commissioner to that committee or -- a point any member of the public. the commission then approved a certificate of appropriateness for maintenance in washington square park. that was approved unanimously with several commissioners arguing the compatibility of the new design of the structure. a number of members of the public also came out in support of the new structure. the commission then provided a positive recommendation for 572, 7th street to use 8039 section of the planning code which allows for flexibility and zoning uses for california register, national register, eligible buildings and city landmarks and they are listed on the california register and it has provided a preservation and maintenance plan for the building over the next 25 years. the commission provided advice to the zoning administrator who will exercise the final decision on whether or not to allow office in a previously pdr zoned building. finally the commission enthusiastically endorsed and adopted the sunset building blders context statement for primarily just the sunset neighborhoods on the

and i think the fact that there's discussion of a commission or commission on mass violence is sort of a way of opening the door to a discussion of this outside of this. host: we see this in the proposal.o manyee

how is that, i know it's a confusing definition watt small business commission but how is it defined? >> it's a good question. it's not defined. we approached the question as we have the question of what is pdr, in the planning code we define what it is not instead of what it is. it's a criteria that makes something none knot eligible in the program. >> okay. i know formula retail is exempt, but formula retail can they come in and say it's otherwise, would it be kicked out? >> it's not included in the planning code. it a term of art. the office of small business has a working definition which involves a hundred employee threshold. as far as your policy is proposed it's really an element which is eligible to participate. we have named it a small business. we are saying what can't participate rather than what it is. >> okay. then i agree with commissioner's wu's comments. do we know what applications would have been part of the policy in the last five years because it's limited to these. it's a lot more obviously in the cities. do we know how many of these, how many cu's have been filed

one is the action that the commission took at the last meeting in the form of a letter addressed to live nation with bullet points regarding those conditions that were approved by the commission as conditions to the conditional grant. you will also see then a letter sent to the office i think dated april 10 -- requesting additional action by the commission, and then lastly we have given you our best effort at language if you were to consider adopting any additional conditions based on the letter of april 10. they relate to four categories and why i had you read the item more carefully because they're pretty much related to those areas and curfews and parking and traffic issues and site restoration and number of shows and capacity and with that there are a number of people that are here i want to speak to and you obviously there is public comment you may want to take. in addition for the knowledge of the commission an appeal was filed at the board of appeals based on the last action and the commission did and right now the agenda is may 8 for that appeal, so that item will be heard at the

so i think it's a true honor to serve on this commission, to be the liaison between the public and our police department. without further a do we are going to line item one and thank you all for being here. >> line item one adoption of minutes. action for the meetings of february 27, march 6 and march 13, 2013 commissioners you have the minutes in your packets. are there any corrections or changes? hearing none, is there any public comment regarding our minutes. ladies and gentlemen there is always public comments but we call our main event which is captain mowser's presentation about the number of officers and the crime in the district. so we usually save it for that but we do have requirements is there any public comments for our minutes. hearing none, public comment is now close. do we have a motion. >> i have a miniature correction. i think we are missing a d at the end. otherwise with that i move to adopt these minutes. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. >> thank you, please call line item no. 2. >> line item 2 reports to the commission of review of recent activities. >> i'm going t

a lot of things we do here on the commission are reactionary. and if an issue comes up or there is a community that brings an issue to t we respond to it. certain commissioners have certain reports. and then those things are either remedied or no longer an issue. so, those are the things i was hoping to eliminate in this process. with reference, for example, should we dark the second or the third week? we can be flexible. we can do things on the fly. there's no need to codify everything. >> thank you, president mazzucco. that's helpful. i think, commissioner turman, did you have anything else on this? >> commissioner de jesus? >> the report of the police [speaker not understood]. so far this is the first time how bad i heard the cars were. we have [speaker not understood] july, budget time is way before july. i wonder if you want to move it up to the time when the budget is there. if they're in bad shape, we certainly should have a column for it. >> sure. we actually have -- my budget director met and chief [speaker not understood] met with the n

