from the water and then the stack and the building next to it is a unit three power block. the project is proposing to either rehabilitate the unit three power block as a hotel or if not, demolish it. for those of you that have toured the site, i think you have been up to the top of it. the views are exceptional. i think it's an exceptionally and interestingly character defining piece of building, and i think most people who visit the site are taken by it. so this structure was built in 1965. it has been deemed a contributor to the third street historic district, and as you can see there are some plans from b.a.r. architects, who are here today, where we've begun planning what the hotel would look like to reuse the building. this is an image of the waterfront with the stack

preserved, as well as unit three rehabilitated into a hotel. as john and enrique stated, this building has not been open to the public ever, so it's an exceptional opportunity for the public to have this open waterfront. we like that the buildings are close to the water. we like the fact that it creates a nice edge loalong th waterfront, and we look forward to it being something with a lot of human activity and involvement. so there's an extensive preservation team on board. b.a.r. architects, holms buildings, page and turnbull, p.r.c. so the project sponsor has done an extensive amount of study for all of the buildings. for those of you that have seen the buildings themselves, they

speak for themselves to some extent in terms of their state of disrepair. our design for development document that we're preparing with the planning department will have district controls to every sure that the new buildings are compatible with the third street industrial district. we also -- i think it's important to note that the e.i.r. concludes that the third street district will remain eligible for the historic register even after the -- california register even after the buildings are demolished, so we are not putting the california register into question. it will remain eligible. there is a interpreter master plan. it's the same group that's worked on pier 70. we'll have clear guide posts and references to the history of the property.

this is our preferred project. it's a series of buildings, ranging from 85 to 300 feet. there's a single 300 foot tall tower that is a counter point to the stack, so the stack is 300 foot tall. it's intended to reflect the height of the stack. we've also studied sticks preservation alternatives in our e.i.r. we came before this body at the a.r.c. several months. we did modify our list of alternatives on the basis of feedback from this body. we added another full preservation alternatives, so we have two full preservation alternatives and four partial alternatives, about as much as you could possibly study in terms of alternate version of the site. the full preservation alternate that we've included as a result of the a.r.c.'s comments maintains both the same program as the project we're proposing as well as the proposal of the

three individual significant resource resources,. what you'll see is because the meter house and compressor house are single story buildings, there's quite a bit of square footage that gets pushed into other parts of the site and more tall buildings that we're proposing as part of the project. so this is the schedule for the entitlements. we have our e.i.r. that's scheduled to be published in september, and then, we would be back before you to take comment on that e.i.r. shortly tlafr, -- there after. so thank you very much. >> president wolfram: does any other member of your team wish to speak or is that your entire presentation? >> that concludes our presentation. >> president wolfram: okay.

is there any member of the public that wishes to come forward? yes, please come to the microphone. >> hello. i'm peter lindenfall, and i director the potrero hill rehabilitation project. i just want to emphasize the importance of the preserving the brick buildings on this site, particularly station a, the gas house, the gas meter shop, and the gas compressor building. a lot of these buildings are unfamiliar with people principally because you can't see them. they're fenced off at the moment by -- excuse me, by pg&e fencing. i've taken one picture of the north end of station a, and you can only see parts of the gate

house, gas meter shop and gas compressor building. there's been a lot of talk about maintaining the industrial feeling of the neighborhood, and because of that, i think it would be crazy to take any of these down. i mean, using industrial materials would be no substitute for saving buildings that actually are part of the historic fabric of the neighborhood and are very beautiful. thank you very much. >> president wolfram: thank you very much. does any other member of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing and hearing none, we'll close public comment. commissioner johnck? >> commissioner johnck: i'm so excited about what's going to happen here, and thank you for coming here, particularly oecd to bring the project into context with the southern bay

front strategy and i think that was really helpful. i think -- and of course i was on the -- at the hearing for the a.r.c. when the project first came in, and i wish we had had more information at that time, but i'm glad you came up with some more preservation alternatives, which we, you know, asked for, and thank you for that. and so while we consider those, i think since i've been out to the site, too, and it's absolutely amazing what the challeng challenges are to the site, it ends up creating an entirely new neighborhood and transformation of the site to achieve the goals that you've laid out. and i -- one piece of your presentation which i'm interested in, but i didn't hear about, but as an urban planner, i'm seeing how you're going to have to recreate

