>> is there any public comment online item eight moving into -- line item seven, moving into closed session? no public comment. vote on whether or not to move into closed session? >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> before we go into closed session, i would like to vote on whether to invoke the attorney and client privilege for those items as well. >> is there a motion? >> so moved. >> item nine, vote to elect whether to disclose what was discussed in closed session. >> aye. >> is anyone for adjournment? >> aye.

>> can i have a motion and a second, please? >> second. >> aye. [laughter] >> planning commission regular hearing for thursday, december 19, 2019.

i will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. please silence cell phones. i would like to take roll at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner richards to be absent today. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. items 1a and b at 2028 through 2030 leavenworth street, discretionary review proposed to continuance for january 16. case 2017-00515, 1300 columbus avenue is proposed for continuance to january 16.

item 3 at 54 fourth street, conditional use authorization proposed for continuance. item 4, 2255 judah street conditional use authorization at the time of issuance was proposed for continuance. item 5, 1100 van ness avenue, allocation revocation is proposed for indefinite cowans. i have no other items for continuance and no speaker cards. >> commissioner koppel. i'm sorry. let's take public comment. >> hi. leavenworth, i want to make a note that that was one of those fake g mail accounts using my name. someone set up a fake account using my full name, taking

advantage of things i talk about here. and they also half of the staff with it. so i want to make a note of that. it's illegal and i hope it stops. thank you. >> right now we are only taking comment on the matter of continuance. >> justin on behalf of project sponsor for 2255 judah. we are working with community aid. they have requested a continuance and we hope you can accommodate moving it to the 30th. thank you. >> any other public comment on the continuance calendar? public comment is closed. >> move to continue items 1a, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to the dates specified. >> second. >> thank you. on that motion to continue items as proposed, [roll call vote]

that motion passes unanimously, 6-0. continue item 1b. >> that will place you under your consent calendar. the only matter listed here under it is considered to be routine and may be acted upon by single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of this item unless a member of the staff or public requests. it will be considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item 6 case number 2019-013953cua at 196 states street. i have no speaker cards. >> thank you. do any members of the public or any commissioners wish to take item 6 all of the consent

calendar? with that, public comment is closed. commissioner koppel. >> motion to approve item number 6. >> second. >> thank you. on that motion then to approve item 6 with conditions under your consent calendar, [roll call vote] so moved. that motion passes unanimously, 6-0. commission matters item 7, consideration of adoption, draft minutes for the december 5 closed session and december 5 regular hearing. >> do we have any public comment on the draft minutes? public comment is closed. >> motion to approve the minutes from both closed session and regular session on december 5. >> second. >> thank you. on that motion to adopt the minutes for december 5, [roll call vote]

that motion passes unanimously, 6-0. item 8, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner. >> it was on consent, typically housing projects are not. no answer necessary. second comment is i would like the commission to take a very close look at the package submitted for 196 state street which i consider to be an exceptionally well-put together package. it should raise the bar for how we look at packages. that's why i ask that each of you pull out the package and look at it. my only comments. >> thank you. commissioner diamond? >> an inquiry, and i know he's he's not here but i did talk to him about it yesterday and told him i would be raising it today. and that has to do with deciding

whether or not the staff can present more information, current information to the commission on the issues of displacement and gentrification. there's four places where i feel like additional information would be really helpful. the first is presentation of the data that's available on the causes and effects and impacts and what you have been seeing. second is the community, what you are hearing from the community activists in the areas undergo the most impact from the issues of displacement and gentrification. the third is some kind of analysis as to how the regulatory system that was put in place a number of years ago to deal with these issues is actually working on not working. and then the fourth is guidance about what changes, if any, might be suggested either to guidelines or regulations or the planning code, if in fact we feel like the goals or the intent is not being accomplished

