okay. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, november 21st, 2024. when we reach the item you're interested in speaking to, we ask that you line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes, and when you have seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is

almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. please speak clearly and slowly and if you care to state your name for the record, i will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. also, i ask that we silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. at this time, i'd like to take roll commission president. so present commissioner braun here. commissioner imperial here. and commissioner williams here. we expect commissioner campbell to join us shortly. and cssion vice president moore and commissioner mcgarry to be absent today. commissioners, first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. item one, case number 2023, hyphen 009469 drp at 77 broad street. discretionary review is proposed for continuance to january 16th, 2025. items two, a and b for case number 2024. hyphen 002517 drp at 246 buchanan street

discussed the discretionary review has been withdrawn, so the var or variance is proposed for continuance to the variance hearing on december 4th, 2024. further commissioners under your regular calendar. item ten case number 2024 hyphen 008952 pca development impact fees and requirements for nonresidential to residential conversion projects. planning code amendment is proposed for continuance to december 12th, 2024. item 11, case number 2024 hyphen 0056890th. the final office conversion and inventory information presentation. the zoning administrator found an error in the calculations and is requesting a continuance to january 9th, 2024. and finally, under your discretionary review calendar commissioners item 14, case number 2023 hyphen 011348

drp for the property at 1932 through 1934, jefferson street discretionary review is requesting a continuance to january 9th. i believe it is. let me just confirm that. yes. to january 9th, 2025. so your short agenda just got much shorter. with that, we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on any of these items proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your continuance calendar is now before you. commissioners commissioner imperial move to continue all items as proposed. second, thank you. commissioners on that motion to continue items as proposed. commissioner campbell,

high commissioner williams, high commissioner braun. president. so i so moved commissioners. that motion passes. you five zero and will place this under your nose real quick on item two. b as acting zoning administrator. continuing to be to december 4th. thank you. acting zoning administrator. with that, we can now move to your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff, so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing item. three case number 2024 hyphen 007913c ua at 1201 sutter street. unit 212 conditional use authorization item four for case number 2018 hyphen 012918 drm at 986 south

van ness avenue. the mandatory discretionary review will be pulled off of consent per the request of commissioner williams and considered under your regular calendar today. so we should take public comment on item three on consent. if any member of the public or commission wishes to remove item three off of consent, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and item three remains on your consent calendar. commissioners. commissioner. imperial move to approve item number three. second, thank you. commissioners, on that motion to approve item three on consent. commissioner campbell, high commissioner williams, high commissioner braun, high commissioner, imperial high and commission president. so i so move commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 5 to 0, placing us under commission matters. the for item five land acknowledgment. that's me. thank

you. it is. sorry. i apologize for being late. i will be reading the ramaytush ohlone acknowledgment. the commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you. item six consideration of

adoption. draft minutes for november seventh, 2020 for members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on their minutes. again, you need to come forward seeing none. public comment is closed and your minutes are now before you. commissioners. commissioner brown moved to adopt the minutes. second, thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt your minutes, commissioner campbell, high commissioner williams, i commissioner brown i. commissioner imperial i and commissioner president. so i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 5 to 0. item seven. commissioner comments and questions. if there are no comments or questions from the commissioners, we can move on to department matters. item eight director's announcements i have no announcements. item nine review of past events at the board of supervisors and the historic preservation commission. there is no report from the board of appeals. good afternoon. commissioners. aaron star, manager of legislative

affairs. this week, the land use committee continued two mayoral sponsored ordinances to december 2nd. the first was an ordinance. first ordinance was the impact fee waiver for changes of use from pdr to other uses. the second ordinance was the planning code and zoning map amendments for 30 venice. presumably, the impact fee was continued to allow for more community outreach. 30 venice was continued so that supervisor peskin could refine some additional conditions he wanted to add to the ordinance. the committee did take up the impact fee waiver for 524 to 530 howard street commissioners, you heard this item on consent on october 24th and voted to recommend approval at the land use hearing. there was no public comment and no significant comments from the committee members. the item was forwarded to the full board with a positive recommendation. also on the docket was the duplicated file for supervisor melgar's ordinance that would authorize increases to the affordable price and income limits for certain bmr units. this ordinance was duplicated at the committee so that supervisor peskin could add some additional

