any discussion? public comment? seeing none. next item, please. >> item 12 adjournment. the time is 7:04 p.m. >> thank you all. ♪ ♪ . >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular meeting on wednesday, april 18, 2018. i will remind members of the public that the commission does

not tolerate any outbursts of any kind and to please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'll take roll at this time. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: commissioners, first on your agenda is general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, the opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the committee for up to three minutes. i have no speaker cards. >> president wolfram: does any member of the public wish to speak on a nonhearing item? seeing no speakers, public comment is closed.

>> clerk: very good, commissioners. that'll place us on item 1, director's comments. >> director, commissioners. the director won'ting available this everyone a, but will be happy to direct any questions you have for him for a future hearing. >> clerk: we can move onto item 2, planning commission staff nounments. >> no formal report from the planning commission, just a reminder that the board of appeals for your pioneer monument will be held at the next proceeding, and i'll report on the out come. >> clerk: seeing no questions, we can move onto commission items, matter 3, president's comments or announcements. >> no comments today. [agenda item read]. >> president wolfram: commissioners, any comments on

the minutes? at this time, we'll take public comment on the arc minutes of march 7, and the hpc minutes of april 4, 2018. does any member of the public wish to comment on these items, seeing none, we'll close these items, do i have a motion? >> motion to approve. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on the motion to adopt the arc and regular minutes of the meeting on april 4, 2018 -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passed unanimously 7-0, and places us on item five, commission comments and questions. >> president wolfram: seeing no comments and questions, we can move on. >> clerk: wow. consideration of items proposed for continuance, item six. [agenda item read].

>> president wolfram: does any member of the public wish to speak to the continuance of this item? seeing non, we'll close public comment. do i have a motion to continue? >> motion to continue. >> second. >> clerk: very good, commissione commissioners. on that motion to continue to may 8, 2018 -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0, and places us under the regular calendar for item

seven. [agenda item read]. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the project before you is a proposed facade remodel and vertical addition to the property currently occupied by the macy's men store at 18 stockton street. the original building was constructed in the 1974 as a liberty house department store but was later purchased and operates as a macy's. the subject property is identified as a category five unrated building within the kearny mason market sutter conservation district. an honest toric resource evaluation determined that the building which is under 50 years old did not rise to the level of individual eligibility. based on the criteria for listing a property on the california register of historical resources. the project was determined eligible for a class 32 categorical exemption for the purposes of ceqa review. a major permit to alter

application is required due to the building's location within the conservation district and is subject to review for capability with the character defining features of that district. the project would involve full facade remodel, interior alterations and a partial one story addition. the work would create the building from single tenant use to multitenant use. the new uses would consist of commercial retail tenants from the basement level up through the fifth floor, office uses on the top two sixth and seventh floors, and the vertical addition would be a partial footprint creating a new eighth floor. that would be occupied at this point in the proposal by a restaurant with some additional outdoor terrace space. the project would require the acquisition of transferred development rights in the

amount of approximately 4,000 square feet, 4,000 units, which is outlined in the sponsor's f.a.r. table in your packets. the district itself, which is centered around union square, is a collection of early 20th century commercial retail buildings, character defining features of the district are buildings of typically four to eight stories in height of complementary building massing, materials of brick, teracota and stucco. those materials are typically in light colored tones, and the building composition is typically arranged in two skb three-part vertical compositions. corner buildings throughout the district often have distinctive architectural detailing. the district has served as a pedestrian oriented shopping destination throughout its history, and the architecture responds to this at the street level. where more human scale

detailing is found at the commercial storefront level. the arc reviewed the project for capability with these features on march 7th. i believe the notes were just reviewed and adopted here. the comments that the arc members had had in regard to the building's massing and competition, the committee did not feel that additional vertical breaks were needed in the overall design of the facade because of the repetition of the venestration that's shown in the project is supplementary in the other projects shown in the area, so vertical breaks were not deemed to be necessary. and for the building base, there was a call for a stronger termination to the base itself.

