and south american cities make the city more than see than my other city from the u.s. with that said, what is the market realty the reality it large-scale retail formula retail is dying or revisiting itself we hear the there's amount of reports that shopping centers are dying literally as we speak and suburb is get nervous because enduring depends on large retail centers for their survival with that said, we feel the pinch yes, a technology of online shopping, etc. but the nature of large floor plates is not going to

>> >> the last question is, i do believe that the comments on the central subway had a larger

negative affect on some of the occupancies and vibrancy of part of stockton street in particular but also on some of the stores which are on the market street side of the central subway has slowed us down for many many years. it is the lower part of stockton and even with the christmas attempt to put some [inaudible] there and make some activities it has not really helped those stores at all. what has helped him it's very interesting to see apple a strong flagship [inaudible] on union square when you see the shift with a topic used to be it was basically between macy's, crate and barrel, and apple in the lower part of stockton. that has now all shifted to the upper part of market-of stockton street starting at the corner of union square, the park is much more used than was

ever before. now there's two cafés. it shows you the dynamics but holding onto that basic infrastructure of retail being the primary use and user of union square could not be more important and it would require subdivision of certain larger spaces the mud that is fine away to do that and find complementary retail and other excitements to make that as much of a destination as it always will be. i do believe the future of san francisco will depend directly on us helping the maintenance for a comfortable compatible transformation. >> thank you. interestingly enough, the market for we got to to to to sutter is much different than what this report is. it surprising to me. there's a narrative that [inaudible] that retail is designed or dead may be 45 who

keep saying what the truth is and really it's his version of what the truth is. but i like to see a reconciliation between what we are seeing here with report was looking at one small area and perhaps the report was brought more national or regional. it is interesting because the day was presented the ground floor of [inaudible] was 9% get their overall vacancy rate was five, which tells me the vacancy rate on the floor is two units lower than the ground floor is that with the data tells us? on the basement >> correct. >> that is interested i thought it would be the other way around. massive vacancy upstairs and downstairs you are full. i believe that data was >> yes i believe that data was provided by colliers international and one of the striking follow-ups we had was seeing that-yes. the average

size of the ground floor was smaller so yes, a lot of smaller parcels that are available. >> interestingly enough one of the key points of the porch of the way from the carbon store model. certain retailers especially large floor plate department stores macy's being one of them close like 180 locations nationwide even neiman marcus or try to go public recently and they could not and are looking for sooner to help them out. i guess there's a space-a smaller space shift and there's large floor plate retailer in my neighborhood who i mentioned last week or two weeks ago whatever got leased up to a cvs is probably going out of business and i talked to the owner and i said, why don't you [inaudible] the smaller spaces because of her more businesses there one time. the gist of what he wants to do is doing all one-sorry it's getting late-he wants to do it in one

fell swoop good rather than have to do with islam smaller spaces rather than that's a paradigm shift we see in the community. another striking thing from the report is with that of 485,000 ft.2 of retail space since 2010. that's a huge absorption rate. up in the upper market rather pistol a lot of vacancy because there's 2-3000 ft.2 that nobody can afford especially with aftermarket and restaurants [inaudible] margins there some cutting wood edge restaurants the women in my area without changing to a are formatted to the restaurant portion is not being able to carry it. we have a huge spec retail on market street called marketplace, i believe. is there anybody leasing it yet? it sitting there kind of all by itself and of the kosher. what's happening

for the vacancy rate citywide because they're a lot of square feet? >> i think the project has in meaning 2656 and they are still currently seeking tenants and i have not seen any reports of a large [inaudible] item of clothing has any color to add. >> this was the planner that ashley worked on it so i have not heard anything about that. >> it's a beautiful building but completely empty. >> yes. >> the other issue is, i go to the building to get my [inaudible] get things to be cleaned and all that and the thing that striking to me is the people am going to get the service from, they're not ready to retire. it's not over that age and am wondering who's quickly the next generation whose can affect my fabulous swiss watch. when i walked home icy, spas and here cutting places and when you walk in

there the owner or the people that work there are not as old as my watch repair guy. so there's maybe a turn you what were seen on those upper floors but it is kind of an interesting thing. the approval front office is going to be probably for 10 years or more because office is going to get a one-year lease or two-year lease and lease five with an option for five more. the thing i'm trying to understand and relating to to to to sutter with throat elation shipping office and retail. if you put an office in there will would do to the retail traffic? we can see the same thing with the twitter company were everybody is can stay inside their office never go out until the market envelope which is struggling and tries to change its format. what would the symbiosis be? not only give them able to rent it but if you put something up cut it up into smaller spaces, why? pok want to put an office in their? macy's men stole

told an international realty trust and impression i got was they want to have floors through x to the ground floor be retail. so we are doing with this all over. that would be a good thing to maybe look into. any other commissioners? okay great. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> so's did the commission care to provide planning with direction in terms of-because we can either continue to evaluate the case without any additional criteria which leaves us in a little bit of a bind or, you can also request we have applicants provide information as part of their-perhaps they could provide us with information on the alternative ways they try to fill the space. >> right. i think for me to to

to sutter is a good example to the reconciliation between what was submitted and what oewd has. that would be the first one could retail is dying or dead. no, it's really healthy. like there, well, which narrative should i believe. i think the second one is what you done to lease out those spaces given the fact retail is changing giving her criteria for smaller spaces etc. probably not the entire floor nobody wanted that tells you something. so tell us, try to carve it up front any interest on that from the stores. kind of destinations. [inaudible] commissioner melgar >> i don't think we can provide anything because this is information only >> you can provide your opinions and commentary but it is an informational presentation. no action needs to be taken. >> okay. >> commissioner moore >> i suggest we have some [inaudible] a volunteer for a working group. i personally would like to see the subject

continued and discussion and anybody who's interested to commissioners missing here. i think you would be a missed opportunity for us to actively participate with staff and with other people were really passionate about the subject to do this. we had a working group for quite a few years on working on the issue of small business. this has a similar kind of tender to it and i think it would be really great for all of us to give staff a little bit more than a 5 min. this is what i think thing in the wind but participate and develop some additional observations. i'm particularly interested in commissioner fung because he and i were together on the small business and in this is incredibly powerful thing to do. >> yes i agree. thank you for the work you done so far. i think it's a good sort of a baseline. i agree with commissioner moore it's not done yet. largely because it's an evolving industry. shifting and changing. this particular

area of downtown i think the floor plates are very different. they require at the type of approach then maybe another part of town or smaller part of town. so i would be happy to continue on with commissioner moore and whoever else as long as we have a quorum to keep discussing that and maybe look at the pipeline and see what other projects might be coming on that fit into this particular category of transition. >> thank you. >> the other thing for me would be would also mean us is somebody turned the corner as relates to the subject? it's not [inaudible] able to rent third floor retail? are we the cutting-edge or can we look at somebody who's an example? >> i think the key thing to take away from the port is that -and i think the distinction between long-term operating holders that will went out to retail, they see a dip in the market versus corporations that

because they purchased a property at a certain rate, that's how it's valued. they will not rent out. they won't take that day because that's how the [inaudible] values that property. it's a subtle shift but it's not that retail at the third or fourth level can be rented out. it's that they are asking too much for these type of uses that we think are complementary to pay that. >> so bit interesting as i walked on the street in my neighborhood commercial [inaudible] older families have had the building payoff for ever. can't be bothered to rent it out yet could the people overcoming and eight less than what they're offering so i think that-i lost my train of thought. i'm sorry. people mentioned to me vacancy tax or something and idea encouraging oewd has been involved in my

