the commissioner hillis, so just for clarity. the five-foot set back is measured from the inside of the para pit or the outside of the building? >> the deck will be 19 feet and two inches. >> the plant will be beyond that. >> thank you. >> on the motion, that the existing deck be set back to the dimension of 19 feet, 2 inches and a plant er a load beyond that commissioner antonini? >> no. >> commissioner borden aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> no. >> and president fong neso moved, commissioners that motion passes four to two with commissioners antonini and sugaya voting against. >> and commissioners, the last item on your agenda is public comment and i have no speaker cards. >> general public comment? >> seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. push there are so many ways that the internet provides real access to real people and resources and that's what we're try to go accomplish. >> i was interested in technology like video production. it's interesting, you get to create your own work and it reflects what y

. >> commissioner hillis? >> here. >> commissioner moore? >> here. >> and commissioner sugaya? >> here. >> commissioner fong is expected to join us late. first up, commissioners, are items proposed for continuance. items 1a and b for case nos. 2011.0430e and x - 480 potrero avenue, appeal of a preliminary mitigated negative declaration and request for large project authorization are proposed for continuance to july 18, 2013. i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment on items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> move to continue items 1a and 1b to july 18th. >> second. >> commissioner borden. >> i'm confused. i thought this was the one that we continued last week to the 11th. >> right. >> oh, i see. thanks for clarifying. thank you. on that motion to continue items 1a and b, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> s

. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> and president fong >> aye >> so moved that passes 5 to 1, commissioner antonini against. commissioners we have two more items and i am told that the next one is very fast. would you like a break now or hear the next item and take a break or just keep going. >> all right. >> next item please? >> in that case we are move on to item 1 a, 5, for case, 2013.0479 cat 443 clement street. >> staff here. >> there she is. >> and look. >> good afternoon, commissioners the planning develop staff and property ject before you is a conditional use authorization request to establish a new restaurant, cba, happy sushi at 443, clement street. the subject property is located on the ground floor of a single story between 5th and 6th avenue. the department is recommending approval of this project. the site is vacant and was previously occupied by retail discount store. and the proposed change of use is desirable in that it is converting the vacant space into a compliment use in the neighborhood. the proposed japanese restaurant attempts to provide

. >> commissioner hillis. >> just a couple questions for mr. switzky. on your list which i think is extremely important issue, limiting consolidation of parcel, is there an approach yet to this that is being proposed or we're just recognizing we're going to need to do it and figure out the best way? >> there is not a specific proposal yet. the plan suggests at minimum there would be some sort of conditional use process with some sort of really specific criteria about design criteria or other mechanisms to ensure that any consolidation results in a [speaker not understood] fabric. we're open to a collaborative discussion covering that. >> kind of the yerba buena public block discussion, trying to fix that around the convention center and just make those amok feel better at a pedestrian level, is that something you're looking at? given the fact that moscone is again looking at expansion, i think it's, you know, it's an opportunity to look at some of those blocks again and try to fix them. >> yeah, the specific conditions around the perimeter of the moscon

the only commissioner hillis is schedule to be out. and august 1. >> commissioner borden is coming back on the 3:00 plane, she is landing at 3:00 and that pushes her arrival into a very kind of questionable time and so i ask that we take it beyond next week. >> okay. >> july 25th, both commissioners fong and hillis are schedule to be out. >> august first is a very full calendar. it is closed on my advanced calendar. you can clearly, if you wish, put it on august first, but it is a very full calendar, and august 8th, is still available. >> and there are no schedule absences. >> the 8th is. >> if i may just add some and i appreciate you offering continuance and i think that you are right. but, i fully hear you guys about losing units and how san francisco needs to protect these units and but, i also want to be clear that i think that we need to have a larger discussion as commissioner moore suggests that we are going through the battle of ones and twos and i would rather take that energy and get the projects and get the units through the

>> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong in >> aye. >> commissioners, that motion passes 7 po 0 unanimously. >> on the variance close the public hearing as well as commissioner sugaya's concerns about the project, i would be inclined to grant your requested variance and there is no way to have any commercial lease orthctionv property without granting a variance. with no subsidy letter appealable of the board of appeals within 10 days of the issuance of the [speaker not understood]. contact mr. beale. thank you. >> commissioners, next on your calendar is item 14 for case no. 2012.1356c - 2100 market street, request for conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, president fong, and members of the commission. [speaker not understood] planning department staff. before you is a request for conditional use authorization to establish a formula retail restaurant with an outdoor activity area doing business as chipotle 2100 market street, on the corner of mar

