many people around san francisco we are going to make magic happen because of each and every one of you. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] your cell phone. i would like to take roll at this time. (roll call).

>> we expect commissioners hillis and johnson to arrive shortly. first is item number is, 2019 2019-2110 certain nonresidential uses at 3150 18th street, proposed for continuance to may 30th. 00758 at 225vasqez avenue is proposed for continuance, and 2018-13230 at casada avenue, a use proposed for continuance and since been withdrawn. item 4, number 2017-01351c at st. carlos street, conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to june 27th, 2019. item 5, case number 2018-01386 and map for the large resident

planning code and zoning map amendments is reasoned for an definite continuance partnership have no other items and no speaker cards. >> would any member of the public wish to provide a comment. >> good afternoon. i'm representing the project with 2300 harrison items 15a & b. this is an item scheduled later on your calendar. you know, we have worked really hard on this project and met with the neighborhood and the community activists since february of 2018 and as recently as last friday and we feel we've given a lot on the project and there isn't a lot more to give. however, we realize there are some discussions, very recently happening and we would like to close on those. we would like those items to be continued. in tems of the date terms of ths a thursday and you don't meet so

if we could ask for june 6th, that would be great. thank you. >> thank you, miss catalono. >> would you like to take up 15a and b because i haven't called that matter up for you to continue. >> yes. >> for purposes of requests items 15a and b at 2300 harrison street large project authorization and office project authorization, the request from the project sponsor to june 6th, it is closed, but you could accommodate. >> i'm sorry, commissioner moore? calendar is open. >> excuse me? >> the date where the calendar is more open? >> well, certainly, the further out we go, the more open they become because i think june 6

would be all right. >> can we do it on the 6th? >> commissioner, did you want to weigh in? >> i was going to make a motion. i motion to continue items 1, 2, 4, 5 to the dates proposed and items 15a and b to june 6th. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to continue items as proposed including 15a and b to june 6, commissioners? (roll call). >> so moved and that motion passes unanimously 5-0. commissioners, that will place us under commission matters item

6, consideration of draft minutes for april 5, 2019. >> does anyone member of the public wish to provide comments? with that, public comment is now closed. now commissioners kopel. >> i move to approve draft minutes from april 25. >> second. >> thank you, on that motion to adopt the minutes for april 25, 2019, commission fung? (roll call). >> so move and that motion passes unanimously 5-0. item 7, comments and questions? >> commissioner moore? >> i have a question for the director. you discussed with us the other week what projects are being considered for passing under the limitations of the annual budget. the one project, which we did

not mention is, indeed, 5m, tiee office buildings. wouldn't that become automatic a project since that was overturned, that would be considered? >> commissioner, you approved that project and that project has the allocations. >> ok. good to know. i was concerned that in the legal battles decision appeared 2015 and hadn't heard much about it. >> i been three years since you approved it, yes. >> thank you so much. >> seeing nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to department matters. item 8, director's announcements. >> thank you. just wanted to briefly call your attention to the memo in your packet in the allocation and really, just summarizes some of the discussion you had at your

hearing in april and some further information based on the questions you raised at that hearing and i wanted to make sure you caught that and with any further questions, i'm happy to answer them at a later date, thank you. >> thank you, director. commissioner moore, did you have something? >> no. >> commissioner fung? >> question on that. the excerpt on what the code mandates in terms of the criteria, the briefing that we received as an example on harrison did not specifically address the criteria. >> i'm sorry the briefing you received on? >> harrison street. >> harrison street? >> for the small project allocation. >> oh, i see. i can't remember the briefing,

so i apologize. the question raises on most of your other instruments like cus, you have the five criteria, your general plan referrals with a way of dealing with that and so the question is whether it would be good to have a specific response to those criteria from staff as we track through because i believe the allocations of many projects will be comin coming forth. >> we can look at that more specifically, thank you. >> commissioner moore? >> director, do you have that memo in front of you by any chance? i may be not properly reading it. in the first paragraph, first line, you were saying that prop

