housing, housing, housing. people have been asking us eight units is great, a compromise, why not. you got your housing. i want a brief visual to show you why we say this is not enough. that is 1600 jackson, whole foods, eight units no buy low market housing. one block away 50 units then if you have 1600 jackson with the project we are open to special use for a grocery store, you can see the significant value to the housing -- it won't make a huge dent. it will make it more significant dent than eight units that will never go away without a struggle. thank you very much for your diligence on this. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners, i am dawn trend.

i led the neighborhood association from the found you go in 2006 to my retirement in 2016. i knew this neighborhood very, very well. in this neighborhood was have adel cat balance -- the delicate balance of you merchants, you cheese plus, swan depot. it is a delicate, interesting and exciting place to live. i would like to see a lot more people able to live there by having in this project inclusionary housing, not exclusionary housing. we want to see below market rate units. we want to see this property maximized for the housing value of it. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

pull the mic over. >> i am elaine. i lived across the street from the proposed sight for 40 yearsa years. the delivery activities at jackson treat can affect traffics, transit and pedestrian. i don't see how they can accommodate two bus lines and 6s -- delivery trucks. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hello, joleen morgan. i have been in land use and

transportation planning since 2005 when we first had the first filing from the hospital. we have done a lot of studies about putting large stores on vanness, small size boutique stores on polk. the major transit. polk street for bicycling, pedestrians. there is a big interaction between polk and vanness and the surrounding neighborhoods. putting a grocery store is not just the people living next door. a hospital is not like something that is right next door to people. all of these things have a global impact on vanness and polk street. i would urge you not to approve this. this is not the appropriate project for this site and to reserve it for housing over ground floor retail. >> next speaker please. if there are others to speak and i haven't called your name,

please line out the screen side of the room. >> i don't want to be the last one. i am kate chase. i used to live in russian hill for 15 years. i frequent it often now and if i wanted to move back i probably couldn't find a place to live. i urge you to deny this in order for housing. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i am past president of russian hill neighbors and good evening. i can't urge you enough to approve this project as it is today. i speak for an organization with

over 500 members. i don't know how many more than that who vigorously want to see this grocery store go in. the lines at safe way, whole foods and trader joe's are so long right now we keep putting up buildings but we just don't have the services, and i urge you to pass this, to approve it. thank you. >> thank you. misspeakker, please. >> . >> i am leslie bull. i had a big cup of coffee from a nonchain coffee store. i am in favor of whole foods. there are three things i would like to make a point of. one, on the 30 minute walk here i jumped in to talk to different merchants. we have heard merchants who

don't want wheel foods in the neighborhood. i had four people sign a note. one was a hair salon, photo store, restaurant and a polka dot. i hadi had a gentleman write a r i will leave for you. i am a member of the 1650 organization. we have 68 units wand two retail. we have pulled over the last two years over a 95% approval rate. my opinion we need a full grocery store. i think it is unrealistic to compare a development between an existing building and the other unit. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i am mitchellberg. i am in opposition of amazon on

polk streets. is amazon hurting small accidents. it is the fox guarding the henhouse. it is just too risky to the community between the gridlock and damage to small businesses, iit would be a huge loss to the neighborhood. it is fracture from a you food desert. there should be a good corporate citizen. we should not facilitate this. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners. i have a business serving the neighborhood 50 years. i oppose the project and feel this property should be built into housing. don't we have enough examples of

mixed use in the city and as a matter of law businesses failing -- small businesses failing? don't we have sufficient retail option in the neighborhood? don't we have a massive shortage of housing in the city? look at the negative impacts on the businesses and push to reinstate the housing plans submitted for the site. thank you. >> next spicker, please. >> you good afternoon, i would like to urge to you consider denying this. the reason why is because this store for 365 would be the seventh amazon store in the city there. is one on frank libseven block -- franklin that offers one hour delivery. the employees and vendors of the stores that closed.

many have to come from outside the city just to work. thank you. >> anybody else want to testify on this item? okay. seeing none we will close public comment and open it up to the commissioners. >> commissioner koppel. >> this is the most stressful item i have had to look at. i have been wanting to vote yes on this project. i am trying to get this to a place where i thought it was a good idea. i am not there. i walked up and down polk and jackson. i wanted the sign to see the sign that said yes. i am not in support of this project. >> thank you.

