commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: before i make the motion, did anyone want to mention about a timeline for number one? >> i'm comfortable keeping it at that timeline if obviously sunshine requests are on a different calendar, but there are set days when they have to be responded to, but i think when we hear the item, if there is issues, we can continue it again. >> ok, motion to continue items number 1, 2, 3, 12 a and 16 to the dates specified. >> second. >> president hillis: 4 also withdrawn, do we have to approve that? >> also including item number 4. there is a motion seconded to continue matters as proposed. commissioner koppel? aye hillis, aye. motion passes unanimously, 5-0. on the variance side, 12-b continuing indefinitely for 1555 union street. >> thank you, zoning administrator. commissioners place this under matter for item 5, draft minutes for december 14, 2017. >> any public comment on the draft minutes? >> hello, i want to comment on the draft minutes for the 21s of december gene

or commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: let me acknowledge my predecessor, in your years of service up here, good to see you back in the room. now on to the project, just going down the list of bullet points, this is something that a lot of us can not really argue with. replacement of an existing goes station. not only on site bmr, but the additional extra bmr. transit-oriented development in the mission, which has its two-part stations. a local, family owns, multigenerational teller. and these are more likely to build their projects, instead of what we're encountered with and not knowing where the project will go after here. >> commissioner johnson? >> commissioner johnson: thank you. sorry about the mixup there. thank you. i appreciated a lot of things about this project. commissioner koppel mentioned a few of them. but i do have a couple of questions and i will start with those and i will see other commissioners and see where we end up. it's a state density bonus project and we're subject to state

commissioner koppel? >> i'm in support also. i see the franklins and vannesses that are going to be better travelled, that might be a better location of a grocery store, but due to the length of the vacancy and this spot, that it does have a potential tenant, i'm supportive. >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i'd like to ask mr. lindsey or perhaps the director from the medical center to speak about waste disposal and to hear about what you're going to do to make it compatible with residential. >> we're what is considered a small waste generator by the city of san francisco, and we have permits for that. it is 95% sharps containers. we contract with stericycle. we keeped them bagged up, and they come once a week and collect it. we have red bag waste. there's no radio activity. i know some of the neighbors had asked about that. >> how about your comment about overnight stay? that is something which concerned me a little bit because overnight stay in any kind of facility requires a different kind of bac

. >> commissioner koppel: we saw two projects tonight. one that was almost a no-brainer. zero units to four. our next item was on saturn. almost equal size house, one unit. so that was almost just as easy as a decision for us. this is not as much of a no-brainer because there's an existing house there. but one thing that pops up in my mind is the proximity to bart and the fact that for planning purposes, we should be densifying near the bart stations. it doesn't have a four-car garage or anything like that. it's a four-unit building, which is -- if you think about it, it will make it more affordable than it would be if it stays as-is. and proximity to bart is putting me over the fence on this one. it wouldn't be the end of the world if it was continued, but i'm supporting the project as-is. >> commissioner richards: we talked last night and we talked about the dominos falling and this will be the first of the entire street and then there goes the entire street. and i asked you to provide us with a look at what the street looks like even though i've been there. this would

commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: i was just about to make a motion to approve. do you need anything? >> commissioner moore: no. i wanted to acknowledge the thoughtful discussion about picking up the question and discussing it is important rather than just glossing over it. the person that asked the question and that we discussed it it. >> president hillis: and taking into account the revised motion we had today in front of us. >> second. >> if there is nothing further, a motion seconded tie prove this matter with conditions as amended and submitted by staff. [roll call] so moved. motion passes unanimously. >> president hillis: and commissioner johnson is here. >> commissioner johnson: aye. >> motion passes unanimously 6-0. that will place us at discretionary review cal ander. 590 leland avenue. you continued this matter to march 2, 2017, but a vote of 4-2. commissioners johnson and koppel against. commissioner fong, you were absent. you continued this matter indefinitely then by a vote of 6-0. on november 2, without hearing, continued this matter to january 18,

. >> commissioner koppel: a couple of questions. i like what i see. i do know that the group has been a good neighbor in the neighborhood and would like to see them grow and consolidate the resources here to san francisco. to echo some of the opposition and not to single this project out in any way, how do you see the parking situation kind of playing out, not just here, but we do know that the city is getting den getting densified and it's a big city. how do you see the parking situation playing out with longstanding businesses already there? >> well, first and foremost, we're going to have 1,000 students not drive, taking transit. they will be co-located. so we think that's a big thing. your question is timely because i came from an all-staff meeting today, where we announced our participation in the mission bay transit district, the launch of our go bikes and the carpool lane participation of scoops. we expect by co-locating the students, it's a living-learning environment. and that helps right out of the gate. and secondly, we have a very high pop

