezzanine easier to build a wall.

>> yeah. >> the project sponsor says they'll accept a compromise about requiring the pdr for the quiet side of the development. >> for the clyde street and staff if you do decide to not do an active use we'll request you put a temporary approval for another 5 years instead of permanent parking. >> that's the one on the mezzanine. >> that will be acceptable to us as okay. sounds good. >> the motion to approve with the pdr space for the square footage underneath the mezzanine. >> yeah. for parking use could be pdr or retail. >> underneath the mezzanine do we know the approximate square

footage. >> if we do that lets say permanent something else that happens in the area. >> i think from the staff says we'll not do that do that another 5 years. >> is there a second to that motion i'll second that great. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i'm good. >> commissioner moore. >> i'm good. >> commissioner there is a motion that has been seconded to approve with seven hundred and 50 square feet of non-parking on the mezzanine commissioner johnson commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards and commissioner

president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and commissioners as item 13 has been continued to april 13th it places us on item 14 1183 ocean avenue this is a conditional use authorization. >> welcome. >> good afternoon commissioner president hillis and members of the commission and staff todd kennedy with the planning department staff the item before you is a request for a conditional use authorization to allow a formula retail bank wells fargo to locate in the oofgs transit zoning district that converts 2000 square feet of vacant space into a bank the sftv is on the southeast corner of oceanic and bring out ton with the signage and

exterior automated teller machine are promoted under the sections of the zoning code a conditional use authorization is required for a formula retail retail bank at this location to date the department has no comments from the public the department building this is necessary and desirable for the following reasons number one the project will improve the interior by creating an open and attractive storefront activated by the proposed business and provide the services necessary to serve the residents of neighborhoods in the area underserved by banking option and 3 it meets all autopsying believable zoning code and for the project is sdifrnl and compatible 5 that will increase the formula retail to 6 percent

one a quarter of a mile that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, mr. kennedy project sponsor 5 minutes if you need it. >> good evening commissioner president hillis and commissioners and staff i'm jim with the architecture with me 3 members of the wells fargo team if you have questions of the operation i want to thank todd kennedy for a super job it's my pleasure to work with him we accept the conditions and wells fargo is really excited to get into this neighborhood we met with the ocean avenue association and partnering with them on a mural that speaks to the commitment that wells fargo wants to make to this branch it is truly a

neighborhood branch and underserved place for banking this is outlined in the staff report so we'll really welcome the opportunity to thank you for looking at our project and considering allowing us to build. >> we have a quorum if you have my questions of me or of wells fargo we're here to answer your questions. >> is there any public comment on item 14 seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner vice president richards. >> i think this is what formula retail concentration is allowed underserved by bank. >> one comment a cut and paste error referring to some other bank i noticed it. >> wells fargo didn't notice it.

>> (laughter). >> commissioner there is a motion that has been seconded to approve that with conditions as corrected commissioner johnson commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously commissioners under your discretionary review calendar for item 153932 - 3934 26th street this is a discretionary review and just for a matter of advise to the public if anyone here for filbert street 2855 filbert street that matter has been continued. >> good evening planning commission the subject property on 471 hickory street the renovation and addition to a 3

story building that will excavate and expand the level to one of the ground floor level the proposal includes a rear edition to the two and three floors this property on the north side of 26 between sanchez and church in the rh-2 with a 3 story two plat with garage the adjacent properties in the rh-2 district adjacent neighbors and 4 neighbors across the street are concerned about the facades and light impacts on adjacent properties one neighbor has concerns the size of the unit the location is reducing a unit by 25 street and a exit and assess the filing the residential design team reviewed that and found it met the

standards for residential design guidelines and didn't present my exceptional or extraordinary where respect to light and air it is appropriate since the fourth floor is setback from the wall the project and privacy issues are within the policies to be in a denser environment the scale and massaging it appropriate it is in a mixed use character with scale and architecture the following rdt the staff made modification the walls with the downstairs unit from the garage and a 5 - enhancing the ground floor unit and making that more prominent with landscaping lighting and other architecture features

they're done and incorporated in the plans now before the planning commission and one further note the project sponsor gives further provisions to the front of the facade that was forwarded to the commissioners via e-mail undercover officer the planning department represents the commission not take discretionary review and approve as requested that concludes my presentation. >> so dr requesters and one in this case; right? jonas you have 5 minutes. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm a dr requester and live behind the project on clipper street in an apartment for the last 5 years i know the