commissioner fong. >> we saw projects come through on automatic decision over this time period city wide you start to watch the dyegration of small retear not just on polk street but columbus, fisherman's wharf, chestnut, union, it has me concerned. having little t to do with amaz. this could be any other large retailer we would have the same feeling. i am concerned about small business in america and in san francisco. i think it is impossible to stop the amazon effect. we all bought one or two things since 1:00. i feel like there is an urgent need for housing. i know the project sponsor explored that. i don't have great confidence

that has been explored to the max. they have done that. i don't feel that. there is still a large amount of community folks opposed which makes me wonder. it is not quite ready for primetime. >> thanks. commissioner melgar. >> i am not supporting this project today. i have not supported it earlier. i feel like this addition of eight units is the minimum. it doesn't mitigate the impact this formula retailer will have on the corridor. i am not somebody who is against formula retail, actually. i do worry about the small businesses on the corridor, but i think in appropriate places it

can be a draw. i don't think that is the case in this one. it is a missed opportunity to build housing above. i can't think of a more well resourced, you know, developer than this one. if it doesn't happen with this i am not really sure what else to ask for. i think that, you know, i did want to ask staff one of the public commenters brought up the recent change in the lower polk. do you remember who it was in. >> section 120. >> the size of the retail establishment? >> correct the grandfathering in after 18 months of being empty. >> i am the county administrator. the planning code does have abandonment provisions for

noncondition uses if discontinued for a period of time. between the use itself and the size. we have different abban abandon. the use could be abandoned but the use size is allowed. the only place where that is different the planning code calls out castro street and i'm trying to think. north beach says in that situation both the use and the use size is abandoned. in all other parts of the city the use size is allowed to remain. >> i think i would like to see housing. i would like to see a grocery store. i think having more density,

more housing at this particular location would be good for the small businesses in the corridor. >> i think i have spoken in support in the past. i appreciate the developers inputsing the additional units. i too would prefer to see a grocery store and housing. that is not the project before us. i hope those very supportive of housing stick around for the next item. we have a controversial project on divisadero where i live. i hope those who are passionate we have a 65 unit project coming up next i would like to see approved. i drive by church and market that we denied a home project. formula retail tends to drive a

lot you have people to the commission claim chambers. we denied chipotle. we have retail with housing. i think that is different than this. i think a grocery store is different and we are probably not going to get a grocery store with housing. we may get housing with retail. we are not going to get a grocery store here. a grocery store is important. there aren't many that aren't formula retails. there are some. maybe the project t sponsor coud find one of those. if you were opposed you called it amazon. if you were for it you scaled it whole foods 365. i "glee" with commissioner fong. we all shop at amazon. i probably have packages being

stolen right now as i speak that is the way it is. i like to go shopping. i go to neighborhoods for grocery stores. i think you have to look. those who are concerned about a grocery store or the amazon branded grocery store closing small retail, walk around 24th or ocean avenue where things are thriving and we are not seeing what people are kind of threatening we may see or proposed we may see. i think the community does want a grocery store here. we have tried to fill grocery stores. we have a cu prohibition to remove grocery stores. they provide good walking traffic. it is a good tradeoff to allow the seven unit us instead of 60

unit us but no grocery store. i am still supportive of this and would like to you it approved. commissioner richards. >> i push enthusiasm with an open mind. jim reuben said nobody can get richardss to to vote for this one. i said give me a chance. i have thought about it. as commissioner koppel has said. this was one that bothered me. i sat here for the historic preservation commission because they landmarked the house across me. commissioner johns scatin the street commissioner warner sits in. we asked the developer to do this, they did it. we are moving the goal post. this reminds me of what is going to happen tomorrow. a gash restore is appropriate

here absolutely. -- grocery store is appropriate. the feasibility of this site as we heard the property owner said if you put it in contrast with the shop close by. projects pencil off. you have to do demolition. why not get like we did with chipotle, housing above retail. some examples in the outer mission a plan to put a safe way in a you building. mission bay. then whole foods on fourth street and housing above that. ocean as well. i really think and a lot of the comments today crystalized the fact if you live within spitting distance, you want the

convenience of the store there. i think overall we have to balance with the needs of the larger needs of the city. i was thinking about amazon and retail impact. good or bad? i remember growing up the wal-mart effect. most of the main streets were dedesolate. you are not a category killer you are a retail killer. you have seven store in the city, you are changing the way we shop. we need to meter that with social issues. folks said about automation and this money to go to the amazon and not the local stores. i feel like we moved the goal