. >> commissioner koppel: to what extent could this parcel be brought out to or what is rm1 and zoning in this parcel specifically. >> what the zoning restrictions are for rm1, it's no more than three units, three dwelling units per parcel or one per 800 square feet of lot area. so it would be held to the same restrictions in addition to the neighborhood notification, whether they conduct a lot merger or not. >> commissioner koppel: so you could separately build or is the intent to merge it? >> the intent was not made clear by the appellant, so the appellant could move forward to merge the parcels or they could keep them separate. >> commissioner koppel: what is the maximum build-out? >> it will be dictated by many factors including residential design guidelines. there would be a 40-foot height limit and 3-unit per lot and/or one unit for 800 square feet. >> president hillis: how big is the parcel -- if you combine the three parcels? >> the appellant's current parcel, the gray slice, is before 2,291. the crescent-shaped parcel is 4,500 square feet. and i don't have an accurate measurem

and the koppel came along and he was also a prisoner brutal man called ten. and he called out to us who was a good runner. jumped out of line right away and said reporting for duty sir we had to do everything the military style. one gives our credit married we go. i'm a good runner sir. and he said to me ok you're my runner. lawyer. think of that and go with me and then he said remember you report to me when ever somebody comes into this camp you look around the camp and find me i had to run through the entire camp and it was a kilometer long. that protected you for a while but you did witness atrocities against other prisoners tell us about some of the things you saw. you know i. did see extreme cruelty. you heard me i survived obviously. here's one example. i thought. when i was arrested an officer was standing next to me. his name was packard. and he was with the how shreds gestapo. and. i knew they had brought a young girl to him. she'd tried to escape i mean. this gestapo officer grabbed the girl by the hair. and pulled her up. she had red hair and was a

commissioner koppel? >> move to continue items one, two and three with the date of march 29 for 3a and b. and item number 15 to a hearing after february 16. >> that would be february 22. >> so, february 22. >> second. >> very good, commissioners. there is a motion that has been seconded to continue matters as proposed, specifically items 3a and b to march 29. and item 15 for polk street to february 22, 2018. on that motion, commissioner fong? [roll call] so move, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. the acting zoning administrator could continue item 3b. >> yeah. i'll continue item 3b to march 29 as well. thank you. >> thank you. commissioners, that will place us under your consent cal. all matters listed here under constituted consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission and pay be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff, so requests in whic

commissioner koppel. >> >> thank you. i think it's a great combination of multiple usages like the activating ground floor. i like the attention paid to the existing tenants which is very important and the comments made by the director the intent is to take students that sometimes take up other housing units and put them in other house. -- housing. >> >> commissioner: commissioner moore. >> i think it's great to start finding that part and with the aaa building revitalized it the help bring market street to civic center and the art across the street. i think it couldn't be any better and it reaches over in the east-west direction. it was a fabulous project and i'm excited and today we're talking about the resolution to initiate the general plan and make a motion we do so and if there's any other question for comments about unit design to hold that. >> i'll second that. >> commissioner: i think we have to schedule the adoption hearing after february as part of the portion. >> yes. >> commissioner: if so i juth we -- >> com

russia is not going to be shying away from dialogue we spoke just in the last hour to a guest gregory koppel who suggested that this really was about the u.s. playing catch up trying to make its own forces as as modern as russia certainly has and also in china and that's that's a word modernization that was used by the u.s. defense secretary what is the doctrine actually promising well another word used by the u.s. defense secretary was fundamental. this is how he characterized this modernization that he's been talking about and mostly the pentagon is going to be focusing on space on cyber security and on its nuclear program so in terms of cyber security there are going to be overhauling the whole thing really we don't know the details yet but obviously big big big changes are coming up especially with all of the russia and china hackers craze in terms of the nuclear program they're seeing it as a reaction you know a sort of a reaction to what russia has been doing in this sphere and if you're talking about certainly talking about outer space and defense position that this is not going to be

