. >> commissioner hillis. >> can i ask the project architect the person in the presentation said a hatch was not doable where they require hatches in spaces i think those stair structures are awe notifying. >> i can speak to that. >> when there's a roof deck you need a stair that's code compliant and need handrails a hatch didn't allow that a hatch works if mechanic equipment or spates space on the roof. >> we've used hatches before why is this different that a hatch won't work here. >> i honestly can't answer that why a hatch wouldn't be feasible as opposed to the bulk. >> can i ask the architect so if we were to minimal a hatch that's an opening in the envelope at that location we'll be required to build a par pit so all the way across the extension of that hatch we'll be compared to zero to 7 feet and that flattens out to exit the stair you'll have the horizontal wall at the property line and closer to the skylight 42 inches in height frankly there's no way around that of i found a exemption code for the roof says that the par fit will make the shading worse. >> i'm not sure about tha

. >> commissioner president wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner richards commissioner antonini is present we do expect commissioner johnson but expect commissioner fong to be absent first on your agenda item one c and e at 1631 through 39 oak street and page street conditional use authorization is proposed to turns until february 5th and case two c at 419 clemente street conditional use authorization is promoted inform continuance february 12, 2014 let me see if - >> is there any public comment on items proposed for continuance? okay. seeing none public comment is closed commissioner richards >> oh, yeah. i've heard if the project sponsor on 435 often the discretionary review calendar we were not able to make the hearing we can push that. >> that is not the project sponsor the project sponsor is opposite to that continuance i recommend we take up that matter when i it's called thank you. >> thank you. >> do i have a motion? >> you do. >> move to continue. >> second. >> thank you commissioner antonini on that motion to continue commissioner antonin

. >> commissioner hillis. >> i mean he support unless you can help us with a solution on the staircase there is a cell phone tower and the roofs that had structure i mean clearly i think people across the street the issue was a view issue the space that get so much utilized. >> there's a precedent for roof deck on the street there are houses some of which at the residents of the dr supporters that have roof deck we're innovating not trying to claim something. >> we're really to to minimize the impact the he knows of the roof deck and the railing or more importantly trying to get - >> just to be clear the railing is transparent it's opposite there's an inhabitable roof deck. >> so to the stair. >> to the stair i mean - i have - if it's a habitable roof i have to be able to get people in and out safely and that's the building code. >> i don't know if i can fought a way of a hatch i can i'm going to have to raise that wall and can the studies we've shown it is going to make a greater impact on that skylight first of all, which is the only instance where light has been effected the neighbo

the gentleman and speaker spoke to an amendment by commissioner hillis was the amendment substantial part of what was finally passed? if you remember i'd have to go back and look it up >> for 340 bryant street the result that i have a approve with conditions as amended including the ground floor as pdr finding supporting the conditions and finding that the transportation management plan include the traffic safety and calming practices that was the motion that was read into the record. >> maybe i'll let ms. hester would you like to any public comment? to that >> the issue here was access and sight it across two freeway lanes h o v lanes there's a public safety issue if you don't have in our motion the motion itself not the minutes if you don't have it if the minutes the language the exact languages no one will enforce it or go by a, to the minutes that's the real word i live in and you live in because your commissioners so if sfls an amendment it should be incorporated into the motion not into the minutes minutes are transparenty who looks at the minutes to find what the commissions s

. >> commissioner hillis no commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore no and commissioner richards no and commissioner president wu that motions fails two to four with commissioner hillis commissioner richards and commissioner president wu voting against. >> commissioner richards i make a motion to take dr and approve the project with a roof hatch if not possible not a roof-deck. >> second. >> so there's a is there a motion and a second requiring a roof hatch for the roof-deck if not possible eliminating 9 roof deck on that motion commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero commissioners that places you on item 12 for case d at 435 tenth avenue this is a discretionary review. >> this is an item for a request for continuous that's not supported by the that project sponsor. >> let's take the issue of whether or not to continue. >> i ask we continue this until networks week. >> there are no other items and february 5th is extremely

