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mr. frye? >> commissioners, tim frye, staff department. one issue on the goldberg building, staff understand the significance of some of the interiors and the high level integrity on the interior of the building. however our code is rather limited in what we can designate in private interiors. generally we are limited to only publically accessible areas such as commercial spaces, lobby, etc. while the commission want to pursue landmark designation we have to look at areas that are identified as protected in certain sense as required a certificate of appropriateness. there may be other features of the building but they may not be protected by the designation in the future. just wanted to let you know that while you are considering that property. >> commissioner pearlman? >> that was one of my questions. but, i do want to just reiterate, i said this before. i grew up. my father knew all about rue goldberg and i saw a lot of the drawings and -- rue goldberg is something that touched my family. i'm excited about this particular building. i'm h
mr. frye? >> commissioners, tim frye, staff department. one issue on the goldberg building, staff understand the significance of some of the interiors and the high level integrity on the interior of the building. however our code is rather limited in what we can designate in private interiors. generally we are limited to only publically accessible areas such as commercial spaces, lobby, etc. while the commission want to pursue landmark designation we have to look at areas that are...
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. >> commissioners, any questions, mr. frye. >> tim fry, staff department. thank you for the great memo and introduction to the incentives and the code. i want to reiterate that the zoning administrator is here in case you have any questions about how certain determinations are made. at the july hearing, i know the commission specifically had a question about criteria and what are these thresholds that the department uses when evaluating these properties for use of these planning code incentives. if you like we can have a discussion about that, but again, i just wanted to reiterate. we are available for questions and i'm happy to have conversation about criteria if you so wish. >> commissioner john's? >> i think this is an extremely interesting and i think very well done item. is there someway in connection with our on going outreach efforts to demonstrate the real truth about historic preservation that this could be made available either for use with the realityers -- realtors so it's convenient because this is too nice to not distribute. >> thank you commi
. >> commissioners, any questions, mr. frye. >> tim fry, staff department. thank you for the great memo and introduction to the incentives and the code. i want to reiterate that the zoning administrator is here in case you have any questions about how certain determinations are made. at the july hearing, i know the commission specifically had a question about criteria and what are these thresholds that the department uses when evaluating these properties for use of these planning...
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mr. frye. >> tim frye, department staff, just to clarify our understanding the pending landmark legislation for henry adams has been tabled and it doesn't look like it's being forwarded anytime soon. it would be the call of supervisor cohen whether or not that should be heard at the full board to be moved forward. >> commissioner pearlman in >> i had a question about, in determining you have pdr space and some integration with office. is there any discussion about compatibility what kind of office and what kind of pdr or is it anything that falls in that designation. there could be a lot of conflict with dust and smells and noise and fire code issues that might be relevant to the building code. >> that's certainly part of the consideration. if she wants to run the policy behind this. there is pdr's and office space. until the pdr districts came into place in 2008, this is m zoning and it was extremely office buildings and the buildings have been a historical mix and the industrial example of r
mr. frye. >> tim frye, department staff, just to clarify our understanding the pending landmark legislation for henry adams has been tabled and it doesn't look like it's being forwarded anytime soon. it would be the call of supervisor cohen whether or not that should be heard at the full board to be moved forward. >> commissioner pearlman in >> i had a question about, in determining you have pdr space and some integration with office. is there any discussion about...
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mr. frye talks about a reduction of an incentive which it is a reduction of an incentive except for the fact that how do we know that if we don't know any numbers. all of the -- i totally agree with what mr. brosdz said and i appreciate john's comments that we should stick to the historic issues here. it seems to me that in the code we as the hpc are required to provide a recommendation on whether the proposed use would enhance the feasibility of preserving the historic property and yet how would we know that in anyway even though the staff says it's so or there is some economic of presentation of materials that will allow us to understand that. i'm wondering in the structure report is there anything about numbers? >> tim frye department staff. at this time no, i think what we would do is similar to what commissioner john's mentioned is two components that come together to provide a full picture. we can certainly ask for economic data to support the proposal. it would be similar, i would estim
mr. frye talks about a reduction of an incentive which it is a reduction of an incentive except for the fact that how do we know that if we don't know any numbers. all of the -- i totally agree with what mr. brosdz said and i appreciate john's comments that we should stick to the historic issues here. it seems to me that in the code we as the hpc are required to provide a recommendation on whether the proposed use would enhance the feasibility of preserving the historic property and yet how...