monitoring language to it. however, he was able to add that at the board hearing, making the duplicated file unnecessary. as a result, the committee voted to table the item, and then there was nothing of note at the full board this week. that's all i have for you. there are no questions of mr. starr. we can move. oh, there. the historic preservation commission did meet yesterday, and they considered the preservation design standards for the housing accountability act, which will be coming to you with their recommendation to adopt. they also heard 1035 howard street, which they continued to december 4th. and depending upon their action, will come to you on december 5th for your consideration. and then finally, they adopted the citywide historic context statement for large apartment buildings circa 1900 through 1978. commissioners that will place us under 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. when the number of speakers exceed the 15 minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. again, you need to come forward for general public comment for items not on today's agenda. seeing none, general public comment is closed and we can move on to your regular calendar. commissioners items ten and 11 have been continued, placing us on item 12 for case number 2024. hyphen 009286 ps for the property at 5172 mission street. this is an informational presentation project sponsor. you have five minutes. hi, commissioners. let me get this open as if govt. if we can go to the computer. hello, my name is

daniel perez. i'm the architect and mr. paris. if you could speak to the mic. is that better? yes, i'm the architect and my wife and i are the sponsors of this proposed construction. at 5172 mission. we've owned this property and operated our architecture business at this location for the past seven years. so we're quite familiar with the neighborhood. the project proposes to demolish what you see here is the existing two story commercial building, and replace it with a three story residential building with five dwelling units and four adus, for a total of nine new units. here are some images of the existing building. it's just kind of a small little office office space with a retail on the ground floor. the project is located within within the excelsior outer mission ncd near the busy intersection of mission and geneva, with a height limit of 65ft, plus an additional five feet for an active storefront. due to the narrow 25 foot width of the site, the project cannot efficiently provide two egress

stairs for this reason, the proposed construction provides a single stair with three story construction and a maximum of four units per floor. to comply with comply with the building code. this construction can be 100% wood framed, which reduces construction cost and complexit. the units range from 480 to 700ft!s, with private open space at roof decks and common open space at the rear yard. the units are modest, with single baths and simple kitchens, but also have high ceilings, allowing for mezzanines at each level. the unit interior ceilings are intended to create an exciting interior volume as a competitive edge in marketing the rentals. the building would provide elevator and ada accessibility. the proposed construction also provides a large matching lightwell to the north, adjacent to the neighboring buildings. large lightwell. the proposed units are imagined as sort of a beehive of entry level and student housing being located near major transit lines on mission street, city college, the freeway, and the balboa bart station. the units would be preferred as rentals, but also condo mapped in case of market

changes. while these are market rate units, they are not proposed as high end or luxury units in this neighborhood. having owned and operated our business at this location for seven years now, we're very familiar with the neighborhood and we're excited to pursue this project. if that concludes your presentation. thank you. we should open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this matter. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. and this matter is now before you. commissioners, this is an sb 423 informational presentation. commissioner williams, thank you. this this proposed project is right by very familiar with this. i pass by it every day. i grew up in excelsior. i just a comment. i was under the impression that someone was living upstairs and it was an attorney, an attorney

out of the second floor in the 50s, john lenk, and he ran his office there until he passed away, and we purchased it from his family when he passed. so there's no residential on site. yeah. because i, you know, agai, i've, i've seen a car parked there most of the time. my car in the driveway is your is your car my little audi. yeah. that's always okay i work there full time. you work in the store next door. the boat. well, the botanica rents from me on the first floor. they sell the candles and everything. i'm on the second floor with my architectural practice. oh, you're on the second floor? yeah, with architecture practice. yeah. so it's all commercial. so maybe it was you that i saw. it was probably me all the time. i've been there for seven years. more than full time on weekends. okay. i just wanted to clear that up because, you know, it does look residential, but it's never been used. residential. yeah, it does look residential with the front stairs and the garage there. and so yeah. yeah, i mean i would welcome anybody to come see the office. it's a, it's a nice little studio, a little beehive

