>> clerk: if there is nothing further, there's a motion that's been seconded to approve this matter as amended, recommending that with the bulb-out, no setback is required. and if there is no bulb-out, they retain the 9-foot legislative setback. [roll call vote] so moved, that motion passes unanimously 6-0. commissioners this places us on item 14, 2016-004946enx, 280 7th street, large project authorizization. >> good afternoon, i'm ellis samonsky. the request is for large project

authorizization to construct a 65-foot residential and 51-foot mixed-use in the western soma mixed use and 65x height and bulk district, pursuant to 65915-65918. project sponsor has selected to use the density law. it proposes departure and fronting on 7th street and 5-story residential con towning 20 dwelling units of which two would be on-site affordable units and approximately 851 of ground floor commercial street. the project would include 1,400 of private open space. 21 class 1 bicycle spaces and class 2 bicycle spaces and

interior courtyard at grade. the project massing is on 7th street and the building on lankton is decreased by height and mass. it's separated by a courtyard connected to the open space. it is pedestrian-friendly and a lobby on lankton. as part of the large project authorization and it will obtain waivers to the development standards for rear yard, planning code 134. and dwelling unit exposure 140. and it's also requesting a concession or incentive from the usable open space 135. compliance with the design

criteria and request for exception is in draft section 329 in your motion and in your packets. staff believes that the request in modification is warranted due to the quality of the street frontages and ground floor layout. in summary, the department supports the project because it meets the goals and objectives of the plan and western soma mixed use to develop housing at a scale and density compatible with the mixed-use neighborhood. it meets all the applicable requirements of the code noting the exceptions with the large project authorization and waivers on state density bonus law. sip of publication of the report, the department has received correspondent from and resident in support of the project. this concludes the staff report. i'm available for questions. thank you. >> vice president melgar: thank

you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. will millard, workshop one, project sponsor, on behalf of the property owner, dragonfly investment group. i will walk you through the proposal for mixed use development at 280 7th street. it involves demolition of a vacant two-story nightclub and construction of five -- two new five- and six-story buildings measuring 25,850 square feet with 20 residential units and 827 square feet of ground floor commercial space. it's located on the block bounded by 7th, langford, howard and folsom, three blacks from the muni and bart station. the parcel is an l-shaped, through lot measuring 6,250

square feet with 50-foot frontage on 7th and 20-foot frontage on lankton. here's the bird's eye view of the property. subject property is adjacent to a two-story commercial building on 7th street. on lankton, four-story, 51-foot tall live-work building and 30-foot-tall triplex. the nightclub was previously club hide. and here's the proposed replacement building. like previous projects, we've drawn on historic and industrial character, massing, and modern

interpretations. specifically, it reflects that of many other buildings in western soma and light industrial and historic district. the building has a strong pace and top. on the length inside, we have tried to take a different approach, reflecting its narrow ali. this is the back of the nightclub in red. as you can see, we've taken a modern form. we've reduced the height of the residential entry and provided a 10-foot setback at the 5th floor. in terms of building materials, cement plaster, with integrated color from white, gray, black.

on 7th, using a charcoal-colored terra cotta tile. looking at plan view, how you can see where the buildings are oriented, with the mid block, open space between them. on the ground level in red are your mechanical spaces, lobbies, bike parking. this is car-free, transit-oriented development. accordingly, we have bike parking easily accessible to both lobbies. residential areas are facing the mid-block courtyard and commercial space oriented to 7th street. 7th street. it has a ceiling height of 13 feet. on the second level, the pattern and 7th street building, three or four units of floor. we've got two 1-bedroom units.

7th street side, another two 1-bedroom units, but with nested bedrooms or a den. on 7th street, we have a townhouse unit with three bedrooms, connected to the ground floor. we've set back the lankton street building, 7 feet away from the neighboring live-work building and we did that to provide light on to a number of units that faced that deck. also pulling the building back as far as we could do the commons there. as you go up to the 5th floor, you have a deck facing lanxton street. no development on the 6th floor on the lankton street side and 7th street side and our roof is

our common decks. that said, to summarize, 280 7th street is a 6-story building and high--- >> vice president melgar: thank you. we may have more questions. >> the thank you. sorry to go over my time. thanks very much. >> vice president melgar: with that, do we have any public comment on this item? >> any time there's no opposition, it's like, hooray. central soma is coming. please approve this project post-haste. thanks. >> vice president melgar: seeing no other public comment, public

comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> commissioner moore: i think it's an interesting building in how the two sides are used. on the 7th street side, i'm wondering, the commission's position regarding penthouses for roof decks, the roof decks propose two private roof decks each with their own penthouse. i'm looking for my fellow commissioners' position on that subject matter. i prefer they're treated like everybody else, particularly in an area that is transforming. private penthouses at this point in time do not reflect the industrial character of the area. on the lankton street side, with a four-story building, while i realize out are pointing out an

unoccupied roof, i think the fire department still requires access to the roof. i would like to see there's a restriction in the conditions by which the roof can never be used for roof deck, particularly because it does not indicate that roof access will be required. very settle point, but those things slip quickly when later on, the fire department adds access to the roof. it's in the interest of the small-scale alley character that there is no roof deck on the langton part. otherwise, it would speak to a new generation of residents in the area, but it is what it is. >> with respect to the

penthouses on the roof, dedicated to the common area, that we have two stairs and elevator going to the roof deck. what we've done with the orientation of the internal stairs for the private roof decks, is try to connect them and minimize them and their projection above the roof. you can see here for the back, you can bring up the slide that we've brought up, you can see the stair in the back is nested up against the common stair and again the two front stairs have been connected to that common stair. in terms of overall mapping with the additional penthouse we believe it's minimal. we also want to just point out that the project is actually cut back an enormous amount of square footage from where we started in accommodation to a

neighbor for a number of live-work units that have no open space and have a 15-foot wide side yard for their exposure for eight units. we have a 1,400 square foot midblock court plus we've sculpted 7 feet back from there, as well as 20 feet, losing an area 20x7, so trying to add to the value of the unit that we do have. and we felt like -- >> commissioner moore: i'm not questioning their presence. i'm questioning how they're accessed. since we in the majority of cases along van ness and everywhere else, basically look for hatches, i would support a hatch with no reduction in the size of the open spaces. just following that we want to

avoid excessive rooftop that makes the building more private than it is. it is just basically ultimately the amount of stuff that we have on the roof. >> we're glad to work with staff to reduce the amount of that stair, whether it could be reduced in size, reduced possibly by half. would that be workable? >> commissioner moore: i'm suggesting for the two privately accessible parts of the roof you provide hatches instead of separate stairs. that's what i'm asking. that's what we're asking everybody else to do. it's a consistent question. my fellow commissioners may have different opinions. >> i'm not familiar with the hatch concept. >> commissioner moore: it's very common. >> commissioner richards: i support the project. i do like the idea of the private penthouses becoming

hatches and staff knows it's something we've been doing quite a bit, at least since i've been on the commission. if there is access to the roof on the langdon side, no roof deck can be included up there. move to approve with those conditions. >> commissioner moore: second. >> clerk: a motion has been seconded to approve this matter with amendment to restrict roof decks on langdon street sides as well as require roof hatches instead of penthouses for the private decks. [roll call vote]

so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously. it will place us on 15a, b, c, d, e, f and g for case numbers 2014-002541prj, env, shd, gpa, pca, map and cwp-02 for india basin mixed use project for an informational hearing, final environmental impact report, ceqa findings, findings under planning code 295, general plan amendment, code and zoning maps and guidelines document, respectively. note that the public hearing on the draft e.i.r. is closed.

public comment period for draft e.i.r. ended on october, 2017. comments resubmitted may not be included in the final e.i.r. members of the public will have 3 minutes to comment on these items. >> vice president melgar: there seem to be a lot of folks. do we have an overflow room? >> clerk: i will see if i can find one. >> vice president melgar: you cannot stay by the door. you need to find a seat or stay out until we call you in. thank you.

>> vice president melgar: folks, you cannot stand in front of the door. >> clerk: for anyone standing, you will have to find a seat, or you will have to stay outside. i apologize. we're trying to accommodate you with an overflow room. >> vice president melgar: folks, this item will take a little bit and the commission will take a small break after this set of items. if you are here for an item on

the agenda not related to india basin, you may want to take a walk and give your seat to someone who is here for india basin. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. matt snyder, department staff. we have several actions before you today, regarding the india basin mixed use project. we will start off our presentation. i will describe some of the properties of the project and then i will hand it off to michael lee, who will take care of the first action, which is the environmental impact report. we've been before you several times on this project. it encompasses 38 acres on the shoreline and bayview hunters point. it's immediately north and west of the hunters point shipyard.