. >> commissioner hillis. >> was that a motion? >> i tried to, yes. >> i'll second that motion. i'm supportive. those are the two issues that resonated with me, were the hours and attending a little late and adding some additional parking for that convenience store although i think some people will be, you said, getting gas >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah, a couple questions for project sponsor. there was commentary about access and the speaker was saying only off 19. one would assume you could access the station by lincoln going eastbound, and i would think -- and you also could exit that way, too. >> that is correct. >> so, basically my understanding is there would be two areas of egress and ingress. either 19th northbound or lincoln eastbound. >> that is correct. >> because obviously you can't make a left turnoff of 19th and you can't make it off of lincoln either going westbound. so that would be the way it would be handled. >> you're correct. >> and then for staff, on the issue of parking places, are you in agreement we could add two more places without causing a problem

the only commissioner hillis is schedule to be out. and august 1. >> commissioner borden is coming back on the 3:00 plane, she is landing at 3:00 and that pushes her arrival into a very kind of questionable time and so i ask that we take it beyond next week. >> okay. >> july 25th, both commissioners fong and hillis are schedule to be out. >> august first is a very full nd

. >> commissioner hillis? >> to follow up on that question, if we took this, if this commission took the dr and kind of ratified the agreement, could the new owner come back today and file a permit to expand this deck? >> commissioners? >> yes, they could. >> but it is their right as a property owner and they can expand it. >> and the dr, when can they do that? if we approve the dr today could they come back tomorrow and approve the permit. >> yes, this is from a cu or you can make a decision without prejudice and they have a year to come back with the same exact request and in this instance if it is a code complying request, we have to respect that permit and review it and give our professional recommendation on it and if it results in a discretionary review bring it back to this body. in this instance they came in with a revision to that deck, and we did the notification process because we knew that there were neighbors who opposed the alteration and they were notified and the discretion review was filed, an

hect, hilly blum, and michael git. >> hi. my name is china bowl and i have lived in san francisco for 30 some odd years, and i spent from kindergarten to university and i have known the potashs for 12 years and i met them when they came here and the goal was to start the preschool and they were amazing people and as i listen to the vacuum cleaner noise, this is we are in such dire straits for education and the precool is so needed and we don't have here, it is such a high caliber and the potashes are amazing people and they will work all of these things out and they are amenable and lovely and i think to not allow the school to go on and it is a big loss for san francisco for the family and for the children and the parents and it is a wonderful place and a wonderful activities and i think that you make a big mistake if you don't go through with this, thank you. >> >> good evening, my name is potash and i am the director of the preschool. for the last 13 years, together with my husband, i have put my heart and soul into this a

. >> although san francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. that doesn't mean we can't continue to improve upon ourselves. >> the public has a clear are -- of travel. we can't be every to make sure that is the place. we have to rely on the place. call 311. give them your name. that goes into a data base. >> it is difficult, still, um to make the case that the disabled community isn't being represented. in some ways we are not. we have a long way to go. >> the city of san francisco is using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test okay i'd like to call this meeting to order.

a large relief effort is , but the area is surrounded by hilly farmland, and some areas have been hard to reach. the key problem is the damaged roads which of blocked the ambulances, this first aid team leader says. we have already run out of medicine for cleaning wounds. as is often the case in china's poor and earthquake prone western region, shoddy construction standards are likely to have significantly increased the number of dead. a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in neighboring chest one province killed 200 people--szechuan province killed 200 people earlier this year. having rains are expected later this week. bbc news, shanghai. planks in just over a week, the people of's -- >> in just over a week, the people of zimbabwe will elect a new president. president mcgaughey -- mcgaughey mugavi is part of an ancient line. quick still determined to hold onto his job, president robert mcgaughey is still on the campaign trail in zimbabwe, asking for one more thing. he can still pull a crowd. it is five years since the last election here descended into chaos. his opponents were beaten and terror

. >> you can continue it to july 25th, however, commissioners fung and hillis are and he would to be out. i would make a motion to continue it to next week. is there a second? >> commissioner sugaya? >> i think that i am going to make a motion to go ahead and support supervisor avalos's legislation pertaining to the first half, whatever the proper sections are and to continue the 181, i think, is that right? to another date. >> second. >> and that said, i didn't... >> do you want a staff recommendation? >> yes. >> so we can pick an appropriate date. do we have a deadline on the second? >> it is up to the supervisors. it might be splitting hairs and i will leave it up to you to consider, 181 deals with alterations to the non-conforming units and 180, basically just makes and the presumption of the non-conforming units and if you look at page 12, and the staff recommendation is that if they do not provide the information that it is illegal, it should be presumed to be legal. that is straight forward and when we will appreciate to move forward with the rest of the section, 317. 18 h. >>

