thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are back before you without -- without having reached an agreement with the project sponsor, but this is not for lack of engagement and sincere effort to reach an equitiable development agreement like we have many times for similar projects. we actually thought we had an agreement which even received an approval vote from u.s.m. membership, but then we found out that the fees for the new state density bonus law were lower than those from the city and this new offer did not gain any support from coalition members. as part of that regroup, the project sponsor has put forth a new proposal, but as of this hearing, we haven't had enough time to reach an agreement and allow for necessary internal discussion review with potential administrators and agencies. >> clerk: thank you. your time is up. >> thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. kelly hill with united to save th

. >> vice president koppel: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: that's a great thing, but i don't think we have anything written legislatively that says when you demolish a rent controlled unit that you've got to replace one. >> commissioner hillis: but we've still got that discretion. >> right. and sb 330 requires a replacement unit in that place, and we can back that up or do it a different way. >> commissioner richards: i thought it had to be law. thanks. >> vice president koppel: just a couple comments on my side. these aren't addressed to anybody, but if skinner's looking for certainty, who's the certainty for? is this good certainty or bad certainty? and i don't know how these can get so confusing and so crossed over each other. i think that these updates -- thank you again for the great report. if you can answer every one of dennis' questions, i'll give it up to you. thank you for answering our questions. i am -- we have a lot of questions up here, and i'm sure the people in the public are getting a lot of their qu

thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you. next speaker, please. >> chair koppel, and members of the commission, kathleen henry, housing commission. the decision not to replace housing expert tim frye and to disburse the preservation planners to the various quadrants might save the department $100,000 plus or minus in salary, but it is a disser disservice to the community. with the loss of tim, we've lot a senior preservation planner who could be a consultant, advisor, ally, and oftentimes a challenger to the neighborhood associations. the preservation planners that have now been disbursed to the different kwaund rants have lost a seen -- quadrants have lost a senior manager, director, and mentor. putting your senior planners in the quadrants is like putting oil in water because not only do the city planners and community planners agree on a certain situation. as far as we are concerned, it is not an optimal solution. we strongly urge the commission to give consideration to suggesting that the planning directory consider his o

thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. lisa petrucelli with our commission, no eviction. you think we would have learned the lessons from not having robust area plans and valuable captures for our communities. and to up zone adjacent to these vulnerable communities, are we not learning? 30% increase in homelessness, 40% increase in people living in their cars? at 1801 mission and 1863 mission, as soon as they broke ground, we've lost 70 of our neighbors on minna, natoma, and 14. and director rahaim, you live in the neighborhood, and you see the conversion of these houses. we're talking about strategies that we're going to be talking about at the end of this summer, but we're just moving ahead without any of these things in place. where we going to learn? we can't up zone until we have robust area plans and strategies to keep our communities impact and to stablize. we can't just continue at this pace until nobody's left. thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you.

. >> vice president koppel: thank you. project sponsor? >> my name is jeff burroughs, and i'm the architect for the project. let's do the overhead. good afternoon. i'm here to speak to the two issues regarding the continuance. that's the density and the shadow clarification. the unit that jeff warren spoke about is in fact on the ground floor. this is it here. it has a full-sized bath and walk in closet, full-size appliances in the kitchen and its own private courtyard entry and gate as he mentioned. i can answer additional details about that in comments, but that's in the project now. the main house is in the second and third floor, the a.d.u. is on the ground. the biggest thing -- there's been a lot of misinformation flying around about the shadow study. but suffice it to say in the summer months, you can see the existing on top and the proposed at the bottom. in the summer months, essentially, there's no change because the sun is so high in the sky. in the winter months, the opposite is true. the sun is so low that no sun penetration ge

i get it, though. >> vice president koppel: commissioner moore? morei >> i see a constriction in your drawings. a-103 is being labelled as only accessible to the upper units, however, your other drawings shows it accessible to the rest. >> it's only for the top unit. the design was to keep the number of penthouses down. there is a fire department requirement on a four-story building with a roof deck, all of the units to have at least one penthouse for the fire department to get out there, but there's a -- there's also a requirement for any because we're above the fourth level to have two means of egress. but one of the means of egress if it's a private deck can be the retractable hatch, and that's how the design was arrived at. the design was the entire ground unit has the rear yard, and the top unit has the exclusive use of the top deck. if we did make it accessible to all units, i did talk to the fire department, you'd need both penthouses, and not a penthouse and a retractable hatch. i thought that was a combination of that. the middle unit, wh

