commissioner richards? >> commissioner koppel? >> motion to approve draft minutes for october 17th with the joint hearing, 17th regular hearing, and october 24 th. >> second. >> as amended. >> second. >> very good, commissioners. on that motion to adopt the minutes as corrected... [roll call] so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 -0. placing is on item nine, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner richards? >> i received several calls, actually about half a dozen from citizens with their hair on fire because apparently the e-mail that has been going around last monday -- they discussed additional party development areas in the source of a handout that he had. i believe he was supposed to be speaking on an a.d.u., but i think -- it is a promising, interesting development. i think the department should have a hearing on this and tell us what pdas are so we can put the fire out on everybody's here about what will happen to their neighborhood because we are already just -- jumping to conclusions about dy

commissioners? >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. i move we go into closed session. >> commissioner veronese: second. >> commissioner covington: okay. moving to go into closed session by commissioner cleaveland, seconded by commissioner veronese, so we will now go into today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to

>> commissioner honda: no. he says it's self-governing, and the fact that it's probably unenforceable at this point. i mean, since the permit has gone on with multiple renewals since 1998. so i think with additional monitoring to ensure that that's taking place, and if you're asking for additional monitoring -- >> commissioner tanner: yeah. i think the monitoring and the neighboring foundation property both on that property and the neighboring property -- i think the monitoring should be in place before the construction resumes and then would occur -- reports every three months, is that your suggestion? >> commissioner honda: can we have joe come up. is that your recommendation or maybe you can tell us what the department's recommending. >> so there's a survey and monitoring every three months. there are companies that do that, and the owner will have to hire somebody to do that. and they will do that, and the neighbor has requested that. >> clerk: so will that be every two months? >> if you want to say -- >> c

, commissioner. so the potential seventh commissioner would be seated by december 5th, which is the time of -- well, if she gets through the process as expected, by the time we interview. commissioner richards? >> i move to commissioner richards -- i'm sorry to interrupt, but we should take public comment. >> we will now take public comment on this item. any member of the public who wants to put in their two cent's worth, please come up now. >> i'm troubled by the fact there was mooing n nothing in wn advance for any of us to see. this is the biggest decision you'll make for the commission. the city has a real housing problem, a real development problem and people need to be assured that the candidates that you're interviewing really understand the context of this city, not only the development pressures but the pressures on the real people that live here. and so, i'm not really secon san about what i'm hearing. i'm not kidding you -- if you will swear that you read them, academy of art, you have to

commissioners? >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. i move we go into closed session. >> commissioner veronese: second. >> commissioner covington: okay. moving to go into closed session by commissioner cleaveland, seconded by commissioner veronese, so we will now go into >> clerk: 11:49 a.m. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam secretary. we have had our closed session, and -- >> commissioner covington: thank you. >> clerk: okay. okay. thank you. >> clerk: so we are back on sfgov tv, madam vice president. >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you very much. we have had our closed session, and madam secretary there's a motion not to disclose the contents of the closed session, and next item, please. >> clerk: item number 14, adjournment. >> commissioner covington: thank you. we will adjourn this meeting in honor and in memory of buck delventhal, who was deputy city attorney in san francisco, and we are informed today that there has been a line-of-duty death in the worcester fire department, and so we close this meeting in honor

so it couldn't be one or two commissioners. >> thank you. commissioner kopple? >> just factually, i'm not available on the 2nd. >> so that means we have no quorum for that day. >> i am. >> ok. >> i'm not. >> but i think that leaves us without quorum so only three. , maybe four. commissioner johnson? is it possible to do the 14th, the 21st and the 25th? and then do interviews the -- >> the 12th? >> yeah. so that would be pushing back the entire timeline a week. >> i'm not here. >> that's right. yes, commissioner richards' mom has a big birthday. >> can we do the 9th, 10t 10th or the 11th. ? >> i'm free everyday that week, as well, and so are you. commissioner moore, are you available from the 9th through the 11th? >> i have not looked at my calendar, obviously, other than my thursdays dedicated to planning commission, i have not looked at other dates to set aside for this effort but i would like to suggest for the matter of e expediency, if somee can take a calendar and hand it around instead of us going over the same dated again and again quickly indicate when t

commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. just as a point of clarification, if there's an admonishment of an officer based on discipline that comes to the d.p.a., how long is that maintained in the officer's file so that we can look back if there's another issue and progressive discipline is to be imposed? how do we know what's come before that? >> so just to be very clear, an admonishment is not discipline. discipline starts with a written reprimand or higher. so take that point. and then, to answer your question, under the new disciplinary matrix, the agreement was seven years. >> commissioner hamasaki: for the written -- sorry, the written reprimand. >> president hirsch: that you can look back. >> commissioner hamasaki: oh, that you can look back for seven years, and that starts with a written reprimand. because previously it was six months or something like that, for the written reprimand, and then, it was destroyed. so seven years sounds like a much better option. if we're going to use progressive discipline, we want to

