voluntarily to 20%. it is an additional unit they are providing through this process in excess of what is required under the code to be in compliance with the general plan there is no requirement for p.d.r. replacement for the subject property. they are doing so at nearly a 1- 1 rate. it does require replacement. but this does not meet the threshold that would trigger that requirement for replacement they are complying and going beyond what would be required under the code. those were the points i wanted to raise. i am happy to be available for questions. in addition to this appeal, there is also subject to an appeal of the environmental review to the board of supervisors. they denied that appeal. with that, i am available for any questions. >> it seems that the key focus here is on the p.d.r.

if the fitzgerald company does not move back in, then rather then setting it off into the big wild world, that it be available at a good rate to a local community concern. is there a precedent for that direction, or is it past practice that it is up to the discretion of the owner to do what the owner feels is just for them? >> there is nothing in the planning code. there is nothing in the planning code that requires this to be p.d.r. there will be nothing in the code that will require the property owner to rent to the p.d.r. space at a below market rate to other tenants.

that is something that they would have to voluntarily be willing to do. it is not something we could impose through the planning code >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. how many people are here for public comment? do we want to go two? if you could line up against the wall, please and be prepared to fill out a speaker cartridge. we are onto public comments. if you can come forward and line up against the wall. given the relatively large number of public commenters, public comment will be limited to two minutes. >> first person, don't be shy. come on up. >> you can start speaking and give the card after. >> first speaker, please.

>> you can move forward. it is okay. thank you. >> good evening. i need to take off my glasses to reach. i am with fitzgerald furniture company and i am a family owned business that has been in san francisco for over 60 years but we have been at our existing residence, building since 1984. we initially planned to move but the project sponsor made some changes to switch the ground floor to p.d.r. so that we can stay. we have reviewed a couple of times with them for our specifications and they have made changes upon what we want to. there is zero evictions in this. it is only me. and there is no tenant -- they are helping us with the tenant relocation. they have been really helpful.

we have every intention staying in business for however long we can all last and be alive and hopefully our family incomes and follows in the process. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> it is cool they are naming the building the fitzgerald. >> the business was founded by my dad and uncle. it is all cool because it is all the same blood. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. thank you for your time. i am a member of the family who owns the fitzgerald company. in 1953, my father and his uncle jack bought the defunct upholstery and the drapery division at wj sloan. the location of the shop moved a few times, ending at 2,820th

street. our family is excited that the business is to be relocated back to the new development once the building is done and they backed our family business. i think it is great that the brick façade will be retained to honor the history of the site. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners , commissioners. good evening. i want to speak on low income housing below the mission district of district nine in district ten. we would like to see the discretion overturned because this project does not meet the mission area plan required by a super inclusionary affordable units above and beyond the city 's inclusionary plan. i am one of the founders of our

mission and omission. >> into the microphone, sir, please. >> i'm one of the founders and we have been at it for five years. and there are 10,000 families that have been wronged in this neighborhood. >> are you part -- >> due to the evictions, wrongful eviction. >> are you an officer? or just a member? >> just a member. i have been at this -- i have been in this neighborhood for 25 years now and been at it ever since. this 8,000 latino families. we are above market rate. we are way above, but the low income is not there. how will we ever get there we this has been on the books already for two and a half years if you can't afford it, he should move on to let someone else come build it.

he should uphold his appeal. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. as john mentioned, we are in an advanced stage of gentrification , particularly in the mission district. there are a lot of reasons why that is happening right now in one of those reasons is a lot of these residents are finding it very difficult to find jobs that will support them and the increased housing burden that they are finding every day. part of that is having good blue-collar working jobs to enable them to pay the rent despite the increases they are facing in the rent burdens they are confronted with. for that reason alone, it is imperative that the current space continues to house a community-based working class business that is p.d.r. that is something educational that will enable them to continue to work and thrive and live within, not only san francisco, but the mission community. the sponsor refuses to extend the same terms to p.d.r.