line for you guys. i apologize. i would like to agree that a grocery store on the bottom floor with housing down, take the state density bonus and build as big as you can build it. >> commissioner johnson. >> i think this is one of the more difficult projects that we face. i have shopped at the whole foods about seven blocks away, i shopped at trader joe's a couple blocks away. i stood in the lines. i want to say to the community, i hear you, i know how busy those grocery stores are. i know you want to see something in that space. that lombardi has sat vacant for a long time. the idea of whole foods and grocery store is really exciting. i know there are a lot of

comments about amazon whole foods. i would say to that the great thing askty don't wait in those lines. i get two hour delivery because of the amazon whole foods combination. now, i can go to the doughnuts and cheese plus and farmers market. i don't have to spend time there. i think is a solution around housing and combination. i have seen good faith efforts from others who have consistently worked with developers and sponsors in the past.

so we want a housing proposal and i have not seen that. i counot in good conscience let this be a super market for the next 25 years and time of housing crisis. for those reasons, i am not? in support and move to disapprove. >> second. >> commissioner fong. >> i want to learn more. for the next project. i am curious what was the thing that stopped you from getting more than nine unit on the site? our eight. was it a height limitation or state density program?

we went through why this will never be a grocery store. you can't put in another store. 3,000 feet. we went through the building with engineers and looked at it you have to tear down the building and start over which you will never have a grocery store and you are building a building inside if you keep the building itself. you can't add stories to the building structurally. we went through that analysis. basically, if the building is ever torn down, giving examples that is not going to happen here. you can't do it with new zoning. >> can someone else have a variance if you tore down the building and came back with the

larger format in the store. >> the mass mum use in the polk street is 4,000 square feet. if it is demolished you are abandoned the existing use you have there and no commercial use greater than 4,000 square feet could be put there. it cannot be varied. >> thank you. >> commissioner richards. >> we approved. i approved mr. star had given us a use back. going to the supervisors to add housing and put in a grocery store. we do spot zoning more than we feel comfortable with. it is possible when the community gets a lot of benefit. >> we have a motion and second. thank you for your testimony. people were passionate. it was 50/50 split for or

against. i know it is a long process and we appreciate you coming out. half think we are knuckleheads and half think we did the right decision. formula retail tends to generate a lot of comment. people care which is good and we are happy to have you come out and testify. >> a very quick somewhat technical remark. you may want a motion to intent to disapprove. >> the motion before you is an approval motion. you need to adopt the motion to intent to disapproof and continue the item. >> as i final thought. if you wanted to direct staff to in that motion endorse a change so that planning code that

prohibits retail use greater than 4,000 square feet you could choose to do so. >> i am okay with that. >> i would like to change my motion to an intent to disapprove and add language supporting that change to the code. >> so you know. intent to disapprove will show up on the commission calendar the next time we meet under consent. likely with the vote here we have heard it three times, it will be disapproved at the next hearing. >> i believe you take two votes. one for intent to disapprove and another vote to continue to hearing date. >> we can do that in one motion forfor the next hearing date? two weeks.

>> november 29th. >> okay. >> on that motion of intent to disapprove adding also language to change use size as well as continuing the matter to november 29th. commissioner fong. (roll call) >> that motion passions 5-1 with commissioner hillis against. >> i close the public hearing and continue i variance to november 29th. >> all right. thank you. next item. >> commissioners that places you on items 15a and 15b.

wait one moment. >> mr. may. >> good evening, commissioners. >> i will read off-the-record. >> item 15a and b. at 650 divisadero rear yard modification. >> you have before you a request for condition use to demolish the existing one story building containing the retrofitting business and 65-foot tall.

>> can we have people leave quietly. go ahead. thank you. >> a 65-foot tall 6 story mixed used knowledge with 66 ground units. within the transit district and the bulk district. because the project proposes new construction o on over 10,000 conveyor feet. it is seeking a bulk exception on the fifth and sixth floors and rear yard modification. the existing auto repair building was constructed in 1922 in the mediterranean revival

style. while the subject building is a early example of public garages built before world war ii which is the second most important group of automobile related facilities in san francisco, it is not within the need facility and has been altered over the years to the point it no longer retains original integrity. it is not eligible for list anything the california register of historic places. nine bedroom, 14 three bedroom units from 304 to 995 square feet. the project contains 26 off street parking spaces and 66 bicycle parking spaces on the grove. two commercial spaces 3500 square feet are propose order the ground floor. earlier this week a legislative

amend mend to increase the housing requirements for the divisadero street was recommended for adoption by the land use and transportation committee and will be voted on by the full board of supervisors next week. it will apply to all sites increased in density more than 50% from the rezones in 2015. it would remove the grandfathered house you go percentages pursuant to 415 for projects with development prior to october 1, 2018. for those that provide affordable giants on site it requires 20% of the total number of units as affordable or 23% for ownership units. under the proposed legislation this project would be required to provide an additional four below market rate units on site for a total of 13 units.

