>> clerk: yes, because they have reached an agreement fong fong agreement? >> clerk: yes. >> yes. good evening, president fong. i'm sarah freeman from zachs, freeman and wilkins. we're very glad we've been able to resolve this with the permit holder. the parties have agreed that on the eastern elevation of the top floor on the penthouse, the permit holder is going to delete the two proposed fire rated windows adjoining the interior stairs, and instead, the permit holder will install a wall with woodsiding at these openings. so tonight we're asking for a special conditions permit to be issued to include this change, and we would also like to thank director rosenberg, senior inspector duffy, mr. chan says, and all -- sanchez, and all the board's help in the resolution of this appeal. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. i also have the permit holder here, as well. >> basically, the windows -- the windows are in question are shown on elevation four, on sheet a-7. they're two windows that adjoin a set of stairs. they will also address a notice of violation in this, and thos

>> president fong: absolutely.i think the under lying idea is to keep san franciscans in san francisco. that's a multifold answer that has to do with school, with getting your first choice school near your neighborhood. that's affordability, that's how far you have to drive to your work. many people live in san francisco but work outside, and that just eats into expenses and family time. so as far as defining that, yes, i'd be, obviously, part of a discussion to help build that sector of housing. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much. >> supervisor safai: great. we'll call you back up if there's any additional questions, but any member of the public wishing to comment on item 3 and 4, please come forward. >> clerk: one minute? >> supervisor safai: yes. do the same time as before. >> commissioner richards: i just wanted to chime in here. i know i should have spoken for commissioner moore, as well. i think the commission is functioning really well, and i think that commissioner fong and johnson really add to t

. >> commissioner fong: i share the same thoughts. it's a creative step forward to put a theater in macy's building it's a tremendous parking lot that maybe doesn't need to be a parking lot in the future and maybe some development or opportunity there, whether it's housing or job creation is something to study. we got an article from san francisco state. if you haven't looked at their study, it's a great opportunity to see how the projects fold together and combine and be more of a synergy place for the area. it's a great location. so support it as well. >> vice president melgar: i'm supportive as well. this is walking distance from my house. i'm excited about it. it's not just a theater. it's a grocery store, too, and that's really needed. i had a question about the existing movie theater in the back of the mall on the other side of the street. it's a very charming -- they run older movies. it is perfectly preserved in 1971. so i'm wondering what the plans are for that space or -- i also wouldn't want to do anything to drive an exist

commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: i'm not supportive or necessarily opposed to it, but i see staff shaking their heads quite a bit and i think we need more time to clarify this. and maybe when the project makes it back to us that it's a piece of the approval or secondary piece to the approvapproval. >> vice president melgar: commissioner moore. >> commissioner moore: i'm interested in seeing the zoning to rm-2. i think it's a great idea. i think it would probably be in the best interest for us to have an inquiry to caltrans and somebody else to figure out what is happening here. i believe that the staff's position of maintaining the sidewalk is accurate, but given the uncertainty about the bulb-out, it's a different story. so we need that information to support this in its entirety. >> vice president melgar: commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: i agree. i don't think we have all the information. is there a bus stop there? i'm thinking that maybe it's taking the place of that. and i think

>> president fong: they throw it out there.but my house, and in yours, i'm dealing with young kids, college kids, i'm dealing with people ageing in place, and we're all dealing with this question, how are our kids going to afford to live in this darn question. my focus on the commission in the last eight years has been future forward, in asking those questions. the questions about you supervisors, what does the future look like? what does it hold? how do we build more housing on top of transit? the topic of transit hasn't come up today, but i think that's a significant piece of solving how large cities continue to grow. i think it's a regional piece. there's job creation in san francisco, but there's still little housing built outside of san francisco, and i think it's incumbent on us to come together regionally to speak with other mayors in other cities to see how we solve this as an area. i seek your reappointment. it's been a pleasure and honor to serve this. i understand the power and responsibility of this seat and take ev

. >> next, gwen kaplan followed by baird fong. >> thank you, commissioners. ace mailing was founded in 1978 by my mother and i, and we were in the first group in 1984 to be certified a woman owned business. i just want to say to commissioner ortiz, i agree with every sipping will thing you said. you did encapsulate everything i wanted to say. it's very hard to imagine as a past president for eight years of the small business commission here that this has not been brought before us until now, so i agree with everyone who is very upset and concerned about that, and i want to say that being an l.b.e. was very important to our business. we were a w.b.e., and a couple of years after we had won a small contract from the city, dianne feinstein about present -- did present us with the woman entrepreneur of the year award. so it makes sense for a small business to be able to do business for the sense, so i would like to thank you, commissioner ortiz, and thank you, commissioner dwight, for saying how could this happen to be at this point without having had the small b

