>> yes. >> on that motion, commissioner antimony. >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> no. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> no. >> commissioner [inaudible]. er >> aye. >> that motion failed on a four to three vote. >> commissioner borden? >> so, i move to take dr per commissioner sugaya's suggestion, move the addition back three feet and ask that staff continue to work with the architect to sculpt the addition that we're trying to respect. >> second. >> any discussion? >> call the question, please. >> i'd like it to reflect that we're talking about the end of the house, the turet house in that corner. >> closest to the turet. >> so, it's approximately three feet. >> can we get the overhead on. >> [inaudible]. >> yup. >> okay. >> commissioner, the motion on the floor is to -- >> just a point of information from project architecture and project sponsors, there's been all this talk about taking the stair house off but many of the rendering has it on there, is it there or not? >> it is, but it moved and went down, it went from the north side which w

seeing none, commissioner borden. >> i have a question before i make a motion, why is the last item, the one item being proposed to may, that's far off. >> i'm david lindsay from the department staff, the property owners currently live in london and they're working from there trying to resolve this with the dr requester, it was the project sponsor that is requested this date out in may. they are looking at an option that would require a variance so i think the plan is for the project sponsor to file a variance application, go through that process and see where they are. >> okay. with that, i will move to continue items 1 to the date on the calendar, item 2 to october 18th, item 3 to october 4 and item 4 to the date on the calendar, and then continue item 12 to september 27th and item 18th also to october 27. >> second. >> commissioner, the motion on the floor is to continue 1, 3 and 4 as they are proposed on calendar, item 2 to october 13, item 12 to september 17 -- 27, and item 18 to september 27. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >>

>> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> thank you, commissioners, the vote is unanimous for approval. commissioners, you are now on item number 14. case number 2011.0148e, minnie and lovie ward hayfields ren novation, 650 capitol avenue, >> good afternoon, president fong, i'm [inaudible] joining me today is [inaudible] from record parks, the item before you is for the preliminary mitigated negative deck lar attesting, the project proposed by rec and park includes the replacement of a 6 acre grass turf playfield with synthetic turf, an installation of 6.1 acre public sports facility, the planning department published a pmnd, the department received an appeal letter from kelly watt ts, it includes about human health risks from the use of synthetic turf products, exhibit a in your packet addresses each packet, similar comments as those described in this appeal for the final eir for the beech l.a. project, an appeal to the board of supervisors was filed on june 12, 2012. on july 10, 2012, the board of supervisors den

. >> sue, i'm following up on commissioner borden's points. i am well aware of the cater related activities as the person who has their office at union square and i plead with the department and the interagency capacity that have you take seriously, you need to raise the question of pedestrians along market street. there is a big event going on and there are traffic control officers on 4th street at mission and on the south side and i'm stressing that, on market street, the north side of market street is an uncontrolled mess because the construction of the freeway and as long as there is no traffic control officer along market street where traffic turns left and william montgomery is one, 5th street, 6th street, and in the case of the central subway on the north side as well, there is no -- there is no control of the traffic. i was caught yesterday where traffic didn't move at all. they were supposed to cross market street because there were no traffic control officers associated with the central subway on the north side of market street and a

. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> commissioner fong. >> this was passed unanimously. >> item 5 and 6 make up the consent calendar, these items are considered to be routine, there will be no separate discussion on these items unless the public requests, in that event, the matters will be removed from consent and be considered a separate item. item number 5 is case number 2012317b, it's a request to establish [inaudible] of office use under the eastern [inaudible]. item 6 is case number 20070049e, san antonio backup pipeline, certification of the final environmental impact report. i believe there were corrections sent to you and i believe those corrections were sent timely and this item is for you under the consent calendar also. with that, commissioners, following any public comment on this item which would automatically remove these items for consent, they are before you for your consideration. >> is there any public comment on these items on consent? seeing none, commissioner borden. >> i move to approve i