one of the recommendations was with regard to the terrace railing, which typically on roof decks, the policy is to obscure the railings, set them back so that they're not publicly visible because this terrace is down -- down there, the railing is typically a little bit more vibl than it wou -- visible than it would be. that has been addressed in your packet, and there is an outline for how that was studied in the ba -- studied. in the back of the packet, there are multiple options, but currently, a thicker piece of glass railing with a thicker piece of enteracota at the base

is the response to that comment. similarly, the vertical building termination, there was a comment to also do a similar increase in dimensions of the material at that level of the building which has also been addressed by increasing the scale of the teracotta at that location, as well. the storefront systems in the initial proposal were flush to the front property line and one of the comments was to set back the storefront glazing so that the piers could read a little bit stronger and have more of a return, and a six-inch return was given to the sponsor as a minimum dimension that they should start from. that has been addressed and is also outlined in your packets.

the recommendations from staff at this point, the sponsor has addressed everything that was rac raised in the arc review. the strength of those terminations at both the base, the base in particular, is something that staff feels could potentially be reviewed through the site permit process, but otherwise, it seems that the team has been responsive to comments. the team does have a presentation that they would like to present, but otherwise, if you have questions for me, i'm available to answer them wo. >> president wolfram: thank you, miss tavy. would you team like to come forward, and would ten minutes be adequate? thank you. >> so good afternoon. reuben, junius and rose representing the sponsor. so although today the focus is going to be on the district and

the capability, i want to start with just a couple high level points before ken will get into the design details. with macy's leaving, this building does need to transform from the large single tenant department store model that it is today into a multitenant building in a way that will activate almost 360 lynn i don't remember square feet of street frontage. we also need to be able to design the building in a way that will draw interest to the upper floor so that the entire building with all 250,000 square feet can be utilized and occupied. with the design that we have, we believe this building very much has the ability to be a little bit of a catalyst that will strengthen other retail uses in union square and provide greater connection between union square and market street. beyond those, there are many other benefits to the project, including creation of a high number of construction jobs and permanent jobs, and increase annual sales revenues to the

city. the overall challenge in a project like this is that we're not doing a demoin new construction, so in some ways restricted by the existing building. fortunately for us the existing sort of bunker building is not historically significant and probably not something that any of us would like to preserve, so from a permitting perspective, we are looking at a capability with the kmms district. so we hope that the packet materials that we're going to show you today will show you that a huge amount of effort has gone into this project especially after we heard the arc comments. so with that i'm going to turn it over to design. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners, thank you for your time. can we change to the mic? in a second, should work. i think it's picking up now. >> okay. ready? >> great. >> great. >> okay.

good afternoon. thank you for your time. my name is bob perry, and i'm with the architecting firm ginsler. this is a building that was built in a different era for a different reason. it was designed for an internalized experience. it seemed to work at the time but it doesn't work anymore. this is a building that lacks a relationship to the street and to the larger context of the district. it also lacks scale and any sort of historic interest. so we want to turn this building inside out. we want to turn this into a mixed use multitenant building with a whole new expression. and one challenge ahead of us is making upper floor retail viable, so the upper floor architecture is very thoughtful on how it can support upper level retail. so this is a great opportunity for ginsler to do this incredible project in union square in san francisco, our back yard where the firm was founded many years ago.

so we looked through the district, and we found really great inspirational ideas, structural rhythm, buildings that have a connection to the street on a very appropriate human scale. so that is a very informative process right out of the gate for the design team. in addition, we find materials that are very light in color, a lot of terra cotta, a lot of masonry, a lot of fine crafted materials. again, more structural rhythmic expression. and on a handful of examples, we find an example of a facade organization of a transitional floor that defines upper and lower floors. specifically to our site we really wanted to stitch this new design into its immediate

context, so we sort of mapped what's happening on o'farrell and stockton as far as scale or street-level experiences. that helped to inform the diagram for our building, so with that analysis and ideas applies to the massing of 120 stockton, we have a transitional floor located at the third level that defines the lower and upper floors. and then, additionally, we're a corner property and we're very close to union square, and so we wanted to further acknowledge that relationship. in the building's always experiences on the obliques down the street from union square, and so the corner of that third level is lifted to create a corner acknowledgement, and then, we also sort of looked to the historic blade signs for a suggestion of scale of what that corner could be. so this is what it means to turn that building inside out. a whole new expression, an architecture that's organized,