based upon the data and the community group input. >> i'm confident that you just communicated that to him directly. he's unable to be here today but i suspect he's there. but i will communicate that. >> what we talk about is, at least my hope, and he thought he could do this before he left. because it feels like to start this with the new director, i would really like to understand where we are on these issues before he moves on it. >> thank you, commissioner diamond. so i will just chime in and say that one of the things that we have been working on as a commission was that was outstanding in the park plan, -- the work plan was methodology around racial impact and economic impact. and so the department has done a lot of work in that, but we

haven't quite attached a methodology for assessing the impact of development, racially and economically. and so some of us have been pushing for that. and thank you for having your voice. that's something that's been needed. and in fact, we have had this conversation about density and supply and demand and looking after the passage of the housing accountability act. there have been a call about being able to quantify, like have a housing accountability act score. some of us have also said that along with that, we need some kind of scoring system or methodology for assessing the racial and economic impact of development in all communities, but particularly those that are facing gentrification and displacement. so i thank you for saying that. i think that we need something.

>> i want to acknowledge i know a great deal of work has gone on in this area, both by the department and the commission. and i would just like to know where we are so that as we make decisions going forward, i understand the context. >> yes. i was going to say. we still don't have what we are looking for. anyway. did you want to say something? i wanted to chime in and say i was reading about this assassinating in the city of philadelphia to address the issue of the loss of canopy in philadelphia. apparently they've lost some -- a quarter of their tree canopy in the last ten years for various reasons. but they actually did the data analysis, and they put together a plan. and we have had efforts in san

francisco here and there. we did have the planning department staff come and talk to us about biodiversity in the city, which is really great. i would really love to know where we're at with our canopy in san francisco and touching back on the issue of communities that are underserved. we do know that the canopy suffers in low-income communities, and that it has an effect on the heat and generation in those communities and all sorts of other stuff. run off. but it would be great to have some data on that as well. i noted when we saw that can a yay 24 plan that the ficuses -- calle24 plan that the ficuses

are beautiful. >> i want to follow up. and thank you for bringing that up. there was an article about environment tallin equity as it relates to san francisco -- environmental inequity as it relates to san francisco. in neighborhoods where there's a three, four property line development, there's hardly any tree coverage, and temperatures are rising. there is a real, clearly evident inequity about how planting and tree canopy is applied. that is a recent article about los angeles. you can probably google it. >> thank you. >> seeing nothing further, we can move onto item or under department matters, item 9, director's announcements. >> first in response to commissioner moore's question

about state street, a relatively modest project, no letters or comments received, either in opposition or support. for that reason it was placed on consent. no report from the director himself. but i did want to take just a moment to thank you for your extraordinary service today on what hopefully will be the last dual hearing for some time. so thank you for that end-of-year gift. no other comments. >> item 10, review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals are on break and the historic preservation commission >> good afternoon. you are looking very colorful today. this week the committee considered the mayor and supervisor haney's ordinance

that would allow certain interim activities at development sites that are proposing demolition. you heard this on april 25 of this year and voted to recommend approval with modifications. the proposed modifications were to amend the requirement to increase residential density and require an increase in residential density only if there's an existing residential on the site. and two, to clarify section 5.5 to clarify that retail use refers to retail use and service. about half a dozen people spoke in support of the item. most of the discussion focused on the types of uses allowed as interim activities. initially it allowed social service or homeless shelter use, any agriculture or beverage processing 1, manufacturing or metal working use permitted either conditionally or principally in a pdr-1 district.

any retail or institutional use regardless of use size and any use conditionally permitted in the subject zoning district. finally, any and or any office so long as such office space is at least 5,000 gross square feet and equal or greater square footage is established for arts activities or light manufacturing use. supervisor peskin made a motion to only include uses that are principally permitted in the district and strike other uses. supervisor safai questioned whether this was too limiting. there was discussion about keeping the office provision. they invoked the general arts activities in the amended version but the recommended modifications didn't make it into the ordinance. the supervisors did indicate they would continue to discuss this item now that it has been forwarded to the full board and further amendments are likely at the board hearing.

