in the c.u. process you're reviewing a decision by the planning decision in a quasi determination and so you have to make findings based on the legal standard that applies. here you will be acting in a legislative capacity, reviewing the m.t.a. board or the m.t.a. directors' legislative decision. so basically -- >> in 60 days? >> right. there will be procedural parameters but you'll have legislative discretion. the way that the ordinance is structured, if the board decides to reverse the m.t.a.'s decision the board will make findings about why you have reversed, why you have reached a different conclusion. and the standards that -- that you apply will be determined by the board. >> okay. so it's pretty subjective. based on what i'm hearing in terms of what we like or don't like. okay. and, you know, i would like to -- i would like to at a later time in this meeting ask if we truly are going to try to model off the c.u. process, maybe not the standard, but the process, if we could to increase the

'cause we have c.u.'s that are before us frequently that are here within months. >> we've been asking the very same question, to be frank, and perhaps i'll have adam smith or jodi from reuben junius speak to that. >> president hillis: okay. and then, this second floor, you've got a large footprint. there are large footprints to these floors, and you're obviously filling the ground floor with the proposal that that's the grocery store. what are you doing on the second floor? >> so second floor we'll have some mechanical up there. the idea is we would have eating space up there. the reason this is -- it's over i think 40,000 square feet in grand total, and we're developing the down stairs which is roughly 20,000 square feet. >> president hillis: if you take the haight street store, how big is that? [ inaudible ] >> president hillis: and so you could fit it kind of on the first floor almost of what this building is? >> yeah. and -- and i think haight's also got some office space and mechanical's upstairs, as

i would agree with you relative to the c.u. process, i was only referring to the appellate portion of it, the c.u. process had been in place for many, many years. just th the appellate process. and i agree with you five, from how the c.u. appeal from the board itself works. so i would agree with that. i do in addition i'm not a member of the committee to th the -- to the amendments that i recommended before. the deputy city attorney pointed out on page 5, line 8, we would have to make a conforming amendment to conform to the threegz odeletion of the fee toe the words "any filing fee paid shall be returned to the requester." and i did have some questions for the city attorney. and before we hear from the public, i should probably also put on the record that i would also like a committee member to make one other change at page 2, line 11. which is the provision that says that a final sfmta decision shall not include a decision by the m.t.a. that was contemplated as part of the implementation of a prior final m.t.a. decision. whic

i'm here on behalf of telegraph hill dwellers to oppose the c.u.being sought to create a whole foods store on the lombardi site, and with respect to historical issues, i just wanted to mention one thing. according to google aerlth, the drive time between the lombardi site and the franklin site is three minutes. so what public policy is being served by pairing up two related high end food halls located within three minutes of earth other. that certainly does not sound as if it's fulfilling a compelling need, but what is a compelling need is housing, including affordable housing. the lombardi site would be perfect fore a multifamily housing site. the location is convenient to multitransit site, and secondly, within a two or three block radius is a complete and ready built infrastructure of neighborhood shops and services, including groceries, a variable united nations of restaurants and beverages, clothing stores, flower shops, and then, there's bob's doughnuts. further -- pardon me. that is -- to create this housing, there's no need to evict tenants

which is to allow us to approve administratively 100% affordable housing projects without needing a c.u. or any other type of discretionary action from the commission. however, not all projects can make use of that program because they're only entitled to use certain sections from the planning code that may be available based on where they are. okay so you're in the eastern neighborhood, you can use what's contained in the eastern neighborhoods list, and so on and so forth. this ordinance would allow those projects to be approved with these same types of exceptions you could get through a planned unit development or a p.u.d. the p.u.d. cannot have an increase in height and it cannot offer an increase in density of the project. those are really the bright lines that contain in that process. the affordable housing -- well, i have talk about the affordable housing bonus project. we also have the 100% affordable housing bonus program. that program you can't use 315 right now because you're getting further bonuses. the proposal here is to create a new code section, 315.1 that would be an adm

you give one person a c.u., they knock maybe six, seven, eight storefronts out. so what kind of bargain is that really? one new store friend versus knocking out and leaving vacant other storefronts. i support your work in this. it really is what makes san francisco unique. we don't need to have the same thing on every corner, even though that pleasure is extremely high. i applaud all of you here for standing up and saying, no, in your own neighborhood. because that's what's counts, is the neighbor and no outside force should be coming in to be that destructive. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you for the presentation. it makes me feel proud to be part of the small business community. i think we can continue to be that advocate. let the supervisors know that they cannot keep passing anti-retail legislation without applying the same regulatory logic to e-commerce or big box retailers and not understanding our context. the most important piece of this is the context, who you are, be the different forces at play. we need to keep providing that. and we need to ech