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. >> mr. frye? >> commissioners, tim fry, i hear your concerns about sustainability policies. just to give you a little bit more background, this was really meant to align with a lot of discussions as shelley mentioned with the studies prepared by preservation green lab and other organizations to show that alignment between preservation and sustainability. so we do have some existing policies in other elements that we were trying to also connect to. i think i hear where you are going with this and we'll rephrase these and rework them and may reach out to you on some of those but we'll definitely work on these at the next hearing to show you. >> thank you. we'll open up public comment. any member of the public wish to comment on this objective, seeing none, we'll close that. we'll move on to objective 9. >> one about the energy use to be more specific about what we mean there because i think somebody in the public might think that's your pg & e bill. it's a much more extensive kind of analysis in all of our systems that are using energy. >> thank you for your comments. i have t
. >> mr. frye? >> commissioners, tim fry, i hear your concerns about sustainability policies. just to give you a little bit more background, this was really meant to align with a lot of discussions as shelley mentioned with the studies prepared by preservation green lab and other organizations to show that alignment between preservation and sustainability. so we do have some existing policies in other elements that we were trying to also connect to. i think i hear where you are...
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. >> mr. frye, if i'm reading this correctly, the top of the elevator pan is 40 feet? >> correct. i would defer to clarify. for a point of clarification you may want to indicate in your approval that it's within the permitted obstruction requirements of the code. >> just to clarify that point. i believe they can bring the penthouse height and stay within the permitted obstructions over the height limit. however if it turned out they could not increase the massing over that height, then we could alternatively raise the pit which is the higher exception over the height limit and would stick with what's allowed. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions? >> yeah. >> commissioner johnck? >> in raising it, what are we talking about in terms of feet? >> making it even with the top of the proposed. >> okay. >> it's raising it maybe about 18 inches to two 2 feet. a little bit more. i'm sorry, you are right. only a couple feet. >> yeah, okay all right. >> just to keep it clean and even because i do believe from the top. >> all right. >> commissioners any other questions at this time? no?
. >> mr. frye, if i'm reading this correctly, the top of the elevator pan is 40 feet? >> correct. i would defer to clarify. for a point of clarification you may want to indicate in your approval that it's within the permitted obstruction requirements of the code. >> just to clarify that point. i believe they can bring the penthouse height and stay within the permitted obstructions over the height limit. however if it turned out they could not increase the massing over that...
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i think what you all know and mr. frye can claire fee -- this will be going before the planning commission at some point and i believe you should have a joint hearing at some point. i think you would be really good get your comments before then and vice versa. i think that also applies to the, this is going to be off topic but i'm going to pretend it's public comment. i think that would also be good with respect to the, i think i don't know where this is but i think staff is contemplating changes or appropriation -- proposals with respect to the implementation part for pdr uses, i think commissioner permanent -- pearlman is interested in that. i have been pushing that myself. on the other hand i haven't always trying to get more incentives for historic resources because we are not very good at that kind of stuff. you about but now we are faced with a kind of policy consideration and places taking effect especially south of market and i think there is a need to address that head on and that might be another opportunity to h
i think what you all know and mr. frye can claire fee -- this will be going before the planning commission at some point and i believe you should have a joint hearing at some point. i think you would be really good get your comments before then and vice versa. i think that also applies to the, this is going to be off topic but i'm going to pretend it's public comment. i think that would also be good with respect to the, i think i don't know where this is but i think staff is contemplating...
