so added paragraphs under the commission, the commission has four standing committees: finance, joint legislative, bylaws and nominating. under committees we have b, each committee shall have three commission members except legislative, which would be a joint that includes advisory council members. the joint committee shall have three commission members and four advisory council members. now, before it read that we shall have from i think it was three to not more than five and so what we lacked at that and that is an even number so we have three commission members and 5 advisory council and that is not an even number. that's an even number. we needed an odd number like we have commissioners in case there was a vote so we made it four. they still have more members represented than commissioners but we did make it before and so we have come out with 7 members on the joint legislative committee and joint legislative committee of the legislative committee, members from the advisory council and members from the commission. so, with that, i'd like to have a motion to approve items a and b u

please speak before the commission. i'd like to take roll. commission hasz, here. commission johnck, here. commissioner john, here. and commissioner matsuda. here. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except for agenda items. with respect to agenda items your opportunity to speak will be afforded when the agenda is reached. i have no speaker cards. >> thank you, come to the podium please. >> good afternoon, commissioners, the ruth goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. we want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, we're excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. thank you so much and we'll see you on the 19th. >> any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda? seeing none we will close public comment. >> commissioners, that will place you under department matters. item 1, department report. >> tim fr

commissions that places us under commission on items of interest the jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment please come forward. >> oh, high i'm anastasia i came out of i came to speak about natural areas and the significant nature management plan, which i think i believe now will come 0 under your consideration in the beginning of next year. >> i hope i ask you to invite 90 san francisco store o first alliance to look at this matter just because the program is a little bit bad and it effects everyone in the city and the plan is awful it calls for the elimination for the 8 trees within the park the san francisco parks and they cut trees all the time here on the this piece of paper an example of the work it happens in 2002 what happened they came to put the natural habitat and starting with i think 25 cutting them down

i'm not clear about the persuading i know this proceeding was continued because of the planning commission discretionary review i want to show you exhibit b the inspector michael smith did this beautiful analysis he did a beautiful analysis he has aerial shots and description his recommendation to the mr. haney committee don't grant discretionary review and approval that his reasons one the mayors driver the current authority applies to 3 legal units or more and two for the landlords voluntarily decision to go throw the legalization process the landlord decides to do it to encourage it and they can create legal units out of they're old illegal units and everybody wins more housing but it's not for a landlord that didn't want to go through the process and pay for the process and certainly not the tenant to force the landlord to go through the legalization process and that's what mr. smith is noting this owner is a trustee the out-of-towners they have no deserve to go through the legalization process they only want to sell the properties that's according for the michael smith we can't force

each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. i have one speaker card. >> (calling names). >> one year more behind where we were in 1947 london after blythe's creed there was a standard 4 acres per thousand u.s. contemporaries 10 acres per thousand by rec and park standard over 70 percent of our municipalities dedicated to public open space is dedicated for vehicular traffic and the acceleration of x number of pedestrian industries we uncovered 4 buffered bike lanes and 3 road and two reductions of speed to be accomplished by 2016 and 40 percent of our emissions are produced by vehicular traffic and three to four lane roads lead to 3.3 less injuries per year and 70 percent of our labor force works downtown and over restraining order percent of the streets downtown are one way the speetsdz on one way traffic exceeds the speed and 51 percent of the status are not correct the him brains retain - the highway act public law was impacted on 629 when the 34th president authorized $29 billion for the construction of 66 thousand kilometer

if a human rights commission determines that the employer has violated equal pay laws, the commission can recommend that the city department that contracts with that vendor issue penalties against the vendor and/or terminate and/or suspend any outstanding contract with the city. the human rights commission is being asked under this law to report annually to the board of supervisors on the data that it collects. any trends in pay discrimination, the number of investigationses it commence based on the reports that it receives and the number of contractors that were penalized for violating equal pay laws. discrimination based on sex and race is already prohibited in the city's administrative code and by federal law. however, the human rights commission only enforces the provisions at this point when individuals file allegations of unequal pay. the problem is that it is simply impossible for women to determine whether they are victims of wage discrimination because, as a 2011 survey from the institute for women's policy research found, about half of workers report that the discussion of w

