>> okay. good afternoon, and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular hearing for wednesday, august 17, 2022. in person and

remote hybrid hearing will require everyone's attention and our patience to enable public participation, sfgov tv is broadcasting and streaming this meeting live and we'll receive public comment on each item. you can call 415-655-0001 for public comment and entering access code, 24828930289. we will take public comment from persons present in the chamber first and then open up remote access. there it goes. perfect! the remote access line. please speak clearly and close slow and if you care to state your name for the record, each speaker will be allow up to three minutes and when you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i'll announce your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. for those persons calling in to submit

your comment, press star three to be added do the queue. when you hear your line has been unmuted, that's your indication to begin speaking and call from a quiet location and speak clear clearly and slowly and mupt mute your computer or telephone. line up on the screen side of the room. i ask everyone silence their mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. at this time, we'll take roll. >> matsuda >> here. >> commissioner vice-president nageswaran >> here. >> commissioner black? >> here. >> commissioner foley? >> present. >> commissioner so? >> here. >> commissioner wright? >> here. >> we expect commissioner jones to be absent. first is 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.

those persons in the chamber accident come forward. if you're calling in, you need to press star three to be added to the queue. seeing no request to speak, commissioners. general public comment is closed and we can move on to department matters, item one, department announcements. >> good afternoon, commissioners, rich, department staff. i have a couple of announcements for you to today and let me pull my notes so the citywide survey team is happy to share a list of anticipated historic context statements and themes that the hbc will review over the next six months. coming up before you and you'll kind start see this on your advanced calendar are our theme documents focused on the gildage air and the victorian era and documents for our store front neighborhood commercial context, flats and small apartments, developer tracks, related to streetcar expansion, early residential

development and early residential styles and a couple of community led efforts, specifically the ocean avenue historic resource survey and the triangle extension as well as the update to north beach in the historic context. our survey team, while they are small, they're mighty and working through quite a number of things over the next six months. i also want to take this time to thank g.g. gunder and she's our business coordinator and he's handing it off to alyana moore who will present to us in a short amount of time, so that is all in terms ever announcements that i have. as you know, the board is currently on recess, so our landmarks program is slowly working its way through the legislative process when they return. >> thank you. >> commissioner matters, item two, president's report and announcements. >> i do have an announcement. a sad announcement. we've been informed that david hartley who served as the landmark, one of

the landmark preservation advisory board members has passed away. so we'd like to adjourn in his honor and in appreciation for his work for the city and county of san francisco. >> indeed, thank you. item three, consideration of adoption draft minutes for july 20, 202. members of the public, you can address the commission on the minutes. >> in the chambers, come forward and call in. the minutes are before you commissioners. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners on that motion to adopt the minutes, commissioner wright? >> yes. >> commissioner black? >> yes. >> commissioner foley? >> aye. >> commissioner so? >> yes. >> commissioner nageswaran? >> yes. >> commissioner president matsuda? >> yes. >> so moved, commissioners, that passes unanimously 6 to 0. four, commission comments and questions, item four. are there

commission comments and questions? >> i don't believe there are. >> okay. item 5, case number 2021-00976 crv. for remote hearings. again, this is our monthly resolution in case none of you are able to come in person to hold hearings remotely. any public comment on this item? you need to come forward or press star three, seeing no request to speak. public comment is closed and this matter is now before you commissioners. >> do i hear a motion. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners on that motion to adopt a resolution to allow for remote hearings. if necessary, commissioner right? >> yes. >> commissioner black? >> yes. >> commissioner foley? >> aye. >> commissioner so? >> yes. >> commissioner nageswaran?

>> yes. >> and commissioner president matsuda? >> yes. >> so moved commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 6 to 0. currently there are matters proposed to be continued, placing us under your regular calendar of for item 6a through e for case numbers 2022-0007221lbr, 2022-0007222lbr, 2022-007218lbr, 2022-00721 -- 584 castro street, 2 marina boulevard building d and 28, excuse me, 2800 24th street. these are legacy

business registration cases. >> alyana moore, planning staff speaking on behalf of g.g.gunther, we'll present our applications and after business representatives and members of the public will have an opportunity to speak during public comment. the first legacy business application is for piedmont boutique, a 50-year-old retail store selling clothing ask accessories in district five, heighn neighborhood. they have been owned and operated by founders carl and donna since 1972. moving to its present location on heinght street in 1985. it has the world famous fish pine and red he'll leg sticking owl the front window and the cops opened their store in 1972 on heights street and including a store where any

person can curate any outfit under any occasion. since first open, mont boutique went from exclusively caring high fashion clothes to women to carrying shirts, pants, hats, costumes and wigs for shoppers of any gender. piedmont boutique designs and manufacturers an amount of its inventory in the u.s. and piedmont boutique is offering highly customer services and guidance for its patrons who are wide ranging with regard to race, gender identity and social economic background. piedmont boutique continuously given back to the community it serves, providing outfits and costumes for local events such as the annual usf drag show and donating gift certificates and offering discounting to local schools and different charity events. staff is supportive of this application and a resolution recommending the business be added to the legacy business

registry. the second legacy business april application is for outpost studios, a 26-year-old music and film editing and recording studio in the waterfront area of district 3 north beach neighborhood. outpost studios was pounded in 1996 by dave nelson who still owns it today and partnership with josh and joe benny. staff would like to note though this business is less than 30 years old, it qualifies for listing on the legacy business registry because per administrative code section 2a, 242, it has operated in san francisco for more than 20 years. significantly contributed to the history or identify of a particular neighborhood or community and is not included in the registry, it faces a risk of displacement. outpost studio first opened in

1996 at 880 folsom street at a recording studio offering high-quality recording and editing and mixing services and it's auditing mixing and auditing and scoring for a variety of media types and outpost studio the only studio in san francisco which is equipped for fully recording which is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are then added to films, videos and other media. their clients are primarily bay area independent film, music and other media artists and students. and some of the well-known artist that worked with output studios including danny glover, and kamaala harris. they have given back to the local and independent musician and film making communities. and without outpost studios, the independent media community of the san francisco bay area would lose a crucial business that has been a local anchor and post production

services for all forms of media. staff is supportive of this application. and a resolution recommending the business be add to the legacy business registry. this concludes my portion of the presence and i'll turn it over to alejandro hall, thank you all. >> good afternoon, commissioners. alan grow hall, planning department staff. the next application is for po plus. a mailbox rental retail shipping and business services store located at 584 castro street. accomplished by jd larson in 1982 and owned by steven martel, it has been the go to for shipping, printing, scanning, notary services, and small gives ever since. in recent years, the businesses importance to the community has grown. as many san franciscans have shifted to

remote work during the pandemic, customers have depending on po plus to supplement their home offices. known as the gay post office, pob plus provided vital services to the castro neighborhood and lgbtq community since the 1980s. when the store first opened, due to the stigma of a mailing address, j.d. larson opened at the bryant street post office where customers could send their mail. much each day he would collect the makeup and bring it back to po plus so customers could pick it up in the castro. though the appeal -- though all appeal pluses approximately two thousand private mailbox customers have their mail sent to castro street, several legacy customers continue to use the service. the business proudly employs a staff of eight, regularly hires high school and college aged workers and