the project has two major components, one is 900 innis, along with india basin park. these are items owned by recreation and parks department. they would be the sponsor. the other half, 700 innis, along with open space. this would be implemented or developed by build, the official name for the sake of the approvals. there are several actions before you, but i will immediately turn it over to michael lee, who will walk through for you. >> vice president melgar, members of the commission, michael lee, planning department staff. first action item is the certification of the final

e.i.r. the draft e.i.r. was published on september 13, 2017. the public hearing on draft e.i.r. was october 19, 2017, and comment ended october 30, 2017. r.t.c. document was published and distributed on july 11, 2018. since the publication of the r.t.c. document, the department has not received any additional comments related to the project's environmental review. after publication of the draft e.i.r., build changed their portion of the project by eliminating the proposed school and 66,000 square feet of commercial space. the land uses would be replaced by 335 dwelling units, so the revised project would consist of

retail units and draft open space would not change. the environmental impacts of the proposed changes were analyzed in chapter 2 of the r.t.c. document. the proposed changes would not result in any new impacts that were not already identified in the draft e.i.r., nor would they result in any impacts that would be more severe as what was identified in the draft e.i.r. the e.i.r. found out the implementation of the project would result insignificant, unavoidable project-level or accumulative impacts on historic resources, transportation, noise, air quality and wind. these impacts could not be mitigated to less than significant levels. as part of the planning commission's approval of the project, they must adopt ceqa findings for mitigation measures and statement of overriding considerations. we request that the commission

adopt the motion to certify the final e.i.r. thank you. >> vice president melgar: thank you. is there a project sponsor? i understand that supervisor cohen will be here shortly. when we see her, i will introduce her and stand aside. i will talk about the approvals that are before you, along with the e.i.r. certification, you will adopt ceqa findings for the r.p.d. component and build component. we'll ask you to approve general plan amendments, mostly related to the build component, the 700 project. we are also doing a -- several

zoning amendments, including creation of special use, design, standards, guidelines, and finally, adopt of shadow impact findings for the project. so before i go on describe the build project, i will hand it over to stacy bradley of rec and park, so they can describe that portion of the projects. >> vice president melgar: thank you. hello, ms. bradley. >> good afternoon, commissioners. stacy bradley, deputy director of planning at rec and park. we're excited to be here at this milestone phase and are really proud of the project and all of the work we've didn't with our partners. we consider this to be one of the most important undertakings of the park world in san

francisco in our modern history. we have the opportunity to partner with build to clean up the site and create an enhanced parks through our development projects. i want to re-emphasize the partnerships. that we've had as part of the project. we work with the supervisor and mayor lee to create the india basin waterfront task force with all of the partners that you see listed here. in particular with build oewd, pg & e, hunters point, parks 941-124 and everyone else that was integral to providing feedback and input on our design. to give you -- to continue on with the spatial imagery. the project is an area where the

whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 900 innis and india basin, we have an opportunity to create 1.5 miles of connected waterfront open space that will bridge this critical gap and gets up to 1.7 when we include northside with hunters point. the big green and india basin open space. since you've seen the concept design a few times, i won't go into the details, but our talented team has developed a thoughtful design that incorporated input from our

numerous stake holders from over two dozen focus groups and meetings. we've received great feedback to refine the design to really connect people that live here today and who we expect to live here in the future. we think that our neighborhood outreach organizations make sure we have great representation from across the bayview and we think that the design is significantly better from all of the input. to give you a bit of exciting images, this is the india basin short line park, connection to the neighborhoods. we believe this park will have positive impact on san francisco for generations to come. by the way, we're shaping how people recreate, participate in active play, enjoy nature, access the bay and most

importantly build community. thank you very much. and we're here if you have any questions. >> vice president melgar: thank you. i see supervisor cohen -- president cohen, is here. >> president cohen: i understand there are some community members that will take issue with some portion of the project and i want to be clear that it's a small, but vocal minority. i come to emphasize my support, my support for 900 innis at india basin it's important to note -- you may hear this in public comment. you remember when mayor breed

and i championed the local -- what's the -- the local preference legislation. thank you. that's a very important piece of information. that will be used to incorp race and ensure that the folks in the effective area of this unit will get 40% opportunity or ownership or rentership for the units that will be built in this project. as you are aware, the city had acquired 900 innes at india basin in 2014 and it was a very difficult feat. i was able to partner with mayor lee at that time as well as work with phil ginsburg to use accusation dollars to make that purchase. this particular project is in district 10 or else i wouldn't be here. it includes scenic views, waterfront access and, of