. >> president melgar: commissione r koppel. >> vice president joel koppel: g was talking about. i was asking about sustainability within the buildings and transportation. this is a small city you don't need a gas tank of 300 miles to shuttle students from believes to buildings that are very close together. you know, it is simple to install solar panels on one of the many buildings and feed into batteries charges up small shuttles and eliminate the noise to the neighbors. as i mentioned last week mayor breed is intending to take the ground transportation to 100% full electric vehicles. that is the way we are going as the city and we should follow suit as the university, too. >> president melgar: can i share more? >> the gold standard for master plans in the city is very high. this is the first time the aau is submitting an imp. we have golden gate university, california college of art, hastings, university of san francisco. many of the commissioners have been in these things and the document twice to emulate the form mat of those imps, the critical comment. it stea -- still reads

. >> vice president koppel: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: i'm not a big fan of roof decks. i've had friends that lived in top -- three full units from front to back, and they never used the roof deck. if you -- i'm open to reducing the overhaall height of the building as commissioner moor samoore said, but i'm just not open to the apartment sharing the yard. >> vice president koppel: commissioner fung? >> commissioner fung: i'm supportive of the unit as constituted. i think this area can support larger structures, the three units. the only suggestion is i probably am not going to suggest anything that deals with the separation between the adjacent neighbor and this building on a on windows that are parallel to the property line. however, a small suggestion would be that a six-foot-high solid screen on that side of the deck so there is no visibility between the deck and his kitchen and bathroom. >> commissioner hillis: second. >> vice president koppel: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: can you make the

light. >> vice president koppel: thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? commissioner hillis? >> commissioner hillis: i know we're not -- we don't necessarily vote on this, but i think it's a great piece. thank you, miss keen, for showing it to us. i kind of like the fact that it's referencing back what we've seen on buildings on market street, so thank you. >> vice president koppel: just another couple comments. definitely supportive of this piece. being an electrician, we're at home on a ladder, and we don't very often see ladders that are lit up, so i think it's going to look great. thank you. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to item 11, senate act 330 of 2019, informational presentation. >> general jonas, i have a cou handouts for the commissioners. >> all right. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jacob bent live -- bentliff, planning department staff. we're here on a presentation of senate bill 330, the bill is titled the housing crisis act of 2019. the bill wa

i get it, though. >> vice president koppel: commissioner moore?i >> i see a constriction in your drawings. a-103 is being labelled as only accessible to the upper units, however, your other drawings shows it accessible to the rest. >> it's only for the top unit. the design was to keep the number of penthouses down. there is a fire department requirement on a four-story building with a roof deck, all of the units to have at least one penthouse for the fire department to get out there, but there's a -- there's also a requirement for any because we're above the fourth level to have two means of egress. but one of the means of egress if it's a private deck ca

commissioner koppel at two hours and 44 minutes had some very important points about life safety that take on further residence since we have those mohave earthquakes last week. most commissioners discussed setting up a working group to deal with the issue and proposed having another hearing prior to the 2018 summer break. from the public, i suggest you request -- you watch the following speakers about setting up a task force or a blue-ribbon panel, whatever you want to call it. starting at 37 minutes, going to about 50 minutes, i suggest you watch mr. wooding, watch me. and miss petrin talking about the mint, but the most important part of that as i said previously is a discussion between commissioner richards and the zoning administrator sanchez. what i just said is i am here for the minutes. if you can see the time for yourself, and thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, commissioners. following up with a discretionary review hearing from may 9th, despite disruptions from commissioner richards, the staff, to review what actually happened from a planning

. >> vice president koppel: commissioner richards?>> commissioner richards: so i have a different take, commissioner moore. when these things come up, these guys know what they're doing. they can call up nancy skinner. in the reasoning of transparency, they know what they're doing. we require a developer to put a rent controlled unit back in addition to the b.m.r. units. >> so it is accurate that the replacement unit requirement that's state law would come out of the inclusionary policy for the requirement. however, the way that the bill's structured, it says if you're going to do the replacement units, it needs to be affordable. the low-income unit would be affordable. it's very complicated. i don't have a definitive answer, but i think what the state law is saying you would provide a unit that's affordable as well as the right of first refusal. if you were in a protected unit for one of the separate reasons, you would get the right of first refusal for the unit. >> commissioner richards: two things. i think we're getting less, so it

commissioner koppel. >> question for mr. hepner again. i'm not going to get too granular with this question. i'm going to kind of take a step back. i'm only speaking for planning here. whether it's b.o.a. or b.i.c. we're up here every thursday. commissioners moore and fung and myself have some constructability or kind of job-site knowledge. i feel that we do a really good job in taking all of these projects seriously. and i think we do a good job making our rulings. and, you know, without taking this personally, this kind of language and ordinance is almost slighting us, saying, haney, i don't think you guys are honestly doing a good enough job. is this even necessary? >> let me answer that with a sort of broader assessment of the context that we have trying to address. and this is i think a secondary goal of the legislation is to confront what we perceive as real efforts to eliminate discretion from the approval process. i think that there are merits to that, as long as our code is -- as long as our code is clear and serves the purpose t

