table, i think i'm not sure where do you put that, right? where do you put the comments in. >> i think it could be very appropriate to do what you suggest and to convey that to the planning commission. but leave the motion so that that can proceed so we can get the windows fixed so people can move back in. >> if it's the case, if we can approve the window replacement and in addition strongly the president's permission, direct this to the attention of the planning commission to the mayor as well as the to the board of supervisors and i would support it. >> as a separate letter. >> separate thing. >> that seems reasonable. i agree we should do that. >> very good commissioners. there is a motion seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion. commissioner johnck. >> commissioner johns, mightser

pearlman, yes. >> commissioner hyland, and missioner wolfram. >> yes. >> and we'll mac sure she get conveyed to the plan commission an department. >> is the planning commission the board and mayor? >> board of supervisors and the mayor. >> thank you. >> commissioners items 10 a and b for 17 lbr. >> 479 castro street and kearny street. these are legacy business applications. >> good afternoon, desiree smith planning department staff. the eye tomorrows today are two legacy business applications, nominations submitted to the planning department on october 19th and ready why for your recommendation. while all applications were previously reviewed by the office of small business for completion prior to transmittal to the department.

your packet contain a draft resolution outlining the tradition as to the success of each business. the first application before su for cliff variety. a neighborhood hardaway and variety store founded in 1936. it's a family-owned store and it offers hardware, home goods, candy and other every day items for over 80 years. when the oldest son eriny joined the business he started the tradition of creating elaborate window displays especially during the holidays and designed a ribbon machine, two button machines and rolling ladders. currently operated by fourth generation family member, cliff variety store serve oafers 700 people daily.

the second application is for thomas' restaurante serving north beach since 1971. it's roots date back to 1935. however, when it was called will you pleaseos. it was found -- it was called lupo's they introduced pizza to san francisco and perhaps the entire west coast. it became famous for the wood-fire brick often. the long time chef took the new name. under the new name, the restaurant continued to serve a i growing clientele and in 1973 it was sold so the krati family. they added a few family recipes to the menu but otherwise maintained the same decor as the

previous owners. after the review, staff finds that both applicants met the criteria to qualify for the registry. i'm happy to answer any questions and i believe some of the representatives may be here. >> thank you, commissioners any questions? at this time we'll take public comment on this item. you have three minutes and there is a warning buzzer at 30 seconds before your time is up. >> i'm terry aws rn bennett. i'm the fifth generation at the variety store. it was started by my great great grandfather in 1936. we're an integral part of what the castro is today. we serve over 700 customers a day on a slow day and curing dug this time of year we look for 1500 customers. we are a destination for the castro.

>> thank you for tomaso's, i've

been going there for 50 years. i just couldn't be more thrilled to have a couple more wonder, wonder san francisco businesses. >> thank you. >> i agree wholeheartedly. i think cliff's is home to many of us. i treat it as home.

a lot of questions, talking to folks, they go there, and tomaso's, thank heaven that is still there at kearny and broadway, so i think it's great we still have these before us. >> i will echo understatement. cliff's variety is the best of the best and it is what 2 omaso's is about, and it fills a different realm in the restaurant realm, so i also think these are two of the shining stars of our legacy business or will be of our legacy business registry, so i also wholeheartedly endorse both of these. >> just more echos. i must say cliff's is definitely a legacy, and i walk by it every single day, so it'll be more special even more. >> so do we have a motion?

>> i so move that these two are accepted into the program. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion to adopt recommendations for approve of both legacy business applications. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6-0. >> so the question is how did tommy chin's beat the person who was named -- beat the person who was named for the restaurant? just a comment. it seems strange, that's all. >> clerk: commissioners, it'll place us on item 11 for the waterfront usage plan. this is a usage presentation. >> good afternoon, president and commissioners.

i'm the president of the staff for the preservation of san francisco, and i'm just going to say a few things about our waterfront planning effort if i can get the mic to stay -- yeah. so we all know the waterfront has changed a lot since 1997, when the port adopted its front waterfront use plan. that change was precipitated by the embarcadero freeway, the embarcadero roadway and to the boulevard it is today, but less prevalent with the polici prevalent are the policies that the waterfront adopted that also contributed to this transformation. so part of this was the public growing understanding of preservation, of historic

resources, and how that repaired to create and support public trust consistent waterfront development. the waterfront land use plan also required that there be an alignment between the land use plan of the port and the bay conservation development commission, and as part of that process of aligning those two planning documents, there was a whole awareness and public education process about historic resources that had never really happened with an agency that was really geared to recognizing natural resources, so we felt that that was really important, and it led to requirements in the plans that the port create -- if the port was serious about historic preservation that it create a historic district, and we did, then, embark on the nomination process and create the embarcadero historic

district. that led to a new awareness about the stewardship responsibilities and also to thinking about how we would rehabilitate the historic piers, and particularly about the tools available to us now that the property was listed on the national register, primarily looking at the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit. and then, also, through the planning process and working with the bay conservation development commission and the state lands, having to achieve a delicate balance of commercial uses with retail and maritime that could satisfy the public trust requirements and also provide public benefits, open space, and public access to the bay.