neighborhood i remember when noah vally was a place there were hippie moms and artists i understand that change happens and i'm not against that even though i'm stereotyped to the proposed facade it out of character with the types and square footage and not meeting the rdt guidelines i don't want to stop the project but can you help me out please remove the top floor according to the architect the main windows are 50 feet away because the 12r50er8d height i'm going to lose my sunlight during the day and most of year and at night artificial light because of the windows this year is exceptional or extraordinary i live in a 1965 building that will be

approved in noah valley but lose the sun in my home the loss of sunlight for the fourth be floor addition will block the light and air also going to have all this artificial at night from the glass on the rear ironic losing light in the day and gaining it in the night. >> on page 16 of the r d g it says in the review the team didn't respond to any issue the only addressed the setback from the east side of the project number in the rear where i live and i'm the dr requester the fourth floor addition as nearly 40 feet high my windows will be below the fourth and the setback from the front of the project will not solve my the downstairs neighbor

she's got tons of sunlight and been there 2 two years again, we will lose our sunlight the only solution to get rid of the fourth floor they don't need the 5 living room of this project and call that a guest suit by my biggest concern the loss of sunlight during the day and kitchen not force to lose the vantage the sunlight this is my main source of light and my bedroom faces north and in the living room and kitchen is literally going to be compromised my wellness and make that unpleasant to live in my one bedroom apartment where i've lived for the last 12 years. >> open up for speakers in

support of the project i have several speaker cards and (calling names). >> please line up on the screen side of the room. and speak in any order thank you. >> good evening my name is a patricia i live in the property adjacent to the east 3928 a small victorian in built in 1890 and i've lived there since for

the last 34 years and raised my daughter in to home and in noah valley and a native san franciscan a lot of concerns about what is happening to the neighborhoods in the city i'm very concerned about the size of the proposed project in that that will totally dwarf my victorian i have bathroom windows and kitchen windows on the west side and also the problem with lack of light of more concern to me the facade the facade is very industrial looking very stark and angle last year and out of character with the rest of the homes phenomenon the block that makes no attempt to

take into consideration of more concern as a native san franciscan and someone that lives on the block important 34 years what that project will do to the senior of the community in noah valley and on the block what we have some developer coming in and then building a large-scale project and the developer not planning i believe to live there himself but mainly to flip it what does that do to the character of the neighborhood and do to people that want to establish roots the existing building has two units that families could live in for the proposed building has one very large unit and when one small in-law unit granted two

units but not two units that families can live if this proposal, in fact, removed one family-sized dwelling unit most people have roots they want to sense of community building this anomalous style house with a developer who didn't probably plan to live there or have an investment in living in the community really undoes the feel of the communities and making that a place where people with families, and misrepresent generational feel of the block take into consideration we need to preserve the mr. cook and communities like this so house

and maintain more families who can raise their children and have the opportunity that i had to raise my daughter in a family-friendly misrepresent generational community thanks. >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> engage my name is jason a resident on 26 street and live across the street from the proposed project i'm not here to stop the project i want to a reasonable sized home my main objection the roof deck during the preapplication meeting he expressions my concerns about the roof deck and it will negatively impacting the architects placing the shrubs

for privacy i learned the shrubs what about removed by the new buyer once the developer completes the project and raised our concern i was surprised no modification to the fourth floor height in fact, he i was shocked on the response to the dr the proposed structure increased after the notice went out to 39 feet plus only one inch below the allowable height limit i obtain because a living room and family room room on the second floor why would someone need two families unless the second living room will be an entertainment space i lived i moved there a family-friendly neighborhood and wanted to raise

my 3 young children their bedrooms faces the fourth floor and roof deck that is we don't know who will be puncturing that i don't want any children woke e woken up with partying second the fourth floor roof deck invites parties and will have a significant impact on the home and the fourth floor roof deck will increase the square footage is profit for the developer i'm not an architect or planner but this project is so magnificent in scale and not appropriate in the existing development particularly in relation to the adjacent home the project is designed aggressively and insensitive and finally regardless of numbers of

stories i don't know if my other family unit that is 39 feet 11 inches if so this project will set a precedent for future development thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners i'm here to support the dr requester and oppose the project at 3932 - 3934 26th street for one the project as the other folks testified too massive to big for this lo block and for in modest sized home and it in its current

