supplemental eir will be issued in early 2015 will undergo a standard eir process and will hear a public hearing with and will hear comments prior to certification and will address project approval. with that i would like to turn it over to christina laya from public works and i will be available to address questions afterwards. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is christina lay i -- for the department of public works. this project is an effort including the public works and municipal transportation agency. we shared project goals for the community and project team. they are to improve safety along the corridor for all people whether walking, biking, driving or taking transit. to provide a more attractive pedestrian environment, to provide a dedicated bicycle facility and to facilitate muni operations. the community has been very involved in developing the proposed project. many of the specific improvements came from the project meetings. we held four public meetings on or near second street. we conducted door to door outreach from market to king street and we have inv

dust could call roll impact the commercial tenants as well as the apartment above it focusing on the eir the report that the 5 m reporting says the significant vibrations especially pile driving is used as a construction method could have significant impact again, it's a 1912 building and probably will have significant impact we're looking to have some form of mitigation to protect the building and the integrity of the building there's a risk of the north e north side it abuse on the largest of the building will have a zero clearance so special dust and noise and vibration control is fog o something we'll look for our building has a set back with the windows and the bedrooms and the bathroom look at 5 stories it's tile on howard it is nothing once 5 m is in place so hallway of the apartments will look out into we're not sure what it doesn't show set backs and have no discussions the bulk of the project is of concern and we have had speakers speak about the pedestrian safety when you go to the howard side marching is the closest street two buildings the proposed drivers with hundreds of t

and there's a maximum under the eir rules sequa rules you can have may i see it, sir? what's that maximum on a comment period. >> the sequa requires 45 day minimum review period generally, the environmental review officer asks to stick to that unless there's a purely reason to extend it but seeing no reason to we kept it at 45 days but the ero said she'll comply with the request to extend it. >> we went through this on hunters point years ago we were told there have a maximum that is customary or loud i'm not sure what is it if it were 90 days to january 16th i believe i believe that's stooep long. >> i don't believe there's a maximum but generally 45 sometimes 60 day review period under sequa requirement. >> okay. so thanks for your information i'm probably more inclined to extend to 60 days that's more than enough time if you're interested in making comments it's a long one but we have to get in it and read our comments i've working in december and i think most of us are i'm favor of 60 days another comment talking about things that are not typically part of the irs

not only reads the eir but looks at for the file to know the project there was a lot of a.m. gut about the 5 m recorded that has multiple approvals in multiple places it wasn't an area plan and the first preservation we've had was before the eir i have been looking in the eir for who i contact who's in charge of the project that should be explicit in the eir partly because go planning is good about providing records we see get records fast in the planning department thank you sensitivity people and the bureaucracy dealing with requests missouri ed is not i have a request in for files because it is observe they're involved i'll get the answers after the first of the year because they have bureaucracies beyond belief to get files it needs to be understood the project description a often been the approval files that are not the ero files second thing is information items have to be considered on complicated cases like on c pfc and the neighborhood plan on the multiple area plans there should be information hearing not before the hearing on the eir because that's dirty pool but s

or not eir i know that the law regional connect our that talked about the eir so i'll ask the project sponsor and with respect to how much housing costs or how much they're facing paying naint may not be an environmental issue but the eir is. >> commissioner antonini. >> you're suggesting the comment to january 7th i'll support that i think that gives a longs period for comments and extends after the holidays. >> i'm clarify the 45 days or 46 days acknowledging took us to december 1st. >> so january 7th makes it another thirty or 40 days or something. >> right. >> the commission is looking for an 80 day comment period on this. >> that's okay. >> commissioner johnson. >> my apologies i honestly think that we're - having dealt with this before with an eir and the holiday period i have so much going on and potrero hill is pushed to january 7th. >> there's no hearing it's a comment period not an additional hearing for this period it's only the comment period and so do we have to have the citation. >> maybe the certification will come in the second quarter depends on. >> commissioner moore

take public comment and the completeness of the draft eir and no approval is requested at this point the subject property on the 3 involving downtown mid-market and occupied business owner about had blocks mission street to the north and howard to the south and sixth to the west and it entails the mixed use residential and open space the project physical characteristics has retention and rehabilitation of two building in response with the district guidelines and makes the requirement between the documents this commission will consider has part of the approval the eir studies that who the residential and office with the emphasis on housing depending on the scheme and the building range from 50 to 4 hundred and 70 feet this draft eir founds the demolition of the building on u to him street which it determines eligible the motion of this historic resource is carbohydrate affordable and the historic preservation commission commented on november 5th and asked this building be included the h pc approves that and asks for the resources while achieving some of the other goals that the projec

comment period after the publication of the draft eir usually that's a noticing error there are a lot of nos o notices we've inadvertently missed that we extend the comment period for 45 days sequa is 60 days the need to be reasons it has to be longer than 60 days without such reasons would constitute usual u unusual circumstances i consider 60 days a good period that's the perimeter i'm considering in those extensions i also want to talk about the planning commissions consideration obviously you are not operating under exactly the same set of responsibilities as a ero, however, i recommend you strike with clarity in our decision again you have a question about a review period and act as a body by taking a vote chapter 31 the extension of review period is granted to the commission therefore acting as a body is an appropriate way to go sequa also says that 60 days should be the outside limit unless circumstances if you're going to consider a comment period longer than 60 days r days you need a presence of what is unusual circumstances those are my recommendations to you i'm happy to an

