. >> thank you, john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor so i think ms. hester brought you up to speed pretty well the subject of the appeal as well as at the board of supervisors the sdrapts surrounding the project but the project manager recognizes the need to improve the streetscape we're working with supervisor kim's office to we've already you know - offered to help move this process forward and fund the improvements but supervisor kim asked for a continuance yesterday for one week in order to cooperate with sfmta prior to going through with that appeal hearing we may not be asking for the boards sympathy but we're working on this since september of 2013 we're a year and a half into this for a partial office conversion of an existing building we've been working through the issues we'll got the board of supervisors next wednesday and our commission is april 8th we would prefer this on april 8th, april 15th is not a date that works with the project team the next is a month out from today, we respect and understand the board has a full calendar on april

. >> i've been hired that i reuben, junius & rose so i feel i can hear this case appropriately. >> when you're ready ms. mar. >> you need to come up to the podium and speak into the microphone. >> going somewhere. >> sorry. >> i was borden how to work this. >> for example like the. >> face up. >> i've got it like this? so this is sufficient >> got it okay. okay. >> okay that's correct okay thank you, commissioners i am very happy to be here today i'd like to apologize for not submitting my belief 3 weeks ago my neighborhood is telegraph hill hires here's a drawing of my house my house is downhill it is on the street uphill is my neighborhoods 26 hodge's alley on the second drawings you'll see my house and light well and windows 26 alley and thirty hodge's alley it is open over here this entire area is open so i want to explain why i and submit a brief 3 weeks ago a that's not norma landslide of the variance hit my house on december 12th i've not been able to go home and green under a doctors care for are serious emotional distress at this point my attorneys have i don't let a contractor

good morning, commissioners john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor since we were last here

. >> san francisco chamber of commerce reuben, junius & rose llp appoint associates glad advisors peterson hayward and associates, sf aa b m w l l and partners inc. and ss associates. >> okay. so we need a volunteer to select two from this group. >> la point and associates, san francisco chamber of commerce. >> thank you will you read the next level. >> so for this pacific gas and electric company committee on jobs building owners and management association of san francisco, berg davis public affairs, hanson 3wrig9 llp round floor public affairs louses 92 vin coalition for better housing public advocacy partners. >> okay. please select one from this group. >> hanson brigitte llp okay. so the last level. >> okay michael yeah. key andrew greg, airbnb barbary coast consulting karen flood bay bio trust company of the west, edward day t z k broadway, llc fisher man's property llp brooding cast capital, llc and the strategy communications fritz could systems inc. phillip lessor r l braun and matt he will. >> willie brown. >> james ross long law valero consulting inc. john newman. >> thank you se

good morning, commissioners john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor since we were last here we asked joe duffey to come out and talk about life safety issue there were no one we're moving forward decided to maintain our request from the board for a 10 year moratorium on enforcement of the order of abatement due to financial hardship that is the property owners mother that lives in the basement she's 0 no longer able to live diligently and can't afford to live it sth in 2, 3, 4 this neighborhood we looked at the abatement of the unit while that's available this is a single-family home neighborhood the purpose to provide the accomodation for the elderly mother and the intent not to create a new unit to be rented this is the property owner home so it is not intending to skier to create a second unit that's why we maintain the request for the moratorium and we're here for any questions you may have >> questions for the commissioners? okay. seeing none thank you. >> does the department want a rebuttal. >> it's deservedly in your hands. >> thank you. >> question

. >> good afternoon, commissioners joed from reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor or not as you've heard agreeing not plans on office space on sutter street this project will not cover up any of the historic features will serve as a work station and special station that harkens back to the days it is important that the project sponsor preserve this as you'll hear from the project sponsor in a few minutes this project allows a vacant building to be given new life and allows a local company to expand they anticipate the employees that will be working there with restaurant and bars it is an ear that is subject to public transportation i mean off van ness and expected that most of the employees will walk bicycle or take public transit no parking required at the site and none proposed only a site room we all know that the city needs more office spoois space that is an excellent opportunity to add office space where nothing is taken away in a building that's vacate they recognize the type of flexibility is necessary in order to preserve historic buildings this is a perfe

. >> thank you good afternoon, commissioners tom of reuben, junius & rose on behalf of the j two properties the property owner and as the gentleman said there is no though the property owners are represented by coupled no project that is proposed this is simply - the underlying zoning didn't change this is a proposal for the property overlay we have had ideas for development potential at the property we have had neighborhood meetings two meetings with the neighborhood to discuss possibilities there's a great deal of support we know of no opposition at all and have been in touch with the supervisors office about this matter and i'm not goings-on to speak for the supervisor they've encouraged us to moving forward and continue to work with them so as i understand this is just the initiation of the proposal to get us to a hearing date where we can discuss this more thoroughly so we will encourage the commission to consider adopting the initiation we we'll be back to talk about it in more delays questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> any public comment on this item? okay public comment is c