supports the historic context inspired by the materiality and buildings in the neighborhood. and what's more in that third level, materiality and architecture supports a destination. again, think about the viability of upper level retail. the view on stockton, looking up from market, see it settle into the context. now i'd like to talk a little bit more specifically about the details, and we start with the storefront. so we started with the district design guidelines. we looked at the components that made up a storefront, and we looked at our proposals and made sure that it had everything that was consistent with the neighborhood. well organized for flexibility and future retail. specifically in this view, we start to see the terra cotta,

and there's a really great story that we've embarked on and settled in the design of this traditional material. our design team has created a 3-d texturized pattern in the terra cotta that changes on from the ground to floor two to get back to some of this more interesting architecture and design, so this is a really strong point to really explore the terra case cotta and make it a feature of this building. that pattern and design continues down o'farrell street, again to see a rhythmic expression of retail and activity. that third retail is a strong destination. now, quickly, i'd just love to run through the dialogue and conversation we had with the

arc and staff that goes back to march 7th. starting at the top, there was a comment that we really need to increase the weight of the top, and have a stronger expression so as to cap the tower, rather than sending it off into the sky, so we've added more terra cotta to hold down the architecture. we talked about the base, and there was a word, it was do spindly, too light, so we worked with the design team to impact the storefront. in addition, the metal handrail has changed to glass, but we've raised the parapet height, we've increased the amount of terra cotta, and that reduces the amount of railing, and with the move to glass, that railing moves from the street level and really into the activity of the facade of the building.

specific, the top of the storefront, you can start to see has again this sort of three-dimensional texture terra cotta that starts to capture the texture there. in addition we've added a horizontal trim piece to further accentuate shadow and lines to further hold the base of the buildings. the storefront, it was requested the glass be moved back 6 inches, and to introduce a horizontal transom to better reinforce the scale of the storefronts, so both of those have been considered and added into the project. specifically, this was really great where we had an opportunity to speak at the detail level with staff and really talk about inches, and so where we've landed is that a six-inch set back from the glass and terra cotta really

supports the base and the overall architecture in the district. so i'm really excited to present this new vision for 120 rock to rock -- stoj ton. myself and my colleagues are here to answer any questions, and the owner, dan blattis would like to make a presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is dan blattis. my company traces its roots back to san francisco to 1922, so we have a lot of history here. i only wanted to add a few thoughts today. first just to say how excited i am to personally be working on this amazing project, but also we sincerely appreciate working with you and planning to maintain the historical context of the project. we are going to bring a

world-class tenancy to the development, multilevel retail, and most importantly for us, really for the city is to make sure we're open for the holidays of 2020 would be wonderful. thank you so much for your time. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner johns, you have a question? >> commissioner johns: i do have a question for you. as with the terra cotta, looks very interesting. have you done anything to attempt to determine how dirt will change the -- the design? sometimes that is an issue with terra cotta? >> what we'll definitely be investigating the actual finish quality of that terra cotta. a certain gloss factor will allow a bit of residue to not stick to an otherwise matte surface. otherwise, there will be great care given to the maintenance

of the project. certainly, an issue we consider for all buildings. >> commissioner johns: thank you. >> president wolfram: if there are no further questions, commissioners, we'll take public comment. are there any members of the public wishing to speak on this matter, please come forward, seeing none, we'll close public comment. yes. i have commissioner johnck. >> commissioner johnck: well, this is certainly going to be a fantastic transformation of the streetscape and the corner there. it's going to be absolutely terrific, and i want to say thank you as one of the first considerations on this for the architectural review committee. i think you've done a wonderful job in responding to the comments that we had. and i guess my only -- my only question, there was some staff recommendations, and i want to review those, but i'll just