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>> seeing none, mr. frye, i do have questions but with landmarks, we'll take it up there. it's about conversations about how to move stuff forward by guaranteeing hours. we'll take it up under that item. seeing no other comments we'll move on. >> that places you on commissioner matters, item 2, announcements. >> i have no announcements. >> item 3. corrections on adoption to the minutes of the meeting . >> any correction? any member of the public wish to comment? seeing none. >> i move we adopt them. >> second. >> thank you. >> commissioners there is a motion and second to adopt the minutes for august 6, 2014. on that motion, commissioner highland, commissioner jong, john, matsuda, wilson, commissioner president haas. that motion passes 7-0. which places you on item 4. commission comments and questions. >> commissioner pearlman? >> i want to disclose the mayor's office called me about the 50 fell street project and i didn't talk to anybody. i did call nicole wheaton back and let her know that i knew they were interested in a project. also, this is actually a question for th
>> seeing none, mr. frye, i do have questions but with landmarks, we'll take it up there. it's about conversations about how to move stuff forward by guaranteeing hours. we'll take it up under that item. seeing no other comments we'll move on. >> that places you on commissioner matters, item 2, announcements. >> i have no announcements. >> item 3. corrections on adoption to the minutes of the meeting . >> any correction? any member of the public wish to comment?...
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. >> mr. frye and i have been working on a session not of the rules and recognizes, -- regulations that will expand on this section a little bit. we'll give pointers to people for how they can effectively organize and make their presentation and those helpful hints will refer to the appendix that i just wanted to make sure that everybody realized that we have not approached the folks on getting the presentation. >> do we have a motion? >> i so move that we adopt the rules and regulations with the amendments the people have proposed including yours. >> i second it. >> thank you. >> this you commissioners, on that motion to adopt the new rules and regulations as amended today, commissioner highland, commissioner johnck, commissioner john's, commissioner pearlman, commissioner wolfram. commissioner hasz. thank you, i appreciate you putting closure to this. >> thank you, with that i adjourn this meeting. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> the meeting is called to order, at 5:34, i would like to thank
. >> mr. frye and i have been working on a session not of the rules and recognizes, -- regulations that will expand on this section a little bit. we'll give pointers to people for how they can effectively organize and make their presentation and those helpful hints will refer to the appendix that i just wanted to make sure that everybody realized that we have not approached the folks on getting the presentation. >> do we have a motion? >> i so move that we adopt the rules and...
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mr. frye. >> commissioners, tim frye. i want to show you the support of the report. we work closely with heritage and appreciate them keeping us involved in the development of the report. we think it's great document. certainly support creation of a subcommittee and agree with the recommendations and think there is a lot of potential there that we can come up with some really creative ways to further the goals outlined in the document. >> commissioner wolfram. >> it looks like i missed it, your priorities for hpc action on the slide, is that in the packet as well? >> it is not. >> maybe we can get that. it's kind of hard to read on the slide. >> okay. sure. >> there is one copy. i don't know. >> maybe we can get that. >> sure. >> commissioner pearlman in >> thank you. it's fascinating. i drive by jordan's bar. i haven't gone in to have a drink, but i think it's significant in our city to have these places. i wanted to agree with something mr. sugaya said about the issue because where the he land is where the roxy is so astronomical and to keep the roxy there, you kno
mr. frye. >> commissioners, tim frye. i want to show you the support of the report. we work closely with heritage and appreciate them keeping us involved in the development of the report. we think it's great document. certainly support creation of a subcommittee and agree with the recommendations and think there is a lot of potential there that we can come up with some really creative ways to further the goals outlined in the document. >> commissioner wolfram. >> it looks like...
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with all do respect, mr. frye, words matter. i went back in the case of henry adams and rewatched the tape and the item was not tabled. it was continued to the call of the chair. tabled could imply that it's never going to come back again. continued to the call of the chair maybe as soon as the election results have been certified. afternoon commissioners, my name is jim nicko chair of the process and i'm also a pdr guy. the preservation that serviced light industrial job is not reserved for any one supervisorial district. it is about preservation of the working class of this city. sometimes it's not necessary to landmark a building in order to preserve it. the planning code gives you an option to convert significant buildings from light industrial to the more profitable uses such as office. here is the key point, if it's necessary to preserve the viability of the building, it didn't seem to be the case with the design center and economically successful building with a 90 percent occupancy rate of pure pdr businesses. it's not a
with all do respect, mr. frye, words matter. i went back in the case of henry adams and rewatched the tape and the item was not tabled. it was continued to the call of the chair. tabled could imply that it's never going to come back again. continued to the call of the chair maybe as soon as the election results have been certified. afternoon commissioners, my name is jim nicko chair of the process and i'm also a pdr guy. the preservation that serviced light industrial job is not reserved for...