activates the ground floor, removes curb cuts with the cars entering and exiting the garages. the removal of garages increases the available on-street parking in the neighborhood and other street scape improvements such as planting of trees. lastly, it seismically strengthens the goals. it meets the department standards and guidelines and recommends the staff approve it. it does not accept exceptional circumstances. i might add that we have our a.d.u. team lead in the audience to answer any a.d.u. specific questions. thank you. >> thank you, mr. winslow. d.r. requester? not here.

project sponsor here? is there anybody who wants to speak on behalf of the dr? no. okay. project sponsor. use the big mic there. you can use that one. >> good evening, commissioners. i am the project architect for the project. >> is there a presentation on the computer?

you can use that if you want to, the shorter one, pull it up. >> this is the project address and a picture at the corner lot facing alamo square. this is the existing floor plan showing the ground floor garages and storage spaces. this is a two phased project. only garages back from a portion of tenants. there are vacancies. we are not taking tenant parking away. three units on the right side here will be in phase one. shaded one on fulton will be phase two or as they become available as renters move out. we provided die grams -- diagrams showing we are removing the driveways and curb cuts from the building we are providing on-street parking. in phase one we are removing four spaces here. we are adding three. taking out four garages.

in phase two we are adding three and four additional parking spaces and removing those. it is a 70% replacement from private garages to on-street parking. we were dumb founded by the dr filing. they showed up at preservation hearing. they are from the church across the street. we are not impacting their building in any way. many comments were relating to damaging the historic character of the building or impacting the parishioners. we think we are providing additional units for parishioners. these are rent controlled units as required. we fail to understand the concerns. they are not here today. the concerns have been dealt with. i am open for questions. >> thank you. any additional public comment on

this? seeing none, we will close public comment. commissioners. >> i make a motion that we approve this project. >> second. >> thank you commissioners. (roll call) sod moved that motion passes 4-0. that places you on 18. 136 palm avenue. discretionary review. >> david win winslow. this is a public request for 2017-0628-0596 to raise an

existing roof four feet and add dormers to create a fourth floor on a home built in 1920. it is 43 food white by -- food white. with a -- foot wide. it was a historic resource. it has been found to comply with the secretary of interior standards does not pose material impact to the identified district. i think it is a potential district. the d.r. requester is adjacent property to the south. the reasons for the d.r. request are two. first impacts to light and air. impact to privacy. public comment to date. department has received no letters of support or opposition. in light of the concerns department rereviewed the project with the residential

guidelines. vertical expansion by racing the roof and adding dormers is sensitive with minimal increase in height. it is approximately 20 feet away from d.r. requester's windows due to the 17-foot side yard and three foot deep light well to the south. location of the subject building to the north allows indirect light. in your package you can see renditions of that. the difference between the current and existing. number two. additional pairs of windows and dormers are appropriately sized and located to not present any you privacy. it meets the standards and guidelines and you approve the project. it does not present any

extraordinary conditions to justify further conditions to the code compliant project. this concludes my presentation. >> d.r. requester. welcome. you have five minutes if you would like. >> is there a way to it is and talk? >> yes. you can pull that down. >> grab that one. >> are you david winslow? >> the one and only.

>> excuse me. i have never done this before. thank you. i am going to try to talk fast. david winslow, i want to apologize fo for missing our lat meeting at the planning department. i was dealing with a friend hospitalized and i missed the last minute change of time. i don't want you to think i am unreliable and i don't care. i do care. i am told we will be turned down today. i guess you just did it. david winslow in a rent conversation said to the planning department does not want to spend more money on this case. in a conversation with natalie yesterday sadie laying the project will cost more money. if true this should not be the

reason reason for denying due process. if they compromise a little this could have been resolved sooner. out of my ear shot, i have been characterized as disinterested and obstructive to having discussions. any statements to that effect are untrue. they have demonstrated in all actions that they had no interest in giving up anything. so i am pointing that out. one after the first mailing the architect had an introductory meeting which alerted that i could not make. i had a brief conversation with him asking him to generally describe what the proposed were planning because i could not read plans. i was dependent upon him to