the department recommends the planning commission approve the project on the basis it representsry develop of under utilized site. land uses overall in greater conformity with the general plan with all of the planning code with the intent of the guidelines. this concludes my presentation. i am available for further questions. thank you. i would like to introduce juanaled carlos. >> thanks, chris. good evening. i was going to say good afternoon earlier. good evening. thank you for this opportunity to provide a brief overview of the amended legislation to includes inclusionary requirements in divisadero in the transit district. this legislation was first introduced by supervisor breed

in december 2015. it is a long time coming. a month after it was first introduced another piece of legislation was introduced to place the affordable housing 2016 prop c on the ballot. that action followed 2014 prop k which set the nonbinding goal that 33% of new housing be affordable. since that time of prop c, the city's affordable housing requirements have been extensively studied and discussed and debated and this reflect the long hard work of the board and the commission. this december is three years since the legislation was introduced. because there are two projects in the pipeline, one is before you today. 65650 divisadero. it is important to move this legislation forward now.

since july our office has worked closely with staff add planning to understand the economics of development on divisadero as they exist today. we met with board members and attended numerous meetings. the supervisor has held two large format very well attended community meetings to hear and speak with community members specifically about the legislation. first of those meetings was in september. the next in october just before we introduced the amendment on october 22. both meetings were held on or near divisadero. first at the empower yum and the second at the baptist church attended by 75 to 100 people.

we heard how the community wants more affordable houses so the neighbors have more choices to stay and grow in neighborhoods where they live today. that is true today because of neighborhood preference which is new since the inclusionnary housing began. at the october meeting they talked about the proposal. let me turn quickly. of particular relevance will the requirements four pipeline projects. it would remove the grandfathering and set the on site requirement as 20% for rental and 23% or ownership projects. apply the city wide incollisionnary mix of 12% at 55:00 a.m. i, 4's after 80 and 4's at 110. this was important.

the full board wanted as much as the mix at the lowest band of income for this project. for future projects the ordinary proposes to align the affordabilities with tier 1 at 23% with a.m ami. it was important to the supervisor that we align with oms tier one to opt-in or be part of the process in place to deal with what happens in the future for city wide inclusionary and osf. this commission and the board will consider along with the controller and technical advisory committee what proper

levels are and we want divisadero to be part of that conversation. finally, a word about the past to this point and forward for the legislation. as chris mentioned the supervisor introduced these on october 22. this past monday november 5 the committee unanimously approved supervisor kim's motion to move forward with recommendation to the full board. first reading is this coming tuesday, november 13th. we hope to move it to a second and final reading november 27th after the thanksgiving break. i will be here for any questions you may have affidavit public comment. in closing we ask you move in item forward today. we have waited a long time. >> thank you very much. project sponsor. welcome.

>> good evening. i am patrick, the representative of the group. i would like to thank you for your time for our project at 650 divisadero. it is incredible to present before the commission today after two years of patiently waiting. we filed the first application in 2013. we have been ready to present this project since 2016. we are a local real estate firm that is an active business owner and supporter of small businesses for over 40 years in san francisco. we have been part of the district five of the community since 1985. we have been socially responsible community partners and actively supported various neighborhoods throughout san francisco. collective impact, local

nonprofit to create leadership. we have supported this for over a decade. we provide cultural language based programs to 3,00 3,000 baa seniors each year. we have supported over a decade. supported the african-american cultural center holiday fair and the art district. we have provided assistance with the neighborhood access career center previously one stop to provide career planning and assistance with job placement services. we take the holistic approach looking at the rich history, the community how we can impact the existing landscape. we have worked tirelessly over the past five years engaging the

community. we have developed the project affordable by design rental housing accessible to the middle income work place police officers and restaurant employees. with the help of architect we have an exciting design to provide the residential units and retail spaces on the highly under-utilized site on divisadero street. our project goals have been developed with direct engagement in collaboration with the community. we want to provide the much needed housing for san francisco affordable rental housing. we have 20% on site you housing 12% at 55% ami. wwe are not building luxury