of an architect. thank you for clearing that up. sure, commissioner campbell. sure. thank you. thanks for the presentation. at a high level. i mean, this is information only, but i think it's great we're taking, you know, a relatively insignificant piece of commercial real estate and bringing some much needed housing units to the market. so that's great. i have just a couple of minor questions. i think, in terms of the activated storefront on the ground floor, it's labeled as lobby in your drawings. i was just curious what the plan is for the ground originally wanted a retail like a little coffee shop would be ideal. we've got kind of a pass through. you can see through the building into the rear yard, and we imagine this as kind of like a little pedestrian street. but egress with a 25 foot wide site, you need two means of getting in and out for fire and for emergencies. so we have to have a lobby and an exit. and if we try to carve this, try to carve out any retail space, it ends up being eight feet wide. it's a the original drawings i've been drawing this for seven years, had retail. i was intending to

actually operate a coffee shop myself there, but it just there's no way to force all of that into this, into this little storefront. it's just not possible. so it becomes an active lobby, which we're hoping will be treated as maybe some kind of pop up. things could happen there, but it's not allowed to have a separate use. it's an exit path and the other tradesmen, it's not a tradesman's hall, but the other path is an exit path also. that'll be required. good luck with that. that sounds that sounds like some clever workarounds. i also was just curious. this is more for my own education around adus versus studio apartments, and when do we? it's just for my own education, right? like when does an adu become a studio apartmen? adus are just an entirely different code section, so it's usually more it's less about the size of the space and the number of bedrooms or lack of bedrooms, but more about a density exceedance. and we have a couple different programs in san

francisco. we have a local program, and then there's basically two state programs that apply in san francisco. and so really for the most part, people are either using adus when they're exceeding prescribed density in a density controlled district, or if you cannot otherwise. so adus have different code requirements for things like exposure and open space. there's sort of a reduced amount that's allowed. so usually the zoning administrator's direction has said that instead of just asking for a dwelling unit with a variance, if there's a code compliant path to providing a unit. so if you switch that unit to an adu and now you've got code compliant open space because it's a smaller amount of open space, you should go the adu path. so you don't need to ask for a variance. so that's the only instance where you're really within density. but choosing the adu. but it really has nothing to do. we've seen adus that are like three bedroom adus, four bedroom adus. so there's not a size limitation. that's really helpful. thank yo. so you had called out how you're going to achieve your open space. and my understanding is

adus do not require open space, but the units do. and it looked like on your plans on sheet 202 and 203 that the balconies are assigned to the adus. there are. yeah. i mean, we would prefer to have open space for, for all the units. so we've provided as much as we possibly can fit on this little site. so there are four private decks on the roof deck. there's a rear yard that's a common open space. and there are a couple of balconies on the on a lower level. so it's kind of everywhere. we can get open space. we want it. so there was no intention to circumvent the open space that's required for a unit. it's just we do need to take advantage of some of these waivers for, for density to get the units to get nine units over the five, that would normally only be allowed in the site. so there's yeah, we do want open space and would prefer to have it. otherwise i think it's a great project. thank you very much. sure. commissioner williams just just was wondering what happened to the botanica that was there, the small business still there. it's still there? yeah. she she and her family run that and they run

tortas next door and the grill. they have three businesses on the street. yeah, they're always down there. they're great family. we. so what's going to happen to that business. so the business is going to have to leave. and i've talked to them about it. when i bought the building seven years ago, i told them that the intention was at some point to develop this into something else. i'd originally thought with the idea of the retail space that there would be some way to get some retail, but there's just no way to there's no way to get it to work to bring them back in so they are aware. so it's going to get displaced. yes yes yes okay. ye. but there are there are a lot of empty storefronts on the street. have, have they tried to get another space in the area. do you know they haven't. this is this is probably two years out from even becoming an issue. oh yeah. so this is not something even if we can get a planning approvals, if it even happened in six months, the building departments at least another six months and financing, we're probably we're talking about, you know, a minimum of 18 months, probably two years to actually any kind of kick off. and they're on they're on a