neighborhood and all the other neighborhoods these positive errors but my neighbor vacancy rates are getting worse. looks like 2000 await again. they're looking at great ways to get this on the market and make a little more painful [inaudible] >> oewd is currently undertaking a proper look at neighborhood commercial districts. so that's probably- >> c-three vacancy tax. >> okay. >> just one thought i think commissioner moore might agree on. in these conversations it's about the traffic foot pattern and the usage on the street. it could be retail which is great because a lot of in an open if it is an off hybrid of an office and retail, still as long as those for traffic i think it keeps those corridor active when you get to a position where people just in one time and out in the afternoon you have on how that pedestrian activity. >> commissioner moore >> i want to turn the conversation one moment to not just saying, no, there are no

conversions but finding exactly the balance of what is right and where i believe we need to say, no, to speculation. it is really only about leveraging space that is currently vacant up until i'm more rents intensive use, such as office, that is where i think the original intent of the downtown land started good i think it is up to us to fill back some of those elements who were originally forced out out of grant street, between kearney and stockton. used to have on the upper floors some of the most noted art galleries in san francisco. they are all gone. the majority, the large majority is conquered there used to be some art galleries on grant towards sutter. they are all gone. i think that kind of a sweet spot where we are creating the new incentive for those people to be able to

return into large suites and to what they did before but complement the kind of more special retail character of what is basically the signature of the district of those are symbiotically highly competitive uses and we at the time were not asked that conversion or that kind of pullout was possible. we also the issue of [inaudible] it's a multi-story one-of-a-kind department store that is national recognition. people come from all over the country to go to this one store and that store has lost its lease. we are not find any way to basically say, either we have a complementary space someplace else where they can move indirectly with what they do or we are losing it. i think it's in the creativity of that dialogue that all of us as consumers as commissioners, etc. can participate to help planning to be really be more bold in the type of solutions

they can develop. i definitely would like to volunteer because was a lot of fun when we did small retail. i'm not to take anybody else's possibilities but i would've to participate. >> two other things, commissioner moore mentioned it 24 geary mention it there's a lot of art galleries and now they're moving to the dogpatch and the other thing i'm thinking of is if we have a large real estate company coming internationally by a place with certain returns in mind and approve these conversions to office, we are rewarding speculation and its assaults of the filling prophecy. if we draw the line say, no you're not going to get your turn. we need retail there maybe the speculation will slow down or stop. >> can i ask one more question? i want to direct that question to ms. waddy and ms. are part. the question i have is we are commissioning at

this moment a lot of larger projects, bayview's hunter point, candlestick point, all of the new projects have rather large retail components. are we, when we entirely projects with such a large number is looking into the regional shift of what these large retail components and do or don't? shouldn't we rather look at more neighborhood or community focus retail services rather than big-box and other formula because they're coming anymore? we see so many large retail actually going into bankruptcy or being close to bankruptcy you can read about them every day. i don't have to mention any names. it's not about names but the trend is quite obvious. we even see santana row, which used to be kind of the full urban lifestyle face and the competing with the union square important details are pulling out. there all of a sudden i

heard about five companies last week pulling out of there all at once. they all used to be thriving stores but they're still [inaudible] doesn't work for us anymore. i'm asking you, how do you factor that in in your project? >> sure. i say generally speaking we do typically in all these large homes with establishing retail and more fine-grained neighborhood serving retail. i can't recall the last time that we were strategically planning for large big-box retail to be located within these mixed-use developments. so i can speak on specifics of any individual project that generally speaking when looking at retail in event large quantities of retail the larger development, that an individual space basis i think our tent is for those spaces to be the my zabul were created from the get-go as rosalie smallbore pedestrian orientated neighborhood serving retail mother brought journal regional

retail and lesser specific designated areas that are called out as such the larger development was such a treasure island were such that but typically the base of those buildings would be at a more localized scale. >> thank you >> i have i think we have an action item list retail on its own and maybe secretary you can add that [inaudible] like were trying to do for parking. >> thank you >> thank you very much. >> commissioners if there's nothing further we can move onto - >> 5 min. break since there is four of us.

>>[gavel] >> good evening and welcome back to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, march 16 2017. i will remind members of

public please, sounds or mobile devices that may sound up during the proceedings. commissioners we left off on item 10 the market st. pub project informational presentation. >> good evening commissioners. i would say good afternoon but i know it's been a long afternoon so i'll try to be as concise as i can. i'm here today provide an update on the market street pub project. this is last before you in october of 2015 that was at the very very early sages of the project. we've made great progress thus far and i want to provide an update of where we are and hear any feedback you might have. i'm just going to provide a quick product overview and walk you through the recommendations that we developed thus far. so many of

you probably know that the intersection of market valencia haight and gough was no missile because this works for railcars converge. but the vision for the hub is one with more housing, more 04 lauzen, safer and more walkable streets, welcoming and active public spaces, increase capacity and more reliable transit and a complete neighborhood services and amenities. the future of the hall is going to look very different than the portals is as it does today so we anticipate between 7300-9000 new housing units up to 2500 affordable units based on the current control, 50% increase in the number people crossing market and that mass and significant investments to transit and streets in the public spaces. this area was included in the market octavia plan which was adopted in 2008 and in the plan the hub was referred to as [inaudible] and

envision as the high-density mixed-use residential neighborhood. there's a number policies in the plan that really support this vision including the creation of the venice special use district which allows for towers and high density residential moment and market and that mass in mission and south [inaudible]. so wildly plans set a framework for this area we really did start receiving development applications until 2012. now their number of projects that are at very different stages. so it projects that have been approved and are moving forward under the existing controls and this includes projects like the tower carwash at 60 no one mission, or, the [inaudible] and then there's other projects working through their entire mind right now" 1500 mission, the future office site as well as wood oak and there's other projects that are at the very very early stages that might seem to take it vantage of this process. so in addition to all

the development that's happening this number transportation projects that i'm sure you're all aware of really this emphasizes the important role the transportation place in this area and the need to really increase capacity for all modes to make it easier to walk and bike and take transit. given all the activity that's been taking place in this area, we decided to take a step back and look at the area holistically. with a desire to increase the amount of affordable housing and really improve the public streets and the open spaces. in january of last year we launched a public process. we've had three workshops to date and we are now going to be moving into the environmental [inaudible] and we anticipate plan adoption in winter of 2019. similar to our other community planning efforts, at the end of this we hope to of strategies that address when use, urban form, public rome, public benefits as well as transportation. all of these deliverables are really informed by the five key project

roles roles and that's increase the amount of formal housing to support transit investment to improve the urban forum to enhance the public rome and to encourage the arts. i will quickly walk through our recommendations. given all of the land use changes that were anticipating in this area and the increase in the number of people that will be living and working here, this really is an opportunity for us to re-envision the streets the alleys in the open spaces. the market octavia plan included telemetry designs for most of the streets we've been working on those ideas. we have developed streetscape design for a projects. valencia, otis, 12, old market 11 s. venice and 13th st. here is just one

example of when the levels of detail the we've develop. this is 12 street between market and mission and right now, 12 street is a pretty wide street with pretty low traffic volume. there's going to be three new developments along the street with active ground floor and residential above. the market octavia plan identified the need to redesign 12 street to recapture space for pedestrians so this proposal builds on that idea might repurpose in the roadway to great wider sidewalks and encourage a more active pedestrian environment with cleaning and landscaping. we have also developed a designs for 12 alleys. here is rose street which is just one typical project at this is rose between market and boss and as you can see, [inaudible] crosswalk receding treeplanting, steep street paving kind of your basic streetscape elements. the last piece of the public rome are open spaces. there's an