form didn't rehabilitate the current characterization of our neighborhood, and, secondly, it stand out like a sore tumble that is against the residential design guidelines for the top debris can i have the overhead, please? as you can see by the rendition of what we're provided by the project sponsor here the building clearly stand out and much taller than the building to the left one size and the roof line progression is not followed with the height of this building. >> it seems to me the most logical thing to remove the vertical addition the top floor vertical addition not matching the roof lines and didn't follow the roof progression but pits

puts it 90 more in line with the neighborhood and direct your attention to another project that was just done a few months ago and this project is another one of those projects that are above and beyond the roof lines on 25 street as you can see in this picture it is clearly turn around the corner building as you may know the corner building is the prominent building that are supposed to stand out nightclub the project is much turn around the corner building another picture that as you can see the mass of that project is from another angle the fourth floor addition sticks out this

was brushgs but you'll make the fourth floor vertical addition and not built ♪ current form and lastly bring to your attention it is not in line with the houses on the block and not asking for a modern interpretation of the housing around the block >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> can i start. >> good evening commissioner president hillis and fellow commissioners i'm lynn i will directly across the street from the project lives there for 5

years can i have the overhead, please? i love my street it is lines with clean and traditional homes all were built before 1935 the majority before 1910 in a 45 year span in the 19 hundreds thirty out of 31 are one and two stories above the garage not a single modern home on our block first, the character and scale of the homes on the block the fourth floor is not in keeping with the blocks charm not respectfully the typography the slope and meets no guidelines an scale and either the street or with the adjacent building not only will that dominate over the victorian homes about alter the gentle slope and conflict with the street facade

the projects 3 level unit is over 4 thousand square feet the average square footage on both sides of 16 street are 11 hundred and 50 square feet to the proposed unit is almost 4 hundred percent than the afternoon home that is exceptional or extraordinary so removing the 8 hundred plus fourth will be in keeping with the rest of the block. >> i also disagree with the historic research valuation in the hr e several things questionable one not yet the opt out of the lower flat 3932 on page 13 the late occupant left in 1982 not true a man that has lived there over 60 years heels

carl an engineer that worked for the city this is his home. >> page one we had signed by the neighbors and carlcarlos self-righteous is here not acknowledged before the commission how will he be taken care of i'm very concerned thank you. >> thank you. next speaker ms. swedish. >> good evening i want to make a couple of points in my e-mailed letter to you early wednesday morning february 8th this project fails to meet several residential design guidelines regarding topographic and site design on package 11 and page 33 and issues in the

arranged relating to sunlight on page 16 of the guidelines which is a set of reasons why the 8 hundred and 70 square feet addition should be removed a singular reason for removal how regarding the consistentcy in 2014 the commission removed the penthouse for a project on 437 duncan my street in our motion your basis for recommendation was the removal of top most floor to maintain the existing one and two scale and form on the street i think this is a same thing the commission voted 7 to zero on july 2014 and four of you are still here 3 of you are here tonight the project is on a block of similar scale in the duncan street

parking i know to show you an illustration fiona ma you took off the fourth floor this is the project elevation on 26 street right there i don't like the reduction in the size of unit on 3932 to 8 hundred square feet but that is legal that's the problems are the loophole you can do that i think the other problem with 3932 is a tenant in there that's as a problem and hopefully not a tragedy you can make that small unit because that is legal i don't like it but what is worse that fourth floor that is learn the unit we're moving the fourth floor addition will make that a better project. >> thank you, ms. swishing any

other speakers in support of dr seeing none, project sponsor 5 minutes. >> good evening my name is john i'm the project architect and i just wanted to say we had a lot of lively dialogue with the neighbors and continue to invite that there is some opposition to the project i want to go over the features to have a delipidated 3 story building and proposing a project that is code compliant that is a project that is desirable and a project that produce a family-sized home with a smaller 3 bedroom home and it is incorrect one thousand square

feet so actually, the quality of space we're taken back by the dr that was filed we've had a good dialogue with the neighbors we believe the project that is proposed proposes minimal impact to the neighbors and minimal overall and facilitate with the neighborhood guidelines and the rdt reduced this several times on the fourth floor is large setbacks a 15 foot and a setback to the east and the addition is barely visible from the street another person shows from across the school yard living a block away those rendersings see it is varied if two to four story