contributed to numerous organizations over the years including the aids emergency fund and coming home hospice. serving the castro community for 40 years, po plus remains committed to maintaining the features that define the business including mail, delivery and offer services, the historic architecture, the historic architectural features at 584 castro street and the stamp mural. staff supports this application and recommends a resolution adding po plus to the business registry and the first is for saint john church. a jazz community and a branch of the african-american orthodox church. established by w. king and marina king in 1977, culture and church celebrates the legacy of its patrons st., john. as

well as the unique history of jazz musicians and culture in san francisco. the church residents from across the city and jazz enthusiast from around the world -- to its services and meditation sessions on culture and conscientiousness. and listening can listen on kp am or attend one of the concerts. they recognize jazz's place in the city's history, but also promoting san francisco's as a place where grassroots jazz can continue to thrive. over the course of its history, culture and church have been edge gamed in advocating for justice for residents in the district. the church participated in free meal drives and education workshops and spoken up on issues that impact the black community including environmental racist and illegal foreclosures. having

served the community for decades, cultural and church relocated this year and committed to retaining futures and traditions that define the church including its meditation sessions and radio programming and annual con certificates and collection of icon paintings in the ben teen style. staff support that is application and recommends a resolution adding culture and church to the business legacy registry. this concludes my presentation and i'll hand it over to my colleague alton, thank you. >> >> hello commissioners, alton and planning staff. the application we have is top bar, an 85-year-old local bar founded in 1973 by carl joseph. and currently operated and owned by

tom, by tom and michael spike. currently located in the mission neighborhood at 2800 24th street and was originally located at 2830 24th street. puffs bar is a bar that sells crafted mixed drinks, liquor, beers and other merchandise. the business has served a range of communities that has lived around this area which includes an underground bar in the 1930s and irish post world war ii bar in the 1940s and 50s, to the (indiscernible) community today. puffs bar has always been a community meeting spot or a watering hole for the neighborhood. pops bar opens early to serve working the graveyard shift. this base is used to host weddings and

memorial services and other theme nights. pop's bar also makes an effort to work with local artist and designers for their contribution to the bar. staff supports a resolution recommending pop's bar to the legacy business registry. this concludes all staffs presentation on all five legacy business applications, staff is also here to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you. we can open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on any of these legacy business registry applications and if you're calling in, you need to press star three to be added to the queue. go ahead, sir. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is woody labounty and i'm representing san francisco heritage in support of, well, all the

businesses but particularly piedmont boutique and the applications to be added to the legacy business registry. i want to note that i'm adding, i'm wearing a legacy business registry lapel pin in honor of the registry and the legacy program was intended for intuitions like piedmont boutique. it's a visual icon of the city. it's important for its connection to local style and drag culture. its sign is synonymous around the world with the hate ashbury matching corridor and that post county cultural vibe of the street. all this month, san francisco heritage is focusing on legacy businesses in the haight ashbury and giving those to weigh in. after you make your decision today on this great local businesses, i encourage each of you to cast your vote for a hate street business at sf heritage

dot org. doing so will make you eligible to win a lapel pin set which includes the piedmont legs. thank you again for your support of piedmont boutique and indeed all of the applications before you today. thank you. >> hello, i want to thank especially aaron peskin who nominated us and it was surprise and humbly and i think history just comes up on every single subject. i can't help but notice the, about the building earlier, so much of that is my story as well about a neighborhood and about trying to start, you know, with an idea and build it into something that's lasting. and if you'll indulge me for one second, i can't help but mention my great grandfather who founded

and doing the conservatory -- i have a plaque on my wall and he says when i look at the hopelessness on of my youth and the enterprise and see it now, i'm compelled to ex claim behold what god had brought. [laughter] he was was a religious man. i want to keep this going and the sacrifices he made and all the other universities were better funded and they all got the grants and he just kept at it and kept at it and my story is similar. i first came here in 1985 actually ask started a little base -- and started a basement studio called poolside and we used drum machines and electronic asks computers for -- and computers for the first time

ever and as we got notarity, they said we can experiment with those guys because they can take a chance and companies such as pro tools and doby and phone objection started sending us software and computer cards and saying, see if you can break this for us and we did over and over but we just kept at it. we were really criticized about digital sound the entire rest of the world was analog and on tape and the more we did it the more support we got from innovators and companies saying there's a better way to do this. we stayed there, well, actually in the meantime, we had a garage at the marina which was right down the street from plum jack wines where gavin newsom served his wine from behind the counter. [laughter] but you know, after ten years,

we were evicted out of there when the building sold. we moved to folsom street and we were there for 15 years and we were evicted because of a lease dispute and then we moved to 69 green street and 69 green street just got a new owner of the building and evicted us and three other small businesses. we found another location, this will be my sixth studio that i've built in san francisco. [laughter] at 950 battery and we are just up and running there and it has been wonderful and it's the first long-term lease that i've had in all these years here in san francisco. >> thank you, that is your time. >> okay. and i want to thank you for the opportunity to say something about all this. i know right now danny glover is in the airport in new orleans and wanted to call in but i don't know if he'll be able to, you know, manage it at an airport or

not but thank you for your time. >> hello, commissioners, my name is michael crouse and i'm the current caretaker of pop's bar. my partner, apologizes he can't be here today. he's district attorney with a death in his family but i wanted to thank you for the consideration when i took over or when we took over pop's in 2013, very little was known of its history and through some business to the library and exploring a lot of old books and newspapers, i learned of this treasure trove of information and the history of the bar and any bar that's been around for 85 years, any business that's been around for over 30 years deserves protection, so i acknowledge you guys for doing that. and especially in a time of changes in the city, you know, when a building that we are, our landlords are the old

family of the castillo family that own the bar in the 80s so if they are to sell the building and considering it, you know, the price of that building with a new landlord is reconsiderable and that's the way our small businesses find their way out of the city. and especially a working class bar like pop's that services a lot of the community that couldn't find a place to make their living roof, otherwise, they would be displaced as would an 85--year-old business so thank you for your consideration and have a great day. cheers! >> hello commissioners. i didn't prepare anything, so i just kind of scribbled some stuff down. my name is steve martel and i'm the current owner of po plus. as the gentleman mentioned, we're affectionately known as the gay post office here in san

francisco here in the castro. and i wanted to thank you all for considering our application to the legacy business registry. and i can say prior to owning po plus, i was a customer there for 13 years and so i've got 20 years of history with this business. and i can tell you that we certainly embody the spirit of the castro neighborhood and the spirit of san francisco. we opened our doors in 1982 and provided services to a neighborhood that was (indiscernible) by the aids crisis, many of our customers are integral participants for lgbtq rights and aids and service organizations and things of that nature and we're proud sponsors of nonprofit organizations that serve those communities. as an essential business, we were one of the few stores to remain open during the covid pandemic. during this time, we didn't deny may box

