. >> both president fong and commissioner antonini hit the nail on the head by saying it's a question of trying it is always easy to say i can do it we're at a time in the history of the city everyone has to try harder everyone is being asked to try harder i know you can i observed you in a movement on 19th and challenged you the way it is today i'll ask you to go home and try to think about the part with the neighbors that are supporting you subtle tweaks and that's what i would ask and in support of a turns. >> again maybe project sponsor come up specific with i've heard with regards to trying to fit in the service station and going to a second-story i've heard making sort of a village of retail as opposed to a box rail and maybe give or ask the project sponsor direction and maybe he will get direction back i don't want to send him off into a turns land. >> you've 0u8d a broad range of alternatives the advisory of the department and you've set perimeter including you needed needing to work together what is missing i think most of the audience have spoken all with a understand of the

italian-american commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson and commissioner moore. >> commissioners, the first item on your agenda item one ab for cases at pacific avenue discretionary review and variance proposed until june next case pacific discretionary review and variance are proposed until june 4th no another items i have several speaker cards for the first two items. >> calling names of speaker cards sorry (calling names). >> hello, i'm eric i'm the son the project sponsor we're here to support the staff recommendation for continuance the hamburger until june 4th we requested may 21st, however foufd the dprer was not available we agreed to the fourth date there is currently angle dbi enforcement action that is, we may have to abate within the next thirty days on we don't know at this point. >> thank you good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the planning commission i'm kathleen the chair for the russian hill association this proposed project as ramifications beyond pacific after the results of thi

i'd like to take roll at this time commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioners first on your calendar is items for continuance item one at mississippi conditional use authorization is for may 14, 2015 any public comment? item two on van ness avenue proposed until may 21st 2015 at turk street and case no. at lech worth downtown project authorization have proposed until june 4th, 2015 further commissioners item 7 for case no. at pine strait conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance may 28 i have no future items proposed for continuance and unless - there are no speaker cards >> okay. any public comment on the items proposed for continuance? not seeing mississippi any that being said >> commissioner richards move to continue all the items proposed as outlined. >> number 7? >> 7 1, 2, 3 ab and 7. >> commissioners on that months ago motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu

commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes national anthem to 6 and commissioner that place you on our final agendized item at possible street a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the commission carlly grove planning staff the item is a request for establish a restaurant within the possible district to expose 25 hundred square feet and to conduct an outdoor area with the square feet grocery stores at the ground floor the proposed routine right away restaurant has a pizza and cafe and rooftop restaurant and would only be assessable to the market the proposed restaurant includes a basement level kitchen to support those restaurants on the upper floors that is not available otherwise the total area of the restaurant use is 68 hundred square feet as a bona fide beer and sale for wine they've proposed a square feet roof deck for the patrons for spargs between the restaurant no alcohol served or permitted in the seating area to date

. >> commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong no. >> that motion fails three to four with commissioners commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner hillis commissioner president fong voting against. >> i'll make a motion and comment to commissioner antonini on your valet is considered a space saving method for the stacks one in front of the the other to have keys to get them out that's why it is space efficient i want to make a motion to strike to approve with a finding of with the finding the off-street parking requirement is met and let's see i think did you have a finding. >> if i may the parking is underground and because of the space efficiency will not improve the usual desirable and the current design engages the street frontage and pedestrian. >> do you feel like that finding reflects the fact we're only talking about the spaces the additional minimal amount of spaces. >> you're only getting 6 spaces so that is minimum only 6 spaces above that. >> okay. >> without - >> i'll list that finding and let's see if there's a second. >> second. >>