we have one chance to get the eir right. we have one chance to get the planning process for this right. because of the size of this project, it is invitationly important, because of all the other things going on, it's vitally important to take, even if it's a little bit of additional time to get this part right, because this is what is going to make this project work for all of its residents. thank you. >> thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? seeing none, commissioners? commissioner moore? >> no withstanding this is an outstanding project, i want to just jump into commenting on the eir. i think the eir is very good. it's well-structured. however, i have a couple of questions, which i believe need to be elevated and it's in the area of construction impacts. with funding for a project which has large public comments i think only focusing on construction impacts over a finite timeframe of ten years is potentially danger, because as you extend it over ten years it becomes almost a generational issue that p

i'm giving you ingredients there's been lack of clarity about the issue of common periods on draft eirs there's uncertainty about the who is responsible for granting that extension and the circumstances under which it would be extended i don't feel there's a need for a lack of clarity and happy to have had the opportunity from the here level of confusion around the 5 m issue to mitigate this situation i'll talk about my considerations and this questions come up and also talk about how the planning commission might act on this issue so the standard review period and i prepared a memo on this issue that's excluded in our packet hopefully, you've had a chance to review that i'll go over it the standard review period on a draft eir established in sequa is 45 days the eros roll in general and implementing what sequa says and what's in the sequa guidelines so as i think through the length of the period i'm thinking about the appropriate comment period based on circumstances with a particular a eir that makes the period inadequate to fulfill the purposes of the comment period those circumstanc

if the eir is a bicycle plan eir, i think we need to look at that as well and not always but in that particular where they are going and coming from it's more dangerous for cyclist because there is more cars turning right to them and there is no way to ensure that cyclist are going straight and there is no way it can safely proceed unless we do a no right on red deal which will be a disaster. >> the request doesn't incorporate the signal changes and we did a full impact study on this with the eir with the information provided. >president cindy wu: thank you. city clerk: commissioners that will put you on item 10. the citywide nexus study, the informational presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners, planning department here to discuss the citywide nexus study. this committee had a hearing on this adoption. we have scheduled the adoption hearing for next week. since the initiation hearing staff also met with the eastern neighborhood puc to discuss this in more detail. i'm going quickly through why what the legislation is doing. as a reminder the department created the nexus study

approval hearings will follow the final eir/eis certification. your comments today should be confined to the adequacy and accuracy of information and analysis within the draft eir/eis. the comments will be transcribed by the court reporter and responded to in the responses to comments document. this document will respond to all verbal and written comments received and make revisions to the draft eir/eis as appropriate. i would like to remind commenters to speak slowly and clearly, so that the court reporter can produce an adequate transcript of today's hearing. also commentsers should state their name and address for the record to be sent copies once it is completed. after hearing comments from the general public we'll take comments on the draft eir/eis from the planning commission. would i note that the public review process began on november 7th and will continue until 5:00 p.m. january 7, 2015. comments that are not made verbally today should be submitted in writing to the planning department. this concludes my presentation on this matter and

eir because that's dirty pool but structured to people said what the project is that is coming especially on a complicated area plan or i give you the academy of arts you're about to have the academy of arts eir which is 60 sites and 12 areas that are geography areas and the world's most complicated eir in my opinion the academy of arts you need to do some ground rules. >> is there any additional public comment? okay seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini >> i'd like to thank sarah john's for on excellent presentation and tend to agree especially i don't know you've mentioned an initial study and presentation with a notice of preparation and i think if we have a situation as we will later today, we're to hear about a project long before the draft eir comes down i think the public should know what it contains as sue hester said i see the reason to expend the comment period if we have the information ahead of time unless there's errors or new information possibly multiple sites for the 4 reasons the fourth a lot of holidays but as you pointed out the eir comment period

people who got the eir and eir notice or who attended the hearing or saw it online have no idea what the planning commission, that the planning commission was over ruled by staff. the new deadline is december 17th, which is really going to be difficult because we had an election. it's a 700 page eir, equivalent to a rezoning as well as a project approval. it's carving out an area that isn't in the central soma plan. it's carving out an area that isn't in the downtown, that isn't in the areas that it's going to be rezoned on market street. so, we have become so cavalier that it isn't even noticed to the general public. i don't think that's legal in this city city attorney. i think people have the right to comment period to which that the commission set at the last hearing, not which a couple were informed by an e-mail from the department that have been truncated by the approximate weeks. there is no respect for election no respect for really complicated project and having a 700 page eir dumped on you when you have to read it to find out what's going on. projects as massive like that h