describe everythingrel haven't. from the beginning i had concerns and objections. i asked if he could schedule another and let me know. i never heard from him. two, the application was moving through the planning department for special review. i was not asked for concerns to perhaps incorporate to design. three, at neighborhood barbecue. nothing was ever hinted at by them on the plans. upon leaving, i mentioned we still had to meet to discuss the plans. kelly replied anytime. on the next day i said to her that i didn't necessarily have to meet to look at the plans. these were the preliminary ones. i wanted her to know of my concerns. i expected a response.

there was none. she made no mention of what was to come next. which is number five. the notice to build was sent. i immediately called ben. he listened, but nothing came of my stating my concerns again. he expressed confidence they would prevail because the plans hadlassed the planning department. he also asked to take photos from my kitchen but never made time to do so. six, i talked to alexander our liaison at the planning defendant and complained that ben did not seem to be interested in communicating with me. she said then that the wall would be going up four feet then pitched to the peak. that she would ask been to contact me to clarify. he never did.

ben only call me when i e-mailed him to say we would filed for discretionary review. only in the last month after we filed for discretionary review did i learn from ben that the pops agreed to go up six feet. they have made no concessions or interest in doing so. i am speaking for the could line owners. we would like -- co-owners. we would like to suggest a slight delay of a few weeks to bring the rise from six feet from four feet to start it from there. >> can i continue. >> you have 25 seconds. >> and that -- sorry. that they take full height on

the other side of their building where they are closer to the neighbor and who may not care and where it would not be obvious from the street. also to reduce the number and size of windows and place glass on the small bathroom and stair windows as permanent fixture. >> thank you. two minute rebuttal. that is after they speak. we will call you back for two minutes. then they have two minutes. any public comment in support of the dr? okay. if there is anybody else to speak on your behalf. seeing none, project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> five. >> i am one you have the project sponsors with my husband. this is ben farrell the architect. we will take a moment right now. for us this is not a new

project. we purchased the property. >> i can't hear. >> for us this is not a new project. we purchased the profit nine years ago. this is a long road. we did a number of structural changes preceding this. that started in 2013 from the planning perspective. we started construction in 2014. we have been open with neighbors. >> i can't hear what you are saying. i won't be age to rebut. >> it is the mic. speak into the mic. >> i am speaking it as much as i can. i don't want to shout this. say long a long journey. we are open the entire time. that was our intention from the time we bought the property. in addition, we started this phase of the project well over a year ago and have been open with our neighbors and the neighborhood the entire time.

we highlighted that correspondence including the mandatory preapplication meetings and mailings in addition to other outreach that we did. there is the opportunity for dialogue all along. the only response we received from the neighbor was they didn't want us to do the project and they were opposed. nothing asked for we offered to bring the meeting to her. we had a conference call and have been open this entire time. only after the dr was filed did we have a conversation where they responded. i am a mom of two kids six and nine. 1600 square feet with one bathroom. we are trying to make it work. it let us afford to stays in the home. if we cannot expand the home we will be forced to leave the city. for us to buy this property we

had the same tent from being a single die to the third child in december. we have made it work. it is hard to feel this is our last chance and this one person who doesn't want to talk to us and maintain a neighborly relationship is preventing us from do what we set out to do nine years ago. >> i am the architect. i like this project. right time, right place, right people. it allows us to expand. we are takingatic space and pushing up the roof four feet to give us two story over basement right now with i think, you know, moderate change to the exterior of the building. there is great separation between this house and the

adjacent house to the south. i did a very cursory shadow study so we could see the summer sun angles and where they end up falling. it is hard to agree there is going to be any impact to light or fresh air across 21 feet from the four feet extension. the vertical wall closist does extend out six feet. that was not clear for a lot of the discussion. obviously the information came from me. you know, the great cross section of san francisco that we have seen this afternoon this is relatively small potatoes. to these two people it is the biggest thing ever. >> is that all? we have to keep going. any public comment in support of the project?