so that has been sort of our model moving forward. we've accomplished some significant projects, but the projects take a really long time. i would say six to ten years on average, and the port's resources don't really have that much time, given the advances state of deterioration and the deterioration as it advances just exponentially, the costs increase for the work that needs to be done. so even with the historic tax credits, these projects are challenging and in many cases economically infeasible. so in addition, we've also studied the seawall. the seawall is also sort of the foundation for the historic district, connecting all the piers, three miles in length,

and we now have the engineering information, and we know that it's vulnerable to a major seismic event, and so that has to be addressed. in addition, sea level rise, another new challenge that has arisen since the creation of the waterfront land use plan also has to be addressed. and these two threats together have created questions about the long-term development of the waterfront and whether or not our model can still work in terms of these projects. so the waterfront land use plan seeks to address these challenges by providing policy guidance rather than identifying specific solutions. and to support this effort, we convened a waterfront land use plan working group.

commissioners hyland and johnck, we were fortunate to have them in that group. one of the first processes we did was background studies, and in the area of historic resources, we did a report on histor historic resources and stewardship, and we presented that report to the group, along with other areas where there's preservation embedded in other topic areas like land use and resiliency and transportation. we also did modelling of the economic feasiblity of projects with different land uses to see if they could support rehabilitation of historic piers, so this together with the general understanding we need to create a more resilient

quarter front to require the adoptation of the historic district in ways that are unknown to us today. and because of that, we felt that it was important that we identify the public values that we should bring to the effort. as a result, we -- we developed with the committee seven guiding principles that affirm the public's value and the priorities for the waterfront. for historic preservation, the historic principles clearly state the high value and the port's cultural significance. the guiding principles will then be used or have been used to help guide the sub committees in their work to develop recommendations in the areas of land use, resiliency and transportation. also, i think it's worth

pointing out that of particular note is the contribution from your commissioners in the area of making sure that we included aspirational goals in our process, and that those goals, although aspirational, still be accountable to the realities that we face today. so that -- we thank commissioner hyland and jounck for advocating on behalf of that approach. so i think i'll stop there, but i did want to introduce diane oshima, deputy director for planning and environment. she's lead planning staff on the effort, and also was the staff that led this -- the land use sub committee. also with me is ann cook. she

she she's principal planner with the port, and she did some work with me on that sub committee. and just in talking about the tax credits, i wanted to pass forward a fact sheet

just information exchange that we need to set as the foundation for the different alternatives and solution options that we'll be looking at over the next couple of years. so there's a lot of first year,

year and a half that we'll be doing a lot of data collection, that the team that andrew is a part of will be working with the port onto inform them, very manically, the development of alternative scenarios for seawall improvements and at -- somewhere in that realm, we'll be having to contemplate how it is that addressing sea level rise and ongoing need for resilience planning. >> >> -- so that's the shortest answer to a really mindbending question. if you spend any time just starting to think about it, it starts going in multiple different directions. but it's a conversation that the more that we can own the fact that this conversation's coming along, even though we may not understand all the details, i think that creates a more receptive community for us to really be creative about

what's in the best interests of the city that balances the public values and enjoyment that people have and associate with the san francisco waterfront while making it the infrastructure of the 21st century that it needs to be. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> commissioner hyland? >>commissioner hyland: thank you diane and mark for coming today, and for all the work that you've put into this site. i think it's been two years now -- going on two? more than two? i thought it was a good point in the process to kind of bring the commission into the conversation. commissioner jounck and i have been giving kind of very general updates over the last few months, two years, and thought we would spend a little time so that you all understood what was happening. the port assembled the working group, spent the first few months establishing the working

foundation, bringing the working group up to speed on all the different pieces and the background and the information, and then, we went into sub committees, and we divided it into three areas. land use, waterfront, and resiliency, and i must say the land use had the greatest dialogue, and we came back together as a working group not long ago, a month or two ago, and it appeared that, from my perspective that the -- we needed to elevate the conversation across the three sub committees and try to bring it out of the silo and try to integrate all of the work that we've been doing, and so we've been very vocal as tryit tryin