david fong says this was a result of being restrained in carseview.ned down by, again, about five, six people, one of the nurses put his hand on the back of my head and just ground my face into the carpet on the floor. that took the skin off my face, like the side of the forehead and down the side of my face. david is settled now, but five years ago it was very different. he spent a month in carseview with psychosis. it was a month he says had a lasting impact. you're hardened by the events that happen to you in life. you're not scared. you've had, like, the worst happen to you that you can imagine. david claims staff used restraint violently and repeatedly over his time there and complained about it. what this tells us is that nhs tayside have known about allegations of abuse of restraint for five years. his mum says she witnessed it too. because he kept saying, "mum, just take me home," this gentleman cut the visit short, and i was sort of escorted one way and david was escorted the other way. i went to where david's bedroom was, outside in the car

if it's not you, i can call up somebody else. >> cynthia fong, deputy director finance administrationboth items were in past timma meetings. if it's the desire it have a full presentation, staff is more than happy to, otherwise, i can take any questions that you have on this item. >> supervisor kim: seeing no questions, we have the annual budget and work program action time. and eric cordoba is available to answer any questions that committee members might have on this item. >> if there are any questions, eric and i are here to answer them. >> supervisor kim: all right. seeing no questions. at this time, open up for public comment on items 5 and 6. see nog public comment, public item is closed. can we take 5 and 6, same house, same call? we do that without opposition. mr. clerk, can you please call item 7. >> clerk: authorize executive director to accept on the treasure island mobility management agency's behalf all interests real property action. >> supervisor kim: any questions? we'll open it up for public comment? seeing no public comment, close public comment. can we take this sam

commissioner fong brings a balance to this commission, as well. >> good afternoon. todd david, speaking on behalf of myself today. i want to say that i think both of these commissioners do an outstanding job. i really think that it's great that rodney is a parent raising children in the city really brings a perspective that myself as a parent raising children in this city, it's helpful to have a parent. i'd love to see more parents on commissions. when milicent speaks, i feel that everything that i'm thinking comes out in her mouth, and it's so beautiful when she says it. when i say it, it gets all screwed up. she does a great job of talking about the core values of equity, of making sure that we're building well located housing in all levels of affordable throughout the city, and that we have, you know, people have access to really great housing at all neighborhoods at all levels of affordability, and i really commend that she's taken that message and is driving it home in her short time on the commission, so thanks. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other member

thank you, miss fong and thank you miss delrasrio. call items 10 and 11 together. >> clerk: 10, to declare the intent of the city to reimburse expenditures from the proceeds and to have the mayor's office to submit an application to permit the mortgage revenue bond to 1000 tomkins avenue. and to reimburse expenditures from the future bonds and authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit an application to permit the issuance of residential mortgage revenue bonds for 3101 mission street and 141 and 143 persita avenue. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. we have our presentation. >> thank you, chair cohen, i'm adam cray with housing and community development. and i'm here to have acquisition and rehabilitation work at two projects sponsored by the neighborhood center. both don't require the funds towards the repayment of the bonds and the city will not provide any gap financing or subsidies to these projects. in terms of the project descriptions as described in the package before you, market height is a reha

fong who could not make it today. dear commissioners. my name is dr. fong, and dr. basner is our friend who was killed by an uprooted tree on june 11, 2018. we, the neighbors, in the richmond district, do not want another tragedy to happen. we are neither for or against the proposed project at 663 21st avenue but do request commissioners to take d.r. and do not issue the building permit until project sponsor and adjacent neighbor resolve the project excavations to the critical roots for the safety and welfare of our neighbors. thank you. and this is a letter from the neighbor's contractor. my name is david galloway. i am a contractor specializing in trenching, pipes, and tree roots, consulting with terrence mcmann, construction designer at 655 21st avenue. on thursday, june 28, 2018, the neighbors asked if i would measure the distance of excavation from neighboring redwood trees. permission was given to enter 659's back yard. reviewing the site plans for construction at 663, we measured a distance of 15 and 16 feet. excavation at this extent will remove a good quart

the following presentation and materials. >> president fong: yes, i have. >> the item before you is the certification of the final environmental impact report or e.i.r. for the proposed 150 eureka street project. the draft was -- the dr. e.i. -- draft e.i.r. was published on january 17, 2018. the public comment period closed january 30, 2018. and then, the responses to comments document was published on june 28, 2018. the item was continued, as jonas mentioned, from july 12, so that staff could add any qu. >> vice president melgar: thank you. do we have a project sponsor? >> commissioners, andrew junius with reuben, junius and rose on behalf of the project sponsor. plan sets. one of which you did see already in the e-mail, and one that's the 18 unit. and rezoning would be required, and we'd certainly like to avoid that. happy to answer any questions. thanks. >> vice president melgar: thank you. we will now hear public comment. is this the second time we abo units or even four units with a.d.u.s, but a substantial number of housing that is going to help the lgbt community would be pr

fong? >> this is typically the time when we report back on our quartzly investments and quarterly debt reporting and assets and liabilities. since we're approaching the close of june 30, 2018, we'll be reporting out our financial information later in november when we complete the annual fiscal audit. today aye like to report out how we're doing in our investments. as of june 30, 2018, we have approximately $43.6 million of cash sitting in the bank. 47% of the funds are invested in the city and county treasury pool. we alsos have sufficient liquidity in funds in terms of meeting our fiscal year 18-19 budget at this point in time. in terms of debt reporting, back in november of 2017, eight months ago, we issued the t.a.'s very first sales tax revenue bond. as of the first eight months, we are approximately 43% spent on these bond proceeds. this is healthy for our program and we've been spending them on the five major cash flow projects. there is a document in this packet that lists out how we

