-1-b or in pdr generally. so, as your case report describes, the pdr-1-b district is unlike any other zoning district in the city and in fact, it only exists in bayview. it was created because the department specifically recognized that in this unique area of the bayview, you have heavy industrial uses immediately adjacent to single-family residential uses. many cases right across the street, as we have on oakdale. and it provided for a variety of restrictions for potential uses. and, so, when we took at look at what would have been whether or not the 311, 312 notice would have been required for types of demolition or large scale alterations on this type of use in the district, we discovered that there really was a notice requirement that was missing. and when we worked with planning staff, mostly scott sanchez, you know, 311 and 312 didn't really make a ton of sense for pdr. 311, 312 is very strict residential guidelines and i think doesn't necessary fit what we're trying to accomplish here. so, we sort of in

thank you gwen. >> so you heard from us in the retail corridor; you heard from the business in the pdr district; there's also the whole financial district and downtown district. we are all affected by that. i just walked here from my home to get here. i walked down market street. if you go on market, starting at octavia and market and go to the embarcadero, there are no parking spaces for a normal commercial vehicle. the only kind of vehicle did you can park there is a heavy-duty commercial vehicle defined as six wheels. anybody like a florist, the pizza company, a messenger service with the vehicle, water delivery, anything with 4 wheels, cannot park on that street and serve any businesses from octavia to embarcadero. there is something wrong with that picture. italy leaves a large companies able to do it. what if you have a repair truck? i passed one doing that on market and octavia. they parked on the sidewalk, their only alternative. if you go downtown, down in the financial district you will see very few parking spaces for regular delivery vehicles. they are all heavy truck delive

we're not proposing to change the boundary of the pdr-1-b district. we're just proposing to change the -- to require a pre-app meeting within the existing boundary. >> i realized what the motion is for, but i just was looking at the map and saying, well, if you're trying to provide the buffer, maybe you should relook at the map and see if it should be rezoned in some other parts of that area. >> commissioner sugaya. >> i'll make a motion to recommend approval. >> second. >> would the suggestion that planning staff look at an admin bulletin or some mechanism addressing more details about the pre-app meeting. >> is that acceptable to the seconder? >> yes. that's a good idea. >> commissioners, nothing else, then we'll call the question. on the motion to adopt the recommendation for approval directing staff to consider administrative bulletin, commaedthctionv? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioner

pdr are production distribution repair. you may recall that the eastern neighborhoods plan relies heavily on port property to meet the city's needs. so, an example of that we have aggregate plants on port property. the aggregate is shipped in from canada primarily, turned into concrete and used throughout san francisco. if our plants were to go away, they'd either have to find another home within the eastern neighborhoods or we'd be trucking in concrete from across the bay or down the peninsula. so, we find that some of those uses are critically important and we're highly populated by nonprofits who find the warehouse space to be important to them. the thing that most people know well about is our attempt to rehabilitate [speaker not understood] our infrastructure. there are 39 piers, we've been able to reha bill tate 11 of them in the last two decades. that is an ongoing process that will take us much more decades no doubt. more and more we're starting to focus on our seawall. we participated in a lot of studies regarding

none of them were ever able to find pdrs to add to the far on the site. when the zoning in the eastern neighborhoods changed this block, the block we're talking about is the one here across from the ballpark, from m2 to muo, that solved the far problem because the far and the muo district is 7.5 to 1. we can live with the 7.1 to 1 far. but all of a sudden there was a 75-room limit under the muo zoning. but no one quite knows where it came from and what the impetus from it was, that it just sort of happened in the eastern neighborhoods rezoning to muo. so, what we're seeking is simply some way to get this hotel that everyone thinks is a good idea. it's in the right location. the union -- the hotel workers union is in support of this project to get it built. actually we're trying to fix this problem on this one block. you know, i can't speak to the concerns that toby and jim raised. if there's a desire for this to be narrower, we can certainly perhaps restrict this to this one block, which is the block between townsend, king, second, third and fourth -- sec

working with the office and economic and workforce development that they are conducting a survey of pdr businesses production distribution repair businesses and a few others that have some needs that are different than typical or residential business needs that many of our parking tools were designed to manage we're also gathering feedback from that process and hopefully what we'll be able to arrive at a resolution sometime this summer that we will be bringing for your consideration. the draft plan that we put forward proposes a significant amount of residential permit parking largely addresses the resident concerns but the proposal as of now doesn't address a large portion of the commercial concerns. there's a number of non retail businesses that believe that our proposed plan as it stands now doesn't meet their needs so hopefully we can get back to you as i said this summer and we would resume the other neighborhoods of potrero hills. we won't do them all at once so that's kind of a little bit of an update on the north east mission parking plan a few other items of note the -- machine

associations how they can voice the concerns , of this constituency small business owners, retailers, pdr businesses in whatever district they are in .keep up the good work and soldier on. i think it is a very good suggestion that there be some representation on the mta board for small business, whether it takes the form of a formal board seat or whether there is just a formal notification process but i think it is very clear that there is a communication challenge which is at the root of most disagreements it turns out in life and in business. if we can resolve some of that and clear up the communication channels we can avoid a lot of this in the future. i think that, i got a sense of the meeting that mr. resking (sounds like) took to heart the obvious disapproval of the merchants and agreed to go back and reconsider. since that time there's been an increase in dialogue. i am adjusted to note that is effective so far and whether you feel, i don't think that another proposal has come to the table yet but if you feel the progress is being made towards a more moderate proposal which takes i

