>> this is a 28-unit building. a lot of residents would spend time there, have a glass of wine and if there's a building in front of it, it women b will bek tunnel. it will impact the residents on bay street. i recently got lented to be on

the board. whether it's the owner or renter, it a great billion for o live in and we ask the city to take into consideration, to ask the developer to conform with the building cold, to create a 15-foot space. thank you. >> i have a question, ma'am. so it's 2018, and that means 2019 now and you purchased use unit in 2019. >> yes. >> it wasn't disclosed by the setter. >> there was a development in process. i believe this happened after and i think mark mentioned 4 4-2-3. it's a narrow space. >> was there plans supplied at that time in the disclosure process in the tds? >> i think there was a stack of documents and most of us glossed over and looked at it. >> at eight units, i don't

believe they're required to supply affordable howing. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my pa faces the new propose w building. it is maryville antique's landmark designated in 20-74 signed by the mayor on january 24, 1974. my apartment faces west and gets the afternoon sun.

this proposed building will diminish most, if not all of te light and increase traffic congestion and air pollution due to their being one allotted parking space and i've also only heard mention of the building on the corner. nobody has talked about our building, 1550 bay which will be completely blocked. we've been hearing about the -- sorry, i forgot, 1598 bay street. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> cap thcan the last speak proa speaker card, please. can you give a speaker card to mr. conara at the front. >> good evening, and welcome. >> welcome tow. thank you for being here. >> you can move the microphone if you like.

>> can everyone hear? >> yes. >> i wanted to address president swigg's remark about the appellant having taken a calculated risk developing this corner lot. this has been a contentious project from the beginning because it was a landmarked lot. the entire lot was landmarked in 1974. there's been an argument about what's historic and not historic, and what is contribute toris not could contirburke contirbtory. we have a beautifully landscaped yard and patio. to the right is the substation

and this substation is flush with the back. we see an open space from the southern border of the property. now, the l, the long part of the l is along bucannon street. we see an open space landscaped from there north through 3620 and through the formal gardens north and that's an open landscaped area. and through this, our breezes come. this is the own unobstructed area where the breezes come from. and in the winter, when the sun is south, the light comes from the south. we have p 40 units o 40 units od if this project goes up, it will

block the last remaining open area where we get breezes from. it will also diminish the open space by 50%. sand it blocks our view of the green scape. there are lots of views on bucannon street and we won't be seeing though. i don't know how the developer could say there is to impediment ito the breezes. they should do ventory studies. this project does violate planning code 134 and 172. thank you. >> thank you.

>> my name is arnold cohen and i live at 1550 bay, just as sharon, and my windows face bucannon street and the site of the proposed project. the proposed construction will materially impact mine and others, air and breezes and light availability. by encircling our area with all of these new constructed buildings. the historical preservation committee voted 4-2 t-3 to allow this proposed construction and this is contrary to city ordinance passed in the 1974 and signed by then mayor joseph oliotto and officially recorded in the documents of san

francisco. that was the mayorville antique's ordinance. and that ordinance described the l-shaped lot, that entire lot as the antique's historical landmark 58. go back and check the law. as president zwigg just got done saying, go by the letter of the law and that's an ordinance on the books of the city of san francisco. i would just mention the bush street impact of the building that will have eight residential units but only one parking space. what's going to happen to those seven other cars. pugbucannon street has had truck traffic with safeway and the post office and just the normal

traffic. what kind of congestion will that be causing? so my question to you, commissioners, is why is the city planning department, why have they violated the 1974 ordinance, the letter of the law, and why are they allowing the developer to violate this section 134 of the planning code with this rare yard requirement? thank you. want me to fill out a card? >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm beth borchers and my husband and i bought at 1598 bay street. we have raised our last three children there and the last one

will be a senior if high school. we have wanted to live in san francisco and now we fe get to realize our dream and live in the city. we bought 3096 which faces the north side. we p flew wa knew there was a pt there was a chance this four-story building could be developed. we didn't think it would be a prompt bubeprobability. i want to put a human face in and i appreciated the last conversation about the parking that there are real humans here. so the situation of their lot and i appreciate they have provided the right amount of green space per your codes but if you look at where it's situated, it doesn't value the humans here. it sits here the historic

