>> good noon. welcome to the hearing for march 20, 2019. i were like to remind commercialmembers ofthe public e any disruptions of any time. if you care to state your maim fonamebefore speaking. (roll call). we do expect commissioner johns to be absent today. general public comment. at this time, members may address this issue. with respect to agenda items, opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. i have just the one speaker

card. >> we have a georgia shiddish. >> you're lik >> good afternoon. i came today. i know you'll do the historic survey or the department is and i just wanted to raise the issue of residential houses. what should be preserved. so if i may have the overhead, please. this is near me in the valley and you can see that -- i mean, there's nothing left in the rear of the house, complete excavation and vertical pension buexpansion. this is typical what i would call working man's bungalow. ithis is 1927.

and this, i think, this facade will not be preserved and it's in the project that's pending and i think that is a worthy san francisco, particularly a san francisco mediterranean revival bowel front which are all over the sunset but scattered throughout the city on the eastern side and i think even though they are not part of the uniform district, they are part of the in-fill that occurred in the eastern neighborhoods in the second part or the first part after the quake and i think they deserve consideration. this one particularly is completely original, windows, doors, the curves, everything. it's a simple design and it's stucko and wood and tile. and i think that even though, as i said, it's not part of an overall pattern like they are, it was built in the beginning oe

that dolder built his out on 39th avenue in the mary brown study. one more thing, a little quirkily but i'll mention it anyway. this is in the valley, also, on one side of church and 27t 27th and -- excuse me, church and duncan and this is on the other side of church and duncan. and i'm assuming that those are where horses or carts were tie up and i think that's great and that they stay. but i discovered this getting out of the car and i just know it's a very minor thing but it's one of the things that i assume the horse was tied up to that ring and i think things like this are what make the city interesting. kind of like the john king article a few months ago and you can see here, it was part of a whole row of them on the street. so i mean, it's quirky, but i

wanted to bring it up to you, applicatioperhaps in the histor. so thank you very much. >> any other members of the public wish to address the commission? very good, commissioners. this is under department matters for item one, director's announcements. >> good afternoon, department staff, no report this afternoon. >> item two, review of past events of the planning commission staff report an announcements. >> good afternoon, commissioners, just a few items to share with you, mainly, give an update on some upcoming hearings. on april 11th, we will be presenting an overview of the city-wide survey to the planning excision. originally we had proposed this to be an april 4th hearing but

to scheduled conflicts, it's pushed to april 11th. on april 15, however, we will present an overview of the city-wide survey to the land use committee. supervisor peskin as the chair asked for that hearing to occur on april 15th and we will be presenting on your behalf on that. on may 22nd we will be giving the board of appeals an overview of the historic preservation's commission's review process around certificates of appropriateness and major permits. this largely came -- this request largely came about during the pioneer monument appeal and board of appeals wanting a better understanding of how this commission operates and how you weigh certain decisions in terms of when they affect a character-defining feature and when they do not. more on that later but i did want to give you the heads up

that the may 22nd, calendar date has been scheduled. another important event, tonight the department will be hosting a mills act work shoshop in the ro district and commissioner black will be attending to provide support to staff that will defensive an overview of the mill's act programme should the strict be interested in pursuing the programme along with designation this upcoming here. and then we also provided -- or i'm not sure, i'll check with the commission's secretary. we asked for the order addressing the julius castle superior court decision from the friends of montgomery street versus the city and county of san francisco and julius castle, that brief to be distributed. as you see, their determination was the plaintiffs had not

exercises or exhausted their full due process under -- i'm totally blanking out here, the appeal process and therefore, did not decide to take up the matter. forgive me for that and that concludes my comments unless you have any questions. i did want to mention one last thing, our lady of guadalupe has been forwarded to the court. >> i was going to mention this in my presence report but with regard to city-wide survey, i'm glad to know that it's been aagendized for land use. i would like for me to write a letter with our opinion that the city-wide survey move forward with the quickest time frame. remember when it was presented

to us, it was like six to certainly yearto sevenyears witf load. i would like to in the record that we would like the planning commission and land commission to endorse the quickest possible path for that. is that ok? >> am i on? were we going invention in thatt the priorities, the neighborhood priorities? >> well, we can. we can certainly do that. it's part of the presentation and i think in the first year, there will be kind of looking at the priorities as they keep that survey up.