continue that conversation. we're in phase two or part two or whatever -- part two, and it's going to go into part three which is a long public outreach and engagement process that will then evolve into what the document will ultimately get published as. not only does it need to be aspirationial, but it needs to be holistic, and that's what we've been trying to interject into this whole process, and the waterfront and the port is a whole cultural legacy of our city, and the individual pieces of it that are identified as historic elements are just a piece, just smaller elements of that, and we've been trying to broaden the conversation out of those specific elements into a more holistic across the silos kind of approach so we're not just talking about the historic

district or the historic bulkheads on the pier or trying to figure out some of our transportation issues. all the various things that are happening. and the seawall is actually a very important element. it is a character-defining feature of the waterfront -- or the embarcadero historic district, and although i realize it needs to happen, we need to make sure that it's preserved as a character-finding feature, that focus itself is actually quite myopic, and whatever results of that happen, we need to bring that conversation out and up and into a more holistic -- we're going to get a great seismic solution for the seawall, i have no doubt. what are the unintended results of that? i don't know. how can our twpgs solutioransp

solutions be merged with the solutions for the seawall, so i just wanted to take this time to bring you all up to speed on where we're at. thank the staff for coming and participating. it's been an amazing process, and they have done a great job at bringing together all the -- and believe me, there are 35 disparate voices from sticks to land use to whatnot, right? so i would encourage you to read the draft reports from the committees, and you know, get familiar with what's happening and if there's any questions, we'll invite staff or the port staff back to give us other updates along the way. but if there's anything that commissioner jounck and i can provide any of you, updates, specifics, let us know.

>> thank you. commissioners, any other comments or questions? at this time we'll take public comment on this item. if there's any member of the public who wishes to speak on comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public com. i want to thank ann and mark for coming today. great. i think that is our final item, so the hearing is

>> good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to city haul. my name is london breed. i'm president of the san francisco board of supervisors, and i represent district 5, the amazing district that houses the incredible 3rd baptist church, which we plan to make official landmarking status today. aren't we excited? i just want to say one, praise god, right? praise god, thank you for being here, thank you for supporting this ceremony. we are honored here to have the mayor here to perform the ceremony who will speak in just a little bit, but i want to

thank my colleague, aaron pes k kin for sponsoring this legislation, and thank you for supervise cohen for joining us here today, as well as our city administrator, naomi kelley. this is a wonderful day today. i'm so excited. remember when we celebrated with reverend brown and lady jane brown at the celebration with bill clinton, and i told you we would make this happen, and we made it happen, and look how quickly we made it happen? well, i didn't have a choiz because reverend brown was calling me every single day, every day fighting for this community, every day fighting for this community, and one thing i want to say about 3rd baptist church, which is my church, my home, thank you for welcoming me. thank you for continuing to a beacon of light in this community, who need a place of sanctuarn, who need a place to

call home, who need a place to feel welcome. 3rd baptist has been doing this longer than almost any other place in san francisco. it is an unappreciated institution because of its advocacy for being on the front line for anything related to challenges with our community, the displacement of our community, the issues with our children in the public schools. every single occasion when there has been an issue in the city and county of san francisco related to our community, 3rd baptist is at the front lines, trying to make sure we speak truth to power and we change the city for the better, and so it is only fitting that we come here today in city hall, and we celebrate our community, our accomplishments, and all that we have done to make san francisco a better place, but more importantly, we leave a lasting legacy with the changes in san francisco making 3rd

baptist church a landmark location, make sure that the next generation of young people, and the next generation know that we are still here, we have left a lasting impression. we have built this city, and we are not going anywhere. and so -- so with that, i'd like to turn it over to our mayor to speak a few words, and then, we'll get to a few other comments from some of the amazing members of 3rd baptist church. ladies and gentlemen, welcome mayor ed lee. >> president london breed, you have already said and expressed a lot of my feelings about this legislation today, but let me welcome each and every one of you here to the people's palace. this is your house, as well,

and this whole city is all of yours because we want this city to continue the strong efforts of being inclusive, being the rainbow city, welcoming everybody, but also working for everybody, and i want to say thank you to each member of the board of supervisors that are here today, our city administrator, our commissioners, our department heads for all sharing this wonderful moment. but i also want to start out by saying thank you to reverend amos brown. your leadership on so many issues, reverend, kind of defines what the 3rd baptist church is all about, especially on challenges that face people of color. you've been consistent, you've been steady, and you've been guiding us with the greatest amount of integrity in whatever capacity that you have filled. and this is exactly why the

