very much i personally am not going to second that on that particular exemption for projects on van ness sud it sounds like senator edwards office is going to take that under advertise minded and senator edwards office could a work on their language i'll make a motion if we need to look at the analysis to see if there's a good backing behind and conducting the ground floor parking for the impact fee services i want to have it explicit in our recommendation when you do that analyze whether it's part of the looking at the impact fees or other sorts of assessment that's a question for director ram and depending on the answer saw i know the answer we'll look at it in the context of the updates to the nexus analysis when i believe are done every 5 years in state law i think that is important to remind there's an explicit assumption the parking is servicing the use of impact so i think i will caution that suddenly we get a lot more impact fees because the impact fee on the square feet basis is less than 34u789d by a bigger number you know what i mean it is built into the assumptions when we lo

before because it means that in order to get to the parking you have to come in avenue off of van ness and in many cases alleviates the calibration impacts i want a discussion why that is not included as part of the interpretation assessment and great to see that updated in the final hearing. >> commissioner richards. >> one last question pawar laying on commissioner moore on the plan again, i don't have my material business owner but one of the things we worked on with the planning department comp to discourage the combination of lots we have 20 lots combined with more than 10 thousand square feet we didn't want to have in the market octavia plan so i'm trying to understand why in the spirit of everything we tried try to do in the plan. >> commissioners that concludes in item i believe you'll be taking a break. >> we'll take a lunch break thank you. >> good afternoon and week to the planning commission regular meeting for february 26, 2015 that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind please silence all electronic devices that may sound off commissioners we left off in

one of the worse places to get into the fire station when i come to the department i walk down van ness and each time i have to do it is horrible cumulative wind effects each project in the general area of the intersection of market and mission that already in its current state at wind have a lights are unsafe i don't see a discussion about that and that is, i think at this time those are my comments i'll support of the historic preservation and further alternatives that deal with the historic buildings one that which is read into the record it was interesting but i think there is more commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i would agree with much of what commissioner moore said it looks like alternative 4 would be close to the historic preservation commission was talking about pa partial preservation alternative it seems to reverse 55 okay. and separates the buildings to some degree but there might be further ramifications or alternatives that preservation alternative that might be worth discussing and responses to comments to see what we were actually interested this is an important building

enhance the overall project i think another one that came up was the 1 on pine street to the east of van ness he forgot the fabulous but on the south side of the street the auto repair and what's that. >> two projects one on. >> to the east where you have a modern building a that's 12 stories and we had that little facade and saving that facade seems odd relative to that building that seems odd but again bout is in the eye of the beholder it's a hard thing to quantify if i something that's non-quantifyable something that looks at good i'm not sure how to do this i don't know if it is something that's reviewed at the aa r.c. in that the process but, of course not happening at that time coming though the eir process not coming to us until after the act it's hard to understand how to quantify if any, that the notice of precipitation i'm wording in the process we can be notified there's a notice of precipitation on the project that provides the historic resource we can be involved in the early stage where we are reminded that's where the alternatives get developed i think in this case we might ha

the department of emergency management and the recorders office and the commission at 7th and van ness the original lease was approved in july 2012 a first amendment approved on extension in june 2013 extending the lease the second amendment provides a 3 year term commencing now until january 31st, 2018 landowner llc required a minimum 3 six months lease the bails rent increases one dollars 17 and the departments will be required to pay for actual utilities and services and share as the expensive of common space so for operating and expenses for 41 there's per square feet per year that includes $5 for utilities increasing the base rent to 3 hundred and 32 thousand 8 med a year a yearly increase of one dollar per square feet it is before fair market value for the rates that in the area range from the mid 40s to dollars per square feet this allows for the use of 5 parking stalls increasing the costs by $10 a stall for an increasing 2 to 3 one thousand $250 a month for the parking unless i very specific questions that concludes my presentation. >> i appreciate it and continues to be shock

. >> to consider the transfer of type 48 on sale license from 1000 van ness avenue to 3336-24th street. to caroline santiago brown for the third street bar. >> thank you. i appreciate. >> sorry. >> that's okay. good afternoon . what would be the 24th street bar and caroline brown on behalf has applied for a public premise license and the license is relocated from 1000 van ness avenue. . this premise was a bar previously. miss brown would like to reestablish the bar to provide a convenience for the area and a notification was sent out in september 2014 and police calls from december 2013 through through december 2014 we we had zero calls and zero reported issues at that specific premise however the premise is located on plot 454 which had 219 reported calls which puts it in a high crime area. it's located in tract 209.00 with a population of 4, 372. there was zero letters of protest filed with the abc and zero letters of support as well. recommend approval with the following conditions attached. . . >> graffiti shall be removed from the parking lot within 72 hours of the application. if