at the full board this week, supervisor fewer's 100 percent affordable housing ordinance passed its second read. the zoning map planning code amendment for the flower mart passed their first read. that's all i have for you today. >> thank you. >> the historic preservation commission did meet yesterday. they adopted a recommendation for approval for establishing the american indian cultural district. they recommended approval for a number of legacy business applications and they adopted a resolution endorsing the racial and social equity action plan for the phase 1 that we've already adopted. if there are no questions, we can move onto general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction

of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your 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 just have the one speaker card. >> i have three minutes, please? >> you may. >> good afternoon. on the eighth of december, i sent you all an e-mail, and it attached to my 2015 e-mail and some pictures. so i want to show you pictures again if i may have the overhead, please. i showed the overhead, hello. anyway, i showed this to you when i was here last time. i can't remember when that was. no s.f. gov tv. there it is. i showed this to you. i was talking about the efficient use of space in this as well as the questionable demo calculations. this is the old part of the project and there is the new.

here are examples i showed you in the past. these are all alterations, not demolitions. i think the demo calculations need to be adjusted as i laid out. here is this here. this is one of my oldies i sent before i had a printer. i had to go to walgreen's. you can see that. now i want to show you a real demolition. this is from the noe valley voice on billy goat hill, redevelopment agency. to me they look the same. and here's another one. this is an actual demolition. it had a mandatory d.r. in 2011. and that's it. there's nothing built around it. it's the same thing, and the consequences are the same. because you are going to have expensive housing. so that's it. and here's another copy. i never gave you an official copy of my june 10 letter. i hope you read it. and on a happier note, i really

want to thank everybody in the southwest quadrant for all their help this year, including the people that got shifted out the beginning of the year. they are in other places now. i want to thank ms. chan, she's very helpful. and then the people at the front desk, wang, melissa wong, theo chen, they are the frontline people. they deserve credit. maybe next year we will talk about demo calculations and adjusting them and why. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. here are wards to the continuance calendar. just a cleanup item. i advised from our planner the continuance needed to be separately motioned and moved and because it was not, it was all lumped together, that it

would have to go on the continuance calendar again for the 23rd. just to make this more efficient i was hoping this could be cleared up. i just got an e-mail from our planner saying that. so i wanted to clarify that. thank you. >> thank you. any other general public comment? with that, public comment is closed. >> very good. that will place us under your regular calendar for item 11. 2019-022159cwp, japantown special area design guidelines - adoption of the japantown special area design guidelines, this is for your adoption. >> we have handouts as well. >> good afternoon, commissioners. maya small, planning department staff. we are returning today to give you an update on the japantown special area design guidelines

as well as to recommend their adoption. we were here two weeks ago at an informational in which we gave background into japantown and approaching it through the process and revisions. and just to note, the history of japantown, over 100 years, some of the critical and key, major impacts to the built environment mostly have been from exterior forces, both beginning with post earthquake development as well as japanese internment and return before and during world war ii and after world war ii as well as redevelopment and the many phases of redevelopment. there was an underpinning for a neighborhood that revitalized, continued to revitalize, evolve and grow, and of course there was quite a bit of community development that came out of that process in response to

redevelopment devastation. it was the formation of the first cultural district in the city, and the neighborhood task force has been shaping the future of the neighborhood for many decades. in 2006, 2009, there was a development of the better neighborhood planning process, which was rejected, but so much came from that process. and in 2013, the adoption of the japantown cultural heritage and economic sustainability strategy was foundational and fundamental in the origin of this guideline process. within one of the strategies under it was the creation of japantown design guidelines and it asked for this process to continue, and it began in that time, originating in actually earlier before the adoption and then developing particularly in