streets, you're going to have to reorganize the flow of traffic in the context of the preservation goal and new uses, and i wonder if you could spend a little time just giving us some more information about the challenges of reorganizing the parcel to achieve flow and that's an important piece of looking at it when you look at preservation. however you reorganize the site it's going to affect how the preservation elements shake out of that. >> mr. landa, upt to address that or maybe mr. abrams. >> the site plan, if we bring up the overhead, you'll be able to see it. okay. so currently, the site has no internal streets, right, so there's 23 street, and that's it. and there's humboldt street,

which is a pretty narrow street in a pretty significant state of disarray which runs east and west and terminates into the project street. what we're proposing to do is match up the street grid with the street grid that was created by pier 70. these are maps when you look back on historic records, you can see there was some path for travel in a similar direction. what we're really trying to do is link the project seamlessly with pier 70, so the main street would be the large blue line running up and down, which is maryland street. georgia street is a street that would be the second street. that street does run through where the compressor house and meter house are, and that's another reason we are proposing to demolish those building is because we want to open up the site as much as we can. if those buildings remain where

they are, it doesn't allow us to have as much access to the project as we otherwise would have. >> when the planning department looks at these large sites that are being proposed for complete transformation of use, everything is -- it's almost like starting from scratch on these sites. the goal here of course is to not only create a great development that includes a lot of housing, but connect these sites as much as poblg into the fabric of the city -- possible into the fabric of the city. so it's this incredible challenge how we -- not only is it a challenge in terms of urban design but then it's a financial challenge to the project, because unlike most projects, they're having the cost of building buildings, the cost of the new infrastructure that goes with them. so that's the challenge here. we encourage project sponsors to build as many street

connections as possible, and which they're trying to do, and sometimes, the push back is we can't afford to build all those streets. the project won't justify the cost of all those streets, so it's a tradeoff, but it's both an urban design challenge and a financial challenge when you're trying to build a whole new set of infrastructure on these sites. >> just to respond, then, i'll let others ask questions or whatever, i'd like to look at this, too, as a cultural landscape. as you say, it's never been really open to the public, and all of a sudden we have this fantastic new opportunity to bring the public in and the whole transformation with the other southern bay front project. so one, after i've seen it, knowing what needs to be achieved in order to create this transformation, when we look at preservation, knowing that the reason for demolition is to, obviously, make the streets and create the streets that we begin to think more about how we can preserve some

of the integrity of those buildings without saving them. there's some elements that we could, you know -- this gets into the discussion of facadism and what's right or what's wrong, but you know, maybe portions of these could be moved to create an entrance to the site. i'm thinking -- i've always loved the entrance to pier 70 with the arch way there, reminding us of what this looked like, you know, the dry dock, and of course, the connection to pier 70, too, is a fascinating thing to think about and how we relate that. and of course, your challenges here are much -- to me, much more significant. at pier 70, we had a lot of good structural -- even though there's been a lot of renovation there, the historic core, there was a lot more going for it, structure, than some of the buildings here without the roof and the water and the floors, etc., etc. so i guess that's what i'm starting to think more about, is how we get into the

discussion of facadism and what will work maybe with some pieces of those contributor buildings, you know, saved, where they can be and moved somewhere to create an entrance. >> maybe rather than using the term facadism, creative solutions that are a little bit out of the preservation lexicon or something. >> that was a lot of words. >> yes, that was good. >> that was more elegant vocabulary. but that's what i was thinking at the moment. fantastic opportunity. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner pearlman? >> commissioner pearlman: yeah. i want to thank enrique for walking me around the site this morning. it really is incredibly impressive. i just want to emphasize there is no street grid, so it is a creation of a street grid as director rahaim just talked

about. this is always the tear between preservation and cost of development and what was appropriate for your times, what was appropriate 150 years ago when these things are built and how the city has expanded into these areas that were formerly just industrial and now we're creating these neighborhoods with lots of housing and needing supermarkets and other things that neighborhoods need. so i know that that's the juggling act that the project sponsor's going through. but one of the things that i mentioned this morning to enrique is so much of what we talk about as preservationists and historians is these places tell a story. they tell a story of what happened here, and just because something happened here, we evaluate it. it's an evaluation process of we think this is important to tell the story of san francisco, and you know or the story of ship building at pier