if there's nothing further we can go to commission matters item three, the president's report. item 4, draft minutes from march 16, 2019. >> open that up to public comment. would any member of the public wish to comment on the minutes? i adopt the minutes of march 6. >> thank you. (roll call). >> so moved, commissioners that motion passed unanimously 6-0. item 5, commission comments and questions? >> i have one disclosure. i met with the project sponsor on the third street building this morning. commissioner perlman. >> i will disclose the same thing. is it on now? >> yes. i will disclose the same thing.

i had a tour this morning of the fabulous building. >> seeing nothing further, item 6, case 1642 at 1088 samson street. i have no speaker card. >> anyone want to bring this on to the calendar? would any member of the public wish to bringing this off the consent calendar? closed public calendar. >> i move to approve the consent calendar. >> motion to approve 6. so moved. that passed unanimously 6-0. regular calendar for item 7, 20.00 12e. better market street, a draft environmental impact for your review and comments.

>> good afternoon, president and members. my name is chris thomas, the planning department's coordinator for the better market street project. joining me are my colleagues from the planning department of resources and preservation teams and project manager for the project sponsor, public works, as well as other members of the sponsor team with public works and the san francisco nta. we're she to provide an opportunity for your commission to provide its comments to the better market street draft eir, to the planning commission and the department in advance of the april 4th commission hearing on this draft. we would like to request everybody speak slowly and clearly for the stenographer here for the proceedings. the project review began on february 28, 2019 and will continue until 5:00 p.m. on

april 15, 2019. the commission members were provided with links to the notice of public hearing and the notice of availability of the draft eir, as well as to the eir and appendi appendi crashesces. i would like to remind everyone by comments made by the public should be directed to assisting your condition in formulating the comments of the draft eir and not responded to in the responses to comment's document. public comment made at the aprig commission hearing for this draft eir will be considered in the document. the proposed project would resign and provide a programme of transportation and street-scale improvements to 2.t street when stewart street and octavia boulevard, including market street for off-corridor

intersections, the entire of benefibrennan place. it would introduce changes to the roadway configuration and private vehicle access, traffic signals, transit, including muni-only lanes, stop spaces, stop locations, stop characteristics and infrastructure, bicycle facilities, pedestrian facilities, street scapes, commercial and passenger loading and vehicular loading. among the project's many features it proposes to raise the existing bikeway to the level of the sidewalk placing it between the curb lanes and in the draft eir as furnishing zones. this would require moving all of the path of gold standards to realign them to create a linear edge to the pedestrian through-zone. placing this at the sidewalk level would be a replacement of the herring-bone brick with the

ada compliance service. the draft eir finds the project corridor is eligible for listing in the register of historic resource as a cultural landscape associated with the redevelopment plan. the d.athe draft eir would resun impacts with respect to cultural resources, transportation and construction noise. i'm going to turn it over to francis mcmillan who will provide you with a summary of the findings regarding historical resources.

>> good afternoon, commission planning staff. this has been eligible for listing on the register through the environmental review process. i'll provide a brief overview of the market street cultural landscape district and the character-defining features and discuss the alternatives prepared in the draft eir. the market street cultural landscape district was testified in a cultural landscape identification prepared by icf in november of 2016. they found market street a significant under california register criteria one as san francisco's main circulation artery. excuse me for one moment. there we go. sorry about that.

and facilitator of urban development with 1847 to 1929. this is a venue of civic engagement with a period of significance of the 1870s to 1879. they found market street is significant under california register criteria three for the association with the work of matter architects john karl orneky and master landscape architect with a period of significance of 189. 1979. it's located in the civic centre district and mason centre conservation district and located in several national register listed districts. article 10 and 11 designated properties, as well as eligibility historical resources are located adjacent to the corridor. projects were determined to be less than significant and therefore, these resources are not included in the preservation

alternatives. the market street cultural landscape district includes numerous large scale defining features including article 10 path of gold light standards and roadway and street scape components designed by lawrence helprin as part of the redevelopment plan. these components include the traffic signals and square and circular street signage, trees in double rows, bronze tree grates, the herrin-bone links and the large plazas including u.n., haliday and justin her man. herman. the proposed project includes the alteration or demolition of several character-defining features dating to the

helprin smp period. the alteration includes partially realigning the panel f gold light standards, traffic signals and square and circular street signage and chain links. it also includes street trees to the modification of the trees. as the proposed project was determined to result in a significant unavoidable impact on historical resource, the project team identified a full preservation alternative and two partial preservation alternatives. the draft alternatives were presented to the architectural commission. they found the alternatives to be complete and adequate noting they addressed the defining features of the landscape, historic resources, stine and accessibility issues. the commissioner's comments include the design and materials