services to any customers who could not pay. and we also provided a very small social outlet for customers who were coming in to get their mail. we're that sitcom cheers where you want to go where somebody knows your name, we know your name when we come in and we have two thousand names to remember so we're pretty good at it. so as the city merges out of the, into a manageable stage out of the pandemic, our future looks bright and our future at po plus also looks bright. i just wanted to throw this out there, we're the longest, continuously gay and own operating businesses in the city. we're not the owed evident gay owned operate but continuously gay and operated and being added to the legacy business registry will be an honor for past, current and future owners of po plus. thank

you again. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is carl. it was -- i was here for outpost studios and to tack on and follow up on what my dad just mentioned about outpost and our legacy business application. dave nelson -- i wanted to follow up and talk about what that means to us. i'm about -- just just turning 30 years old and i've seen us go through two of these evictions now and it is built up, you know, everything to this point and we've kind of struggled and seen success despite all of it. and it just means a lot to our family

business as well as the community and that is just represented in the media that we helped to improve and everyone that comes through our doors whether it's a small musician or an independent film or kamara harris or danny glover we've treat them with all the same respect and care to their work and their platforms and i just wanted to add that on that amplifying voices and the representation in the media is what we stand for through sound and sound design and yeah. so thank you. >> okay. seeing no additional public comment here in the chambers, we'll go to remote

caller, again, when you hear you're line has been unmuted, that's your indication to begin speaking. >> hello, good evening commissioners. this is bishop king here with the saint john (indiscernible) at orthodox church (indiscernible). first of all, let me thank you commissioners forgiving us a moment to speak and we were recommended for this but -- >> by the community vision. >> yeah. >> by community vision. i think the paper says we had been supported -- it's closer to 53. i want to say not only did we represent the (indiscernible) in the city of san francisco hadn't

began in hunters point redevelopment agency. seems like we have the same story as those who went before us of having gone through (indiscernible) because of migration and redevelopment and [phone ringing] >> excuse me. [chuckle] at the magic theater but we've also been ambassadors for this city. we played, you know, we have performed at the antique institute of france. we've been to asia, africa, we have been ambassadors for what we call the harlem of the west in making it

very common (indiscernible) and san francisco can maintain and we're the oldest and still standing. (indiscernible) and we've been encouraged by that. and (indiscernible), our current mayor and we met (indiscernible). >> july 20th. >> oh, okay. (indiscernible). >> right. >> thank you so much. we were there earlier. we had some issues so we left and i want to thank you for this opportunity to be able to chat and thank you (indiscernible). >> jonas. >> brother jonas, thank you for encouraging us to continue

(indiscernible). and putting his trust in us. and justice will be served. (indiscernible). >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. okay. last call for public comment on any of these legacy business registry applications and again if you're in the chambers, come forward and calling in remotely, you need to press star three. seeing no additional request to speak, commissioners, public comment is closed and the item was before you. >> great. thank you. commissioners that wish to make a comment. commissioner foley? >> i would like to say what i always say, you're amazing and you're the fabric of our community and going to the piedmont boutique, i don't know what to say. i love that sign. i love your building and i love what you all do, so thank you everybody and i'm really glad you're here and i'm proud of this program so thank you very

much. >> thank you. commissioner black? >> i apologize for the amber alert that just came over my phone. i couldn't agree more and one of the things i'm struck with over and over is each of these communities not only provide essential services in whatever business they have, but also they give back to the community a lot and that's really important and it may be partly why these businesses have survived for so long. i doubt there are any other private postal services that provide the bryant street mail retrieval service. there's a kindness to that that goes beyond just being a business service, so things like that, i really appreciate. that's it. >> thank you. commissioner wright >> yes, i also want to just echo those sentiments and say that i

believe that the legacy businesses of our city are the backbones of our communities and of the city itself and i think that they maintain or help to maintain a continuity of the cultural identity of the city so again, i just thank you all. >> thank you. any other comments from the commission? i just like to make some concluding comments so i joined with my fellow commissioners and i'm really appreciating and thanking you for a very hard and challenging years of being a small business owner in the city and county of san francisco, particularly over these last past 2.5 years and i know it has not been easy. and you provide a service that no big business could provide. you provide the sensitivity and you provide the cultural sensitivity and provide

the community sensitivity that is really needed to keep a city vibrant and keep a city especially as we have here in san francisco so thank you for all you do and if there is a motion from the commission. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you commissioners on that motion to adopt recommendations for approval. commissioner wright? >> yes. >> commissioner black? >> yes. >> commissioner foley? >> yes. >> commissioner so? >> yes. >> commissioner nageswaran? >> yes. >> and commissioner president matsuda? >> yes. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 6 to 0. >> thank you. and congratulations! >> commissioners, that place us on item 7 for case number 2022 -- [applause] >> 2022-001066coa. at 50-52 fair oaks street and this is a certificate of appropriateness. >> commissioners, before chris starts, i just wanted to

introduce you to him. chris is a new preservation planner that is joining us and he's on our southeast team and he joined us back in november of 2021. chris came from the cultural resource management firm, michael baker international where was a planner for federal and state planner. he works directly in the preservation and cultural resource management and over 12 years of experience in education and nonprofit work. he graduated from sonoma state university with an ma in history in 2016 and we are overjoyed to have him as part of the preservation team. >> well, chris. >> welcome. >> thank you, rich. good afternoon, commissioners, chris wendt, department staff, the application before you is a request for certificate of appropriateness at 50-52 fair oak streets and a contributor --

locating within an hr 3 zoning. it has a two story, two family wood frame building clad and wood and constructed circumstance kit 1877 in they tool january style. the proposed project involves a revision to a previously permitted project approved under historic preservation commission motion number 0367 which is currently under construction. the project proposes the following, to replace a four hundred square feet gable roof located behind an existing historic raised parapet on the facade with a new sloped roof plat and shingles to match the existing, excuse me, to match the existing on the north and a new 135 square foot roof deck to the south and the project proposes the construction of a new wood panel and guardrail center with wood cladding to match the existing and concealed proposed roof deck on the west elevation. the construction of a nah parapet cap at the base of the sloping roof at the north

elevation. the construction of a new wood wall cap and ridge at the proposed sloping roof at the north elevation and addition of a new air conditioning, mechanical equipment that will be concealed below the sloping roof to the north of proposed roof deck. and installation of an overflow scooper at the base of a proposed roof deck on the west elevation. a new window and door at the east elevation of the previously approved third floor addition. furthermore, the project proposes revisions to the style and size of three previously permitted windows and three sets of sliding doors on the west elevation. the addition of three new windows to the six previously permitted and bringing style to the windows at the south elevation. the omission of two previously approved owning windows and we vision to the style of two window at the first story of the north elevation. in addition the project lowers the height of the

permitted roof deck at the rear garage to six inches to a total height of 11 feet, 6 inchs and reconfigure the stairs at the north elevation of the garage. lastly the project concludes the installation of a hot top at the roof deck of the garage. the department has not received any correspondence from the public regarding this project. staff is determined that the proposed work will be in conformance with the -- based on the analysis found in the case report, staff therefore recommends approval with the following conditions, as part of the future review, the building permit by the department of building inspection or other city agencies and any required refinement to the project may be reviewed by the preservation staff. if approved today, staff will modify the condition of approval prior to publication of the final motion. this concludes my presentation. the project sponsor is in attendance and will give a short presentation and we're happy to answer any