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; is that correct. >> two pending with the release of stay and a at one of the 950 van ness quite honorable our path to establish a new deadline we have the february 25th publication date and work with the staff to find the next goal post to reissue with that deadline so that will be the goal moving forward and had discussions their council and i think at that point those appeals will be withdrawn move forward with the com pell compliance through the penalties and . >> a lot of the other ones there in compliance with the parts of the program. >> all kind of their rolled into the same issue of a big batch of the notice of violations with the penalty of timeline spur. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> just briefly right to life only what commissioner johnson said what puzzle me it is difficult to do the entire dir with the absence of other institutions in the city has done and done well, that is submitting a institutional master plan, which sets forth the goals the institutional goals of the institution as well as its growth where and how including how they run their campus we've asked for

issue the building needs to respond to a positive use on the ground floor a cross section of the van ness corridor plan needs to provide light into the additionally this is the tree efforts and those are fully vested in the plans but looking at and preventing the worse i'll change the director about looking very closely they qualifications list and looking where new buildings have large garage entrances because garage entrances can are destroy alleys altogether in san francisco wroef not invented any local access only provisions for people going through the alleys like fulsome street it's a xanax context set of rules for transportation and as building related issues one i've mentioned i strongly urge to particularly look at east west alleys those are the ones that have the most access to light in order to use a alley the environment as the the benefit of light sunlight is extremely important. >> but otherwise it's a great piece i just beg you urge you to take this and very quickly start projecting it into the future. >> thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> question for mr. wynn's low d

that's it from here northwest washington, connecticut and van ness across from u.d.c. i'm sam ford, abc 7 news. >> covering metro now, congress is now looking into the safety of metro. two house oversight committees met this morning to talk about their concerns following the smoke incident at l'enfant plaza that killed one passenger. john gonzalez tells us what lawmakers said about these security gaps. >> the train was dark and filling with thick smoke. >> that is testimony from an emotional jonathan rogers who was a passenger on that fateful day last month and tried to save the woman who ultimately died. >> before giving c.p.r. to miss glover sorry, other passengers laying on the ground at 3:39 p.m. >> he's part of a congressional hearing today as metro comes under more scrutiny for how it handled the deadly electrical arcing incident. >> there is a troubling pattern where d.c. fire and rescue appear to be repeating past mistakes. >> some members of congress on capitol hill have been very critical over the last several weeks. today, they aren't holding back. >> you're

commission we had one item the interim controls for the building permits adopt by market and south van ness supported by supervisor kim will require a posted notice for commercial buildings the interim controls extended previous expired on december of last year the item was amended and continued until next week at the full board two items the office conversion and landmark building passed its second reading and the appeal hearing for 2655 broadway was drawn u withdrawn so that's good two introductions the first one was a hearings request by supervisor farrell and supervisor christensen from the planning department to enforce of short-term rental owners and for effective enforcement this is a quick hearing next week i believe we'll be attending that so law enforcement staff and the interim controls that commissioner richards mentioned richardson sorry is intended to address the issues for the monster homes in the crescent height and will result in permanent controls that concludes my presentation. >> and the board of appeals met briefly 3828 caesar chavez some of the be complicated history t

those students will be moved to the main campus in van ness. udc officials say that decision was made because of rising rent at the north capitol street location. today's hearing is at 3:00 p.m. he at the downtown campus on north capitol street. >>> breaking news that could impact your commute. >> getting a lot of information from metro right now. just hearing in my ear here that orange line no service between west falls church and ballston. orange and silver single tracking through east falls church. major delays here this morning because of a cracked rail. this cold weather making a mess for metro. going to have more information in a couple of minutes. >>> outside is not the place you want to be this morning. as we deal with the coldest temperatures of the season. these are record breaking lows. here is a live look at some school buses trying to get ready for the day ahead. tom is tracking when the bitterly cold winds will fin. >>> also ahead check your spices. the item being pulled from store shelves baud it could trigger a dangerous allergi

real property lease amendment sf foc van ness avenue. >>supervisor london breed: same house same call. this item passes unanimously. next item. city clerk: item 126789 accept and expend grant san francisco city hall preservation fund. >>supervisor london breed: same house same call. this item is adopted unanimously. next item. city clerk: item 136789 accept and expend grant hiv transmission cluster analysis to inform prevention for the period of july 2014 through june 2015. >>supervisor london breed: same house same call. this resolution is adopted unanimously. next item. city clerk: item 14. planning code office conversion controls in landmark buildings. to require the project seeking office space in landmark buildings within this district to obtain other conditional use authorization. >>supervisor london breed: supervisor cohen? >> >>supervisor malia cohen: this is unanimously passed by the board of supervisors last year around a proposal designated around to henry adams, an historic building. in that particular case the project sponso

i have a house on the boulevard i'm a lawyer i've been practicing the last couple of years in van ness in san francisco i will will strongly the richmond needs better transit options particularly to get downtown i've been run to work it's not that much slower i'm not that fast a runner i take the bus particularly in the evening you can't get an express back to the richmond it's not a fast opposite we're the only people that don't have a good underground connection in our neighborhood i think i can help. >> at this time any questions or comments seeing none, any other applicants for the geary brt cac seeing none all right. let's open this up to public comment any members of the public wish to comment okay seeing none, public comment is closed all right. colleagues do we have any recommendations i mean supervisor yee >> thank you chair katie tang it seems like i'm other than the rules committee you have again multiple candidates that are very qualified to be part of this cac by the way a katie used to run from chinatown to the castro area where in the morning on the we understand when i