that's how long it's been and it's a huge disregard for me personally and for the whole commission because we've been asking about this. furthermore, it's a disregard for our rate payers, because some of those lands do have value which could be passed along to our rate payers. some of the lands would make wonderful gardens. some of the lands would make wonderful parks, and we are denying our rate payers that. now, a very specific point was in the chronicle on april 12th, which was a friday, there was a two-page piece on the francisco reservoir, which i know we're going to discuss later. but i want to make this point. it goes on and on about the different groups banding together. they want the reservoir, they want the [speaker not understood] as a free church, they want it as a park. why weren't they told years ago that this is impossible, we cannot give them this land? that land belongs to bayview hunters point. it belongs to pacific heights. it belongs to everyone, not just telegraph hill -- excuse me, russian hill. so, i really feel there was a huge lapse of proper -- of discipline in te

that then a department came to the commission and a announced they were discontinuing the practice in the commission. and they had net file that wouldn't rebuild the system because it was going to cost a lot of money >> we don't have any additional. if the commission decided i didn't want to go in this decision staff would very quickly have to come up with an alternate and we wouldn't know what to do. >> we could say this isn't working for us but it is. >> what about the cost? >> for the first time we've maintained costs for 6 years static. in this it's going to go up. i think that net file has been for bearing to ask for more because the city has made strong pleas to the contractor of the city to recognize the budget and they've sort of recognized that. and another one is that by working with us to develop several different platforms set of xablts we've enhanced their ability to sell the product in other cities so it's compensation for it but the reality of inflation it's not really feasible for them to give us what is ultimately a discount. and what we're looking at is we're asking

and secondly, i would like to talk about what i see is a breakdown between the communication of the commission and the staff. there seems to be, in my mind, a feeling that staff is just going on doing what they choose to do without any answers to directions that we give. one point was yesterday i received an e-mail about the various questions that had been asked and the question was had they been answered. well, i don't know the answer to that. but my guess would be that probably most of them have not. and it's lack of concern about what the commission is saying. i personally have had situations happen. and as you all know, for easily four years, i might say, i have been talking about real estate and the surplus that we have and what to do about it. and all i would get would be reports. nothing was ever actively done. i have -- i was going to ask secretary to see when this started, but records don't go back that far. that's how long it's been and it's a huge disregard for me personally and for the whole commission because we've been asking about this. furthermore, it's a disregard for our rate

can the department provide a commission with a list of opted in projects in that 60 day window? the answer is yes. we can do that. just give us direction and we'll be happy to follow your lead. the last question, commissioners, what if a project isn't cover by a stimulus policy or what if it's covered but opted into a policy. the option continues to apply for any project to come back. the only difference here is that if they fail to participate or aren't eligible to participate in the program, they need to come back at a public commission hearing and individually request that a project be extended. last slide. it is something you do relatively and frequently. this can be modified at any time in -- >> we had 15 employees. sorry about that. >> i just want to reiterate. he's basically saying that he's affected by the ten year decision. his project can start immediately if approved. thank you very much. >> do you care to state your name for the record? >> my name is henry lamb. >> is there any additional public comment? okay. public comment closed. >> i have a couple questions for m

a nice alternative to the neighborhood. misswest really has her ducks in the row. the commission before you they are standard and focused around a safe operation and security inform that neighborhood it's 16th street between mission and south van ness. it's a very trying neighborhood and we feel that security is very important and she has agreed to the conditions having seen them and is working towards meeting the requirements that we asked. so we are in support of miss west and her operation. >> thank you. >> okay. now anybody from the public wish to address this application? okay. seeing none i will entertain a motion from the commission. >> i would like to move to approve this permit with a change to no. 3 where it says the management is responsible for 50 feet around it and good neighbor policy which states a hundred feet. if we can have it say management, strike the 50 feet surrounding and leave it with a hundred feet that is stated in the good neighbor policy. >> okay. >> i second that. >> second. >> commissioner hyde, aye, lee, aye. >> okay. 5 b. tell me if i'm tell me tro