walk through some of the key elements of the project thank you >> good evening commissioner president fong and commissioners i'm joel the owners representative of the jewish home expansion project i wanted to make a foot noted the judicious hope e home has been serving since 1891 this is rehabilitate and the second site of the joush home on the site since 1923 in the time the excelsior what well what i'm going to present to you tonight is a little bit right of vision we've been working on this master plan it's been 2, 3, 4 process for nearly 10 years the design is the stakeholder and the board members and neighborhoods and planning staff and the environmental planning and quite a bit of work health department and caregivers and engineers one the key objectives to create a wonderful practices for the seniors to live we've been finding open creating not only a great place for the seniors to live but we want to live there ourselves this must be innovative in the excelsior of the greater excelsior community the design has been lead by architects that are leader in the design and they join with

grant avenue this is also a cb 3 conditional use authorization good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the commissions and staff the item before you a request for conditional use authorization to competitor vacant limited restaurant space and it is on the empowering of a commercial space on the north beach neighborhood commercial district in the planning code section requires limited restaurants to obtain a c u n and the project manager for grant avenue held the preapplication meeting on the subject property per the application sign-in sheet only one person attended the project sponsor sent the cu a notice to the group on april 10, 2010 the project will have improvements to the ground floor commercial space the former tenant francisco vacated it in the summer and moved 6 storefronts down to o another ground floor storefront space at grant after the proposed limited restaurant will not serve alcohol and provide goods and services to the surrounding neighborhood the business owner has had two restaurants this project on the whole is desirable astonish the neighborhood desp

. >> i appreciate you're saying that commissioner president fong the building is too dark for me and unless 2, 3, 4 a light neighborhood it is designed around light hues of color this is a dark building and because of the dark it attracts more attention i leave that up to you i prefer it to be a slightly different building. >> commissioner moore are you amenable to the condition of the minimum 13 feet sent. >> commissioners there is a motion and a second to approve this and also incorporating the design comments from the commissions with a minimum 13 foot front set back you commissioner antonini. >> sutter street. >> front set back on sutter center of very good. >> on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner richards commissioner johnson commissioner moore arrest commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously zoning administrator, what say you? on the variance, close the public hearing and be granted to the variance will hold the decision until the final revised plan it is a through lot and they're keeping

there's a lot of challenges. >> and reverend fong, you worked in chinatown for many years.s continue to arrive in san francisco's china town. where are they finding housing? what are they doing for work? >> so a lot of the new im immigrants live in what people call sro residential hotels. they are single small single rooms, 8 by 10 and if you can imagine, since single means one person, and you have five people living in there with bunk beds, it's pretty rough. so it's tough to get jobs. when i was younger, at least there were sewing factories and i was put in a box as a kid, but at least all the relatives are around, and that industry is gone, so you gotten restaurants, you got wherever -- care giving sometimes, but it's hard. it's hard to figure out a plan to pay for child care which is a difficult thing. it's toughto find housing in the hottest market in the united states, san francisco. >> and speaking of the hot market we are in the midst of a tech boom, san francisco, especially. what are some of the challenges and opportunities that are presenting themselves to the pe

commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero commissioners. >> do we take those two items together with the preceding. >> excuse me. >> we listed those two items together. >> they were called together commissioners that will place us on item 13 for case terraceville street a request for conditional use authorization. >> good evening commissioner president fong. >> commissioner antonini. >> i need to make an announcement in my ability to participate this item came before us in 2010 the project sponsors were the same but the site is different at that particular time i which is not able to participate because one the project manager was a dental patient since that time i've sold they practice to kevin and still work there and still see the individuals but not rendered into anything for which i've received enumeration 3 years certainly the last year awhile i provide care care does not involve any remuneration so the city attorney am i loading allowed to participate in