lease. so they, they stay on a lease. so we wouldn't displace them without advising them. okay. yeah. just just wondering you know, it's a small business. it's going to get displaced. is there any is there any things in the works to help them try to get another space rather than just, you know, i have we haven't reached out. this is all starting to happen right now. so we negotiate a new lease with them every year. so at the point where we decide we're going to have a project that would be part of the lease negotiation, as you know, are there any concessions we can give or, you know, to let them know that we have to leave and give them advance notice? so we would definitely be giving them advance notice. we're friends with their family, so it's not a that's that's good to be adversarial. i appreciate that. they've been fantastic i appreciate that. but i'm concerned about like maybe you helping them or is there is there that kind of conversation

going that maybe you can since you know, you're displacing that business? is there is there a chance that you can kind of help them along? maybe get another space or or those kind of conversations? i'd be willing to help them. yeah. look for other spaces. sure. yeah, yeah. oh, okay. good. thank you i appreciate that. that's no problem. thank you. okay. thank you. commissioner williams. thank you for bringing us this project. and i do have a few comments in regards to your description about the lobby that you can't find any use for. and i'd like to hear a little bit more about it, because it looks like you also designed to have a spiral stair to have a mezzanin. this lobby space is kind of pretty generous, even though your overall building footprint is pretty narrow. so i think that this is like a grand lobby

even for a size of this condo. so what is the actual intent use of this lobby like a hangout lounge for the for the tenants, like a place for them to congregate. there's not a lot of other than that rear yard space that's outdoors. it's kind of an interior lounge. i mean, you see a lot of a lot of developments or multi-family homes providing a kind of like a common area for people to hang out and, and congregate. so that's what it would be used for. it would be it would have furniture and art, and we couldn't use it for a retail use because of the exiting issue, but we could use it for common area for the building. that's the intention. i mean, i would strongly urge you to consider engage with maybe even like pop up. yeah, retail. we'd be excited to get some kind of the vibrancy of this corridor on the street. i'd like to get a rotating artist or group of artists to come in and put art on the walls, you know,

changing it out every month or two. and we want it to feel like an active, exciting space. so that's what that's intended to be. thank you. want to put it on the record? i highly encourage you to engage and bring this back some type of vibrancy for storefront in general. the design is pretty nice. thank you. my other question is that the back storage room, what you propose, how does it actually comply with the rear yard setback in the ncd district? you're allowed to if there's no residential at that level, you're allowed to take the entire floor. that lowest unit is an adu, which has a reduced exposure requirement. so technically under the under the zoning. this hasn't been reviewed by planning yet. that's guess that's the problem with this process is we're doing this. and now it's going to go to planning which it should have gone to planning first. and then we come and do this. we could talk about it. so i think that's going to be something that

planning and i are going to be talking about at some point, but we need to get bike parking in and rather than outdoor, you know, we want to have like a again, it's more common area for the building. it's kind of like a place to put your bikes and any other kind of storage things you would have in that space back there. that's the intention of it. okay. well, thank you for your information. sure. thank you. anyone else? oh, commissioner williams. this is a so we're a small business is being displaced here on the mission street corridor. and i'm just wondering, is there any recourse for this small business planning director hillis, is there anything that's in place now that obviously this this project is using the sb 423? and so here we are with a with something getting, getting going through, going through that path

and the small businesses getting displaced. and i'm wondering what what the recourse is for that small business if any. yeah. right now none. but for 23 doesn't change that right. i mean there's no commercial rent control. they have a lease. they could terminate the lease if they so choose. whether 423 is part of this project or not. i mean, there is as you know, there were interim controls put in place where a icu would be required if you're if you're a legacy business once occupied that space. but that's not the case here. so i mean 423 doesn't necessarily change the rules. but but yeah, it's one of it's one of the issues we're looking at to as part of the rezoning. yeah. what sb 330 has some relocation requirements and payments made. but again that doesn't apply here. right. and i'm just bringing it up because you know, as as more folks opt to use sb 423 in the future,

