mr. sugaya. >> here. >> president claudine cheng. >> here. >> larry del carlo. >> present. >> john elberling. larry mazzolla. linda richardson and honorable jane kim is not seated tonight. thank you. commissioners, the first category on this joint agenda is public comment on agenda items where the public hearing is closed. and that's an opportunity for the public to speak prior to the certification or the commission's consideration of the certification of the final environmental impact report. that is the only item on this calendar that has already been heard in a public hearing, and the public hearing has been closed. so for all of you who want to speak on the certification of the environmental document, there are a number of cards, and they're all mixed up. so if the joint chairs would allow, i would ask for those who want to speak to line up in the center aisle. president olague: that is the preferred way of dealing with it. thank you. and just so the public can be aware, this will be your only opportunity to address certification of the e.i.r. once the commission closes public comment in

commissioner sugaya: mr. sanchez, on the property -- what was the -- >> it was a dance studio. >> ok, commissioners, if we can move forward. item #5 -- 2011.0149i. >> good afternoon, members of the commission. babson's first opens at the mission bay location. the fast-track m.b.a. program is designed to allow business professionals to earn their mta. -- mba. post secondary institutions and hospitals have an application on file with the planning department. we're proposing to occupy less than 100,000 square feet. upon review of the imp, the commission did not hear a hearing on the abbreviated imp. staff believed it contains all necessary information and recommends the commission approved. if you have any questions, will be happy to answer them. >> thank you. president olague: project sponsor? project sponsor? on this item? they are not here. so, commissioner borden. oh, ok. great. we would ask if you want to add anything to the discussion? >> no. president olague: ok. great. if we have questions, we know you a

commissioner sugaya: thank you. mr. sanchez, can you supply plans to people? >> diego sanchez, planning. as far as the previous conditions of approval, we would regret the plants back to planning so step could conserve that. before we issued a permit, we could potentially hold the permit at that stage for 15 days, of which point staff would contact members of the public who are interested for them to come into the planning department and review the plans there. if that is acceptable, we can do that. commissioner sugaya: aren't these plants on line? >> yes. those of an online at least a week. -- those have been online at least a week. commissioner sugaya: if more plans come back and you could notify the neighborhood people who are interested, that would be great with those conditions, -- that would be great. with those conditions, i will move to approve the project. commissioner antonini: second. commissioner moore: there could be blocked notification where members could get a ddi -- dbi notice. when the case file shows up, people can go to the web site, link t

commissioner sugaya: it has not. i don't have mr. radullahovich's communications to us but it seems strange to me that we're creating yet another transportation authority. one of the problems i think in the bay area region-wide is that there are too many transportation authorities already and it's very difficult, extremely difficult, to coordinate activities between the various agencies and it just seems to be bifurcated and to add another one specifically for theiled -- the island doesn't seem, for me, a good idea. in terms of housing under policy 1.9, is says approximately 5% of the market rate of the units would be sold or leased as inclusionary. it then goes on to say that 1249 housing units would be in stand-alone, affordable buildings. i'm not a housing expert and don't know the sociology behind the way people live in housing and how they feel about things but the commission has always thought that inclusionary in buildings under the 15% is more desirable than having the developer pay in lieu fees and what-not and having it go

commissioner sugaya: i agree, but i think it would be wise to have discussions within the neighborhood, mr. barbee, you can take this back to the association with respect to having treasure enclosures and other things within the front yard setback. i know that currently there aren't any regulations but perhaps also the planning staff could begin to take a look at that. especially in historic residential districts. not to add more regulations on top of other ones but i can see where it can end up being a problem. although, as i understand the issue, since i don't live in a neighborhood that has trash on the outside, since all my trash is picked up inside the building because it's a condominium, even if there were secure trash enlow sures, let's say, on the outside, somewhere, whether in the front yard setback, along the side of building, whatever, it's my understanding that obviously you have to take those trash containers out of there anyway and stick them toward the street because the garbage people don't have keys, well, at least, in this situation, to unlock all the enclosures and take

mr. howser's property here. just to show that it actually is not, i don't believe, out of scale and i think it's in character with the neighborhood. thank you. president olague: public hearing is closed. commissioner sugaya: this does not have to do with the project in question. i've been struggling here for the entire time since this started whether or not i should voice a potential conflict of interest. it doesn't have to do with the project sponsor so i'm not quite sure if it is a conflict or not. but it has to do with the d.r. requester. and mr. howser's firm hired a company a number of years ago to perform his historic resource evaluation on the strand theater and that was a number of years ago. it turned out not to be a good situation, i won't reveal what that situation is because it's somewhat irrelevant to the public, but i think i feel that i can continue on and have an objective opinion about this unless commissioners feel that i should recuse myself. all right, thank you. commissioner antonini: this is a hard one, definitely. the one thing in trying to judge the height accurately is really difficult. i've been looking at the pictures over there and there is quite a difference in height among t