management from commissioner borden and despite prospero before he retired and commissioner antonini taking over the seat of mr. peters and making it clear the steps that were needed and not done, the situation is to promote the conditional use appeal that the developer's attempt, although a subtle letter next time, the message is clear, so my message is we have here a commission, we have a department director and a minute ago, we had a deputy city attorney and i think that the time is long past to ask the city attorney to take the steps that you normally take in this kind of situation -- oh, she is still here -- that you have the city attorney initiate actions towards court orders, fines and condemnation, this is the thing that needs to be done while we're working, you know, the other attempt at resolution. the property manager in the city says, you know, nothing i can do exactly because i can't get authorized to do anything by the officials in sacramento or the people here, so when the people who really are managing the property there, the two owners on the two sets of corners cont

. >> president fong: commissioner borden. >> commissioner borden: this is a very interesting report and i pretty much live on market street -- octavia so i have a million thoughts just walking on market street on a daily basis. i take the van ness underground and walk the corridor from octavia to van ness almost every day. and a lot of thoughts. going back to what commissioner antonini was talking about i was in europe and my experience is different. from are membership car tree boulevards that are thriving and violates. transit runs through them. you have areas where there's basically preves where the train runs through it. they don't have to have separations and it works peacefully. there's bicycle tracks that go through. those areas are vibrant and interesting. one of the things that's going to be important is looking at design principles we put in place for buildings and ground floor frontages. what frustrates me walking down market street particularly from octavia to van ness is the obscured ground floor locations and i think that enforcement abilityd working with property owners a

were absent and commissioner borden is in the room, you would need to state for the record that you reviewed the material and are prepared to participate? >> i have reviewed the material. >> thank you. >> commissioners, any comments? >> the public hearing is closed. the matter is before you for your consideration. >> commissioner ant naoen -- antonini. >> yes, this was well done and my understanding is there is an amount that's being paid in regards to a fee that is obliged but they're satisfying that with some of the contribution, i think it's 4.2 million, it's a blended situation. >> sorry, i just want to correct you, the value of improvements are estimated to be 4.9 and they owe about 4.2, we calculated in fees so there's a slight overage and we'll be looking at that with we look at the construction. >> they gave the two different figures, it is the satisfaction by inclined. >> they will complete their requirements. >> okay, thank you. >> commissioner wu? >> move to approve. >> second. >> commissioners, the motion on the floor is for approval on ta motion, commissioner antonini.

his son, borden--i had a wonderful interview with his son, borden stevenson. and borden stevenson told me the same thing about his father, that when they would go out west, these three boys with their father, and they would be riding in the--wyoming or idaho, that he would love to take his clothes off and frolic about. now i don't know what the meaning or significance of that is, but nonetheless, this is a guy who did have good times. he had a lot of bad times, but he had some good times, too. c-span: what did edward r. murrow do for stevenson? >> guest: i think murrow could have helped stevenson a lot an.. c-span: did he work with him? >> guest: tried to work with him, but couldn't get stevenson to really pay attention to what murrow knew was important, and that is electronic projection. stevenson was old-fashioned and traditional about this, and he thought that you got up in front of a lectern and you had a printed page and you read a speech. and, of course, murrow knew a lot differently. so there's this wonderful story of stevenson and he goes to new york a

commissioner borden. >> commissioner borden: i move to approve the items on consent. >> second. >> president fong: on the motion for approval, commission i can't, aye. commissioner borden, eye. commissioner hillis, eye. commissioner moore. commission wu, eye. commissioner president fong, aye. that pass says unanimously and places you under commissioners questions and matters. excuse me. >> very briefly, i am also inclined to grant the variance for this matter. this extension modification does appear to be consistent with the required findings for variance, and we will be issuing a variance decision letter shortly which will bring with it a 10 day window to the board of appeals. if anyone would like a copy of that letter provide that to the commission secretary. as a matter of house ceerption we would close the public hearing on the variance as well. thank you. >> thank you. commissioners questions and matters, item 8, commission comments and questions. >> president fong: commissioner antonini. >> commissioner antonini: thank you. yesterday, the joint subcommittee of historical preservation a