this i think this this type of scenario is going to becoming more and more frequent. and i'm just i'm just a you know, i'm concerned about small business, especially on these corridors. they're vital to the community. and we need to protect them as much as possible. so i just wanted to highlight that. thank you. commissioner williams, if i might add, ab 2011 is a similar ministerial program that's provided for by the state. and that law does provide for commercial relocation assistance. but as you noted, this is a 423 project. it's a different entitlement path. so any controls, any local controls related to commercial displacement would have to be consistent with state law. and i

guess i'll just for clarity, you know, the general presumption is that local governments cannot impose any form of commercial rent control. so i mean, if there's a business that gets displaced, we i mean, can we help that business through legislation, through cit legislative options that exist outside of the planning code. you know, there's the legacy business program, the office of small business. there are other parts of the city that can operate to help small businesses. but as a land use, commercial rent control is generally outside of that responsibility. and again, regardless of the development, i mean, you know, there's at least situation here. the property owner does not have to renew that lease, whether there's a development or not. i mean, i know your question is getting to, you know, is the development instigating the kind of this issue with the tenant? but the

rules are kind of the same, whether there's a development or not. there's you know, the ability for the landowner to not or the property owner not to continue with that commercial lease. and i said, 330, i meant to say ab 2011 has this relocation payment. and again, we're looking to possibly mimic that when we do the rezoning. but it kind of, you know, you run into issues. they could they could choose to, you know, not renew a lease now and then come in six months later with a development application. so some of the things we want to come talk to you about as part of the rezoning. okay. thank you. i was wondering if you were mentioning about the lobby are not able to become any retail use. i'm just looking at your drawing. i wonder if you can consider rearranging that exit stairs on the opposite side of the elevator. so then to allow unit

101 to actually get out from there. so then you don't need so that might solve your exiting issue. then the lobby space could be then used as some type of retail. i still need to. i still need two ways in and out. so even if i move that stair and i've drawn that before, it's still this becomes a much more exciting kind of entry. that pedestrian entry path there into a stair that kind of leads you into the building and up. it's an open stair that's open to the outside. so the stair is not enclosed. if we were to bury the stair, it just turns it into kind of like a kind of a dismal stairwell, as opposed to taking advantage of the light from the, the shared light. well. and the, the, the opening to the sky, rather than becoming a kind of like a, you know, a crummy light, crummy stairwell. we're hoping to make it kind of interesting and do some kind of green wall or some kind of mural on the face of the elevator wall that goes up the building there. do something interesting. sorry. and to landscape that area below the stair there also. so there's

a whole whole bunch of ideas we have for that. i would love to get retail. and i drew this with retail and parking. i tried parking for a while and i gave up on parking and i gave up. it was just with the current, the current building codes and fire codes. if they do create an ordinance for a single stair buildings, which they're talking about, and if they're able to create single stair buildings without the same requirements for bedroom egress and primary ingress, it's possible something like that could happen. and you can start to marry potentially retail with with an exiting scheme. but with the current building code, there's just not a simple way to do it. and you really would end up with like an eight foot storefront. i mean, it's just it's almost just an afterthought, understand? all right. well, i trust that you will try your best as a licensed architect to embrace these elements that we just talked about. all of us mentioned, definitely. and i hope that through the evolution of the permitting process and legislation and that we come into some light in the tunnel for us. yes. thank you for being here today. does any one of you have further comments? okay. thank you. thank you. okay,

commissioners, with that we can move on to item four which was pulled off of consent and will be taken up now for case number 2018. hyphen 012918 drm for the property at 986 south venice avenue. this is a mandatory discretionary review. good afternoon, commissioners ada tan, department staff. the item before you today is a mandatory discretionary review of building permit number 2018 09140274 for 986 south venice avenue. unfortunately, the owner is currently in urgent care and has tested positive for covid and no one else from the project team is available to join us today. so i will be presenting