2014 as a process with the community and with the planning department staff and was put on hold for the urban design guideline adoption in 2018. it was revised this year. and as a way of making sure that there were more specific ways of addressing unique qualities of the neighborhood, the community and as a way of helping to shape potential new development as well as open space and public space. so in this process, particularly in the last few weeks, the planning department staff has participated and attended two japantown task force board meetings on november 20 and december 10. in both of the meetings, there were votes by the task force. on the 20th to support the process and on december 10th in support of adopting the design guidelines as they had been revised at that point in time. there were two public meetings that were general public meetings. and many members of the task force worked diligently to make

sure the property owners, members of the public, larger community participation could really occur. so there was a lot of work to have significant attendance at both of those meetings. that was the 21st and december 3. and drafts were published on november 27, revisions on december 6, further revisions on december 10 and from the tenth until your packets on the 12th, there were additional revisions. so there was a lot of more detailed scrutiny, feedback. and we received additional letters of support. so in the handouts we are giving today, there are three letters included. two letters of support from the property owner at post street, also a letter of support and feedback from the japan center west associates after we responded to their request and made many modifications to the guidelines in terms of their

specific interest. i wanted to go into milkability with the design guidelines because -- amilkability with the design guidelines the japantown is larger than that and also includes parts of the fill mother and then outside of that in the -- fillmore. so the applicability goes outside of that so we wanted to be specific in showing how this works. the areas in this particular map

are shown in the darker maroon. so all projects within the n.c.d., these area guidelines would apply along with the urban design guidelines which currently apply there. outside of that, the urban design guidelines apply inside the r districts for certain projects, either non-residential uses or residential uses where you have a frontage of 150 feet or longer or more than 25 units. it was meant to capture the design considerations around institutional projects, safe schools, for example, and as well larger residential projects where the residential design guidelines do not provide a lot of design guidance. so in this case, we defined that the japantown special area design guidelines would apply in these other conditions in the r districts within this larger boundary, within the cultural district boundary, but not including the fillmore and upper

fillmore n.c.d. we are showing projects in red and those are not specifically different or treated differently than the other ones. they indicate a number of important institutions as defined in the cultural district process. it focuses on inclusivity, flexibility, human-centered design and community building, noting that inclusivity was meant to say these design guidelines and for a sense of identity of the neighborhood is really inclusive to those who may not have a japanese or japanese american ancestry and noting that there's quite a

diversity of residents within the district. this is meant to include people, not exclude people. the community-building is not just for the neighborhood. there is a sense of community that goes beyond this neighborhood that acts more regionally. there was a recognition of a lot of different kinds of expression within the neighborhood that you could see a layering of history. [please stand by]

>> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the staff architect. today i will go through a few of the key guidelines and highlight some of the things that changed since we were here a couple of weeks ago during the informational presentation. since that time we worked closely with the community and with the japan town task force to really refine and more fully develop the guidelines to make a more responsive community really fit in with the character of

what is most important. and throughout the process, we intentionally made these less prescriptive than other guidelines so that essentially it gives us the tools as a planning department to review the projects but also allows the community to reach out and the sponsor to collaborate with the community very early on in the process. and come to some common goals that can be expressed throughout the process. the guidelines are broken down into three main categories as with other guidelines. consumes of sight design, architecture and public realm. looking at the first guideline, which is organized new development to support peace pagoda is a visual landmark, this was one feature that was unanimously brought up from the community that was very important to preserve the character and the views of the peace pagoda. we previously provided some

information about how that could be preserved, but in follow-up board meetings and talking to the communities we determined that they had to figure out what views need to be preserved. for example, the fuse from buchanan mall and the plaza, but also approaches from gary boulevard and from webster street as well as the pedestrian passover. we dug a little deeper to determine what elements those are that could allow that, but also not overly burdened developers in doing major setbacks or anything of that nature. and next is architecture. so use transparency, translucency and layering at the ground-floor façade. this touches upon a lot of the japanese design elements in japan town which are a little bit different, but there is overlap. you can see some of the elements

and in the expression of structure. there is the layering and the screening developments what is not necessarily open to open glass but there is more of a transition between the public and the private realm. so we added a storefront from japan town and while this doesn't demonstrate all of the elements as some of the. oche -- and the some of the design concepts, it shows some of the features that are common throughout and you can see there's more of this. instead of this more rhythmic design of a typical storefront with asters and more expansive glass, here we have a storefront and in this case, it is a restaurant with sliding windows that provide more of the transitional element between the public and private whelm -- realm.

