mr. sutter are you handling this case? >> okay. >> excuse me president hwang and members of the board and i am with the department staff and just to rearticulate the issues on appeal right now. this case does not involve a lot line adjustment and subsequent construction of a new single family home on the resulting vacant lot. because of how the appellant has chosen to adjust that and configure the new lot, four separate variances are required from the planning code. three of those four were justified. and we granted them. those were variances for rear yard, parking and lot area requirements. the granting of each of those variances acknowledged the unusual geometry of the resulting lot. and allowed what we felt and continue to feel is the necessary flexibility to design a building that is responsive to the neighborhood and to the lot and to the context. the fourth variance, however, this is the mass reduction variance, was not justified. and we did not grant that. going to the appellant's point i think about confusion regar

sutter stockton garage management. i'm not sure if that question was answered at committee. thank you. >> mr. reiskin? >> mr. president, members of the board, ed reiskin with the sfmta. through the supervisor chair to supervisor kim's question, they manage two garageses so they're able to amortize their costs essentially over those two garages. the sutter stockton garage as well as the union square garage. so, they're able to spread those costs differently. that's the main difference between the two leases. >> and, so, the 154,000 is almost the 50% between the two garages because it's one management company? >> that's correct. >> that makes sense. and i just hope that as we continue this long-term discussion around our garages, i know that this initially came forward because we needed other entities to bond on behalf of sfmta. i'm happy to support this, this ten-year lease for both of the garages, but i hope we can keep having a continual discussion with our off-site operators to ensure they're running efficiently. i certainly know the benefits of the j town garage offers to its community and supervisor breed

mr. clerk. please call item number 5. >> item number 5, resolution approving a lease agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the city of san francisco uptown parking corporation for the sutter stockton public parking garage, for an annual base rent of $1 plus surplus, with an initial term of 10 years with two five-year options. >> thank you. mr. reiskin, welcome back. >> thank you. i actually thought the clerk previously called 5 and i was speaking to both. and i think there were two public speakers who were speaking for the uptown. so, i have nothing more to add. happy to answer if there are other questions. >> okay. can you distinguish, then, between the community of japantown which seems to me very neighborhood centric and so forth, certainly within a very rich ethnic community within our city compared to sutter stockton, seems to be very different in terms of core of downtown. maybe distinguish between the features there. >> yeah. clearly the union town, union square area and this corporation manages as i said both sutter stockton and union square garages, the latter on behalf of the recreational park department. they are arguably more dependent on the garages in terms

corporation for the sutter stockton public parking garage, for an annual base rent of $1 plus surplus, with an initial term of 10 years with two five-year options. >> thank you very much. mriskin, thank you for being here. >> thank you, mr. chair. members. thank you for accommodating the agenda adjustment. so, before you are two proposed leases with two different nonprofit corporations for two different garages that the sfmta manages. so, a little context here. we manage about 20 parking garages across the city. a number of them had nonprofits established in the 1950s and 1960s to manage the garages on behalf of the city. the main purpose of these nonprofits when they were established were to issue debt in order to facilitate capital improvements and expansions in these garages. over the course of the intervening 50 or 60 years, some of these nonprofit entities that have been managing the garages during that time, the role has really expanded into providing neighborhood-specific expertise and perspective, what they bring to bear on the management of the garages on behalf of the city, now the mta. they're typically populating the boards of these corporations or typically p