>> that motion passes 4 to to with commissioners commissioner richards and commissioner president fong voting against commissioners that places us under our discretionary review calendar for item 10 for case this is a staff initiated discretionary review. >> golden gate bridge commissioners michael smith planning department staff that is the discretionary review for the project at 372 sucking sick street the construction of a two story edition at the rear of a split-level single-family unit the department initiated the dr it was previously reviewed by the commission pursuant to the discretionary review action memo what dr was requested by the adjacent neighbors to the west with the dr action memo the commission voted plus 6 to one to take discretionary review and approve the permit inform one have the circle last year stalkers or staircases and remove the east deck adjacent to the master bedroom and 3 provide access to the new roof deck and to the stair penthouse above the internal stairs the staff has determined the current project is inconsistent with the direction from the commissio

commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and i do believe that staff as well as the representatives for item item 9 are still at the board hearing so if it accommodates the commission we'll move on to item 11 and fantastic. >> commissioners moving on to item 11 for the case at south van ness this is a large project authorization the benefit of the audience we have taken items 10 and 11 out of order because due to a conflict with staff as well as the project sponsor alter at a board committee hearing we expect that hopefully after this item we'll call item 9. >> good evening, commissioners brittany of the blavpt you have a request for the larger project authorization on south van ness in an urban district proposal will demolish existing one thousand 7 hundred plus auto repair buildings and mixed use building will be constructed at a height of 58 percent square feet and consisting of 122 bedroom unit on the empowering the project provides 3 retail spaces 3 thousand 60 squar

and i'll have my colleague into to the plans a little bit. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the commission i just want to go over the plans basically recap currently a 5 unit building and 2 unit back we're proposing utilizing the existing envelope with the two will unit building to add the two additional unit it is a historic structure the only administrations to the front building as spoken about were - are the addition as you can see there are accrual a garage door that exists was added afterward we are proposing addressing appropriate front door to assess the rear door the two unit in the back building which is going to be conferred from a storage space as you can see here are good family - the lower floor that added unit as you can see we have the unit is 8 hundred plus square feet and the office of the city administrator other unit is telephone hundred square feet good size for families the one in the back is a townhouse this is flat they both will have access to a common roof deck through the staircase through the common courtyard and again, this is main

commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner richards thank you, commissioners figurations on our agenda items for continuance item one1 at harrison street a large authorization for continuance until june 4th the agenda states may 28 the project sponsor is requesting june 4th next cases at market street conditional use authorization and the zoning administrator the acting zoning administrator will consider a question to june 18, 2015 an item 3 case rhode island street discretionary review hfa has been withdrawn there are no speaker cards okay any public comment on this item? item proposed for continuance not seeing any that being said. >> commissioner richards. >> move to continue item 1 and 2a. >> second. >> on that motion commissioners to continue items as proposed commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places y

commissioner president fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards we expect commissioner wu to be late and commissioner johnson for absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda proposed for continuance item one is at california street is proposed to june you figure out 2015 and next rezoning properties and zoning map are june 18, 2015 case 3 at pine street conditional use authorization is proposed for definitely continuance i have not 0 other items proposed for continuance i'll check on those any public comment on this item? for the items proposed for continuance not seeing any public comment is closed. >> and any commissioners feel like making a motion commissioner moore. >> (inaudible). >> thank you commissioner on that motion to continue matters as proposed commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you on commissioner matters draft minutes for the rules committee and the may 14 regul

commissioner president fong and commissioners i'm e i can't think the aektsdz that's been a long road we started work in 2007 and i would like to start showing did slides thank you next slide please this is the neighborhood typography the site here excuse me. get this mouse rolling the image in the upper right hand corner is the newly added adjacent building built since the project was first purchased next slide please this is the project back go back one the project in 2008 and you'll see that we have a lot more maps on the property than the the current design next slide please this slide is in our set shows the set back that is referred to that's been done in response to the be neighborhood community group and this is happened over the last 4 weeks the slides the imagines on the left-hand side show the before and after so before it excuse me. the upper slide before the changes and lower after the changes primarily to (inaudible). >> excuse me. sorry you need to stay at the mike. >> i'll try to speak we tried to push the corner back next slide please those are the views of the adjace