there is more wall service but it is a very intentional and it frames the storefront windows. additionally, the entries are commonly deeply recessed so the whole process of going into the business is -- it is almost a journey as one community member said. the entries are often off to the side. there's a sense of discovery in the storefront. and other elements such as handcrafted signage are very important to the community and that is displayed in something that we are continuing in the guidelines. finally, public realm. balanced areas for social activity and personal space and public space design. so currently the two main public spaces in japan town are buchanan town and the peace plaza. it works very effectively in a day-to-day basis because it has all the entries coming out onto it and it has a wonderful roof

of artwork. and then peace plaza, because the mall currently doesn't open up onto it, it is more of a transitional space between the two sides of the mall. that will change obviously with the design that has been developed for the plaza, but the guidelines touch on general subjects about making entries face on to public spaces and really coordinate that to make them very active spaces. not just during special events but on a day-to-day basis. with that, the department recommends adoption of the japan town special area design guidelines. we are going to continue a public outreach process with the community because this was a very abbreviated process but we will continue to try outreach

and educational elements. we are trying to plan for a march 2020 outreach. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. we will now take public comment on this item. i do have a few speaker cards, but anyone who wants to speak to this item please line up on my left. [calling names] >> good afternoon. i am chair of the board of directors for the japan town task force and i am here to know that our board on two different occasions made decisions regarding this subject matter. in november we have a land-use transportation committee and

that committee recommended to our full board to participate in an accelerated process of coming up with design guidelines for japan town specifically. the board decided to do this accelerated process. we did it with two community meetings as your planner indicated. those meetings were not -- they did not have a lot of the property owners and the business owners there mainly because there was not enough time to do the outreach. as you know, outreach takes time and that is why we appreciate the fact that the planning department staff will be continuing with us in the community to have more outreach means so the other business owners and property owners can learn about this because they just don't know the information yet. so i just want you to know that at our december 10th board

meeting, which was a special board meeting, we decided to support the design guidelines as proposed by the department with the understanding that we will continue in 2020 with more outreach meetings with your staff support. we really do appreciate that. we just want you to be aware of that. thank you. >> thank you. good to see you. thank you for your service. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am a board member of the japan town task force and i cochair the land-use transportation committee. i'm here with appreciation today i have had the distinct pleasure of working with planning staff to develop the guidelines on an extremely compressed timeline in the wake of this bill. first of all, i would like to thank jeff jocelyn, oscar hernandez, and him sure i'm

forgetting people, so please forgive any oversight. just a heroic effort and it was a pure pleasure collaborating with them. we really appreciate it. second, despite the limited timeline, we were able to host a couple of community discussions. we sent out multiple e-mails and we personally reached out to many property owners in good faith. and none of the responses we received about the actual guidelines for negative. there was grumbling about the timeline and that was about it. and finally, i would just like to note that you already heard earlier and that is a japan town that is a community that has endured trauma at the hands of government first through the forced incarceration and then

more recently when redevelopment wiped out what was left of japan town after the war. you can imagine that there is deep mistrust that many still harbour today. when there is collaboration and engagement in the city emphasizes sensitivity in response to the community, as was the case here, i see it as a kind of restorative justice. just slowly building. i think the commission and the planning department for helping to rebuild that trust. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners [indiscernible] i have been involved in the peace plaza vision plan as the

design advisor. i have been working with gtf, recreation and park, d.p.w. really closely, and as i was born and raised in japan, and also i went to architecture school in osaka, and i immigrated here. it has been more than a decade and so i provided my culture and provision views -- point of views to advise the department staff for this design guideline and i support this document. also i have provided -- i reviewed the documents and i

provided my comments. sorry, also they corrected some of the interpretations of japanese design and the technology i really appreciate the planning department. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? come on up. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is karen and i have been a member of the land-use committee from the time we were working on a different one. seeing the design guidelines come to fruition or at least partially so is really very gratifying and so this is thanks to the planning staff. i can only echo and say this is remarkable.