commissioners johnson and koppel. you were absent. have you reviewed the materials? >> yes. >> and it was continued to december 14, 2017. i believe there is an agreement in place, but we'll hear from the project sponsor. this is a second hearing. >> so we'll go 4 minute project sponsor and 2 minute public comment? >> very good. >> ok. >> good afternoon, commissioners. linda ajello-hoagland. the planning commission continued the case, directing the sponsor to work with urban ed academy and members of the community to develop mutually agreeable conditions. the project was continued to november 16 at which time it was continued to december 14. over the last several weeks, the project sponsor and community members and representatives from urban ed academy have been meeting to work on conditions of approval to mitigate concerns of the future school and community as it relates to the sale of alcohol at save more market. earlier this week, supplemental conditions of approval were sent out, developed and agreed upon by both parties. per conversation with the city attorney, s

i would just say that the points that commissioner koppel and melgar made were, you know, i think we definitely need to look into those as a commission, and when i made my allusion to i thought we had some policies arpd it, this is o -- around it, this is one of the reasons that this is troubles. these are the kind of questions that we don't get any information on, and we hope that the schematics magically happen as they appear. i think with the seismic retrofit and soft story -- thank you commissioner melgar for reliving that story for us, and it's true, but i think there's an element of are reality that needs to be injected into that. up greated to this building may result in displacements or major repairs so we need to have at least that base knowledge about a building. nonwhere we go with that, but it seems like clearly, that's what -- we're lacking that here. >> commissioner richards? sk >> two things. it's late. i think we should add to the secretary action list to talk about with dpi. i think the tenant's union needs to work with the supervisors. we also have a term called ren

commission commission commissioner koppel. >> thank you, mr. president. kind of going off mr. schulman's comments, this reminds me of a project we approved, the lucky penny site. i liked that they took a lot of time and figured out how to go from a 21 unit building to a 90 unit building. i know they worked closely with commissioner farrell to create a closed space district. i honestly think this building's too small. i would have liked to see maybe some other options utilizing whether it's home sf or density bonus program or potentially a special use district. i'd definitely be in favor of increasing the capacity of this building in giving it more units and more density. i'm not automatically leaning towards the extra parking. this -- i do take the transit first policy pretty seriously, especially on a transit corridor like vanness which will have a brt, and i think the -- that the design, especially after seeing the similar building, is a little too two dimensional. it could have a little more depth throughout the facades. i'm interested to hear what the other commissioners s

. >> commissioner koppel. >> yeah, there's a bar right down the street from where i live, and one thing that sets this apart is they do allow all ages and they aren't open all hours, and i can't tell you how much it does to discourage your typical bar flies that are going to go to your liquor serving typical bars. i don't see this as being as horrible for this neighborhood as they seem to be. also, i haven't heard anyone reinforce that this isn't a formula retail brewery. i would not be in favor of this whatsoever if it was budweiser or any other type of retail brewe brewery that was started here in san francisco, and the limited pricing and all ages being allowed are somewhat mitigating for me. >> president hillis: i mean, i'll chime in too. i'm not troubled by this. first, we're. >> commissioner perez: -- we're permitting a restaurant. sometimes there's gray area enforcing that, but that's the issue, we have that -- that's the rule. we have that issue everywhere, and we should be diligent about it. i think the fact that they are local -- somebody said it doesn't matter. i think it doe

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commissioner koppel. >> yeah, echoing commissioner richards' comments, i'd feel better if the enter rabs was on vanness, and i'd at least like to see another option explored with a density bonus that would give you a couple of extra floors which would allow you to have the affordable on-site, and also some type of earl change on the external of the building to differentiate it from the building. >> can i say a few things? >> sure. >> okay. so i'll start with the material because i am also the architect for the other building so i know the buildings pretty well. the buildings are pretty. the other billion, we're using a masonry. this is a precast system that we're using on this building. the one element is similar is the coloration of the metal that we're using on this building is similar but not identical. i also want to say that as an a architect, we see a lot of buildings that look exactly the same. this building does not lookt exactly the same from the other building. it is different. if you'll go up and down vanness, you'll see some of the buildings that were built in the 30's that l

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commissioner koppel. >> move to approve [inaudible]. [coughing [ >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve all items under your consent calendar. [roll call] so move, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. and places us under commission matters. >> commissioner johnson. >> hi, everybody. i wanted to say that today will be my last hearing as a planning commissioner for san francisco. i have been a proud public servant in volunteer capacity for around 14 years now. i've served on citizen advisory companies. i was on the ocii commission when it was for the purposed and served the last 3 1/2 years as planning commissioner. i'm leaving to hopefully continue my public service if other capacities, but i wanted to give a statement here to the commission, to the staff and to the rest of the city that i've been honoured to serve beside you and honoured to serve the city and just leave with a couple of words on this day. i was really sad coming into the building. so, i wrote some things down to make sure i didn'

