madam chair and thank you for clairnd it item today, i want to thank the planning staff monique mohan and thank our nonprofit affordable housing partners who the ones that built the affordable housing that worked with us on the legislation or supported it mercy housing, bridge housing and larkin street and the booker t. washington community service and colleagues this legislation makes it easier and faster and less expensive to build affordable housing in san francisco as you may know and we have a lot of various policy disputes in this building but one thing we agree on we are in the midst a go housing crisis the voters time and again have's told his overwhelmingly they want more affordable housing and they want it yesterday the housing trust funds prop c passed overwhelmingly to create a fund more affordable housing last november the affordable housing bond prop a passed overwhelmingly this first affordable housing bond to pass in many, many years as mayor ed lee and our board supervisor president london breed announced last month there is a working group look at the inclusionary ho

lot of testimonies about aspects of this i want to get that on the table one way that plays out monique mohan for helping me f the district 3 map is rich that with the zones that is confused that the eligibility but take away the filters at the end of the a smaller subset that potentially takes advantage and beyond that didn't it make financial sense for an existing owner or buyer of one of these to get the density bonus, if you will, but to provide in trade thirty percent of the affordable level and again, the financial analysis report many of the sites that makes an different but not a win fall that's how we did the financial analysis just barley enough economic incentive to justify thirty percent affordable units so i think i'll kind of - oh, many other issues but a couple of big ones that came up one has to do with with whether the state law around density bonus actually applies to san francisco on the xhoungsz with the city attorney the state law certainly applies to us as to what effects the decision makers choose to do on a project review is a different question but there's a legal mat

madam chair and thank you for clairnd it item today, i want to thank the planning staff monique mohan thank our nonprofit affordable housing partners who the ones that built the affordable housing that worked with us on the legislation or supported it mercy housing, bridge housing and larkin street and the booker t. washington community service and colleagues this legislation makes it easier and faster and less expensive to build affordable housing in san francisco as you may know and we have a lot of various policy disputes in this building but one thing we agree on we are in the midst a go housing crisis the voters time and again have's told his overwhelmingly they want more affordable housing and they want it yesterday the housing trust funds prop c passed overwhelmingly to create a fund more affordable housing last november the affordable housing bond prop a passed overwhelmingly this first affordable housing bond to pass in many, many years as mayor ed lee and our board supervisor president london breed announced last month there is a working group look at the inclusionary housin

. >> without further ado, i'll introduce monique mohan. >> hello monique department staff planner forhe hpc team i'll cover the planning approval for the projects note i'll refer to the process for simple city some concerns that the projects don't have adequate input for the commission review and in particular raising questions about the conditional use and the ability to make modifications for the design of the building clearly that was the subject of concern as the case report outlines there is very times change to the overall producing process and the review remains the same, in fact, the authority is enhanced in some cases and underlying land use is in place the approval process for example, figure a parcel zoning didn't allow a 72 hour the underlying process will continue in a project. >> so as drafted section didn't reduce public input for projects stimulated under the program a preapplication meeting and review in fact, the local program increases the public input they require a commission hearing should a project have a consultants as a cu the commission will conditithe rease

. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is monique mohan planning staff i'm here to ask adoption changes for the upper market commercial district before i begin someone from supervisor wiener's will be here. >> good afternoon on this on behalf of the supervisor wiener's briefly the the item before you provides an opportunity for an existing use the planning code we allowed the project sponsor working closely with the organization and craft the controls bra you today that explicit explicitly legalize the use but provide a path though the - the triangle neighborhood association and potrero castro and the castro upper market have sponsored this and briefly in terms of staffs recommendations it is reasonable to me the only concern we have one of the recommendations was expend those controls to the limited restaurant as well i think on the face of it we were open to considering that that has not been part of discussions with the neighborhood we'll be reluctant but we're open to be back thank you. >> currently in the european market street the commercial the mtc requires the conditional use to

. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is monique mohan planning staff i'm here to ask adoption changes for the upper market commercial district before i begin someone from supervisor wiener's will be here. >> good afternoon on this on behalf of the supervisor wiener's briefly the the item before you provides an opportunity for an existing use the planning code we allowed the project sponsor working closely with the organization and craft the controls bra you today that explicit explicitly legalize the use but provide a path though the - the triangle neighborhood association and potrero castro and the castro upper market have sponsored this and briefly in terms of staffs recommendations it is reasonable to me the only concern we have one of the recommendations was expend those controls to the limited restaurant as well i think on the face of it we were open to considering that that has not been part of discussions with the neighborhood we'll be reluctant but we're open to be back thank you. >> currently in the european market street the commercial the mtc requires the conditional use to

. >> sure can i provide a clarification i think what our agreeing monique mohan if the planning staff they come with the building rail and don't know what the retail space so the section 329; right? and if that new - if project got approved and built a new retail space that will come back before us of a conditional use will be required as cu. >> but part of project will we be allowed to say no because of the mcd not because of the bonus the bonus is bundled. >> it requires a cu it still requires a cu. >> a conditional use. >> it requires the consolidated disappointment process if the cu is triggered but that somewhere happens the project sponsor knew sorry - from the project sponsor know considering knew coming out the process that would be a mcd and conditional use is required you commission has to make the vmgd its necessary and desirable and as part of whole process thank you. >> commissioner wu has a question and i know you want to give you a little bit of a followup but suggest if we end up continuing to the next item there are multi spurs to this thing i think we what have a sep