now this is a planning commission policies.t's not unlike what you did last week with your stimulus policy and not what you are going to consider next on your agenda with respect to formula retail in the upper market area. so did we get into this predicament. land use role has increased dramatically since 1987 when the neighborhood controls kicked in. we have seen 80 amendments. with relative certainty on a counter basis. at a years ago, nearly all permits and neighborhood commercial districts were acted on over the counter. you can see on your screen and looking at an out of date figure in 2007 we had a substantial drop off. install businesses require some review from you for small businesses. they require signing a lease and making payments before getting land use permits, these same businesses wind up making payments for months before they open for business. we have a situation where the expenditures for small business begins substantially ahead of any income being received. that's a many month long process and it can cost 1

paralleling man a left hand architect on the historic preservation commission >> thank you i'm jonathan i'm a practicing architect here in san francisco and now serving on the prehistoric commission. >> i'm quite honored by mayor lee selecting me to position to be able to serve the supply in a a captain that i both love and care about historic buildings in san francisco. and in my practice over the last 18 or 19 years i continue to work on projects throughout san francisco. they do account for about 70 percent of my business is in san francisco or projects in san francisco. so given the fact the seat that i sit on in the prehistoric preservation commissions has is credentials that i hold. there is is clearly a conflict with section 225 will 4 with presenting my work to - continuing my work or the plan checkers in the planning and building inspection. i have a small firm i had since 1995 in the city and i was up to about 7 people in the 2000 these now we're up to four for the most part my projects don't are not credit card before the administration. one project in a particular the alexan

moving forward on something that is of interest to me i am determined that we get to a paperless commission so we are looking at ipads and a system that will put the agendas on the ipad. we had a run through of a system yesterday that looks promising and used by the airport commission and i want to talk with the commissioners to make sure they're happy with that system and if that is the case i'm going to move forward and find the money and make us a paperless commission so with that be warned those like me are technically challenged. we will overcome those challenges w that that concludes my report. >> okay. is there any public comment under the president's report? seeing none public comment is closed. we're on item three, the general manager's report. >> good morning commissioners. i do have a number of items this morning but i want to start with a presentation from the new chair and we going to get into the routine and having linda present. >> welcome. >> thank you general manager ginsburg and good morning commissioners. we passed a resolution at the last meeting they would like to read

a motion. first i want to make it perfectly clear to everyone that the grant that this commission did at the last meeting is a conditional grant which we often do. a conditional grant allows the permittee to get sign offs from all the departments that sign it off, building, fire, noise and so on. once that is achieved then the permit becomes a permit, the conditional grant becomes a permitted grant, so what you did at the last meeting was a conditional grant so at this time, and i can make this motion. we can second it and do further discussion if you choose. at this time i would like to make a motion to recommend that the director of the entertainment commission goes to the board of appeals on our behalf and amends the place of entertainment permit for the america's cup pavilion. that is currently under appeal to the board of appeals consistent with the following amendments. curfew for paid concerts can be extended by 1/2 hour. permittee submits request for curfew engs tensions to the san francisco police department with at least 10 days notice. sfpd is encouraged to work with the neighborhood s

thank you. >> commissioners if there's nothing further. >> can you wait a second the commission is going to take a break here. >> commissioner are you okay with one more and taking a break in? >> the sf puc upgrade please note an additional meeting will be held excuse me. was held on april 16th. written comments will be accepted in the depth >> good afternoon members i'm steven smith for the planning department. i'm the eir manager which is responded by the san francisco commission. this is a hearing to receive comments from the draft and environmental impact report which assesses the project. the eir was published on july 13th and given to you. the staff are not here to respond to comments. this will be addressed as appropriate. this is not a hearing to consider the approval or disproval of the project. comments today should be directed to the adequacy of the information. comments should be given slowly so that the court reporter can contagious them down. this will be noted as one local draft hearing this was on tuesday 16. the brief overview of the project will be presented otherwise w

we haven't had a joint meeting with the small business commission so we're excite body today r tonight. i want to thank your director regina dick-endrizzi and others that were a pleasure to work with and they put in many hours to see that tonight worked smoothly so i'm going to give a few slides based on our annual report what it is that we do. the commission of status of women was established by the board of supervisors in 1975 and was a permanent in the charter in 1994 so the focus areas are gender equity in the work place and anti-violence and gender analysis and what is the over arching umblellia is the ordinance and the elimination of discrimination against all women. that was a un convention and signed by then president jimmy carter. anybody remember jimmy carter? it's never been ratifyed in the u.s. senate and states have ratified it, signed it with the exception of the united states, so in 1998 women of san francisco said that is not good enough. we're going to create our own ordinance reflecting this international bill of rights for women. next slide. so in terms of work place