take some other comments. overall, i think my general frame of reference is it's terrific. >> president wolfram: would you like miss tuffy to come over and speak to the recommendations? >> commissioner johnck: were we going to bring the cap back? i thought that i read that? >> president wolfram: i think that's going to be worked with staff. maybe, miss tuffy, if you can just go over the conditions. >> commissioner johnck: yeah. >> part of the case report on page eight, the first condition of approval, as part of the site permit submittal, a cap at t the -- detail for the second floor parapet or a top course terra cotta with greater visual

termination shall be incorporated into the plan set for review by preservation planning staff. condition of approval number two, in the case report, the recommendation was as part of the site permit submittal, ground floor storefront bulkheads shall specifically masonry material in the plan set in keeping with historic storefronts in the district for review by preservation planning staff. this was mainly because that level of detail wasn't called out at this point in the plan set. and condition of approval number three, prior to the issuance of a building permit, the project sponsor must provide written certification that the owner of the development lot also owns the required number of transferrable development right units to complete the project as proposed in the submittal. johnck jof>> commissioner john. thank you. that sounds like. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner pearlman?

>> commissioner pearlman: yeah. i agree with commissioner johnck about i think it's going to be a very exciting addition to union square. you know, it's so funny because we have so much -- so much of our architecture is very rhythmic and simple. you know, i mean, obviously horizontally it has its breaks, but they're all very simple and straightforward. it's exciting to see a building that isn't that, and by taking this transition zone and making it something extremely unique, it -- you know, your diagrams -- i appreciate you updated the facade articulation diagrams, and -- and you included the crown, which i appreciate. but i think that's a uniqueness that doesn't exist in the district, but at the same time, it's a 21st century interpretation of a patterning that is in those buildings.

i do very much appreciate your analysis of how you've come back and addressed, you know, the issues at hand. i still think the articulation at the top of the building is still not articulated enough. i can certainly live with that. you know, i think it still needs some -- you know, your diagrams talk about the word crown, and this building doesn't have a crown, but i do -- i mean, i get it that it's much more than it was in the prior iteration of the design. so also, i think, you know, a matter of inches, i think 6 inches is very minimal. it still feels very flat and flush at the street level, but again, you know, i can certainly live with that. i think it would be nicer if it were a deeper inset. i think that is a typical characteristic of these buildings, that there is a strength in the columning coming down, and the storefronts pushed in further,

but again, you know, in the scheme of things, i think that's a pretty minor relative to the whole. so overall, i think this has come a good distance from our last conversation, and appreciate the work you've done so far. thank you. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner black? >> commissioner black: well, i may be the only one who thinks so, but i actually like the design of the existing structure. it was very much a 1970's stand-alone building. however, having said that, it really does not integrate well with the rest of the buildings in the district, and this new design which is very modern, i think does, and that's not an easily accomplished thing. i really appreciate the break into two sections, similar to patterns of historic buildings nearby, and i agree with the architectural review

committee's reviews about the recesses, feel free to go a little further. i like the glass railing at the third level. i'm also impressed with the rooftop design. i think it's very -- rather than just having mechanical penthouses on the tops of buildings having a viable use, it adds vibrancy to downtown buildings and makes much better use of the roofs, and it's a design that's really not going to be visible, from what i was able to tell from the street, so it doesn't intrude visually into the building pattern. i think the building's going to have a lot of texture and rhythm, and that's in keeping with the language of the historic buildings in the district. i am kind of awed by the eye at the corner, and you've got an illustration here taken from, i guess market street.

that eye kind of, i think invites you into union square almost as if union square starts here, not the next block down. so i think it's -- it's really a stunning design, so i'm very much in support of it. >> president wolfram: all right. thank you. commissioner hie commissioner hyland? >> vice president hyland: yeah. i'd like to see a little more set back. 6 inches -- but now that i've seen it, maybe deeper would strengthen the peers. i agr -- piers. i agree with commissioner pearlman, top of the building could use a stronger crown. and i have a recommendation on the number one, and the horizontal definition at the base of the building, that would require the angle of that lower portion to be horizontal, would it not? >> i guess the detailing of it, i will leave up to the architects. the intent of the recommendation was since that