condos or rentals affordable by design units. through our experience increasing bedroom counts on counts creates affordable price units. we have 68% of the units two and three bedroom units. we are promoting bicycle transportation with 75 spaces. we are providing 26 car parking and car share option. we will support local nonprofits and comment the retail experience on divisadero with emphasis on exciting new local small businesses. we have experience working with the most talented and successful restaurants in san francisco. we have been instrumental in the fillmore retail corridor and

diverse businesses such as bagels, indian market and the progress divisions to make fillmore a more vibrant san francisco neighborhood. we have obtained strong support from western merchants and residents and property owners. your project packetses contain letters of support from those not able to contain. ala more square neighborhood association. the market, the restaurant, tom bennett ice cream a tent for over 20 years. we want to be an exceptional community partner and neighbor. we recognize the independent as a music venue with a rich san francisco history. we view it as a significant asset to the divisadero corridor.

we have had numerous open discussions with the property owner to ensure concerns were not only heard but addressed. as a result we made significant concessions such as relocating the bedrooms away from the adjacent wall, a engineer to minimize sound disturbance and complaints. evaluating to build a concrete building while significantly more costly to minimize noise to tenantses. we had conversation with neighbors to address concerns of the walnut tree in the backyard. we have assured them we will engage the preserving of the tree is priorities and keep open communication with them. we develop residential projects in neighborhoods where we are

committed and engage with local businesses, residents and community organizations long-term. we ask for your support today so we can move forward with plans to make 650 divisadero a reality. thank you for your time and consideration. at this time i will introduce or architect to present the project. thank you. >> i could like to start off where the staff report summarized their proposal, and they called it a sensitive redevelopment of an under-utilized site. i would like to focus on

sensitivity. on two levels we have been very sensitive with this project. the easiest is the architectual design which is sensitive to the context of the site. the buildinthe is set back. six stories match the neighboring building across the street so as an urban design statement this building fits comfortably in our minds at this important intersection much divisadero. we have given large set back on the side yards. we have given to the neighbors. we are sensitive to noise, light, air. we have given a large set back for those folks. we have given an articulation of the bay windows you can see in the drawings there. traditional bay windows with

multiple materials com compatibe with the neighborhood. we have identified townhouse units with stoops, mirroring what is comfortable on the street already. we have widened the sidewalks three feet for added space for dining. the clients are interested in including a good restaurant at that point. then realizing the independent customers in the evening need to cue up. we are leaving three more feet on the sidewalk to add more street scape to the neighborhood. that is patrick said we reduced the car parking. we respect the fact we only have .38 per unit. divisadero site is a rich

transit neighborhood convenient walking to service and entertainment. we haven't pumped up the parking as many of the neighborhoods requested us not to do. sensitivity on another scale and this is important for this evening. afford build issues. as patrick said it is targeted for middle income work force housing. we proposed expanded mixed unit of 68% of two and three bedroom units that is aggressive in this climates of intense competition. market research has shown by using 85 by 110-foot nested units popular in other projects this developer has built and conserved and they do conform to

the building code. this has gone back and forth. these are legal and we are not hitting the minimum. we are quite a bit above the minimum with the unit size. with this aggressive program we are achieve 30% more bedrooms and 30% more units within the same building mass. >> thank you, sir. your time is up. if they have additional questions they will reach out with additional comments. >> we will. thank you. >> we have been waiting for two years to propose the project. >> public comment. i want to recognize supervisor brown is here. did you want to make a comment before you start? your staff gave us the history. >> story i am late. i want to say thank you all for

hearing this. when i first was appointed in july, this was the first thing i jumped into. i really went out to the community and met with every community group, every neighborhood group, held meetings myself, met with just individual neighbors that didn't want to meet in larger groups, and the thing that probably 80% of the community said to me that was important to them was they wanted to see affordable housing. especially the broader community, you have to understand and i know you do, a lot of the community feel this is is the western addition. i had a lot of african-american community come to say they would love opportunities to have affordable housing they could apply for. this was my goal as to make sure

we build housing, get the right number and push it as far as we can, affordabilitie affordabili. what i did look at the other districts that pushed up affordabilities to 25% where i realize projects have not been built at 25%. now they are looking at state density bonus to do that. one you have the things that crossed the board this community said to me. they were not interested in having anything higher than 65 feet. i had to stay within the 65 feet of height, but get as many units as i could. that is why, you know, the original nct density was to use the envelope. i feel we are at the right number now. one percentage over the inclusionary city wide that will come on at 19 in january.

