>> commissioner koppel: motion to approve the minutes. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve the minutes -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0. item 11, commissioner comments and questions. >> president hillis: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: just one quick one. since we have three items on your calendar resolving around what i consider a historic preservation, since i didn't give the director a heads up on this, i would love to have a presentation next week where the historic preservation is this year. >> president hillis: great. thanks. commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i'm happy to read in today's paper that there are a number of updated projects being built. glad to hear about three major projects coming on-line. >> president hillis: thanks. >> clerk: department matters, item 12, director's announcements. >> no new announcements today, commissioners. thank you. >> clerk: item 18, review of past events of the commit htee >> the committee did consider supervisor yee's ordinan

commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: i do think the project is well designed. i feel sorry for you if you weren't involved in the conversation, but i like the project. i like where it sits already as is, and whether it's to staff, the department, as often as we can get that literally moving three-dimensional digital rendering, it answers a lot of questions, and it makes it more clear. i couldn't emphasize it enough that it's a highly useful tool for us up here, and i'd like to see more of it. >> president hillis: commissioner johnson. >> commissioner johnson: one, question for mr. winslow. i apologize if i missed this in the staff presentation earlier, but i know the d.r. requester brought up a couple of issues in the discrepancy of the height of their building and also whether or not the unique nature of this building potentially being boxed in by this addition was taken into consideration. i was just wondering if you could address that for the d.r. requester. >> sure. i believe the discrepancy on the first item was not from staff, description of a two story o

commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: great report, staff. if we're going to it in to increase the dwelling units in the city, we're going to have to take a very close look at roof decks because we're creating more flats out of larger buildings, we'll need the roof space for open space. i'm really glad to see that you included the better roof language in there. i was a big supporter of now-senator weiner trying to utilize the rooftops that every building does have. and looking at the fact that we may be looking at water shortages, we cannot create more water, but we can create more electricity via solar panels on roofs. i'm wondering how much outreach we've done to the supervisors and especially the board of appeals. hopefully they will be on the same lines with uses opposed to us creating some guidelines and policy and having our decisions overturned. i recommend that we reach out to the board of appeals so they're kind of not overturning all of our decisions here. really good that we're addressing the issue initially. i don't -- i don't fin

. >> president hillis: thank you commissioner koppel?> commissioner koppel: i am also in support of the project. i wanted to thank all the public commentaries for coming out and having the first introduction to the san francisco democratic public process and your voices do matter. we heard you loud and clear. this project fits in to the neighborhood extremely well. not only with the other larger hub projects slated for the future, but the plumber's project right next door. we are going to see changes in the adjacent neighborhood, but it is for the best. i was going to motion to approve can i motion for multiple items? >> clerk: we should certify the environmental impact report first. and then we can take up the other issues. >> commissioner johnson: i would like to move to certify the final environmental impact report. >> vice-president melgar: second. >> president hillis: do you want to make a motion for the second one? or take them up separately? >> clerk: i would also like to make a motion to adopt the sequel findings and set this sha

commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: i will go a staff recommendation again here. i don't think the work is extraordinary. >> president hillis: is that a motion? commissioner melgar? >> vice-president melgar: is at a motion? i second that. >> clerk: on that commissioners do not take d.r. and approve the project as proposed. [roll call] >> clerk: so moved. that motion passes unanimously 7 -0. item 23 is case number 2016- 003314 drp. 180 vienna street. discretionary review. >> good evening commissioners. i am a staff architect. the agent before you is a public initiated requests for discretionary review of a building permit application, 2016.0014.7155 to construct a two-story horizontal addition at the rear of an existing one-story single family home on a 25 by 100-foot down sloping lot. this block of vienna street consist of one and two story stucco and wood clad houses. the rear addition, as proposed, would extend 17 feet from the existing rear wall at the first and second stories and be setback 5 feet from the d.r. requester's property line. the basement story wou

commissioner koppel cream. >> commissioner koppel: moved to initiate. >> vice-president melgar: second. >> clerk: and also schedule a hearing. very good. on that motion -- [roll call]. >> clerk: so moved. that motion passes unanimously at 6-0 and places us on item 14 a and b. this is a general plan amendment and zoning map amendment. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm from planning staff. before you today are two proposed ordinances don't make changes to the property at 175 golden gate avenue. the proposed zoning map amendment ordinance was introduced by supervisor kim on june 12th. the ordinance to rezone the subject property from rc for, which is residential commercial high density, to see three g which is downtown general commercial so that it may participate in the transfer of development rights program. the proposed general plan ordinance was initiated by the body on august 23rd. it would expand map one of the downtown area plan to include the property at 175 golden gate avenue. the purpose of the change is to allow 175 golden gate avenue to be eligible to sell their credits. 17

