rather than having a c.u., there is a circuit breaker or soft cap idea. will aim at 20 percent, i think. that is probably too low. but restaurants are principally permitted until a block of saturation. then they become conditional. it would address a lot of the concerns about too many restaurants. and the other thing and it might do is encourage trust runs to not dominate certain blocks. if i move somewhere else, i will go down here where there are fewer restaurants. you get them to spread out a little bit. it is something we are working on to loosen the controls in other neighborhoods. right now, the additional controls in the district's only apply for the most part to the locally owned restaurants. we think they have outlived their usefulness. do we really need these anymore? he will have to do something if you get rid of the full-service definition. americans don't want any more. president olague: thank you for your work with staff on this. >> i believe something should be done. the past the -- does it pass the abc laws. this is over saturated. you hav

the first option will require a conditional use if is currently requires a c.u. or is not permitted. optiopn 2, the preferred position allows the least impact full use to be permitted in our own neighborhood commercial district. restaurants can either be principally permitted gordon did not existing controls were further restaurants. the department was a recommendation is to reduce to that standard conditions of approval, remove the condition from the planning cut, maintain controls and additional districts. there is a fast foods of district there. and about option 2 for the entitlement process. president olague: i wanted to recognize regina, dick andt this time. from the small business commission. gosh i want to first acknowledge that the small business commission supported the first piece of legislation, and to express our great appreciation to you to take a look at the great number of definitions and to streamline its. i have not had a chance to digest all of the options yet, but i have been mindful for option #1 for a certain amount of our restaurants. a limi

if you have a small restaurant, in you when one person playing a guitar, you have to have a c.u. with that caveat going into it with this 10:00 p.m. limit, because it makes it harder to protest it. even with the noise, the things that janet talked about, it is still considered acceptable to have moderate noise up to that our, -- hour, so, once again, i would prefer that it be broader. president o'brien: ok, anybody else? are we talking about -- does the project sponsor -- where neighborhood organizations would not be able to opt out of this? if we made it citywide without the conditional use provision at all? >> the commission has had discussions around this. this is what they would like. let me rephrase this. well clearly hear from the commission of this point in time is that you want to make it citywide, and that is the first priority, making it easy, make it citywide. if there are greater concerns, then our commission, instead of moving -- we could do neighborhood by neighborhood, which could happen in the western soma area, or like the north beach area, you could never have a

commissioner clyde: where you need a c.u., since that is a different thing than limits in live performancethat is why we want to go with the option to allow -- north beach has an embarrassment of issues. there is so much going on. it is an issue, allowing flexibility within that very dense community. it is an issue. but the fact is, there is a lot of it now, and much of it happens later and into the evening. we are trying to get these permits to bridge the gap before 8:00 or the 5:00 to 10:00. it would be helpful if we could get those permits in north beach, but it would be extremely valuable to get this to the outlying areas where, again, there are very low impact so i would definitely support the wider options. we are looking at the whole thing, not just a couple of neighborhoods. and this is technical. this has to do with limitations. one is compliance with new ways violations under article 29. basically, if a neighbor complains, you have to turn it down, you have to turn it down.

we will deal with it in the beat -- the c.u. process, but i want to thank you because they do not think that process is working very well. president o'brien: commissioner o'conner? commissioner o'conner: what is the location? supervisor mar: it is across from the old alexandria theater. commissioner o'conner: the second is that i just want to show my appreciation that you listen to the voice of the small district -- small-business in your commissioner area. thank you. president o'brien: commissioner? commissioner: i believe that petco did impact is small independent pet stores, and i am very sensitive to predatory pricing by large companies that can offset their higher costs of doing business in san francisco with their lower-cost operations and other jurisdictions, so it is really not a level playing field, and the impact is tremendous, is an impact and often cannot be assessed in three months or six months. sometimes coming 18 months is the time it usually takes for people to change their buying patterns and start to respond t

hear them both together, but you need to take your action on the shadow first before you take your c.u. action. >> good afternoon, commissioners. ben fu, planning department staff. the 899 valencia on planning code 134, 151, 175, and to allow the demolition of existing service station and construction of a new approximately 50,000 square foot 52'4" containing 18 dwelling units, ground-floor retail space and below-grade parking spaces and two commercial spaces and two car share spaces. the project utilizes the eastern neighborhood pipeline status per planning commissioning code section 175.6e to elect to conform to the controls under the former have lens ya street neighborhood commercial zoning district. and the project size currently trends zoning district in a 55-foot high district. and the project seeks approval of findings regarding shadow impacts to a public mark in this case the mission playground per planning code section 295. the problem was the applicable requirements to planning code is consistent with objectives and policies of the general plan that complies with the first so

. >> so you approved the c.u. with the upper floor being the size of what's being shown as the current living area. >> second. commissioner antonini. >> ok. i was going to ask mr. crawford for a comparison of the relative size, if you vu that of the the fifth floor structure that's to the up hillside as to the proposed fifth floor of this project. >> i don't have the size of the neighbors. >> not that it makes that much difference. i guess the only reason i would be opposed to the motion is that if there were a demonstrateable impact and although this is not a d.r. hearing, i realize but we still have to use the same concepts. what are we trying to make other than to constrict the size of their dwelling unit? i don't see any impacts that have been demonstrated. i think it's appropriate as it was designed in the latest rendition the project sponsor did. >> i'd argue that it's a neighborhood character issue and if you look at 1.1 of the architect's presentation, the penthouses on either side are shown the penthouses

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