termination of the second floor is basically serving at -- as a parapet, how that parapet wall is capped, there are different designs of the cap in terms of the designs of the cap and how it's faced, whether or not it's something that's more substantial and has a greater projection to cast a shadow line because all of the terra cotta units are being custom cast. another option that top course of terra cotta, maybe the top edge of those terra cotta units has a different articulation at the top edge. >> vice president hyland: my initial take on the angles of the building, i wasn't too keen on it, but now that i've heard and saw your diagram, i think that the angle on the upper part works, and i would explore

whether the angle on the lower part, on the cap on the base is necessary. i this it may add a little more visual noise. other than that, i -- it's a great project. >> president wolfram: and mr. frye? >> commissioners, if you do choose to amend staff's recommendation to recommend a deeper inset on the storefronts, my only question would be to clarify if it's only for the first floor or first and second floor since that occupies the full base. >> president wolfram: thank you. is there -- i guess if there are no further comments, commissioners, does somebody have a motion? commissioner johnck? >> commissioner johnck: i want going to say before i move, i do think that would be helpful to have the six-inch set back -- >> the project does propose a six-inch set back right now.

>> commissioner johnck: right now, but what were you -- another 6 inches? >> no. >> commissioner johnck: i thought you were looking into that. >> commissioners, i would caution you that we're determining whether the building is fitting in with the district and not designing it. we don't design the project here and have some repercussion that affects them later. >> commissioner johnck: yeah, certainly. >> commissioners, if i may, you could direct staff and the project sponsor to work together on a deeper recess, and we could work on the did he at the sames -- detail as of what that is. what that magic number is, we could determine during the final design phase before permitting. >> president wolfram: and why don't we ask the architects here, do you have any comments about the recess? >> sure. we did go back out and do a survey of the district, and we found a range of depths. we found everything from 2 inches to really 6 inches.

you know, maybe a couple outstanding examples of far deeper, but again, i think in the context of our project, we felt that the 6 inch really did settle in with the overall approach of the design. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner pearlman? >> commissioner pearlman: i just wanted to say that in your survey, the barney's building right next to it is clearly more than 6 inches, and that's what -- we're looking right up the street at this beautiful rendering, and that's clearly, you know, like 18 inches or something like that. i find that a hard one, and i agree with commissioner wolfram about, you know, not getting so specific in our -- in our recommendations that we bind them to something that may or may not make much of a difference, so i would not include that. >> commissioner johnck: okay. so i will move to approve the certificate -- excuse me, permit to approve to alter

with -- as -- >> president wolfram: with the conditions that exist. >> commissioner johnck: with the conditions that exist,ah. >> i'll second that. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commissioners, there's a motion that's been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0, and places us on item eight -- before i actually went further, i did have two speaker cards, one for the mint and mission historic conservation district, and a second for 444 jessie street and 441 stephenson street, i believe is for the mint and mission conservation district. for those members of the public, that item was continued to may 22nd, 2016, just so you're aware. commissioners, item eight.

[agenda item read]. >> can i please have the powerpoint? good afternoon, commissioners. desiree smith, planning department staff. the item before you is a consideration to initiate landmark designation of the arthur h. coleman medical center. located at 630 one-third street to the brgss. the property was nominated for landmark designation through a community sponsored landmark organization submitted by dr. aurelius walker and true hope church of god. the staff determined that the property was eligible for local

landmark designation and that additional historical documentation would be important to telling the story of dr. coleman and the medical center. to that end, the property was added to the hpc's landmark designation program on january 17, 2018 to enable staff to carrie out further documentation and prepare the draft landmark legislation report before you today. designed by architect hansg. glass and constructed in 1960 for dr. coleman, 6301 third street is located in the bayview neighborhood of san francisco. the property looks almost identical to how it did in 1960. the subject building derives its significance from its association with dr. coleman. >> president wolfram: advancing automatically. >> a mind of its own. >> there it goes again. >> i'll just continue.