. >> commissioner fong. >> commissioner fong: i'm 100% support of these recommendations. i want to pivot for a second. unrelated to this project. there's a demand for housing in the city for student housing, senior housing. we have a chance to go higher, bigger, whatever, not just for the city. we remember that there's a demand out there, a need for it. we need to respond in a legal and safe way. >> commissioner richards: we approved the amendments. i think we're doing everything we can legally to get to that point. >> even a.d.u. >> there was a motion and second and we talked about potentially modifying that motion. >> i'll just read them just for clarity sake. the commission will go back to the approved plan that there are no sleeping room or bedrooms on the ground floor. no bathrooms on the ground floor. number of bedrooms willn(q limited to four on between the second and third floor as well as limit the number of bathrooms to three between the second and >> thank you all. we'll go back to 13. >> item 13a and b for case numbers 2018. for -- we do have some additional b

. >> president fong: was this brief provided to the hearing officer? >> you know, i would say -- i would say it's modified. i wasn't part of the departmental hearing, and honestly, i -- for some reason, i've got about eight appeals floating. i thought there was a jurisdictional request a couple weeks ago before i went on vacation, and so i was only looking at it a couple days ago, so i wasn't able to go back and see what it was taking over from at the departmental hearing. we do have a number of different hearing officers, and obviously we have a director that oversees those recommendations, but it is something that we -- and i ran it by our superintendent prior to that decision being made, that, you know, the emphasis is really protect street trees when we can. i think if these trees were larger, we'd probably continue in our advocacy to protect them, but their relatively small size does make the case, and we need to acknowledge that and move on, so i think that's part of that. >> president fong: okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: thank you.

. >> commissioners on the certification of the environmental impact report, commissioner fong. [roll call] motion passes unanimously 5-0. if the making of the motion the amendable to including what staff inserted in the record today. very good. second? thank you commissioners on that motion. to adopt ceqa findings and findings and shadow findings approve general plan amendments and approve planning code and text amendments as well as adopt design standards and guidelines document amended by staff. [roll call] so moved. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. >> with that, we're going to take a break. sorry about that for the folks who are staying for the rest of the agenda. we're down a couple people. we need to take some biological relief. >> clerk: good evening and welcome back to the san francisco planning commission regular meeting for thursday, july 26, 2018. i will remind members of the public to please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. commissioners, we left off on item 16. [agenda item read] >> clerk: this is a conditional use authoriz

and commissioner fong. commissioner johnson. commissioner koppel. commissioner moore and commissioner richards. great. that item passes. item number 2 on your calendar. i should say calendar three, comments and questions. >> commissioner richards. >> commissioner richards: two things first. on roosevelt way it was a section 3, 17 demo -- demolition in my neighborhood and we as a commission had asked -- we approved the demolition and i got a card in the mail that it's being sold now so back to the commission for getting the additional unit in my neighborhood. i didn't want to tell you what the price is. i probably can't afford it. interestingly, on the way here i grabbed a copy of... and there was an article that i have yet to finish because i was too depressed to finish reading it called "busted: the horrors of the recession to come" and this morning i thought that it was a while since our economist ted eagan has come and given us a briefing on where he thinks that the city is going and i'd like to ask the president and the v.p. to have mr. eagan co

and commissioner fong. commissioner johnson. commissioner koppel.commissioner moore and commissioner richards. great. that item passes. item number 2 on your calendar. i should say calendar three, comments and questions. >> commissioner richards. >> commissioner richards: two things first. on roosevelt way it was a section 3, 17 demo -- demolition

commissioners to be short in their presentation to support commissioners richards, moore, johnson and fong. i know that the diversity -- they bring diversity to this city. i don't always get what i want when i go there, but they bring a different perspective and that's what it is and that's what your rules committee has tried to uphold. i can tell you that we need them collectively. please pass all of them on. they're good for this city. they work hard. thank you. >> supervisor safai: is your comment for all four commissioners? >> yes. >> i'm jerry dratler. to save time, would i like to comment about agenda items 1 and 2. ms. moore is an architect and urban designer and brings 38 years of professional experience to the commission. she was recently awarded an acip, lifetime award by urban land institute. land use policies and environmental impact reports are reviewed, and those can be 700 pages. mr. richards says it takes 20 to 30 hours a week to be an effective commissioner. i've observed ms. moore and mr. richards in planning commission meetings dealing with a variety of agenda items. the