m, proof for voters in 1986 give the planning commission the sole authority to offer space and in point three, you're determining, though, which office best promotes public welfare would be up to the board of supervisors and planning commission. are those two things exclude safexclusiveor inclusive? >> item 3, i'm sorry? >> it's in the second -- the first paragraph with number 3 in front of it, the board of

superadviseofsupervisors should. >> number 9, there was no historic preservation meeting yesterday. >> again, this week, nothing at the committee for the planning department and at the full board 950cayuga passed the second read and a demolition ordinance since it was introduced on tuesday, we won't be interesting the joint hearing on the 16th and find a date in june for that and staff has been working with the office to work out unresolved issues. >> i'm sorry, will you please send it out to us as soon as you can? >> sure. >> thank you. >> on behalf of mr. sanchez, the board of appeals held their first hearing without

commissioner fung. the boa board considered one it, notice requirements to all tenants of residential permits to adus. >> thank you, their loss is our gain. >> thank you. [ laughter ] >> very good, commissioners. placing us under general comment, the public may address the commission that are in the jurisdiction of the commission, except with respect to agenda items, it will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes and i did have two speaker cards. >> i have kevin chang, but anyone else is welcome to come up for public comment, as well. >> commissioners, good afternoon, barry pearl, i am a

resident of the engleside neighborhood. i'm here at the request of a group of neighbors filing a group request related to a new construction application at 345 lewisburg street. i'm not here today related to the discretionary review request, but i'm here to request that you direct the department staff to investigate this particular building permit application. the application number is 200703216875 for a building form to application, which as you can gather, was filed in 2007 and has lanquished in the planning

department for ten years. there was a request to ask the central permit bureau to cancel the application for inactivity but 12 years later, the application is still making its way through the process. and i request of the department staff to investigate this further and find out why this application was not canceled and why the applicant was not required to file a new building permit application with an application sitting in process for all these many years. now the central permit bureau will take no responsibility. i spoke to them. they said, oh, but planning, it was in planning's bale baliwickl to time.

the applicant should be required to start the process anew. i believe there was a change of ownership under its current configuration and so, we ask that you take that into consideration and make the applicant start the process all over again. thank you. >> could you give me that address again? >> yes. the address is 345 lewisburg street and again, the application is 2007-03216875. >> great, thank you. >> thank you for your consideration. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please.

>> my name is kevin chang, i would like to address the illegal unit murders. oftentimes violations are undetected. i can give you an example of five properties. there are misrepresentations on apple, construction not conforming to permits and the hiding of code enforcement occurred. many go undetected in permit submission. conditions are misrepresented and the historical unit count is oftentimes not verified and many go undetected after substantial completion. even after sale. the building department code enforcement would indicate the building was built according to plans and they will observe no violations existed. these are all two-unit properties and ren foe investigaterentalproperties.

they're fully integrated living and single family with an aupare, one stairway, one elevator to all floors. many time it's a ticket fix and there's no department penalty. the planning department enforcement would have the following findings, no hearings, no change in uni count to maximize density. it what is done then, as far as code enforcement? mainly the department will require a new building permit to correct what should have been done if they were not caught. they would be caught to what

should have been done. is this situation just? even with code enforcement, there's a defacto after the fact. the planning commission should further investigate these properties cited the last one, the only one which may appear before this body for a hearing. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you, mr. chang. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is tess with the ashbury council. i'm referring to the previously mentioned memo about the central soma in prop m. this was not i really on the schedule for today. it was just attached and i think it's important for the public to have this actually be on the sal dar and a brief staff

presentation. we're talking about nearly twice as many. and this paper present as criteria that you would be using in the process of selection and i think that it's important for the public to hear this in public. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> a few weeks ago when we had the inventory report, i gave you a copy of this and if i could have the overhead, please. it's my list potential demolition since january of 2015 and i updated it and if it's ok, i'll give you a copy to commissioner fung since he

wasn't here then. i learned the demo legislation has been revised and recommitted and i was going to ask you to consider adjusting a demo calc like you can under 317 2b which is in the code, which is in section 317. and even though i thought about it and i thought each though the new legislations come out, i don't think it would be a terrible thing if you would adjust the demo cap since we've been waiting for a long time. it could be viewed as a an interim control and given the fact that there's a lot of alterations going on and issues, it might not be a bad thing. i just want to show you this project, if i may. this is on 25th, and this is the on the list i just showed you.