opportunity to build five new open spaces in this area. all of which will be built in coordination with private development at grady park is the most significant of the spaces in this is called out also in the market octavia plan. the open spaces from the [inaudible] adjacent to our office these businesses can act independently it's really critical that the front and land uses are active and that there's clear storage of by the front property owner. as we work through the entitlement of the specific entitlement projects there will be important for us to work with the project sponsor to ensure the spaces are well-maintained and programs in that he spaces complement each other in terms of programming and use. i would not talk about manuscript currently, [inaudible] we have an nct three district. we are proposing to create one district so we have consistent controls across the entire plan area. we are proposing that all the parcels be within the c-three district and within the van ness special use district where proposing some slight modifications to better meet the plan goals. this includes

some flex ability for nonresidential uses specifically institutions, art uses and public uses. lowering the parking requirements, creating incentives for art uses and requirements for michael detail to better ensure the retail mix really serves the community. next we have urban forum. this is a height map that shows what the existing heights are under the market octavia plan and the area were to develop under the existing height, we anticipate about 7300 units of which [inaudible] would be affordable as one of the impetus for this project was for us to say other opportunities for us to increase heights exceeding 20 more affordable housing? as we've gone through this project the city rules run a formal housing have also changed and so we are kind of waiting to see without lands and we will contend you have that conversation. we haven't looked

at-we take a look at what the [inaudible] under the current market octavia controls and found opportunities for us to refine heights to increase the amount of affordable units but also better ensure the urban design element the policies in urban design element are consistent with the recommendation. there's three principles that informed our height recommendation. one is more graciously said the hub within the city skyline. second to highlight us out for activity and transit and third, to taper heights to meet the adjacent neighborhoods. so this is our proposed height map and i know it's a look that hard to read. but i would just emphasize that we are proposing to change heights on 16 parcels which are shown with an orange outline. we are not proposing to raise heights on any property that has existing residential units. we are increasing heights onto parcels going from 50-65 feet and a handful parcels from 85-120 and

their six parcels receding more significant recommending more significant increases and this includes 10 s. van ness 30 van ness 33 bus, 99 s. be venice and 30 otis. so in total is would generate about a dozen housing units of which about 2500 would be affordable. the last stop is public benefits. what we've done is take a look at the amount of public benefits we think that could be generated under the [inaudible] development requirements that are existing, impact fees which are also existing, and we are proposing no rose community facility system which would be a new funding source. the melrose district or cfd is a flexible funding source that can be used to fund improvements in a specified area. is currently one and transbay and we are also proposing one and central soma.

there's many details that need to be determined when the district is establish including which properties participate, the rate of the tax, the specific improvements funded with the revenues were at the early stages of that. we are proposing cfd really for two reasons one is to we know that transit at van ness and marketers really constrained so this is one way the city can generate significant revenue that can [inaudible] fund capital permits and we've heard a lot of concern about maintenance of open spaces so having additional money that could help maintain and program these open spaces is really critical for their success. so our proposal has two components. one is a capital component which would apply to the projects receiving an absorbent it were exploring a rate between two dollars-four dollars per square foot in this revenue would generate would fund capital improvements and the service the cfd would apply intensely to all projects within the area and we would see voluntary participation

from parcels already moving forward and getting their entitlements now. we are looking at a rate about $.50 per square foot and this revenue again could be used to fund maintenance and programming. so is cfd is not a guarantee and the amount that is generated for the city really depends on both the rate and the participation of private property owners could we have been doing some feasibility analysis to determine a rate that helps us maximize none of affordable housing and also ensures a project is financially feasible. for now, we've estimate of cfd to generate between 100-$200 million a pretty big range. there is flexibility in how this money could be spent. so what we would like to do is continue the conversation with our partner agencies as well as with committee members about how best to allocate the funding to really meet the needs of the neighborhood. just a summary of the revenue. under

existing zoning, we think that about $820 million to be generated from this area. about 689 for housing, 67 for transit, 43,000,004 streets, 29 for open space and 12 million for childcare. then under the proposal, we think that we would generate about 1.2 billion 869 for housing, 77 million for transit, 50 million for complete streets, 23 million for open 14,000,004 childcare. the propose cfd is included in this amount and again that's a range of 100-200,000,000. so our proposal generates about a 50% increase in public benefits. that's very exciting and there's a number of things that we can fund that can really help improve the area really match the development that is coming. so public benefits

include new on-site units and a former housing resources, the design of major streets and alleys, new open spaces including the park enhancements to existing open spaces, funding to meet the needs of existing and new residents with respect to schools and childcare, and then implement to transit service and capacity including the modernization of van ness station. for next up as i mentioned will be moving into nearby mental review stage of the project and we have been working to kind of develop the parameters that will be analyzing in terms of zoning and heights. we continue to coordinate with many of the development projects that are moving forward now under the existing zoning. we will be working to build the project description and then working to further develop and refine our public benefits package. so that concludes my presentation and am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. opening up to public comment on this item? >> good evening commission. no pope neighborhood association. very happy that our

organization has partnered with all of the neighborhood associations from division two lombard to form the van ness neighborhood council and the idea is that we will work together on issues around van ness including the hub could i just want to complement the barman on the great work they've done thus far on the landing for this but that being said, i think there's still a lot that needs to be done. very exciting to see the department, [inaudible] parking for this area. however, we think that the sites that are asking for a couple hundred extra feet they need to sit down with the neighborhood because a lot of the neighborhoods feel it should be zero. that should be an item that should be discussed and argued for so to

speak. also, affordable housing. if you are going to of zoning tower a couple hundred feet going to start talking about 40% affordable good we need to kind of push the bar has supervisor kim has done in her district to get 40% and that's low, moderate, middle, to really house san franciscans. then, i would also like to point out we need to put some thought into height and for-sale versus rental mix. in my neighborhood, buildings, i would say of 212-13 stories, they tend to attract for-sale people that actually lived there. some of these towers downtown have the people don't live there. i mean they're basically foreign investors who want to stash 2 million bucks in san francisco survey by a place and then we kid ourselves

and say we added the unit to the housing stock. right? would really we should be doing is saying, if you are over 120-one 130 feet you should really be a rental because no wonder of the building is going to keep building vacant here so that i think is a nuance that if you talk to neighborhood people may tell you like what they actually see in their neighborhood, that will be a good point of feedback. we think we should go on the of some parcels parcel by parcel and sit down with the developers and the department and negotiate these benefits.. family size in units, we need two and three bedroom units could this is also a c district which means there's no regulation on form in the retail other than market facing parcels though it's great to be market micro retail but we need retail researchers at least the cu potentially of no formula

retail and the last thing i would like to point out is that all this great commentary about oh parking ratios and micro retail is equally applicable to central soma. so we would like to see the department use some of that analysis in central soma as well. thank you commissioners and we sent a letter basically summarizing the points. we thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>[calling public comment cards] width sue hester. looking on the extent of rezoning and the district of south of market, when the city rezoned after downtown plan, the rezoned south of market and created something called to work. because it was a heavily industrial area. it had

repercussions in the 90s. when you could figure out if you build something and it was commercial it wasn't residential and you have a one to one parking requirements. so all over the industrial area, south of market and mission, dogpatch, potrero lower potrero hill, there was a spate of buildings, 5000 units, 5000-that is enormous. one to one parking requirements in a [inaudible] sidewalks and a lot of them. the city created a monster. we started to we find that in the eastern neighborhoods plan and put some requirements on it but even in neighborhoods-even the eastern neighborhoods plan didn't confront housing. what we had done was created this first

parking and isolated areas. i didn't provide transit. we have got to use that experience to straighten out what this is in this area. this area has transit. there should be-the starting point should be zero parking including the environmental analysis. there should be a little parking for special parking like car shares but other than that, it will bring down the price of housing. the owner once-the landlord won't expect as much pie in the sky for sewing parking as well. in the second step we have to take is we have a lot of unmet need for muni routes, especially in the south of market because they're concentrated on market and mission. that was a promise that was made in the eastern