we have the right mix at 12-4-4, and we are going to go along within conclusionnary house you go, which i think is the right thing to do. i really want to thank you and thank the community four putting up with me for the last few months and all of meetings. thank you very much. i hope you support it. >> this is open for public comment. donna thompson, bill thompson, hernandez, norman laura foot. >> now, lisa and the alma square neighborhoods couldn't stay this long. they want to speak in strong support of this very sensible project. there is a lot of community

engagement around this project. there is a lot of people coming out in support of housing and saying we need to get as much housing as possible out of a site like this. interesting to note we are really pushing the outer edge of fees built at 20% inclusionary. that needs thought through. not every project will make this level of affordability. the pipeline is dying. you will get more and more reports because you have land value, construction costs have gone up and the fees we put on housing because of the policies that slow things down to make it unpredictable. people are not applying to build new housing projects. what are you going to do to make sure this project looks easy and is something other people want to replicate? yoyou have to make sure this ges

built in a timely manner and it is what we see going forward. we don't want to see more and more projects with permits and not get built. we have nobody applying for permit in the first place. please, you know, permit this as quickly as possible. thank you. >> next speaker, mr. hernandez. >> thank you. good evening. i was surprised not to hear the summary of letters of support which i believe were 13, nine of which were from residents of the developer. more than 100 e-mails were received from members of the commission asking it to be continued in order to increase the amount of affordable housing units in the project. that is scheduled for tuesday,

as we're heard. without the legislation finalized, we oppose 650 divisadero if it doesn't have enough affordable housing. we want to support this project which is why we ask for a continuance. no one is here saying, no, this is the wrong thing. we really want to support this project. we think you are putting the cart before the horse. what happens if on tuesday they decide instead of 20% we want 21%. what if they decide this legislation needs work and the requirement goes back to 18%, which is what is currently required when the grandfather clause expires next month? are we going to come back with the project and into to 18% or 21% or whatever the outcome of the tuesday meeting.

we want affordable housing done right. the developer ask say -- is saying he will include 13 units affordable. we don't know how many are for low income bracket, how many middle, how many high end? please do not approve this project until we know the final afford builtty requirement is four 650 divisadero. let's not just a an approve and solve this later. i am happy to see the supervisor brown's legislation moving forward. we don't want to do things in the wrong order. again, please listen to the community. we have over 100 e-mails requesting a continuance until that legislation is finalized.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. kevin hill. i am the land use chair. i think i support a lot of the comments that gus just made. this is a project we have been watching for many years. it is the architect and sponsors have been putting forward for many years. it has changed from 16 to 66 units. various community action great increase in affordability. we have in the position we are waiting for the board of supervisors to specifically approve the plan for this area with a level of afford build in it. it prejudges that to approve

this evening. the goal of all of neighborhood associations is to try to increased the affordable housing in our area and to make a decision on this project a week before the plan for the area is revised by the board of supervisors seems to be premature. it is possible to take a continuance. we are not trying to prevent this from being built. we understand the developer's interest in being able to move forward with the project. we appreciate the 20% is better than where this project started out. the board of supervisors have to debate this plan and to say, well, this is what is proposed, therefore, we will take that and lock it in with the project. i think that is inappropriate at this point.

as you heard from gus, the community is very much behind asking for a continuance for this. there is great community development in trying to shape divisadero to make sure the community stays viable in the future. to continue for a later hearing is not going to you stop that from happening. we ask the legislation to be in place and the development can be in accordance with the proposal. it is not the same as in accordance with the law the board of supervisors decides on. we appreciate your attendance to this. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> sfgov to the overhead, please.

pull the mic over. >> i am an add adjacent property owner to the project asking your help to protect the 100 year-old walnut tree that will be affected by the underground parking and excavation of the project. the tree is four stories high, spans three buildings, and it is an important tree to dozens of homes on hayes and grove street. we have been meeting and speaking with the applicant, and there has been a lot of discussion about ways to protect this. they are talking about moving the right share parking spot and they have offered to hire an a rborist. i ask a tree protection plan as part of the construction.

trees don't die overnight. this tree could die over five years. we wonder if a bond if the tree dies so there is assistance in helping to remove it or damage caused by the dying tree could be part of the approve process, also. there are seven foot privacy walls on the property line that affect the ad adjacent property owner. the applicants is working to move those off there. we appreciate the offers they have made and we hope this will come true that there will be some movement of the fences because they will cover the windows of th of the ad of the . the project has had a lot of discussion about afford built. i am more interested in the finished building because i will be living next to it, and they are asking for exceptions to