buildings and can i have the overhead, please? this is a streetscape that shows an example many 4 story buildings on the block there is 5 that exist including the dr applicants building that is the four story building what the 5 story penthouse we're just i'll show you the graphic aerial this is a 4 story building on the same block not a neighborhood but a one and two story streetscape we have a neighbor directly adjacent to the west that is supportive of our project not all the neighbors here are given the project so when we met with the dr applicant we actually had a very positive conversation and we compound a meeting with the neighborhood we mostly with the adjacent neighbors were very engaged and wanted to talk with

you, however, they refused to accept the fourth floor and unfortunately and with respect left with the inability to have litigation measures we decided to go on our own behalf and make changes to modify what we felt would be concerns and address the concerns we redesigned the facade made is softer in keeping with what the neighborhood might want it concludes with the existing cornice and the base albeit changed from traditional to more angle last year, we building this is a good move other mitigation we did both properties one 35 the clipper behind with the fourth floral no effect to the sun to their

windows and we're glad to share that with you especially also we're concerned with the east neighbor and does a sun setting realized that was directly to her house the soltice we proposed to remove a position of the deck we knew privacy would be an issue we want to mitigate the direct effects that might be of concern to the neighbors so ultimately to summarize we know when but add into a house there is significant impacts but on the way to resolve them and we're in in regards to the tenants below

ripening patterson will be speaking on our behalf. >> thank you might have to go into the rebuttal period with the 8 seconds remaining we are consciousness about the residents downstairs the owner has a good relationship and commited and you'll have an opportunity at the rebuttal are there speakers in support of project that are opposed to the dr i have one speaker card richard. >> i'm here to read a letter on behalf of the neighbor on the west side at 3936 i'm the owner the adjacent building to the west of the project i have been in conversation with the owner and the agencies throughout the planning review and have a good understanding of

the proposed design we have addressed the concerns of privacy and the architect have been responsive and i appreciate it i think the design is a refreshing change that the delipidated building i think that works well, in the neighborhood i like the facade and not just the eclectic surrounding i hope that is approved as designed. >> thank you. any additional speakers in support of the project. >> seeing none, dr requester a two minute rebuttal. >> the gentleman who spoke with all due respect a developer. >> ma'am, ma'am. >> you're not the dr requester are you. >> no, i thought i could had

had rebuttal. >> is he give your rebuttal time to her, she spoke as a public comment it is odd she becomes part of dr team as not part of your team that will be the sthag. >> the gentleman that spoke is in support of building that's great but purchased the building he's the developer naturally he will agree there is angle arrangement they'll have to leave not that clear per anyway been a long day thank you for your time to hear our cases i will mention that whatever small items the architect anticipate project sponsors are proposed at the they can be

removed they don't address the core issues and ever since our meeting with the project sponsor they - the fourth floor was not negotiable the developer wants the fourth floor also correction the proposed first floor is not one thousand square feet per the documents 8 hundred and 31 square feet and you have to admit that a 4 thousand mrs. for one family is in the 40 in proposition but maybe in the soma sew but not a resident of noah valley and selling the home for the highest price that's great for him we're the ones that have to look at this building from ever angle and no gain for us from the developer wishes to respect the neighborhood character and the typography will be restoring this in

keeping the height and allowing carl to remain in the home one last not all the neighbors between church and sanchez will be directly affected none was for the addition of the fourth floor the neighbors take pride in the traditional humble character the noah valley block thank you and we hope you'll agree to remove the fourth floor. >> so project sponsor you have two minutes. >> thank you very much ryan patterson for the project sponsor and can you distribute those. >> i'll address briefly the issue of the long term downstairs tenant like i said the tenant has committed to not been displaced mr. jensen i

understand about a dozens he's 95-year-old and not able to get up and down the stairs easily anymore the owner has offered in relocating him in the neighborhood at the same rent below-market-rate and voluntarily mr. jensen didn't want this we'll not force him to leave this letter is commit tool not e vicinity him and responsive to the neighbors concern they wouldn't negotiate they want to misrepresent generational project that is exactly what this project is designed for this is family-sized the city's deserve the smaller unit a smaller unit