building, which is lovely, but how they couldn't have situated that green space and benefited all of these people that lived there. so literally, we're on the third floor and we will reach our arm out the window and have a brick wall facing our unit. put so appreciate you listening. now. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. are there any more -- any more public comment? seeing none, we will move on to rebuttal. we will hear from the appellant. you have three minutes, sir. >> thank you. let me quickly address a couple of points made. thfirst of all, where is the rae yard setback? it's on bucannon and that's where they're providing zero. there's confusion and statements have been misleading regarding our building. i'm showing our building and we have 100-foot deep lot and we

provided about 20-foot average and actually, it would be 25-foot. we did get a variance but provided about 80% of the rear yard. the fact is, we provide a rear yard and we provided a voluntary foot-foot setback when our neighbor asked for a greater setback. it was 30 feet and we provided 35 feet. so we listen to our neighbors. the comment about other barriers. they required us during construction to provide a variance to satisfy dbi. so we had a variance, a technical variance but we provided a rear yard and to rear yard is provided here as i note there. tha very important point was mae

by their attorney and talked about the relationship between the existing historic building and the proposed building and they basically said, hey, h that was important for us. we pushed our building to that side and provided no rear yard or no side yard and sacrificed the neighbor for themselves. so the exclusive use garden area is between the same owner. and they basically took the rear yard and said, let's put it in the side yard because it gives a greater setback. of course, another solution would be to provide the respiratoried setback to provide a slightly smaller building but they wanted to maximize the envelope and said, let's just take the rear yard and put it in the side yard and pretend like we met the requirement. so i think they made our point a

bit in this and how the deal was cut. >> i think another point of confusion, we have the existing mary vale antique's building and the garden shed in the required rear yard in this antique's building. this otherwise says you cannot enlarge an existing structure. it. >> thank you. your time is up. >> we will now hear from miss snipe. >> thanks very pitch. much. the hearing is on appeal of the variance for the rear yard.

so some the neighbors are unhappy there will be developmendevelopment there. this is a rear yard configuration. in looking at that, at the site plan, if i could have the overhead. we're talking about whether to pull this building back 15 feet from the rear of the yard. we heard about the rear patio which is back here for the adjacent building. we've heard about views from some other nearby buildings and frankly, that's not really particularly impacted by that rear yard setback. pulling a building back 15 feet, it's easier on the rendering. you can see, it doesn't provide much benefit for any of the neighbor, really, and it will provide much less appealing construction for the site. this building provides site

lines to the street and a portion has been pulled back to really maximize the experience of the gas light building, the experience of the courtyard. you know, a lot of work to make sure this is a great compatible billion and benefits the entire block and the city as a whole. and we think that it's a great use of the site and we would ask you to uphold the project. thank you. >> counselor, are there any affordable units in this building? >> it's not required for an eight-unit project. thank you. >> thank you. mr. sanchez? >> thank you, scott sanchez, planning department. just on a couple of points, if i could have the overhead forwards. so we had public comment from the building at 1550.

there's wheel a whole lot in between the two and that's the lot which is about 100 feet wide, which is wider than bucannon is. it's about the same width as bay street. so i think there is adequate separation between 1550 bay and the proposed building. in terms of the historic aspect, the project did require a certificate of proposeness for the preservation commission and approved on november 7th of 2018. so anyone who bought the unit after that, would have known the historic preservation commission would have approved the project and if van, wen in january wente planning commission. neither the cu or appropriateness were appealed, given there was the cu, that appeal would have gone to the

board of sou supervisors. as you know, one of the issues in sequa appeals is historic preservation and the board of supervisors upheld the determination. in terms of the rear yard percentage as the appellant noted, the percentage on 1598 bay street, there's more open space on the subject lot than the project architect demonstrated that. so there's more on the subject lot in totality. additionally, in terms of the impacts on 159 the 8 bay streete of the benefit they were adding, while not complying exposure, they were providing substantial open space in the terms of the roof deck which won't be impacted. i believe it would be as a part