throughout the project area as the project corridor falls within the borders and multiple article 10 landmark and district. they noted the granite curb should be retained and the brick paving in regard to ada accessibility and suggesting the bricks can be installed in a manner that meet accessibility needs. the alternatives in project description reflect the arc's recommendations to retain the granite curbs. at the january 6 hearing, the commissioners reviewed the path of gold which will require a certificate of appropriateness. the project description an alternatives have been updated to reflect the recommendations and comments regarding relocation, realignment and removal of life standards. specifically, these changes note that the alignment the standards will be determined block by block and every effort to relocate the standards and removal of the small number of

individual standards would be a final option if relocation is not possible. the deir analyzed this and found the alternative would have less than significant impact with mit mitigation. this meets some of the objectives. the two partial alternatives would have an unavoid impact. in your packets, you will find table 6.1, which is an overview of each alternative and table 6.2 listing how each meets the project's objectives. please note i just handed out a more complete version of table two. your packets omitted a few pages. also included is table 6.3 which illustrates the character-defining features. the full preservation alternative would reduce the market street landscape and retain brick sidewalk and plazas and the gold light standards

would not be modified. transit, bicycle passenger and loading facilities would be similar to existing conditions. the london plain trees would be replaced with one new species of tree and similar in height and retain the existing pattern. as noted in table 6.1, the full preservation alternative will include the proposed roadway changes included in the proposed project. this alternative would require new street lights and fun tur fg zones. as noted on table 6.2, this meets project objectives. partial preservational one including all existing brick that would match close in colour to the existing red brick.

a sidewalk level brickway is add on market street to stewart street and ballards would be removed and used as feasible. existing trees would be replaced with a new species that closely resemble height and character of the existing trees. the new trees would be planted in a pattern matching the design of the existing trees and the bronze tree grates would be removed. this alternative includes several components that are the same as the project and include modifications to the path of gold, adding or expanding centre boarding islands and curbside stop, and replacement of the existing traffic signals and signage. this alternative meets all of the project objectivelies. obje. alternative two would include a greater number of alterations to market street but fewer than the partial preservation alternative one and even fewer than the proposed project. this alternative is extinguished

from the parcel one and the project in that it would remove, expanded curbside on 20 blocks of market street, and 22 blocks would not be modified. on the 20 blocks where the traffic island to be modified, this would be similar to the proposed project. a new ten-foot wide pedestrian access route is provided with transit stop modifications. all existing brick not removed to accommodate curb changes or pedestrian access route would be retained. all other blocks not including transit stop will include brick sidewalks and plazas. a single species of tree would be retained and planted in a pattern with the existing tree alignment. bronze tree grate would be removed. this would include the same modifications the path of gold as the proposed project. this alternative as noted on

table 6.2 meets several objectives and now we'll turn it to chris thomas to conclude the presentation. >> just want to provide a few comments on the comment and hearing period. i would like to remind everybody that a draft eir will be before the planning commission schedule scheduled for april 4. comments must be submitted orally at the planning commission hearing or in planning to the hearing department by april 15th for them to be responded to in the responses to comment's document. after the planning commission hearing, the planning department will publish a response to document which will contain the responses to all relevant comments on the draft eir. publication of the responses to comment's document will be followed by a hearing before the

planning commission where the planning commission will consider consideration of the final eir. this ends my presentation. thank you. >> great, thank you. any questions for the presenter? lealet's open it to public comm. i have two speaker cards. ron miguel and ken maley. the commissioners and i have the pleasure of chairing the citizen's working group for better market street. about time it's going to be rebuilt. this is the third incarnation of the fourth committee the city has together on this project and you can be sure that we all understand how important it is at this time. a couple of things, if i may,

that pertain directly to your job. as a third generation san franciscan, the brick is not historic in my mind. it wasn't there when i was a kid. if i go back to my father and some uncles who were here directly all of the earthquake and fire, they remember the wood sidewalks on market street. so i think we have to be practical as well as historic in the manner in which we approach this. i have taken a look, although not read every word in detail, on the air. but as i see what it covers and how it covers it, it is my distinct conclusion that is it both complete and accurate. it covers all of the possible

contingencies. i look forward to the eir being finished, replied to and the full air publish and we can get along with the project. we're only going to start with the three-block section. that's all we've got money for, but it's going to proceed, hopefully, with due diligence and a shorter time frame than i anticipate into the future until the entire project is finished. it's the major roadway of san francisco. it is emblematic of our city and more than just important. i appreciate the work you have into this so far and will do so in the future and if there's anything the working group can do to work with you, please let