. >> commissioner hillis. >> yeah, i'm in favor of the garage conspiracy ordinance ralph street i go back to my commissioners, i think from people passing through and urging ralph streets as a cross through a problem we want to get to this will help with the raised sidewalk and the bounlt which i courage you all to keep working on i think one question the ralph the sidewalk gets wider after the sidewalk is that because of the bulb out or it narrows and widened some more. >> about the same. >> so it's wider and the same wealthy your bulb outing with why not go the width and keep ralph's the same. >> one of the comments we got back from the neighborhood in our first neighborhood meeting when we initially approach to bulb out from the corner to match the northern end of the ralph street this was pretty strong opposition in the room to keep the roadway as wide as possible for as much of the street as possible once you get up into the northern part of the street it becomes fairly narrow you have more side swiping of cars and whatnot we're going to try to calm the traffic at the corner and

at the present time commissioner president wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner richards first on our agenda is consideration for items property for continuance on item for 93 c on evans avenue is prospered until february 5th not the january 22nd on our agenda and item 2 case pc a microwave and planning code amendment is proposed for continuance until march fifth 2015 commissioners further on our under your discretionary review authorization calendar on delores street has been withdrawn and item 18 for case at 372121st strait has also been withdrawn i have nothing of your duty and i have no speaker cards. >> is there any comments other than the items proposed for continuance? public comment on items proposed for continuance okay seeing none, public comment is closed on items for continuance. >> did i hear you to continue item number 14? no no >> i wanted to make sure thank you. >> okay seeing no. you further comments public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini. >> i move to continue item the one to f

antonini commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards we are expecting commissioner hillis to arrive shortly first, it is the items for continuance item one at 400 alabama street proposed to february 2015 and item 2 for case at the 276 hartford is proposed for continuance march 5 and item 3 the little go yosemite fish passage is proposed to april 2015 and the next at 8093-fourths street is inner definite continuance and item 5 at 191220th street is proposed for indefinite continuance commissioners further in under our regular calendar the case at 1010 bush street it property for continuance until february 12, 2015, i have no speaker cards. >> thank you any public comment on item items for continuance seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >> move to continue items 1, 2, 3 the dates proposed 4 and 5 indefinite and item 14 to february 12th. >> on that motion commissioners to continue councilmember sharp commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes

. >> commissioner hillis? >> so we talked -- the question of the stair, i don't have any problem with the expansion. i think it makes sense. you know, if you are going to stand a unit, this is unit you are going to expand, if you expand the top two units and leave this as the non-conforming unit, you are creating kind of a cave down there. what about just eliminating the stair, the internal kind of stair? i think that would? >> can i address it? >> yes. >> i think if that is the only way the commission would support it, we would do that. i would like to oasis suggest adding a stair in the future doesn't require planning approval. it would not change the designation of two units or three units and would not require a merger. it's still three units either way without the stair or was the stair. it adds convenience for my clients, but what is critical here is to get expansion pore their living space. >> okay. i think that would be any preference to take dr and remove the stair and approve the project. >> is that

. >> commissioner president wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner richards. >> commissioners first at this consideration for items proposed for continuance i have no items proposed for continuance next on our agenda is the consent calendar stem one case at 80 missouri street you conditional use authorization commissioner moore has requested we pull this off agenda. >> yes. commissioner president illig please. consideration of draft minutes for december 4th, 2014, the regular and joint hearing. >> any public comment on draft minutes seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >> move to approve the minutes of december 4th. >> second. >> on that motion to daft the minutes for december 4th commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner antonini. >> like to wish everyone a happy hanukkah and happy new ye

commissioner fong as president and commissioner president wu awning vice president and commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously congratulations to the boss of you. >> i want to lend my voice this is a wonderful hard working commission i think there's been comparisons maybe to commissions not past it's to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote incredibly thoughtful commission everyone worked hard i'm proud to be working with you. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further to general public comment not to exceed a 14 minutes at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest injured afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. i do have several speaker cards. >> great. >> okay (calling names) good afternoon, commissioners i'm gary weis the finding of the the core bit he's they've been a ground zero

motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you under commission matters given that commissioner hillis is not here we'll take item 9 out of order and places you under commissions questions or comments. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> graham in our package we have a large submittal on an update of microbe block 40 do we need to ask for a presentation or a formal matter. >> you approved that project about a year ago you approved the office allocation tests up to you, we wanted to share the new design but with a new architect it's the commissions call if you want to have a hearing. >> i'd be interested since we have two new commissioners one of them living in mission bay it is - with the giants stadium it will be nice to hear the new thinking about it. >> commissioner richards. >> a couple of items i'm sure those of you read from the chronicle or on line supervisor kim introduced legislation on defining affordable housing something i've been struggling with here as a commissioner what do we mean by omaha both for sale and rent and i'd yet to see the actual legislation she will be murr

with commissions antonini, hillis, moore -- excuse me, antonini, hillis, johnson, fong and wu voting against. shall we take up the matter of taking drs? >> yes. >> so on the motion to take dr and eliminate the interior stair, commissioner s? roll call. so moved commissioners that motion passes 5-2 with commissioners moore and richards voting against. all right 18 has been withdrawn. going to item 19. discretionary review. commissioners as we now have two overflow rooms it might take time for speakers to come in, and to call for public comment to give them an extra minute or two. >> could we please ask the sheriff for some crowd-control also. >> they were here, i will ask them again. >> thank you. so if the for members of the audience that are not in this room and are actually in the overflow rooms, when the commission chair asks for public comment, you can make your way into the room, and line up on the screen-side of the door. or excuse me, on the screen-side of the room to submit your comment. and the order of presentation is staff, the dr requester, and then all those who are in o

the question. >> a monoxide and second to not take dr. >> commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong that and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 78 to zero lae and place you on general public comment. >> general public comment general public comment is closed. we would like to generous or adjourn the meeting in honor of jennifer mac week. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the san francisco. the reporter: has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80 square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned sierra nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of yosemite park it dates back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now

. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero commissioners that places you on item 12 for case d at 435 tenth avenue this is a discretionary review. >> this is an item for a request for continuous that's not supported by the that project sponsor. >> let's take the issue of whether or not to continue. >> i ask we continue this until networks week. >> there are no other items and february 5th is extremely full you have 1, 2, 3, 4 essentially 5 but one is 4 drs and, however, the week after. >> february 12th is on. >> i'll make a motion to continue this to february 12th. >> first on the issue of whether or not to continue is there any public comment? >> hello, i'm david on behalf of the pardon we're the ones that requested the continuance. >> the dr requester. >> yes. >> and i just want to point out that one of the things that was pointed out in the last week, a project sponsor architect can't be here today and we're hopeful that the same kind of analysis was given

pdr with with support of the condition as well as the management commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner president wu commissioner fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes national anthem 6 to zero that places you on our final item under our discretionary review calendar and for members of the public items 17 and 18 have been withdrawn commissioners this is item 16 and d at 53 state strata mandatory discretionary review and please note in closing public comment the depiction continued the matter until this date by a vote of 7 to zero. >> good afternoon 89 in a chang with the staff. >> i'm sorry we lost our quorum and it is - we now have a quorum again and please continue. >> the item is a application for the mandatory discretionary review for a building for the property on state street on the south side of the castro market neighborhood the specific area of the neighborhood is referred to as corona heights it was heard on november 20th and continued to today after public comment in opposition the planning

. >> thank you very much first of all i'd like to thank commissioner richards and commissioner hillis and all the commissioners for bringing an expertise on this it is great to have a few minutes type of person looking at this stuff just one i have a quick couple of things i do want to add my $0.02 on the expediteer connoisseur issue i agree with commissioner president wu the expediting should be a matter of policy of outside money but more to the point i think of we didn't care about that particular issue i don't think we'll realistically be able to expediting the service for a fee presuspends we have the capacity that exists and clearly we don't have any the backlog is crazy we organized staff for the small project team won way to get projects throw in a reasonable timeframe and i don't think that's the case there's one or two vendors that can expedite their projects there are many project sponsors that will take advantage of the service from lots of perspectives it's not an idea that makes sense timed for the planning department and i want to focus on a couple of higher level quali

