[ inaudible ] >> president hillis: sure, you can pass that on. [ inaudible ] >> president hillis: correct. thank you. seeing no additional public comment, we'll close public comment. commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: thank you. just a few clarifying questions and thoughts. this is -- it is manufacturing. this is a commercial building with existing commercial use. it's been there quite a while, a quite a well established one. i do feel that timbuk2 is creating assembly jobs. it sounds like fort point would be creating some manufacturing assembly jobs, as well, at different levels, you know sort of higher experience, skill level, but also restaurant service jobs. curious to the staff. it's midnight -- they're allowed to stay open to 2:00 a.m., but they're opting for 12:00 midnight on weekends? >> correct. >> commissioner fong: and what's their thought on week nights. >> they're permitted to operate from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. every night of the week, so they're proposing not to operate. >> commissioner fong: okay. a couple of questions for the project sponsor, if you could come up. t

so thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. so we'll open this item up for public comment. there's organized opposition, spike, is that you? welcome. >> we have three people for the organized opposition, and i'm going to introduce shelley who i found through the package that she had been asking for information, and until i contacted her, she had no idea it was happening today. >> hi. my name is shelley. i live down the street from the project. i -- i've -- was born and raised in san francisco, and i'm still here. i've lived on shotwell street for 15 years. i've spent -- since i talked to spike, i've spent a few hours only collecting signatures, so i'd like to submit a petition with 58 signatures against this that i've collected in just a couple hours standing outside my house. i am -- in addition, there are my comments that i have e-mailed to the commission. the -- so personally, the eating and drinking survey is flawed. the -- the survey, instead of comparing retail -- the eating and drinking retail frontage to all retail frontage, it compares eating and drinking frontage

thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm real ramone garcia since 2013. lucas is a good boss. he has helped me to support my family. also my brother is working for him. i really like working for lucas, because he's a really good boss. he has given me an opportunity to grow up in the business. i would support capp street. i really want it have the chance to work in the city again instead of having to drive across the bridge. we need these jobs to keep us busy because we cannot afford to go without work. please think of us when you guys consider approving this project. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> dear commissioners, good evening. my name is tony sivlon. i live in the mission for 10 years. several years ago, lucas gives me a job. over the years, he's promoted me from carpenter to superintendent. i no longer work for lucas. he helped me to get a very good job with another construction company. it's important to me and my family that builders continue to build a

>> president hillis: yes. >> good afternoon. the item before you is a request for discretionary review for the proposed project at 590 leland avenue, abutting john mclaren park. it proposes to demolish a church building and construct five new three-story, single-family homes. one request for discretionary review was filed. concerns are neighborhood compatibility, park improvements, the church, natural habitats, accessibility, and site aquisition. following the request for d.r., the design advisory team reviewed the project. the proposal does not include or create exceptional or extraordinary circumstances with regard to the building's design. as the commission has explained, the project has a history of continuances and most notably, when the project was heard and continued on january 12, it was continued contingent on the planning commission providing a memorandum in response to a letter that was submitted by dr. michael vassey, ph.d., san francisco state university department of biology, explaining and indicating the potential

and congratulations, president hillis. on behalf of leon lee and taylor lee, and with us our architect, who has the pictures. they will be more interesting. but i would like to first thank our planner for her work and guidance through our application and review process. as she described, the project includes hotel, group housing and ground floor commercial uses. the property is a true opportunity site and the hotel works very well for this location close to the masconi center and its expansion downtown, south of market. businesses and public transit, ideal for tourist and business travel reer travelers. the group housing will be longer term market rate rentals, which although market rate is inherently more affordable by design and targeted at young professionals. our proposal is models after existing co-living and housing concepts. the commission may be aware of such as the common, which has locations in soma and oakland. they've made significant effort to work with the neighborhood and neighborhood groups and it's been wi