70, and this is the story of power at pier 70. the buildings are one way to tell the story, but there are lots of other ways to tell a story, and i think this is a place where the juggling act might end up more on the presentation of the story in a way that's not specifically about buildings -- because of, one of the things that's obvious is the horrendous condition. if you get up close to those walls and you see the whites of bricks that's literally bulging out, you touch the brick and it's falling apart. i had an iota of nervousness walking through today because of the notion that an earthquake hits when you're in there, and you've got a talent on a crane that's up there, and it's many tons, and i wouldn't

want to be under it when it comes down. clearly, there's that to balance, as well. so i think this is, you know, a fantastic project. i look forward to seeing its development. i also wanted to comment on the facadism. there is a little facade -- for those who haven't been out there, there's this little classical symmetrical facade that's, you know, concrete, painted white, in the middle of those brick buildings that is a suite little facade that would be fantastic as a folly on the waterfront, somewhere else on the site. it's totally invisible. no one knows it's there. it was a joke when it was building how distinct it is from the rest of it. and then, the exterior wall that's exposed on station a is quite a beautiful thing. as i was talking with enrique about that central park area that would be perpendicular to that big wall, if even parts of

that wall could be incorporated somehow, you know, into a new building or being supported behind so it's the backdrop of the park, there's -- you know, if there are ways to do that, i think facadism is something we have to take on a case by case basis and not just say facadism is good or bad or -- but i think qualify it relative to what its purpose is in a project like this. so i'm very excited about this. i hope it keeps moving along at a reasonable clip, so that we can all see the project before we leave this earth. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner black? >> commissioner black: i also want to say that i really appreciated the tour, and i -- the project sponsor may not be thrilled with this, but i really encourage members of the public to take this tour. it is a completely different world up close and personal when you get into the buildings

and you get close to the exteriors of the building, and it helps you understand it a little better. before i took the tour, i went to pier 70, and i'm sorry to say, i hadn't been there for 1.5 years, two years, and i was absolutely stunned by how fabulous the buildings were. not only were people having lunch, but it's alive and kicking and it looks fantastic. it was really nicely done. it's obviously very vibrant, and i see the potential for that occurring on this site, as well. one of the things that's hard -- i wasn't on the commission when the a.r.c. reviewed there, or at least i didn't see any of the reports. we don't have a staff report in advance of today, so it's hard for us. there's a lot of information coming at us, and it's something that i commented on during the site visit.

we're making all sorts of comments on decisions that are very complex on this property. the property has tons of limiting factors on it. we talked already about the grid. there's also an existing power station that's never going to go anywhere, and when you're within 30 feet of the place, you can hear that buzz. that's going to limit the uses that go near that? there are obviously the historic structures. i -- when i went in the existing historic structures, i was really disheartened by the condition of them. the structural sound, they are not structurally sound. i was more concerned than urp about an earthquake when i was inside that structure.

they are not in good condition so that's obviously going to have to be part of our thinking. i don't think the public knows enough about this project yet, so there was a slide that showed the sleteps -- if you wouldn't mind putting that up again so people can know when they can start reading materials and what the dates are, if you can find that. >> one thing, commissioner, you said that the project sponsor would not welcome more tours, we enthusiastically lead tours. they regularly sell out. to the extent they regularly sell out, we'll start doing them twice a month. it's a tricky site to have them on, because part of the site's a construction site, but we've done everything we can to host the community at the site. we'll have people at the site in september for two events.

we'll toured interns, students, whoever wants to get on the site, we find a way to get them on the site. we do bring the public as much as we do on the site, and we are going to continue that process throughout the entitlement process. >> president wolfram: okay. sf tv, can you bring up the -- you can see now, commissioner black, the project schedule. >> commissioner black: right. it looks like this is going to the preservation commission on the 23rd. >> planning commission on the 23rd. we'll have comments -- after the draft e.i.r. comes out, we'll provide comments on those. >> in terms of the schedule roughly being -- we plan to have a copy of the draft e.i.r. being published in september. we will also be releasing the draft design for development document, soon there after, the

infrastructure plan. we'll be in front of planning and the historic planning commission as well to have hearings on the e.i.r., as well, and that will continue on through the string as will our outreach process. >> commissioners, if i could, my sense it -- if i could, looking at this schedule, it's likely that the e.i.r. would come to you in late september or early october for your comments on the e.i.r. that's not specifically listed, but that's my guess given this publication schedule. >> commissioner black: thank you. and to members of the public, it'll be on the website so they can review these things as they're posted. having said all that, i'm really excited about this project. i see the coordination of this, and pier 70, along with the rest of what's happening along the waterfront is a fantastic opportunity that the city seems to be taking advantage of.