people were talking about doing something on demographics and i had an ad and i lift over there about baby-boomers selling your home and i realized that, you know, i'm a baby-boomer. i'm 65 and a half. i won't be here forever. i have two boys. i don't think they'll go back and live in my house, in their bedroom together, like they did, since they're 22 and 39. there's a who've wave coming on the market and i, too i don't iw to deal with the housing stock but maybe not proposed in sb50 but something that the demographics need to be looked at and when you do an analysis

that will come into it. you need an occupancy thing because you need to figure out how to fe get unit back on the market. 5,000 units head off the market, it would be good to figure out how to get them back and what enticementment would get them back and that's my potpouri for today. >> next speaker, please.

people like me, when they find things like that start sending them to people because you should be sending them to people when there's an important memo, not having a person like me read weird sections of the planning code site and find out holy hell, people need to know about this memo. secondarily, i want to talk about history that's happening. one of them is happening on the agenda here. after the downtown plan was passed, there was a lot of

attention paid by committees around the downtown to protect their committees. chinatown was the first and then this were three upscale hotels proposed going into is the tendetenderloin and all these ae code amendments. they're not area plans because the whole area plan thing came much later. and saw the market was rezoned in existing marketing. the pushback was historical and it happened from communities of a low income to protect their housing. and now there's an enormous portion for upscale housing in chinatown and its the tenderloin

and you're surprised by pushback when it happens. this is an olympic diver and the only park, philippino woman and the planning excision said, oh, we don't care about that park. the board of supervisor did. but pay attention to things that are happening. i also will have things to say on 2300 harrison when it comes up. there's a lot of pushback to build houseing from the committee and it's low income housing and transit and it's been happening here since the '80s. thank you. >> 2300 harrison has been continued to june 6th.

230002300 harrison was continuet the beginning of the meeting. with that general public comment is now close. >> that will place us under the regular calendar for item 10, 2019-00136 for youth engagement planning informational presentation. >> hi, everyone, planning department staff. we are really excited to today to have the fourth grade class at monroe to present to you the work that they've been doing. i'll spend just a few minutes in the beginning of the presentation talking about the work we've beening to at the applinplanning department. we've been working with cities and schools in berkley and we have a couple here, cheryl bus,

deb mccoy and the planning staff has been working. so we have spent the past year in three schools, malcolm x academy and monroe and i'll till in just a minute more about what we've been doing. we're fo going to talk about the importance of the engagement and figure out a plan to go forward. so just to step back for a second, why is it important and why should we be talking to kids? as part of the process to engage our community, this is about 15 positio15%of our population ovef you think about the sheer numbers of people. when you think about the

long-range planning issues, sea level rise, things that are the future, those are the folks experiencing that and civic engagement and how do you introduce that to kid young and diversifyindiversifying our prod they understand what is planning and how to be a planner when they grow up. so in the past, we've done some things well and not so well when we've tried to engage kids. i thought you a table on the side with crayons and kids are engaged. i think it would be occupy the kids while we engage the parents but how do we have them involved in this conversation and what is their input? we've done other things that have worked better, focus groups and tried to connect with

teachers and principals. i think anybody who has a child knows there's a list a mile long and calling back a parent interested in coming to the school to talk about an issue in the neighborhood falls to the bottom of their list so it's been hard to make the connects with the schools. we've had a job ha shadowing. mission high. we've attended job fare and union works for a number of years and that's a programme that is kind of -- to date, it's been, oh, i want a job and it hasn't been, i want a job at the planning department and i'll apply to the planning department so trying to think how to reshift that opportunity. so just really quickly on the schools that we met with and what we talked about there. we spent the past year -- it was

there for 20 sessions and planners came in and we worked on a big question, how can we house everyone in san francisco fairly an and ec equitably. they met with answering this big question. we learned a lot in the process, too, how to engage union, tools and techniques to do that work. studentses were anticipationing hoanswering how toimprove stree, greener and the fourth grade class and second graders have great posters and stuff you'll see, as well.