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one was missing commissioner hillis and the one vote in opposition and there was another board of appeals commissioner sugaya. >> okay a question for you mr. sanchez. could you tell us a little bit about the process for the subdivision? application and permit or whatever it is. and how is that process different from or what evidence would be different that would be presented there that is not presented here? >> we would like at it to see if that meets the planning code requirements and we have already seen it through this building permit application. and they have shown the loss as proposed in the subdivision and we found that this does comply with the planleinging code requirements and we would recommend that the department of public works allow the subdivision and the department of public works decision to allow the subdivision and i'm assuming that they would. >> okay. >> thank you. >> i have a question. the staff initiated the design review. and would you explain a little bit how that works and in other words, the staff and i assume led by you would have denied the permit. so we have

. >> hilly bloom and i am a happy parent, my second child is currently enrolled and my daughter started five years ago. this school has not only offered us a good sperps but the true community but the people touched on this school and how important it is and what a valuable resource it is because it provides us with a space that we can walk to and we live in the vernal heights and it is just down the heights from us. i know the families in the mission and all of the thriving area that really take advantage of the school because it is essentially located. and provides us with the real opportunity to walk as well. and also a teacher, and i want to talk about the value of the teaching staff thatvy been impressed with the teachers and my children have come out really happy and provided us with the opportunity to stay in the city and we did not have many options in the neighborhood. and the third piece is the school really touches on the jewish values that are so important to me and my family. and we don't have other options in the southern part of the city for jewish preschools and so it wo

so, we have ambulances that candidly are over 200,000 miles in this hilly city. so, long overdue. we just took delivery of five ambulances and then in fiscal 13-14 another five ambulances are coming on board. and then i believe another five. so, that is -- they're overdue. they're really needed and we hope to in future years continue that level of purchasing, but we're also very proud because it's been awhile since we've been able to purchase. our fire prevention vehicles, we had some issues that came up in the press regarding our unleaded vehicles prior to 2000. they don't have what's called a vehicle recovery system. 90% of our vehicles in the department are diesel fuel vehicles, but for the unleaded prior to 2000, we've been able to now get rid of most of those. they have heavy mileage, well over 150,000. so, we replaced eight of those vehicles with hybrids, smaller vehicles, i believe they're ford focuses. that's great. and we're going to do some more of that in 13-14. and then we're also going to order i believe 10 engines. we have on order 10 fire engines and then there will

. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on items 13 a and b for case numbers 2011.0099c and v - 1759 lincoln way. request for conditional use authorization and variance. >> good afternoon, commissioner president fong and fellow commissioners. doug vu, department staff. the request is for [speaker not understood] to demolish building at the shell gas station located at 17 59 lincoln way and construct a new [speaker not understood] convenience store and 1327 square foot mechanical car wash. the proposed car wash encroaches up to 45 feet into the required rear yard and would require the approval of the variance. no work is proposed for the eight existing gasoline service bays and underground storage tanks, but it cannot be above will be relocated and provided signage. the proposed hours of operation will remain unchanged at 24 hours a day for the convenience store and

hillis and -- >> borden. >> commissioner borden. >> the board is going to move ahead with it anyway so, it doesn't matter. >> aboard, the land use committee will take this up monday and the full board will take it up tuesday. since this is not a provision in the planning code technically the planning commission isn't required to make a recommendation on this. >> [speaker not understood]. >> so, if we can continue it, we're going to miss the window or we could move it forward without a recommendation or entertain another motion. >> we could -- well, any of those. >> just want to make sure [speaker not understood]. >> sir, please just turn that device off. >> all right, commissioner moore. [laughter] >> procedurally, we can only send the messages which typically are being sent. a 3 to 2 vote in the absence of two other commissioners for me is still that this commission expresses strong support to the motion at hand. so, we could put an asterisk underneath there. i would appreciate you explaining why we only have five people sitting in today. >> technically while it's no recommendation, w

neighborhood serving uses, commercial displacement, the open space items, and then echoing commissioner hillis, looking at pedestrian safety and the prioritization of the infrastructure impact fee. so, hopefully we can work on those items going forward. commissioner antonini. >> just a couple other thoughts. i don't think office demand is a sum zero game. if this area is true -- it was commented on by one of the public speakers, using the figured and saying only a certain amount of demand is going to exist, this area might be more attractive. it isv' true, but it is not only competing with uses like the transit district or other districts that we're contemplating. it's competing with suburban areas. and this would be an attractive area and we could attract business that might not come to san francisco. but we could bring them here if we had broad floor plates and had office space competitive with south san francisco and other areas that would come to this area. i think that may be the business future of this area because you can't zone demand or success. just because you zone it for industrial