for what it's worth, i think the potential conversion of -- i can't remember what it's called, but the structure next to the stack into the hotel. >> building 3. >> building 3. >> commissioner black: building 3 is clever as can be, and i hope that that's possible, yeah. so those are my comments. >> president wolfram: thank you. i have some final comments here. i don't -- does anybody else have any comments before we wrap up? i want to thank you for your presentation. it was really a fascinating project. i would say that in these projects, that there is a lot of new development all happens, and where everything is new, that they are definitely benefited when they're historic resources that are part of it, and that i encourage you to be creative in your thinking and maybe incorporate ways that are not necessarily meeting the secretary standards necessarily, but there are ways to include elements of historic

buildings in the development because i think it will provide some richness to the project, just some variety. i am a little concerned about all the new developments that will be proposed as part of pier 70, the southern half of pier 70, and then, the amount of new development, even with your great design, it might be a little bland. i think what we're seeing in mission bay is there's some bland characteristics there that just -- you can't really recreate kind of historic elements of buildings when you do new construction. there was similar issues that we've brought up at the hunters point shipyard where we've encouraged that 1307b sor to try -- sponsor to try to keep some of the industrial buildings there. it's a fascinating project with lots of challenges, and i encourage you to be creative in your thinking. so are there any other comments? thank you very much, and our hearing is adjourned. [ gavel ] .

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>> supervisor safai: good of the good afternoon. i'm safahsha safai, and to my l, supervisor yee and supervisor stefani. i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements before we begin? >> clerk: yes, be sure to silence all cell phones. completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will be on the july 31 board of supervisors agenda. item 1 is a motion approving or rejecting malia cohen, nominations for the reappointment of dennis richards to the planning commission, for a four-year term.

>> supervisor safai: unless there are additional comments, i would like commissioner richards to come up and address the committee. >> 2 or 3 minutes? >> supervisor safai: there's really no time. brevity is appreciated. >> i will be brief. it's weird being on this side of the railing. i'm nervous. to supervisor stefani, i always tell people, please don't call me or write me the morning of the commission meeting to try to talk to me or send some substantive communications, and i did the same thing with you this morning, so i apologize. i'm happy to meet with you any time day or night between now and the board vote if you would like to get to know me better. i would like to get to know you better. i turned in my community resume, which you have in front of you. there was so little space, the

type font got so tiny that supervisor safai had a hard time reading it, so i know it didn't show up that well. i have 20 years of community service, volunteering, advocacy around the neighborhoods, especially around land use. the octavia plan in 2005 and serving on that c.a.c. in 2014 when i assumed the commission -- being a commissioner. prior to that, i was in tech for 30 years. on the 30th day of my career, i left and did something fun. the last four years, i've been on the planning commission. i tell people, never before have i worked so hard, made so little money, but had so much fun, being a planning commissioner, and i seek your reappointment today. one of the things -- i had some reflection on this. i work with all sides, neighborhood groups, community

groups, developers, mayor's office, supervisors, in fact, after this meeting, i will be sitting down with the mayor's office of housing, ken rich to go over the india basin project that we'll hear tomorrow at the commission. i tend to balance out the needs and am collaborative, but when i believe in something, i stay firm to that. a couple of things that happened recently, we have a historic resource in the gay and lesbian community that was going to be demolished and worked to delaying the certification or the e.i.r. and we got word from the sponsor that he will add more units. so that's a win there. so it's an example of being collaborative and firm, so a win for everyone. when i got into the planning commission, we would talk on things and we didn't know if

anything would happen. but learning from tech, the action item list. i have in my hand, it's four years old, we have a lot of items on it. i've contributed a lot to it. we have some larger policy initiatives that will come out of that. during the hearing, people were talking about housing stabilization. i want to know from a radius of the 5m project, where they're stabilized. they produced a map for me. out of that, came the capacity of -- understanding the capacity of zoning of 141,000 units. subsequent to that, housing affordability study that was a couple of weeks ago at the planning commission. from the things that we talk about, there's a genesis and the department runs with them and then the action item list is the thing that did that. we also came up with a commission policy. we saw affordable housing being lost because two identical flats are being changed. one made into a tiny unit.