and the third school is malcolm x academy. we're working there and we have a successions and the final presentation will be this a few weeks and that is on sea level rise to educate our communities about the impact of sea level rise in the bayview. and we chose these schools and these programmes because we were working in these neighborhoods, so we had the outer mission strategy last year and we're doing the outer mission design guidelines for mission street and this will feed directly into that.

some of the things we've identified, some challenges an opportunities, first it's been a learning curve for us to understand how to work with kids. teachers have special skills and we can appreciate them more and more because it's been hard to figure out how to get kids excited on these topics and it's been a staff capacity issue, as well as consultants. we know that can't continue so thinking what do we do next. some of the opportunities, as i mentioned before. they're helping us to meet the racial and social equity goals and it's been a meaningful

engagement process. how do we take this to the next level? what worked and didn't work and how can we imagine much less intensive but meaningful going forward and how do we train the few planners in the room today, how can we train more people to do this work so when they're ready to do it on their projects they can do it. so i just want to end with a note from a minister high school student. he said i enjoyed everything and learned things i never thought i would learned and was wondering about having an internship with you. without further ado, i think we'll call in the fourth grade class.

>> how do we improve public streets to be safer, cleaner and green? >> thank you for taking time to listen to our ideas. >> hello. my name is nicholas and i'm on the transportation get-around team and our class took a site research field trip along the mission street corridor between silver and excelcier street.

this was a rainy day during our walk and made us think bus stops should be covered. it has lights so you can see at night and it has a light there.

i'm on the team and we are full of many ideas, not just about nature. >> we have pride in our school and community and we were like e to propose an idea to make a big

sign. >> mission street needs lots more green. right now there are no trees, no planters with flowers o or gardens. >> we have a sustainable idea of a water trap to capture the rainwater. it can lead to water that greens on mission street and we have a colourful signs to attract attention to trash in the trash cans.

>> we want the cars to slow down and one idea is to cars in the median strip in the middle of the street. >> hello, my name is john. we are safety on mission street. this will give it more attention and having more recycling bins is important. >> this is not only important for people but for the birds, as well, and we thought of an idea

to have a safe spot for birds. these are our many ideas. >> we made a site map to show all the places we like and didn't like. everyone loves the library. what we thought would like is a reading wall where we can sit and read famous books. we saw how other cities have libraries and thought we should have the same, too. there are more reading areas.

>> what our team was needed was a calm area where young people can play and relax. rock-climbing and places to sit where they play music. >> we also love the idea of a dog park. we love dogs. dog parks can be a place where all of us with dog and who love dogs can meet up regularly. it brings people together. we need more places that bring us together. >> we also were inspired by the many beautiful murals during our research walk and we would love more of them. murals are stories which would make our neighborhood very nice.

>> as part of our research, we interviewed merchants on mission street and learned a lot from them. we thought of speed bumps. after hearing all of the problems by everywhere, we felt it needed to be more front place and create a new energy to the street. >> we want to see mission as a gateway to fund colorful roads and bringing kids together. we imagine a place where all of the good places to eat are in the same area next to a playground or park, next to each other so everyone is together no one area making it more lovely. we want a fun playground or park and next to each other so

everyone is together no one area making it more lively. we made models of benches and tables so we can have a place to sit down somewhere. so there are many gathering places that are clean and safe. w we want it cleaned up so it's even better. thank you for listening. (applause). >> thank you so much. fourth grade is the best grade.

thank you for engaging in this process and giving us your excellent ideas. we will take comments from folks in the audience on what you've just heard. public comment is now closed. commissioners? commissioner moore? i strongly suggest that we teach planning in school. i was in first grade and we had a big sandbox and each of us assumed a role of the baker or librarian or whatever and we would build accordingly a place that reflect what we do and that's the way you think about it. we all come from families but ultimately, how do we live together and what do we all do to create the city some and i think you are doing that in a fabulous way and i do hope that some of you will become professional planners and sooner

or later work right here in this department. >> thank you, commissioner. >> thank you all for being here and your ideas. we've spent a lot of time at this and many of the ideas that you came up were the same we come up with. s we need all owe need all of tu talked about. i have a fourth grader and i try to tell him what i do here and when hes down fortnite, i explain it to him but i'll show him this video.