give yourself a break and i see complimenting you com pearl speed by city, we happen to be the only hilly city of chicago and new york. you get three bonus points which you can credit yourself for efficiency. >> thanks. i would just like to say real quick, every neighborhood, we're taking a look at grade as well as land use considerations when we were making those -- >> including age of population, for example, you have a large aging population in the van ness corridor, with large apartment buildings being occupied primarily with older people. i think that needs to have a close look at. >> commissioner wu. >> thank you. i want to echo commissioner moore's comments. i think that obviously consolidation can become very political, but maybe the way to take it out of politics somewhat is to really closely consider the land use. so, when considering where though eventual stops go, where is there residential, where are there schools, where are cultural institutions or small businesses? i think that as transit become very popular which is something we all want, it is also becoming somewhat of an

. >> commissioner hillis is expected to be absent and commissioner borden is expected to be late. commissioners, first up is items for continuance. item 1, 2013.0020ce - 6333 geary boulevard, an appeal of mitigated negative declaration is proposed for continuance to august 1st, 2013. item 2, case no. 124 mullen avenue, request for discretionary review has been withdrawn. i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards on the matter. >> is there any public comment on these two items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> move to continue item number 1 to august 1st, 2013. >> second. >> on that motion to continue as proposed, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to 0. and places you under commission matters item 3, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah, excuse me for not necessarily knowing

flash flooding is a concern in these locations when you consider the hilly terrain.ck this up toward the bahamas and it could get close to the united states. 45 miles per hour winds. that's weaker than yesterday at this point and it's gone past puerto rico. forward speed is around 29 miles per hour which is a quick moving storm and for that reason it hasn't gained a lot of strength. here's the projected path. past haiti, potentially hit them this afternoon. potentially weakening more but notice this by friday early

. >> commissioner hillis? >> thank you all for commenting, we have actual hi leder a lot about chipotle and a lot about this site and it is similar to what we heard about starbucks a couple of weeks ago. i mean the reason that we are here is because the citizens of san francisco voted yes on prop g, when kind of set a high bar for formula retail and i think rightly so, you know, we want san francisco to maintain its unique neighborhoods and its unique neighborhood character. that is why the voters passed it pretty overwhelmingly and that is why we are here discussing this. and i don't think that this is necessarily about chipotle and whether it is a good chain or a bad chain. i don't think... i mean, you think back to when and i was here when boston market here and when home was there and it was a very different feel for that block. when home was there as opposed to the boston market and both of them did not work out and they were there for a while and i don't think that this site, we can argue that this site

. >> commissioner hillis. >> i'm supportive also, but a similar question along those lines. the project that is driving this ordinance, it makes sense to do it on a district-wide level. it can occupy the ground floor or ground floor and upper floors? >> it's going to occupy -- let's see. it's going to occupy a single lease location -- with the single -- that 474 castro currently hold 10,000 square feet. the project is still in the works, but they're potentially adding a third floor which would equal 15,000 square feet just approximately. so, it would be first and second and third and fourth. >> okay. so, then, we talk about keeping possibly the retail -- >> yeah, right now there is, there is blush a wine bar and the other business superstar video which i believe they lost their lease. >> kay. ~ okay. i think they're more serving kind of neighborhood serving. i wouldn't want kind of an office nonprofit on a ground floor. is there any encouragement to [speaker not understood] 4,000 square feet [speaker not understood]? >> the ground floor would have to be active use especially

returning to the zimmerman verdi in the role that race and politics are playing, we welcome hilly clintonfox news contributor and political analyst juan williams. i thank you both for being here. first let's turn to the idea that this verdict is suspect. what evidence is there of that? >> we have seen the attorney general, and on us. >> many african-americans and others are saying that if these pursuits would not have started, we wouldn't have got here to begin with. but the comments in the show that you made are so critical. we have had many tweets say that it is now open season on young black males or are to what they e failing to mention is business way before george zimmerman ever fired a shot at trayvon martin? if there is anyway i think the president said this, to honor trayvon martin, then we have to take a close look at violence. at 41 years old, 262,621 black people have been murdered by other blacks and this is something that we have to address. progressives have to understand that there is a decline in black families and we have to say that comprehensive education is not just t