regular meeting minutes for february 5th and 12. >> commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and i'll be sure to include those minutes for the february 12th rules committee hearing in you're next packets. >> thank you. >> commissioners that places you on commission questions or comments. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. some of you may know i was born and grew up in the 4rib9 valley and understand in san francisco for 4b years all of the cities pleasant and livermore have experienced the experiences in san francisco in terms of their portal and growth and new jobs and land use they've done things well and not so well, i'm going to prepare a report on my experiences i still go out there we have part of my family lives there, there are some things that are instructive of things to do and not to do we can use as we look at our neighborhoods within san francisco and architecture questions as well as another questions related

. >> commissioner johnson commissioner johnson commissioner hillis i agree with a lot of the questions and issues about financing this goes beyond oewd co-show write use the financing in the district in sort of a way to get at the tax parcel idea we're talking about going to get it through all the impact fees i'll keep saying this so just wanted to say that real quick and, sir real quick you're the only one that had a. so - >> yeah. i can answer questions. >> you miss public comments i don't know if there was anything to address add to the conversation. >> i mentioned public comment i appreciate i was interested in the transmitted capacity that's certainly very much on our minds at bart seeing the growth in downtown we need the infrastructure to support that we're nearly at the point unfortunately we are going to have to start commenting on the irs on the downtown business project we can't bring people through the embarcadero station or montgomery station unless we make investments the infrastructure discussion is a good one and we talked about how to talk about more together the city

. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 12 for case - thank you. >> mrauth i plymouth use conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon michael smith planning staff the project proposed e proposes to for about a second-story dwelling dwell in the ocean view neighborhood and to construct in its place a third-story mixed use building the proposed building go have 3 dwelling units and off-street parking and tenants and use yet to be determined the property contains the remnants of a second-story dwelling constructed in 2005 the building is vacant and the city records are indicating the building is authorized to be a second-story typically between 9 square feet of habitable area the city has noting not received public comment and to approve the project are conditions we believe it will add 4 family sized dwelling units to the horsing stock and creates a small commercial space ideal for simon's

. >> and reverseing the grandfather. >> on that motion commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnsonommissioner moore no. >> commissioner richards. >> no commissioner wu no. >> commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to 3 commissioners that will place you on item 13 for clemente street. >> good afternoon, commissioners department staff the project before you is a conditional use authorization to legalize the formula retail financial service known as cafe bank with an within the enter clemente neighborhood commercial district the planning code requires the conditional use authorization for formula retail use within any neighborhood district sub property is located opening at the corner of clemente and tenth avenue r with 4 ground floors that tenant spaces it was previously occupied by a simple service the cafe bank specialize in the chinese-american community and has one other branch in san francisco the branch started on july 21st, 2014, under the name of general bank which the definition of cafe bank and has full-time employees operates monday throu

. >> 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

approve with conditions phil's coffee at this locations. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards chairperson wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero expirations that places you under our discretionary review calendar for item 15 at 1760, 2 tellingth avenue this is a discretionary review. >> good afternoon marseille with the department staff r you have a discretionary review to construct a anthony hundred 3 story sfwnl a proposed stack above the third level of guardrail and this is exclusively surround it has dead-ends with the adapt grateful that splits traffic into two lanes at the top is a single-family unit property is zoned as rh1 the zoning is 15 feet south if the subject property and having unreasonable impacts on the public safety in the san francisco general plan and the section of norway regular we have a massaging it is uncharacter of the pattern and fits the pattern to he'd those concerns the dr suggests to reduce it for the single-family unit at 1758 12 avenue followi

3 feet on the north and east side and 7 on the south side commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnsonommissioner moore commissioner richards chairperson wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on items 16 ab for the case - 002064 other jackson street a discretionary review and case no. 13 at jackson street foreseeability and variance. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong i'm christine the item before you a request for a discretionary review on jackson street the proposal to replace 5 feet tall wind-screens above a garage around the side terrace and the northwest adjourn and construct a new one story spiral please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, place above the dwelling the variance hearing for the project occurred on april 23rd of last year but reheard for the discretionary review the planning code requires the 15 foot back if the subject promissory note property it was built to the property line and provides no set back to the wind-screens above the freehand e present of the buildin

commissioner hillis. >> commissioner johnson commissioner antonini commissioner moore commissioner richards. >> i want to make sure the planter wakes up around it and so it is on one side. >> on l-shaped planter. >> would you like to specify how far it wraps? >> that's what i'm proposing it is discussed on the drawing yeah. >> how far is that dimension that wraps. >> 4 feet. >> thank you that's i so let me read that motion book cerebrothe record to make sure that the maker to take dr and have the ground floor as it relates to the separation of the grayish garage and bedroom with the planter on the ceda of the roof deck that wraps 4 feet around the west side. >> thank you commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero commissioners that will place you on items 16 example and b and 17 a and b commissioners please note that on december 4, 2014, after hearing and closing the public comment it was continued to february 5th by a vote of 6 to zero commissioner hillis was