of the project and part of common open space, open overhead. so i don't know if this rendering depicts the location of everything on the adjacent building, but there's a substantial kind of deck area and the subject property is not developing the roof deck. so i think there's adequate, light air kind of access to open-space areas. is it ideal? i think had the projects come along, maybe it could have been a more elegant solution. when i was looking at the plans, i was confused and thought there was one project because of the similarity. >> i have a question, which is not really germane to what's before us tonight but for clarification. am i correct that planning is not requiring parking spaces any longer in certain developments? >> that is correct, as of earlier this year, the city has

removed all required parking spaces, except from mortuaries, which had an increase in their parking requirement under the legislation. some we won't go there. [ laughter ] >> if no parking, no one will have a car. [ laughter ] >> so can you address -- we had point comment on the 1974 ordinance and it's their view that once an ordinance, always an ordinance and if that ordinance was protecting a building, that ordinance was golden for the rest of time. can you address that ordinance and how that ordinance is not goaleddegolden for the rest of ? >> we agreed it's a landmark ands that why they obtained a certificate of appropriateness for the historic preservation commission, which is making any modifications to a landmark and they consider that and they

approve the shift for appropriateness and found it did not detract fr from the landmar. >> so it's in place and those who have jurisdiction over thosd looked closely at whether the or unanimoutheordinance was observd everything was fine. >> it was final. >> that's why i asked the question. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. this matter has been submitted. >> there's no indication that the modification was issued in error. >> this is de novo, right? >> right. >> i think it was a cheiron and

it used to be alioto field. i do agree with my fellow commissioner. >> i'll move to deny the appeal and up hold the modification on the basis that the criteria were met. >> we have a motion from the commissioner to deny the appeal and uphold the rear yard on the basis it meets three criteria under 134e. on that motion been commissioners? (roll call). >> so that motion carries 4-0 and an appeal is denied. thank you. >> we are now moving on to item number nine and this is a special item, consideration possible action by the board to

request that the department of pub health review an update of june 14, memorandum. it's regarding the health effects and allegation o commun. >> for establishing context and for any viewers that might be viewing in and for the public record, if you have participated, watched this board fofor any period of time, you he experienced deliberations over wireless installation items. what is a constant as part of those deliberations is the claim from the appellants that the 1997, i believe, fcc ruling that everything is healthy and square

with regard to these installations is something of contention. and so, we're not experts in that area. we are not scientist, we're not physicists or biologists. and so we received this feedback from the public and it comes in volumes, copuous volumes from scientists that the fcc is way out of bounds on health issues and this thing should be reviewed, given, especially, that it's over 20 years later.

>> in 2010, they wrote an opinion on the exact subject that seems to be the great concern of many of appellants. so will the commission support a formal request to the department of health to update what is an existing document that was created in 2010 and update it to

2019, given in this world of technology, just maybe we might know more in 2019 than we did in 2010. so that's the subject at hand. >> if the department of public health finds something is horribly wrong with the fcc findings, i will call our attorney, mr. hererra, and

maybe that's his call to do something legally with regard to the federal government as he has been known to do on other cases. >> so i agree with anne, i don't think it will have a change on our deliberation but at the same time it's hard to say in 1977 and 010. 2010. at least at this point, we can say we addressed that concern to the public health department and now it's stamped in 2019. granted, the results are still from 1997, but at least at this point, we would have addressed that going forward. >> i believe in being diligent and asking the question. >> i'm supportive. make a motion. >> i should ask if there's any public comment on this item? >> would anyone like to speak? please come forward.

you in the back. >> so i would like to make a motion formally request the department of public health to update the report of 2010 on of issue of the impact on wireless installations on health to the public. >> ok. so your motion would be, maybe, to tre direct me to send them a letter to update the june 14, 2010 memorandum. >> isn't that what i said? [ laughter ] >> pretty close. regarding the health effects of wireless communication's networks. ok, on that motion? roll call (. >> that motion carries 4-0. >> and we're done.