questions you may have. thank you. >> okay. sfgov, could we go to the computer, please. sfgov, can we go to the computer, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. good to see you all. this project came before the commission back in 2019 as an addition to the two-story building to add the third story that was setback on the front and the back is qan alley and quan street so there's modifications to the back at that time which included a garage that was entered off of quan alley. what you're seeing here, this is a photo before we

started construction. but basically, that's what the house will look like after construction. these are just views of the site. it's kind of mid-block between 21st and 22nd on fair oaks on the westside of the street. the lower three photographs are from down the hill, head on and up the hill and basically, there's virtually just a minimal amount of view from the street for the third floor addition. so this is, on the left, the picture is of the house before construction. on the right, you can see the small amount of the third floor that you can see, currently. that has already been built and you can see the parapet that's in front of it and you cannot see the gabled roof that's behind the raised parapet at all from the street. so, again, the picture on the left is current and then

the rendering, you can kind of just see the, a peek of the window that faces the back of the raised parapet which is where the new deck will be and ultimately, all these changes happen because the owner got up there on the third floor and realized there were substantial views that would never be blocked by the house down the hill, so he wanted to take advantage of it, so that's why some of the window changes that i'll describe in a second, but also to have that deck at the front. so again, a small -- the parapet on the south wall will be raised a little bit to meet current code for, as a guardrail but also you can see you really can't tell the difference between the existing and what we're proposing. so, this is probably a little hard to see. there's a red line so it's the elevation of the house before and after. the left is existing.

with the gable roof and on the right just as the profile of what we're proposing, so the northside on the right will be this, pretty much the same. it won't, there won't be any difference at all, really. and what we're doing is we're creating a cavity underneath so we can put any mechanical equipment so it's hidden from view and this just describes that we meet all of the, complies with all the sector of interior standards. this is a site plan that, on the left existing on the right, proposed. again, probably hard to see from, you might be able to see it better on the screen but we're using the same exact space as where the gable roof is now and we're replacing the right side with the same slope, same location gable roof and the left side which would be the south for the deck area. and then there's also a planter behind the south parapet wall so that people will be setback from the

property line even further with a planter there. and this is just the plan before and after just showing where the equipment will be, where the deck is and it does have a rather large raised parapet with the bay windows, so again, very minimally visible from the street and you won't be able to see the deck from the street an all. the window changes, moving some, moving them slightly, increasing the windows on the south elevation of the new third floor but again you won't be able to see that from the street so just some minor revision and we had the advantage of having that very high raised parapet so all of it is hidden behind it. so i'll end with the same slide i started with because thaws basically what you'll see when

this work is done, it will be visually indistinguishable, other than the fact it will be a much improved home so thank you very much, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. interest okay. we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission. you need to come forward if you're in the chambers and if calling in remotely, you need to press star three. seeing no request to speak, commissioners, public comment is close and this matter is before you. >> thank you. any commissioners wish to make comment or have questions for our project sponsor? >> i have one. >> go ahead, uh-huh. >> i see the drawings that you said you are making modifications on the parapet. does the height change? >> so the on the south side, on

the south parapet t comes up three height higher than it is now but it's clad with the same material, so visually, you won't be able to tell that there's any difference and all we're doing is putting a cap on top of it. it's just a wood cap that will be painted. >> okay >> thank you for your clarification. >> any other questions or comments from the commission? okay. hearing none, do i hear a motion? >> motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners on that motion to approve with conditions. commissioner wright? >> yes. >> commissioner black? >> yes. >> commissioner foley? >> aye. >> commissioner so? >> yes. >> commissioner nageswaran? >> yes. >> and commissioner president matsuda? >> yes. >> so moved commissioner, that motion passes unanimously, 6 to 0. placing us on item 8 for case number 2022-005199ds for the site of the comupon soez calf

tia riot intersection of turk and taylor street. and this is a land designation. >> thank you, sfgov tv, do you have my presentation lined up. >> can we go to the computer please, sfgov tv. >> it's not on -- perhaps we're do the overhead. >> it's not on the computer? >> no, there it is. [laughter] >> good afternoon, president matsuda and members of the commission, moses, department staff. with over 20 years at the department, it is an honor to bring to you this designation today. it is a groundbreaking landmark. and it's highlighted for my career. before you today is the consideration to recommend to the board of supervisors, designation of the

site of compton's cafeteria of 1966 located at turk street in article ten of the planning code. the board of supervisors is on august break and wassen present today and supervisor preston submitted a letter of support for expanding the landmark site. so background on the legislative process. the intersection of turk and taylor street was initiated by the board of supervisors. it was introduced by supervisor preston after supervisor haynie left office and the area was moved from district, into district five from district six. and received mayor breed's signature on june 17th and transmitted to the department on june 22nd. the, it is located within the

transgender district and a national historic district and today's recommendation hearing includes a draft ordinance to be introduced at the board of supervisors. it is also identified in the citywide historic context statement for lgbtq history in san francisco by donna graves and shawn watson. and contributor to that national registry district low caped by the caper that place it's on the california register. on this slide you can see the boundaries of the landmark south to the left and screaming queens on the right. no photograph or moving images were captured at the time of the event. the significance of the landmark is under criterion a, associate with events that made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history. the

site of the compton's cafeteria riot is significance for the association with the first large scale collective, direct action on the part of people marginalized by sexually and gender expression that resulted in a lasting institutional change. surpassing the cooper donut and impact, dewy's in militancy and proceeding the more important and larger stonewall in time. by acting collectively instead of individuals, members of the community were able to for the cause to enable a greater freedom of gender expression without oppression. moreover, after the riot, the city's health and police departments began to develop supportive programs for the transgender people of san francisco. some of which would also enable people to gain access to state and federal antipoverty programs.

the riot demain dignity and succeeded in starting the long process to change society. as presented in the ordinance, the character defining features for this landmark might seem like for preservationist accustomed to physical buildings. but this unique resource is a place of an event. it is also important to know what makes a place for the site of the compton's cafeteria riot and the features are within the public right-of-way, spatial relationships within the intersection of turk and taylor streets and part of the adjacent streets and this is where the people in protest fought the police and where the community gathers to this day to mark

significant events and was chosen for the now faded black tran lives matter street mural. at 101 taylor street, the lower 11 feet of the building which housed the storefront of the jane compton's cafeteria, extending northward 52 feet from the corner of turk street and 40 feet west from the corner of taylor street. the diner closed this location in 1972 and was replace by a bookstore which altered the storefront. the present occupants on the storefronts once again -- and again the only enduring element is the wall itself with the rough openings that remain. together with the intersection, a sense of place remains strong. the dimensions of the former storefronts that contained the diner are included. the owner consent is not required, the