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commissioner johnson, commissioner koppel, commissioner moore and commissioner richards. the motion passes unanimously 7-0. commissioners, that will place us on item 13, the jackson square special use district planning code amendment. >> today i'll be presenting an ordinance to mend -- amend the planning coat code code for eating and drinking in the use. >> thank you. i do have but i'd like to pass out to you an amended version of the file we interduesed introduced on tuesday. we've been able to address the amendments before the commission. i have here letters i'm not sure were submitted in time to get to your district but from the jackson square historic association and to h.o.a.s in the boundary in support of the amendment. just very briefly, this is a packet of amendments. the substantive amendment is for the jackson square special use district. we've pursued as once in a decade cleanup of zoning and controls to match the status quo or advance the interest of community neighborhood groups. this one is no different in that regard. the principle amendment is to the jacks

commissioner koppel. >> commissioner richards. commissioner president hillis, excuse me. >> thank you. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. >> that is it, right. so meeting adjourned. thank you. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open hous

. >> commissioner koppel: hats off to forest city, impressed to see what is before us today.i really like the -- not only the combination of different usages, but how that works into the floor plan of the lot, which is a lot that most of us have never set foot on. so i'm really happy this whole area of the city will be opened up and not only the adjacent community, but the public will benefit as well. >> vice president melgar: thank you, i love this project. i love the part of the city, spent a lot of time there. i think when we heard this a while ago we had members of the public who talked about irish hill and the preservation. can you talk more about that? i actually don't have updated slide, but what i can share with you, what we got to, and that it was really led by the port and office of economic and workforce development with the planning department was an arrangement of the buildings on the pge property which is not part of our development, on the corner of 22nd and illinois. which previously it had an access point to the remnant of irish hill from illinois street. wha

. >> commissioner koppel: question for staff. i understand the rear entrance is used for and during the beginning of the performance and exiting through the front exit. what about during the show, if people are in and out, leaving for a smoke break or something. are they directed to the rear or front? >> the conditional would have allowed only for patron end -- entry. so if they wanted to smoke, it would be on broadway. i believe there is security at that door. they could probably speak better to this. they had relayed information to me that there are occasions where you have a drunk and potentially belligerent patron hell bent on leaving the venue, so there are certainly instances where somebody has proceeded to exit through the alley, but by in large, they have security staff stationed there to direct people out the front. >> it sounds like there's a notion of having another hearing in 6 months and starting to see the potential that we could act on a c.u. if need be, it would be more than informational? >> okay. how is that goi

commissioner koppel? commissioner richards? commissioner moore? commissioner melgar? so moved, commissioners. that motion passes 4-1 with commissioner moore voting against. okay. new dance. all right. our meeting is adjourned. [gavel sounds] calling this hearing to order. good afternoon and welcome to the historic preservation commission hearing for wednesday, january 17, 2018. this is our first hearing so happy new year and welcome back, commissioners. >> happy new year. >> i'd like to take roll at this time. [roll call] unfortunately commissioner johns notified us that he is out ill today. i will remind members of the public that the commission does not told rate any disruption or out bursts of any kind and to please sigh elevens your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. first on your agenda 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. the opportunity to address the commission wi

commissioner koppel? commissioner richards? commissioner moore? commissioner melgar? so moved, commissioners. that motion passes 4-1 with commissioner moore voting against. okay. new dance. all right. all right. our meeting is adjourned. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world-class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. - our 28,000 city and county employees play an important role in making san francisco what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs.

commissioner koppel. >> i was just going to say these houses are extremely close to each other on somewkwardly oriented lots, and protecting the direct light on those bottom floors is going to be extremely difficult. and then, this -- this expansion is really modest compared to what we're seeing every thursday. >> commissioner moore? >> i really think the building department did a good analysis. i think they looked at that very closely. 13 feet is a luxury given what we have in the three or less feet tolerances on other -- in other situations, so i do not think this rises to being something being exceptional or extraordinary, but i would move that we do not take dr and approve the project as proposed. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to not take dr and approve this as proposed, commissioner. >> commissioner johnson: johns -- [ roll call. ] so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. commissioners, that'll place us on item 22, at 1440 clay street, discretionary review. >> good evening, commissioners. marselle boudreau, permit staff. to convert appr