this building derives its significance from its association -- of dr. coleman, a nationally prominent african american lawyer doctor. he purchased the property to construct a purpose building medical facility to serve bayview residents. originally from philadelphia, dr. coleman earned his medical degree from howard medical college in washington d.c. in 1944 and served as a doctor for the u.s. air force hospital from 1945 to 1948. following his service at the air force, dr. coleman relocated to san francisco and by the end of 1948, had established a private medical practice in the bayview becoming the bayview's first african american doctor and one of only a few -- a handful of doctors in the neighborhood in general. opening in 1960, dr. coleman's medical center reflected the style of the period and served

as a modern symbol of community health, progress, and success. opening in 1960, dr. coleman's medical center reflected the style of the period and served as a modern symbol of community health, progress and success. he recruited a team of african american doctors to provide him in his vision of providing comprehendsive health services to the area's low income african american residents. pictured here are pictured from the center keds grand opening on february 28, 1960. to the left of a picture of the nowly opened facility and to the left is a photo of dr. coleman with the ten doctors he recruited to join his practice. at that time, the practice went by the name of san francisco medical associates.

together, dr. coleman and his medical associates offered comprehensive medical services including medical, dental, ophthalmology, x-ray and pharmacy. dr. coleman was known for regularly helping people who had no insurance or money, often providing health care services free of charge. during the era of segregation, as pyrring african american doctors had only two options positive medical school, howard college and harry college. following graduation they faced even more obstacles when attempting to secure residencies. in addition the dominant professional medical organization at the time, the american medical association as well as the -- as many of its local affiliates barred african americans from joining. despite these road blocks, dr.

coleman and his associates became accomplished doctors and chose to bring their skills back to the community. he became involved with local and national efforts to promote racial equity in the medical profession. he served as vice president and president of the national medical association which was founded in atlanta georgia in 1895 to represent african american doctors and health professionals in the united states after they were denied participation in the american medical association. dr. coleman also served as the president of the john hail medical society which was the local chapter of the national medical association. he also convinced the national medical fellowship, an organization that awarded scholarships to students of color studying medicine to open a west coast office in san francisco. he served as president of that organization for a time, as well. after earning a degree in law in 1956, one of very few people to hold degrees in both law and medicine, dr. coleman served as vice president of the american college of legal medicine and lectured at the

u.c. medical center. the san francisco medical associates thrived until the 1970's when state medical reimbursements began to dwindle and coleman's associates began to leave for more lucrative jobs. dr. coleman continued to work as a sole practitioner out of the building until 2002. in addition to operating his own private medical practice, dr. coleman oversaw an important and innohave ative federally funded program in the bayview-hunters point, part of a national trend that began in the 1960's, the hunters point bayview health services was a pilot project that enabled thousands of residents to access health carefree of charge. that program operated out of 5815 third street. dr. coleman was also heavily involved with a wide variety of community and neighborhood

initiatives, serving as president of the bayview neighborhood center al, cofoung the candlestick democratic club in the 1950's to increase voter registration in bayview-hunters point. he sat on numerous boards, advocated for affordable housing in the district and the campaign to establish a campaign center at the public library. in 1998, the community, through dr. coleman paraded down third street to celebrate his 50th year of service in the bayview and to honor his life's work. in total he practiced medicine in the bayview for 54 years and is remembered as a humble and

caring individual and a key figure in the areas of health care and civil rights. dr. coleman continued to work full-time out of the medical center until a week before his passing in 2002. the period of significance of the arthur coleman medical center is 1960 to 2002, corresponding with the year of construction through the year that dr. coleman worked at the facility. the property retains a high level of physical integrity that conveys its physical association with arthur coleman medical center. defining features include its location and site, two story height, flat roofs, boxed "a" (schwa)s, stucco cladding, historic recessed pharmacy entrance at the north corner and his toric main entry along third street, letter signage that reads the arthur h. coleman medical center, and a double height lobby with steel

stair. today, the bayview-hunters point clinic operating out of the building, continuing to serve the neighborhood with the goal of changing health disparities among african americans and other under served populations. dr. coleman's vision of community health care and his legacy continues on through the efforts of his daughter patricia coleman, and many others who work at the clinic today. the department has met with the current property owners and tenants, as well as community stakeholders to discuss the benefits and responsibilities of landmark designation. we've also met with district ten supervisor malia cohen's office who reached out about sponsoring landmark designation of the property. we are not aware of any opposition to the designation. the subject property meets