the store off connecticut 1/2 the van ness center in northwest d.c. was shut down as d.c. inspectors made sure the building did not sustain structural damage. shoppers greeted by a closed sign as they tried to enter the store. what do you think about something like this happening? was that afterthought or concern that something like this could happen? >> never. i can't imagine. >> reporter: the parking garage was also shut down during the inspections. some drivers whose cars were parked there could not get them out. >> i'm not very happy because i don't think we were treated very well. >> reporter: this woman says she had to get to a meeting out of town. >> police officer told me to go get a taxi wherever i need to go which is i've got a meeting in rehoboth beach. he says you can't go to the beach. this is not a beach. this is a job. >> reporter: this man was trying to get something out of his car. no luck. >> i'm across the street and just need to grab something from my car in between. and can't get into my car, so guess we have to just wait it out. >> reporter: police te

said she'd wait for 45 minutes at chevrolet and mission street and take another bus and wait on van ness and market street to catch the bus as a woman kaiser cash at three and four hours in the more than shes she laughed many of the bar owners in the room this is an issue of safety for our employees and workers we have a responsibility to make sure that the works from 9 to 5 are able to get home safely and a as others who work at different hours also from the prospective of our bottom line and this industry and it's growth if you look at the survey the majority of responsibility said on a nuke of occasions choose to stay home and not patron news our busy and support our night life because no safe reliable way to get home as a matter for small business owners we need that thank you very much. >> good afternoon charles rath born on behalf of luxury our cabs thank you to the folks that g did a great job of research research the working groups final recommendations excludes 3 taxi related proposals for shared rides and pop up cabstand and ride subsidies the most important the shared ride pro

. >> it is east of van ness. >> yeah. >> south side of - >> they were not planning on retaining. >> they have a massing that's a similar scale of the historic - >> the point is that conversation that process provided a design that was more in keeping with the neighborhood ; right? so i don't know if that i guess i'm mixed up at this point. >> without it that exploration doesn't happen. >> no, it doesn't happen and to commissioner johnss point why i lean towards saving something like on one of the m 5 project what is the character of that block if you go pine street the one on the west side one or two are saved and go across the street to it tower it overwhelms you and have anything saved hey those are only one stories that's why yeah. something that better than nothing. >> yeah. i want to raise an order about this discussion i think we should continue the discussion and hold even though hearing on the certificate the applicant is waiting to hear and or but i think or continue after that but my overall sense is maybe this policy that is an important discussion we need to definitely contin

the first interim zoning for permits for commercial uses and second brandon division and south van ness was supported by supervisor kim the ordinance requires are certainty building permit for some commercial use and 15 day delay and conditional use approval to when it is converted this is an interim ordinance will not come to you and also two ordinances introduced by supervisor breed one o to the embarcadero street and other transit currently their neighborhood districts those are items will come to you for review i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> commissioner antonini in addition for your report on the embarcadero i understand the commonwealth is moving to the press club it has to do with them losing their lease and the amount of time to construct it other than i would assume most of the actions are complete as far as you're concerned. >> i'll refer to john. >> commissioner as far as i know the permits - because of the ceqa appeals we're not able to issue permits so it's possible that the permits could be i suppose. >> okay. thank you. >> and the board of appeals didn

street and third street southern border of market street will be towards mission street to south van ness and also new the western border borroweder will take the tenderloin for larking street the first boundary have landmarked the first block is the plaza and westerfield mall the flood building and twitter and several pled not started building projects along mid market and muni and bart station along market street and the republican war hotel i'd like to mention this proposal at the the at least will bring the mid-market platoon under my command i'd like to thank everyone to coming to this important meeting for this turnout and pass this on to our next speaker members n of the controller's office (clapping). >> gag members to the public and commission chief suhr and supervisor kim and everything else in attendance i'm randy ma closure a project manager with the controller's office we've spent the better part of the last year working with the sfpd on this boundary analysis and are here today to talk through the methodology and some of the key drivers and objectives of this analysis so you

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. >> ness reen joins us from amman. tell us about the execution of the prisoners in jordan. yes, the jordanian government confirmed and announced it executed sajida al-rishawi and another. both prisoners and it happened at 5:00a.m. it happened at a prison where there's a facility to carry out executions. the two prisoners were not serving time in this prison. they were transferred in the last few hours where the executions were carried out. it's a long and bureaucratic process to carry out the executions executions. it required signatures approvals from the cabinet, ministries. the justice ministry. it's a bureaucratic process. last week we heard an unnamed security source threatening to carry out the executions against them and others related to i.s.i.l. and al qaeda, if moaz al-kasasbeh was harmed or killed and it would speed up the executions process. we know that king abdullah may have signed off on the order to execute before he went to washington d.c. because he has not arrived back in amman just yet. >> know that sajida al-rishawi's freedom was demanded. why was it im