course, impeccable, beautiful, natural resources. the -- what's unique about this development and many more to come is that it will transform what is a post-industrial brown field into a 21st century park. some people call it a legacy park. it will be a beautiful -- another jewel in the chain of open space that will connect the central and southern waterfront into one contiguous body of open space of clean land that is clean and you all know the history of the southeast part of san francisco when it comes to clean land. it's a premium. there's a unique opportunity to design the properties so india basin becomes a seamless waterfront experience. if you can just imagine from crissy field riding down the embarcadero and south of market,

through the mission bay area, through dog patch, down to india basin and bayview. that's the vision that i've been working with for the last five, almost six years. when i think about this project as well as other projects that are happening along the central and southern waterfront. and i think that this becomes -- this will be an experience ju e unparalleled, with open space and parks. and i cannot overemphasize the need and desire for affordable housing as well as comprehensive amenities that come with such a development. so without doubt, we all know that the city's incredibly desperate for the need of housing. you hear it all the time. i'm enthusiastic.

and i wanted to communicate that to you personally, not through an aide or a letter. i wanted to take the opportunity to look you all in the eye. i'm enthusiastic to bring an array of units to what will be a beautifully restored shoreline. i hope that you will join me in supporting the items here today. you will hear wonderful, thoughtful questions and possibly challenges from the neighborhood. it's been an ongoing process and there's a point of discrepancy where i depart from some of my constituents, and that's concern to the tower height level and i want you to know i've deliberated it and poured over the plans and have had many meetings and i'm to a point where i'm comfortable with where the height limits are and i'm not nervous or have any anxiety around a slippery slope or

creating a standard when it comes to housing, but understand that if we're going to be dealing with -- if we're going to be dealing with a crisis, it goes hand in hand with density. and that some neighborhoods need to speak up and be an example and southeast has been an example when it comes to our approach to development growth, controlled growth, and development. so i wanted to take a moment of your time. thank you for allowing me a few moments to share and express myself. this has been an unhill battle. any project before it gets here goes through a lot of vetting and discussion. i want to recognize my staff from assisting me. it's been three staff members, but britney is the one that helps me to carry it over the finish line, but yoyo chan had a significant amount of time and

energy, as well as andrea rust, former staff member. i don't know if you have any questions or anything that you want me to specific address. i hope my remarks were helpful. thank you for your time. and thank you to the community that's been with us advocating and changing and shaping this proje project to what it is today. >> vice president melgar: thank you, president cohen. >> the rest of the presentation, i will first describe the actions. i will then turn it over to oewd to describe the development agreements. we'll hear from the project sponsor at build and s.o.m., who are the authors of the d.s.g. document. i wanted to bring to your attention the memo that i put in front of you just now is what

this is. it's a description of the changes that we with like you to make in your approvals. it includes substitution ordinance for the zoning and the special use districts. if you don't have any copies, i have some additional. >> very quickly, all right, i will just describe the build portion of the project. it is being contemplated in the context of the strategy. it's how we're looking to look

at these large scale projects in a coherent, comprehensive, compatible way. the bill development project would include mixed use, predominantly residential. it would include 1,575 units. 209,000 square feet of nonresidential use, including retail, some community facilities. the project includes the big -- big gift to the city is open space component, including the improvements of the basin open space, which an exciting city park would be rehabilitated. a gifting of another of the project, that would be under the jurisdiction and managed and operated by the park and several oth

other. i will discuss the general plan amendments. there are commerce maps that will identify the site, the 700 innes site for industrial. we're looking to develop it for mixed use. similarly, within the urban design, it's contemplated at 40 feet, because of a lot of the area being set aside for open space. the buildings will range between 20 feet to 80 feet with a couple of the buildings reaching 160 feet. there are small changes and rec and park elements that mention previous plan that was not officially adopted.

within the resolution, we made planning code 101 consistency findings. we have these findings refer to all of the other actions. at this hearing, we'd like to add language to clarify that it will be relied upon by other actions by the city that are consistent with this project. for the underlying zonings, what we'd be doing is making sure they're particularly zoned. it is indicating it's essentially park use. we'd maintain the underlying zoning nc-2, but for the majority, looking to rezone from

m-1, to mixed use general. and, of course, we're also establishing a special use district that would do the work for developments to come. as noted, we delivered a substitute ordinance to consider as far as the draft ordinance that we sent to you last week. on a high level, there's clarifications clarifying that the publicly accessible privately owned allow for entertainment uses, but some of the parcels being set aside for landscaping and such would not allow such uses. under interim uses, there's a provision that enables the

housing for construction workers. usable open space, we have indicated an agreement that we could waive some of the usable open space requirements for the portions of the site, referred to as code, because it's adjacent to an open space. and dwelling unit exposure. we're changing some of the language to make sure that it meets up with the d.s.g. we've agreed to allow -- recommending that we allow some higherly parking ratios specifically for grocery stores, with the cap established -- we don't go over that cap. and that we allow parking for the public park on behalf of the public on top of the ratios established, again, not enabling anything to go over the top for parking for the entire site.