business and events that they are not complete the term of the 20 year lease. the communities asking for nothing more than for these same terms to be extended to the community to ensure this critical site remains a business with working-class jobs in the event that this business may close a lot sooner than expected during the hearings, a big sticking point was whether or not three dollars was a below market rate price to offer. the commissioners ask for the date on the market right in order to make an informed decision. there wasn't one that was readily available. but yet, the appellants have shown that a memorandum dated the 8th of january of this year with san francisco office of oewd said that two dollars a square foot is the average

b.m.r. right for p.d.r. what we are asking for is that an error was made and this be sent back to as the commissioners so they can have the data they need and make the decision that they wouldn't be able to make had they been in -- had they been informed. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. i'm the secretary of the redstone labor temple association. the tenants association of the red stone building in the mission. it is a historic building that has been there since -- was at the centre of the general strike we have been organizing to stop displacement in the mission and it strikes me that the developer has offered to add only one below market rate unit at 150%

of average median income. as it was alluded to earlier, 150% of average median income is above moderate income housing. it does not meet the requirements of mission area plan objective 2.1. and 150% average median income is unavoidable. in the housing crisis is hitting poor and moderate residents hardest and offering one unit that would be affordable to poor working people. i find it not very inspiring and i think we need more units for poor and working people and not high end luxury condos. this is market rate in essence. thank you. >> thank you.

>> hello my name is marie. i am with our mission, no eviction. and the project sponsor has really refused to work with the community and trying to come up with this plan. it's pretty much they tell us what they're going to do. it sounds like m.t.a. and we try to work with people when they are going to build these huge monstrosities and we have a lot of success in going back and forth and coming to agreements in order to help the community and not make such a big negative impact because you are bringing in -- they say market rate, they are essentially market units. so it was just sad -- it is said

that the project sponsor has really blown the community off. i think it's ridiculous that this plan is going through the mission -- the mission need so much more than this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, commissioners. this facility, at the moment is in need of upgrade and we appreciate that the project sponsors are going to upgrade this facility and we can move back into this space with updated facilities. plus this building has everything that everybody wants. it has street parking and it has low income housing and it has p.d.r. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> is there any other public comment?

is there anyone else besides this gentleman? can you come up here, cirque we go ahead. >> good evening. i am with the mission economic development agency. i want to talk specifically to a few points and most of all, that in the context of the extreme crisis that you are hearing more about and i know you're all very familiar with, and frankly we have been working on very -- many levels very hard. when we see a project come along that is not doing its part in the same kind of way that we feel that they can, we are going to stay on these details. to clarify something, no one said anything but there was an error. that is the main point of why this is here before you today. this is not -- these agreements are common in the mission. so common that as you heard the quote from the from president telus from the planning

commission say they rely on these mo used to make non gentrifying outcomes. that is why that commission scent to this project back two times and said go make a fair community agreement with community organizations. when it was passed, there was information provided by this project sponsor that p.d.r. space, a critical part of this. we are losing our blue-collar jobs and a blue-collar space in a way that is not acceptable. it is driving out our families. that is not correct information. three dollars a square foot. they are clear it is not the right price and the market comparables provided by the mission no eviction show this is not a subsidized price. so please view this in the context of this error. this is something you can fix. it seems very fixable overall. how do we get to a place where

there is some affordable housing added on. how did we get to a place where we are fixing the p.d.r. to make sure we have a blue-collar space that can offer unskilled and semiskilled jobs. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a native of san francisco's mission district. 10,000 people have been evicted from the mission. we are at ground zero in san francisco. we have a crisis in our neighborhood. what the fitzgerald family didn't tell you is they own the property and they were going to develop this project. but i went to the first community meeting and they met them all and i talk to them about building future housing and a lot of affordable housing. they landed up selling the property to a developer. we know in the mission, what

developers do. they make all these promises and at the end of the day they do whatever they want. i could sit here and give you an example after example. as a native of san francisco, i have seen kilpatrick's bakery,, hostess bakery, peter factories, lumber factories, all these different companies in the mission district disappear. what have we gotten? luxury and luxury. we are the number 1 neighborhood that has had more luxury developed in our neighborhood than any other neighborhood. my father worked for a heater factory on 20th and florida. that is no a luxury -- eight luxury units. the p.d.r. space will disappear if the fitzgerald his don't come back. i don't trust them. because they saw -- they sold the property. i think what is most important

is the planning department just came out with a report. i will just read the end of the report. it says that building more luxury units is not the answer. we have failed. just building more housing. in the mission, there has been a loss of 606 affordable units. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. i am a current resident in san francisco. i work for a community program that is a nonprofit community program in the fillmore and i think, personally this project is offering ample community benefits that go above and beyond what is required of them. all of the benefits that this project is doing relate to the mission action plan and our city is in need of housing in this project should be delayed any longer than it already has.

thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is jury johnson. i grew up in san francisco. i went through a program similar to the one the project sponsor is providing and mission high school as part of their community benefit for this project. during my time at the university of california, i had a part-time professor that worked for forbes magazine. they prevented the top factors for college graduates. those two factors were a relevant mentorship and mentorship in a career path. that is what they provided for me and that is what the project sponsor will provide for mission high school students. i will be personally participating in it and speaking through the program, i gained exposure to a wide range of career path that helped me understand where my interests lie. the program provided me access to a large group of presenters

that expanded my network and helped my job search after a completed college. i am helping the city with affordable housing and without these programs, i would not have known about the industry or the wide range of job opportunities within it. our previous and current mayor grew up in public housing and utilized similar programs to escape the reality. similar to what happened with me with low income housing on treasure island. more youth head should have access to these programs. it will help me and/or and our future chill -- future leaders learn about the professional world of caring individuals. >> thank you. any other speakers? we will now move on to rebuttal. we will hear from the appellants you have three minutes. >> if there isn't affordable housing, there won't be any students to take advantage of this program. i wanted to read a quote from commissioner hillis. at the january 25th hearing, he said that people need to come

to the community and they rely on the community to negotiate with developers and come with projects that they think work, have higher levels of affordability and have ground-floor space that is not a gentrifying factor. we make these kinds of agreements all the time and we work with a lot of great developers that work with us to make better projects. and i would have to say that we know that the history of rubicon point partners is to convert industrial space into creative office space to gentrify spaces. that is one of the reasons that we are asking that if something happens to the fitzgerald family , they don't come back and they can't meet the terms of their lease, that we have a community agreement as a backup to make sure that that space does not get gentrified.

we are not asking anymore. we are asking just to meet the terms of that agreement. as for the affordable unit, just to bring it to an affordable rate of 120% a.m.i. you have the discretion to actually add these things if you don't want to send it back to the commission. but there definitely was an error and what was stated by the project sponsor as affordability for p.d.r. and the commissioners did not have all the information we know from working with other developers and from being at the commission all the time that they would have asked the project sponsor to do better. and the reason this came back and was continued several times, the commissioners scent it back twice because a project sponsor was not working with the community and the project was terrible and they were not happy with it. it was continued several times. the rest of the times by the project sponsor.

and the community did not ask to have a continued and we tried repeatedly to meet with them and to work out an agreement. we often get very long term leases of 50 years. we've gotten p.d.r. space for one dollar and we are not asking a a lot of this developer. thank you. >> excuse me. i have a question. you said there is past examples of rubicon doing similar. >> they have four properties in san francisco that they have taken that were industrial and now they are creative office space. they are at 1125 mission street, 1263 mission street, 450 shotwell and 1,499th street. on their website, that is their language that we took from the website. they specialize in industrial to creative office conversions.

>> thank you. >> thank you. mr loper? >> if i could get the overhead, please. talking about negotiations, this is a demand letter that we received from a lawyer affiliated with the appellant. right before our first hearing, laying out exactly what they wanted from the project sponsor. they wanted on site affordable housing. we not only switched to this, but we voluntarily increased our affordable housing by 2.5%. they didn't want the fitzgerald to leave in the project sponsor in the fitzgerald family spent a long time working out programming to make sure the ground-floor space would work and a system to make sure they could he voluntarily relocated at the expense of the project sponsor twice.

away from the site if the project gets approved and gets constructed and then back. we are meeting those two goals. parking. we are asked to reduce parking. we reduced it by nearly 50%. we were told that having more parking was a gentrifying impact of the project. and then there was no commitment to local hire union labor. the project is doing a 50% l.b.e. and doing local hiring that is only usually required a public private partnerships. we are not aware of any private project that is doing that. moving on to p.d.r. and what is affordable p.d.r. these are market rate comps. this is for nude construction

and substantial rehabilitation. so i think there has been a little bit of miscommunication from some of the folks in the neighborhood who are talking about existing p.d.r. space that can be old. this is creating 10,000 square feet of brand-new p.d.r. space. this top figure, $4.87, that is an area wide range of average monthly per square foot rent for p.d.r. spaces from 2016-2018. the bottom figure, these are the projects in the mission. it is $4.88 per square foot. three dollars a square foot is about 40% less than that. in a 10,000 square-foot space, that equates to $224,000.