he is very fond of the rule that would koppel drug manufacturers to list their prices on tv.e they hiding? we want transparency. a lily spokesperson says the company is happy with the judge's ruling, not a huge surprise there. pharmaceutical companies spend big ad dollars to increase chances of potential patients asking their doctors for brand name drugs. the trump administration had proposed a rule that would have mandated these drugmakers feature their prices when they run their tv ads. now 88% of voters say they favor a government initiative mandating that an surers, hospitals, doctors, other providers disclose the cost of their services and discounted or negotiated rates. this is according to a survey by the center of american political studies at harvard done in conjunction with a "harris poll.." congress seemed to agree on the need to reduce drug prices but lawmakers have not passed major legislation to do so. according to our proprietary research ahead of the midterm elections, we know health care is the number one most important voter issue, completely bipartisan. fol

. >> commissioner koppel. >> thank you, on that motion to approve number 2 on your consent calendar. [vot [vot [vote]. >> item 4, consideration of adoption of draft minutes for july 11, 2019. >> does anyone want to provide public comment on the draft minutes? with that, public comment is closed. >> thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt the minutes for july 11, 2019. [vot [vote]. >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. item 5, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner richards. >> supervisor richards: excuse me -- >> go ahead, commissioner moore. >> i'm greatly concerned about reading about market street and also the letter from the disabled association about the adaptive interpretation of what was approved at the 52-market unit building now becoming a corporate rental apartment. i'm looking for the director's comments and support that that is indeed not the type of approval that we should be stuck with because that is not what we approved. >> yes, director, can you. >> thank you, commissioner. i have heard several comments to that effect.

predict next but student they're all problems itself, okay do mister koppel following the war he signs. alright topic number 2 want to go overseas we have france, i guess kind of. >>putting barry tech companies in the cross hairs when they just do real popular put their take on this in the cross hair and if you own a home the bay area this it could be a potential negative as these companies will face fewer profits down the road. >>senate approved a tax of about 3% from digital copies big digital companies like google amazon and facebook it's the final warning from president trump and his administration says it unfairly targets american companies keep in mind trump's having a big summit today of social media without any social media companies they're just right wing a agenda people who kick it out's he anymore. so it's easy to target these guys even on the front you do it trump doesn't like it, but he it himself. the 3% tax would apply to french revenues of roughly about 30 major companies. a representative of trade in the united states for lighthizer said that you can investigate wheth

commissioner koppel? >> move to continue items one and two. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to continue the items as proposed... [roll call] so moved. that motion passes unanimously 5 -0. placing is under commission comments and questions. >> commissioner moore? >> i read an interesting article in the journal speaking about demolition versus deconstruction in the city of palo alto. they have joined or taken the example from portland where the demolition of homes is not just simply a demolition anymore, but it is a systematic destruction of the structure to reuse, recycle, and alleviate excessive landfill due to demolition. this particular piece of legislation is going to affect how -- going to be in effect in palo alto in 2020 and affect commercial and residential buildings. it would be a very interesting thing for this city to look into and also consider. there are costs associated with it, but that is secondary to the benefit of what this program could achieve. i will hand it handed around for people to read. >> thank you. i also wanted to say that while i w

koppel is michelle kingston has the full story. >>now you know for the last hour say for the last year you've had campers back there. you've had 10 specter. >>illegal dumping tents are these grills trash in blight this is how oakland city councilman noel describes 37th avenue just behind home depot. the street, he says needs to be sensed off and shut down to reduce the increase in crime outside the hardware store the fruitvale neighborhood, it's a dead end street in our cameras saw very little activity there on monday. >>a man and a dog some cardboard boxes alongside the are these not only are they stealing their plant material. they're building material. >>they're there. push cars and everything everything else that you can think about. >>homeless people seem to just surrounded this home depot in oakland, not just behind the store but in the parking lot. and right here behind me in this encampment just in front of the store as well, the public health issue. >>and this is safety issue. >>the large homeless encampment is very visibl

this morning we're opening up the "abc news vault" to 1992 and abc's ted koppel sitting down with iacoccadays before his retirement from chrysler. >> in the place where millions of dreams have been spawned, from the humblest of beginnings, he made it to the top in the brashest of ways. >> if you're an optimist, you look at everything as an opportunity. you don't say, wow, who would be mayor in new york, what problems. who would be head of chrysler, what problems. >> he's retiring but not shy. especially with opinions on how america should be run. >> i raise the question of whether, in fact, for this generation of americans, the expectations are quite as rich as they were for our generation. can we still look ahead and say, it's going to be better for our kids than it was for us? >> yeah. i'm an optimist, though. why not? why not? my generation followed world war ii. it was tough. we wondered after the war, we had won it, where we'd pick up and where we'd go from here. but i don't think much about that. i think about my mother and father who came here, who really had only themselves and a