owners of 101 taylor street do not object to this designation. as a resource significant for an association with an event, certain aspects of integrity are more relevant than others. the location, setting, feeling, and association remain intact as the essential characteristics of an urban intersection are unchanged. workmanship, design and materials are therefore less important. the storefront that contained the compton's cafeteria undergone two changes since 1966 and is no longer an active storefront. the design and materials have changed yet it's still completely recognizable as the location, setting and feeling and associations are extinct. issues that may concern this commission include the pending construction at the site in the public right-of-way. we have folks from the public works department here today to explain the anticipated

work. the designation of the compton's cafeteria riot meets the historic preservation for priorities for designation, the properties associated with underrepresented racial ethnic and social groups. the department recommends that the hpc approve the resolution to recommend the landmark designation of this site to the board of supervisors. this concludes my presentation. i'm joined by flora law, project manager from public works who will explain about the pending project. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is flora law with the department of public works. and i'm the project manager from the safer taylor project. we talked about the cultural significance of the taylor and turk street

intersection and i'm here to talk about the work in that intersection, so safer taylor street is a streetscape complete streets project and actually, it is on taylor street between sushg and ala street. today we're going to focus on the work on turk and taylor. so here is a slide where we looked at the turk and taylor intersection, what we're doing in that northwest corner there is that we are extending the sidewalk, the curb of the sidewalk into making a bulb out to shoren the crossing distance of the turk and taylor street intersection. so there by providing additional safety for pedestrian that's crossing the area there. we also know that there are a lot of sro in the tenderloin district, so

we're trying to improve the streetscape, provide additional furniture, working with plcbd to do the maintenance and we have curbed planters there that's red and circular and they provide seating in addition to vegetation. we also wanted to emphasize the significance of that intersection by putting in a crosswalk transgender flag, a crosswalk that looks like a transgender flag to we're using that baby blue and pink and work with the transgender district to come one that pattern so as 've previously talked about, we're working on the safer project but over this intersection is using the transgender flag to really

emphasize the significance there. here is just a more detailed version of what we're trying to do in this area here. as you can see on the picture on the right side, there is two plaque that is in front of the building there. what we're doing is that we're extending the curb out, so we actually have more room to put additional street furniture which as you can see are the three cubes that are to the left of those two plaques. we will be salvaging and relocating those plaques there and we'll be building ada accessible curb ramps in that area. in order to do so, we'll need to get into the

(indiscernible) at 111 taylor. the structure in, we have structural engineer going into the sub (indiscernible) basement to take a look at their structure and the beams does not look like it can support the additional load of the sidewalk moving toward the roadway so we're doing some -- we'll be doing some work to install new beams for the support. and that actually concludes, well, we'll be moving signal poles further out because we're doing a bulb out, the signal poles can no longer be in current location so we'll have to move the signal poles out towards the roadway. this concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address commission on this matter. for those persons again in the chambers, please come forward. and if you're calling

in, you need to press star three. >> good afternoon, commissioners. woody from san francisco heritage. i want to express our strong support for this, for your recommendation of this landmark designation and also for the expansion of it to include the wall of the former compton's cafeteria. this is a very innovative landmark designation and i think -- i personally think it's a great way to start thinking about the way we recognize things historically. i think also we get caught up in integrity and don't look at all the elements of it and think think is a great way to look at a lot of sites in a different way and expand the idea of landmark designation. so thank you. >> good afternoon. i agree with mr. la bounty much this is a

unique to landmark a place which is a challenging thing to do so i really find it very impressive how that has been put together. on, let's see, i think it russell street which is in russian hill, number 29 russell was a place where jack herald and the o-cass tee had a famous photograph of them standing in front of that house and it's a little alley street and when they built the building across the street, they did a beautiful plaque with some text and the photograph reproduced in that plaque. and as most of you know, my typical rant is, getting people to understand and know people who walk by who know whatcom ton's cafeteria -- what

compton's cafeteria to know what it, but include a visual representation because i know there's some pretty good photographs from that time as well as as gene compton, the storefront that was there at the time, so i encourage you to include that so that people walking there will see the sidewalk crossing and will see the plaques in the sidewalk which are just text, but then we'll understand this is a landmark place proceeding stonewall for what happened there, so i encourage you to approve this. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. um, we'll go to our remote callers, again, when you hear your line has been unmuted, that's your -- that's your indication to begin speaking. >> hello, everyone. my name is

shawn green. i am the deputy director for the transgender district. i want to thank all the commissioners for hearing this today and obviously the transgender community is in strong support of this landmark designation as well as the expansion to include the wall and i wanted to point out in terms of lgbtq history, the united states really only does stonewall monument. it has been recognized and done by president obama back in 2016. we've been working with the national parks services and they have been encouraged us because of the sore lacking attributed to recognizing transgender history and so, we have been supported

by a number of institutions as well as historians to try and really activate transgender history before it is forgotten and that's what we do at the transgender district. as moses mentioned, this intersection played a key part in the compton cafeteria riot and for those of you who may not be aware, in 1966, august, these rights are considered -- these riots are the large scale acts of resistance from transgeneral and queer individuals and harassment. this occurred three years prior to the heavily known stonewall in riot. this intersection is also the heart of the transgender district in

2017, when we were creating this cultural district, it was placed here specifically around the turk and taylor intersection for the significance to the trans community and trans history as well, so we strongly support the passage of this and we thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> okay. last call for public comment. seeing no additional request to speak, public comment is closed and this matter is before you, commissioners. >> great, commissioner -- commissioner foley? >> i would like to say, thank you moses and flora for working on this and i would like to thank the owner for this which is difficult at times and i like to callout my normal thing and as i love to have a qr plaque so someone can see the history

because there's so much history here. i think woody la bounty from heritage and john brought it up, there's so much information about this that people would be amazed to learn. they're going to come up and see this great visual and kind of like, wow, this is great but there's so much history behind it, so i'm going to continue to push for qr -- qr codes and thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner black? >> thank you. if there was a city that should recognize transgender history, it is san francisco and this is the location to do it. i really want to point out that i appreciate the proposed intersection modifications and the street furniture which is really unique and that's as it should be. i want people to recognize this is a different location with different identity and i want, i think it's a perfect opportunity for them to ask questions. i

was going to mention councilmember foley's qr code if he doesn't, i think that's an excellent idea here. i want to support excluding future murals as i guess the property owner requested. i see murals as transitory and sometimes they reflect a current take on something, so i don't see it as needing a certificate of appropriateness from us if they want to make future changes to moral, i thought i would make that comment. thanks. >> thank you. commissioner nageswaran? >> i, you know, when i have been listening to -- you know, i've been listening to the legacy businesses and how their stories are so unique and really relate to the place and everyday life and this is, i mean, part in parcel to that experience and

the evolution of human beings and what they express and what they resist and what they stand for, so it's something really unique and interesting. i agree that, with my fellow commissioners and mr. pearlman on putting some sort of visual, you know, photograph or possibly there's a drawing of the compton's storefront somewhere and expressing that and i also wonder whether in the pavement they could have something like pride in compton's or compton's just so people are like, what is that? what is that? and they ask the question of what this place is. you know, where some of the features can be restored in the future. if the ownership feel like, you know, that's an

option, so that would be great. and you know, beyond just the compton's history, the comment that, you know, it preceded stonewall is an interesting thing so you know, having references to that in whatever, interpretive materials. and yeah. and speaking of the integrity, i'm, as an architect, always attracted to architectural things, so obviously that's something that i -- that those aspects are always of interest to me but i can see that it doesn't have to, as many of the aspects of integrity reads to this type of event, so thank you. >> thank you. commissioner wright