three of the historic preservation commission's priorities for designation which include the designation of buildings of modern design, buildings located in geographically under represented areas, and buildings with a strong cultural or ethnic associations. the draft nomination report before you is mostly complete, but some minor work needs to be done, more photographs, and the final draft will be presented at your next hearing should you choose to initiate a stay. the department believes the building meets the established eligibility requirements and that landmark status is warranted. department recommends the hpc initiate dig nas of the arthur h. coleman medical center. this concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions, and we also have a few members of the audience who are here to speak on behalf of -- >> president wolfram: yeah. commissioner pearlman?

>> commissioner pearlman: i have a few questions. on the character defining features, you talk about the metal windows, and i think they appear to be aluminum, and that designation is important. a metal or steel window is important than an aluminum window. they certainly to be aluminum, and that would be appropriate for its time. >> okay. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner matsuda? >> commissioner matsuda: i just have one question, and questions after public comment. who owns the property now? >> mojo capital investors. that was purchased a couple years ago in the case report, i have the exact year, in foreclosure, and the tenant is the bayview community clinic, which moved in also just a couple years ago. >> commissioner matsuda: okay. >> president wolfram: thank you. so at this time, i guess we can take public comment then, because there are members of the public who wish to speak, and i have some speaker cards

here, and i'll call them out, and you'll have three minutes, and there's a warning buzzer 30 seconds before your time is up. pat coleman. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is pat coleman, it's no coincidence that i'm dr. coleman's daughter. before my father passed away in 2002, he spoke to me about his drive in life, which had been to serve. he said that he truly felt that the good lord had placed him on the earth to serve and that's what he had done, and he surely did, seeing over 25,000 patients over the span of his 54 years of practice. many of those patients seen for free. as my father's death approached, and i sort of reflected on where i was going to go in terms of keeping the

facility open, i was bombarded by members of the community who begged m he to make sure that the doors of the clinic stay open so they would have a place to go and be treated with dignity. so one of the lessons that i learned from my father is it's not always about what you get in life, it's what you give. so i really dedicated my life to making sure this building would continue to offer the community the services that it so well deserved. one of the things that i want to make sure that the commission considers today is the fact that the coleman center is so much more than a building, it's a beacon of hope for the community.

one of the reasons why i fought hard to keep the clinic open was that it served as a role model for young kids in the community so that they could see that they could become professional people, and it was important for them to see people that looked like them. so i hope in your consideration to maintain this as a historical landmark, you'd please consider that. thank you. >> president wolfram: thank you, miss coleman. >> thank you. >> president wolfram: javvon mohamed. >> i'm the ceo of marin county health and wellness center. i was raised -- i'm a native san francisco, first starting out in the fillmore, and then, spending my teenage years in

hunters point, so dr. coleman, i was blessed to be one of those that was able to see him. an incredible man, i really don't have to say anything after that introduction to his life. i just want to emphasize how important it is that we -- we're able to keep the name and the work of our heros alive. san francisco is less than 5% african american right now, and as we are forced to leave the area for economic reasons often, some family reasons, our history is leaving with us, and i think it's a shame to have such a giant that did his work in san francisco, and even have a question of his work being lost. that building was bought in a tax sale after pat spent years and years of trying to hold onto a building, and the purpose of the work in the building was to give poor

people health care. and then, to have that building lost in a tax sale by someone who really wasn't interested in the history of the building is offensive, and it's painful, and it's happening more and more every day. and because we don't -- you know, people say vote in your interests, but when you are less than 5% of the population, how do you do that? we have to count on other people to value us and our -- and the things that are important to us more than we can vote and have the power to make those things stay. so i just am happy to be here. it's my honor to continue the work of dr. coleman. it was incredible when pat coleman asked us to come over and open a site there. i was honored. i think the burden of creating and continuing black excellence in that building is very, very important, and very important for the black people who still live in bayview to be able to