>> good morning, everyone! how are you all? so, welcome. i'm with the hotel council and i want to welcome you all to our first love our city. it's the second love our city

event but it's the first one that is a tourism and hospitality industry have helped organize. so today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] i'm joined by our chair of our board, mr. james lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the hotel council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of san francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. so please give a big hand to them! [applause] we also couldn't have done it without our partnership with the public works department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. raichal gordan as well. their team has been incredible to work with. we also have, you can see the

signs out here today, i'm going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. and last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all you're long and daily around your hotels and businesses. and it really is a 24/7 job. we want to thank you for everything that you are doing. we also want to thank wreckology. they sponsored our t-shirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] >> a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see

for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. thank you very much. if that was designed to bring us to work together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. so i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and tourism industries for making sure she's doing everything that she is doing. let's give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. it's my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. >> thank you! good morning, everybody! now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up san francisco! let me just start by saying thank you.

we know that we have a lot of challenges in san francisco. we have far too many people living on our streets. we have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. i know our small businesses are struggling. the city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. i was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. you know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. she would always say clean it up. ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. you know how kids are. we would should i look, it's our responsibility to keep our community clean. now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. you know, at the time as a kid you are like i don't want to do this but then, as you get older, it's just a part of who you are. i find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used

to work at the african american culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that i've made and also the example that i've set for other young people to be better stewards of san francisco. so what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for san francisco. you are taking care of the city. you all are showing how much you love san francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, they're less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. it does make a difference. so i want to thank all of you and all the community business districts and the people who are out there every single day. i especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. downtown street teams and so

many other folks trying to keep san francisco clean, green and beautiful. i love our city. i know you all love this city. thank you for showing your love by taking care of san francisco today for this amazing event. have a wonderful time out there! >> thank you so much, mayor. i'd like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. >> thank you, thank you. how is everybody doing this morning! make some noise if you love our city! [applause] >> make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today! who would have thought we could call this a cold day in san francisco. we're glad the temperature came down a little bit but it's still a beautiful day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and we're going to do some cleaning up.

i'm the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. the tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. i see folks here from the hotel. make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. this is a city that is still a world-class destination. people come here from all over the world. we want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that they're going to have an incredible experience and they're going to see clean and safe streets and they're going to see the people of san francisco care about our community. that's what you are demonstrating today. i want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. if you look out there, there's things we can do. we need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what

you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. let's get out there today. i'm going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. have fun. let's love our city. [applause] >> thank you supervisor haney. next i'd like to introduce our partner from sf travel. we have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. peter gamez. [applause] >> wow! good morning, everyone. this is a great day for us. as many of you know i'm the board chair and this is one of the issues we've all rallied for all year. this is a special day for all of us. thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and tourism industry to love our city. together, here today, we are

showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for san francisco. i want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, i'm also a native san francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and we're very thankful. we're proud to partner with the department of public works. the total council of san francisco and many of our community partners to do tour part to keep san francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make san francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. thank you.

>> last i'd like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group we've been partnering with on this. [applause] all right! are we ready to go to work! all right! let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. love our city everyday, right! everyday! the public works department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. you are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. san francisco! i'll be really short. today we have over 45 different sites. some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping.

all that is going to make a difference. the number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. safety is a high priority. we've been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. how do you be safe? all of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. if you see something that you are in doubt of whether it's glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. other than that, enjoy yourselves. it's a nice day. again, i'm very appreciative for everyone coming up. let's have fun! love our city everyday! [applause] >> thank you. thank you, very much. before we close out, we're going to do a group picture. stay where you are. no one move.

just stay still for a minute and we'll take a group photo.

>> chair fewer: hello, everyone. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: hello, everyone. i am sandra lee fewer. the meeting will now come to order. this is the june 24, 2019, meeting to the budget and finances committee. our clerk is mr. john carroll, and