. >> commissioner koppel: i know the neighborhood very well. i lived at 516 divisadero and also 520 divisadero. i almost didn't have to leave my neighborhood ever. le -- there was everything that i needed. when in was kid, you didn't good to that part of town. there was a hubcap store and a popeye's and that was it. it's amazing to see where it is now and where it's come and where it's going. and so i did strongly vote in favor of corepower yoga on dubose and church and didn't see any opposition for that application. this time around, saw an overwhelming amount of opposition on the emails and the phone calls and did a little more research. and came upon an article that had to do with unpaid workers and wage theft titled "yogis breathe sigh of relief over $1.6 million in unpaid wage settlement." that was deal-breaker for me. i saw that and i'm a construction worker by trade. i come from a labor background. i also work with the management in the contracting business side of that as well. if there is one thing we value, it's a paycheck. and if the

. >> commissioner koppel: thank you. also, i wanted to commend the addition of the green living walls as a recommendation and the requirement for the greenhouse gases in the upwards of decarbonization and being more environmentally friendly. that is it. >> president hillis: thank you commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i want to summarize to everyone who has participated pick the best thing is this is a reiterated plan, rather than a static plan pick something we had hoped for all along. something that can rise to the challenge of being questioned and shaped and in being creatively evolved. i see a lot of very strong things. thank you to staff who have really dug deep and listening and working with everybody. i am very much in support of the comments made by commissioners. i like to pick a few of the original commitments to the meant, my position on that is that i would like to stay with the same $20 million which is a small amount for which has used to preserve the building is a very important piece anchoring the

. >> president hillis: commission commissioner koppel? >> all in all, considering the size of the existing houses, this is a modest addition. it's going to align these three houses, so if any commissioners wanted to add on small things to work on, additionally, i'm in favor of moving it forward tonight, those. >> president hillis: would you take the -- the -- directly offer from the project sponsor to remove one of those windows, and i say the one farthest from the street that's the -- so is there a motion to take d.r. >> commissioner koppel: i will make a motion to take d.r. and approve the reduction of the windows. >> president hillis: it's the new window that's being put in on the main living area, and it's the third -- he'd remove the third window furthest from the street. overhead, please. so with the three windows, you'd remove that -- the farthest from the street. so you're going to remove the third farthest from the street, right? >> yeah. >> well, the street is over here. >> president hillis: right. >> so just remove this one. >>

what the break the debate was about it was fascinating wasn't it if you want to con mash up between koppel kerry i could go box and gardens whoa then i knew you were in your element was over the evolution of the look i mean it was froth at best it was it's a shame because the previous week's panorama on the academy trust which was a major investigation was excellent really good piece of journalism and then you get nick robinson come along and it's essentially i mean it's establishing arguments that they had labor's case star in there just with fluff as it were and probing questions looks or nonexistent really but then it's what we've come to expect from the b.b.c. it was fairly big standards yeah well the interesting well the t.v. channels and all of the b.b.c. our appalling does of asia let's go to the role that we have mail so russia is watching a bit later this information war using from an unfunded channel r.t. one's culture secretary jeremy right in the wake of not interview this is the usual con of soft power propaganda we're saying there's an interesting there's a massive report out

the paper has a regional desk located forty minutes drive from koppel so we asked passers by where they get their news and then don't know what. every visit georget searching online via facebook or the stories don't get printed until the next day so i don't see why i should have a subscription for the printed newspaper. is the content free online yes. you pay for it and the. newspapers have long gone digital. them and much of the planning order for the allows it's a one shot check and again when i get there see you then. when you're home all is a local reporter today she visits a former coal fired power plant. evidence that would mean that. the plant was decommissioned and converted into a museum news rooms everywhere using social media to reach younger generations and your homos report won't just appear in the paper it will also be posted on instagram. and that in second photo what you are instagram followers are between twenty five and thirty five years old so exactly the age groups we don't reach with our print product anemia. one how these people tend not to read newspapers so we us