. >> president hillis: thank you. project sponsor? welcome. >> thank you, president hillis. i want to introduce the team. and here's who we are. i'm prowler inc. we have jeff keller and eric grover, who are the law firm that own and occupy the building and the developers, david baker, represented by will bloomer. we also have had on our team charles chase from architectural resources group. it's unusual in that it's local. most of the team members live or work within easy walking distance of the project. i live a few blocks away and will does, our land use lawyer does. and jeff and eric work in the building every day. it's across from the giaenant giant safeway on duboce. it's the gateway to upper market. we understand that it's a very important site. and we take the responsibility of developing this site very seriously. the area is characterized by a mix of uses and scales. you see one-story buildings, our-story buildings, eight-story buildings. there's the whole foods, the mint on the bottom. on the left, eight-story buildings and even in the upper right-hand side, there's

hill rr thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am brent bently, originally born and raised in detroit, michigan, and right now i'm at the day lever program. i represent the women's collective, and this just really makes me sick to be an american or especially a san franciscan. it's because everything so going up for no reason, especially for the rich people and the poor. and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. come on, thats a literally bull [bleep] for everybody. and there's no love. and you think we are all americans and united we stand and departed we fall? show enough departed we fall. show some compassion. show some love. other than that, if we go the 2019 like this in advance, man, i'm done talking. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public comment and open it up to commissioner questions and comments. commissioner melgar. >> vice president melgar: i'll go first. i have a lo

aye hillis, aye. motion passes unanimously, 5-0. on the variance side, 12-b continuing indefinitely for 1555 union street. >> thank you, zoning administrator. commissioners place this under matter for item 5, draft minutes for december 14, 2017. >> any public comment on the draft minutes? >> hello, i want to comment on the draft minutes for the 21s of december general public comment, when i made those comments i didn't know that mr. sanchez, the zoning administrator had raised the number from 1.63 to 1.9. i don't know if you want to correct that in the minutes, but the single-family home value has been raised to 1.9. thank you for doing that. and then here i corrected the minutes myself, so -- >> those are the minutes that reflected your comments. >> i know, i apologize -- >> there is no correction. that needs to be made. >> the correction will come in the reflection of your comments here today. >> i made copies of that today, i didn't know it was raised because i made those comments on the 21st. thank you very much. >> thank you. w

commissioner president hillis, excuse me. >> thank you. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. >> that is it, right. so meeting adjourned. thank you. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or focus groups or other stinks that allows you or yo

. >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: could you elaborate on adding additional positions for accessory development unit. the question raised to have an expert on staff who is able to look demolitions more from an architect side, structural engineer, is there any way to augment that position by 1.5 positions to do both? >> i think that the short answer, we think we have enough to financially support one person to just to be devoted to adu, but when those issues come up, other planners get involved. so historic preservation planner would look at if there is a preservation issue. at this point, the mayor's budget request to all departments was not to add any positions so we're pushing the envelope a little bit, because we think we can justify it based on the fees, but when the issues come up. i will take a little bit of exception to what ms. hester said we just rubber stamp them, we spend a lot of time looking at them. the number of adu approved, we spent a lot of time looking at these issues when they

. >> president hillis: thank you. project sponsor. you have two minutes. >> my name is maurice miller, commissioners. thank you for hearing us. i have three general comments. i shall say, first of all, the reason the piewood is on the -- the reason the plywood is on the roof right now is for safety reasons because there was no glass installed because we got the permit to put in a 6-foot glass and then we were told not to install the 6-foot glass. so there was never any intention not to install glass and re-install it. we were told we could install 6-foot glass and purchased its and it sits in my garage. this is my primary outdoor space for the building. i have problems with stairs, and we would like the roof to be more usable. that said, the 42-inch screen would also have been acceptable had we been told that we couldn't do a 6-foot screen. in response to the comments about 16 poles, in fact, there will be less obstruction because the glass windscreen does not require a top rail. the 42-inch windscreen does require a top rail and the

. >> president hillis: thank you. commissioner melgar? >> commissioner melgar: thank you for that presentation, and not just the presentation, but the process that you've engaged the community in. i've been privy to some of the conversations, and thank you for the respect that you've shown to the community. so i had the pleasure and honor to go on one of the tours of the neighborhood, and i would encourage my fellow commissioners to do the same. it's a slightly different angle. you know, i think that hearing it from neighborhood residents who are not usually the ones who go to the meetings and are -- or the ones who are invited, you know, and to these spaces is actually really valuable, so i think it is a different perspective, and i think it's a very valuable one. i think it yields better results, so i'm not going to go over some of the things that folks in the community said, because i think the need for affordable housing and all of that -- i did have a few questions about what you're thinking. so particularly around the commercial cor

thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll open it up to commissioner comments and questions. commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: the only question i had, one, the capability was health service on a ground floor, which we considered and discussed at length a few weeks ago in other neighborhoods, the nonanimation factor of health care services on ground floor in general. thirdly, the question of the capabili compatiblity with this site and those listed above. there's a concern of staff that there may be the potential of patients having to stay over night. thirdly, the disposal of surgery and medical waste, which is a concern, residential and medical waste because polls of that scale really are not compatible. vacating 13,000 square feet in what is currently a health care district around mt. zion and divisadero and now moving it close to cpmc which is a block over, and creating what we originally were very concerned about, for lack of a better word, calling it

. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. we may. first, we'll take public comment in support of the project and opposed to the d.r. mr. smith? >> good afternoon, again, corey smith. obviously a little bit away from what we're typically going for or advocating for on an active basis. it's not park land. and it's sipping -- single-family homes. and specifically, the word is, families. it will be an opportunity for families live in san francisco. we want access to the park to be maintained and continue to be used by the community. we're speaking against the d.r. and want the project to move forward. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, ms. martin, 2-minute rebuttal. >> sorry. i have to get assembled. several years ago, the planning department held the eastern neighborhoods master planning process. originally vis valley was included, but dropped without notice or reason. we have suffered from piecemeal rulings that have been a problem. in the past, there's been a denial of master plan an

and president hillis, please keep your humour. [laughter] >> and thank you all. it's been, i think we face complex and thorny and sometimes contentious issues. we don't get any additional vote because we're chair or vice chair or president or vice president so i think we've worked well together and disagreed but representfully and often times got better projects which is most important. thank you all for the confidence and congratulations commissioner melgar. looking to toward to the next year. >> very good, commissioners. seeing no other comments, we can move on to your regular calendar item 10. for case number 2017-o13096map, burnette avenue and burnette avenue north, the zoning map amendment. on december 21, 2017 after hearing and closing public comment, the commission continued this matter to january 18, 2018 by a vote of 4-3. commissioners fong, johnson and koeppel, you were against. >> good afternoon, commissioners. planning department. the ordinance would amends a zoning map to amends a portion of a paper street proposed for vacation to our m1. as jonas sa

>> thank you, president hillis and, linda. i appreciate staff support. it's taken a lot of time and effort on their part. and i appreciate their follow-through. i would like to ask mr mr. sarigucchi from urban ed academy to join me if he could. and i am -- i was asked by reverend walker, who couldn't stay today, to pass on his support for our agreement and these conditions and his best wishes for the success of both enterprises of the joseph family market and urban ed academy. unless you have questions, i don't want to take much of the commission's time except for mr. saragucci to add his comments. >> thank you. we did take some time, took a long time, but we had the time to talk about what we could do together to make this a harmonious union on the 4500 block there of 3rd street. we also had a chance on december 6 to hear from other community members in front of the cacc and they shared their recommendation for approval upon passage or adoption of the supplemental conditions we agreed upon. i think we're in a good place. i think there were some things t

like commissioner hillis, he was the head of the sewer department at the time and we were bold and brash and tried to demand a fisherman's wharf clean-up day so we all showed up at 7:00 in the morning on a sunday and he showed up with a truck with a broom and handed me a broom and said there you go, go at it. so that was the start of a long, good, professional and personal relationship with him and i will miss him on the golf course. i will miss his laughter and someone to really share genuine, deep belly laughs with and he is capable of doing that and providing that for me. so, we are going to miss him and i just -- you know, i feel it's important for us to keep on with his dedication to the city, his dedication to those who are less fortunate. he's a big believer in the underdog and i think we should support them all and as a fabric of san francisco, really make sure that all san franciscans are taken care of. one last thing, i know that many people are going to be very critical of some of the things that he was able to accomplish and did over the last few years, but i believe that his

hilly, remote, the area so crisp and fresh, and the view, simply spectacular.climate that made the state of meghalaya and its capital, shillong, that made it a popular retreat for the british during the colonial era. they dubbed it the scotland of the east. it's pretty crowded! what about the city today? there's only one way to find out. i take a bus into the city centre. so it's a modern industrial town these days, shillong. whoa, feel it! i think those breaks may need a bit of work. so tell me, what do you think about shillong. this is your home city. what do you think about this place? the culture here is so different. you see the people here. more than half of the population of meghalaya belong to the khasi tribe, and here at the british—built polo ground, a traditional british sport is thriving, but it sure ain't polo. every afternoon, hundreds of people gather from all around to take part in a really interesting daily ritual. this is called teer, derived from the hindi word for arrow. they target is mounted and 50 archers have just two minutes to hit it a

