the building itself is listed as a category eight building. the building is -- actually both buildings are contributors to the hayes valley commercial historic district, and staff is very supportive of the application. we are recommending the following features and traditions be preserved and safeguarded. those are the original palm logos stenciled on the exterior, the walls lines with photographs of performing artists and artistic directors, the interior decorated with wainscoting, the lunch and dinner menus composed on a daily basis based on the availability of the local fish purchase var and farms. i'll move onto the second applicant which is balboa cafe strunt and bar. the bar opened in 1913 despite the signage above the door, which says 1914. the owner was super stitious and did not like the number 13. it was originally a working man's saloon. it has become a more sophisticated establishment over the years but the historic integrity of the building is intact. many original details remain including the back bar, exterior signage, including

of that building.that's one way to look at the scale. here's another way. there's those trees again up on the right. those are steps that go up 27th street. the hill is steep enough here 27th street is two lanes. >> thank you sir, your time is up. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good evening. my name is nick anderson i live 4175 cesar chavez street basically down the hill where this property will be. i support housing at.9+ this si. i recognize the new well-designed housing is good thing for the city and neighborhood. my wife and i have lived in san francisco for 15 years, renting at first and now recently owning. we'd experienced demand for howing and need for units. with this proposed development our interest has been finding reasonable balance between the development and privacy. the majority of our time is as a family is spent in the the back of our house which has large window and exposed to where the structures will be built. our focus from the outside has been it preserve some that priv

it doesn't want to be next to the adjacent building, residential building. and yet everything that was done was pushing them to -- and it's a relatively small site -- to a fairly deep setback in the fro front. and it's not even an historical building as such. it's historical resource which admittedly needs some level of significance applied to it, and i think that the d.a. knows where i'm going with this. i'm not convinced that the 15 feet is -- >> say it again? >> president fung: is untouchable. when i looked at the drawings further at this time as compared to when we saw them for the variance hearing, recognizing that they couldn't do anything so i said, okay, the variance is all right. there's no other way they could have dealt with the open space. there's no other way they could have dealt with the exposure, given this particulars of this site. the only thing they saw that perhaps helps a little bit both in terms of how the massing relates to valencia and a little bit of relief to the adjacent neighbors is to just slide the addition forward. instead of h

3. >> building 3. >> commissioner black: building 3 is clever as can be, and i hope that that's possible, yeah. so those are my comments. >> president wolfram: thank you. i have some final comments here. i don't -- does anybody else have any comments before we wrap up? i want to thank you for your presentation. it was really a fascinating project. i would say that in these projects, that there is a lot of new development all happens, and where everything is new, that they are definitely benefited when they're historic resources that are part of it, and that i encourage you to be creative in your thinking and maybe incorporate ways that are not necessarily meeting the secretary standards necessarily, but there are ways to include elements of historic buildings in the development because i think it will provide some richness to the project, just some variety. i am a little concerned about all the new developments that will be proposed as part of pier 70, the southern half of pier 70, and then, the amount of new development, even with your great design, it might be a little bland. i think w

these buildings, there's no issue of safety in these buildings. but the -- in order to provide a five-acre park and pay for it with this project, a totally public park, permanently public park, an enhanced shoreline, a connection to other parks in the area, working with r.p.d., we pushed the density on the proposed site, and that included two 14-story buildings. those buildings, we don't believe are out of scale with the neighborhood. we're in san francisco. this is not the flat earth. there's a large cliff right behind innes, and the sites behind that go up rapidly to more than 200 feet. so we believe that there's context for tall buildings. we believe that it provides the ability to provide open space. which thi we think it's good planning. we think it's smart to form the project in this way, and, you know -- and it was four years of planning. none of this was out of the hot, and all of it involved the community. does that answer all your questions? all right. thank you. >> vice president melgar: thank you. commission commissioner ko commissione

. >> not for the entire building. again, with our fs 05, i welcome anybody on-line watching this to go look up fs 05, and it outlines the requirements to what extent you sprinkler a whole building. >> supervisor safai: well, if you had to springler the whole building, you'd be talking about displacing residents, while you do the whole building. you have decks and the cantilevered portion of a property. in that instance, you have to have two forms of egress if you just have -- i'm sorry. >> what we're seeing, and again, this is prescribed in the code, i'd like to make a quite point here. earlier, i was sitting here and taking this all in with -- we're amending the planning code, and you have that authority to do that as this board, this body. the fire code, the state code, and so does the building code. and as the local jurisdiction, we do not have the authority to waive state requirements on building and fire code requirements, so i think that's very important for all of us to understand that. and the other thing to u