she went on to say i am famous and i don't know if my opportunities to serve on a commission makes me famous but noted my mom was "just a housewife" and i pointed out my father couldn't have done without her as an equal partner. i wouldn't literally be here without my mom but the sensibilities to serve the city and county so i just want to say that today's meeting was very appropriate especially when talking about the ferry building and my mom was a public servant with the state before she gave up her career to raise us four children and worked there when under state jurisdiction as the port authority but loved the transformation of the ferry building and despite her size and people have seen her eat. she could put a way a lot of food and was 110 pounds despite having four children and i want to challenger everyone to follow her spirit and legacy and we make the community and world a better place and i thank the commissioners for their support during this difficult time of losing my mom. >> thank you. >> thank you president soo. commissioners with that if you would like to entertain a

presently our obligation as a commission is to review the operating budget before it goes to the mayor and to vote on it. that we do have an action item and a responsibility under the charter. but we don't ordinarily focus much on the capital budget and that may be -- and granted, it's a smaller component of the budget, but nonetheless, i think that there are important aspects of this regarding building maintence, vehicles, technology, those kinds of expenditures in the department that we should know about and be cognizant of and be aware of any action that might be needed in those items. then the operating budget really focuses in on that process of preparing ourselves for the occ and the department's preparation of budgets before they're presented to the mayor. and we've been through that process. this is basically calendaring it and perhaps getting that process in motion earlier rather than later and see a proposed date here as early as december, early december. the next section on page 5 addresses administrative's investigation and discipline matters. one item here in particular th

>> commissioner, the request initially in the letter was for the commission to consider a condition of the permit to require the permittee to work with the sfpd and the neighborhood steering committee to allow extensions. however, the commission can't desolve that type of responsibility to a neighborhood group, so therefore it had to translate into the commission directing the applicant to work with another city department and then encouraging that city department to work with the neighborhood groups. however, it's vague because there isn't a standard per se for what is -- you know, working with our outreach. it's just important that we reiterate how we feel about that process. does that make sense? did that help you? >> we also believe that the san francisco police department will use their best effort and their best practices to resolve any dispute about any 30 minute extension that live nation might want to apply for. now they might apply for them. they might not apply. but they will apply to sfpd and sfpd will work with the neighbors about that particular extension. >> so that does

it does not require the commission to make determinations on a project capacity to be exempt. and the intent is really to give the commission an ability to send the exemption back to the ero, not to have you actually make the determination. i know one of the concerns that the sfmta had is that this would delay their exemption process. the question that i would have, first of all, is how many sfmta exemptions actually come before the planning commission for approval? but even if it has to come before the planning commission for approval, it doesn't delay the process because they can't move forward with the project until the planning commission approves it anyway. so, why not allow testimony for those exemptions at the same time that you're hearing that approval. another point that had come up in the planning commission -- i'm sorry, planning staff's report is that our legislation requires staff to attend every project approval hearing before the planning commission. our legislation does not require staff to be present for the hearing. an ero report may be enough, and we certainl

studley >> i'll take that any time. >> i think that it is apparent to all of us on the commission and staff that you have had a particularly interesting term of office as chair. and some of the most complicated and demanding matters that could possibly come before this commission have a raise en-- it really is only two years, believe it or not, of your term. ~ arisen and i have been -- others can personally speak for themselves -- in awe of the balance, skill, wisdom that you have brought to the complicated proceedings and the way you have helped us chart new kinds of procedures and your respect for the public's participation and involvement while also helping us carry out very difficult matters. so, i just want to thank you for doing this. it's a pleasure to serve with you and it's been a particular pleasure to serve while you were chair. >> thank you, commissioner studley. many thanks to you as vice-chair. i know that i leaned on you many times and definitely appreciate the advice. you've been here the longest and have the most history. i definitely appreciated your help on that. and to the commission as a w