the next case on west portal avenue a cb 3 conditional use authorization. >> commissioner president fongnd members of the commission once again todd from the planning department once again this item is another conditional use authorization on west portal avenue so located at west portal zoning district and this falls under the community processing program are the cb 3 p to abbreviate it to describe the project it burglary convert 13 hundred ground floor to a limited to a full restaurant that includes the sale of alcohol and it requires a restaurant to have a condominium conversion in order to operate they location within the west portal avenue district to date the department received support for the project and recommending to the recommendation the department recommends approval of this case believes the project is necessary and desirable for the following reasons number one the site as previously occupied by a limited restaurant and now a restaurant it proposed and number 2 based on the information by the project sponsor this proposal will be beneficial to the site surrounding the prop

commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you under our discretionary review calendar for item 12 at ocean avenue a mandatory discretionary review. >> good afternoon, commissioners marseille with the planning department staff we have a request for a mandatory discretionary review to review the conditions by previous imperfectly doing business as as leaned billboards hall has been operating under other entertainment use it was filed in 2011 for bar use in 2011 during the section public notice period two discretionary reviews were filed and following the discretionary review hearing on january 12th conditions were placed including the restrictions on alcohol sales they've been operating since 2012 during a six months review period the establishment has been code compliant the code is requesting to remove the alcohol prohibition the business will not be allowed to operate as food but snacks must be available that will be a bar use fltsz planning code th

because of world-class 2 and i think if you look at those two times i'm hopeful commissioner president fong looking at generations down we can say yes, we can't control all the elements people are coming for tech that's a lot of different industries and ways people are coming to san francisco i think it will be great to think about the tools in a much more universal way i've touched on this in thinking about retail space to plan for san francisco i think we need to find a way to reorganize ourselves, the departments, even some parts of planning code to have much more control over the growth of san francisco the fact we're doing things project by project we're not going to get there if everyone can make they're on decisions obtain what they want to build it will continue to be a little bit more gold rush and a little bit less world war 23 two more things i know we have going to have future hearings about the tools for the planning commission but i'll say a couple of things first of all, i like the front right now i think you do a fantastic job and put this together i think that you are you k

we followed the north vietnamese by that time had become known as the yai fong, or liberation troops as they routed out some of these snipers. this was probably a new experience for them. they're not really that experienced in urban warfare door to door. rather new. they acted as if of course they had all the time in the world with which to accomplish their little mission here. which they did not, in the end. you get a sense for how young this north vietnamese army is. jack: impressive thing, isn't it? jim: 14 and 15-year-old. >> the saigon fire department got taken by surprise here in all the firing. they made a hasty retreat. they had come to put out a small fire in the area. jack: but again, as you said, that was isolated and sporadic that sort of action. mostly the troops didn't have any work like that at all to do once they got to town. jim: very little. it was mainly a question of moving about the streets and making their presence known. jack: was there a lot of killing? jim: it was very little that we were able to determine. in saigon, we did come across one apparently shot ar

italian-american commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson and commissioner moore. >> commissioners, the first item on your agenda item one ab

fong we want to be able to do that and what happens through the dispatch. >> your agency is the policy agency did the issue of small business resonate with our commission at all? it does and again a lot of the drivers are you know like the gentleman alluded to independent contractors so they can its a funny set up you don't know i don't wantugh the whole taxi set up but the companies lease the vehicles out or happening now especially are with all the medallion holders their affiliated with a company is the medallion can be a american taxicab but that medallion holders collecting income from three or four drivers so they're all small businesses in that sense yes we have small businesses and color schemes and again american taxicab company if it wants 28 vehicles for perpetuity we'll allow that but with we want the service to be there assuming our largest dispatch takes them on they'll still be american dispatch our size our color whatever as a company >> i have a couple of questions prior to the new regulations how many dispatch companies did you have. >> been 10 or 11. >> so you lost t