we found out on october 29th that we had until the end of this year, and actually until today to prepare and finalize these documents. and without the excellent and superlative work of the planning department staff and incredible efforts by community volunteers, we wouldn't be here today. it was really remarkable. i want you to know there was a really responsive process. we said, okay, if we are going to do this, we have to go out and talk to people. we went to the japan town c.b.d. which is largely property owners we said this is going on. here are our community meetings, here are contact numbers. please get a hold of us. we really need and want to your input. most of the folks said okay and

we did get some questions, but we kept going and particularly our cochairs. they went door-to-door in the rain to talk with property owners and this is how serious we take it. reciprocating community members made time in the holidays on short notice to come to our community meetings. to seriously comment and give us question and suggestions and their vision. for that, i think there has been a process of working with this commission and with historic preservation and it is really built to a point where we can say there is something we have got to do in involving planning and people don't recoil in horror saying no, not planning. it is more, what do we have to do?

so i think that is the attitude that people will be approaching the new year with and that, again, it has been a very intense, but very, very meaningful process for us. thank you all and thank you to the staff. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? >> very briefly i would like -- my name is robert. i'm also on the land-use committee. i was involved in the drafting of khs. the design guidelines are an important implementation. so putting together this project , i want to echo thanks to planning staff who have been extraordinary, but i want to emphasize that the preparation of these design guidelines didn't begin on october 29th. began six years ago

approximately during the process and as the concept of design guidelines and the purpose and preserving the look and feel of a place, it was important to the community. and even more specifically, the concept of design guidelines is concept based, value based, rather than the objective guidelines that s.p. 330 will mandate under certain circumstances. it was also fitted with the community. the values are whatever is important to articulate to the community and to people who seem to do things architecturally within the community. that has all been done in the past and as it has been pointed out, the guidelines have probably been done several years ago they waited on the development of the city urban design guidelines in order to piggyback on that structure. i also want to emphasize again

that a number property owners have responded., you have their letters in the file. important people in the community who said this is a good thing for the community to articulate what is important in creating a sense of place for the community. so we should really support the design guidelines. i hope that they do this. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? public comment is closed. commissioner moore? >> is wonderful to hear something so positive right before the holidays. thank you to the community for responding in such a short timeline. we know the pressure. the burden was on you to deliver and thank you to the department for rolling up their sleeves, during two major breaks in the upcoming holidays. it is fantastic. i wish we could do everything quite like it.

i definitely completely m. and support and we should move as quickly as possible to support it. >> thank you. >> i couldn't have said it better. this is like the icing on the cake of the year. first i really want to thank the community for your tireless efforts. it sounds like to really engage your fellow community members and to be an ally to our planning department staff. i want to thank mr. small and mr. jocelyn and all of the team members. what i love about this, in addition to feeling like this is a report that actually in san francisco should read just understand the context and as they are walking around the environment is that i think it elevates the conversation about our neighborhood and our community and i think there are things that you've talked about in the reporting of this that i think could be transferred to

how we think about planning more broadly. one, i think the coming home to exploring what our values are, both as neighborhoods and as a community to recognizing the complexity and nuance of a city that is living and constantly evolving and changing. recognizing the need for authenticity as things change and move. recognizing the need to really weave together the past and only history of trauma, histories of perseverance and resistance, and weave that into the presence of an opportunity to really have new collaborations and new expressions of those values that happen, with also an eye towards the future and what our communities are evolving into. that is a high bar and i think that this document and the work that has been done invites us into a conversation about japan

town, but also a conversation about our city and how we move forward together. i also really appreciate that this is a living and breathing document and really jumping off point for anyone who is looking at it and wants to do development with community to engage community and the authentic expressions of what those things are. and then at the same time, i think continuing to engage community and have this be the foundation for our building and evolving relationships is one city family. huge appreciation. i moved to adopt. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to adopt the japan town special area design guidelines... [roll call]

