the code for the planning department this is on katrero avenue to the permit to erect a building 77 unit with a mixed be building with ground floor area. so we'll start with the appellant >> excuse me. i have a conflict recuse me, please. >> so you have 7 minutes to present our case. >> before my time spoke i believe you spoke to commissioner lazarus about a continuance she e-mailed me and everyone two members but not the former appellants can't make it by 515 to jean and another person can't be here. so juan was coming from a water commission in sacramento and flying out later this evening and jean had another meeting i had 10 e-mails from ms. gold's steno to ask if it could be rescheduled so i thought one thing would cancel but not everything. it's important to my community that they provide comments it's not all my story yeah. i humbly request if they can't be here >> ma'am, is there a reason why this is move forward up. >> yes. a request by a permit holder for an accomodation. so if the board wants to entertain at that motion to continue that or else we'll precede >> i think we shoul

the next item 480 katrero avenue this is the one that katrero and mayor possess the sequa was appealed to the planning commission and board of supervisors and the sprushlth was with an an appeal to the building permit the board of appeals already heard the appeal last year and depend that appeal and denied the appeal of the building on a 4 to zero vote and the next project 330 after the permit that didn't come from the planning commission but is of interest it's a project from the rec and park department. specifically with the bathroom on the site and there was a series of determinations and the permit was issued it was appealed it was a demolition permit part of the 2008 bond program to upgrade the bathroom program and the permit was to demolish the current bathroom that was 88 compliant. there was some work done to the exterior of the building and the permit was appealed and a new determination was made that based on the current state after an h e.r. was done the tennis site was a historic resource but the building itself no longer was. the board of appeals seemed to favor an outcome

>> it is, in fact, the katrero hill like the wellness program those are for families and seniors and that's our goal to expand that citywide so when we're gemd engaged in the walking programs we're targeting adults and seniors as well. we're trying to make sure that we're grabbing the entire family and changing the way they're living so healthy choices and economic is a way of life >> i know plenty of seniors and adults without kids that obvious the rec and park department so sometimes our recreation centers are not open long enough and there's room for capacity increases. >> ideally we would like to have our centers open more and i believe there's a 90 percent chance if you attend one of the cities recreation centers you'll engagement in some type of recreational activity that's the more strenuous exercise so the more they're open the better. >> thank you. supervisor mar i want to add bob thank you for your hard work at the rec and park department >> i'd like to call up school board commissioner and rachel norton so the other colleague is here. thank you for challengeing the groundb

sector we're rebuilding because soon after this we're going to alice griffith while we're working on katrero and other parts of the city we'll renew those commits over and over again and great partners to thank i want to thank the residents of hunters view. you've been so patient yes all of you (clapping) it was hard to believe we wanted to do it better not in the bull doing so kind of way like in the jazz and 70s we left people to their own challenges we were going to say let's invest in people first and have them join us to create jobs and then offer a joint vision for people. and that's what we've been doing in the hope sf program to mechanic at the infrastructure as we've than what happened the staff in revising all of our public housing i thank hud and leaders nancy pelosi they're helping me to establish the leadership with wood we have a new model to invested in people's buildings first once we offer them ways to train for the future jobs in the future and a series of services on site that have involved the hucht and fire department and youth engagement programs all on site that invest

and tomorrow we celebrate asian pacific islander list griffin and after that sunny value and the katrero hill. i want to thank the mayor for the investment in the community

the crop of the transportation neighborhood efforts the katrero hill is happening and the chinatown transportation plan looking at a whole range of improvements including what to do to alleviate the conditions on venus and broadway. the western transportation plan we hope to beginning this year as well and the 19th avenue ocean i've mentions will be part of this year's work program. the technology services division is the r&d and the brains they're the forecasting analysis folks for point whole city. much of the work is for mta and the planning department we disseminate data to anyone who seeks it of the private sector to the research community and we're activity in the research community we have a transportation model that's dynamic this represents all the parcels of our city and in addition to the whole region. this support our division, i.e., we're lincoln the database and other systems to our resource planning and this is the finance and admin we have a host of things from reporting to county auditing to combranlts management and voicing and improving that taller than the payment to our consul