>> could we walk around to see the models? i think that would be really fun to do that. >> sure. wrap. >> you have to say it into the mic so it's record. >> i was here with nisha, too. and so what we wanted to do was create a space that would be calm and we created this with a rock-climbing wall and a bridge.

and also we wanted to make this mural so friends and family and other people could sit together and we wanted to make something fun at the same time. >> is this a bus stop? [ laughter ] >> nicholas, speak into the mic, pose. , please. >> tdo i explain it? >> yes. >> i made the bus stop roof so when it rains nobody gets wet and i a greenery on the top so then it would be greener and i a lamp light so people can see at night and i a trash so then we

can keep it clean. >> thank you. >> that's excellent work, guys. thank you so much. that is actually a new idea, to have a living roof on bus stops. that's excellent, thank you. (applause). >> that women place us on item 11. will place us on item number 11, the koa reorganization phase 3 for chinatown. this is a planning code amendment. >> they say you're not supposed

to follow pets or children. [ laughter ] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the department planning staff. the item before you is the third installment of the code reorganization focusing on chinatown. initiated in 2013, the project seeks to restructure the planning code so it's easier to read and use. phase one focused on article two and consolidated planning code section 102 and phase two was 7 and this focuses on the chinatown mixed use districts and the aaro eastern stricts. the main purpose is to standardize the mixed use district and use the standard set of definitions in planning code section 102. however, the planning commission's direction this includes two substantive changes to the mixed use districts. the first would allow general

entertainment and nighttime entertainment in the visitor retail district with authorization and currently these uses are permitted so long as they are associated with a restaurant. the second substantive change to amend planning code section 121.4 so that existing spaces that exceed the use would be abandoned with any change of use. currently, use sizes are not abandoned with a change of use. since the case report was accomplished, from was a new zoning control tables. currently they state this is a cu in the chinatown visitor retail district but former retail is not permitted. formal retail restaurants are not permitted and the ordinance should be changed to reflect that. staff recommendation is for approval with modifications. staff is also recommending that the commission include in their motion a recommendation that

staff be able to continue to review and retype th refine ande ordinance. staff continues to make non-substantive changes to the ordinance moving through the process, there may be changes at the city attorney's office considers substantive and to controls. therefore staff is respectfully asking that the commission includes this recommendation in their motion in case such changes need to occur and the same recommendation was made for phase two of the code reorganization and was effective in providing a more accurate and complete ordinance. that concludes my report and i'm here for questions. >> thank you very much. is there any public comment on this item? i have two speaker cards. rory chan and tom radulivitch.

>> good afternoon. roy chan. i wanted to take knowledge for being transparent and borking wg with us on this project. as you know, it's critical that this draft resolution maintains the intentions of the chinatown zoning and literally one of the first area plans of the code very much ahead of its time in 1987. so this code, which many chinatowns still envy our code today, has been vital in preserving the chinatown neighborhood character by keeping downtown development, a high-rise development from displacing residents, small business and creating shadows in limited parks. so there is definitely an important process and we're happy to really be a part of this review process. i want to recap the rationale for the two substancity custodye amendments.

the first one responds to feedback from chinatown business entrepreneurs who feel a bit coconstrained by the entertainmt use to be tied to a restaurant and the proposed change in the ordinance would remove this requirement and instead make entertainment use conditional. with that said, to ensure large nightclubs from moving into chinatown, the other amendment is proposed to chose an existing loophole in the code that allows projects to go behind the 5,000 square foot limit when there's a change of use in a nonconforming structure. so together, these two amendments are intended to encourage nighttime activity while at the same time honouring the original intent of the chinatown visitor retail zone to support and protect vitality of small businesses. so chinatown cdc is in line to recommend the commission approves with modifications to propose ordinance and we look