neighborhoods plan and was not so filled today. so we have a lot of unmet need in the roots. there should be a whole lot of shuttle routes in the area s. of market st. but the basic thing should be, don't build parking at the flat area. it has transit. it should have more transit and you should be aiming for, like, i think what most said was true. not the people that are going to build-buy a condo and keep it vacant [inaudible] real housing and may mean lower rise housing. thank you. >> thank you. any additional public comment on this informational item? seeing none, >>[gavel] >> commissioner moore >> i'm happy to see this presentation finally come

forward. as projects have proceeded this been quite a few months almost a year of always been asking what does it really mean, the hope? the house bobbers were spokes on come together thought i was doing staring into the whole donut but here's something to get our teeth into writing for starters i think it is a good idea. it has certain questions. has an answer for me in the first one i like to say is i would like to see a 3-d manifestation of how these towers group could also make the level is in the detail. the diagrams are here but you can really understand them only when you see them composed with each other. one of the earlier ideas of san francisco was to be able to see city hall and the dome as you are coming in from the outlying areas when you came out of the mission, south van ness. you always were able to see the dome. that will be kind of ranged and altered. i'm just

throwing that out as one additional piece of information on sure many people be interested in. i like the expanded consideration of how streets interact. i would like to suggest that some of the first sales that many of the buildings: 950, market, 1500 and mission showing are being introduced into your alley or open space network because these midblock alleys some of these may block for sales are very very important when we look at the transformation of the larger blocks with large buildings [inaudible] two that may block connection. so i like-i appreciate seeing that. i believe there are couple of opportunities which i would like to see explored further in showing your building sites, there's an opportunity to look at some positive transformation of the sfmta a building that will be a major likability in

the context of three new exciting buildings and i have actually had the opportunity to talk to mr. updike when he was present in a presentational 1500 mission, which is the new city services building at van ness and south van ness and mission. to really look at that very carefully. the building looked more like it when all the new kids are on the block and nothing has been done. there are ideas to potentially put more activity on the 11th st. coming basically as a main street for all city offices rather than putting too much emphasis on creating pedestrian activity on south van ness whichever he personally is a lost battle. one of the ugliest most the destination unfriendly places in san francisco. i think it is dangerous and i think while it is functional and needs to be attractive from a vehicle or and transit

movement point of view, the opportunity of recapturing 11 street is extremely important and i like to see that to reflect on potentially shifting the branch bank with an emphasis on the corner of 11th and market rather than to the corner of 11th and out of market and south van ness. the bank, i've walked around in the bank and the bank owns the entire property and would basically anchor the corner of 11th and market where you are currently just a battery of atm switch to do anything but rather having an entrance to the branch bank there and also let the smaller more pedestrian friendly 11 street become the front door how people arrive at the union office. i'm talking to her planners here. i think from a residential and transit point of view, that address is much more readability. it's really a lace, it's a street

south van ness will never do that is just saying south venice is threatening to me personally speaking i find it extremely difficult to visually taken. that said, i think there is a lot which is being considered here. i like the consideration about financial and political implementation tools you have outlined an overall, it is a great start to ultimately, the devil will be in the detail and the ability of people who have all these buildings to comply with the general ideas that you are spelling out here, including the detailed response of the architectural responses, to your kind of key diagrams. how is the street met? was the

degree of transparency? what are the inviting uses radar encouraging to be there? i believe that needs a trustee hand but generally it's a good piece of work. thank you >> thank you. i just i guess a couple of points. the thing i want to make sure we talk about or lease understand is the value of recapture on the additional height. i know during market octavia we incredulously [inaudible] i was involved in market octavia since 2005 at recapture on the impacts was 33% roughly. the eastern neighborhoods am sorry until someone's going to about 66 which is [inaudible] i would love to understand whether we are up in that two thirds range were we are we are wrapped? i definitely would want us to get up there and help us find affordable housing i do agree with ms. jamaal on form the retail. we don't upgrade a hubble mission bay where we got

starbucks and borders and things like that. there was a good 3-d rendering in the san francisco business times so maybe you can save yourself the effort they've been about about couple times about a year and 18 months ago but it didn't show the view from different angles. just looking down and unlike the central someone as well we saw it over the whole city. love to see it from different views as commissioner moore said. that always others challenges in this area. there's a lot of social [inaudible] i was evident wednesday and i walked home past the car in park is all boarded up and that was one of our first projects out the shoot of what the community benefit money. so that in brady block brady park and all these things we want to put there a want to make sure that we have the maintenance funds to keep them going so maybe it's not just capital improvements is making sure that they get programs may stay that way. so it's had to see grady park all boarded up. i do know what the future of it is. there was one other thing. they're surrendering way that one we did market octavia of south van

ness being pedestrian through weight and they had visual sonnets the looked beautiful. maybe we could do something with narrowing it or i note i agree it's him was like being on a-1101. it's terrible. it's an extension 101 in fact. so maybe we can direct some money there to actually do something we should think of closing it. and the other commissioners? no? thank you very much. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further we can move onto the next item. through the gerald be taking items 12 and 13 out of order. per case number 2015-013911 1100 grant ave. conditional use authorization and case number 2016-380 2487 mission st. conditional use authorization these are both for cricket

wireless. >> good afternoon commission. i'm: clerk 20 department staff. this project would authorize a partially 400 square-foot form the retail is cricket wireless. a subsidiary of at&t. on the ground floor of the two-story commercial building within the chinatown residential neighborhood commercial district. the chinatown and planning area. the property was last legally occupied by a retail sales and service use to shop during business has boomed harvest investment trading until 2014. attendance faces and occupied space by cricket wireless without this required conditional use since 2015 good cricket wireless is a national token mitigations corporation headquartered in atlanta more than 4000 locations worldwide with approved - i'm sorry -

roughly 700 san francisco location some of which are still pending planning commission approval. there's one similar wireless store doing business as red pocket mobile within 300 feet. to date the department has received 29 letters of support and no correspondence in opposition to the common finds the project to be necessary desirable for an compatible with this on the neighborhood and recommends that you approve the project with recommendation conditions for the following reasons. the project would not misplace any existing tenant can project would continue to activate a ground-floor space the neighborhood serving use [inaudible] frontage within a three and foot radius from 14% to 18%. the project would allow a local entrepreneur franchisee to meet the needs of the immediate neighborhood and provide employment opportunities to local residents. the propose use complies with the applicable requirements putting code in is on balance, consistent with the

general plan. this concludes the presentation for 1100 grant ave. and am available for questions. thank you >> thank you. project sponsor >>: if you are not doing the presentation permission status all as well we call the items together >> sounds good so for 2487 mission st., this project would authorize approximate 1300 square-foot form the retail electronics store doing business as cricket wireless. it subsidiary of at&t. the property was last legally occupied by a retail clothing store doing business as the leon approximate 2013. they can until 2014 and most recently between january 2014 and may 2014 occupied by ai oh wireless it from the retail electronics business that did not obtain the required conditional use prior to operating. the tenant faces has been occupied by cricket wireless without the conditional use since may 24

and their sick summer wireless stores within 1/4 mile. to date the form and has received 109 letters of support and no correspondence in opposition. the department finds the project to be necessary desirable and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and recommends you approve the project with conditions for the following reasons. project when not displace any existing tenant should budget would continue to activate ground-floor space with the neighborhood serving use, the project would increase the form the retail business frontage within a 1/4 mile radius from 25.84% to 26.01%. the project would allow a local watch for newark franchisee to meet the needs of the immediate neighborhood and provide employment opportunities to local residents. the propose use would be applicable records of planning code and is on balance, consistent with the general plan. this concludes staffs presentation. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor

for the grant street location? was at the same owner? different owners. grant street, first. >> commissioners,, i would like to correct esther: clerk. it's not the afternoon. good evening. thank you ever so much for what you do in putting these kinds of hours. we have a local operator. this is all for general land. less local knowledge community support as you can hear it's overwhelming on these. no opposition whatsoever. there's a raft of statistics that came out of surveys that were done. mr. clark did a good job presenting. there's one thing that has not been presented to you and i would like to show you on the overhead, if i may. which is, how this is seamlessly wedded into all the neighborhoods. this little

location, 400 ft.2 on the corner of grant and pacific avenues, is the number one sales volume cricket store of the 4000 plus that mr. clark mentioned. why is that? don't now going to hand it over to the operator [inaudible] to give you a brief presentation as to why this is such a good fit and why the department is recommending its approval. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners. my name is [inaudible] i'm the owner of the cricket wireless store locator 1100 grant avenue. this is my wife and my three lovely kids ethan angie and austin. as soon as i immigrated

to san francisco in 1996 i started working in chinatown by 2007 it seems that the neighborhood needed a cell phone store. i opened a little independent one. now, i am well known in the neighborhood as the phone master. if my neighborhood has cell phone questions they often come to me. often, they were for their relationships and friends to my store for their cell phone needs. the majority of my customers are chinese speaking the most are the first generation immigrants. many are seniors who lacked mobility and language barriers that they are often [inaudible] to chinatown. our store is conveniently

located in chinatown. as to my customers have can walk to our store. as well as being a convenient location, when i decided to open the cricket store their in 2015 i knew that the cricket [inaudible] was an idea for the residence and tourist of chinatown. the most popular thing is the $100 for five lines including unlimited talk and text it it's very helpful for chinese families that tend to be large and close to one another. cricket is also popular with my customers because it is a prepaid service. there's no contract restriction. the gives a lot of freedom to my customers. both residents and tourist. i am hired three

bilingual employees were fully trained and expert in cricket service. last year, our store at 1100 grant ave. achieved the highest sales of all 4000 cricket wireless stores in the united states grew i delivered this conversation is the resolve or providing chinatown with the right product, superior service, at the perfect location. so please, give us permission to continue being an important part of our neighborhood in chinatown. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. any speakers-any public comment on this item? the wa we >> we should allow the project sponsor to make the presentation. >> i'm sorry. please. >> good evening commissioners.

2487 mission st. i'll be very brief. probably been in this room dozens and dozens of times on mission projects. this is almost unnerving. this the first am i the mission project with no opposition. [laughing] that said, ditto from what you just heard that we have mr. [inaudible] here today who is just done a wonderful job. the mission corridor is a bit cover then kranz avenue get grant avenue i found only 1% vacancy good mission street is closer to 10%. also, in terms of form of the retail, as mr. clark pointed out, just on the mission and ct within four blocks of their 28 form in the

retail businesses. so it's not something that out of sync here. again, it's a very good fit. all of his employees are bilingual. very large percentage of business is done in spanish. hoping they will accept the department's recommendation to approve on this. thank you for much commissioners >> thank you very much now open up to public comment for either of these form the retail items. any public comment? seeing none, >>[gavel] >> commissioner moore >> a question for mr. clark. could you please tell us whether or not there is a restriction four for the retail in chinatown commercial district? >> in terms of the sea rnc district? >> that is correct >> requires a restriction for from the retail b was with interesting here is the project is so small but i think it fits

as a contemporary piece necessary retail provision into that corridor. this would be large or i would have a number of questions but because of the size i think it talks in so to speak. commissioner fong have i talked many times about the unfortunate overbearing presence of the chase on grant street.. he is smiling because she's been in that conversation but in this particular case i feel quite comfortable with as we move forward we may want to be a firm position on that as we go forward in this particular case, i would be comfortable supporting it and if i may, i moved to approve both applications >> second. >> you can call the question >> thank you on a motion to approve items 12 and 13, with conditions on a motion

commissioner koppel aye melgar aye moore aye richards aye. some of the passes unanimously 4-0. commissioners the place on the item 11 per case number 2014-14 07c and 38 tara bell street. as a conditional use authorization. >> i'm sorry. my apologies were

then take item 15 per case number 2060 or one on 542 drp 2070 fulsome st. discussion of you out of order. unfortunately as we are down to four commissioners, and one of those commissioners we need to recuse herself from that decision, we felt that would be appropriate at this point to continue the matter to the next available hearing date in order to members of the public and the project sponsor not need to wait unnecessarily. so at this point i don't think we need a presentation at this point but i think we would like to accommodate the project sponsor

with a hearing date that is convenient for you as well as the dr requester right? are they here? >> i am the dr requester >> is the project sponsor here? >> can we move to recuse commission up mcarthur first? >> will only be voting on the continuing state >> to just not vote on it. >> she can vote on the continuance. she can't vote on the project. >> i just like to state this is one of percent of portable housing project that is priority processing >> we understand. unfortunately, we would lose a quorum. we would not be will to come to a decision. next. >> well, yes. i would like to hear it >> absolutely. >> perfect next week way her a motion to continue to next week? >> why think we should four members an opportunity-- i'm sorry -

>> public comment on proposed continuance to move this item to next week? >> commissioners channon dodge for chinatown community realms and x-ray design i just wonder my bill to put it for date certain since we've waited a bit today and we are sure now wait next week if we had that? >> to be her first next week? first item off after we do commissioner comments and all that just do it first? >> what time is next week, noon? >> yes >> i personally cannot do noon. >> it would be right at noon. probably more like 12:45 pm. >> march 23 would be the date. >> i think my cosponsors able to do that at that time. thank you >> thank you.. dr requester's okay with it? you are okay-

>> i'm fine was hoping to get a continuance and soap march 23 and the first on the agenda would be great. thank you >> thank you. do i hear a motion to continue this to next week? first item on the agenda. commissioner moore >> motion to continue 2070 fulsome st. to march 23 time certain 12:45 pm >> as the first item on the writer calendar >> that sounds great. >> >> second. >> thank you commissioners on a motion to continue this item 15 to march 23 koppel aye, melgar aye moore aye richards tremont. so move that passes unanimously 4-0. i do apologize for those members of the public and the project sponsors team that had to wait this long.. i

know you guys were here at the beginning of the calendar. commissioners that i spoke about to item 11 per case number 2014 at 1038 caravel st. additional use authorization. >> good evening commissioners. veronica forrest hartman staff. the item before you is a request for conditional use authorization to legalize the existing tobacco paraffin that you establishment at 1030 taraval street. the properties located within the caravel street ncd in a 65-8 height and bulk this. the properties 12 with three additional [inaudible] this project is to legalize an existing tobacco paraffin oh you establishment doing business as kinko's is a result of enforcement case number 13139_ems. english doors open up the project site april 2012 without proper planning review. the existing tenant space missions approximately