we were struck by the investment of the katrero yard this houses our trolley cars. at the green yard their producing parts that are no longer available and they climb into pits to work on the under carnival. what was really impressive how much the muni staff are putting together resources to fix what should be minor problems if we had the up-to-date material. fortunately, we've been helping to address those needs and toured the metro east that's a more than facility that will oscillate the burdens of the yard and it will add storage for our to 60 foot couples and finally your central replacement fund will help with the fund to provide the transportation system for driving communication and vehicle reliability. thank you. again to the sfmta for making this possible and i look forward to having more improvements as we seek new transportation revenues in the fall this concludes my remarks. if there are no comments from colleagues we'll open this up for. and seeing none, we'll close public comment and move onto >> item 4 director's report an informational item. >> good

castro street between 17 and 19 and stockton and the katrero project i encourage you to follow up with the contractors to insure the effective funding for the staff members to check the sites. i encourage you to fund the program for free muni and low income people and seniors and people with disregard. and the third point i seek is for the prosecuting percentage in the budget for the next year to be increased the percentage is not enough to meet all the programs designed in vision zero to reduce pedestrian fatalities so store so, please i seek our willingness and the ways to provide funding towards programs for assessment and equality towards seniors and folks with disabilities. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon on the other microphone please. >> hi, directors i'd like to take this opportunity i'm jessica i'm the executive director of senior and disability action. i was going to talk about the economic devise but that's it that's been talked about. if you - it's another reason for people to have free muni. we've seen the success of free muni for

sunlight of soccer and weekly soccer practices nearby the katrero center families got to know each other and it brought our schools together. the cool thing about beach la it's such a long drive but the most amazing thing is it gets us out there and it gets families that are on the east side out to beach lay and we get to know neighborhoods we're in. so we're happy that the facility is there but we're not happy about the state of the facility we're really having a difficult time convincing our kids it's safe. we fluid to make the changes we're mackey appreciate it as a parent who cares about environmental causes. i would normally be opted to this but in this particular situation there are way two many kids from low income families kids who's families have to leave san francisco because of the affordability crisis and we need to give the families a reason to stay here we can't didn't have them moving away to pittsburgh or elsewhere they have to exist here. thank you. next speaker. . good afternoon. i'm glen i apologize i'm out of breath. i want to really can you remember you to pass this

and tomorrow we celebrate asian pacific islander list griffin and after that sunny value and the katrero hill. i want to thank the mayor for the investment in the community - itself up here i'm sorry. i want to thank leader pelosi for her devotion to san francisco to john stewart and the housing corporation none of this would be possible and tiffany with the infrastructure as well as the commissioners, thank you. again, i want to thank entrepreneurs community partners and the san francisco foundation and welcome back our brother fred blackwell and director olsen lee. and also want to recognize the executive director of the housing authority barbara taylor smith. thank you barbara i know you've had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunter's view residents thank you so much for being patient. and recognize the hunter tenants association and as we help our people with walk it's a new organization that's been be born out of the entire process. to our housing authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services and mothers against crime we wouldn't be her without you

role been tasked with providing that open space and i think the participation of the dog patch and katrero hill community and all the neighbors along third street has been informative because the support for this project and the support for this park has been overwhelming i can't tell you how many meetings they've been well attended. we've evolved the design over time and a come has been responsive what should go where and also very responsive to the waterfront design citizen's advisory committee comments and the ac/dc comments it doesn't look like it did when we started but we're landline to see the evolution and there's money from 2008 and 2012 one side to move forward and we urge your support. thank you >> any further public comment seeing none. >> dave thank you so much for this report and congratulations on the fund to make this happen i think this is going to be a great edition to the southern waterfront i know that a lot of people are looking forward to this happening. can you tell me about the project team >> the aecom team includes architectures resource group, a g a engineers tha

role been tasked with providing that open space and i think the participation of the dog patch and katrero hill community and all the neighbors along third street has been informative because the support for

the hospital rebuilt the exterior is really starting to look completed that is a recent photo from katrero avenue. most of the sun shades are up and the windows are up the man lifts is s are gone the exterior walls are bottomed up it's starting to take shape. in the bullet item the top off piece of steel on top of the round geographic you see think the photo the plazas site work is starting studio advance the beginnings of what we call the site restatement activity that is to lay out the final stairs and pavements and such. - >> thank you. as well as just yesterday, we started to tear up the road along the wing buildings to start putting that into its final configuration as well we're seeing the beginnings of becoming up the outside configurations. we are about 14 months away from subsequential completion and less than 23 months with move in the mechanic and electrical systems are advance on all the floors it's taking shape you can see how the functions are starting to take shape on each of the floors. we're, you know, pouring data cables and landed most of the major equipment it's tying a