with privacy and escaping is built in planters and we'll put in a permanent irrigation as extra protection no roof deck decks not along the roofs the developers has been sfleft and the fourth floor that everyone is concerned about is barely if at all visible from the street and setback 15 feet from the front as i understand that and one and 15 feet away - 71 feet from the deferring and one and 1 feet from the neighbors across the street. >> thank you very much so this portion of the hearing is closed we'll open up to commissioners questions or comments and commissioner moore. >> since the code or

residential design guidelines we don't give us my concrete tools to speak about what building what size building is proposed and where i'm coming to the conclusion we need to face the fact that a modern design that applies to this particular building i'm sitting here and i've basically have to take a position that comes more from my own intuition what constitutes the balance units for placement of units old and new units and find our own balance and saying those are appropriate units those are not this speaks to a misrepresent generational family program i personally don't see that what is in front of me speaks to the family home programming i don't see anything in the

how's that remind me of the discussion from supervisor yee on family-friendly housing and have a difficult time when a remarkably sized unit for two units with 13 hundred square feet that switched to 4 thousand plus square feet respect and 8 hundred and 70 downsizing i have a hard time seeing that to be an equal challenge and basically have a resistance to support that and while i'm repeating myself we as commissioners don't have tools we don't very specific size to define family or as a unit by which it is appropriate for living spaces the lack of development intensity in rh-2 i handed out

the article this commissioner earlier about a 200 and 61 square feet unit bedroom unit in the emerging mission district that particular unit had a square foot of $1,666 this unit was smaller and was equal in size to the - that sits on top of the fourth floor if i take the square footage we're close to an $8 million home is the indication for 499 in the mission that is probably in an upscale neighborhood i'm not questioning the architects qualification i question the problematic nature for this commission at least for mitch to

support something that is so out of whack for what we're supposed to do i don't want to intentionally with this building and take off the fourth floor i personally can't support the building as it is in front of me for the reasons we believe that my responsibility to balance the request for reasonably sized units at a reasonable price people can't afford to live in the neighborhood i'll support those who live there and i don't think this building shows the sensitivity i expect in the neighborhood. >> thank you commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards this is another shot of our planning commission ship get our arms around what is a family unit how many square feet because of this ever week the 3 things that hit me on the

tenant issue the gentrification not two unit check sham unit is that a substandard servant unit no light and air context density equality we have two fairly equal units with a shuj unit no check there we went through that with supervisor yee on a family-sized unit i arresting agree with commissioner moore that you know anything can be multi generational go see an equal to support this i won't be supporting that the fourth floor is basically the bottom unit the fourth floor and the fourth living room i think the decks are too much i appreciate the redesign the facade to more in.

>> thank you very much. next speaker. >> in keeping for lack of a better word i have a problem with tenants we had an issue on the street people were living there once we approve this we don't know what will happen to this urban design group are we sending them to a bad place you know, i i have no idea i can't support that given that as well look to have this continued and have more finding on the tenants and have it redesigned so two families can live there and an extended family. >> commissioner melgar. >> thank you. i agree with the point raised by commissioner moore and also like by commissioner vice president

richards the letter provided by the project sponsor is not sufficient for me so i once worked but with the mayor's office of housing gave a permit to a property owner not to evict a tenant and all sorts of stuff and nevertheless, you know as soon as the project was finished they evicted the tenants it went to court even when you have a bunch of stuff there it is still you know doable so for me a letter just not going to cut it so i can't support the project. >> i would echo what the dmeshgsz my fellow commissioners have said i think that if we were looking at i mean, i go either way a 3 story building

with a smaller unit in the top 2 floors maybe that's okay or a - the building you have i think you can reduce the massing of that it is kind of a jewel box on the fourth floor to be a down play of the architecture and less glass but not against the fourth floor but this makes that better if there were two equal sized unit combined with the basement units and the ground floor portion and have two equal sized units i get it the president to modernize the home and while it is a decent sized two flat not the great flat some kind of with the kitchen in the back i i get it the kind of notion to modernize it but went

too far with the magnificent units with the par units or whatever you category grizzly it. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i'll ask staff when we have those cus to ask what the tenant profile is if someone that living there and try to make a decision with this i think the other thing that i've seen in my neighborhood i know that ms. swedish bring to our attention those have small units that marketed as small unit homes as whenogram comes we're not getting the clarification and we see this having this may or may not happen but that raise the equity question he move to continue the item to