>> yes, thank you. i have a question for moses and that's what was the discussion when you were determining whether or not to include only the wall on the storefront verses the building? and i'm thinking hypothetically but you know, if there were to be some significant alterations to the remainder of the building, what would that do for kind of understanding the storefront and the storefront location and is the building not considered, would the building not be considered a part of the setting for this very important storefront? so, that's one question. >> sure. the consideration for restricting the designation to the storefront area was to

maintain sort of undiluted place. yes, the remainder of the building as the infrastructure of an intersection contributes to the setting. the event didn't happen in the upper floors in the hotel. the building itself is inside of a national historic district so the change that would happen to that is still subject ceqa and would therefore be in keeping with national standards. so, i just wanted to, as i develop this, it was not an ask of the building owners but it was an offer to restrict it to just the significant areas that were most related to the event. >> okay. yeah. i did assume that

the building was a contributor to the district, so that would have some protections but just thought it would be good to put it out there and then, i also have a question about the plaque. you know, i've been to this site many times and i have to say that the plaques are, you know, understated and i see that they're going to be salvaged for reinstallation and a new location but i didn't find where that location is and i just want to make the plug for interpretation of this event and the significance of this place. how can we tell the story of

what happened here, why this place is important? you know, in addition to a couple of plaques. i think that it warrants a much greater amount of information for the public. >> so, if you look back at the slides, on the second slide where it says northwest corner of taylor and turk, you can see where the two plaques are. you see five different boxes in that area there and the plaques are on the right side. these plaques are being relocated into that bulb out area and right next to the seating cubes which if you look at the first page on the top right corner, you'll see some seating cubes in that area. the seating cubes will not look

exactly what's been shown right here. actually, the size of the cube and the dimension and how it will look on the street is what is depicted here. what is going to be on the side would be that transgender flag that's right next to it, so you see that baby blue and pink white stripe which is a representation of the transgender flag and it will be printed on the side of the cubes so that will draw attention, the cubes will be right next to these plaques so if people try to sit down or maybe they see a plaque and want to sit down and read it, it will give them the opportunity and the flag there would draw attention in addition to the crosswalk markings. >> okay. thank you. yeah, i think i missed in the callout when it was calling out the plaques as existing, that that was the new location. but i also

just, i want to say again that i appreciate the effort for interpreting or trying to interpret the landmark as it is shown here but i think we can do more and i think, you know, i would be interested in future discussions about how that can be done. >> i understand there's an effort for place-making but not interpretation, and i think that's what we're hearing from the commission. >> yeah. and i think they are both equally important. >> thank you. commissioner so? >> i can ducktail to

commissioner wright's comment but let me say this, thank you for doing this. it's heartfelt and it's very important, i think what you did to propose this, also with former supervisor haynie office and now it's supervisor preston's office and it's elevating san francisco and not just to us but to the world that we're recognizing there's history of people that have opinion marginalized not just by race but purely gender preferences, so this is really important of a thing to do and i fully support it. i also, because i'm fully supportive of this and i'm seeing, i'm a little bit confused about how we can make this a landmark destination so it can carryon, meaning it could be interpret and people can actually understand what parts of it is historically significant and how

can we convey that message across to general public, maybe other people don't even speak english, right, so because this is going to be huge. this is actually setting some recognitions that no one have done before, not that i know in this country, that we are recognizing these events that have happened, that had wronged a lot of people. what is this, right? the document is pretty good and i think it will be helpful to get a better understanding on how we're going to execute this and how people can bestow and retain the character defining features, this in case, an event and i'm not sure the mural has anything to do with the riot. maybe it has been done later on for the building, so then, what does it mean? are we, is there anything that a commissioner wright

mentioned that how can someone know besides the two square on the sidewalk that someone (indiscernible) from walking around the corner to taylor to the other street. that's exactly where that event have happen. i don't have a really good way to recommend but qr code and (indiscernible) reality could be another way but something should be specific or a little bit more into the definition documents to describe the interpretation aspect of this destination. but i'm all for t. i want to make sure our little children and the next generation and that follow, they do understand why we're doing this and what this is about and clearly and so they don't have to read one hundred pages, they need to be there and you know, see it in their face and feel what i felt from you

today. yeah, thank you for being here. >> thank you. commissioner foley? >> so, i hear both my fellow commissioners and i think there's so much history here. i think you did a great job. i think the work that dpd, planning and the building owner have done is actually awesome. but i think this readily speaks again and it sounds weird that i have this qr code fetish but the qr code could allow someone to understand all the history and what happened to these people and i think that's really the way to get the amount of data that you both want out there is where it's going to be and talk with staff earlier about qr codes, i think that's on map once the survey is done, we might be able to roll qr codes out so i make a motion to approve. >> we have other comments here. commissioner wright? >> yeah. i want to also say to -- in response to commissioner

foley's comment, i agree that qr codes, i think are a great idea. i think it needs to be more than that in this place. you know, what's going to -- i think the qr code could be a part of an interpretive display for people who want to get more information but they have to kind of develop a thirst for that information that would be provided by the qr code and you know, i think you know, there are references to transgender identity and to this event but i think that -- i just want to push for -- for a more in-depth well-thought out,

interpretive display for this location and definitely there's too much information to, i think, include in one display where -- and i think that's where the qr code comes in. >> thank you. mr. sucry. >> hello, commissioners. due to the discussion i've been having, i recommend you provide recommendation to the supervisor or staff outlining a requirement to explore interpretation, in particular, with the community. obviously, this is a site that is very tied towards a community we have. we have a project that's actively on going with -- project that's actively ongoing with a city agency and any work done should be done with them in mind in particular to see how that's doing so rather than debating the specifics of how and requirements of exactly

what, just direct us to work with them and come up with whatever method is best suited in their opinions, basically given, you know, the combination of work occurring, as well as understanding and need for their history. >> i think that's a good idea and i want to further emphasize what commissioner wright has been avenue -- been advocating for. this was a start of a movement so we need more than two plaques and an interpretive plaque and qr code but explore the story but it's an important part of our history and it should be recognized and respected as such. so, i'd like to see if there's a motion with the information or it's not an amendment but to further explore

how we can further share this important per of history in the plan mark designation, both in writing and in a report as well as visually at the site. >> how do we want to say that? >> i'll make a motion that we support, that we recommend landmark designation to the board of supervisors with the further recommendations that staff work with the city agencies, perhaps, the transgender board, i can't remember the full name -- >> cultural district. >> yeah. and identify ways of augmenting the messaging at the location for anybody, tourists, anybody, to give better, quicker information and it could also include a qr code for more in-depth information, so people understand, we've got these