one made into a large unit. and then being sold as a single-family house. we have discussions around that. and commissioner hillis and i pushed for that and i'm happy to say that we're in place. the other big one i have under my hat is the demolition of definition and reform. we have a lot of smaller units that have been lost. we don't have a standard definition between d.b.i. and planning on demolitions resulting in a mismatch. we consider something a demo. d.b.i. doesn't consider it a demo. we tried to come up with a solution to that called the residential expansion threshold. it didn't work, but now supervisor peskin is coming up with legislation to harmonize the legislations, and it will go a long way for the development community and neighborhoods in the city on attaining affordable housing. i served on the rule

subcommittee, updating the commission rules. i advocated in the budget for a process person and i got the looks from people, what is a process person? planning is a factory with 8,000 ins and outs. at times i would get different answers from different people. and we hired somebody this past fiscal year and working on the process improvement legislation, so i believe your board has passed in the last couple of weeks. lastly, i advocated in the f.y. '19 for a tenant advocate. we've had so many times where projects come before us and the tenant comes that lives in the building that they will be displaced because the project will displace them. and i only knew about the project when the sign went up on the building. myself and fellow commissioners asked for a tenant advocate in the f.y. '19 hiring plan and that's going to happen and we

can understand and take into account the effect of projects on displacement of existing tenants in buildings that will be refurbished. goals for the next four years. retail is a big issue in most districts. on the action item list, i'm pushing for n.c. 30. we had an n.c. 20 at the department 10 years ago that got a lot of fanfare and publicity, but nothing came out of it. eating and drinking establishments need to be looked at and i'm pushing for, joint hearing with the small business commission to understand our decisions and how they affect retail. the second goal, housing affordability study. that was put before us a couple of weeks ago. i think what we need to understand is what will come out of it. short term, medium term and long term. we have to triage what we have

before us right now and we need long term solutions to figure out how to keep the middle class we've been losing. it's been about 10 years in the making and it's just sitting there. and there's been a lot of other projects that have floated to the top and given the development pressure, preservation is needed. a look at live-work and a policy around amnesty. we had projects come before us and found that half live-work are not being used and they're considered dwelling units and avoided the impact fees when they were built. my estimation is there could be $100 million left on the table for people that want to come out of the shadows and say that they live in a dwelling unit. and the last is parking standards for the city. we had a project coming before

us with a parking garage into office space. we don't have any standards that are parking wise. a look at that is warranted in the next four years. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, commissioner richards. i was thinking maybe, supervisor yee, we would open it up for public comment unless you want to ask your question first. >> supervisor yee: doesn't matter when. >> supervisor safai: okay. we'll open it up for public comment and then come back to folks here. anyone like to comment on this item, line up to the right, or i can call your name out. i see there's a bunch of people that have come to speak on this. >> good afternoon, supervisor safai, stefani and yee. >> supervisor safai: i'm trying to get an idea of how many people are going to comment on this. we're going to limit public comment to 1 minute.

please start over. >> yes, please. i will be short and tell the commissioners to be short in their presentation to support commissioners richards, moore, johnson and fong. i know that the diversity -- they bring diversity to this city. i don't always get what i want when i go there, but they bring a different perspective and that's what it is and that's what your rules committee has tried to uphold. i can tell you that we need them collectively. please pass all of them on. they're good for this city. they work hard. thank you. >> supervisor safai: is your comment for all four commissioners? >> yes. >> i'm jerry dratler. to save time, would i like to comment about agenda items 1 and 2. ms. moore is an architect and urban designer and brings 38

years of professional experience to the commission. she was recently awarded an acip, lifetime award by urban land institute. land use policies and environmental impact reports are reviewed, and those can be 700 pages. mr. richards says it takes 20 to 30 hours a week to be an effective commissioner. i've observed ms. moore and mr. richards in planning commission meetings dealing with a variety of agenda items. they're always well prepared, ask insightful questions and lead to fair and logical conclusions. they comment on site bureaus they've had made and that demonstrates their personal commitment to understanding all neighborhood impacts of the project. the citizens of san francisco are fortunate to have able and committed individuals willing to serve. >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm ken hogart. i'm here to advocate for commissioners richards and moore being reappointed. i've personally met with mr. richards concerning an eviction that was going to take place. i can assure you, mr. richards is -- has utmost sensitivity for those who are vulnerable among our citizenry. he's got a heart of gold, in my opinion. i've been a real estate agent for 43 years in san francisco. and i can see how things have changed. when i started in the 1970s, the affordability index was 23%.