. >> commissioner hillis. >> well, i would add i've worked open parcel c without you dividing it up it's been interesting drooefg by and seeing it go up i think i did a better job that one look good also but thank you - >> we have the scaffolding coming down and owens look more distinct than did other one change the facade and make it look different without it backing b.c. being a different building you go the next step its a project when we do larger projects thank you to the dah dog patch. >> i want the department to hold is an additional discussion on the western facade i'm not talking about the chronicle - when you see it ten times we can add a tweak of something else i'll deeply appreciate that the building separation you're doing with caution is not particularly deep so there is still the feeling when you drive it is just one building think about it one more time and expand the conversation i'm not quite sure we have all the makers the motion. >> yes. i'll accept that a suggestion to work with staff on. >> is that amenable. >> thank you, commissioners. >> you want to pasture make s

. >> commissioner hillis. >> so kind of along the same lines we don't talk about the processing times from vendors or small projects applicant that's what i hear outside of the commission i think small projects team is great it doesn't look like we're looking they look bleak from this performance measure i'd like to say you may want to say diverse you were measurement when they come to the commission we could be part of the problem we should continue the project sponsor explicit care until they actually gets approval or disapproval so we're part of that potentially part of that problem too i guess why not allocate more resources if those numbers are as bad as they are. >> that's a glazing number and whether or not it shows the increase primarily during the previous two fiscal years we have substantially increased the number of folks in planning and because of staff turnover a side note as the economy improves other jurisdictions are hiring now we have positions that are new and our attrition rate is over 10 percent that division it in the position of staffing up so based on the positi

commissioners on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis excuse me. commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore. commissioner richards and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero commissioners that place you on item 11 dimension and controls for

. >> commissioner hillis. >> to talk about the changes in the document the only thing that confused me was eupeculiar a the first two sentences you've talked about there's a period after submittal and i read it as if it wasn't the planning commission courageous the planning and submittal that is good but the next sentence that's confusing it says correspondence submitted to the planning commission must be received by the itself planning commission secretary no longer the the day of the hearing i guess what there's not really you struck out where it said or it's not part of the public record we know if it's submitted it is part of the recorded strike that sentence or to become to be part of the commissioners package the day of the hearing there's footing got to be a specific after that if it's not submitted i got confused on the sentence other than that that's not fairly substantive and makes sense in article two we hear about the continuance and the process whatever theories people have it's good to give spifshgz there were a couple of people that pointed out the paragraphs it confused

. >> commissioner hillis a question for staff could this be converted could the ground floor could the project sponsor come back and convert the ground floor to office space or request that conversion. >> they'll have to go through another application. >> we couldn't approve that. >> i was looking through the conditions of approval i mean, i appreciate the ground floor being kept as pdr i think that's important but i like to make that part of the condition i don't see it in the conditions in granting the top two floors e.r. the conversion that we're part of the recognizing of the conversion the recontamination of the pdr as a use. >> is that a motion. >> i want to see if that's possible. >> may i have you can put the condition it's similar to the case before you it will not necessarily for preventing someone from coming back in the future. >> we want to recognize what the project sponsor is saying and the staff is saying that's an important you know it's important precedent as we look forward to other conversions or the central selma plan this is part of the - it was important to us in

commissioner hillis. >> thank you for this. i agree with commissioner johnson. it seems like there is some good momentum to take some of these sites offer the list that have been on for decades and i agree with commissioner antioni too, there are others on the list for decades that we may want to look at now that the momentum seems to be shifting to the 7th avenue site and laguna honda. in responsibility to the comment that we have heard 50% total seemed a little low given the fact that some of these are 100% and others are mixed. for public sites overall, it seems like a low target of total affordable housing. can you explain more kind of how the math works? if you have some sites that are like 4th and folsom that are 100% affordable, what does that mean for the balboa site? 60-70% market rate? how do you get to that? >> i think how we get to that is the feasibility analysis that we're trying to describe. and i don't think we set the portfolio goal as sort of a reservation that 50% of every project, of every mixed income project would be market rate. i think wh

