i am not familiar was the entire building an office building for them? >> i believe there were other tenants for the building. it's a non descrypt warehouse building. i imagine there were others. it's quite tall. >> is it common to have this and other places in the city? >> the primary facades and the secondary and we rank the importance of the sasad in those fashions and do it the same way for this building, not so much for architecture but events. >> in other cases like this we will prioritizize facade over the other? >> sometimes yes, depends on the resource and why it's significant in the first place. >> and my last -- well, my last question at least on this issue if a building his. >> >> is historical due to an association or event or person do we have to preserve the facade as well? it's if significant to preservation or architecture than it's more important but in this case is it more important to ensure that i guess the historical nature of the building is remembered versus the facade in of itself being preserved? >> i think it is important still

bifurcating one side of the building over the other, a building that is an historic resource. is this an exception to what typically happens in the planning commission department? >> no, it's not an exception. very often a project that involved modification to a building that is an historic resource would remove some of the historic features of the building, and you know remove them or alter them. and also typically involves restoration of the remaining portion of the historic building. one of them that is coming to mind that's been constructed is 178 townsend street. it was a power plant, the electric and power company. the shell remains, some of the features were removed and there's a good sign addition of a contemporary design added to the building and resulted to not impact the resource. >> there was no appeal on that but they were trying to get a mills act determination for that building if ire recall correctly and that it was an historic resource and the tags to keep up for the historic resource but what they really wanted to use it for a high level and keeping the shell

the building. two, using the only available at this sight for a viable building with a glass facade allowing the windows to be cooled without outside air. three, bringing vitality for over 600 civic forums every year. our attorney will describe how this design fulfills the obligation of the california environmental quality act. >> good afternoon, president breed, members of the board. the only issue before you today is whether the m and d adequately disclosed and project limitations based on ceqa standards. i already heard the commission deny the appeal of course we are going to ask you to deny the md and hold it and with coninclusion and there is no fair argument towards mitigated impact in terms of the project. with that said, i want to turn to your discussion of the planning department which is the crux of this issue. i do want to start with the idea with what ms. jones said and miss tam as well. the events criteria is unusual. what also is unusual with regard to this project is we have a throug

and the cost of the building. that was given temple materials that were submitted by the project sponsor, at that time based upon the assessed land cost to have property and the cost of construction that had been completes at that time, that would be more than 1.560 million, that would be something that would not be subject to a mandatory dr hear k, we did still a section 311 neighborhood notification, people within 300 feet of the property people to file a discretionary review, there was no sdetion nair review filed at that time, now it's on appeal to you. na's all i have to say on the matter, i'm available for many questions and i feel the code does not fairly cover this, this is a way that i felt would be fair not only to this project but to -- hopefully it doesn't happen again, but should this happen again in the future, this is a fair interpretation to apply. .sing you would not make any change tos the current interpretation now considering this particular case that's before us? >> no i mean, i think that it'

this is a contributory building in the historic building so given the history of this project, there was a lot of concern we began this process with. over time, members of our board, the members of our planning and zoning committee and members of the neighborhood have now met on a number of occasions with the project proponents. the sessions have sometimes been direct, i guess what the diplomats might call frank and open discussions were held. but i'm very pleased to say that working together we, with the sponsor of this project, now believe that we have a preservation oriented solution to this particular project and so for the reasons in the letter that we sent you on january 23rd i'm here to tell you how pleased i am to be able to say that on behalf of htd we offer our full support for a certificate of appropriateness for this project and this is the way the project, the way the process is supposed to work. thank you. >> any other member of the public wish to speak? seeing none, we will close public comment and bring it back to commission. commissioner pearlman. >> yeah, i had a co

the building. cooling and ventilation is especially important for a building that will hold public assemblies to reduce energy use and pollution. to accommodate the manuality ity -- majority of these windows, the club must construct a three floor facade on embarcadero to its high performing glass. the windows will be on the embarcadero side of the building where the stuart street side would eliminate the building. the fossil fuels on the shadow of it's doors. i urge you to reflect the corridor of the highest stainable design and uphold the planning commission decision ceo and cofounding of the energy foundation. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> public speaker: hello supervisors. my name is phillip riley. i brought these catalogues that chronicle the 1934 strike. i hope i brought enough for everybody. so i will just set them here and you can help yourselves if you like. the president of my union sent me here today to speak in favor of this project. and the stuart street

the total value of the building this building is not a candidate for conversion of office to residential it is possessing a life safety risk for the handbag ability and will become a burden on police, transit and public services and if you're looking for affordable housing the soft story dwelling unit is a better way to add units this is not a - >> may i ask a followup through the chair. >> sir we have a question. >> thanks for presenting our life and safety improvements that the dbi has questioned at the request of the building over and over owner we had follow-up meetings because you couldn't main those unite as residential wus of the issues you've brought up dbi through it's discretion made an exception so if the city is making an exception that the building owner didn't have to enlist we agree why would you be bringing those points up now. >> the building inspection doesn't want the authority i've sat in all the meetings but never been documentation waving not the city building code but the state building code in those meetings have you the fire department the fire department is the

the 12 stories of building. and the roof terrace again just kind of a conceptual idea, we're going to have a really lovely roof terrace at the talk of the building with seating, lounge area, a place for people to enjoy the view which should be quite speck tack klr. -- spectacular. getting to here this will give you a better idea what it will actually look like on market street. the ground floor utility you can see and the building as it gets to 120 feet looking north, and then that's our property line along oak street looking east along oak street, there's a parking lot on the east side of our project site and this will give you a little more of the color and feeling what it will look like on market street. we're really hoping to activate the street at market. right now it's not in the greatest of shape with some retail users down there, a bit of -- there's a small art gallery down there and there's not a lot of life unfortunately on the street. so we're really excited about activating market street. then oak st

we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings,

building; right? so the space and the one hundred and 10 foot deep auto shop is what makes that building significant now based on acceptable you know alternatives we can keep 10 or thirty feet but if we change that and keep the facade no one will understand what happened behind the facade so the ability to incorporate that into the loading zone on that was a multi story building. >> in the interests of the recess. >> there's a recess piece of it. >> so incorporating it into the design we're keeping it i mean i don't want to be that explicit but it's one of the proposed examples. >> i have a slightly different take on it you know there are historic resources that or landmark buildings or historic landmark resources that are known for events that happened there i worked on the one that the names memorial quilt was there the building itself once again the building the spates behind it really is not significant to the fact of what happened in that particular place that's a hard one relative to pine street

the total value of the building this building is not a candidate for conversion of

the slope to accommodate a 27 overall building height that was negotiated the building is shifted back on the lots and the driveway slopes down i have a section - itself lines in red illustrates the slope regarding the set back at the back and the fact that our building extends slightly not 5 foot but 3 foot 9 i worked with the adjacent building architect we came to an architect he'll slide his rear yard wall forward he didn't come near the set back this was an agreement too two architects the buildings were built together there was not an impervious to align those building. >> is my time up or - >> thank you. >> okay speakers in support of project sponsor okay. seeing none dr requester a 2 minute rebuttal. >> thanks the only point i know you're not here to be the ash terse of the private we've negotiated that was actually based on the design of the adjacent house and we hadn't seep this at this point so you know we were norwalk in good faith and that haas house has no projects above the agreed height limits it was reasonable to assume that the second house we've asked for plans of it

at the far west into the building. we have a pylon here in natoma pedestrian way and on the north side we have another pylon. the people that approach the building it will be clearly visible to what the building is coming to and the name of the sponsor that has generally provided funds for the project. i trust it looks better on your handouts. if it's not on the screen. the building name the 13-foot pylon where the sponsors name is on one phase and the other phase is directional on the information signing on the pylons. this is a portal above the entrance. they are into beale street lobby or into the grand hall that would bear the sponsors name. in addition to the building we have the park is another large component that is going to be available for sponsorship. the park signage is separate from the pylon signage. from the ground level you can see there are eight locations for the signs. i have a better image for the sign itself. it's a separate distinct sign. it's related to the park. it's the 8 on the ground level di