. >> natalie fong. >> hi good afternoon sfpuc i'm natalie i graduated in vial stooutdz studies from the university of san francisco as we're living in san francisco i want to know what is the energy reuse and a lay emphasis open the energy our future generations and myself let's make clean power sf our energy thank you. >> and last but not least here comes jess. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is is jess the conservatism manager important the sierra club i've been working on sf clean power for 2 1/2 years we dug up the petitions we've collected in favor of clean sf power we worked since 11 and 2 thousand plus handicap written letters and preservations from san francisco resident through the m and board of supervisors please launch this program that are a lot of people that are existed for having a clean energy option in san francisco audio wanted to celebrate the community involvement i've not seen this many people come to the sf meetings to speak for cleaner sf power for a long time thank you and especially coming out in the middle of the day people take a long lunch to make s

. >> thank you commissioner president fong and commissioner wu and fellow commissioners for this opportunity to address f you in our concerns the negative debilitations for hauling 5 millions tonlz of waste to the county i'm a foreman board of supervisors member and o g we call it we've been around thirty years to preserve the urn wastelands we have an steven of battles i'm here to ask you are reject the legislation and ask for a plan we think that a project requiring moving six millions tons of waste is considered to have no significant environmental impact there is much illicit's to this diverse and you appear to hit the limits in san francisco's efforts to reduce green house gas emissions your making missing a great opportunity an analysis the scope of shipping to had a road landfill shows a hidden resource to reduce green house gas pages 8 and 9 discuss the com posted operation ecology send out hundred plus loads to 3 different facilities including had a road i've visit it is well done and minimum overlook loaders and done on an asphalt lot many can be found in industrial sites in san fr

commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> commissioners we're prepared to move go back to item 9 at this time item 9 cu a on van ness street and if those persons exiting the chambers could do so quietly we have business left and. >> on the lighter note the giants are 3 out from beating the dodgers. >> jonathan as soon as those doors close start our presentation. >> commissioner if i may i want to introduce you to jonathan he joined the department in the southeast quadrant and returned to the bay area after receiving hi master during his time anothers, california poly he repeated the eir and worked at as planning interim for public works and rec and park here in san francisco and hold a bachelors in environmental studs from ucla and bay area native well, welcome. >> good morning members of the commission i'm jonathan this is a conditional use authorization for the property open van ness street proposal to establish a new medical use occupying 7 thousand hund

i'd like to take roll at this time commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antoninis items for continuance item one at mississippi

and thank you, deputy director, fong and i wanted to ask, where is the state street bank located? >> well actually located in boston and we have recently created our, or recently started to work with the city and county of san francisco over the last two years and this is an item that have briefed the controller's office and they have obtained the references from the various city staff who are using the bank. >> and i find that is fascinating besides wells fargo who it seems like we used before, three of the banks that put or did sent in and they seem like japanese banks. >> yes. >> yes, they are. >> and is that a trend where we are seeing more foreign banks or foreign capitol bidding on different? >> yes, three years ago, we had six various banks and half of the banks were from japanese, and we are looking to get into the american market. >> if you want additional information. >> no. >> do i have the council and financial advisors ready and willing to answer the questions. >> the other questions and how do we expect and i know that we have a commercial paper, loan, and we will wo

and fatality of fong. yem. lee. but it took her fatality to make the change. so please. i ask for a more constructive analysis. to be approved. of the aging and disability resource center to be fully accommodating and accessible to people with disabilities. seniors, and the functional need of safe travel getting to and from the facility. particularly pedestrian travel. thank you. (buzzer). >> thank you. all right. then. we will move onto the next agenda item. which is the braj at main. the san francisco public libraries new literacy. and learning center. that prioritizes. community learning. adult literacy. youth and family literacy. and technology literacy to create a learning environment for twenty-first century skills. >> hi. i'm laura lay. at the learning differences at the bridge. which is part of the san francisco library. as you stated. it's the new literacy and learning center. which prioritizes. in community learning. adult and family youth literacy. we're located in the main library on the 5th floor. the bridge has been hosting a variety of programs. which supp