supervisor and president breed said that when amos and his wife, mrs. jane brown, celebrated their 40 years at 3rd baptist church a few months ago, they didn't celebrate by themselves, it wasn't just community, it was people from all over the country that came in here: bill clinton, governor jerry brown, reverend jesse jackson, they all came out because they recognized the historic center that the 3rd baptist church represented, but they also know that the reverend not only speaks locally, he speaks nationally and internationally. so congratulations reverend on 40 years of your life here at 3rd baptist church and for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, reverend brown. 3rd baptist church has been

around since 1855, ladies and gentlemen. 160 years! -- 52? 1852. okay, my notes, my staff, go back to the history books, correct that history. make sure we have the right history. it's important because, you know, when other parts of the country talk about their landmarks, and we get kind of embarrassed, what kind of history they're embracing, i think we're embracing the right history right here with a building that has housed people of african american descent and worship since 1852. and you know what's significant about the 3rd baptist? 'cause i've always felt welcomed, that it wasn't just african americans, what the reverend, what everybody else did was make it a center for everybody to feel comfortable with. that's the significance of 3rd baptist church. it was for everyone, and when you go there, and you do wrong

things, you're going to be condemned. i've been there when people are condemned. sometimes i use the word, oh, looks like a crucifiction have been going on, but i've also been there with the greatest moment of blessings happen because people do the right thing. and you know, 3rd baptist does have that line, what's right and what's wrong. that's what we have to do with our kids, help them figure out what's right and what's wrong, and when you go to 3rd baptist, you can help them gain the moral ground. that's important to kids these days. they don't know the difference between right and wrong, we're going to lose more folks. this is what's important to 3rd baptist, and this is why it's been so welcoming to me and to so many others, so by making

the 3rd baptist church a historic landmark today, we're not only preserving the building, we're sending a larger message to the san francisco bay community, we respect all the people who have been here for generations, we respect you, we respect the community. we honored the work that you have done. it's hard work to allow people to recognize what's right and wrong and do the hard work. it's the hardest work that we have to do today, whether you're holding a public office, being a minute center or bei-- minister or community activist, it's hard job, but it serves our community and our children, and we must try to do better. this has been an important home to gobs of community meetings, employment workshops, to

incubators for employment opportunities, and it's also been a place where sadly, we've also had to send people away, who died in violence or met an early death. all of those aspects of life that are challenging the city, it's happening in a microcosm there at 3rd baptist in a collusive and collaborative way. so i'm just sharing thisome things, but i'll also share with you some strong feelings with people that i've got to hire in the community, doing entertainment work, doing community work, doing leadership work, trying to save more people, trying to get them out of condemnation and into salvation. we're all trying to do it, and in a large part, a lot of what i have to do is save more lives

and make sure people live more robust lives in the city, the city sometimes where people say there are a lot of inequities. 3rd baptist is about equity. it's n it's about finding love and support. that's why it deserves to be recognized in our hall of landmarks, so i say to the rest of our country, you ought to be embracing the right principles when you're endorsing landmarks. you ought not to be endorsing symbols of racism and oppregnano oppression. this role that our community has played, this building will be known for when we place the final signature of landmark status. this is our history.

this is your history. you've shared it with us. it's our history, it's the nation's history, right here in the middle of san francisco, we celebrate 3rd baptist church and everybody associated with it. thank you for being here, thank you for being witnesses to this wonderful important occasion for all of our citizens. thank you. >> thank you mr. mayor, and i just want to again thank the cosponsors of this amazing legislation. supervisor malia cohen, supervisor aaron peskin, and supervisor mark farrell, and with that, i'd like to bring up our leader to give us a history, abbreviated, reverend brown, we ain't in church. we trying to sign this today. amen? amen. amen congregation.