this is a comprehensive vision document for the whole project. it includes developmental controls for buildings and vertical development, but a comprehensive set of standards and guidelines for streets, right-of-way and for the open spaces as well. the final action we'll be asking you to take is the shadow impact findings under section 295. e.i.r., as you know, because we're building projects next to existing rec and park properties, shadows are cast, e.i.r. and shadow analysis are determined that they're not significantly adverse. the parks and rec adopted a resolution making the findings

and we'll be asking you to make findings along the lines as well, for buildings to rely on the findings, including shadow studies for each building permit. for that, i will hand it over to talk through the development agreement. >> good afternoon. anne topia, oewd. due to a ebbing -- technicality, will not act on development until late august, but wanted to talk about the other projects in front of you. i would like to take a minute to acknowledge the planning staff that worked tirelessly to get this in front of you for approval today.

staff worked collaboratively over the last three years with d.w.t., p.u.c., port, m.t.a., to come up with creative solutions in order to produce cohesive documents in front of you today. we use the framework to guide the negotiations. the southern bayfront strategy seeks to minimize this with housing, transit, jobs, open space, sea level, sustainability, equity and community facilities. each contract is negotiated to leverage investments and add value to the neighborhoods. i walked through the basics in

june, but as a refresher, it's been designed to facilitate development of 25% of all market rate residential units built in the project site. this includes mbelow-market rates. it would be a combination of the following options. by constructing at least 139 on-site, inclusionary units. by conveying up to three parcels at no cost to a developer for construction of up to 180 units. third, paying an in lieu fee, which could yield up to 75 low-income units offsite. the remaining 319 b.m.r. units will be built on 700 innes site.

all in lieu fees will go to affordable housing 1 district 10 and could use them in smaller sites, affordable construction and rent stabilization. all the affordable units are subject to the 4% preference, as supervisor cohen mentioned, in order to encourage stability. there are maximum affordability levels the rate at which rental units will not be available to households over 110% a.m.i. turning to open space, the developer proposes a mixed use that will include a publicly accessible network, improved park land and open space.

at full build-out, open space will have 14 acres of parks, plazas, bike trails and pedestrian pathways. 12 acres will have improvements to the existing 6-acre rec/park open space as well as 5 acres of land identified into the big green, it's identified. this new, 5-acre park will be at no cost to rec/park. it will connect the 1.5 million waterfront park continuing to rec-park's properties and terminating the shipyard's park. the private sponsor is committed to creating a community district that will enhance maintenance and support of the spaces. i understand that this commission was briefed last week on projections for how high the

ocean could rise. an opponent of the sea level rise strategy requires that these projects agree to form a facilities district that will contribute to future reap sources for sea level-rise mitigation. like pier 70, india basin and all future bay projects will be required to create districts that establish a site-specific tax. it ensures that future dollars are captured for protection of the areas beyond the borders of the projects. additional benefits include the project will make $10 million contribution to offsite transportation and sustainability fee. the sponsor will construct neighborhood transit, including a bike lane connecting the

sites, with existing bike lanes on hunter point boulevard. build will pail school facilities fee of $4 million. there will be a 3,000-square-foot shell for a childcare provider. there will be a fund to be used for rental improvements or subsidy for neighborhood families for the first eight years of occupancy. there will be an open-air community market grocery store. first source job opportunities and 18% local enterprise businesses established by contract monditorinmonitoring. there will be a possible future community facilities use. this concludes my presentation. i will be available if you have any questions.