1500 ft.2 and a proposal involves converting the existing second floor to a new mezzanine level. propose hours of operation are between 11 am-2 pm daily. the business sells primarily tobacco paraphernalia including water pipes and e cigarettes. all sales products will be for takeout and ob no consumption on site. the business will also sell other merchandise including [inaudible] accessories and other miscellaneous items. please, note the department of public health regulates permits for the sale of e cigarettes peer the item is before you know because this business that the planning code definition of tobacco current elliott finale assumption because more than the movie retail spaces

dedicated to tobacco tobacco paraffin. proposal is not from the retail use and ob no increase in the concentration of tobacco paraffin oh you establishment in the taraval street ncd. to date them at the department has received three to medications in opposition to the proposal. that some of the concerns included that propose items for sale and potential noise at the project site. after the packet was finalized, the department received one letter in opposition to the project from people oh parkside sunset in this, and is available today for your review. although not required for the purposes of this conditional use authorization process the planning department requested that the project sponsor hold a pre-application meeting according to pardon standards. adjacent property owners and occupants to the subject property neighborhood organizations from the taraval street mcd were invited. there's only one attendee at this meeting and the question pertains if the building would be expended or not. the department recommends approval with conditions for the following reasons. the project

promotes the continued operation of an established business and contributes to the viability of the overall taraval mcd. the project will not displace an existing retail tenant providing convenient goods and services to the neighborhood and will not increase the number of tobacco paraphernalia establish trends in the area. the project meets all applicable requirements of the planning code. this includes staff presentation am available for any questions. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor? you have 5 min. >> okay. my name is gen. gonzales some of the independent contractor for this project. i want to take a brief moment to thank the council for hearing our project today. he 1038 taraval project can crush wants to continue selling different types of paraphernalia to complement the stores tobacco products. along

with the exclusive clothing line and accessories. we want to propose with the use of the conditional license, 10% hookah which is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco and 50% water pipes, which are filtration devices generally used for smoking tobacco, 15% and held smoking pipes which is a device made to allow the users to inhale or taste smoke or vaporize from the burning of vaporize asian of tobacco. i percent vaporize which is a machine used to extract tobacco and turn them into a unified [inaudible] to inhale. 10% tobacco and cigars, we offer a variety of name brands and generic cigars and cigarettes. also, 1% electronic

cigarettes which is a battery powered vaporize or the stimulus the feeling of smoking which without the tobacco [inaudible] 3.5% e-liquids which are store offers 20 different flavors. 1.5% [inaudible] often used for aspen for fever and inflammation 10% clothing and accessories which are local shirts. sportswear and hats etc. our product are very unique and highly desired throughout the city. not just exclusive to our neighborhood. our rear line of the cigarettes are different unusual tobacco related products enhance the neighborhood because we are the only business that is offering these types of products. our products speak for itself by

the amount of consumers that frequent the business. gregory from the neighborhood and throughout the city, pe cigarette and vapor line speaks for itself and offers a wide range of solutions for that the community can extremely benefit from. these products that reduce air pollution throughout the neighborhood and the city from the customers that purchase these types of products. plus, the business as the business grows there's an opportunity to our more employees. all these factors combined injuries to enhancing the neighborhood. also, our neighborhood consumers want to our business. i noticed few people use their cars. i find [inaudible] for much expedition our customers use. the business also offers middle eastern products which is also enhances the neighborhood's culture. not to mention the amount of revenue we add to our neighborhood in the city's economy. our business has two signs in the front door stating

that the customers must be 18 and older. the other signed that says, no loitering. there is no drug use, drug sales, drug trafficking, or other crimes associated with drugs used at that business. it is in no way involved with drugs. we strictly sell it tobacco related products an exclusive clothing line. our business is peaceful and complies with the health and safety and doesn't contribute to any of the general welfare problems. like i mentioned before, most of our customers are generally walk up and taking [inaudible] which means we are not creating any traffic or parking issues. our business is done inside of our establishments. the people come in and leave after making their purchase so the business doesn't contribute to any noise pop's outside our store. this

business is not impact the health safety and welfare of the residents of this neighborhood. it only impacts the customers that used to come in and purchase their tobacco products. which is a personal choice. we do not sell anything to a minor. every customer is expected to show a valid id as well as use an id card which is red to validate each id. at the time of any sale. this is how we have conducted our final sale. plus, the store suitable for disability-disabled residents because it offers handicapped access. there are two businesses in the sunset district that similar- >> thank you very much. your time is up. thank you. open up to general public comment on this item? any public comment? seeing none, >>[gavel] >> commissioner moore >> would you answer question regarding your opening hours?

i was curious your opening in the morning at 11 am and you closing at 2 am at night. could you speak to that a little bit? i would appreciate hearing about that >> when we first opened the store we start at 9 am in the morning. we stayed open until midnight but we realize that there's a lot of people that get off later in the evening and there's also a bar of the street on the same street and a lot of those people are customers may come later in the evening so that when we stayed open we found that we [inaudible] later hours. so we changed the hours to make it more suitable for the neighborhood to adjust for the neighborhood and the people that came into the store. >> also briefly talked about who are your neighbors next to you come across the street and you have talked with them and

they are comfortable with you being open longer were there except the bar you mentioned? gives a feeling about how [inaudible] >> there's two restaurants that are there like next to us on adjacent to us. they are open until about 1 am each one of them. then there is down the way, there's quickly which were friends with people in quickly because we eat from them and then i'm not there all the time but when-i know the owner and that's what he does. on the corner, there's also another -like a restaurant where we also buy food from. there's a sushi restaurant across the weight which we know the owners. it's like a community there when you know all your owners and there's joe who comes from the pizza place could be the owner of the pizza place which is kitty corner and he comes over all the time to take a break. so it's like a real community. that's why we

stay open later. it's because people-there's no complaints. we even have the police department, which is two blocks away,-officers have never come in with any kind of complaint that there's a problem. >> thank you you answer my questions. i'm glad to read about the [inaudible] there are-thank you. i walk by at least two tobacco paraphernalia stores when i come to city hall each thursday. they are basically colorful, almost any never corridor where they are allowed. not all corridor allow them. i personally do not see any reason why we would not support it. >> motion to approve? >> motion motion to approve >> second. >> on a motion to approve this matter with conditions koppel aye melgar aye moore tremont

richards aye. some of that motion passes unanimously 4-0. commissioners that are places on item 14 per case number 2016-008074 cua at 615 bayshore blvd. the conditional use authorization. >> good evening commissioners on dan-department staff. the sponsor san francisco honda is seeking a conditional use authorization to convert the existing building at 16 - i'm sorry - 615 bayshore blvd. to an automotive use. honda existing location and market and van ness is slated for redevelopment and they are compelled to look for another place to house their facilities. the proposed use would provide car repair services in the facility that houses 13 service bays, parts department and a small office.

the project sponsor is also committed to landscape improvements and a green wall to enhance the appearance of the property. otto marble, the buildings previous occupants, has communicated to the department that they have vacated the building to consolidate their operations at other locations. in the bay area. the department has received no correspondence on this project in support or opposition. at this time, the department is recommending approval with conditions we believe on balance, that the project supports the intent of the planning code the general plan is suitable for the neighborhood. this concludes my presentation will be happy to answer any questions get >> thank you very much. project sponsor? >> good evening commissioners jodi night from [inaudible] on behalf of project sponsor victory automotive group. i know it's late so i'll be brief. i want to first thank staff for work on the project and report tonight. as you

heard this project proposes to make a beneficial use of of vacant property as one of honda service and repair stations. because operations had to move from van ness and market street location which is being developed. honda had a very difficult time finding a location as you can imagine other repair is tough in the city these days. this pre-much an ideal location next to the 101 interchange with alamein he. the business expects to start with at least 10 employees, hopefully grow from there. as you heard, it's currently vacant site could approval the project would also beautify the site and the site will be improved. the greenwald is going to be installed and a lot of the other landscaping will be added to the site. parking we shifted towards the rear of the site be less visible from the street. and there'll be new lighting signage and fencing. the

project will not only allow hunters to stay in the state. allows people to get auto repair done in the city will also beautify the site. that's all i have unless there's questions. >> thank you dermis. opening up for public comment on this item? seeing none, >>[gavel] >> we talk each reach out retaining pvr jobs in the right places. this exactly the kind of think i think should be supporting it i just wish i the honda to go and get repaired at to go down to get to mountain view to my card on commissioner moore >> perfect situation. it's a strong neighborhood the location where they are the maintains 3 critical st. frontages. it always done a great job could have been transparent to the neighborhood and i can only see them as being a perfect neighbor where they are moving i don't drive a honda so i don't have any horse in the race but i've always been very admiring when you and your operation on the south van ness did so moved to approve >> second. >> commissioners on a motion to approve this matter with conditions koppel aye 10 of our