we just generally from the c.u. before us for demobecause the new project is generally code compliant is generally what happens. generally, the project tends to be code compliant. >> commissioner richards: okay. thank you. page 41, it talks about alterations. for the purpose of this section, an alteration shall be defined of removal of more than 75% of a residential building's existing interior wall framing or the removal of more than 75% of the area of the existing framing. [inaudible] >> it is -- >> president hillis: yeah. >> it talks about increased -- this is all just new to me. i didn't know that because we're talking about demos. first time i ever read this. sorry. couple of other quick things. sorry. oh, on page 15, review process, if you can review urban design guidelines, the ones we passed, effective -- not just general design guidelines, that would go a long way because we spend a lot of time on that. and i also think again, going back to what we talked about, for 100% affordable housing spot on, i think

just so we're clear, if this building were demolished, and a mixed use building -- it's not with the c.u., you can't do a -- >> no, poling street as an absolute cap of 4,000 square feet. >> article seven was just updated a few weeks ago. in the polk street neighborhood commercial district, you could go principlely permitted up to 4,000 square feet, and over that triggers a c.u. it's a pretty large amount of change for the control table. if the building were taken down by fire, calamity of god, so on and so forth, the project could be rebuild, but if it was voluntarily razed, it could not be rebuilt. >> president hillis: i'm just going to vote against the motion. i want to kind of be consistent in how i've treated formula retail and defer to those who have lived there over the years. there's problems with the code that maybe we can't get that, but i think the support in the neighborhood is fairly overwhelming that people want a grocery store here. again, i think whole foods has not been detrimental. it's been positive in other neighborhoods it's gone into. i would definitely like to explo

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and then we hear a c.u.north korean official seen in beijing on his way from pyongyang to singapore to the north koreans are on their way it looks like it's full steam ahead a lot of moving parts has thank andrew thomas for now and let's go over to see one coup is the managing editor of korea exposé that's a news magazine joins us now live from seoul and looking at all the moving parts that are happening here do you see that this is going to turn into a trilateral meeting well so i mean we're seeing a lot of reports coming out here in the last media suggesting that the blue houses are preparing for their possibility and president losing seems are perhaps even enthusiastic that he might even be flying to singapore i think especially after the kind of performance moment when over the weekend having this prize second summit begin jungleland and being critically sell getting this peace or dialogue process people do think it wouldn't be ultimately if you were to actually join these two leaders of the countries ho

at this point, i'm really unclear about what the neighborhood and the city gains from approving this c.u. thank you for your time. >> president hillis: thank you, miss fanext speaker, plea >> good evening, commissioners. i just want to start out by saying i'm a little offended by people saying middle pope being isn't thriving. i'm a small business owner, and we've been there for six and have a lease for another seven. just because miding polk doesn't look like upper polk, that doesn't mean that it's not thriving. i also live in the neighborhood, four blocks fl the proposed site, and i've watched a lot of my friends have to leave the city due to higher rent, and obviously there's no silver bullet that's going toful solve our housing solution, but i do think we have a great opportunity to build a house in an ncd on a site like this, and it's absolutely necessary for the future of san francisco. it's not going to happen overnight. this is a -- you know, i don't envy anybody involved in the building of these types of developments, but it's important, and i think it's for the long-term viabil

it would have needed to apply for a c.u. for a demolition perthe planning code. given the soundness of 653 hate 28th, and the affordability perthe city's own guidelines, a demolition would not and should not have been warranted. i got these from the internet when it was for sale -- actually, it was rented. here's one. that's the living room. here's another living room and dining room view. there's the dining room. sorry. there's one bedroom. you can see the hallway there, and i'll talk about that later. there's one bedroom. there's another bedroom. here's the bath. everybody loves a stall shower. here's the back yard, and here's the stairway into the unit from the street. i'll talk about that later. so it's sound. it's not dilapidated. it it's not decrepit. it's a house that we grew up in or maybe you grew up in or some of us would like to grow up in now. back to the adu in a nonexisting building. the planning commission erred when it required an adu in the proposed project. this was in part because the commission was troubled by the massive size of the new build