>> 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 dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: so since you braought it up, i think this falls into that area. but i'm been inundate -- i've been inundated with e-mails about 1421 and surrounding, and whether they got in the seminar or didn't get in the seminar. this is covered in 1421? hirs >> president hirsch: yes. i've asked the department, the commission, and the d.p.a. to present on 1421 where they are, what they've produced, how they go about it, what the issues are, and that is going to be scheduled for december 14. >> commissioner dejesus: so there's a presentation. >> commissioner hamasaki: is there a policy? >> commissioner dejesus: we can't do that on the 13 of november? >> president hirsch: we're not available. i don't think we have a meeting on the 20. there is no meeting on the 20. >> commissioner elias: there is no meeting on the 20? thanksgiving is the following week. >> commissioner dejesus: so now, the presentation, i guess the question that i have is how is this -- maybe the d.p.a. shoul

commissioners, at this point, commissioner hardeman? >> commissioner hardeman: i'm supposed to be sitting here, i guess, but thank you for your report. it seems like these few cases you identified can take care of the whole 19% success rate here. the idea that we allow this as a society is crazy, that someone can take an ambulance 200 times, and we just don't care -- well, we care. maybe after the 20th time, we can say we're going to keep you in here for a day or so, but that's not the way to treat people. but in san francisco, we'll continue this pattern, but maybe another city would be more common sense and say 20 might be the limit in a year, and then, we're just going to keep you in. some of the behavior was so bad as to be considered criminal, and they could probably incarcerate them, but we don't do that, either. any way, congratulations on your success. hopefully in a year, we can get the report back from you on these particular cases, and that's all worked out well and has paid dividends to everyone. thank you. >> thank you, com

. >> commissioner honda: thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> commissioner honda: you don't live in this district? >> no, i live in another district that's even busier than the outer sunset. >> president swig: could we ask everybody on that wall to sit down, please? the sheriff department said we were in violation of a fire contract. sir, sorry. you have to sit down. >> i'm a homeowner. i live on 42nd avenue, about five doors down from the proposed business. i currently frequent the other businesses on that same stretch of road. i take my dog to get washed at the dog mat down across the road. i bought a bike from swell across the road, and my daughter goes to daycare about three doors down on irving street at the opposite side. at the moment, when i walk my daughter to daycare from my house, i walk currently directly pass the existing business. i've had to dodge dog poop, and i've there's broken glass, and i've had to walk around. it's sorry that we push out business owners and residents and long-term residents that are trying to put a brand in this space. i've never met these new busine

commissioner fung? >> no, i already spoke. >> commissioner moore? >> you suggested december 2n december 2nd is that what i heard you say? >> that was commissioner fung. i am not available in december. thank you, just clarifying. may i suggest another way of looking at this is that maybe we can do two closed sessions to review resumes and not everyone needs to participate in both sessions, but if enough of us participate and remember what commissioners have to say, that would allow us, if we do the 14th, the 21st and also the 2nd, we could -- commissioner fung had suggested the 2nd, also. we could just sort of evolve the conversation and enough of us can be there to sort of progress and that will give us three dates by which at least all of us have participated once. that is a suggestion before we come in on the 5th and the new commissioner can participate in those sessions which is the 21st and the 2nd. >> if we t to go that route, you have to assemble a quorum. so it couldn't be one or two commissioners. >> thank you. commissioner kopple? >> just f

commissioner diamond. >> aye. >> commissioner johnson. >> aye. >> commissioner richards. >> aye. >> commissioner koppel. >> aye. >> press melgar. >> aye. >> so moved that motion passes 5-0. so commissioner diamond, you will need to actually leave the chambers. [laughter] whose phone is ringing and dinging, can you turn it off, please? >> this is the revised motion. good evening, commissioners, brigitte hix planning department staff, project before you is a conditional use authorization for the demolition of the an existing 1,284 single family home and a residential building with two dwelling units and one accessory dwelling unit in the rh2 zoning district. and this requires a conditional use to demolish the existing residential unit. it was heard on the 29th at the hearing, neighbors and commissioners voiced concerns about the emassing, unit size and design were out of context for the neighborhood. the commission voted to continue the item to the seventh. the revisions were not complete by that date which is why we were continued to today's date. sponsors held a meeting to receive comments from