21 moore tremont richards aye. so moved commissioners the motion passes unanimously 4-0. commissioners, as item - excuse me - item 3 was pulled off consent and will take a matter now. per case number 2016-001789 drm at 49 kearny st. did mandatory discretionary review. >> good evening commissioner. and you carry arms up in the case before you is a mandatory discretionary review authorize a change in use from the currently vacant office used to medical cannabis dispensary or mcd a third-floor the existing structure located 49 kearny st. measures approximate 760 ft.2 located between polk street and maiden lane in dc 30 disappeared the project proposes interior tenant

improvements only. the propose mcd would be authorize for on-site sales medical cannabis only and would not permit on-site medication or cultivation. project sponsors indicated the business would employ full-time security person look at third-floor elevator we responsible for greeting and checking inpatients in making sure they have valid medical cannabis recommendation. propose mcd complies with all standards with the clinic is busily the project is not within 1000 feet of any public or private primary or secondary school nor within 1000 feet of any community recreation building the primary source persons on the under the age of 18. stata received one comment for number the public sorry that school was - i'm sorry - operating at 6096 his young pine street. [inaudible] which would be within 1000 feet of the pros and city. however on upon further analysis staff found that even the 566 bush st. address falls just outside of the thousand foot radius is not in violation of the planning code. received a letter of support from the union square

improvement district and since publishing of the case packet is received one additional comment in support of the project and one in opposition. the common recommends the commission take mr. trash and argue approved with conditions get back with my presentation. see think you're much. project sponsor equipped >> kerrie finch the project sponsors also here for questions. just briefly, as he saidsooners 60 ft.2 space. this is an a for building that was previously vacant area currently, a yoga studio going in to the bottom the other floors are currently vacant right now, so this will be a -going into an existing spot. the vision is to have it look

as if it was a small practice office or doctors office. won't be any signage outside. and basically, it's would be a small discrete business. there's no schools within the thousand feet and there's no other mcd's within 1000 feet. sponsor has reached out to the community. they've met with the union square business improvement district to try to get their approval. they have received a letter that you should have with regards to the conditions of that approval. they've met them at length 4-5 different occasions basically agreed to meet their conditions . those conditions are that they want to have a arm security officer on the third floor doing during business operating hours. they also requested that there be an unarmed security office to join the ground floor to make sure that there was no consumption of the building entrance around the building. will be no consumption on site. they've also asked us to pay for and

install a camera that would be used by the union square business improvement district and we have agreed to do that. also, other cameras that would be available to the project sponsor himself to maintain security and also install a holding room which we've also agreed to install as part of those conditions. there was that one recent letter that basically said that you probably see in your packets from one individual that we did try to address with the business improvement just checked with regards to smoking that could cause an acrid smell and basically, there's no consumption on site as we said that we will have a guard and security outside to make sure there is no consumption in and around the building in and around neighbors buildings were hoping to address that. the other letter that was discussed essentially with regard to the

school district, we try to reach out to that particular individual and try to reach out to the school do to see if we contact that individual to address his concerns. however common school says that he had nothing to do with the school and so we were unable to contact him this letter did not have any contact information. the project sponsors here for any other questions they may have but that's it that i can answer any other questions you may have >> thank you very much. open up to public comment. see no public, i don't think there's any common. commissioner moore >> i just want to disclose to the commission i asked for the project to be pulled off consent. i believe that given the many years that we have worked on mcd's. diligently as permission and support of this effort these are discussions that should basically rise to the same level of scrutiny as we have given to previous project. that's number one whites off consent. the second question i have is that in

comparison to any other mcd applications we have before, there is relatively little that lets us understand who the operator is. the reason i am saying that am mcd approval are not easy [inaudible] there's a list of criteria by which we look at it and what is most missing for me is a, like a presence of mcd users and supporters in the mcd community speaking on behalf of the applicant. that is very strong form of how in the past at least, new operators have introduced themselves to the commission. so perhaps the applicant could speak a little bit about himself, what is planning to do, glee is trying to reach, within the financial district, etc. if you would not

mean my prep speaking to us about that that would be helpful. >> yes my name is white linen. i'm out cannabis user for the last couple years. i guess i should been more informational package but a couple years ago i was also running another dispensary in san francisco fit the location was 5097 howard st. i'm no longer part of that group but i want to start a new medical marijuana dispensary this slide shows this location and i chose the location of third-floor [inaudible] i'm trying to target patients may be around this area. it's really-it's hard for people to get to so this is one reason i chose the location. other than that, am open to any other questions. >> this is a question kind of hard to ask. could you describe your previous experience, the role you played and perhaps help us to get a little better feeling for how many years?

not all commissioners were part of that approval. >> i used to be a banker. i also mowed licensed real estate broker. i came into this business because i had a friend who was also operating a medical marijuana dispensary on 19th ocean avenue. that's how i became part of this industry. a couple years ago the location i used to manage [inaudible] that's how i got my foot in this industry. i am-i used to be a banker. the license will stay broker and this is i guess i'm interested in how to [inaudible] >> thank you remonstrated outsole to get a little more three-dimensional to the application. the one thing i would like to ask our planner is, it's probably a typo. this

proposal page 2, this proposal would convert of vacant retail say to medical cannabis dispensary use and would be independent of the residential use within the existing building. i have the feeling that this building does not contain residential unless you had residential in mind in terms of the conversion or upgrade of the building right now. it's a little confusion here. >> it does not it was a typo on my apologies. >> thank you for saying that. there is one concern i have it a few weeks ago-i'm speaking to the commission at the moment, a few weeks ago we had legislation come forward where we were going to spend additional time to examine what mcd's do on upper floors in this particular case in the mission. i have to share with you that we have one mcd on california street which i believe has a lighting effect

on the lower part of california street. i cannot be clear about that that particular project i conditions in those conditions were not fulfilled the project actually went through review of not properly implementing realizing the conditions and about a year ago enforcement went out and realized it wasn't they made an agreement with the operator can still come up to date nothing has changed. the lighting effect of that particular project is still at that address. the reason is [inaudible] the owner of the building promised a active ground-floor retail use small restaurant or small lunch counter type thing. it's right next to [inaudible] in kind of a pretty high and conservative part of the financial district. until today, there is only ill

designed counter suit together was small and he can stand there for a month and nothing else and next-door to it-i'm not asking any question at this moment-until today, the presence of a security guard right at the entrance is [inaudible] when he walked on california street and i'm saying that because the size of the building, while this one is tall store building is of kearney street not quite as successful as it transitions into marketers what i want to approve something in this location i got up that we are comfortable with the use of mcd's on upper floors in this particular area and that we are also comfortable with the

commitment that is been made to the ground floor. those two things have to be basically just can" because i cannot see any use there that were not deliver that. is there anything you would like to add or to say? >> if you could speak into the microphone? >> the only thing i would add is that to commit to the conditions that are contained within the letter sent out, and make sure that we fulfill all the conditions at union square asks if you need additional details with regard was going down to the ground floor we could pass on that information. but it's our understanding at this point there is a yoga studio going in to the bottom floor of that building. that we would probably be one of the first attendance in that building that is currently empty with nothing in there right now.