seeing none. he has a two minuter rebuttal if you would like. >> i don't know if it is relevant, but i don't feel you it. shy wants something and -- she wants something and wants all of what she wants. the characterization of my not wants to communicate. i had communicate. i said to ben, would they go for four-foot? i don't think he said yes or no. that is kind of a concession, isn't it? it is a suggestion of what how we can compromise. i initially said, women, you know, truth be told you i don't want you to do it at all but that doesn't mean that is all in my head.

there were some things that we could have agreed upon as a compromise, but they kind of, and i was available. i mean i think i pointed out in those as i did, one, three, seven. i didn't hear back. it is like, yeah, we can talk. okay, talk. okay. no hearing back. no coming back and saying, what do you suggest? what about this? i mean they were just -- to attitude i came to understand was that we have got it. we don't even have to talk to you. we can pretend to talk to you. we development have to talk to you. -- we don't have to talk to you. i was not unavailable for conversations, and i in fact as

i pointed out did reach out to them. i will let that go. >> thank you very much. a two minute rebuttal. >> for the d.r. request there is closed caption if you can't hear on the screens right over there. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to say that we were completely caught off guard by the dr filing. you can see the correspondence. they had everything for a large amount of time. we hosted outreach meetings didn't get anything prior to that. we exceed all of the residential design guidelines. we had a rigorous review of historic. there is nothing extraordinary about it. we need the head height four the space to be inhabitable by a 6 footman.

if we can't walk through it, we can't afford to do it. it is not worth it. >> thank you. we will close this portion of the hearing. commissioner richards. >> this is probably the only zr where i have not -- dr much about the merits of the case instead of who said what. i don't see any reason to take dr. i believe the staff decision is good. i move to approve the project. >> second. >> not take dr and approve as proposed. (roll call). so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 5-0. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you all.

>> hi.ou all. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's aelectricitied assessor. today, i want to share with you a property tax savings programs for families called proposition 58. prop 58 was passed in 1986 and it was helped parents pass on their lower property tax base to their children. so how does this work? under california's prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to 2% growth peryear. but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we reassess properties to market value. if parents want to pass on their home or other property to their children, it would be considered a change in ownership.

assuming the market value of your property has gone up, your children, the new owners, would pay taxes starting at that new higher level. that's where prop 58 comes in. prop 58 recognizes the transfer between parents and children so that instead of taxing your children at that new higher level, they get to keep your lower prop 13 value. remember, prop 58 only applies to transfers between parents and children. here's how the law twines an eligible child. a biological child, a step child, child adopted before the age of 18, and a son-in-law or daughter-in-law. to benefit from this tax saving program, remember, you just have to apply. download the prop 58 form from our website and submit it to our office. now you may ask, is there a cap how much you can pass on. well, first, your principal residence can be excluded.

other than that, the total tap of properties that can use this exclusion cannot exceed $1 million. this means for example if you have two other properties, each valued at $500,000, you can exclude both because they both fit under the $1 million cap. now what happens hwhen the totl value you want to pass on exceeds $1 million. let's say you have four properties. three with current taxable value of $300,000 and one at $200,000, totaling $1.1 million in value. assuming that you decide to pass on properties one, two, and three, we would apply the exclusions on a first come, first served basis. you would deduct properties one, two, and three, and you would still have $100,000 left to pass on. what happens when you pass on the last property? this property, house four, has been existing value of 2 -- has an existing value of $200,000, and its existing property value

is actually higher, $700,000. as i said, the value left in your cap is $100,000. when we first figure out your portion, we figure out the portion that can be excluded. we do that by dividing the exclusion value over the assessed value. in this case, it's 50%. this means 50% of the property will remain at its existing value. meanwhile, the rest will be reassessed at market value. so the new taxable value for this property will be 50% of the existing value, which is 200,000, equaling 100,000, plus the portion reassessed to market value, which is 50% times $700,000, in other words, 350,000, with a total coming out to $450,000. a similar program is also available for prepping transfers fl interest r from grandparents to grandchildren. if you're interested in

learning more visit our website or >> good morning. good morning, everyone. i'm timothy fu, chair of the board of trustees for the san francisco skefconservatory of m. on behalf of the board, thank you all to be here for the breaking ground on the ute and william k. duboce center for being pyrri performing arts.