thank. >> commissioner honda: good evening and welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is angel davis. i own two wine bars in the city with my best friend. my family's been in the city for 50 years. i'm here to show support for dennis and monica and their business, palm city wines. protecting and ensuring the survival of businesses like this should be a main priority for the city. they offer a sense of community, mentorship and are what makes the neighborhood special. it is the failure of the city's ability to guide businesses like this that's kind of destroyed the place that i grew up in because it's starting not to exist anymore. owning a small business in san francisco is really hard. it's one of the hardest challenges i've ever faced. so i feel, like, it takes, like, two weeks of paperwork. but we still all have hope, and that's why we're still here. we, like you, have chosen a job to serve the public. it saddens me to hear stories and struggles like this because they're far too common. the joy we used to feel from our work is not stripped away from us, not

we have other commissioners. commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: yes. i'd like to pick up on commissioner veronese's comments on the mentally ill. what percentage of your clients are mentally ill people versus addicted people and whatnot? >> i was looking at our internal data, and frankly, we don't have any internal data that measures what percentage of -- of the individuals that are homeless. i'd say it's very high. >> and what i would -- we don't have an exact number. i would sort of tell you that the -- the -- the rate among our highest users is very high, so people tend to have the combination of substance use disorders, mental illness, and medical challenges, and those three things together have caused people to require a lot of needs in the safety net. i do want to also just emphasize that that is not to say that the opposite is true, that people who do have behavioral health issues are automatically frequent users. so sometimes we get confused about that distinction. but to be clear again, many, many, the majority of clients that we're seeing on

commissioner moore? >> this is not by normal planning lingo. this is a statement of support and intent or whatever, but not a motion. >> well, commissioner richards is making a motion to endorse this process, so it is a motion. >> a request for endorsement. >> right. he's movin moving to endorse soa motion. >> thank you for clarifying. >> on that motion, commissioner f urinatiocommissionfung, commi? aye. >> commissioner moore, aye, commissioner kopple and melgar, aye and it passes 6-0. >> that will place under doctorrer's announcements doctor director's announcements. >> there's a connect msf and i wanted to announce for your sake, we have several public meetings on this program and the first is in the southeast, wednesday, the 13th, from 6:00 t community facility and the second is a youth workshop being cohosted by the san francisco youth commission on thursday the 21st from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at mission high school and there will be fyi, two public workshops in late january. we don't have th the sp

commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. chief, you may have covered this before i arrived, and i apologize for my lateness. traffic here is lovely. and i had actually e-mailed you, requesting that you address the articles in the white paper that it come out regarding the department's past participation with jttf. and the things i wanted clarification on are all of the incidents and all of the issues that were discussed happened prior to the department leaving jttf. there's no conduct that was alleged that's occurred since we withdrew from all participation in jttf under your watch. >> that is correct. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and so it's -- it's -- there's some issues there. it's not that those issues are in the past, but if there ever becomes a point, like president hirsch says, where we are to consider rejoining jttf, i think those issues in the articles would certainly become relevant. but i think a couple people reached out to me concerned that there was still conduct that was ongoing since leaving the jttf, and

commissioner johnson? >> commissioner richards: i was going to ask that. >> president melgar: oh, i'm sorry. >> commissioner richards: yeah, how they complied. >> nick rosen. so there are two -- in the existing 40-site campus, there were two live-work sites. 575 harrison and roosevelt. the sites aren't identical across the board, and in the case of 168 bluxon, the academy is vacating that site, so it's being put back onto the market as live-work housing. at 575 harrison, there's no requirement -- the common feature of n.s.r. is a common requirement that residents have business licenses. that's not a common requirement for the n.s.r., so i think we established that the academy's use was legal at that time. >> president melgar: commissioner johnson. >> commissioner johnson: so it has been a long road on this project. i know many -- there have been folks that have been involved for decades. i have just been on the commission for maybe 1.5 years, and i've heard stories. so i know that for advocates, for commun

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 moore?>> i would like to ask mr. may, was there a shadow study done? if there is indeed a public park nearby? i have never seen the department verse themselves on the findings >> yes, for buildings that are below 40 feet, we do not require a shadow study. >> so there may be a study? >> i guess there could be, but construction that are less than 40 feet in height, we don't devalue that just evaluate that. >> is in the structure higher than 40 feet? >> a talking about the elevator penthouse? >> those are permitted above the height limit. the proposal is not subject to prop k. does not require the shadow analysis. >> thank you. >> commissioner fung? >> several questions. the issue of public health, i understand it is in their jurisdiction to deal with any type of cleaning up. what is the status of that? >> our planning staff ever viewed the application and the categorical exemption. it does state that the project sponsor has enrolled in the program, which i believe director ram has mentioned ea