>> i like to ask the other commissioners how they feel about the uncertainty in the legislation which we have postponed until september just because of uncertainty commissioner richard sheet you participate actively. commissioner melgar, we all felt that we wanted to support that continuance and how you feel about that regarding this particular project? >> commissioner koppel >> just due to the they can see the building not necessarily can automatically support pushing this off till september >> commissioner melgar >> i do feel little different about this one. i'm looking forward to seeing supervisor ronen's legislation and all that it entails. my issue with a couple of the-more than a couple of projects that have come before us is one of

geographic concentration of mcd's within certain neighborhoods which this is not one. and it's on the third floor and pretty contained and there's no neighborhood opposition so i would be okay with going with this today. >> i was uncomfortable with the africa which was on sam bruneau avenue.. i was comfortable with the one on bayshore across from [inaudible] because we have direction from staff and the director about the different land-use categories that the recreational cannabis would be in some of the controls be proposing to the board of supervisors and to us around that so i am okay with this. now were down to four commissioners, one commissioner could-we have therefore people to take dr and approve the project. is that correct? >> this is one of an awkward situation where it's

discretionary review. even those mandatory discretionary review it would access to take dr and disapprove this project. however, if you fail to disapprove the project were continue the matter, it gets approved as a [inaudible] and doesn't get any conditions attached to it so you need to take dr in order to attach conditions to it as well. >> i support taking the art and attaching appropriate conditions >> let me circle back if i majored i feel little more comfort about having more feedback with the missing parts were in this application and i really strongly ask that the department spend more time in t's on consent. i think is responsible for us to spend as much time and intensity on this the last 10 years and also to pretend it doesn't matter anymore. i'm just saying that for own integrity as a group. i do believe that [inaudible] street is different from mission street. very different.

i can't believe that perhaps on this particular floor at least as a test case it could be happening. however, the biggest leap of faith is here that the conditions are being totally adhered to and the operator has been in the business understands what i'm saying clearly is that it will be so neat. i'm watching. this building will have to go through additional review with historic preservation any way. ground-floor is in a historic district so will be additional eyes on the project but also we, in terms of future office tenancy the rest of the prospective tenants which currently don't have and hope you find them because it's a lovely building and a lovely location you will find people are comfortable with this use and don't see it as a deterrent but that is again in the skillfulness of how this mcd's operated and inasmuch as you

can be a good neighbor and i don't see our problems with that as a basic set up from the and cds are businesses supported by the types of laws that apply here in california and in san francisco. so i moved to take dr and to approve the project with conditions. >> second. >> i have a question. the conditions that we are attaching to this they then reflected in the business improvement district conditions negotiate with the project sponsor? >> that i believe six conditions are pretty standard for mcd's that are in the case report within our additional conditions that are requested the idea that appear later in the packet. those do specify an additional security guard i believe the ground-floor lobby space as well as details about

how those operators are going to pay into the usb id security camera system. >> i would just put in my motion they will be included >> this a private agreement. it's about paying for security cameras in action security guard. it's not necessarily mesozoic shirt or enforceable by the plaintiff carmen >> as well as to physical security guards i think we were president for [inaudible] as relates to payment into the business and from the district that something i would imagine our city attorney would want is a biases against it they were here. what also was the opportunity they raise commissioner moore as well as the ground floor space so you know there's issued permits within improvements and is an active permit minor permit altered the ground-floor façade so those are certainly

progressed stage in real proposal could >> how would you advise with his other intangible issue? we just have to expect the applicant has a relationship with the unit square business district and does what is expected there right? we can only add that as a wish we cannot codify that ourselves? >> you're asking a motion included security guards but nothing else? >> that is correct because a we apparently we cannot really ask for something that we normally [inaudible] >> one thing i want to make sure it is clear i don't specify armed guards were unarmed [inaudible] at the third floor and i cannot support that. >> house that typically handled i don't even know? >> i would just say security leave it up to the business owner to determine what's best for him. >> i would agree with you does in the industry have a

standard? [inaudible] >> thank you. you can call the questions because commissioner koppel are you amenable to that >> yes >> i understand the motion now is to take dr and approve this matter with conditions as amended to include security. >> the security officers on the third floor and the trolling the ground-floor [inaudible] demetrios i the building. >> as amended to include security on the third floor and on the ground floor >> yes >> on a motion and commissioner koppel aye melgar aye moore aye richard steadman. so move the motion passes unanimously 4-0. now we can go to the discretionary review

calendar item 15 has been continued as has 17 which leaves us with items 16 for case number 2015-00762 trp-02722 elizabeth st. it's a discussion or review. >> i need to take a two-minute break. >>[gavel] >>[recess] >> >>[gavel] >> commissioners welcome back to the event planning commission regular hearing for thursday march 16, 2017. commissioners were left up on your discretion or review calendar on items 16. per case number 2015-007062 trp-02 at

752 elizabeth st. understand both parties are insured in a continuance of this matter. so we shall take up the matter at a continuance of this time. >> good evening commissioners, john keep an rbi. i'm here with the neighbors at 748 and 760 elizabeth st. and i think someone who introduce themselves the [inaudible] neighborhood block and the point here is that were not quite ready for prime time is been arriving of issues discussed out in the hallways and i want to stress and want to make it clear on that misrepresenting the lease giving up any rights by this continuance and maybe we can come back and 3-4 weeks? >> april 13? does that work? >> you're actually hopefully on consents we don't have to hear it >> okay. >> very good, commissioners.

>> just be cleared were coming back on the 13th in good faith with taking the word of the architects and developers that were going to go back to the drawing table to negotiate and come up from an agreement that will satisfy all of us. >> the goal is to do that and were leaf you are operating on good faith and i know him personally and i'm sure you get i can assure you that >> thank you >> commissioners, chairman richard, you could request any public comment >> any public comment on the proposed continuance of this item? public comment? >> on carol colorful i live at 78 elizabeth st.. i'm a designer and i done interior design and product design. i'm an artist not slavic happen to be a realtor. so one of things i think that's critical in seeing what's going on in san francisco

>> i'm sorry to interview but were only taking public comment on the matter of the containment itself. not on the project. >> not on the project. >> you can see during general public comment >> i think if there's a continuance of it as a neighbor, has the conversation included the ideas of what the neighbors are considering because it comes back on april 13 what happens with-i mean is it only the isolated neighbors or my understanding was that should be a notification for a larger zone than just the neighbors adjacent >> at this point the project sponsor has to deal with the dr request her. it's his choice and option to do with the greater community at large but it's up to the dr requester as to whether or not they agree to put this on consent, if they withdraw the dr request worked as a hearing. it is a hearing held clearly neighbors will be

entitled to speak to the matter. >> is in the project sponsors best interest not to have us here because we can change the project or we can make different findings make changes the product so in their best interest to get this settled with the neighbors and come back as a consent item and get it done >> thanks. >> any additional public comment on continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed >>[gavel] >> weave a motion to continue? >> we do indeed >> entertainment motion to continue to april 13 >> i make a motion to continue to april 14 >> second. >> on a motion commissioners to continue this matter to april 13 koppel aye melgar aye moore: richard stroman. some of the motion passes unanimously 4-0. please on general public comments. i have no speak

regards. >> is there any general public comment? any general public comment? [inaudible/off mic] on any item. anything you want for 3 min. >> planning related, please >> anybody he could think of a much there's no general public, the >>[gavel] >> [inaudible/off mic] your 3 min., ma'am please. >> the realtor what i've seen and looking at the permitting process, and then when the permit is approved, i think the scene complaints by the neighbors saying what is built doesn't agree with the plan. then it gets approved by the inspector. so i'm wondering what's the process that we can expect if there's an approved plan and it isn't built as it's

on the plans? so that seems-i see that consistently the neighbors are complaining that the plan was not followed. the complaint is investigated but it isn't changed. so [inaudible] put something on the plans they change their not going to [inaudible] and it changes. i'm just curious if that is something,-where do we work with that as idea >> puppy happy to speak with you after the hearing. let me know your pathway is. >> okay., great thank you >> any additional public comment? seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment]'s >> >> >>

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