>> commissioner koppel: again, i wanted to thank the participation of supervisor tang and assessor chiu. being a resident of the sunset, very well said on your comments. i really appreciate your ability to, at the last minute, gather this much support, but then also consolidate your speaking just to save time and be more efficient, so i'm in full support of the project today. >> president hillis: thanks. commissioner johnson? >> commissioner johnson: thank you. so i was on the west side, and, you know, i think we talk about the west side of the city fairly often. we talk about the potential there for building more housing, for making the city more affordable, but i think as actually one of the speakers brought up, it's really important that we look at the big picture. on the west side, it's not -- the west side is not just about potential, actually, the west side has some of the largest populations of seniors, and we have to be providing services for seniors in that district. when you look at the history of this property. we know that housing was donated for the express purpose of helpi

>> commissioner koppel: motion to approve item 7. >> second. >> clerk: thank you. on that motion to approve item 7 -- [roll call vote] >> commissioner moore: 7 is off consent. >> clerk: no. 8 is pulled off consent. >> president hillis: someone requested that 8 be pulled off consent, a member of the public, correct? >> clerk: yes. >> commissioner moore: sorry. >> clerk: on the motion to approve item 7. [roll call vote] so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0. as previously stated, item 8 will be considered at the beginning of the regular calendar. placing us under commission matters, item 9, consideration of adoption craft minutes for september 6, 2018, joint hearing, as well as regular hearing and regular hearing for september 13, 2018. i have no speaker cards. >> president hillis: any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commissioners? >> move to approve. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on the motion to adopt the minutes for september 6 and 13 -- [roll call vote] that motion passes unanimously 7

. >> commissioner koppel: quick comment. yesterday's paper, san fran mayor london breed sets aggressive goal to shrink carbon footprint to zero by 2050. really excited to see her setting the tone citywide for this. s.b. 350 has set forth some high marks for the state of california. i'm glad to see that mayor breed has us on target to align with these goals. so it will be interesting to see from here on out what we see as far as new projects and what the existing buildings will be doing to reduce their waste. that's it. thanks. >> president hillis: thanks. we can move to director's announcements. >> clerk: very good. item 5. >> thank you, jonas. a couple of things. next week is global climate summit in san francisco that is being convened by governor brown. i think mayor breed's announcement is real eigal -- d to that. there are other events that are happening peripheral to that conference and it's by invitation-only, but there will be several thousand people in town talking about the issues at a very high level. so we're loo

joe el koppel, district four resident, here to speak in favor of my fellow commissioners and their moving forward with the reappointment. both of them play vital roles in the commission as a whole, keeping it ethnically diverse, and milicent, the newest commissioner, as me being closest to the newest commission, knows how it is to start off, and i think she's incredibly on ramped very well and do something but succeed in the future. as well, president fong exudes culturalness. he's very well travelled and forward thinking. thank you. >> lisa ferber from community hill. i just wanted to say a word about milicent johnson. while she's new to the commission, i do think that she does bring a fresh perspective and represents different viewpoints in terms of generational, perhaps, and adds a diversity to the commission. i think she understands that people are behind planning and land use, and i think she's generally respectful to the neighborhoods. thanks. >> good afternoon. ossie roman with neighborhood council. i just want to support commissioner johnson as the only my lenni on on on only mile

. >> commissioner koppel: i would also make a condition to approval the final e.i.r., as well. >> clerk: we will take up those matters separately. >> president hillis: i'll second commissioner coppells's motion to approve the final e.i.r. >> clerk: very good. there's been a motion. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commission, that motion passes unanimously 7-0. there is a second motion for the project to approve the project as proposed without -- or with the removal of the historic facade as amended by staff, including that condition read into the record. >> i think you need to adopt the ceqa findings first. >> president hillis: that's part of this. >> clerk: that's part of this, yes. >> president hillis: they're 15 a and b, adopt the ceqa findings and approve the entitlements. >> clerk: right. i'm sorry. and including a finding recognizing that heritage and project sponsor continue working together on the final design and adopting ceqa findings on th findings. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6-1, with commissioner ric