an additional 10 feet so the impact of the building is identical to the existing building on both sides that the rear of the building be set back with the grade and the roof deck be removed because the cannon like environment that echoes the noise that includes cousin lower terrace and on that includes the condition presenting of the order court recognizing the new homes are only being approved through the variance procedure. >> i'm mary ann i live on the court something not mentioned the fact that 22 order court has benefited from a variance that is the variance decision letter issued in 19984 the proposal at that time ware to second-story addition that was built 10 feet into the 11 foot set back the justification we based on the lot next door that has it's only parking what's the point of going through those variances if they're now granted without regard for the neighbors the same property owner has come back for another set back given 22 court was lutd to blt build f we think the state street the old court building should not be permitted again the set back variance and huge rear ya

this is not the building to recall a few minutes we talked about the project with the focus on building housing that is noting necessarily in the category of affordable housing that is not part of it what this eir has to get only the second point of what i'm missing there recent no, it usage violations i believe the two lots in north-south direction will will visually an effect i'll be concerned about together with no adjoining buildings with the eir that visible simulations looking at the east and looking at west with the historic district and the u cu city hall has a mark on the skyline effecting market and van ness and the adjoining building will effect how we look or not look to city hall so the massing what surprised me unfortunately, the intersection of market and van ness is probably from my experience one of the worse intersections along two very powerful streets one market and one van ness what we have from a traffic point one of the most inefficient and almost non-workable intersections with two many modes public safety and easy of pedestrian movement is absolutely zero and th

she asked her new friends to build a johnstown house and they did. they built this building. they put it up they did not , finish it. the brothers did not put up the railings and they did not cover the ceilings. they did not panel the walls or put in plumbing. the brothers did not do that work because they had trouble with their trolley. they could not get the streetcar to come all the way to glen echo like they wanted to. clara barton made the decision that she could not live here without the trolley. she needed the mail delivered every day. she needed good access into washington. the roads between here and washington were not dependable. she chose to use this as a warehouse until the streetcar did arrive. for six years, this was a barn full of boxes. this was just a rough holding. -- rough building. finally, the trolley arrived in front of this building and when it did, clara barton wanted to make this place livable. she had to do that. she had to change this from a barn to a home and she did not want to spend a lot of money that had been donated for hurricane efforts. it w

this is a whole building. it's not two buildings. trying to separate it is a deception that the 2009 ruling clearly would not have allowed. even the report says this is a violation of the secretary of standards for historic preservation. here we have an historic site and location to say that we can do something for the back of a building on a more secondary street where one of the main arteries that really commands the attention will be stripped and replaced with rather unattractive modern facade is completely inappropriate. please reaffirm your 2009 decision to respect the historic importance of this whole building. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> members of the board of supervisors i am ralph. i was the communications director of the [inaudible] march as organized by local 10 and deeply involved in the resolution that was passed by unanimity and proclamation and convention of the reigning body of the organization whereas it stated police and armed goons fired shotguns and teargas and bombs and explosives in

in to the building. the elevators aren't functioning yet to the higher floors. i'm not sure if they are going to be but as of now they are saying people from the 6th to 20th floor are allowed back in the building. i think probably in the next half hour we will head to the building and assess damage wise. >> again taking that information that you say the sixth through 20th floors are cleared for people to get back in the building. we are glad you got out safely. thank you for your time after escaping that fire at the torch in dubai. thank you. >>> now on to iraq. there are concerns that a plan to take back mosul from isis will only fuel insnablt the region. the united arab emirates and other coalition members say the offensive which would be largely led by shia-dominated forces would alienate sunnis. isis tried to capital hooizize on sunni's disenchantment with the iraqi government. >>>er bill is at the center of fighting against the isis terror group. senior international correspondent went to the front