today it's less than 7%. we need people like mr. richards and ms. moore to help -- >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker. i will interrupt for one second. trying to get a gauge if everyone in line is here to comment on items 1 and 2. it may make more sense to allow public comment and allow commissioner moore to come up and speak and then allow more public comment. is everyone here going to speak on items 1 and 2? okay. let's have commissioner moore come up and speak and then we'll resume public comment. before you do that, we have to call item 2. just sit there and wait for one second. >> clerk: motion approving or rejecting president of the board of supervisors malia cohen's reappointment of kathrin moore to the planning commission board

for a term ending july 1, 2022. >> hello, supervisors. let me begin by looking back and reflecting on how i engaged with the city. working as an urban designer and architect since the early '70s, i've found myself on the opposite side of the table, explaining to city officials like yourselves, planning directors, commissions, while planning and urban design matters. over the years, people started to recognize my voice. so in 2001, i was asked to sit on the treasure island citizen advisory board, which i continued for 15 years until 2015. in 2005, i was appointed to the san francisco waterfront advisory committee. and i continue to serve on that body. earlier this year, elaine forbes

asked me to join the pier 70 design review, this is sprinkled in between my three terms on the planning commission. i was first appointed to the planning commission, if you count backwards, in 2006. i'm speaking with the unchanged conviction that as an urban design architect, i'm able to bring a broad perspective and raise the bar in discuecembe did decision making, which is coupled with institutional memory. what other milestones during my time on the commission? there are many, but i will mention a few just for reference. there's a market octavia plan, the first time i met now-commissioner richards. there's the eastern neighborhood plan, merced, shipyard two, japantown cultural heritage.

the commission 2020 plan, 5m, the hub, central soma and the list goes on. there are many other projects large and small and all that have mattered to me. i remained anchored in my profession, shaped and challenged by circumstances inside and out side the city and by an ever increasing amount of planning in san francisco, including gentrification. today i find myself expand and shaped by my past 12 years on the commission and my professional skills remain one of my strengths, i find i've become more consistent and stronger voice for neighborhood concerns including ethnicity, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, types of disabilities and other relevant demographic qualities of the city at large.

with an urgent awareness of the enormous, increasing imbalance in our affordability for housing, rising income gaps, i believe that a balance has to be balanced somewhere so we can be livable and our way of life sustainable for all that can regain an element sustainable for all. i'm actually rooted in the conviction that a balanced position between social and environmental equity are more important than economic considerations on their own. to that end, my objective for serving on the planning commission reflects my commitment to supporting the

committee. we will continue to engage in authentic discussions and bring new insights when we look at the environmental and social and city-wide planning. those are challenges that we face every thursday and i reflect on them every week. i believe we need to add a new ingredient into the process, which is a comprehensive, broader view of the city of the future, where we can -- where we need to balance the important qualities of our city with a step-by-step thoughtfulness. it's not about good plans and long visions but how we achieve formulating that. in closing, i'm honored to serve again on the planning commission and today i ask for your support. i'm firmly committed to bring what i can to preserve and enhance a strong, traditional planning in the city that for me

includes a voice for all neighborhoods. i would like to thank the many supporters that have written and spoken on my behalf and especially those who have come today to voice their support. i do also want to mention that i strongly support my three fellow commissioners in front of you today. as a team, think we're unbeatable. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. we'll reserve our questions until after public comment. please come forward. >> good afternoon. i'm here to support the appointment of dennis richards and kathrin moore. i've lived in san francisco for 30 years. i've seen planning commissions and directors come and go along with land use and aesthetics. i believe that in commissioners moore and richards, we have

individuals that can bring a measured, balanced perspective that bodes well for the san francisco of the future. no one can deny the credentials that commissioner moore brings to her role. commissioner richards is tireless in his commitment to the community. both of them are willing to speak up to question and to compromise when it's the best option. the presence on the planning commission assures me there will be accountability to the residents of san francisco for the important decisions being made. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm stephanie peak. i'm here also to support katherin moore and dennis richards as their appointment to the planning commission. and i'm not speaking just for myself, but a lot of neighborhoods couldn't come due to work, such as chris and duta hockett. especially these days when we're