if the human rights commission does determine that an employer has violated equal pay law, the commission can recommend to the city agency that contracts with that business that that department terminator suspend the contract with that business. the human rights commission under the legislation is directed to report annually to the board of supervisors on any of the data it collects trends in pay discrimination, the number of investigation commenced, based on equal pay reports, and the number of contractors that were penalized for violating equal pay laws. discrimination based on sex and race is already prohibited in the city's administrative code and by federal law. however, the human rights commission only enforces the provisions where an individual file a complaint. it is hard for women to determine whether or not they are victims of wage discrimination because at the 2011 survey the women policy research found about half of worker report the discussion of wage and salary information is either discouraged or outright prohibited in workplaces and/or could lead to punishment. there is a

>> commission secretary's written report, the and you also have in your packet a copy of the commission's correspondence log and listed on the correspondence received from the public to the commission and status, thereof and there was a 2015 meeting schedule for your commission and committee meetings and upon request of the commissioner king on the september 30th meeting, a member from the commission, listing the guidelines that are used to compile meeting minutes. >> thank you. >> and thanks very much for getting this all to us in writing and any comments or questions on the secretary's report? >> i just want to say, how much i appreciate getting this legislative report. and thank you for that. and not to put you on the spot, but are there any items that you want to highlight that the department was involved in, and i can't tell from this report which ones we influenced and which ones just kind of happened in spite of us. >> commissioners rodriguez for the record. the report that the commissioners get is one that i put together on a weekly basis. and looking over at all of the items of i

welcome welcome to the to the planning commission october 23, 2014, that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind electronic devices. and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. commissioners my apologies we need to return to item 12 in order to continue that matter so if that we don't have to go through the renoticing issue if i could ask to make a remotion with the same conditions only continuing that matter with the intent to approve. >> okay he was the maker of the motion i'll move to resend the motion that was previously made you want to vote on that. >> yes. please. acceptance. >> we have a motion and a second to the resend the previous motion for item 12 for case no. 2013.255 c an john's street. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and if you could now. >> i'm going to move to approve using the conditions of the previous motion from any think it's march 132008 i've astro

. >> it is a strange request maybe why don't you give some opening remarks and the commission asks the project sponsor to come back up. >> okay offering geeze 10 minutes. >> hello, i'm peter on behalf of the entertainment corporation doing business as as jones on jones street here in san francisco in the summer of 09 metro policy was formed and entered into a long term lease and purchased a liquor license at 620 jones street we've invested more than 2 and a half million dollars into the restaurant known as jones in making those investment we relied on the information on the official we are talking about website is contained a conditional use authorization form at the request of a group which undertook to develop this property prior to us the cu provided on the planning department website so on and so forth 7 conditions none of which limit the establishments hours of operation this was all the information that was publicly available ward to our conditional use permit we were shocked when we got the enforcement notification to see the planning department said there are additional require

it could be raised to a fuller hearing i intend to explore that with the support of the planning commission and the planning staff in my opinion towards the end of last week, i want to say there's negotiation with the legislation and dialog with stakeholders oewd and the planning staff and supervisor wiener's office i'm unemployed we've achieved a series of agreements to move forward with one mile-an-hour as opposed to two and the areas where interests differences we're combined westbound one common ordinance moving forward and as a primary sponsor of the board of supervisors measure i'll be moving that i've become the sponsor and we incorporate the following all the times only 3 since we're changing the threshold of the establishment needed to be from 19 to 11 keeping it at 11 and number 2 remove the business and professional services eye from the list of property new used to be concluded in the definition of formula retail and supervisor wiener's implemented a b.a. approach for the office type uses the finance services and other on a citywide basis and suth them to other rails those could

when i first joined the commission and it was a member of the finance committee, we were going through the merger of the department of aging and adult services with the department of human services. that added a certain level of complexity to the budget issues. secondly the budget process itself was considerably more onerous. consequently the entire budgeting process was much more complicated and required far more public attendance and comment so that we were able to make intelligent recommendations to the full commission. finally, thanks to the extraordinary work of the department, the budget process and the information that we now get, the data that used to overwhelm us, is now information. we are able to make decisions much more clearly and quickly. the process itself is less stressful, the need for six meetings a year has not for the last couple of years been appropriate. and so by stating it the way the committee's recommended, a minimum of one meeting a year, it gives us the flexibility should things become more complicated, should we suddenly get $300 million that we never had a

was denied so my one of the proposals the process works the community weighs in and the planning commission makes a decision a number i'm supportive of the proposals today and the amendments outlined by supervisor mar it will provide a even stronger and better process what's challenging is that a lot of times when we hear push back against formula retail zoning controls it is not necessarily push back against the concept of having the community be able to weigh in with an opinion there's pretty broad support for making sure people weigh in but what we hear is it's not related to formula retail but related to the fact our conditional use process is broken it's not broken because of the community input that's not broken at all but broken because the process takes so long and so not just in the roll call context but another context that hydrahas nothing to do with well, i can't tell you the number of conversations with project sponsors they need a quality of life that are not controversial that have board community support and the idea of going through a six or eight or 10 month process or if

can't start one project after project that are in complete defines of the western selma plan this commission depraved the plan and almost every commissioner at the time has something kind to say about something we handled the alley. >> is there any additional public comment okay public comment is closed. >> commissioners moving along to our regular calendar we will take up 9 that was pulled off of content at 255 c an jones street conditional use authorization this was continued from our october 23rd and commissioner moore has acknowledged reviewing the video to take part. >> carly this is for conditional use authorization to talk about a business doorknob as john this was for a disapproval on october 23rd the following discussion was continued to allow staff to draft a motion the privileged the operation are limited to 2:00 a.m. on friday and saturday and new year's eve and sunday the outside activity is permitted to operate until midnight and the life outdoor activity is not limited to twice a month and the noise level massachusetts must be permitted by the entertainment commission since th

and next to that commission dr. joseph making sure a former president of the commission (clapping) and i'd like to introduce to you yourself command staff start with the chief of police greg suhr (clapping) and we'll have to skip down about 6 chairs the deputy chief of the chief of staff lynn (clapping) and from the fields operations bureau deputy chief and from the administration bureaucracy deputy chief sharon (clapping) and from the special operation bureau deputy chief charley (clapping) from the san francisco police airport division dpw chief (clapping) now your commanders from the fields operations bureaucracy tom from the golden gate division (clapping) and from investigation captain i'm sorry commander i demoted you from the airport division joseph (clapping) okay so we are here tonnage e tonight to honor men and women of san francisco police department who committed acts that of braver and herself rich and from my own information i went to webster it allows people to do things that are dangerous and frighte

. >> by legislation they created a department of commission on aging and at the same time they created the commission, you know this, and then we supposed to follow all the policy enunciated by the supervisors and the mayor. and then we know that, you know, reports go in and reports go out and then the commission have a responsibility -- they give us the responsibility, you know, to appropriate money. the mayor put out so much money to certain nonprofits. the supervisors approve of it and then we, the commission, still have to approve. >> i will caution that the mayor and the board are not allowed, nor do they give money to particular nonprofits. there is an entire bidding process. money is allocated by those two entities to departments but then there is a bidding process that goes on and i would just add to what i said about the contracting process. the controller's office as well reviews the work that we do in our contracting and programming office to make sure we meet the standards that the city has set for contracting and there actually have been changes in the 9 1/2 years i have b

and we decided as a commission that because both the president and vice president of the commission were not here that it would be better to wait until they come back so we will be doing that at the january meeting and that there will be a closed session and that we will do my performance appraisal and in an advertisetation we are going to be serving the senior so you can get the sense of my performance and not just my self-apraysal or your experience of me, it is a first for us, as a department to do that and so we are going to pilot it, and our intention is to do a much broader, what we called climate survey and i don't mean that like the climate change but the culture survey of the department to all staff and we are working on that now, and it is going to take some care to make sure that the questions make sense and that it is going to take the appropriate type of implementation and introduction and so the staff understand what it is they are seeing, because it is never been done for the department. so that, and you will see, just the senior staff information and then next year's perf

and i, i request that we have our day, before the planning commission. to finally be able to present all of this material to them. i appreciate your interest, thank you very much. >> i have a question. >> sure. >> are you saying that you had no opportunity to be heard before the planning commission? >> it was... >> whatsoever. >> i have watched the video of this hearing, several times. and it is a mess. it is a mess. when cythia gets up to speak she is shut down there is a big, dialogue between commission and mr. lindsey and mr. ionin and all of this confusion, and he is looking through the papers and saying that i have the application here somewhere because her name on it. her name is not on t >> i am talking about you. >> yeah, we our time. >> did you have the opportunity to be heard. >> we did not have the opportunity to be fully heard. because our rebuttal time we ended up trying to give to her. and our architect who had drawn up, we hired at great expense to draw up some modifications that we mentioned and you saw the side by side pictures of their

for november 13, 2014, i'd like to remind members of the audience it do that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind please silence all electronic devices. that may sound off and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this point arrest commissioner president wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner richards we do expect commissioner johnson. >> commissioners first on our agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance at the release of agenda there were none we have a request from commissioner richards to continue item 16 for case at 4 6127th street a request inform discretionary review to a date to be determined and item 15 for case at 37 there 68 fillmore request for a discretionary review have been withdrawn. >> so you should tomato take up the matter both the dr requester has asked. >> we have a number of public comment cards sorry i can't read this handwringing. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissio

once again, as the commission secretary said, the planning commission is having a hearing on the draft eir november 20th and so for members of the public who would like to make testimony on that eir may comment in person at the planning commission on november 20th. thank you. >> commissioner wolfram. >> i had a question about in the -- it wasn't included in the preservation alternative, but there was a discussion about the is it the cannoline building, the potential of building it which would then move the impact to less than significant, but is one of the criteria for moving it, one of the criteria was that it had to be moved off the 5m site and no site was found to be suitable off the site. why was that a criteria? did you consider moving it within the 5m site? >> this is something we can respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr *r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. we will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr >> anything else? >> i have a lot of comments but i can wait unti

to the decimal levels by the commission i want to clarify that the live music is limited until 7:00 p.m. so it will be monthly ambient noise that is the primary concern late into the evening the patrons noise and that bar noise sort of thing. >> all right. >> thank you thanks for clarifying do you have any comments. >> yes, thank you we don't do amplified music outside so all the sound is inside there's no amplified music outdoor except for gay pride sunday how do you treat the doors coming from the inside out the patio doors. >> they're on weather on a nice day the door is open their pitiful doors and one of them is generally also open if we have a noisy event we close the door. >> i appreciate the landscaping have you studied my physical improvements beyond the shrubbery landscaping whether their panels. >> maybe a roof but maybe a structure. >> so we've tried a number of different things one factor that is very it's a 8 thousand square feet space so the cost of doing sound attending like curtains so secondly, aesthetics it is important i don't know how many commissioners have bee

commission matters? >> yes. real quick. commission matters? >> yes, i want to talk about the holiday gathering. >> real quick and from the chronicle may like to get some info, background research, he's doing an article tomorrow. you may want to contact him. okay. thank you. we reopen. >> commissioners through the chair we'll go back to item 5 under commission comments and questions. >> yeah, i wanted to tell the commission that we are planning a holiday gathering. i think you have all received an e-mail about that and the date is after the hearing on the 17th and it would be at 4:30 at don ramon's. i wanted to make sure you get that on the calendar. city clerk: that places you on item 8. work program. >> commissioner, department staff. as you recall we discussed the landmark designation work plan. you needed more time to mull over the program and discuss over at future hearing and maybe prioritization of a couple pending landmark designation, adding to or modifying the work program. we are here today to

this allow is reason for the planning commission to reconsider this case. as a long time fifth avenue, i am concerned about the encroachment in the space that is created in the square block and sets a dangerous precedent and i request that you reconsider this project in the current form since it will be out of character and scale for the neighborhood and would impact the equality of life of the two adjacent homes. thank you. >> you know that miss smith property actually encroaches more into the open space, her building is longer. >> i am sorry. >> questions. >> i am just pointing that out. that >> i mean the diagrams i don't really see that. >> okay. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good evening, my name is regina carson and i am a long time res did he want of san francisco, and a good friend to the miller kency family and i have had a long and successful career in the various roles including business development and sales i mention this as i am trained and practiced of being a good listener and i am a trained engineer. overheads please. >> sorry. okay. i