so moved. that motion passes unanimously 6 -0. item 12, 1500 mission street, informational presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm with department staff. before you today is an informational item to review a condition of approval for a project at 1500 mission street and i will provide you a brief overview of the project approval and the planning code requirement for public art. and then the in the project sponsor will provide an overview of the proposed artwork. the 1500 mission street project was approved by the commission back in 2017 for a project involving new construction of a 39 story mixed use residential tower. the tower, which is approximately 396 feet in height will contain ground floor commercial uses as well as 550 dwelling units, including approximately 100 below

below-market rate units. the building will occupy its entire project sights directly adjacent to the new office building that i am sure you have all seen down on the corner. it has two visible façades facing mission street and south van ness avenue. the project is anticipating receiving is temporary certificate in march of 2020. the project would work be required as a condition approval with a public art component valued at an amount equal to 1% of the hard construction costs for the project. the sponsor has commissioned a berlin-based artist and a san francisco-based artist to develop this proposal. generally the public art is a 1l sculpture integrated into the mission street façade of the building and the public art by catherine waggoner are 5 feet wide, 8 feet high, aluminum

panels, integrated into the south van ness sidewalk, which are both publicly accessible, this leading to the section 429 for accessibility and disability the project's conditions of approval require the final art concept and locations be submitted for review by the planning director in consultation with the planning commission. the project sponsor is reporting today to the commission on the design of the art concept and welcomes any comments the commissioner the public may have and this concludes my presentation. i will now turn it over to the project sponsor. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor please. >> high, everyone. my name is jessica and i am the owner of jessica silverman gallery in the tenderloin and a former arts commissioner of nine years. i also the art consultant to the

related projects on mission and van ness. so i will just give you a little background on the two artists. shannon finley is a berlin-based artist originally from canada. she is an artist that i have had personal experience working with for over 10 years. this is a really exciting opportunity for him and for san francisco, i believe. this will actually be his first public artwork in the states. it is currently being fabricated in berlin with a fabricator who has done a lot of projects with artists who have had works at the met museum in new york and other large institutions. here is an image that is similar to but not nearly as tall as the one we are producing. shannon finley has committed to the science-fiction of abstraction. standing by the front doors of the building between the glass façade and the green wall, this

15-foot sculpture will suggest the polygon icons of trees or crystals found in early videogames. that is part of his inspiration and influence. made of stainless steel, the work will be powder coated in a matte black. the statuesque piece is striking , but meditative, rewarding daily engagement from inside and especially outside of the building. the related team has also come up with a really wonderful lighting plan, which you can see here on the screen for the artwork. during the day and night the piece will be be adequately lit and super dynamic. so that is shannon finley's sculpture. and the second artwork that we are commissioning is with catherine waggoner. i just want to note that she is also producing a project for the

center that is coming up soon for the subway station downtown and catherine waggoner work -- her work often involves extensive research and in this instance, the artist noticed bay area wind patterns and caught the eggs resulting data into eight aluminum panels. these panels align the venomous side with 1550 mission. the functional sculptures have arrow -shaped holes which you can see on the screen and rectangular notches. these will be rounded, which i don't know if you can actually see on the screen there. these sculptures will help mitigate the wind and add poetry to the urban landscape. i wanted to bring you a sample of the paint color because it is very hard to see here, but that was not ready for me today. it will have two different color components in the interior.

it will have color and then the outside -- they will be very dynamic as you walk past them. catherine waggoner has over 30 years of art experience and has been observing environment is a metaphor for how we construct our cultural identities for many decades. she is a professor of studio arts at the college and has received many awards, most recently including the rome prize and a guggenheim fellowship. so very exciting. we've two different artists. one younger than the other so we tried to have her don't have a dynamic dialogue between the two we feel very excited about it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> any members of the public who would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners?

commissioner moore? >> i am glad that through the introduction of new buildings, that means we are seeing artwork in this part of town. i think the size of the buildings, together with the size of these particular pieces are a very good complement and i do look forward to seeing them. could you tell me as to whether or not the perforation of the work allows sound to be picked up once the air moves through it these areas are quite wind intensive and whenever you put a small hole into a surface, there may be potentially a sound. can you comment on that? >> that is something we can review. >> i would be interested in that >> thank you.