when i joined the board many years ago, we knew the conservatory belonged with the many arts at the civic center, and we knew we must providing housing for our students. so we succeeded in moving to the civic center in 2006, and now, we're breaking ground for the new student residence hall. so today, i'm incredibly proud of how all of us have come together to make the future possible. and i want to express my deepest thanks to the supporters of this project whose inspiring leadership and generosity have set us up for a successful second century of leading music education through innovation

through a history of excellence, achievement, culture and collaboration. now i have the pleasure and the honor to introduce our mayor, the mayor of san francisco, london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, everyone. what a beautiful day to break ground on hundreds of units of housing for student artists. one the things i love to do as mayor. some of you know i used to serve as director of an organization, the african american arts and culture complex. it's not far from here, but we had incredible relationships with the arts community here where you have the symphony, the opera, sf jazz. this place has become a hub for artists everywhere, and now that

the san francisco conservatory of music has decided to take it even a step further to decide to come up with this innovative plan to come up with 420 units of housing for their students, it's absolutely amazing, and we should all be proud of what this project would do for housing in the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you also equally important, the 27 residents who were once housed here were not only housed very close to this particular development as it's under construction at the same rent they were paying, they will also be moved back into this building when it's built at the same rents that they had been paying through their rent control. and here's the thing: 27 people are not being displaced as a result of this project. we are adding more units, we're not displacing anyone, and the

reason this is so great for the environment, it is within walking distance of the san francisco conservatory of music. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i can't be more proud. we have to do more to build more housing in san francisco. we have to think about the fact that this is an innovative place. people want to live here, they want to work here, they want to grow here, they want to thrive here, but what makes san francisco incredibly -- a great place for all of us, it's the arts, it's the music, it's the entertainment. it's all of the things that people come here to enjoy, and how are we going to continue to grow if we don't have opportunities that exist for them? if we don't provide housing that they can afford? if we don't open the doors of our opportunities to our artists who we know are constantly being

displaced? it's a great day for san francisco, it's a great day for the arts community, and i am so looking forward to all the work we're going to continue to do to revitalize the civic center area. yesterday, i looked out the window from my offices at city hall, i saw children playing in the park, i saw people standing in line at the birite we just opened two days ago, i saw people doing zumba, i saw people talking to people on the street, just hanging out. it's amazing, when you're taking care of everyone, including the community, every can enjoy. this is a project that's going to benefit this area and hopefully grow and thrive and provide places like this that provide housing like this for each and every one of us. thank you all so much for being here today.

[applause] >> thank you, mayor. thank you so much for your support and your commitment to the arts. we really are very honored to have you take time from your busy schedule today to be with us. and now, i have the pleasure of introducing the person who has designed this building, marvelous facility for all of us, but the best design architect in the city of san francisco, mark cavanero. >> thank you. we've been working on this for years, to see a building coming out of the ground is every architect's dream.