tempted with short-term housing solutions, we need critical thinkers with years of experience like mr. richards and ms. moore. ms. moore is one of the few who have been around long enough to understand exactly how the building and planning departments function together. we need someone who understands this system in need of rehabilitati rehabilitation. mr. moore spoke out strongly in the last couple of weeks, exposing the machinations of scoff law developers who have been making people's lives miserable for years. >> supervisor safai: thank you, ma'am. i appreciate it. next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. i'm john buruso. i'm here to thank president cohen and the board of

supervisors for reappointing dennis richards and katherin moore and to thank them both for ongoing service to the city. my brother and i encountered them when we joined the russian hill association responding to a project on my block . commissioners moore and richards demonstrated their job dedication when they agreed to site visits, assessing the block's homes and streetscapes firsthand. over the course of two hearings, commissioners moore and richards showed patience and resolve working through circumstances drawing on backgrounds in architecture, land use and reaching a solution. commissioner moore and commissioner richards are committed to ensuring the environment serves the purposes of the community, the neighborhood, and the city of -- >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir.

next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair safai, supervisors yee and stefani. here in solidarity to support my sisters and brothers of the commission and urge to you reappoint all two of them, as the items are called today. i value both commissioner richards and commissioner moore. the roles on the commission are very important. dennis with his lgbtq background is valued as well aztec. he's objective, logical and fair. i also highly value commissioner moore, with her european background and architectural design, she is experienced, thorough and detailed. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, commissioner. next speaker. >> rick hall, cultural action network. we have a very good balanced, planning commission at this

time. knowledge and experience, people with judgment that are reasoned and fair and recognize that planning is not just about buildings, but about people and community. both commissioner richards and moore exceed my expectations in all of those areas. commissioner richards is well-read, always brings new information to commissioner comment that is relevant and stimulating. he asks thoughtful questions and brings the right issues to discussion and judgments. commissioner moore brings her rich design perspectives based on her back ground world travels and also is very thoughtful in discussions and judgments and both bring a human quality. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker.

>> good afternoon. i want to associate myself with the comments of the people before me and want to thank the -- i appreciate the reappointment of all the commissioners. they all bring their own perspectives. and even though they're closer than some than others, i appreciate the appointment of everyone. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm jim orshell, i'm representing van ness neighborhood groups and victoria alliance, of which i'm president. on behalf of those groups, i'd like to heartily endorse both commissioner richards and katherin moore's reappointment. anyone who attended katherin

moore's board of supervisors meeting where she was acknowledged sees what her outstanding qualities are, recognized by her peers. she represents experienced professionalism and commitment. dennis, unbelievable openness, accessibility, preparation and caring. as a d.b.i. commissioner, i look forward to working with them and collaborating with these excellent, excellent people. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> i'm a neighbor, small business owner and developer and i have the pleasure of working with commissioner richards on projects, some big, some small. i will tell you that he listens to all sides. in my experience, he's challenged every project he's worked on. i wholeheartedly support his

nomination and am glad he's back up here. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm chris shulman, lower polk neighbors. we enthusiastically support the appointment of commissioner moore and commissioner richards. they're thoughtful, well prepared. and we look forward to working with them for an additional four years on the commission. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i support the reappointment of commissioner richards and commissioner moore. commissioner richards is fair and unbiased. he's not an idealogue or partisan. commissioner moore, we support her because she has an extensive background in planning and she

has integrity and she has the commitment to balance new projects. both commissioners have been sensitive to the tenants issues and unlike the partisan issues of not being tenants in a city that's made up of 65% tenants. these two have stood up to tenants that are victims of rent eviction and saved them. thank you very much. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. i congratulate all of you for your nomination and support of katherin moore and dennis richards. they've proven to be excellent, excellent planning commissioners and they've supported the

neighborhoods many times, not always the traditional, wealthy contributors that seem to run the city so often. so it's very nice to see justice prevail in this one moment. thank you very much. >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. gary weiss, president corbett heights neighbors and part of the san francisco land use coalition. the feeling from all of us who have worked for better neighborhoods has always felt that commissioners moore and richards have proved to be two members we can always depend on despite not always voting our way to approach each project with thoughtful, considerate insight. we appreciate supervisor cohen's reappointment of them and hope d