. >> commissioner president wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner we do expect commissioner johnson but expect commissioner fong to be absent first on your agenda item one c and e at 1631 through 39 oak street and page street conditional use authorization is proposed to turns until february 5th

at the present time commissioner president wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner richards first on our agenda is consideration for items property for continuance on item for 93 c on evans avenue is prospered until february 5th not the january 22nd on our item 2 case pc a microwave and planning code amendment is proposed for continuance

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asia commissioners, we have a motion and a second to not take dr commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you under general public comment i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment okay public comment is closed meeting you very much (clapping.) >> in ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in voter in san francisco before each election you receive a voter information pamphlet in the mail it has the information for each local proposition on the ballot how did is context sometimes complex issue get simplified >> i don't know the process and it is done by committee every time there are proposition phenomenon the ballot they have a ballot simplification. >> there are 3 steps the city attorney's office creates a working digest the ballot holds public meetings the final simplified digest is published in a voter guide let's toothd this over a proposition as has been approved the city attorney's office dwrafts a working digest each digest we prepare a hass h

. >> that motion has been second on commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore no commissioner johnck's san francisco commissioner fong and no. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that passes 5 to 2 it places you on the next item at 2655 street those are requests for discretionary review although the addressed are the same there are on two separate this by the same person my recommendation we call them together and provide their time of totally of 10 minutes. >> for both the dr requester and the sponsor. >> that's correct. >> i'm not sure i understand that but. >> are you the dr requester. >> i'm representing them. >> your representing the dr requester you'll have 10 maintenance total. >> i have a power point overwhelming to be presenting. >> good evening, commissioners david lindsey of department staff the case are a request for discretionary review filed against two project these broderick street the commission needs to take two acts it is a 3 story family house on the west side of broderick case 2014.1497 d a request for discretionary review

. >> commissioner hillis excuse me. commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. >> commissioners that places you are under our discretionary review. >> there is a second part of the motion the allocation for the project under 10 b we didn't call the two together. >> we called them together. >> we did. >> and i thought i as i read in the motion i included the office others. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear it thank you very much. >> xhifrgsdz that places you under our discretionary review randell street those are kwefdz on one project there are 3 separate discretionary review each dr requester gets minutes. >> first staff good afternoon the subject property is on ralph dell street this is to constrict a one story vertical edition with a penthouse this is in the rear yard from one hundred thousand 2 hundred to 13 thousand square feet e square feet under the influence it measures 8 hundred and 37 square feet it needs t

commissioners on that motion to adapt a recommendation for approval commissioner antonini commissioner hilliscommissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> (clapping.) congratulations. >> commissioners that place you on items 12 a and b at 11 fulsome street this is a conditional use and planned unit development as well as a large project authorization i'd like to remind the commission it hearing has this item has been heard on november 30th and public comment was closed and continued with some correction to the additional outreach we're going to limit the project sponsors presentation to 5 minutes and any additional public comments to one minute because this item has already been heard >> good afternoon, commissioners relinquish from the depth staff it the conditional use authorization and planned unit development for the proposed project on fulsome street the proposed project requires the confusion for development on a lot and merge of lots that creates a stree

and perhaps have a short discussion on the hireably plan to reflect the position as commissioner hillis said we should look at a couple of years to look at the numbers if i might on the policy question expediting permits i forgot to mention we have a director's bulletin half of the list is 20 percent on site affordable or off site affordable that's how the mayors projects on the list like public projects as well. >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> thank you. i'll echo what months of the commissioners have said and i'm very happy to hear an additional of staff mechanics members to try to expedite projects you don't think? a problem there was a time when a staff member was assigned to a particular project and he or she would go on think expend leave for various reasons it's important this about a team operation people are going to be ill and maternity leaves it's important that the projects keep moving even when the individual are not there and the same things with permitting as much as possible i hope we run our permitting simultaneously i i know sometimes it's done in stages whereve