. >> closure i've hired reuben, junius & rose for a personal private matter prior and feel like i can hear this case obviously. >> before i start my presentation based upon the fact we have a high burden and one of the issues with this procedure since the planning commission we've asked to be included in with the dialog and been included in that so so would the board poison this and have real dialog with the property owners again, that's one of our main issues here as well but i we're ready to have a host off neighbors here so whatever. >> we'll precede. >> okay, here we go. >> again members i'm annuity rude i'm here are my husband mr. fox we live around the corner from the subject property and lived here 23 years raised our 3 girls as each of our surrounding neighbors and while we've not at the end the discretionary review hearing we find this with interest to the varies procedure the neighbors who opposed the discretionary review please stand up they're all here designated 3 speakers for the public participation time and in order to keep our points short and to the point the project

seeing none project sponsor >> good afternoon, commissioners jody from the reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor i appreciate staffs recommendations that the project be approved just a quick matter i have a support letter we've received this morning from a neighbor 0 on vallejo street just want to give a quick overview of the house i'll get that living area of the house is currently under 15 hundred square feet so the first year i'll describe the house the first floor has a garage and next to that is a small all over the studio the next is a gallows kitchen small for a refrigerator and no diamond space and a tiny living room on the side of the living room a steep staircase leading up to the roof deck and as you can see the house is tiny and really not usable as a single-family home the project will keep the ground floor with a garage and small bedroom the second-story losses one bedroom to add a fungal living room the small edition of taking out a jog in the currently living room with the steep staircase and remove that is it not usable and provide a usable livin

afternoon commissioner president fong director ram and members of the commission i'm jim ruben reuben, junius & rose i'm working with the owners of the building that actually own that this since 1977 he's here today i think that is notable i need to not we thought it was an office building there are a lot of reasons back in 1990 when the department created the south end historic district there themselves a survey done that showed an office building since 1997 when the building was purchased a subsequent maim of work has been done all good work with building brit i permitting i don't know why those building permits were released and caused us to be here was not here's sort of a before and after show the second street front and the frontage after is all glazing and that's exactly what i think the urban design guidelines wants you to do with pedestrian window line along second street as i say most of the work is already done building itself has been operated for thirty years or so the zoning and this is what dlaevents this building from the other ones with the square 660 third street were office

commissioner president fong members of the commission director ram i'm jim rubbing benefit reuben, junius & rose i'm working with george for the last 17 years has been the owner of this small property and the building on the property during those i guess the last couple of the 17 years been working with me he trying to get before you we provided a submittal that is complete in going through the things you've heard from the planning department george is here i'm going to turn it over to warren to show you the project i'm aware there's been questions asked perhaps amongst users that is better to respond to what we might hear from the members of the public or questions after you get the presentation thank you. >> warner. >> i'd like to talk about the architecture of the building first talk about it's context when we look at this particular site it is important site in many ways a wonderful location it's one of the 6 gore sites in the market octavia plan that has the educate characterization of the three-way intersection it's a tiny sight only 35 hundred square feet of area while the site is

. >> good afternoon john doe 234ig9 from reuben, junius & rose i'd like to start and could you speak into the mike please. is that better i'm to start by giving you a site plan you saw before the photograph taken from ms. mars house where it sat from the project so that's one factor that makes her property not effected by the project and another factor as you can see i heard about her light well, that is all the way over here this is the variance area over here that is shaded in yellow and as you can see her - if it's visible stall from her light well, it has on a impact on here light whatsoever also regarding her light well, this is where all the bushes are over grown this is her light well, that's probably years of growth since that's been used for any light to enter into the building so of there was an impact on light to her property because of the variance is shows not urging that portion of the property to get light i just want to speak briefly about the one property that is potentially minimally effected is the thirty hodge's the income tax neighbor and that neighbor is actuall

. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and members of the board i'm jim reuben, junius & rose and i am a quiet a recent addition to the project team i say recent i'll be struggling with the same thing the extent of the record created and how much water is under this bridge already in the of fact i was called about four years ago to become involved and i declined because of the proximity of my home to this site when i was called back against by alice barkley they needed avoidance to move things along from the planning department i looked at the record and thought that was time to end this those are my neighbors as well variance decision is based on pretty simple set of facts it is like the sightings of the home and which is toward the rear of the lot in fact a portion of the home is in the rear yard before we started what you have in front of you i'm going to try this gadget i brought ambassador if it works mr. rubbing benefit it will help us more mr. pacheco. >> okay. so what we have here shaded what is code compliant building portion of the lot that this homes adds to it is t