see a picture of themselves, to be able to go in and understand that they had great leaders, and also to receive culturally appropriate health care, so i am asking you to consider -- considering us. thank you. >> president wolfram: thank you, miss mohamed. reva walker. >> honorable commissioners, i am referenred aurelius walker. i was a patient of dr. coleman for several years. we grew very close, and he was of the same mind and attitude i learned from him that i have

about the culture, the background, the history of african americans. i belong to a developer's group, and we have developed approximately 600 low income housing here, and we're still doing that type of work. but in going back and reading the history and even hearing all the information that reflected around dr. coleman, i have become extremely excited, and that is why i brought this to the attention of pat and miss mohamed and the rest of those that's working to try and come before you and get this center recommended strongly. let me just say quickly, when you go back to the past history

real quickly, i have a street named after me because of my contributions to the city of work called aurelius walker drive in the bayview-hunters point. also, i have 85 steps that cost $1 million to paint them out, and the different colors reflect the diversity that -- in bayview, and it will be a -- a critical mistake, and i've watched you since i've been here. you've attentively listened, that we need this in the community for the african american youth, for our future so we can look at -- because i wa want -- i'm sure some of you understand about the articles written of a crime ridden poor neighborhood. so in turn that is why the tabornacle started building housing, because our goal was to keep as mooney african americans that want to stay in

the city or come back. let me tell you, there are several individuals have been strong in this area, and i believe that you're going to recommend that this project be approved, and i'll come back and say thank you very much. thank you very much. >> president wolfram: thank you, reverend walker. does any other member of the public wish to speak to this matter? if so, please come forward. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is lydia vincent-white. i am a native san franciscan, born and raised in bayview-hunters point, and i remember when the third street commercial corridor was a vibrant commercial corridor. we had everything that every other vibrant community has. it is no longer that case. now, the southeast sector of

the city is becoming an area where it's going to become densely market rate housing. there's a lot of gentrification happening in that neck of the woods because it's the last of the affordable bastion left in san francisco, but it's not so affordable to a lot of african americans. miss mohamed said there's about 5% of us left, and the way that the southeast sector of the city is going, more and more of us are being priced out. those of us who have homes that we're trying to hold onto would like to see a little bit of our history remain. it's going to become -- it's already gentrified. it's going to become more so, and those african americans who are left who remember dr. coleman making house calls,

excuse me, and treating generation after generation, if you could not pay, he did not charge, and the service that you still got was excellent. we would love to have a bastion of that still left after everything is developed to the nth agree. we still would love to be able to look at the arthur h. coleman building and recognize that the african american excellence that still will remain. it'll be a small portion, but we still would like to look at something and say this -- this was african american excellence that preceded us, and this is our hope that there'll be african american excellence that remains. thank you. >> president wolfram: thank you, miss vincentwhite. does any other member of the public wish to speak? seeing and hearing none, we'll

close public comment. commissioners? commissioner hie commissioner hyland. >> vice president hyland: yeah, i'm in complete awe. my only regret is i didn't know the history before i read this case report. i fully support initiating the language mark designation. as -- landmark designation. as an architect, this is the kind of thing i get out of bed every day for. it's not the building, although this building needs a little bit more love to it, but that's not what's important. it's about the meaning and memory here. this is just a fant particular nomination. it's a great story. i would ask staff to actually talk with miss coleman, and i forget -- miss mohamed, this potentially could be part of the legacy business registry or explore that. i don't know how the continuity between the current tenant and dr. coleman's practice, but

this is exactly the bridge between the tangible and intablibility cultural aspects of this city, so i fully support this. >> president wolfram: thank you, commissioner matsuda? >> commissioner matsuda: well, as a nonarchitect, and as a person who believes sustaining communities, particularly communities of color, i wholly support this landmark designation. in the landmark designation report, it indicates that the criteria for designation is persons, and just within this specific report and within, i guess reports in general, when it talks about landmarks associated with persons significant to our past, i think we need to be a little bit more verbal in our description. you so have the building, and the building probably really in and of itself could not tell the story, so i suggest we have some kind of large interpretive