the facts as we understand it on their behalf. due to the time sensitivity of this matter, the project is requesting to modify the elected method of compliance for the inclusionary housing program from providing on site units to payment of the in lieu fee. the project originally requested to change tenure from rental to ownership. as part of this daca request, but the property owner has decided to rescind that change and proceed with an owner project as previously approved. on december 14th, 2020, the subject building permit was issued to construct the five story building with 15 dwelling units in the residential transit oriented mission zoning district. the subject building is fully constructed, but it has not been occupied and the owner is working towards obtaining final inspections as part of the original planning approval, the project was required to provide two below market rate units on site to satisfy the inclusionary requirements. at the time of approval, the owner also agreed

to provide one voluntary bmr unit. due to the current market conditions, the project is now proposing to modify the elected method for satisfying the inclusionary obligation through payment of the in lieu fee, which requires commission approval pursuant to planning code section 415 point 5g3, no other changes are being sought under this mandatory discretionary review request. to date, the department has heard from one neighborhood group, united, to save the mission usm regarding the proposed changes over the past few months, the owner has been working with the usm to identify a nonprofit to purchase and operate the building as affordable housing. the owner will continue to work with the usm in good faith towards selling the property through the end of the year. if a potential buyer is identified and can finance the sale of the project, the nonprofit owner would work with the department to administratively memorialize the change from a market rate project to an affordable project. if the project cannot be sold to a nonprofit approving this mandatory application

before you today would allow the owner to pay the in lieu fee and avoid foreclosure. the department recommends that the commission take discretionary review and approve the changes to building permit 2018 09140274, with the modification and conditions to allow the conversion from on site to fee, the project will remain compliant with the planning code, including the inclusionary housing requirements under section 415. this concludes my presentation. i'm joined today by the housing implementation manager, carly grove, and we are available to answer any questions that you may have. thank you, thank you. as stated, the project sponsor is not available, but we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. this matter is now before you commissioners. commissioner williams, thank yo.

i just wanted to hear a little bit more about this project. it was last week. it was in for discretionary review. then it got on the consent calendar. and so thank you for your presentation and so the owner. so i have just a follow up question. the owner is in conversation with neighborhood groups to purchase the property. is that right. yes. so the property owner is in conversation with the usm and they're looking for a nonprofit. so hopefully purchase the property. nothing has been secured yet, but over the next month or so they are working that out. is there i mean that probably would be best case scenario given the need for affordable units. and then there's also as far as the units

being rental or condos is there could you clarify that. yes. so the project was approved as an ownership project initially the as part of this daca request, the owner wanted to go ahead and switch to a rental tenure. again. i think that was due to the market conditions, but now they no longer have that as part of their request. i believe the need to continue as an ownership is due to some of the loan conditions that they might have, but right now that's not on the table. and then just another fact is that if the project is approved today to go from a in lieu fee, the project could change tenure without requiring commission approval. and they could do that administratively. working with the department. okay. thank you very much. commissioner brown. i, i echo commissioner williams comments that the ideal and best outcome of all of this would be that the property is purchased by a

nonprofit operator, and it becomes deed restricted, 100% affordable housing. it. my impression of the situation is that the property owner has been diligently and straightforwardly working with united way of the mission and appeared to have a very sincere desire originally to have the on site affordable units on the property. so i'm i'm hopeful. you know, i can't control for this, but i'm hopeful the property owner will continue to work with usm, and hopefully we can find a good resolution from this. but in the meantime, if none of that works out, the in lieu fee payment is an option that is afforded to them. we have control. you know, authorization over that. but it is an option. and at least that that funding can be leveraged to produce 100% affordable housing deed restricted units elsewhere and to tap into other funding sources. so i am i am comfortable approving this and so i, i moved to approve or i'm sorry as a doctor i moved to

take doctor and approve with conditions. second. there's nothing further commissioners. there is a motion that has been seconded to approve to take doctor and approve with conditions on that motion, commissioner campbell, high commissioner williams, high commissioner brown, high commissioner, imperial i and commission president. so i so move commissioners motion passes unanimously 5 to 0 commissioners that will now place us on the final item on your agenda today. number 13, case number 2023 hyphen 007106 coa for the property at 1126 shafter avenue. this is a conditional use authorization. good afternoon. commission president, ceo, and commissioners, i'm maggie lausch, planning department staff presenting a request for conditional use authorization pursuant to planning code sections two, 10.3 and 303 to establish an industrial agriculture use for the purposes