we talked about innovatition as we talked about this project, and i think that word is really singular for this building, and the vision that tim and dave and the board have, in that we're not just building a building, but a whole organism for arts and music. the students will be living here, performing here, and it will offer a whole snapshot into arthur world when you're walking or driving up vanness or hayes. it's not just about education, it's about a whole san francisco community coming together in one new building. and for an architect, it can't get much more exciting. so thank you for all of this, and thank you for letting me be a part of this, dave, tim, and the board. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i can't wait to see this coming

up. now i have the pleasure to introduce my good friend and coconspirator, president of the music conservatory, david stow. >> believe we're standing here, no really. i've worked on some projects, if you want to try and reach beyond your grasp, this project is really that. it's only because of some people that are sitting here and some people that are not here today. mayor breed and supervisor kim, i can't say enough about these two individuals. nothing goes through city hall this fast, at least in my experience. the reason this happened is there were great advocates in

the city. people saw the benefit of it for the community, and it happened at an extraordinary rate. but before i talk to the building, i want to talk about some people that made this happen. some of you who may not recognize that this made this happen, jessica downs. you're out there somewhere. can you raise your hand? honey, thank you. the amount of time that this requires requires help from somebody who is your friend and believes in it with you, and jessica did that. i is also want to say we have a top team of anybody in san francisco. as i represent the conservatory, i can't tell you how famous our team is. the development crew, the senior staff, our c.f.o., katie, kathrin -- everyone here from the sfcm staff, raise your

hands. ladies and gentlemen, this is a great group, and we would not have gotten it done without them. this started in a couple of interesting ways. mark cavanero accepted my invitation for a cup of coffee. we had no project, no site, nothing. mark started sketching on his own what it would look like, a facility like this. mark brought his team, a great crew at cavan 0ed ro. this team worked tirelessly. this project is a residence unit for students. it is two spectacular performance halls, a recording studio, teaching space, a restaurant, yes, sitting right here. if you can imagine the architectural constlants like doing sweeping glass on the west and north walls that also create a beautiful acoustical space.

but the reality is 90% of the concerts in those spaces are free to the public. this is a great way to bring music in, and in that building, 99% of the students are on financial aid, and the 27 units are rent stablized, and every dollar it generates goes back to support scholarships for future students. [applause] >> these guys did an extraordinary job. i can't say enough about how many hurdles they across for us. our law firm did amazing work. there was so many folks working

at the city level who also provided this great work. and the fact is it was the team that made it happen, and i said to our c.f.o. this morning that at every point in this project, there was somebody on the team that made an extraordinary event happen. otherwise, the entire thing would have stopped. that's how much this was a combined project. but ladies and gentlemen, we don't do projects like this without people who actually believe and put substantial resources behind them. and i can't tell you how fortunate we are in san francisco because when you look to davies hall, the opera, the conservatory, sf jazz, to the museums, to the incredible cultural life that we enjoy here, it is because actually not as many as you think, but actually, a very small handful of people for generations have made those things happen for this city and are making this building happen right now. not here are richard blum and senator feinstein, and others,

all whom made substantial financial events. can we give them a round of applause, please, for their leadership on that. [applause] >> the next phase of this, the architect, we have lots of fund raising, as you can imagine. financing makes it all happen, and this was a tricky project to finance. hey, we're this conservatory of 400 students, and we want to build this $90 million building on vanness. think about this. this happened because jim herbert decided it would happen. jim, on behalf of myself, thank you to you and all of your team. it's 3.9 prs fixed over 30 years because jim thought it was important to put up this building. jim and cecelia, i just want to thank you for that. it was incredible.

early folks who were in, carol and lyman casey. carol's family has been supporting the art ms. this city in so many ways with affection and tremendous investment. carol was one of the first people who walked in my office and we were talking about this, and she said this needs to happen, and she continued the investment and continued the investment. carol i want to thank you for all that you've done for us. thank you so much. [applause] >> along the way, every project has a patron saint, actually, and the fact is i will talk about this a bit more today, but we lost bill bose early on, and when that happens, that laefshs kind of a vacuum in leadership. barney osher stepped in and made

this thing happen. he not onlily invested in this, but i can't tell you what it meant to this being accomplished. and so this brings us down to the finish line. we were in raping of getting this done. jim was prepared to give us a loan, but frankly we were short and we needed a gift and a bridge that was crossed, and a colleague and a friend of mine who was a wonderful composer, but i have to tell you, you see his name because of the enormous amount of giving done, and that was gordon getty, and gordon stepped in and absolutely made this project get across the finish line, and that was how we got there, and gordon, i can't thank you enough. but i want to say that none of this, none of this would have han if it weren't for bill.