me know. thank you. >> thank you. >> ken maley. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is ken maley and i'm a long-time member of the family of zooney cafe at 1658 market. i'm hopeful some you of you have been with us as the late mayor so loved our roast chicken. i'm here at the request of gilbert pilgrim, the owner of the cafe and he couldn't be here today because he's out of the country. i understand that the comments today are public comments are not into the final record and we do plan to address that in the future as mr. thomas mentione mentioned. i submit these comments on his behalf. mostly regarding the better market street project from octa havoctavia boulevard to 300 east

hayes street known as the western varient. my comments return to octavia boulevard to the vaness. they designate 1658, the zuni cafe ineligible for cultural or historical consideration and we strongly disagree. san francisco is replete with a rich history of hospitality that is now legendary throughou throe world. our city's international reputation, a major contributor to our economy is based largely on the dedication of these businesses to uphold that reputation. all those zuni is not designated

a city landmark, it's a cultural landmark recognized state-wide, nationally, internationally and an icon in the world of culinary history. after 40 years of upholding the reputation, this cafe is a legend in its own time and the western variant proposes restrictions within this subarea include prohibiting auto-traffic, its right turn on to market westbound, diverting the traffic before market to gulf. eastbound traffic will be diverted off market at 12t 12th street. westbound traffic will be allowed to make the left turn on to franklin but i see no plan that allows franklin street-bound traffic to allow passenger unloading and this plan will be catastrophic for zuney as well as other businesses and residents of the neighborhood. we propose to continue responding to the project as it

evolves and we do support the overall plan but we do ask for some till intelligent attention to this short historic block. it changes the character of market street from octa yorvia street west and we appreciate your time. >> any other member of the public wish to speak? >> i'm the senior community organizers at the bike coalition and here to speak in support of the better market street project on behalf of the 10,000 members and it will create a safer place. hundreds of thousand of people ride buses, trains or bikes below market street and this really is the backbone' of the san francisco transportation system. it's the city for acts of protest, resis resistance.

we need a project addressing adg numerous issues. we need to implement this project to avoid further fatalities and injuries on market. enacting any of the three preservational alternatives would compromise the project by eliminating or weakening protection for people biking. specifically the full preservation alternative and preservation alternative two maintain the dangerous conditions that currently exist for people biking which really is unacceptable given those conditions, no infrastructure. it's paint on the ground. preservational alternative one falls short. the requirements on maintaining existing tree placement are onerous to the place of the path

of the planned sidewalk level bicycle lane. to ensure preservation listed would compromise on the equality of the project for people biking and one of the main goals which is bicycle safety. ultimately, best way to preserve the legacy of market street is to region it, as we have on multiple occasions. thank you, ron, for that perspective and we need to make it a place for sustainable transportation for decades to come. pouwe urge the commission and or city leaders to work to celebrate the history of market street while making it a street that works for everyone in sanfrancisco regardless of how they get around. thank you. >> thank you. >> anyone else in the public wish to address the commission? i'll close the public comment. so commissioners, i think our task here is reviewing comment on the draft eir.

it as miss mcmillian mentioned, the c of a for the light standards will come before us in another time. so there's nothing for us to suggest on that. but i did have one question and that is regarding the granite curbs and the paving, that will not come back before us, right? >> that's correct. it would not come back for a c of a. >> that's right, ok. >> thank you for the arc comments and work on this project and also, i wanted to thank the staff and reason for your work and other comments from the speakers. and ron, you said this was your what, the third committee or the fourth reincarnation of the

committee so you've. working on this a long time and i know the value of your work and leadership in the community. so i think what you've come up with, just generally, it looks good. regarding our role, to get a little better educated on what the historic community was doing around the nation for street scape, i started to look at for various reports and i was pleasantly delighted to see the report called torid accessible street scapes, which was this the alignance review and tim frye is one of the officers of the national council on preservation commissions, right? yes and there were articles in that review are terrific. and this street scapes, apparently, this is quite a challenge all over the nation for how do we accommodate

multi-modal transform transports well as the paved cities in which we live. so i think what i was most intrigued by was the need to -- which i think are encapsulated in the preservation alternatives in retaining certain amount of pavement. i know ron said that red brick isn't historic. however, it is a te defining feature and i've been very aware the more i walk of what the pavement feels like in rip relationship to the architecture and overall landscape. so i do appreciate, number one, the idea of retraining the granite curbs and it seemed a little bit in doubt as to whether they were included in all of the alternatives or just