compared to existing building fabric removed. there's no procedural reason to and no public benefit to be derived from disapproving the permit now under appeal and sending this half built project back to the very beginning of the review process when it has already been adjudicated in every possible venue. please allow this nine year june toe to proceed to completion and allow to uphold the permit. thank you. >> mr. sanchez? >> good evening, scott sanchez, planning department, just to respond to a couple of points, first in regards to the concerns about blight, after the collapse of the building, i did meet with the department of building inspection, they had in there -- and inspector duf if can get the terms right there's the engineer of the project sponsor, there was also the enbacker engineer for the adjacent project, there were meetings to discuss this, it was determined that the retaining walls, the foundation work needed to be done in order to stabilize the hillside so that was authorized by the department of building inspec

in many buildings in dubai, right, about 70% of the buildings in high-rise buildings in dubai are clad with a very flammable called a thermo plastic core. >> oh. i can't speak for that. but that's unfortunate if it's true. >> listen. i really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. actually, leah how far away are you or is your building from this building? >> oh literally just across the street. so like a few feet. like a regular one-lane street. >> and do you have any idea how many other buildings in the area were evacuated? >> at least four. that i know of. it's a very heavily populated area. >> at its height how many stories would you estimate the fire was encompassing? because from some of the video you shot it looks like multiple multiple stories. >> oh absolutely. i counted 20 at least on the one side and on the other side probably about 12 or 13. the one nice i shouldn't say nice but the good thing, it wasn't a sudden thrush of fire. just before 2:00 actually and it was around 3:00 that the mass chaos kind of unfolded. >> and did the fire actually spread to lower floors as

the opportunity to be able to do anything to preserve the use of that building. that kind of preservation is really within the purview of other departments and they have the staff and ability to go in and find out the extent to which they are altering the use of that building and then there are rules that prohibit that, but normally it doesn't come before us unless they want to do something with the structure. >> well there is an aspect of historic preservation that looks at neighborhoods and what neighborhood character has been. i would think that a building that has high occupancy of tenants that is converted to something that is not tenants but more dormitory space or that has been an issue with [inaudible] with our university has jurisdiction -- the historic preservation commission could have jurisdiction over that or make a statement about that. >> yes, it could have jurisdiction but what triggers the jurisdiction is if they want to alter the building in some way. >> got it. >> then it comes before us -- >> it's not -- >> -- doesn't get in the front door so

coming into the building there's bike parking for more than double the number of spaces that are required and then seasonal mrarpts wrapping around in the public spates some striking trees that would provide color on the streetscape and as well unique streetscape furnishings and additional parking and lighting so - katherine i want to - >> thank you. >> thank you very much bob and todd as mentioned this is a 6 hundred 67 square feet office building with retail will be at least 6 hundred and 57 parking spaces that may go up with biotech parking garages and childcare facility on site the project component can talk about the process to determine whether or not there will be depending on the tenant and if a tenant sponsored a childcare for sponsorship it fits into the building the design you saw does request four variances the one from the redevelopment plan is the same as the design for development so really 4 sets of variances again, this is substantially the same variantss 3 were approved relating to height and the street holding the building out to the property line tower saying that and

we want to build more housing. we want to make sure that the low income housing is the best it can be and increase housing opportunities in the city and everyone shares in the great prosperity in the city. we want it here in chinatown and north bech as well. and how about that more house something yeah, we can work on this but during the holidays it's about celebrating the culture and sharing and making sure peoplend chinese folks have a long history here and we want to share it with everybody in the city and i am proud of our public works and the rest of the city departments joining the volunteers. have a safe day today. this is the 19th year? 15. wow 15 years of cleaning. i know muhammad has all of these statistics and we got rid of the graffiti on the street and i know it because i did them myself and the traffic and the light polls and i want to thank all of the crews and making sure you're safe out there and great appreciation for everyone. i see you out here, the wonderful agencies. there are so many of you a