-- happen if it weren't for bill. bill bose, even before there was a property, even before there was a design, it was me and bell at the union club with bill saying, we need this. he was quiet, and he said, you know, that sounds like a good idea. bill believed in the necessity of housing for students from the moment the civic center project was arrived at on oak street. he has given so generously to so many projects: students, environment, the arts, education. he has advanced so many companies and career throughout his lifetime. and he really resisted anything being named for him. and the fact is, the fact that

this building will be named for william k.bose and ute bows will be wonderful, because it'll have a great soul. and perhaps one of the things that this led me to do was to get to know ute, and i will talk about that at lunch today. but the people we find in this city in this kind of work aren't to be found in many places in this world. they just aren't. that brings me to the final folks i want to thank. we wouldn't have gotten here and i wouldn't have gotten here if it weren't for our board chair, tim folk, and his amazing wife, virginia. virginia, thank you for being here, by the way. i want all of all board members, can you raise your hands for a second -- we have multiple seven figure donors that -- out in the

audience. i've never seen a board this cohesive, this supportive that made it a pleasure. it's a dream come true for this conservatory, but i think it's a dream come true for all of us. i can't say more than thank you, but i wish that i could because the gratitude runs down to my very bones. it's a privilege to be standing here with you all because it makes me a better person. i can tell you we've crossed over, 109 million for this project, but there's still time to investment any of you that are inspired to be involved, let me know. so let's fine will he get to the reason we're doing this. students, can you raise your hands out there. we're going to give you a round

of applause. [applause] >> if there's ever a moment where you're wondering if we can get it done, if you stand for a moment in our building with our students, you wonder how you can get it done. they're amazing young students, and they will go out and change the world, and they have changed the world for over 100 years. the fact that we can put a roof over their head that's affordable is amazing. as i said, 99% are on financial aid. it's my pleasure to introduce the chair of our student council. she is a master's student of voice, mia skolnick. >> good morning, everyone. my name is mia skolnick, and i

am a second year master's student in voice here at the conservatory. sf conservatory is a special place, and i am so proud to be here. i applied to several conservatories around the country, but i chose to come here because of its diversity, values, and the feeling i got when i came here. there was a welcoming atmosphere at the conservatory that let me know right away i was at home. two years ago i was living in portland, oregon, where i grew up, working a regular office job, singing on the side. i had gotten my undergraduate degree in music had you had drifted away from my passion. one day, i had a realization that life is too short not to do what makes you happy, and that was what led me to san francisco and to the conservatory.

sfcm is providing me with skills and tools to become a professional musician out in the world. the caliber of excellence we have here at sfcm is simply unmatched, and i wouldn't be getting this kind of education anywhere else. the bose center will expand our dynamic community as our campus more than doubles in size providing even more state of the art opportunities and resources for students. the bose center will mean so many wonderful things for our future, its proximity to the incredible arts partners in the civic center area, beautiful new spaces for collaboration among students, if a kilt, and visiting artists, and most importantly, it means that sfcm can reach and inspire even more musicians of the future. on behalf of all my fellow students, thank you so everyone who has made this project

possible, and now, let's break

ground. [applause]

>> i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter.

they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to

choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's just that i've been here so long. most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. the park was always peaceful, and -- i don't know. i just loved it. i wanted to be here, and i stayed. in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly

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>> we will call role for the commission on the environment. [roll call] >> there is decorum. >> thank you, very much. i am president on the commission of status of women. i wanted to thank everyone for being here today. i particularly wanted to thank the staff of the two departments the department of the environment and the status of women for this amazing meeting tonight. i know is a lot of work. it is something that the president and i talked about several months ago before the climate action summit. our ma