guidelines - adoption of the japantown special area design guidelines, this is for your adoption. >> we have handouts as well. >> good afternoon, commissioners. maya small, planning department staff. we are returning today to give you an update on the japantown special area design guidelines as well as to recommend their adoption. we were here two weeks ago at an informational in which we gave background into japantown and approaching it through the process and revisions. and just to note, the history of japantown, over 100 years, some of the critical and key, major impacts to the built environment mostly have been from exterior forces, both beginning with post earthquake development as well as japanese internment and return before and during world war ii and after world war ii as well as redevelopment and the many phases of redevelopment. there was an underpinning for a neighborhood that revitalized, continued to revitalize, evolve and grow, and of course there was quite a bit of community development that came out of that process in response to redevelopment devastation. it was the

modelled after japantown, and the work that goes on in japantown with grace and the community advisory -- community benefit district, i believe, in japantown, we've taken that model and we're building something out for the small business community. the other thing that we're doing is the small business program, a decal in your window, so if you need some help, you've got that, too. the other thing we want to do is participate in ride alongs, so we can have our small business owners ride along with a police officer for a day just so that he can see a day in the life -- so that they can see a day in the life of a police officer, attend a day of our police academy so they can see what we put our police officers through. but really, the go al is to hae a diverse group of business owners -- we want the same group to meet on a monthly basis to stay consistent and to really continue having the conversation. so in conclusion, our advisory forum is still new. we've met during the summer, so we meet once a month, and we're just continuing to explore ways to make our community better, our small b

they adopted the retained topic and special guidelines, and heard a presentation on the special japantown guidelines which will be coming to you in the new year. >> and jonas. >> clerk: yeah. >> at the board, wanted to let you know that the board approved 2251 webster street, 2168 market street, and 2731 to 2735 folsom. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commission matters, item 3, president's report and announcements. >> i just want to thank the commission for a wonderful year. this is our last hearing of the year, and we will be having a celebration today at 5:00. i think it's in the notice, hayes street grill. >> clerk: very good. item 4, adoption of draft minutes for the november 6 a.r.c. minutes and the regular hearing for november 20, 2019. i have no speaker cards. >> any member of the public wish to comment on our minutes from the a.r.c. and the last h.p.c.? close public comment. commissioners? [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion to adopt the minutes for november 6 and november 20 -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimo

there's a big celebration happening in japantown.ear. there will be tons of arts and crafts, food and entertainment and contests and traditional meals. it is completely free from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. if you didn't know, this is the year of the rat. >>> next on abc 7 mornings at 6:00 a.m., the victim and suspects in the deadly laptop theft have been identified. this happened in oakland. we are hearing from the community on this devastating situation. >>> new tension and worry about war just days after a u.s. air strike killed a top iranian general. >>> good morning. happy saturday, everyone. let's start off with a look at the weather. >> we had a front. it is really weakening rapidly spreading showers and it is moving into the sacramento valley. a little bit of shower activity mixed with snow here as you're heading out towards south lake. the temperatures are mild. it's windy as you're headed to the mountains. we're looking

. >>> the kickoff for the japanese new year, there's a big celebration happening in japantown.49th year. there will be tons of arts and crafts, food and entertainment and a kids' art contest. it's completely free from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. if you didn't know, this is the year of the rat. i'm going to have to check that out. >> it looks fun. >>> we have a little bit of wet pavement out there. we've had a weak system push through the bay area spreading rain in the north bay and san francisco. mist and drizzle will continue for the morning hours in the peninsula and south bay. a level one on the storm scale. by mid morning cool and sunny and dry until tuesday and another weak system. it's going to be a quiet week out there. >> that's pretty good. >> yeah. >>> thank you for joining us here. abc 7 news continues at 9:00 a.m. good morning america is next. have a great saturday. ♪♪ next time i'll go to jack,n at least then i'll get fed. ♪ head to jack in the box and experience the joy of missing out with my $5.99 white cheddar cheeseburger combo. ♪ only at jack in the box! ♪ uh, "fi

this year's big celebration is going to be happening in japantown.e will be tons of cultural arts and crafts, food and entertainme entertainment and an art contest. it's free from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. this year is the year of the rat. >>> happening today, if you're feeling like hitting up a weekend craft fair, try the annual vintage paper fair in san francisco. the two-day event features one of the west coast's largest selections of postcards, brochures, photography and more. the fair runs from 10:00 until 6:00 at the county fair building in golden gate park off of ninth avenue and lincoln way. if you miss it today, it goes tomorrow from 11:00 to 5:00. >>> i'm going to send it over for a look at the forecast. >> we were here early so we saw a few drops on the lens, but that front has dissipated and we're looking at fog behind it. we have sunshine in san francisco. as we look outside, this is the south bay where you have scattered clouds and 53 in san francisco and san jose. the north bay is sunny and we're looking at 43 there livermore. we're warm

a number of area design guidelines, such as japantown can still be implemented and applied to new projectsties that are not ceqa resources. those are all in effect. also we can apply any design standards whether objective or not to nonresidential projects as well. we have an effort that we may be gearing up on in the new year related to historic guidelines. because that falls under the ceqa umbrella as implementing ce ceqa, those will be adopted and applied to projects. so we in san francisco are in pretty good shape on design standards luckily. second category is, in terms of applications for new housing development projects. so just so we're all on the same page, a housing development project is two or or more units, two-thirds residential in the case of mixed use. the first item under this is this preliminary application. so this is a new type of application created by state law. it is no the same thing -- not the same thing as a development application. in san francisco, we have created a version of this, we're calling it the preliminary housing development am caig to be as clear as po

our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantownr little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when p

our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantownr little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when p

a number of area design guidelines, such as japantown can still be implemented and applied to new projects. historic properties that are not ceqa resources. those are all in effect. also we can apply any design standards whether objective or not to nonresidential projects as well. we have an effort that we may be gearing up on in the new year related to historic guidelines. because that falls under the ceqa umbrella as implementing ce ceqa, those will be adopted and applied to projects. so we in san francisco are in pretty good shape on design standards luckily. second category is, in terms of applications for new housing development projects. so just so we're all on the same page, a housing development project is two or or more units, two-thirds residential in the case of mixed use. the first item under this is this preliminary application. so this is a new type of application created by state law. it is no the same thing -- not the same thing as a development application. in san francisco, we have created a version of this, we're calling it the preliminary housing development am caig to