in certain ones. i thought you used the word feasible or something. >> yes, they are included. >> that's great. >> as well as the proposed project. >> right. >> so the goal is to maintain the granite curbs. >> i wanted to endorse that in looking at how we're looking at the cultural landscapes. i just wanted to say i thoroughly appreciate that. i did look through and i thought if we're talking about how we're going to maintain the character, not only the efficiency and the engineering of the transportation corridor but how we'll maintain our landscape along with it to preserve that. so i would be interested to know if we have anything that talked

about maintenance. , the market streeright now if t or breaks, we maintain it and we continue to be the same in the future. >> mr. perlman? >> i was at the arc and

miss alaye presented the herculean task this is to figure out the strands and the weaving and i appreciate the comments about how long it takes. we get this material and you've been looking at it for how many years and we get a week in advance and we get to look at this and it is extremely complicated, not to mention complex. i mean, there's just a vast amount of information. a couple things i wanted to comment on and one was about the bricks and i really appreciate mr. miguel's comments because not every little piece we touch because it's been there 40 years, a specific value.

i do, however, agree with commissioner yunk about the brick being so identified now. so for those of us who are recent transplants, less than this and i'm wondering if there is a design an area of brick so it is a design feature between trees, you know, somehow as a design element so it's not

completely removed so that relates to the preservation alternatives that would require that as a character-te characteg feature but i don't think it has to be wall to wall curb to storefront to be still considered being that. the other question b i had, we talked about not having mon a-culture trees and i think there was a concern that if there was any disease, do they go at once or are there a mix of trees on street. so it sounds like there's been a change. is that correct, mr. thomas? or there hasn't been a change, the project proposes a mix of trees. >> a mix of trees. >> i believe five to seven species are included in the

proposed project for the partial preservation. the full preservation has one to two. >> that's great. because i endorsed that and i think that's a good way to go. and again, i think there's so many aspects of this that are so far beyond our level of expertise that other than the path of gold light standards, the rest of these are so in the realm of bicycle people and bus people and mta people and disability advocates and all of that, that i think this is remarkable and i do think this is well beyond time to get this project moving forward. >> great. >> commissioner wolfrum. >> thank you. it's certainly a complicated project and i'm commenting on it on one hand as somebody who is a big fan of the lawrence thompson

work and also i ride my bike on the street everyday and risk my life doing so. [ laughter ] >> so the project is needing to happen. i think that the thing so interesting about market street is that it's a completely designed street that has such a distinctive identity and has a cultural landscape and holds togetheron with thtogether, eves that have happened over time. so it's a distinctive part of sanfrancisco and historic part of san francisco that on one hand i'll be sorry so see go but i think the eir does address the preservation thinks well and unfortunate that they really don't, for the most part work or fulfill the project needs, like certainly the full preservation, like what would be the point of doing it at all? >> there would be no change. >> i mean, it doesn't seem like it would really address the

critical shortcomings. >> also a no project alternative. >> but i think these alternatives do address the preservatiopreservation and goao analyze alternatives. so i would say it was done adequately. >> great, thank you. >> commissioner black. so all comments are not encapsulated in any one of these alternatives. there's bits and pieces. the best i can do as a non-transportation is give my

opinion. certainly the granite curbs. i think of the brick as sort of a place-making feature that creates the identity of market street. i understand it does not go back to the founding of the city but preservation is when something is reserve preserved, it's a snf whatever it is at the time it was constructed. it's much safer for bicyclists. i realize that's much more complicated and expensive but i see mark street as a flat street

that gets people from one part of the city to another very efficiently. (please stand by).

>> it's historic. it pretty much killed all the business. what we can do, this maybe our first draft e.i.r. we trying to convey what we think is important for planning commissioners to understand what to do with. only thing that will come back before us is the late standards.

the light standard that come before us -- the paving, the a.r.c. wanted to make sure that whatever was put in place of the brick if the brick was not a viable solution, was something as good as what we have as opposed to just putting in some plain gray concrete. >> i agree. it would be nice if it was recollected and sections of brick or something that recalled that landscape. >> it's interesting to me, we have the raised cones at every intersection. those are four harsher on a person in a wheelchair than brick paving.