>> 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

commissioner richards. >> move to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve items 4 5, 6 and 7 under your consent calendar. [roll call vote] that motion passes unanimously 5. zero placing us under item 8 consideration of adoption draft minutes for november 7, 2019 and your closed session of november 14, 2019. >> do any members of the public wish to comment on the draft minutes? okay. public comment is closed. commissioner pop he will. >> -- commissioner cop pell.>> thank you on that motion to adopt the minutes. [roll call vote] that motion passes unanimously. item 9 commission comments and questions. >> commissioner richards. >> just one quick one. we had a couple weeks ago a dr on a falafel store in the castro, 463 castro. i wanted to update everybody. all that hearing, i walked by the storefront the other day and it's released again so the flying falafel will not be doing in where we did not approve the project. >> if there's nothing further, we can move onto department matters item 10 director's announcements >> thank you. good af

aye. >> commissioner tan sner >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> that carries 4-0. the 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 ge

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 heather. this is sort of out of the realm of these resolutions but it's maybe the time to say this. i look at the construction that's happening throughout the city, and of course there's tons of new construction happening but there's also tons of renovations happening. is there a mechanism or any idea of doing this kind of work in three years or as part of the cycling to suggest that renovations also have to move toward all electric? >> absolutely. so i should have mentioned as my last come, the zero emission task force for buildings that will be launching is going to have four subsections. one is going to look at all electric for new construction. and then there will be other workgroups that are going to look at existing construction around municipal and commercial and residential buildings. so our goal is within one year to have a road map for existing buildings, how we retrofit them and electrify them. >> and would that be holding to the three-year cycle to get it into code that if people a

seconded by commissioner ronen. we have a different house, before we call the role, would one of you be so kind as to make a motion to excuse commissioner safai? we will take that without objection. on the first motion made to appoint mr. ortiz to the district nine seat for the c.a.c., roll call please. [roll call] we have first approval. >> on the motion to appoint ms. lou to the district five seat we will take that, same house, same call. that motion is approved. congratulation we look forward to your sage counsel and advice in these chambers, once a month. with that, could you please call the next item? >> item nine, 2019 state and federal legislation summary. this is a lot -- information item. >> mr. watt? >> good morning, chair and commissioners. i'm pleased to be here this morning. the agenda item that is before you related to the transportation program for the last year has several attachments that do a nice job of summarizing that you took actions on. i do want to highlight that we are active, the last day t

commissioner hardeman -- >> commissioner cleaveland: wont writer position on. give us an update on what's happening with that position. perhaps share if it has to be in closed session to discuss the candidates for the position. i think this position is so critical to future funding for lot of things that our department needs. i like to have that on the agenda and get an update from the department on what's happening. >> president nakajo: we'll have the chief of the department comment on that. >> updated. i gave vice president covington some of the applicants who we are going to get their red resus and who we want to interview. i'll be happy to talk to you about it. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. madam secretary. >> item 8. public comment on item 9 on all matters pertaining to item 9b below including public comment on whether the item 9b in closed session. >> president nakajo: any member of the public that wishes to give public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> vote on whether to conduct items 9b in closed session. the co

one more time. >> commissioner perez. >> commissioner thomas. >> president bleiman.ommissioner lee. commissioner falzon. >> yai yai. the consent agenda has been approved. congratulations. follow up with the deputy director at your earliest convenience. thank you, commissioner perez, for making us motion it as well. that was huge. it would have had to come back otherwise. the next item is the regular agenda, and i will have deputy director azevedo introduce that as well. >> the nl o permit on the -- excuse me. let's start over. the only permits on the regular agenda and the mechanical amusement and device permits and at 2636 and westwood is a new music bar in the marina district and is the first to have a mechanical bull. the application is to host live d.j. performances and the mad permit is for the mechanical bull. the owner has done extensive soundproofing including building a roof over the alley to dampen sound bleed, resurfacing the entire roof, installing fans to prevent the doors being open and installing sound dampening fabric behind the speakers. this applica

commissioner furer? >> looking at this outreach and i am wondering when you said it will be in language, are we including russian? >> yes. and when i say in-language, for workshops, language assistance, we will provide that. >> so meaning that it is going to in english and if they want to participate, they can have teainterpretation, is that corr. >> interpretation, yes. >> i think this is so important for my neighborhood and this is why i'm pushing back. what i have learned very few russian speakers come out, but if you hold one in russian -- because i have so many russian-speaking folks in my nakedneighborhood that are 100% dependent and i feel their voices are not at the table. if you're doing it in language, then you should do it in language, meaning that it shoul- everything should be in that language and if people want english interpretation but we know it's 70% at best. i wanted to give a plug for not such a passive outreach but not if they just request it but actually working, you could work with