commissioner borden? >> i want the issue addressed about the signage, as i understand it, we can't -- signage is standard in the code and we don't have a lot of discretion around the signage. in terms of your issue of the clock, i think it's important the clock is tied to occupancy and one of the things we could use, the temporary, the first temporary certificate of occupancy, that would be -- because sometimes it is true, people don't get a certificate of occupancy even though they're supposed to, they would be occupying the space with the certificate of temporary occupancy and the clock would start at that point when the bank was using the space, if the clock runs out and the bank goes in, then formula retail would come in later. in supporting the community's desire to see these spaces, the local merchants and if there's an opportunity for that to happen, i would support that and with it coming with a certificate of temporary occupancy and then address the signage? >> commissioner, signs are one part of

i was having a conversation, i think it was with commissioner borden around what if there were such a thing as a services parklet for people who are homeless. and i think that it sort of just seeks to understand who's already on market street and how to maybe address the needs of all people. and then the last thing i want to talk about is pedestrians. so you just mentioned that it's about 50% pedestrian. everyone anticipated of their trip is a pedestrian, if you drove, if you took transit, on and on. so i appreciate all the looking at the tradeoffs of what happens about the different sort of conflict that happen between modes, and appreciating that mostly it is pedestrians on market street. >> president fong: commissioner moore. >> commissioner moore: i'd like to echo the support and appreciation of your work. i think it's a very exciting way of how you're setting it up. fast-forward i have a couple of questions. i think it is the -- one node of the extensive same pavement which has made market street look so dated by now. and i think the quality of market street was good contemporary

>> commissioner borden? >> i move to uphold the pmd and deny the appeal fm >> second. >> commissioners, the motion on the floor is for upholding the prelim nation negative declaration thereby deny thing appeal on that motion, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> thank you, commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu >> aye. >> thank you, commissioners, the motion passed unanimously, commissioner, you are now on item number 15, 2011.0277c, 2750 jackson street. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm mary woods from the planning department, the conditional use before you for the council is required because of the expansion and it's seeking a planned unit development because it is greater than 1/2 acre, the project proposes an existing k through 8 private school for boys, the majority of the work consists of excavation for a new multi-purpose room and a renovation of existing facilities. the project will add approximately 19 thousand square feet to t

. >> commissioner borden? >> everything's been said but not everybody's said it. i want to express my support. i live two blocks. i guess if anybody is excited about seeing whole corridor activated along market street, i'm very excited about that. i was very curious to see the plans. i walk by that lot daily. to see that such a narrow lot could be developed in this way is actually pretty phenomenal. i look forward to a nice restaurant being closer to my house too. but anyway, everything else that everybody has said. i want to support commissioner wu's comments regarding the bike area. there are tons of bikes. people bike for transportation in this area. we want to make sure we don't disrupt that, thanks. >> commissioner sugaya. >> i will move to approval the cu with a couple conditions. one, continued work on bicycle and pedestrian conflicts. whatever staff can work out on that regard to make it less congested and more safe. also continued work on the market street facade. anything else? >> second. >> commissioners, you have a motion for approval with some additio

. >> commissioner borden? >> i'm very supportive of this project. look forward to the way it will link up, you know, people coming from -- even the fact that moscone center will have a stop will be critical, in addition to the fact you can get to china town. for a lot of tourists that circle beltway basically of union square, moscone center, china town, there will be a real way to get around. it will improve traffic congestion, circulation as well as the 30 bus line, which is always a very congested bus line in that neighborhood. i think that the design of the center looks very interesting. obviously we lament losing this. looks like it will be a great station. i look forward to the bigger process around the transit oriented development. that is something we are looking forward to, the replacement units, seeing what we can build. obviously we would have loved to have had that as part of this project. understand that wasn't possible. look forward to seeing next step. i think we are taking the right approach and moving forward. looking for creating mo