. >> commissioner president fong and commissioner wu councilmember sharp sxhun commissioner hillis and commissioner johnson and commissioner moore commissioner the items for continuance item one at 1546 on market street draft environmental review continuance for march 25th and next amendments to the planning code for the special use those in lieu of open space work definite continuance and item 3 for x anothers 888 howard street downtown project authorization for indefinite continuance and c on bush street conditional use authorization is promoted for indefinitely continuance expirations under our discretionary review we've received a request to continue this case dr p at 26 hodges alley discretionary review to march 12. >> is there any additional public comment o on the items proposed for continuance. >> good afternoon. i'm a resident which san francisco i wish to speak an issue it the proposed legislation by jim in the open spaces. >> sir the only thing you can any public comment? to say the continuance itself not the actual legislation >> my understanding i'm sorry is the commissioners have the option t

is a motion and a second to continue items as proposed. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you under commission matters item 5 - >> the television is not working. >> the sfgovtv has some consists conflicts there are two super seated we're record but not televised their recording us in the back i apologize for the inconstituents convenience. >> commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner antonini. >> they must be extremely for important if in their superseding us (laughter). >> i was embraced by what we learned paul the captain of the european repaired came up that took part decided to stop at a beautiful beach and park his car and walk up ocean beach to have lunch and came back and broken into his clubs were stolen instead of practicing she she's he's spending all day getting new clubs this is a major problem in san francisco and the land use part reasons you didn't why families move to other areas is that

second to adopt the recommendation with staff recommendations commissioner antonini commissioner hillis is commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 12 for case no. 1215 amendments to the small business priority progressing pilot program a program policy. >> it's challenging speaking after supervisor wiener dan with the planning department thank you for agenda dizzying this this is a refresher of a planning commission policy will two years old before we talk about that policy in particular a karaoke primer on what a commission policy is commission policies are so on and so forth in a resolution as adopted by your majority vote and action by the board action by the mayor is not required resolution is not legislation so it can't eliminate a local requirement for example neighborhood notification or a need for conditional use authorization that a perspective realm not a policy realm is can change how the commission or department administers it's procedures ho

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 >> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures so this is really an intersection for many g

. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 78 to zero and places you on general public comment for which i have this speaker cards. >> new general public comment tonight. >> seeing none, general public comment is closed. and the meeting is >> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in santa and cisco with someone special. -- san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park a favorite with couples and dog walkers. both have a significant force. a refreshing retreat from urban life. the romantic past that meander up and down the park under pines and eucalyptus. hang out in this environment and you might see butterflies it, fennel, and then the lines. -- dandelions. is ada accessible. public transit is plentiful. we have conquered the steps we have watched the dogs, and we have enjoyed a beautiful vie

. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards is commissioner wu. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously have to zero and places you under our discretionary review calendar for the benefit of the public that was continued to march 12 and places you on the next item on fulsome street >> hello commissioners. >> staff first; right? >> right. >> can i sit down. >> yeah. sit sir and commissioners i'll be presenting this abbreviated this the request for discretionary review our the vertical and horizon drawings it is subject to the variance for raked set back and fraishgd front yard and compliend to grant it the drs concerns are for the rear windows and the proposed deck didn't go beyond the building go and has provided a matching 3 ftd foot set back relate with the dr requesters property and the concerns are generally not cause for dr it didn't rise to the level of exceptional in the - recommend you not take dr and approve the project. >> thank you dr requester. >> are you the dr requester your team as 5 minutes. >> we've been doi

>> commissioners there's a there is a motion and a second commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards chairperson wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero commissioner that places you on 14 ab c and 2014.1212 c both at 415 both for conditional use authorizations, however those are two separate projects we're going considering them together. >> good afternoon erica where the planning staff i have two separate conditional use authorizations in the null constructed building for a new financial service notice on a bank on a 2 hundred thousand secret space on the corner and the on the for a new retail use known as a coffee stopping shop on 17th street the department has received no public comments and i have some additional dwraefk materials provided by the project sponsor that talks about the two furlts this is to establish the new places that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> project sponsor. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioner

motion and a second to continue to february 5th on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places on item 4 commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you as a matter of the public record and available to the public in hardcopy as well as only line is spurs white paper that answers or comments on my questions by the commissioners and the public concerning the vacates and the unit in san francisco and the percentage of full-time resident in our newer condominium units this was contributed to by a very prestigious group for many people that do this in an organized manner they started with identifying there are thirty thousand vacate unit in san francisco they started to identify where the unit are the biggest category are unit for rent or sale and not yet occupied even though we royals the housing market in san francisco is hot there are unit in the process 3 involves 11 thousand of the thirty thousand unit a

eliminating the planter and reducing the size of the deck commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 do zero and places you on general public comment which i have in speaker cards. >> any gener okay. seeing none this meeting is >> good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of san francisco ethics commission february 23, 2015, calling the roll arrest commissioner hayon commissioner keane commissioner andrews and chair commissioner hur has been excused item 2 on the agenda public comment on matters powering or not appearing on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the ethics commission anyone have my public comments before we move to the next item hearing none i'll turn to the third item a presentation by san francisco stanford university students regarding their campaign finance project for the 2014 election and welcome and look forward to our presentation. >> thank you. >> you can come up. >> yeah. >> steven macy the technical officer wan

. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and passes you on item 9 academy of art university update informational update and progress report. >> thank you, commissioners the commission requested this and want to give you a brief update since the last public hearing in may of larry subsequent to it we presented an update i'm joined by rick carol and other clearing for the environmental review and also chris our code enforcement manager although great work on the short-term rentals we have individual in the academy of art and from the law enforcement of perkins and i'll have chelsea give an update of the environmental review we gave you an update last year and i'll talk about the enforcement. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and members of the commission i'm chelsea of the planning department i will be providing you with a brief overview of the process of the academy of art or aa u eir the publication is sc

as amended to include the course of this trial e p arrest commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore commissioner richards chairperson wu and president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> if i may this is a major milestone on this many year process if you'll allow me to thank the staff that have been involved i know we have to get to the board of supervisors but there's 10 staff that were involved in one form or another (calling names) so my thanks to all of them. >> maybe a clap (clapping.) and audrey i'm sorry sorry. >> commissioners that places us on item 13 c at 4 hundred alabama student a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioners doug with the planning staff this is a question for a condominium conversion to establish a grocery and accessory restaurant.org those the guest community market the ground floor of the industrial building on 400 alabama street arguess community market will occupy seven hundred and 75 thousand square feet and the parking spaces that provide

. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> take a 10 minute break. >> good afternoon again commissioner it's john ram to present the first of two hearings on the fiscal year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 budget i thought i'd start by talking through the issues i've raised at the last hearing and then keith martini will present the ways the budget changed since we met concern modifications on not to do a pull in year but esquires requests and keith will go over that you had several concerns i'll use the memo and obviously what's on our mind is the short-term rental program the commission raised this issue last week this week was the ferries week the alleviations took effect and we have geared off and i'll certainly if i say anything incredulously scott sanchez will talk about this because his team is responsible for this program from the budget i'll back up and is that this week the first week we've been if operation

. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 78 to zero and places you on general public comment for which i have this speaker cards. >> new general public comment tonight. >> seeing none, general public comment is closed. and the meeting is >> i am jim lazarus with the chamber of commerce co-chairing the outreach effort as we transition to gross receipts. thank you for being here. this has been a huge effort for many years. in fact from the business community interest goes back decades with our ongoing concern that you don't tax job creation. you tax economic success and although the city is limited -- cities and counties are lipted in california on the income side gross receipts is as close as we can get to a tax structure that allows us to tax economic activity and growth rather than jobs and certainly in this economy now when we made other steps to move job creation forward even with the payroll tax in place this is going to be a great transi

. >> 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 to variances that meas

commissioner president wu commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner moore and we do expect commissioner hillis to arrive first is the consideration for the items a-1 and b for d d and v at order street discretionary review and variance and items 2 ab for the 22 at 24 port discretionary review and variance are also proposed for continuance to february 12, 2015 item 3 case c at 1135 evans avenue to february 26, 2015 and item 4 for case and 1423 ocean avenue has been withdrawn further commissioners under our discretionary review calendar item 7 d at one street a mandatory discretionary review is proechtd for continuance until mayor march 19 i have no speaker cards is there any comment on the items proposed for continuance seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item one ab and 3 to the dates indicated and item 17 to march 19. >> second. >> thank you, commissioner on that motion to continue items commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner president wu and commissioner fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously and zoning adm

commissioner johnson. >> 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

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 antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissio

. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 78 to zero and places you on general public comment for which i have this speaker cards. >> new general public comment tonight. >> seeing none, general public comment is closed. and the meeting is