forward to continue working with staff to review and refine the land use controls to ensure the controls are maintained. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chan. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the executive director of the city. we wanted to speak in favour of this and commend mr. star in bringing through this monumental project. as long i've been following planning, the idea to clean up our messy code has been something that has been on everyone's agenda. we have a few problems with our planning code and a lot of provisions are antiquated and don't meet 21st century needs of out city. another problem is that our code is complicated and it's belt and suspenders, all the way. the third problem is that it's poorly organized. i think that the poor organization of the code pounds the other twcompoundsthe other e

other code. this project is providing a lot of clarity and we also know that it makes this project harder but working with neighborhood stakeholders to make substantive changes at the same time you're cleaning up is good practice. we want to make sure this is as relevant to communities as it possibly can be. so we would ask that you support this ordinance today and also that you support this ongoing effort. it's winding up in term of stoning control tables and messy tables left in article 8 but a lot of other sections. if you look at the building standards and height and bulk, those are very confusing, very difficult to use. as you work through the stoning districts, we would urge you to keep the project going and work through the other articles of the code, as well.

secondly, this needs to be ongoing. a lot of people treat planning like it's sort of the immunization of planning. like we have planning and we don't need it within we're and same with code planning. i look at the code now and i'm a code nerd and know how it works. one thing i've noticed, if you try to explain how the code works to community members or memerchants or whatever, it's connituding. confusing. there's work to do on the clarity. you shouldn't have to be land use attorney or complete nerd to understand how this works. any citizen, any business owner, any small developer or property owner should be able to know what's permitted, what's not and we have a ways to go and this is huge step. i think a process that we hope you'll commit and recommit

yourself to, thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? >> sue hester and basically, what the department staff did was go to people who were still there, who developed the language of the code, the organization, ccdc. but really, you need to have a planning staff that understanding that there are low income communities in the city that are important to plan around. people like me who's a nerd, like radulavitch will find out what's going on, sometimes by

accident, but developers have a pipeline straight into the department. and i recognise it and they recognise it and you should recognised it. basically, i am asking for code revisions to be grounded and outreached to real committee organizations that are low income, working class neighborhoods because they are the people that i'm trying to keep in san francisco. but people who work here should have the ability to live here. people who work here should have transit and have housing. and that is a planning code. every once in awhile it would be helpful for the planning commission to restate what is the goal, what are you trying to

do in the planning code, in the general plan? it's been done 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago. what is it today? how much of the city to be come very white and upper-class because they are the open people that can afford the housing built here. the planning commission should institute on every single project approval, or report back what the status of the housing that is approved and when is it being built? i'm looking at two v vacancy and people that i know raise these issues all of the time should be raising them as well as the rest of you. report back on how much housing is approved and what it sells for and what the construction

is. that is not done right now and i literally am going to go to the board of supervisors to have the mandate on the planning commission because you have not done it yet. thank you. >> thank you, miss hest refreshes. ter? >> commissioner fong. >> two questions. >> when i purchased my first code, it was a little over an inch thick. will this process reduce the size at all? i have a mandate from my boss to make it smaller. it does. it gets rid of session 790, 890 and other conditions and consolidated so a lot of things

that were repeated are taken out. and just the sort of consolidation and simplification is removing a lot of text from it. it won't get that much smaller but it will be fighter. tighter. >> the last question, can you describe the process whereby the accuracy of the existing code is translated? >> i start off by setting up a translation key, saying this use is referred to as this, because a lot of the uses were use the groupings and you had to identify which grouping they came from and i go through the codcodes and i do the translatin and it in the thing. then i usually have either the zoning minimuzonezoning adminisy work. they went through and checked

and went through very detailed and caught some things that we fixed. as we go along in the process after this hearing, we'll continue to make sure that we're not missing anything and then if it does get adopted with some errors, i usually come back very quickly with fixes for that. >> thank you. >> i make a motion to approve. >> and is that with staff's modifications? very food, on that motion to approve the amendment with modification, commissioner fung? (roll call). so moved, commissioners, the motion passed unanimously 5-0. this will place us atte