of cannabis cultivation. doing business as herb hp in an existing vacant industrial building at 1126 shafter avenue within a pdr two zoning district. i am not confident the sponsor is here today. you're not by chance. okay. okay. thank you. the project would involve interior tenant improvements, including the legalization of a mezzanine and no exterior work. the use will be located entirely indoors, as required by the planning code and other cannabis regulations. since the staff report was published, the department has received five comments opposing the project. comments focused on the number of cannabis related businesses in the bayview-hunters point neighborhood, and the impact of such businesses on the low income, immigrant and senior population populations in the area. the project finds that the project or the sorry, the department finds that the project meets all requirements of the planning code and is on

balance, consistent with the policies of the general plan. the proposed light industrial use is consistent with the pdr two zoning district and with the pattern of land uses in this site's immediate vicinity. the project will improve the streetscape and safety conditions by providing lighting and surveillance, and will contribute to the economic vitality of the neighborhood by activating a vacant industrial space. therefore, the department recommends approval. excuse me. approval. this concludes my presentation, but i am certainly here. if you have any questions. thank you, thank you. i will call for the project sponsor, but given the number of continuances and the early hour in our hearing, i can understand why. maybe they're not here. there were members of the community who requested translation services, which is present. i will call for public comment if there is any. there's no public comment. public

comment is closed and this matter is now before you commissioners. commissioner brown yes, i just have one clarifying question about the project. so maybe i'm misremembering something, but there was a notice of violation about the unpermitted construction work for that upper level. right. so that's correct. there was a mezzanine, a second level really added without permits or sort of beyond the scope of an approved permit. and at this property, the project is proposing to reduce the size of that second floor so that it can actually meet our definition of a mezzanine, which is less than a third floor area coverage and sort of open visuals. so it remains a one story building. this is important in this area because a certain floor to ceiling height is required for industrial structures, or you would need a variance to reduce that. and so you know, it was

asserted in the staff report that this space was is vacant, or maybe it was the sponsor letter, i don't recall, but the plans for the as built condition show that upper floor is being. it doesn't say it's not vacant, but it does kind of specify that that as built condition right now is a grow room currently. so is it vacant correct. it's not. it's vacant in the most legal in the insofar as an existing use, there is not an established existing use on the site. however, there is also a dbi nof on the property and someone has in the past operated a cannabis cultivation here without any permits. that was, as far as we understand it, a different business operator than the person currently proposing and seeking permits to do the same type of business at the site. but as far as we understand it, a different, different.

operator. thank you for clarifying that. yeah, okay. that it gives me some comfort knowing that it's probably at least a different operator, because i was a little confused as to how it got built this way, if it wasn't actually currently being used for cannabis, so that that explanation makes a lot, i will say the office of cannabis has this person or has this applicant in the equity applicant like new business operator track. they are not in the separate track for shifting former businesses into new legal office of cannabis operations like medical dispensaries and things of that nature. okay. thank you for answering those questions. so i'm comfortable approving this and i'm not seeing any other commissioners. hands up. i'm going to make a motion to approve with conditions. second. there's nothing further. commissioners.

there's a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion. commissioner campbell i commissioner williams i commissioner brown i commissioner imperial i commission president. so i so move commissioners. that motion passes unanimously and concludes your extremely short hearing today. meeting adjourned. thank you. wow.