without advocating for this building and in your community, we would not have this district 11 building, so thank you. additionally, i want to thank the building owners, mr. omahoni and mr. sullivan. owners are often forgotten piece of this equation. in this market, our owners could have easily chosen to sell to somebody else. they chose to sell to meta as a nonprofit to ensure that their tenants could stay in the city and keep their legacy in the city. [applause] >> and then, there are partner organizations, poder and somcan, who with the small but mighty meta team, sat with our tenants to explain what this program was and answer our tenants' countless concerns about their housing rights. our tenants can now stay here for generations to come. [applause] >> today is a day to celebrate, and let's all work together to make such celebrations the norm, rather than the exception, in all neighborhoods experiencing displacement in san francisco. so i'd like to bring up eli who has been in this building for over 18 years. he has three generations in this building. he's what we mean when we say

and appellant states well, there are plenty of buildings in the area that are four-story buildings. and please take a look at his photographs. they are all modern structures. they are not super imposed modern structures on a 100--year-old fragile historic building, so none of them, including quoted by him, 135 wetmore alley, it's not washington scenic corridor. and i'm not aware of any details pertaining to that property. so also, i would like to rebutt appellant's statement that i apply appeal permit of 8496-s. i go by what's black and white. this is what it says, black and white. if it is not correct, applicant should have corrected it. and to -- regarding decks, he says the appellant has a deck. our deck is grandfathered in. the building inspector told me on many occasions it's not legal. if it ever burns down, you cannot build it -- rebuild it. so our decks on washington street are not legal. there has been no environmental review done. the property's nonconforming. all nonconforming property requires environmental review. and to -- does not have soil report. the building sits o

the building goes through a separate filter that's on the outside of the building. that filter traditionally has filtered out sediment that collects in the lines. building 606 is at the end of a water line that is not used very often because there's not too many people that are out at 606. so as a consequence to that, if the lines aren't used regularly, sediment sits in the lines, so when you turn on the water, you have to let it flow to remove that sediment. part of what p.u.c. was doing out there today was testing not only the water quality for what's coming in at the meter for what the p.u.c. is bringing into the line that feeds onto the former naval base and ultimately into 606, so they were testing their water that was coming in and then the water that comes into the building. they're going to -- one of the things that they've actually exploring is that several years ago, the navy and p.u.c. were using more water out there. they were using water that was -- that there were retrieving through a fire hydrant out there, so that was, in a sense, flushing the lines,

so build -- i've known them as build, inc, many, many years ago. and i've known chester and his company. i know this company. they're very principled, and they reach out to the community based organization. they reach out to the top, but they also reach out to the little business. they manage to see chester, to see the needs of including as many people in their process as they can. so i'm really happen that a principle business is applying to build housing on the site, and i'm going to trust that they're going to work with the banya or any city department staff to make it work because it is a beautiful banya. it will be wonderful housing because they serve families and families like mine who got bad mortgages in the bayview. one of the conversations i had recently yesterday, was someone who was saying our neighborhood was changing. and they kind of wanted it to move into the area of gentrification. i don't believe it's all negative when change happens, but the other part is you have to can plan for your family members. neighborhoods have to plan, c

the gropius step of the building was everything the building is architecture which itself is also sculpture which is also painting so you don't need to hang paintings on the wall here in gropius didn't hang any paintings on the wall on. the four yea leads to the auditorium where there was enough seating for one hundred sixty students. and they said this what disciplines were taught at the bauhaus the holes in the yard over the groupies of vision didn't you know kind of design times of hand the crowds but also with new technology and industrial possibilities. a new kind of architecture of design or are you pick. one of these was muscle boy or he was only twenty three when he reinvented the chair. flying first silly kandinsky and we are now finding are many others but i always have a passionate cyclist went out only looked at his novel bond photos for he could make a change out of your car buying some made from steel tubes that was born of a new. dog or. means from the row one further and designed the cantilevered chair and icon of modernism. from under it capture the essence of what the othe

we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildingshe 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, not o

these buildings and the people that lived and worked in these buildings are a very important part of our history, and so i think it's important to tell their story truthfully, and one way to do that is through the architecture. the architecture is part of the material culture that still survives today that you can visit and you can experience, and it's kind of a vehicle to tell their story, and so that's how i'm using the architecture. but it's also the work i'm doing is also important because like when i kind of started doing this research, i found that there is information both about these structures and these people, but it's everywhere and there's little bits of it everywhere and so i've taken a lot of time, years, to complete it and kind of get it in one place, and also to make it digital, and it's taken me a long time to do this. and i'd like to be able to share it with others and so not everyone has to go back and do the same thing i'm doing, because it's taken me so long to do it that i want others to benefit from it and have access to it so they can move forward and do resea