basically a quarter of a million dollars every year at discount. thank you for your time. >> i have a question. i know you guys voluntarily weren't mandated to make the downstairs p.d.r. is that memorialized? >> yeah, it is in the project approval. it is in the project plans. there is no way to switch that anything other than p.d.r. without going through a very, very public process that involves the right to go to the planning commission where anybody who is opposed to the potential future tenant could go in there and start complaining. this project cannot be turned into retail or creative office. >> okay. on the other question was segmenting that. isn't required to keep it in one large space to accommodate a

factory or do you have the ability to subdivide and do multiple spaces? >> it is entitled as one large space and it was designed for the existing tenants. specifically so the existing tenant could run its furniture and upholstery business in theory. it could be subdivided but that would be a significant cost and a wooden cup involve involving who would do next tenant would be and when they would come in. there is an added cost. it is not like you can just throw up a couple while. >> might last question is, i know it is tough on the neighborhood and the fact that you did volunteer and extra unit , everyone will say it is not enough. not many people do volunteer but you had that last unit at 150% a.m.i. that is just one unit. are you willing to drop the a.m.i. on that one particular unit? >> i cannot answer that question right now. >> okay. thank you.

>> thank you. >> let me ask you a follow-up question. is that p.d.r. issue in perpetuity? does it have a term to it? is it required that one fitzgerald leaves that it must continue as p.d.r.? i'm not wishing that fitzgerald leaves, but 30 years from now, 40 years from now, will it still be p.d.r.? >> it is 10,000 square feet of p.d.r. which is exceptional for a project of this size. >> is your client here? >> yes. >> who is your client? >> back there. in the back. >> i'm sorry there is no talking thank you. >> okay. mr sanchez?

>> thank you. it has been suggested that the board could remount this back to the planning commission. it is not something that is available at this point. the board is a final decision need to approve can't deny or modify the project as it is proposed. other items, i was happy to hear the project sponsor state that the p.d.r. is a requirement of the condition of approval but i did not see that in the motion. some may be they can put that forward. my understanding is the p.d.r. is part of the project description but there is nothing in the motion that would prevent that use from being changed to another code compliant use in the future. notification is required but i did not see that as a commission i'm happy to hear that they believe it is a condition. may be they can address that more thoroughly. >> we can take care of that tonight.

>> with that, i think that is all. >> thank you. >> understanding that developers are having to do a lot of give in the city, everyone says they are getting what they are getting but evidently, this project has been going on since 2014. it did not happen overnight. i do have a question. we will probably,, if it is not memorialized that the p.d.r. stay in perpetuity, have you heard of keeping it in one large space rather than -- what would your input be on that? >> it was not necessarily an issue with subdividing it and smaller spaces being contractors contrary to the code. there is no use sized issues that i would see at hand here but i can take a second look at it. to that point too, what i meant

to add as well, we have a public process for a reason. this project, while it may not be the level that the appellant would like to see, there have been improvements. we have a project that was seeking more exceptions and is now more in compliant and it does have p.d.r. components. the project has improved over time and it speaks to the process. thank you. >> let's just clarify. i don't think the planning code has anything against subdivisions. >> we do have various size requirements. >> unless it is specifically stated in the motion. as an example, what you did with the supermarket inclusion and stuff like that. >> i don't think there is any issue with subdividing -- subdividing it but i will take another look at the district. >> one last question. since this project was approved,

how are the state density increases working with our local ordinances? i know the state is much more accepting of larger density packages. additional floors. >> what is not known as the state density law really predates a locked lot. it goes back to the leas seventies -- late seventies of the density bonus program and has been amended since then. that is something that someone would have to opt into and they have not chosen to opt into that program. >> i think that is 35% and 22 additional floors. >> there are more floors and more units. some cases can dilute the affordability. >> exactly. thank you. >> thank you. commissioners commissioners, is this matter submitted? >> would like to start? >> i will.

as many of you aren't long-term residents of the city, so my. it is very tough to see the process that our city is going through and the affordability that we are enduring and that our kids and may be we can't afford to live in our own city anymore. but when you look at projects like this and there is no displacement, they're not evicting tenants, they played by the rules for the most part, and unfortunately, not everyone will get what they want. but they have exceeded everything that they were supposed to do. in my opinion, i'm not willing to send this back. the only thing i would recommend or suggest would be that the p.d.r. space that we memorialized that. so they can't turn it into a coffee shop.

that is what my take is. >> i agree. >> question for mr sanchez. these are the findings from the planning commission. but did we see the actual motion >> you should have received a copy of the motion. i can put it on the overhead. it does contain the findings as well as the conditions of approval in the last several pages of the document. >> i did not see within that, the document within the p.d.r. >> neither did i. the project sponsor stated it was a condition of approval and may be they can elaborate on that. it is exhibit a which is begetting page 26 of the motion.