want to make that the case can you give example of findings i personally synthesis we have a lot of eirs published during the difficult times of the years and not only winter but summer months i'm struggling to get a real good set of criteria for finding to extend beyond 60 days if you get could give us examples. >> the only thing i can tell you sequa says there's unusual circumstances in terms of but this is is not defined within the status or the guidelines this is you know something to look at the city attorney for guidelines i don't know if ms. burns wants to add anything at this point. >> deputy city attorney marilyn burn it is not a bright line test it is very fact specific because it is unusual circumstances about the project or something to do with the circumstances surrounding the project that would be what the commission will look at if the commission step up to the plate it beyond 60 days our office recommends it includes the unusual circumstances that are presenting itself to the commission that makes sense. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> i'm glad tha

but i'll ask a couple today a lot of times the eir is did not on whatever the project sponsor says and look at it at the environmental review but first a couple of accommodates i know that the architect mentioned he want to community meeting i don't know all the cacs in the city they're the hardest working i try to do what i can i don't see members here by the ocii staff katherine i know you guys work hard as well i go down fourth street a lot i like the orientation of the sites as you go down third or fourth it is rectangle in it's presentation some of the streets are different whatever direction not only left or right. i like the fact there's an orientation on the site that's great my questions about the project ii know there's going to be a transportation management plan but i admire peter and all the work i want to ask you a question i notice in the report that we were given for today, the underground parking building didn't max out and allow for the urban building so something that occurred to me a couple years ago we were thinking about even the piers 30-32 site why can't he look

transit corridor their easily blocked up and we have to instead deal with individual comments on an eir? when are you going to do some planning p l a n n i n g really you're a planning commission not a project for the commission thank you. >> >> next speaker. >> staff person senior center at the fiscal community services i'm here on behalf of of our senior planters that currently reside in the 5 m area and those who will be living there in the future we are in support of the planning concept that incorporates widower sidewalks for the frail and elderly and residents because that will greatly improve walking assess to the very if i senior centers in the ear this includes the senior center we're they've and happy this concept and there's been consideration for widower situations that's all i have to say thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? >> good afternoon. i'm heather i'm a south of market resident and the director for the folks on the street i want to speak in support of the project i've been sitting in focus groups planning what this might look like since 2

the eir has to consider changes to the population and housing, if the rebuild will require a provision of housing units in other parts of the city? so if you need to create other units somewhere else, you have to consider that a impact to the project for population. i question -- i question the determination that that is not the case for this project. unlike alice griffith, for this project, you need to bulldoze buildings in phases and people need to move either somewhere else in the site or probably somewhere else in the city, if there is not enough empty units in other buildings. i question that given all the efforts that are being made around the city to build new units there is going to be room for the residents of complete sections of potrero hill and potrero annex and other parts of san francisco in the phases when their sections of the project are being demolished. so i would really like more description as to the relocation plan, and where those people are supposed to go? i know relocation plans are pretty complex and there is a lot of moving pieces to them, but we could at lea

cpuc as with other regulatory agencies would participate in that eir process. and would provide comments and that would be in my timeframe, my belief when that issue could be resolved. >> thank you. >> we're familiar with the acronyms, but if you could decipher some of those on the slides. uprr. what else is on the slide? >> hsr is high-speed rail. >> is that the only one? >> california public utilities commission is cpuc and americans with disabilities act, ada. >> a follow-up why the compatibility discussion is happening right now? >> why is the no, it happening now? >> why it's only happening now? >> the conversation as i understand it until about four or five months ago was to have the differential heights and that is what mr. dykes showed in the previous presentation as the plan put forward by the design of the new downtown transit center; which did show in the illustration that he had, that there were two dedicated platform phases. that were at a different height than what the four were for california high-speed rail. so that has been the initiation of th

department will publish my comments that contain the comments on the dir e i s we intended for the eir e i s a few weeks later probably the summer of 2015 this that concludes my presentation. and we're available for your comments and answer my clarifying questions you might have thank you. >> i have no speaker cards commissioners. >> thank you commissioner johnck. >> yeah. i'm not sure which or kelly? rachel thank you can you a couple of things i was very interested in the work we did this summer with the preservation element of the general plan i'm trying to remember i know we didn't complete and we completed a public hearing had a lot of public comments and i'm interested to maybe have you refresher us and me on the status of that and the relationship of that of how we're looking at - while that is pending i guess final vote or final completion when when we look at the projects like this how - is there someway to tap into the work we did already this us kind of sitting over there on the shelf i'm not sure >> i think correct me if i am wrong so you want to see if there's a lens for th

for 25 years and i also teach high school for the last 13 years and my comment today was about the eir being presented between your department and the planning department so my comment today on this issue is that my proposal -- i've could i've asked last week to use the opportunity as they begin the process of eir to study my proposal for high school classroom inside the arena and the issues here today already -- my proposal is to deal with the positive affects of education and what this proposal can mean for our city and entire environment and again, we're talking about these last items have been about the natural resources our human interaction and relationship with the earth and environment is important so i mean for the benefit -- let me briefly read this comment my proposal on my website basically i'm asking for this study to take into consideration the classroom. i'm asking the eir to study the long-term positive social economic implications of a high school classroom that can provide san francisco and the entire bay area and diverse cross can crosscultural community as a whole a