>> aye. >> commissioner borden in >> aye. >> commission mer hillis? >> aye. >> xher ner wu? >> aye. >> commissioner fong? >> thank you, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously. >> okay, we're going to take a five minute break on our last item. >> this is for 613 faxon avenue, it's a request for discretionary review, and i believe staff is outside. >> hello, commissioners, michael smith, planning commission staff, the dr project is proposing a 22 thousand square foot restaurant, it's not a formula retail use, it comes from the adjacent resident to the north who has concerns about trash, loitering, and traffic that the project could potentially cause in the neighborhood. i met with the dr requester recently to understand her concerns. what i saw were several vehicles on her block that were parked illegally, and it was going to the dr requesters front yard, this block, faxon avenue has no parking until 6 p.m., the proposed restaurant is primarily, it's a sit-down restaurant, so patrons are not likely to park in this area or for quick visits as i saw when i went out there.

. >> commissioner borden. >> i just have a question. does this issue that we found with union street, were there other -- have we looked at some of the other districts impacted to see if other districts have this similar sort of impact? >> we know we went through the code pretty thoroughly to try to find these. this is just one of those de facto. we didn't understand the intent of the neighborhood, so we haven't found any yet. >> okay. >> it has been out there for quite a while. it seems to work pretty well. >> i'm supportive because we were trying to make it, you know, better alignment. but i was just asking in this specific of a situation if there were other neighborhoods with similar kind of controls in place. i know we also in the last few years have eliminated a lot of those neighborhood controls or reduced because there were controls actually on number of restaurants overall that various neighborhoods have, but this is not affecting that. this is more speaking to -- >> more speaking to the -- >> yes, thanks. >> commissioner sugaya

commissioner moore. >> yeah. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> hill. >> borden. >> aye. >> can't vote no. *

i would like to call chris borden. >> hello, everybody. i am not a speaker, i am a roller skater in golden gate park and i enjoy that very much plus i'm an expert skater, i've done a lot of research and studied skating and urban recreational sports activities. my philosophy behind it is it's difficult for people to succeed professionally and their self-confidence takes a big hit on that but you can go do sports and build your self-confidence and feel really good about yourself. i think that roller skater is one of the few sports that's done by men and women equally, old and young and it's a really good sport and golden gate is an awesome place to have it there, there are safety concerns i do have though and i learned over the time, i have learned to respect the people i have had a tough time, skate boarders and now bicyclists and let me tell you, there's a lot more skate boarders out there than anybody would believe, you can create a skate board park in a parking lot behind a school where those buddies can meet and hang out together and th

. >> commissioner borden? >> yeah, i walk by these buildings almost every day, i live a couple of blocks from here and i'm wondering if this will impact -- will it require new requirement for these building owners typically at the ground floor level? does this provide any sort of way to -- does it provide new guidance for how they treat the ground floor and have there been tax credits or other things that can help them create better ground floors? >> becoming landmarks will allow building owners to take advantage of various tax credits through facade easement programs and the availability of the mills act. there are no other sort of direct financial incentives that the city has at this time, but the planning department staff is always available to help with design and we do frequently do story placements and having done this research, we have the original plans for a restoration program if that's available to them. okay, we have devised a mechanism whereby store fronts are the review of alterations of store fr

. >> thank you, commissioner borden? >> yeah, i'm supportive of what's been proposed here, i was going to mention staff when there was back and forth conflicting information, walgreens, we could check -- look at that building permit and whatever was required of how they keep that property if there was -- i don't think there probably was, and in general, i know this is not the only walgreens where there are concerns about their maintenance and maybe at some further time, we should have a hearing, maybe somebody from walgreens, we could identify some of those problems, i feel for the neighbor, it's, you know, i understand the challenge that you have and it sounds like the project sponsor with the chart and all the suggestions he's made to remedy things is more than amenable to working with you and has every intent to hose down the street, to pick up the street and make things better, to the extent that we can look into walgreens and it sounds the city can work on mta to work on the parking issues and we can solve that, it