that is where the conditions of approval are. it is certainly part of the project description but as it has been applied, unless there are specific conditions, they can then make changes in the future in compliance with the zoning. >> it begins on page 26. it is exhibit a. many of these conditions have some that are specific to this. i didn't see anything. again it would be quicker and easier if they would make an address. >> sure. i will at, former zoning administrator sanchez? what i was talking about is, not to get too more wonky here, by

the section 312 notification that is required if this project were to change from p.d.r. to any other use and what that means is, and i'm sure mitch or george mr sanchez knows the rules better than i do, but notice gets sent out to registered neighborhood groups of people within 300 feet of the site about what the proposed change of use. and then there is a right to take that to the planning commission as a discretionary review. >> you have been presenting that the p.d.r. and now you are saying you guys come back out of that? >> no. how about this. i understand where the concern is coming from and you heard it from the family that they will come back. this basis p.d.r. it is entitled as p.d.r. we have to go through a public process to do anything that would make it anything other

than p.d.r. and i believe that you guys will close the door on evening having the opportunity for something to slip through the cracks so you won't fight this anymore. >> still zoning administrator scott sanchez. >> so would special restrictions to be the best way to handle this or do you recommend an alternative? >> the notice of special restrictions is to document on the title of the property the restrictions that are imposed. the most important thing is the condition that it exists. i've never -- they said it was a condition of approval. they could change the use and it would need to go through any necessary code requirements and 312 does require notice of changes of use. >> but that is different.

you have an entitled use,, you are not allowed to change it. >> the approval is not for -- there is no condition of approval. they didn't need to seek project authorization for the fact that it is p.d.r. there is no conditional use authorization for a certain use. it is not like this is a restaurant see you. this is a large project authorization. they can do whatever is allowed under the zoning. >> unless the planning commission specifically included that as a condition of their approval. from the discussion and the history, it appears that was a fairly important element. >> i agree. the commission did not impose that.

if the board would have proposed that condition, then the only thing to change the condition would be to come back to the boards for seeking that change. is a condition opposed by the board that can only be undone by the board. >> and frank will still probably be here for another century. [laughter] >> apologies. >> if we are done, i am willing to take a stab at a motion. as it denied the appeal with condition or accept the appeal? >> grants the appeal on the condition that the p.d.r. space is required to stay p.d.r. and there will be a special restriction that the use is not changed. >> on what basis? >> it appears that was the agreed or meaning by the

commission. >> it is a p.d.r. use in compliance with the underlining zoning district. so there is not like a fish factory there. not all p.d.r. uses will be allowed. >> i said that, right? good. i'm just clarifying. >> it is your first night. it is okay. >> your mike. >> you need to find that he abused his discretion by failing to approve that. >> we will just say he errored. >> but they would have to err in their interpretation of the code >> failure to add those

conditions into the approval. >> so they abused their discretion? all right. i will do my best. we have a motion from commissioner honda to grant the appeal and revise the section 29 large project authorization to require that the current p.d.r. space remain in effect and as memorialized in the specialty that restrictions need to be recorded on the property on the basis that the planning commission erred. is that fine? >> can i make one suggestion that it be the proposed. it is not the current p.d.r. space it is the proposed p.d.r. space. >> the proposed p.d.r. space. >> and we have to add the language that the d.a. said. that the p.d.r. use is otherwise

underlined. >> the proposed p.d.r. space and -- [laughter] >> you are losing me here. >> you are doing really well, director. >> that was good. it is just that the proposed p.d.r. space, as allowed under the zoning that it doesn't -- >> as allowed under zoning. >> i will try again. >> can i ask -- >> you can. change the word of effect to permit with regard to the p.d.r. space.

in perpetuity. >> the way it reads to me is that the first time around, at the very least, it should sustain as p.d.r. i think it was the intent of the commissioner to have that p.d.r. space permanent. and in perpetuity.

>> okay. on that motion. [roll call] >> that motion carries. thank you. that concludes the hearing. >> meeting is adjourned.

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so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses.

it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's

>> start historic preservation commission regular hearing. i would like to remind members of public that the commission does not tolerate disruption or outburst. please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. if you care to do, state your name for the record. i like to take roll at this ti time. [roll call] >> president wolfram: commission ers first is general public comment. at this time members of the public may address committee that are within the subject matter except the agenda items with respect to agenda items will be afforded when the item is reached. i do have a couple of speakers.