these buildings and the people that lived and worked in the buildings are very important part of history. i think it is important to tell the story truthfully and one way is pictures. the architecture is part of the material culture that survives today that you can visit and experience and it is a vehicle to tell the story and that is amazing, the architecture but the work is important because when i started doing this research, i found that there is information about the structures and the people but it is everywhere. little bits of everywhere and it has taken a lot of time to compile it and get it in one place and to make it digital. it has taken a long time to do this and i would like to be able to share it with others. not everyone has to go and do the same thing. i want others to be able to benefit from it and have access to it so they can move forward and do the research with it. produce meaningful research from it and not have to spend a lot of time compiling the research. i love it and enjoyed doing it but it takes a lot of time. every site i go to, i learn something new. i have

multifamily buildings and smaller buildings as we move out to the waterfront. as you move to the waterfront, the grain is finer and smaller scales. the idea of tapering to the water's edge is reflected in the way we've positioned the urban form. it's a village that's two- three- and six-story buildings and there are two mid-rise at 14 stories. we thought that was important because it gave us the ability to mark the entry and the public places for the project. it allowed us to keep the footprint as compact as possible, so we didn't create an urban wall. i would like to note that the public open space has been positioned to really occupy the point of india basin, so it's complete and we have this pairing of open spaces in the shoreline park and big green to complete a public park around the cove. >> vice president melgar: the commission may have further questions. thank you. >> all right. sure. >> if i may wrap it up quickly. i'm sorry. i know it's a long presentation. a few more things that i forgot to mention as part of my presentation, there are some minor cha

directly to the east, marathon plaza, an office building. to the south, a smaller office building. to the north is an at&t switching facility, and then the buildings to the west are residential with blue to the north and 77 dow to the west. the site is currently a parking lot. it is fenced on all sides with curb cuts from second street. a view looking west on dow place, and looking back out towards the city and then from second street towards the site, the site shown in yellow. the proposed massing of the project is completely compliant with the eastern neighborhood guidelines, features a slender 60 foot wide tower on second street and horizontal podium along the west to the site. diagram shows the podium has been significantly set back and shaped to comply with the 45° sky plane requirement. and the vehicular circulation and loading to the far west end of the site, eliminating the curb cut, and handling trash loading and other service in the building. so one of the happy results of the hard work we did with the neighbors to ensure the bl was respectful of their residential neighbo

the big challenge here was to get on board with the building department, because both fire and building reviews these applications. so if fire thinks this is a reasonable equivalency, this is what we're going to go with, if the building department disagrees, we grind to a halt. the problem we had is the building department thought our requirements were to strict, to conservative in our approach. we looked at this thing every way, every angle and spent a lot of time on this and came up with these solutions. not only that, we created a flow chat. we went back and said okay, what is required, what is written in the code? once we agreed on what is required for these units, we said okay, if we can't meet a specific prescribed requirement, what is the enhancement to offset that deficiency? so that is what we did. we went back to the beginning and worked through this with a flow chart, and i think we've all come to an understanding, and hopefully, we'll come up with a document by the end of this week that fire and building can sign off on. >> commissioner covington: excellent. thank you so muc

it is only one building in the neighborhood, but i think it is also by far the most significant building in the neighborhood. and i think it's true whether you look at it from the point of view of it's development and the development of the economic system of the west, if you look at it as far as an extremely fine example of 19th century architect's use of building techniques which allowed it to survive the 1906 earthquake by essentially floating. if you look at it in so many different ways, it is so important to san francisco that i think it -- excuse me, i think that we should press as diligently as we can so that this building does not just sit and deteriorate. now, i know the city has, over the years, expressed very little interest in this because there has always been something that people felt was a little more pressing in need. but eventually, it will just fall down. so i -- i think that the letter is -- is the way to go. >> president wolfram: thank you. commissioner matsuda? >> commissioner matsuda: i totally agree. i'm still a little worried about this. i understand and apprecia

he would build as well as planned. he immigrated to the united states to philadelphia and then came here and washington met him in charleston on the southern tour in 1792. he remembered him. when the competition for a design for this house took place he invited hoben. he was the winner for the start. this was an english squire's house. he saw to it that it happened. >> what wads the basic design architecturally in a period style? >> late georgian. it's patterned on a house in dublin ireland. it's the capital of ireland. it was modified. i don't know by whom. none of that in the house. it's all open. the block of the house is mid georgia. it's very out of style in england and scotland, of course. it becomes a little confused. >> i find it ie ron that i cron europeans thought it was out of style and yet it's become one of the most iconic buildings in the world. >> agree. they weren't doing that kind of work anymore. he wanted all the carving. that was out. they gave him what he wanted. >> your book is about the stones of