fabulous new street elements, let's tell them why and make it easier for them to understand why. >> second the motion. >> if there's nothing further, there's a motion that has been seconded to adopt a recommendation to landmark to the board of supervisors and directing staff to work with the appropriate agencies and community to further emphasize the site with more information. on that motion, commissioner wright? >> yes. >> commissioner black? >> yes. >> commissioner foley? aye. >> commissioner so? >> aye >> commissioner nageswaran? >> yes. >> commissioner president matsuda? >> yes. >> so moved, that motion passes unanimously, 6 to 0. >> commissioners, our final item no. fine, 2018-004217gpa. for the 2022 safety and resilient

element update. this is an informational presentation. >> may i bring up my project slides. >> are they on the computer? >> oh! >> you would have to upload it. did you upload them to the computer? >> no, i did (indiscernible). >> it's not there. >> josie or chan, do you have danielle's slides? okay, there you go. >> that you are up. >> great, thank you. hello commissioners, and everyone

tuning in, thanks for having me today. my name is danielle ngo and i'm at the planning department as a senior planner. for this informational hearing, i'm excited to share our progress updating long range policies for our safety and resilience in the city's general plan this work has occurred over the past two and a half years and it would not be as strong as it is today without the coordination and partnership of preservation staff at planning. so thank you very much to rich sucre and alex. we'll begin this presentation with a context setting by the director of citywide. emery rogers will explain significance of this general plan amendment and how this project sits in relation to our other work, modernizing the general city's plan. may we go to the next slide, please. after that context setting, i'll return to describe our process over the past two and a half years that led to the city's

informational hearing. i'll explain the initiation draft and close with our pathway to adoption. i'll pass it to ann marie with the next slide. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, commissioners, it has been a really interesting and exciting hearing today. and i'm glad we could experience part of it. what is the general plan and who is responsible for it? for the public's benefit, the planning commission has some discrete authority in relation to the general plan. but the charter also gives this commission a role in creation of general plan policy. the hpc is charged with recommending content for a preservation chapter or what we call an element to the planning commission. similarly, this commission should comment to the planning commission and the board of supervisors on all general plan amendments that concern historic preservation. hence, our item is before you

today. while the changes you're going to hear are pretty minor in relation to preservation as was described, we would like to get your ideas for consideration so we can represent them to both the commission, of planning and the board of supervisors. so over the past year, planning staff have been advancing coordinated efforts to modernize the general plan. so before we get through this specific project, we like to give you an overview of the context that fits us in. next slide, please. the general plan is san francisco's vision for the future. it guides decisions for today's challenges in (indiscernible) towards the future we want. it supports project development and public action. it addresses how we live, work, play, and move about. as well as the quality and character of the city. we develop an update, the general plan through an inclusive and engaging public process that

seeks to represent everyone who lives and works in the city with a focus on vulnerable and hard to reach populations. updates are adopted through a public process involving comment by this commission as i said and engagement by other city departments as well as the public. but for changes to be made, action is require by the planning commission, the board of supervisors and the mayor. next slide, please. these are the components of san francisco's general plan and you can see the date when each was last updated in this graphic. as a rule, policy should be set to guide action for 20 years. there are currently ten chapters or elements to the general plan. in 21 geographically plans, what we call area plans. so, some of the chapters are elements like the safety element, are mandated by the state and the state requires that we update these policies. in sum, like urban design, our

creations of our own as a city. some elements have been updated recently but as you can see, for others, it has been a few decades. next slide, please. the safety element is one of our current four active updates to the general plan. we're in close coordination with updates to the other four active elements decision plan, the housing element, transportation element, and the new environmental justice framework and revised introduction. the safety element is scheduled to be first in line for your consideration. in january, the housing element and the ej framework and new introduction for the general plan will be before you. we have plans for more phases to our updated general plan. if all our adopted under the current schedule, the result will be a completely refresh general plan by the year 2030. for this

update, and after the process, the hearing commission could adopt changes and it would be a legislative act requiring the board of supervisors. that's the context so let's get into the details with danielle, our senior planner. >> next slide. we'll talk about the safety and resiliency and it's the community safety elements and it's proposed to be titled the safety and resilience element moving forward. resilience is key for enhancing the city's capacity to survive, adopt, and grow from all hazards. it extends beyond preparation and response from discrete disasters and ties our efforts to the climate crisis, organization and other aspects of daily life. next slide. with

this plan update to the safety element, we're strengthening general plan policies for the hazards depicted on this slide. this figure is pulled from the hazards and climate resilience plan. the 13 pop geological weather-related fire related, buy logic and toxic hazard the city is currently facing and must prepare for. the city acknowledges the weather-related hazards in blue are exacerbated by the climate. the hazards and climate resilience plan by reference, as well as the climate action plan. these are other city documents with direct relationship to the safety element. they are more detailed and help carry out the policies. they are updated frequently and more agile than the general plan. this will strengthen general plan policies for the (indiscernible) of problems. next slide. we already have a

strong foundation for tackling hazards in san francisco. this proposal is building on top of the most recent safety element from 2012. it sets a clear structure for resilience planning, starting with mitigation, emergency preparedness, response, and recovery and reconstruction. the policies do not just sit on the shelf. there's many recent examples of the policies and action. for example, the safety element helped sf mta initiate the slow streets program. for socially distant essential travel and exercise during this pandemic emergency. next slide. so, why are we updating the 2012 safety element? this proposal is driven by several factors which i'll walk through and start with the left-hand column, there's two state laws, sb379 and sb1000 that requires cities to update their general plan and policies on climate resilience and environmental justice. moving to the center column, the

city completed the two other major efforts for client resilience and the hcr and the cap. now, staff propose adding this new knowledge into the general plan. so new knowledge on sea level rise, flooding pandemic, wildfire smoke, for air quality and even seismic issues. finally, with the right hand column, we're pointing a new way forward with new policy to increase focus on racial and social equity and lessons learned from the covid-19 pandemic. if this commission and the planning commissions resolutions from last summer that empower the department to incorporate specific policy with benefit to the america-indian community and the black community and other communities of color. and this covid-19 pandemic is such a unique prolonged emergency. the city has learned a lot about addressing racial disparities and health, economic impacts and recovery and emergency operations. it's through the safety element process that

we've been in discussion with the department of emergency management and the office of -- resilience. so at the state and local level, these are all the opportunities we're trying to seize with updating the safety element right now. next slide. one significant way we're updating, sorry, we're incorporating racial and social equity is referring to the communities map. this map is a state and local data to identify neighborhoods in the city that bear the top 30% of environmental justice burden. the areas in red. the data includes race and ethnicity and other metrics for pollution exposure and social vulnerability. when policies name and environmental justice communities, the policies are able to prioritize attention and resources to communities who need the city's help. the communities are pry mauerly

low-income communities and communities of color. they shoulder a disproportionate shoulder of environmental injustices and they experience climate has hards first and first and worse compared to the rest of the city and take longer to recover. next slide. so, now i wanted to zero in on the latest version of our work that's presented in full in the initiation draft which is exhibit a of your case report. next slide. our teams conducted virtually outreach and engagement for over a year and we have heard from dozens of community based organizations, hundreds of community members and many, many other city agencies and subject matter experts. we have incorporated all of that feedback into this initiation draft. and importantly, we've coordinated with the teams of the hazard and climate resilience plan and the climate action plan to coordinate our outreach on these interrelated projects and making sure we can minimize