you have light pdr, a bar across the street, a residential. it's a unique place and some of these concerns are just not based on the reality of this neighborhood. so we supposed the project and we hope it goes through, thank you. >> good afternoon. any other name is john. barbie. being a resident of this neighborhood for over 30 years. first at saint carlos for 20 years and then at liberty street near 20th and valencia. i wanted to support this applicant. this has been a bright spot in the mission district. in spite of it's much impacted location. i'm an attendant at the police meetings. this person has been improving things. this restaurant is self explanatory. it's a beautifully, it would be a great loss. the salvadorian community is a very important segment of the mission district, a very large segment too. usually large. this is a superb restaurant. i think this project falls within the guidelines, very attractive, bright and clean and really desirable and express my support. >> thank you. >> i'm going to call a few more names. ray sloan,

you have light pdr, a bar across the street, a residential. it's a unique place and some of these concerns are just not based on the reality of this neighborhood. so we supposed the project and we hope it goes through, thank you. >> good afternoon. any other name is john. barbie. being a resident of this neighborhood for over 30 years. first at saint carlos for 20 years and then at liberty street near 20th and valencia. i wanted to

which had been vacant for a long time something like 22,000 square feet in the center of the mission pdr area, and a renovated it, and it is an absolutely beautiful space they have the kilns, demonstration kitchen, beautiful retail shop should be a great party. if you go you will get a special edition tote bag. >> chair adams: heat ceramics, under the directors report, under the previous item we mentioned. >> that's it. >> chair adams: commissioner ortiz. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: currently i am working with the local small business land bridle that is being for lack of better words bled out of their lease by the developer. normally we see lack of renewal leases for established businesses, hard to take in. what these developers are doing they are putting up lawyers, fighting frivolous cases because they know small businesses don't have the tools, meaning the money, to compete. i want to highlight that because leonard bridle have been there for 25 years, and the developers bought the building and they have a nine year lease. we want to highlight this because in the mission district

build upon the notion that high-tech offices, hand commercial uses, and tourist hotels and housing and pdr and entertainment venues can all get along just fine and none will displace any of the others. i promised i'd be back here after your down zoning of residential uses on the 11th street corridor to remind you of the naivity of the planning staff recommendations when they come before you with these polley annish predictions that everybody is going to get along just fine. that didn't work on 11th street and it won't work here either. there are broader implications to this text amendment that have been presented to you to date. and i would hope you would give it a little bit more thought. thank you.

the manufacturing businesses and it's not possible to put facilities in businesses that are zoned for pdr so perhaps this is one thing that we can take a look at work at the zoning level and they noted that this is an issue for both women owners and employees so when we maybe took a look at working to save our manufacturing environment and which is very important and a sector of the city to be able to grow and create we may have forgot what are some of the support needs that businesses have, so that was a recommendation that they had for the two commissions as a matter to possibly take into consideration, so again i think we have heard numerous times tonight the issue around child care is a important issue in all business sectors. >> thank you regina. do we have any comments from our commissioners? do you have anything to add? >> ms. president soo if you could call for public comment on section c, growing your business. >> do we have any public comment on section c? seeing none we will move on. >> thank you president. commissioners this puts us on part five of your meeting public comment.

and so, the other thing that i want to say is that we are a pdr zone. and if we can't load and unload during business hours, from 7 in the morning, we have people mainly working at 5:00 in the morning. then we have a tremendous problem and we need no tow away zones in the afternoon. >> the other thing that i want to agree with is commissioner dooley and so we find out that big business all over the town has a representative with the sfmta. but there are no small business representatives. there is not a small business representative on the board, and we don't have any representation inside of the organization so no wonder we are having so much trouble so commissioner i want to completely agree with you that everyone else has inside representation, except for us. so i thank you for having this hearing, i am very grateful. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> and following the speaker, i have pat klit ensen, and carter, and carol spencer, and erica wila. >> good evening, (inaudible) is located at 16th and harrison. without either a business

i think they should be central in shaping elements in this pdr that is about to kickoff off. the second set is a little fuzzier. i am worried about bio. the chances of those are going to increase as i'll take revolution accelerates, and proliferates centers of excellence around the world. the chances of a nonstate using these two greatly damage u.s. interests is unfortunately rising very dramatically. we can still talk about some of those things in the q&a. i don't av department is prepared for such contingencies. there was a panel on the future of war. this was the one question i asked. you content of a video this panel on our website. i said, how prepared is the department? she said nowhere near prepared. it was very concerning to me. part three, these are interests number five on nate's list of u.s. interests. theink -- i look at guidance from last january of 2012. it listed the bmd as one of the missions bring it is an a priori t. -- a priority. there is an over a dozen organizations that have a piece of this mission. there is little synergy from what i can tell. there is