>> some of the neighborhood in d8 are the castro and glen park and noe valley and diamond heights and coal valley. >> hello, i'm supervisor mandelman the supervisor representing d8 the board of supervisors. >> i had also been interested in politics and puck life and group in san francisco and when i was in high school i had a 13wrir78 with periphery on the board of supervisors. and as i got involved in um, in local affairs hi was grown up at the some point make sense to run so i did. >> so you had i was running in no charge back. focused on homeless and the mental health

issues as priorities for me and the district. my mom suffered from mental illness for a big county executive of hero adult life got sick when us very sick my was 10 or 11 years old i move to san francisco she was not able to take care of of me by my grandmother i followed her life and try to help her anti she on the other hand, she lived institutions and board cares in homelessness shelters for a period of time and i thought there are folks with those sits needs have informed my governance and priorities as an office official. >> last year the governor newsom and senator egg that man and the pushed proposition one

on the ballot in march this is a big involvement in um, in housing and treatment for people with serious mental illness proposition one it is a very large bond 6 nature billion dollars for housing, and bed placement and wake facilities for people with severe mental illness we have utilized to have stated hospitals we closed those for this is the most significant involvement california made in replacing the state hospitals with something better and more community-based organizations and anyone on the streets of san francisco schizophrenia see folks with really needs and i hoping that prop one with implementing it in san francisco will help us to better meet the

needs of some pretty sick folks i think the country clubhouses the castro is known for a number of things a place where camera shops and where the queer civil rights movement and the political rights started in the decades and known for a study session for queer people a lot of that is about bar the great night life that's great a darker side to that there is a lot of addiction in the queer community. and overflow room when we were founded in 198 three were a coffee house was helping folks to recover from the especially department of defense of aids crises over time the last 41 years has changed and now we are be a nonprofits have the focus on the queer

recovery community that's our focus but the center is on to everybody. we hosted 46 in-person board groups a week raping if crystal clear collaboratives anomalies and overeaters and undocumented children of alcoholics recovery and smart recovery we try to cater to the entire community d all the things they meet needs welfare from folks need a community of support to heal from substance abuse given the circumstances folks will need a place to go and meet forensics and hang out and get supportive services and then have a place where we can just be that's the magic that happens here the

magic of san francisco community-based organizations small and mighty are doing work to help people move forward. >> i benefit from this because when i have questions about substance abuse disorders or tilly chang the challenges i can turn total folks at the country club have lived the experiences with the addictions and will tell me what will work or likely to work. >> with variety is another

great castro institution. 1ur7 commitment for the neighborhood. at a time when retailed is struggling not only in san francisco but around the country a beloved it store provides jobs for folks in the neighborhood a if a family has seen is transitioned in the neighborhood were here when it was, you know, more issuing working class a neighborhood and then they saw and welcomed all the queer folks coming into the neighborhood and really changing the neighborhood and embraced now- >> (multiple voices). >> we started it was started in 1936 by my grandfather and evolved with the neighborhoods over the years my great grandfather in the tenderloin

and while i was recovering fixing stuff in the back of his hardware store and the, fix anything. >> when you walk into my store you're walking into the most fantastic you've ever been in creative by board games and toys and when all of a sudden you're in hardware and hours ware and you're greeted by ice lashes and fabric and every gift. >> (laughter) a throw back to a time a general store go to one store for anything ranging from our drag state you multi-family dwelling unit need for some party or performance to um, something you

need for 6 to fix our sewers or walls or to repaint. or maybe just a gift to thank someone for a holiday or birthday all the stuff and (laughter). >> we are an improvement of we don't have if you don't need it limiting we have everything except for food and cloths and every neighborhood in san francisco is struggling somewhat with the impact of our failures to successfully address the millennials of our people i look 10 or 20 years into the future i think it will be right is about e will be brighter to the extent we found a way to meet the needs of people with addicts to the mint mental health that impacts people walking around the

neighborhood and i hope today, i think walking around in in san francisco neighborhoods people have to been, you know, why are we not doing a better job of caring four those people my hope that 10 or 20 years in from now my work and others would have to constantly ask that question that will now allow for a flushing of those neighborhoods. >> those are beautiful neighborhoods with beautiful buildings and views and we just have to might the needs of human beings kind of left behind on the sidewalks and in the carrier

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities,

symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place.

we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and

thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through

all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives. >> madam secretary, would you take roll? >> president stacy, here. vice president arce, here. commissioner jamdar, here. commissioner leveroni, here. you have quorum. >> thank you. before calling the first item, i like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost r