commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: yes. i got all of my questions asked by commissioner alioto veronese. the one comment about last year, the narcan, i was out with the crews since the last meeting and talked to other people from other states, staple problem. we're not alone there. interesting there, the governor newsom signed this legislation basically dealing with mental health. and it's interesting how all of us like to blame a governor who was in office 45 years ago or eliminating mental health. it's 45 years later, we've been sitting on our hands for a long time, so it's nice to see something happening and not blaming somebody for something that they did something 45 years ago. i did notice something in new york, the street people, wow. compared to the last time i was there, which was, like, five years ago, was night and day. they were everywhere. not so much as panhandling, but as sleeping on the side of the streets. very discouraging, so they have the same problem as we have. on your report with the two alarm, the on

commissioners? >> commissioner covington: i would like to move this item. >> commissioner cleaveland: second. >> president nakajo: thank you very much, commissioner covington, for that motion. commissioner cleaveland has seconded the motion. commissioner veronese, do you have any questions? >> commissioner veronese: yes, i have a couple questions from mr. corso. mr. corso, how did you get this grant? how did this come about? >> so this is a grant through fema that comes up every year, and we submitted our application. this is how we funded our new fireboat in the past, our new rescue fire and dive boat. this is an annual grant that the department regularly applies for. >> commissioner veronese: okay. so this is something that we know comes up every year and the department applies for it. >> correct. >> commissioner veronese: i'm wondering if we have a grant writer, if ten of these come up. do you think we'll have a grant writer by the end of the year at least. >> by the end of the year, that's our g

>> no. >> commissioner honda: okay. we will continue your time, and sorry for the interruption. >> so we are an h.o.a. due to my efforts to move this forward. yes, it will be our first formal h.o.a. meeting on sunday. due to the type -- i don't want this turning into judge judy, so let's say it's hard to get anywhere in the same room with certain people. let's stick to the permits. there's a preexisting hatch before the condo conversion. we have had, based on our c.c. and r.'s, approve the permit of the hatch. the c.c. and r.'s govern these types of discussions, so i'm sorry it's coming to you to debate some sort of deeper issue. we will also show you photos of the garden, which is my exclusive use, a 1600 square foot garden? there's no access siible entra. our only option would be to go up carpeted stairs, through two 90° angles, and through my complex. miss sommer requested a permit. we obtained the permits, and now she's appealing the permit. so there is a history, i'm just going to call it harassment. with that, i'm

commissioner o'rielly: i disagree with it.his is something the third circuit sent back to the fcc four times. there is no amount of evidence or data we can give them. multiple administrations, republican and democrat, all administrations haven't and able -- been able to get past the threshold the third circuit has set. we should challenge it in another forum, or go to the supreme court, which i ultimately think we will have to do. i disagree with their premise and i disagree with their activity because it is locking in the status quo, which is not reflective of the media marketplace today. the marketplace today is not the same one when we wrote the original provision in 1995, which became the 1996 act. the marketplace is much more dynamic and we need to reflect that. there was a charge we were given that's exactly what we're trying to do. they've put up roadblocks for this purpose, the status quo was winning and our rules look exactly as they did in 1975 and 1976. but the world has changed and they have not. commissioner o'rie

commissioners, this matter's submitted. >> commissioner tanner: i have not heard any testimony that would lead me to believe this permit was not properly issued. i would move to deny the appeal. >> commissioner honda: just because i was smiling and making jokes does not mean that i'm not taking this as a serious matter. this particular project has undergone quite a bit of process and just by the amount of dollars per hour in this room, i think there is going to be a significant amount of eyes watching this project alongside with the departments which whether we like or don't like, we have to have faith in our city departments and their abilities to make things happen, and so i would concur with my fellow commissioner. >> vice president lazarus: as would i, i'm content to let the normal processes take their place because i haven't heard anywhere here tonight that would encourage me to revoke the site permit. >> commissioner tanner: and just to the woman, you gave testimony just wondering how things would be caught in light of the previous cases, 20-year ongoing permit. i think that's very

>> no. >> commissioner johnson? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner president melguy. >> it fails 3-2 with commissioners fung and moore voting against. >> an additional motion? >> commissioner richards? >> i move to continue this item to november 5th, whatever -- >> december 5th. >> or november 7th. >> let's do december 5th, because we know for sure we'll have full commissioners. >> very good, on that motion to continue this -- oh, who seconded that? >> second. >> thank you. >> on that motion, then, to continue this matter to december funning? >> aye. >> commissioner johnson? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> no. it passes 4-1 with commissioner moore voting against. that will place us on due discretionary item 14, 106955 drp at 220 san jose avenue, a discretionary eview. review. >> perhaps we could take a little five-minute break. i'm sorry to the public. we're down a couple of commissioners and so, it's difficult for us to go to the bathroom and do all of the thanks we need to do. so we'll take a ten-minute break and then we'l

page 15. >> >> commissioner johnson aye. >> commissioner moore. >> no. >> commissioner richards. >> aye. >> president melgar. >> aye. >> that months passions 4-1 with commissioner moore voting against. >> thank you. >> that will place us on item 1 case 2016-013312gpa542-550. mixed use project this is a general plan amendment initiation. >> good afternoon, president melgar and members of the commission. i am nick with the department staff. this item before you is a request to initiate a general plan amendment for the proposed mixed use project looked at 542 to 550 howard street known as the parcel f. the construction of a new 61-storey mixed use building reaching the height of 750 feet. 800 feet exclusive many of with 165 dwelling units and 189 hotel rooms, 274,000 square feet of office use, 79,000 floor, 9,000 square feet of retail space and 20,000 square feet of open space for residential and office use. project includes 177 class 1 and 39 class 2 bike parking spaces in the garage levels and 183, 183 vehicle parking spaces. project would conduct a pedestrian bridge providing public acc

commissioner fung? >> i move approval of the continuances. >> i second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to continue items as proposed -- (role call). >> so moved commissioners and that passed unanimously 5-0. placing us consent calendar under constituted consent calendar are routine by the commission and may be acted upon by the role call. from the consent calendar considered as a separate item or a future hearing and item 3, case 2019-006948c at 650 jackson street, conditional use authorization and 0045 crv, waivers from development standards, i have two speaker card for item 4 and you will assume people want to speak to that item and in order to do so, we will have to remove it from the consent calendar. shall we hear that at the beginning. so item 3 on the consent calendar, commissioners. >> commissioner fung -- i'm sorry, any members of the public have further comments on item 3, proposed on the consent calendar? ok, public comment is closed. commissioner fung? >> general comment. this p

it's good to know the board was still tough on variances. >> commissioner honda: it's commissioner fung. come on up, we have an empty seat up here. >> so to correct something that the appellant stated. it's incorrect that each of the floors has the same situation. each of the other floors get their exposure to the front. they're all four flats that face through, so to correct the record there. you know, i will take the information about the, you know, really nice, new, illegal unit and those photos if the appellant can e-mail them to me, and i can discuss that with the zoning administrator and also review the zoning administrator and appreciate that to facilitate that, if the appellant would provide the proposed plans that show the required set of stairs within the required rear yard, and all the improvements that they show, including the habitable space in the back yard. certainly reconstruction of stairs within the required rear yard can pose certain requirement code issues. >> i have a question going back to what you stated before. this variance was applied for in 2018 and heard in 2

commissioners. commissioner cle. >> thank you, mr. president. ank you for being here and thank yor what you are doing. when i becaa commissioner on the fire commis, one of the things that i thoughs super important was the people e bring into our department be multilingual, that we have as my languages spoken in the departms are represented on our streets.d having this program, you know, r people who are already in the department, already on the stres working every day is so criticay important. so i just wanted to y muchas gracias. >> [speaking spanish] >> we appreciate the work you ae doing to help our department bee culturally relevant and competen the street. mr. baxter has donea great job getting the word out t fire prevention and it's been ah of fresh air to have that kind f exposure to the city. so thank d keep up the good work. >> [speaking spanish]. >> thank you very much. very, vy nice of you to do this. and the waldorf school, when i was on te board of the foundation, the waf school was at fort mason, and ts kind of involvement is very

commissioners i see commissioner. >> thanks for your report. in regards to the new health and safety chief how does that -- how is that going to work as far as hierarchy is concerned with the doctors that the department employs? >> so as you know the commission oversees the doctor's office and the goal for the new chief is to communicate collaborate and gain information from the doctor's office in regards to health issues, injury issues and so forth. so they are going to work together. the chief is going to work in my administration division and is going to be collaboration sharing information as far as how much they can get because we have the concern about raw data and information we are getting so that's basically the goal of this office. >> so you mentioned bringing back the wellness program, that's the program that does regular checks on firefighters. >> correct. >> where has that program been? >> so there was issues in the past, a few years back there were concerns with the members that the data they were getting directly reported to the

. >> commissioner black? >> one of the things that struck me as i went through this rather large amount of material is the scope of projects that it is serving, from much larger family and art's organization. these are all important buildings in the city and i love the chance to have a tool like this to have people get their buildings renovated and going. it just adds value to the neighborhood. i'm a supporter. >> is there a motion? >> and that's a motion. [ laughter ] >> then i second it. >> i'll have one comment on the mill's act in general. we've had in past, comments from the governor oversight and audit committee relative to whether these contracts were necessary or if the applicants needed them financially as it being on a needs-based criteria and in my opinion, as i understand it, these mills acts are incentives, not necessarily based on economic needs. so i just wanted to put that out there so as this gets forwarded on to the goa, maybe they'll remember that. commissioner john's? >> i did get the impr

commission commissioners. commissioner richards. >> move to approve except item 6. >> second. >> thank you. on that motion to approve item 6 under your consent calendar. so moved tht passes unanimously 5-0. placing us item 7 consideration of draft minutes for october 10, 2019. >> would any members of the public like to comment on the draft minutes. >> seeing none public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> move to approve. >> second. >> thank you commissioners on that motion to adopt to minutes for october 10, 2019. [roll call]. >> that mows passes unanimously 5-0. we are on item 8 commission comments and questions. commissioner moore. >> hour questions. -- four questions. >> i read in the paper that ucsf has plans to expand. we have looked at the institutional master plan and thought it to be stable. i read in the paper. i do not know the originator. that is it not true. i would like to hear from you in the upcoming weeks of what our position will be on that matter my second question is walking through t

commissioner john's? >> i did get the impression from the presentations that were made that there is an economic necessity for this money to be aloallocated so these folk and p up the properties. that was my belief based on the testimony. >> and in terms of communicating to the board of supervisors, these are structures worthy of preservation and some will be expensive to preserve. so yeah, using this as a tall ti think that's very important to the city. >> so with have a motion. do we have a second? >> indeed, we do. son that motion, commissioners to adopt recommendations for approval, commissioner black? >> yes. >> commissioner john's. >> yes. >> commission perlman. >> yes. >> commissioner so? commissioner highland. so move and that motion passes 6-0 unanimously. >> commissioners, that will place us on item ten. >> can we get commissioner foley back? >> this is a permit to alter. >> we do need a motion to recuse myself. >> i move that you be recused. so moved, commissioners and it passed 7-0. >> jonatha

thank you so much for bringing us to this place. >> commissioner anderson: i'd like to ditto what commissioner mcdonnell said and also acknowledge, i agree with you how important it is to honor history correctly. to be sure that we don't sugar coat things, especially something so serious as what happened with the internment camps-concentration camps. i think we all share a mission here, that it does no harm to speak the truth. it does great harm to sugar-coat or cover the truth. i want to thank the advocates, the people that came up with the thoughtful wording. i probably could think of ways to make it stronger. i think you still exercise a great deal of discretion here and respect. and i just want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for that. >> president buell: thank you. >> commissioner bonilla: yes. members of my extended family were placed in concentration camps. the story that will be depicted on this plaque is a story -- is a very important story, it's a very important lesson of what we should not ever do. it's a story that should never be forgotten. and this is -- this has

commissioners? commissioner ortiz-cartagena? >> thank you everybody for speaking today and coming out here. i think everybody in the room once to go to the actual same place. i think we just have different opinions on how to get there. if you've seen recently in the news, very successful restaurants have been closing down and dropping like flies here in the city. as a small business owner i know how hard it is. although the legislation is well intended, i know it is, it's just further onslaught of those things that small businesses have to bear. i recommend instead of mandating things like this, they should incentivize it. small businesses should do this voluntarily, and the city should put some skin in the game and say hey, if you do this, and you comply with something like this, we will offer some tax at the end of the year. small business should not bear the responsibility for a cleaner san francisco in the future. it's all of our responsibilities. >> commissioner dwight gulf i agree we all have the same goal in the mind comm

seeing none, commissioners, this matter is submitted. >> commissioners? >> i will make a comment to the appellant directly. we were all in attendance that evening. if any party, even though you are -- you have set a certain much of time, it is not absolute if we have further questions or there's information that my fellow commissioners or i want to hear, where we have the ability to let someone speak, as long as they want roselawn is we need to, also, at the last hearing, it was indicated not only for me, but from presidents wake that this is a boundary line dispute and the only way to solve that is to hire an outside surveyor to decide where that line is actually at. this board is only to determine if weather permits were issued properly. in that particular case, i believe they were. also, to have a rehearing, it is manifest in just. something that is so special that was not heard in the last hearing. there is nothing that was presented in our packages or early this evening that would suggest that. >> would you like to make a motion? >> my motion is to d

>> i leave about this time. >> a possibly commissioner tanner and commissioner tanner definitely. possibly commissioner santacana. >> i would rather we stick this to the 4th for the continuity of the hearing and hope that something falls out. then we are in january. >> commissioner honda: can a representative for the permit holder come to the podium? the geotech. so what we are suggesting, sir, and i hate to be extremely frank, we don't trust that you are going to get this done in a timely manner to protect the neighboring property. that is just my honest feeling on this. my question here is, we don't want to go through winter here. what we would like to do is at the end of the hearing, you, your client, the next door neighbor, and the representative of the department go in the hallway and hash this out. so that we can make your property safe during the wintertime and that the rains don't effect it and we can assure that the neighboring property owner will be safe as well. what is your timeline to get this work done, is ir? >> this work as soon as they give us the permit, we will

before this goes into law. >> commissioner. >> for? >> -- commissioner laguana? >> if i'm asked to vote yay or nay on legislation, i'm going to decline to vote no. i should not be interpreted as a yes. simply because the legislation is still in movement. there is still amendments being considered. i do not want to shut the door. i hear what you are saying, and i respect that. i think whatever power this body has, with advice and good guidance. we should probably focus on, my opinion, i personally, just speaking for myself i need to learn more about what is being proposed and what the impacts are. i'm not at the point yet where i feel like i have an understanding that this is being handled, in the best way. i am just being straight with you about where i am at. >> commissioner dwight? >> i would like to see a more engineered approach, adjust, repeat. until you figure out how it really works. i think that would be the leadership position that the city could take. we tested. we adjusted. we tested. we ultimately came to a model that we replicated in any city. not la

commissioner richards? >> i move to not initiate and not hold a hearing. >> commissioner here? >> could you procedurally explain to us what that means? >> i mean, if you don't initiate, then you're not initiating. >> commissioner fung. >> i move to continue this until after november 21st. >> second. >> you want to continue the initiation until after november 21st. >> yes. >> so that would be december 5th. >> i would hope that in that initiating hearing, you can come back with different designs. [ laughter ] >> please. >> may i speak to that. >> yes, go ahead. >> i wanted to be clear with the commission, it's not possible to resign the building. >> to my point. it's fully baked. >> that's not the problem. we would have to reduce it a 39 from a of 60. >> we heard from the chinatown communities that they have issues, with the willie woo-woo, and so, i think that for me to support this, i would want it to have the full support of the community or at least neutral. i also heard mr. dulavich say some things that were pretty important to me in terms of we're impacting a playground in

commissioner? >> motion to continue items entered into the record. >> seconded. >> thank you, commission. on that motion to continue items as proposed -- poweso moved and that passed 4-. >> for the community who is here for chavez, the auto was item ws continued to allow for more negotiations between the project sponsor and community. so we will take your comments into advisement and would encourage you do some work with the project sponsor so that we are ready to hear it next time. thank you. >> commissioners, that will place us under your concept calendar. all matters are considered to be routine for the planning commission and may be acted upon by a single role call. there will be no separate discussion unless a member of the commission, the public or staff so requests, in which it shall be removed and considered as a separate item. item 6, case 2019-000362cua 150a, conditional use authorization 7, case 201 201-005402, beal street, case 2018-39163 855 garry street, item 9, 00416cua through 1062

so i'll start with commissioner yee and go to commissioner haney. as chair of the t.a., i thought it was important enough that we could have a similar hearing at the entire body. commissioner yee, opening comments? >> thank you. i just wanted to express my thanks i guess to know that this is important enough to have a hearing of the whole body here. in the future, i would love it -- because i want to remind people that we do have a vision zero committee in which we hear these items pretty regularly and that in the case of just being mindful of staff's time that we don't continue duplicating these type of hearings. if there are things that are related to vision zero that you would like to have on the agenda, please let me know because we're always looking for items. >> thank you, chair peskin. thank you for allowing us to have this hearing here. i agree with commissioner yee that a lot of the follow-up and deeper work and follow-through should happen in the vision zero committee. i thought it was important to have this broader conversation around enf

commissioner mazzucco. >> on sunday commissioner hirsch and i attended the annual police and fire mass. and it was an honor to be there with the firefighters and police officers, the men and women who serve this city. there was an accident sermon given actually by heely about compassion and how our firefighters and police officers deal with the homeless and those in mental health crisis and a good talk given by lieutenant michael about the career of those who choose law enforcement and fire fighting and public service. so it was great. commissioner mish and i along with the mayor and the supervisor so thank him for attending and the mayor and it was good there to be there to support our officers. >> thank you yes it was. my first mass in 23 years, i should say. not being catholic. >> next item, please. >> i'm sorry to interrupt but i forgot to mention the monthly, the quarterly statistics that's been passed out there too. >> okay. >> they were distributed. i don't have anything much to say other than you have it but i want to acknowledge it but it was part of my report. it was an after

other commissioners with reports? commissioner elias. >> we met the working group met this week. we went over -- or to let you know the 5.17, has been essentially completed and reviewed by the chief who had some comments that were taken back to the working group. what we are working now is 5.03 which is the investigation because it was so ingrained in the sort of bias dgo. our next meeting is october 21st. we are hoping to have that finalized. and it's my understanding chief, you are simultaneously reviewing sort of what's coming out from the working group so that when we do have these final documents concurrent it's not going to deviate that far from what the recommendations that have come out from the working group and from you. >> that's correct. >> that was a huge issue last time. >> 5.03, detention. >> right. and then i'm anticipating they will be up for review or agendize probably the first meeting in november is what we are looking at. because i think we could probably get it to the chief and through concurrent in november, come back december and ageneral agendize and get

aye. >> commissioner tan sner >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> that carries 4-0. other housekeeping item is item nine, 19-065. the parties have requested the board move the appeal to the board's indefinite calendar, the call of the chair, to allow more time to continue settlement efforts. again, we do need a vote. >> so moved. >> we have a motion from vice president lazarus to move that to call of the chair. is there any public comment on that item? on that motion, commissioner darryl honda? >> and is this big file to carry and now he is cancelling it? oh my goodness. aye. maybe. aye. >> okay. commissioner tanner? >> aye. >> a president swig? >> an aye. that motion carries 4-0. and that item is moved to call of the chair. >> i think we should give it to the counselor to bring the files in the next time when he comes in. >> okay. thank you. now we are on item one which is general public comment. this is an opportunity for anyone who would like to speak on a matter within the board's jurisdiction but that is not on tonight's calendar. is there anyone here for genera

. >> commissioner fung? >> when i read the draft of the ordinance, is there anything in that that i missed that relates to either shadow or some of the other issues brought forth. >> it's the future. >> that's what the commissioner eluded to. >> i want to make sure the draft does not reflect any comments on this. >> no, there will be a draft motion before you on or after november 21st, adopting the recommendation from the rec and park commission. >> you might note for my fellow commissioners that it's highly unlikely i'll be here on november 21st. i may be out of the country. >> well, we need you. >> good to know. >> commissioner richards. >> we've got a building that's fully baked. zero tolerance means zero so i'm not in support of this and i wouldn'wouldn't be able to go tp at night. november 21st is only 30 days away. it's not like they'll resign the whole project. so i'm going to say no. >> commissioner moore? >> i'm very disappointed to hear that if i'm correct, if i heard it correctly, that park and re