participation fatigue on san francisco community and aligns our efforts on mitigation and adaptation and re-- resilience. next slide. here are the major trends we pulled out of hundreds of comments received on the safety element. at a high level, feedback supported and sharpened, coordinating our citywide climate restill intelligence efforts -- resilience effort and incorporated the -- new learning from the covid after action report and new professional approaches to featuring cultural preservation and sea level rise science and adding housing justice for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. next slide. so, without further or do, here's the proposal. this will operate it into six goals shown in red on the left-hand side. each goal

has objectives and policies that reflect the feedback gathered over the past year and the first goals are brand-new and put climate resilience and environmental justice and racial and social equity front and center in this element. and the remaining goals from mitigation through reconstruction are from the 2012 element and have also been updated and brushed up as well. so, now let's point to the specific historic preservation content. next slide. in safety element, the scope of issues includes both tangible and intangible efforts and there's information placed on cultural and historic assets with injustice communities furthering our work on racial and social equity. as the climate crisis worsening, historic assets are vulnerable. as an example, existing buildings within the sea level rise vulnerable rise

with at risk for permanent rendition without climate adaptation action and the case report list the eight policies that support strategies, specific to historic and cultural resources. in the red boxes on the slide point to where -- [multiple voices] >> can you rollback the slide. >> previous slide, please. great. >> thank you. >> and so, i have an example, the eight policies detail about building retrofits, nature-based solutions, harden gentleman nearing, and if necessary, retreat. so we're grateful to inter -- integration. next slide. this is how we'll wrap up this work, thank you, this timeline is great. and so, in addition to the hearing today, we've had informational hearings with the capital planning committee and environment

commission and in late july we passed our initiation resolution unanimously at planning commission. our adoption hearing will be scheduled in september after recess. and if approved, this work will be before the board of supervisors in october. so we hope you commissioners are supportive of this process today and how historic preservation issues have been integrated and ann marie are available for questions and comments now, thank you. >> thank you. we should open up public comment. if there's any member of the public wish be to speak to this matter, please come forward. we don't have anyone in our remote hearing room. seeing no request to speak, commissioners, public comment is closed. this matter is now before you, this is not an action item so it's just informational. >> thank you. any commissioners have any questions or comments?

commissioner wright? >> yes. yes. thank you. i just have a comment that i would like or a point i would like to make and this is with regard to the climate crisis and i've stated this in the past -- in past meetings, relative to other elements and initiatives but i'm going to kind of repeat myself and you know, i think that we need to recognize the importance of embodied carbon and existing buildings and not just in historic buildings but you know, in all existing buildings and i'm sure you're aware but there are many efforts now to calculate carbon and data is starting to support that the loss of embodied carbon, even for the most energy efficient

buildings, may not pay back or offset the loss of the embodied carbon by the point, the tipping point or the point where it's too late, so i think there's a lot and this is kind of really outside of the commissions purview but i think it's just an important comment for climate change in general. and because it does affect existing buildings and historic buildings, which does get into our purview but i think that there needs to be a real effort to think about how to improve existing buildings and modify existing buildings. it's not to say that we can't remove some, but we have to be really smart and calculated in order to

combat the climate crisis. >> thank you. commissioner nageswaran? >> i just -- just a quick comment that you know, a part of this resilience and what you spoke about, learning from the pandemic, san francisco sustained so many different sort of elements of earthquakes or flooding or you know, sea level rise, whatever it is, and i think it's important to document what has happened in the past and steps that we took and what was good, what was bad, and then you know, move forward so part of the historic preservation is remembering the history of what we did and what worked and what didn't work and you know, san francisco has always led the nation in so many things, especially the pandemic. we were the first city to be able to go

into shelter-in-place and you know, probably the least affected in many ways so that's one comment and then broadly, there's definitely sea level rise. i've been hearing the whole embarcadero is going to be affected by that. it's going to be a huge endeavor to combat that, so maintaining how we review those things is important and i'm not sure -- i'm not a planner but i'm not sure how that goes into the housing or i'm sorry, the general plan and the safety and resilience element of that, but just some comments. >> thank you. commissioner so? >> thank you for presentation and it's good to see you again, ann marie and the presentation

is amazing. one of the things you wanted to bring up to just all of us to be aware of, that we live in an earthquake prone place. there's history there. there's sea level rising and as an architect as well, there's infrastructure in our cities that are inherently unsafe and they're old enough to be category b or some of them are a, so parts of it that when we draft the new elements to address resilience and public safety, we'll have to encounter a dilemma where we'll make decisions to have to size mat i cannily improve some buildings. some data was shown in front of me that was conducted by the office of resiliency and capital

improvement. there's more than 60% of this building we're talking about. how are we, as our department, to enable people to live safely and not creating an extra barrier for them to be able to afford -- to upgrade their infrastructure, but then they will be intertwined with the historic preservation element of it, then we'll have to think about what are the policy or incentives we can enable regular average san franciscan to be able to keep them self safe and also how us as a commission and then department, enable them to move faster? i'm not sure that we'll be able to address that in the general plan but there's something to watch out for that -- it will happen pretty soon.

just wanted to share. i'm not actually sure exactly how we can address this but i would like to hear your recommendations, if you have one here now or later, that is -- >> thank you, commissioners. i appreciate the comments so far. you're really touching on content from the safety aspect and climate change aspects and the (indiscernible) are in there. the idea of keeping existing buildings because of the carbon footprint and i don't think we say carbon but we talk about the use of the resources and that's a good add. and then yeah, certainly the dangers you're talking about with our historic infrastructure and housing resources are also addressed and something city needs to be mindful so this document is at a high level, so the policies and goals and there are some associated

implementation documents to help the city take the street actions and that are measurable and achievable and so together this is one that's a direction setting and the other ones help us to take the steps and there's accountability to make sure we are advancing towards those goals to have both a safe and re-- resilient city. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other questions or comments from the commission? seeing none. >> we were going to adjourn in the honor of -- >> we are adjourning in honor of david hartley, thank you very much. >> thank you. [gavel]

>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard

practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will

take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here

and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most

often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully

sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular.

they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's

a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sylvia and i'm the owner of the mexican bistro. we have been in business for 18 years and we first opened on garry street in san francisco, and now we are located in a beautiful historic building. and we are part of the

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sour, but, again, we offer high-quality ingredients on our drinks as well. (♪♪) we have been in san francisco for 27 years, and our hearts are here. we are from mexico, but after 27 years, we feel part of the community of san francisco. it is very important for us to be the change, the positive change that is happening in san francisco. the presidio in particular, they're doing great efforts to bring back san francisco, what it was. a lot of tourism and a lot of new restaurants and the new companies. san francisco is international and has a lot of potential. (♪♪) so you want to try authentic mexican food and i invite you to

come to our bistro located on 50 moroo avenue in presidio. and i'll wait here with my open arms and giving you a welcome to try my food. (♪♪) >> sfgovtv, ready to begin. good morning today is wednesday, august 17th,