reverend brown, our leader, come on up. >> good afternoon. madam president of our board of supervisors, supervisors peskin, cohen, to our city administrator, our friend, miss naomi kelley, i see other department heads here, but time would not permit me to name them all, and indeed to our fine mayor, my friend and servant of the people, mayor

edwin lee, give him a big round of applause. and to all the members and our officers of 3rd baptist church, we have with us the chair person of our deacon's ministry, deacon alfonso campbell, chair person of our trustee ministry, trustee preston turner. this is a tender and touching moment for me, for i am privileged to stand to celebrate a fateful day, a day

in which our honored mayor will sign this legislation that w l defines a faith community as a landmark, a mark, a memorial of what all faith communities should mirror. 3rd baptist was not founded in 1852 to just equip people with knowledge of spiritual things. thi3rd baptist was born out of struggle. she was founded on the

anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the british west indies, and that struggle has continued cross the weighted span of these now 165 years. i want to acknowledge here that william duboyce celebrated his 90th third day at 3rd baptist on april the third, 1958, when paul roberson, after he had been maliciously ma lined and wrongly accused of being a communist, first came back to the united states, it was 3rd

baptist church that opened its doors to a man who needed befriending. dr. martin luther king, when he had inaugurated the montgomery movement had his first appearance in the hallowed walls of 3rd baptist church in 1957. i said again that this is tender and touching for me, for i was introduced into this struggle at the age of 15 years old, when i organized the first youth conference of the national organization of the advancement of colored people

in the wake of that malicious brutal murderering of em emma teal, and it was one year later that megawale evers asked my mother if i could come to san francisco to attend the national convention of the naacp, and on that sunday morning of the convention, where did i worship? at 3rd baptist church, and i was as a young lad from mississippi, so impressed overseeing frederick douglas haynes, sr., standing before that sacred desk who had the presence and the elequence that was greater maybe than that of prince albert as a gentleman, as a scholar, as a pretty

muche mucher -- preacher, and a social activist, so that impacted my life further, and to think we're here today with mayor lee, members of department heads, and citizens with the city of san francisco to honor this struggle with this designation, and because of this designation, there will forever be known that 3rd baptist was here, was reckoned with and made a difference in the lives of people for the better. thank you, mayor lee, thank you all of you who gathered today for we have set the bar high. i'm a woman, but i'm wise. i'm an immigrant, but i'm industrious, i'm gay, but i'm

godly, i'm saint, but i am sensible. that is the feeling of 3rd baptist, and thank you mayor lee for signing this document, so that in all common generations, it will be known that we knew more than how to walk the walk skb talk the talk as members of the human family. god bless you all and thank you all for honoring us this day. >> thank you, reverend brown. we had church a little bit up in here. he going to give it to you good on sunday. you all ain't ready for the chapter one, chapter two, and chapter three on sunday. he got some making up to do after today. thank you, reverend brown for always being there for our community and just really protecting our history and reminding us how important it is to remember what happened in the past so that we can celebrate that and continue to push and advocate towards the

future, and so with that, i want to welcome up deacon campbell to just say a few words, and then, we're going to get to the ceremony. deacon campbell, come on up. >> good afternoon. to mayor lee, supervisor breed and president of the board, to my fisk university alum, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor peskin, and all others who are here, it is a pleasure -- and to reverend brown. don't let me forget to say

that. it is a pleasure and an honor for me to have an opportunity to say a word or two on this historic celebration. this morning, i woke up thinking about what would i say because of the origin of 3rd baptist church out of racism and say it, and the development in the home of two members has led to this. i just know that god is good. i just know that this was meant

to be, and with all of the preparation and the organization and all the things that have been done, this is the payoff. i can remember martin luther king, in one of his many speeches, made the statement that the arch of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. this is justice; and we try to do that at 3rd baptist. we do it. we show as mayor lee said, respect to everybody, and we

make every effort to show justice to love mercy, and to walk humbly with god. with that, i will just end by saying thank you and the fact that as long as there is a san francisco, there will be a 3rd baptist church. thank you. >> okay. i just wanted to acknowledge supervisor jane kim and thank you for joining us today, and with that, let's get down to business. reverend brown, it's time. it's time. come on over here. [ inaudible ] >> to mayor lee, and all the

other folks around here, i just want to say thank you for all you have done for 3rd baptist church. you know, when i came here, i joined 3rd baptist right off, 'cause i've always been impressed with the church, but the biggest thing this church has done for me, it has so much carin caring, c-a-r-e-i-n-g, or c-a-r-i-n-g, i don't know which one. but any way, they're so caring. we have back on track to help young folks, because if young

folks can't make it, it's no excuse, 'cause 3rd baptist has got it. we have a beautiful senior extension group, and oh, boy, i can't wait to get to that because we play bingo and all kinds of exercise and things for the seniors. but we also have a music department that's out of this world. you have to come to some of the concerts because you can't beat it. but the thing that has helped me is that caring way. let me give you an example. this morning, one of the members called me and said, mama smith, make sure you dress warmly 'cause it's raining outside. wasn't that beautiful? give her