it seems to me that if someone -- if we are required to put that in for a.d.a. requirements, it seems there should be a way to design in some way, some elements of brick in some consistent design pattern that wouldn't be so harsh relative to a person who might be affected by it. i really want to emphasize that seems very possible. >> we can put in similar language what the a.r.c. says. we like to make sure what's replaced it's compatible to the entire market street. two other things. i would like to add to our memo, the comment on this new cafe and

the impact legacy business that is priority for us as commission. we want to make sure planning commission is paying attention to the unintended consequence. >> rose is the alley street that will get blocked. >> then, last, which probably doesn't apply here, after our commission hearing, we concluded that we could actually give an opinion on what we think an appropriate direction for the project. we know that none of the preservation alternatives either meet the standards nor the project. the preservation alternative is basically no project alternative. i don't know if we need to see any more of that. i haven't heard that we have a proposed direction beyond the

actual proposed project. >> commissioner johns. >> commissioner johns: i want to confirm that we are going to send a memo to the planning commission. rather than having them bear it out going to s.f.gov.org. >> there was a discussion whether or noted you want us to read that memo into the record or part of staff presentation or president hyland or other member like to present those thoughts. >> it's coming before the commission tomorrow? is that correct? we have little time to get the memo. >> it's going before the planning commission on april 4th. we have a transcript taken

today. our proposal was to put together of your comments and give it to the planning commission prior to the hearing. >> as long as it's not an item not buried in the binder. >> the e.i.r. has been given to them. this would be given to them as a stand-alone item. >> president hyland: we can move ton to items 8a, b and c. for 5 third street. this is a planning code amendment and major permit to alter.

>> good afternoon commissionerrings rebecca planning staff. located at the southeast corner of market street and third street. the property is located within the article 11 new montgomery conservation district. 1729 third street was constructed in 1910. the proposed project was convert the -- hearst building to mixed use hotel. the proposed new rooftop elements will be visible from a public right-of-way. the project includes work at the storefront both buildings,

facade window restoration. it's located a the 13th rooftop of 5 third street. it the penthouse is simple in details which includes multilight windows, and small wooded birdhouse. the interior of the penthouse appears to have heavily altered. staff has determined while the penthouse is defining to the building it is not visible federal any public right-of-way and never accessible to the public. it will remain unchanged by the removal of the penthouse structure. all other character defining features and available to the public will be restored and remain part of the proposed project.

the proposed vertical additions will be left prominent and existing rooftop additions. to assess the visibility of the roof deck, staff conduct site visit to review places stories. based on modifications, it was determined that the proposed deck will be individuals believe frovisible from thestreet. the proposed work at the property store front will remove awnings that are incompatible with the property. the proposed new aluminum storefront while contemporary in

design will be compatible with the building. alterations at the lobby are limited you new door openings at two recesses adjacent to the historic elevators. this work will not alter historic finishes in the lobby. the project will require conditional use authorization from the planning commission to allow the proposed hotel use under section 303 the planning code. per planning code section 309, downtown project authorization will be required from the planning commission for substantial alterations to the building. the project also seeks federal

rehabilitation tax credit and o.h.p. provided a letter with this approach and determined that the project is in conformance with the se secretaf interior. after publication of the packets for the hearing, two members of the public contacted planning staff to request additional information. one letter of support project one letter recommending project to receive. these relevant attachments were forwarded to the commissioners for review. this concludes my presentation unless there's questions.

>> good afternoon president hyland and commissioners. i'm current planning department staff. the item before you is an ordinance amend planning code and that are not compliance with regarding to height. it would require major alteration permit. as noted in the case report, this ordinance is being proposed to allow the hearst building to fill an existing area and hotel is designated as significant under article 11. tariffs they are looking to infill is located on the rooftop. ordinance restricts amendment to the block that includes hotel block dilemm 3707. it includes the sun set date of january 31, 2029.

the department recommends the commission recommend approval as ordinance facilitate the adaptive reuse of the historic building and in a manner far is keeping with existing city policy and will national standard for historic preservation. this concludes my presentation. i'm available for any questions regardlessing the ordinance. i believe project sponsor has a brief sponsor. >> good afternoon president hyland commissioners and members of the public. i represent the project sponsor. we're real estate development firm with other 30 years track

record including historic rehabilitation projects. we're excited to be in front you with another san francisco land mark, hearst building. the hearst building is the third building on the side with with the first building benefi builtn 1853. he's joined by our architect of record. they stand behind san francisco most successful historic project and join us today. before i conclude my brief remarks,ly head it over to frederick. you want to thank hearst