it here, build it there, build it everywhere. we have a shortage of services. please put this forward as quickly as possible and also do it on the west side. thanks. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commissioner coppell? >> commissioner koppel: yeah, in general, i'm supportive of this use. and yes, we could definitely use more men cal health and rehab services. i think this location is primed up for it, and also to see the support from the supervisors, d.p.h. and the other offices involved, i think it's a good idea. >> president hillis: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: so i guess question for staff. one of the residents around the building talks about a concentration of social services. i look at the aerial photo, and i guess google picks up some of the businesses and things. i don't really see any other social service agency in the neighborhood. >> yeah. just from initial studies, we didn't notice a significant concentration in this area. >> c

influence a building code. some of our provisions are implemented through a building permit, which after we approved and scent to d.b.i. for at their review and issuance, is out of our hands and we do not actively monitor that. there would have been no specific reason for asked to be made aware of this issue if the complaint had not been filed. >> secondly, i have to think about how i want to phrase this. what is accomplished by issuing the suspension? >> what is accomplished is, technically, the permit required a new variance. if it was going to be issued in that manner. because we are the law of today. the law applies up to the plan of -- up to the point of issuance. that is the technical importance of that. i do want to mention, also, i think i mentioned this earlier, i did mention the fact that our variance letters do not include the three year expiration language as a condition of approval, like specifically in the bullet point condition approval of the letter. it is in the body of the letter in the -- at

component and build component. we'll ask you to approve general plan amendments, mostly related to the build component, the 700 project. we are also doing a -- several zoning amendments, including creation of special use, design, standards, guidelines, and finally, adopt of shadow impact findings for the project. so before i go on describe the build project, i will hand it over to stacy bradley of rec and park, so they can describe that portion of the projects. >> vice president melgar: thank you. hello, ms. bradley. >> good afternoon, commissioners. stacy bradley, deputy director of planning at rec and park. we're excited to be here at this milestone phase and are really proud of the project and all of the work we've didn't with our partners. we consider this to be one of the most important undertakings of the park world in san francisco in our modern history. we have the opportunity to partner with build to clean up the site and create an enhanced parks through our development projects. i want to re-emphasize the

in what might be the first act of building-on-building bullying, tech giant salesforce stuck it to millennium"bedrock, baby." >> wertheim: you think that was in reference to what's going on across the street? >> peskin: i don't think it was in reference, i know it was in reference, because i know the people who built that building. >> wertheim: the city still doesn't require all skyscrapers to go to bedrock, but it has made some changes to prevent another tower from leaning. more review of foundations for new tall buildings, for one. as for the millennium tower, on this almost everyone agrees: it needs to be fixed. what do we do with a tilting, sinking building? >> cauthen: i've heard freeze the ground, in perpetuity. freeze the ground. >> wertheim: perpetually freeze the ground under this building? >> cauthen: perpetually freeze the ground. they've talked about removing 20 stories from the top of it to reduce its weight. >> wertheim: what... what do you think of that, lopping off... lopping off the top 20 stories? >> cauthen: god, i hope they don't have to... shoot, that sounds like a horrib

a lot of buildings are really old buildings. they had openings on property line.the difficult part is for the applicant or the project sponsor to demonstrate and prove to us that that window actually existed. in speaking with the defendants on the appeal, they've never, like joe duffy said, they've never really said to their knowledge the windows were put in without the benefit of a permit. and they were trying to comply with ab009 to the best of their ability and from what i understand from the permits and everything, they've done that with the rated window assemblies and they filed the proper documents in conjunction with ab009, they've been recorded with the city and county of san francisco recorders' office and knonote orized. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> good evening, thank you for taking your time and wanting fair outcomes for all of us here. my family lives long-term in the apartment in question. so please remember that our life will be the most affected by the decision you make today. so thank you for keeping us in mind and

where they have found the building to be in conformance with the life safety standards set forth by building electric, plumbing and fire codes supporting the safe occupancy. this reinspection took place on june 26. so, thank you for that update. congratulations to d.b.i. staff who have been meeting with the mayor's office of housing and its team working on local code requirements for a factory-built homeless housing promise at 1064 and 1068 mission street. that is between 7th and mission, i believe. where we hope to build 250 studios on land provided by the federal government. a detailed preapplication meeting on this project was scheduled for early september, making the meeting with d.b.i. helpful to insure that local code specifications are all known well in advance. a big thank you goes to director huey and amorous chan of the central building permit bureau and james xan of the bureau services who received a letter of appreciation from the mayor's office of housings for their stellar public service while working on 100% affordable project that will help low-income families in the communit