i don't think this is going to come back -- while i agree with commissioner hillis, but i think that having an open application is better than having no application and although it will come back to us as something completely different, or some other way of overriding our zoning code to do the thing that we sort of, you know, without the bureaucratic wording of our codes would want to see happen. i think it is easier to do that when you have an application penting that you are working on versus starting from square zero, nothing. >> commissioner moore? >> i'm concerned about the psychology of people affected by it. when we put these things into indefinite continuance behind the scenes, things happen. right or wrong. which totally comes out of the limelight of those who will be affected by it and i'm concerned that for that reason. i do not want to create ambiguity and uncertainty relive to what it could potentially do to the affected parties who are speaking in front of us, particularly because the issue was rent control and potentially b.m.r. completely unanswered in this particular

next speaker, please. >> president hillis, members of the commission. i'm connie best. i live in the house next door. the developer responded to your direction with still a huge, blocky, ungangly design that fails to address the neighborhood concerns. it has the same 5,400 square feet of units. the units are not comparable as required under rh2 zoning. one is 40% larger than the other. the building remains too long because of im permissible average the roof deck intrudes on the apartment building's top floor apartment and there are dozens of windows including very intrusive ones on the north side that look directly into our kitchen and deck. we call on you to require two comparable, 1,900 square foot units, two 3-bedroom flats that are big are than my whole house, and are affordable to the middle class. no roof deck. use the yard as shared open space, luke it -- like it was before. it's a big lot. the yard can accommodate that. and eliminate the intrusive windows. he's crazy with the windows. so 38 neighbors are still on the record against this project. don't approve th

project sponsor. >> good evening president hillis and commissioners. my name is daniel. i'm the owner of 575 belvedere. this is my partner. during the hearing in december, we presented the project, the changes we made to accommodate our neighbor's concerns. a positive response from most of our neighbors. now i want to address the question that was raised about potential [indiscernible] and why we feel that this is not the most suitable solution. both calvin and i are the single child of our respecting aging parents. our parents rely on us to take care of them. we designed our home in such a way as to integrate our parents and make them feel at home together with all of us. with my parents coming from poland and calvin's parents coming from china and none of them speaking english, there is enough cultural linguistic and other barriers that make it challenging to unite our family under one roof. it barack obama only become harder if we were to create additional physical and psychological barriers by breaking our single family home into two separate dwelling units. although

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that is because it was hit hard by the fires and it is also very hilly, meaning it is vulnerable to mudslide. >> our houses didn't burn but we have our own set of problems to deal with. [ audio difficulties ] >> reporter: survived the [ audio difficulties ] [ audio difficulties ]ss [ audio difficulties s [ audio difficulties ] >> making sure the water is flowing like it needs to. >> reporter: another major concern here in fountain grove is flooding. that is because a lot of the storm drains were damaged here because the pipes were made of plastic and those just burned during the fires. the storm drains in older -- drains in older neighborhoods were made out of concrete and steel so the city doesn't expect problems in those neighborhoods. katy n, kpix 5. -- katie nielson, kpix 5. >>> a live look over san francisco bay,ra moved in yet but it has been mostly cloudy and cool today. for nus brunt of this -- us the brunt is off shore. the combination means when it rains it pours over night and tomorrow. with total rainfall up to two inches in the east way. 3 inches in the north bay. tuesday, 2-1/2

project sponsor. >> president hillis, members of the commission, i'm scott. i'm here speaking on behalf of the applicants. because we're restricted to ten minutes and there are several applicants, i would like to ask them to stand so you can meet them at least a little bit because they're not all going to be able to address you in the ten minutes that we're allotted. this is obviously a rather unusual situation for the planning commission to be dealing with, but you have regularly had applications come before you involving conversion of 5 to 6 unit ti cs into condos. you get a staff report almost like the one you received in this case that recognizes that the conversion is consistent with the planning code and with the subdivision code. then, this commission approves virtually every one of those. this application should receive that same treatment. there's nothing about this application that differs from a code perspective from the scores of other applications you've approved in terms of compliance with the planning code and compliance with the subdivision co