>> vice president melgar: thank you. staff, who is next? >> vice president melgar: thank you. i'm very happy to be here. i'm lou vasquez, managing director of build. first of all, i want to thank president cohen for her help moving forward. i'd like to introduce the project team, courtney passion, victoria lehman at build, who have been a big part of getting the project where it is today. and i would like to introduce the design team. s.o.m., our master architect, bionic is the landscape architect, gail doing our public

realm. we have sherwood design doing water and b.k.f. the remaining infrastructure. aecon doing our ceqa and environment. we purchased this site in 2013 and started our planning and development in 2014. it's largely vacant with a cul-de-sac. there were a variety of plans that were putting to in many years that this site had sat vacant. we reviewed the plans. they're listed here, as you can see, and tried to take the best element of each. in particular, we looked at the 2010 india basin neighborhood

association vision, which laid out the intent and desire of the immediate neighborhood for development here. over the past four years we have had extensive outreach. if you know build, we're exclusively residential. our office is three blocks away on linden. we're part of the community and have been for a long time. we reached out to the immediate neighborhood and greater neighborhood. we've had 150 meetings or workshops. we've included -- went two ahead of me. we've included merchant groups, citizen advisory groups, and two working groups that meet regularly to go through issues

and choices on the projects that we've made, including the india basin working group, which is the immediate neighborhoods, and bayview for the large ir neighborhood. the current zoning, the existing zoning, m-2, would accommodate two million feet of development and nominal open space. the plan went to about 1.5 million square feet of area. you can see the ratios. 39% parks and plazas and 31% shared ways. our current plan has reduced shared to 14%.

increased the parks and open space to 43%. contained about 1.5 million square feet of developed aira, 43%. i will introduce to you leo chow and any further details. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners, vice president melgar, director. it's a pleasure to be here before you today. i will -- it grows out of a process that grows on the inequalities of this place, india basin, which we learned about through our meetings and it's a unique place, where you have the ability to enjoy the bay as well as seeing a part of

the city. so it's excited by a set of principles in which creating a humane place to participate in the public realm and to be good stewards for this place going into the future. from the beginning, one of the things that's very important to us when we look at the projects is that we believe we should be looking at the broadest context possible and how a specific project fits into the community and how this could help knit the neighborhood together and make it a better place. really, this particular site is the missing link that would tie the things back together. as far as of that, this project has sponsored a series of studies and additional projects,

including the waterfront parks and trails analysis. the competition for the india basin and shoreline park. there's an effort and a proposal to put together an entire environmental graphics plan, put together working with the ports, period pg & e, rec and parks as well as lennar. we looked ator er ior i er ioo and amenities that was needed. we looked at the ecology of areas below the waters, through the uplands, so we looked at the full spectrum of how it can support an environment that was

supportive to the public realm and natural realm. the urban form grew out of a desire to make this as pedestrian-oriented as possible. that means talking the street grade and cutting it to a finer grain with pedestrian-only alleys and extending the stairway system, bringing it down into this neighborhood and out to the water's edge, so that those residents have that connection to the bayfront. trying to knock town our famous afternoon winds. and to create a fabric that's varied and promotes discovery and a sense of unique places. there are principles and guidelines and frameworks that protect the corridors and the passageways from the hillside

down to the water and also a network of pedestrian ways that move northwest-southeast, connecting the shipyard to the areas to the north, so people have a diverse range of places to choose from in how they move through the neighborhood. something that was very important to us was to create a series of strategies that would encourage diverse scales of buildings. 1 with of our mechanisms is the scale of parcels, so we're able to have buildings that are larger, multifamily buildings and smaller buildings as we move out to the waterfront. as you move to the waterfront, the grain is finer and smaller scales. the idea of tapering to the water's edge is reflected in the way we've positioned the urban form. it's a village that's

two- three- and six-story buildings and there are two mid-rise at 14 stories. we thought that was important because it gave us the ability to mark the entry and the public places for the project. it allowed us to keep the footprint as compact as possible, so we didn't create an urban wall. i would like to note that the public open space has been positioned to really occupy the point of india basin, so it's complete and we have this pairing of open spaces in the shoreline park and big green to complete a public park around the cove. >> vice president melgar: the commission may have further questions. thank you. >> all right. sure.

>> if i may wrap it up quickly. i'm sorry. i know it's a long presentation. a few more things that i forgot to mention as part of my presentation, there are some minor changes or corrections we would like to make in the ceqa findings before you. one regarding the project description and that it would be for the 900 innes building. and regarding the zoning that the open space provisions in the substitution ordinance, planning is recommending further changes that would be in the draft resolution. they just enable some of the buildings to be eligible for minor modifications up to 50%. and this concludes my presentation. and i would be happy to answer any questions you have >> vice president melgar: we're going to hear public comment first. i have five speaker cards. [please stand by]