the unit space at potrero and mariposa street. if

>> and i think that the size is completely out of line with anything on the entire street of potrero except for general hospital which is the only other building that size on the street and the other thing is that the construction project of this size and type, could be at least a year. and, ambulances use the street every day, all day long for emergency routes, and a construction site can only load in on the potrero side of the street and that means that they will be blocking an entire lane for major parts of the day at all times of the day and there is no other way that you can load in because of the grade. and so i think that it is, and without, in the afternoons it is a parking lot and the ambulances have a lot of trouble getting through that thing all day long as it is. and so having a year project on a building like that could cause problems for the emergency vehicles. thank you. >> thank you >> is there any other public comment? >> okay, seeing none, then we will start our rebuttal. three minutes. >> forgive me if i speak a little fast because the points that i would like to r

and it includes, the side cut, you, looking on potrero avenue and these are the buildings on potrero and you can see that the building goes down, and the city guidelines say that the project should slope according to the hill, and doing the oragami i took this picture and folded it at the top of the elevator penthouse and in fact, the building is the height of utah street which is a 20 percent slope from potrero avenue and so this is literally going to be a huge structure taller and the fan shows that it does not just effect our front yards, it effect our back yards. and on the back yards on utah and then into the homes on utah for the people who have the top decks or half of the skylights and so this is significant, and the fact that we don't actually know how tall this building is going to be is trouble some. >> i have, if i could pass out, and the alleged project application, i believe that there is a discrepancy in the code and this is from the large project application submitted and it is just one page if i could, but it shows that, the building for the large project exceptions

the 58 feet, for the code is measured from the mid point of the project site along potrero avenue and as it was mentioned the fifth and sixth floors have been set back 5 to 7 feet so it does create a wall along potrero and mariposa and they were moved at some point to help to minimize the impact on the streets as well >> regarding parking, they are providing 47 off street parking space and a basement level garage for the dwelling units that is a ratio of 0.63 per unit, under the code requirements. maximum that they could have approved was 57 and so ten additional parking spaces and the garage will also include one car share space which is required by the planning code for this project. >> addressing the exceptions, again, the idea here is that these exceptions are granted with the understanding that the project is still meeting the intent of those code section and so i will address each one that was issue specifically. regarding the rear yard, in this district, it is required to be 25 percent of the lot depth and it is required to be at the lowest story containing a dwelling unit. and

the unit space at potrero and mariposa street. if you face a street or alley wide enough you can comply with it. you can also comply with it if it faces a code compliance rear yard. we don't have a code compliant rear yard because we have this modified one. so due to the technical requirement of the code, you need to get an exception. but again this building is facing the rear yard that has more depth to it and more separation than a code compliant rear yard would. >> actually, let me illustrate it for you if you are interested in seeing that. >> sure. >> here is mariposa and portrero. a traditional rear yard would be 25 feet from here all the way across all the way to mariposa street. the modification is that the building wraps all the way around to meet the next building over. so because this is technically not the 25 percent depth for the entire width of the lot rear yard, we needed an exception for the rear yard and also for the dwelling unit exposure because this faces technically not a rear yard. it's through the eastern nei

this is still an industrial area, and any fear that potrero will change in the future are unfounded if you take's look at the zoning map from the area, here is the project site and the blue areas are pr and don't allow for the new development as well as these yellow areas which are low density development and so basically you have the pink areas umu and here is the project site and these two are already residential and not expected to be redeveloped due to the planning codes and restrictions on the dwelling unit and demolitions this is the center and so basically you are just looking at this sight right here as a new development in the future, still the project does provide a smaller retail space suited for a small local business and as we stated in the brief, 24 nearby residents signed it in petition of the project. there are limited codes, and they are appropriate and this is exactly the purpose of the eastern neighborhoods there is a new section, 329 approval that was granted to this project that allows for a number of exceptions and the reason why they have the exceptions rather th

>> this is the illustration of the tree right here, on potrero avenue. >> okay. >> and then another tree right here and then this tree in particular has i would have to look at the application but it has a... these trees should have been acknowledged on the tree, application submitted to the department. and they are not. and the new, landscaping, proposed for the building, does not include these trees, this one needs to be protected because of its height. >> okay. >> sxh this one needs to be retained because of its height. and so there is no indication that they are planning on doing that. >> understood, thanks. >> we can hear from the appellant, for the other appeal now. >> or whoever is going to represent them. >> my name is juan, and geonberg is the other presenter and we are going to split the time. three and a half minutes. >> this is something that we just wanted to show. >> and you can put it up there. >> you can put it sideways, otherwise we can't see it. >> that way. >> and it depends on what you are going to do with it, i would not mind having it closer. and are you going to re

some of those parks include jackson playground, mission rec's, franklin square, and potrero hill, which is the name of the property but it's the rec's center that seems to be an outstanding place, the cal trans property maintains and the city wants us to integrate that sight further and make potential improvements. here is a map of the eastern neighborhoods and where these sites are located. i think our main goal is to try to develop a policy framework for how we want to identify the sites that we are vetting. our main goal is to develop a focus list of projects that we would require the impact fees to again the design of those projects and develop really a mini capital plan around the use of eastern neighborhoods for impact fees for open space. we met with the neighborhood cic in spep -- september where they reviewed the funds for the project and the bonds and the cac enthusiastically agreed to allocate additional funds on that project. we'll be able to start construction on that project in fall of next year. besides 17th and folsom, that feels like a great promise we are focusing on.

those projects include potrero avenue streetscape which is worked being done in cord nation with the mta to assist in the implementation of the dwp recommendation and potrero project for streetscape is about $2 million in investment and we are repairing all of portrero division to 25th for approximately $3 million and infrastructure improvement from puc. the second project is approximately $14 million in the environmental stage at this point. caesar chavez is about a $10 million project and in the final stages of construction. we have a couple hours in the eastern neighborhoods streetscape. bart is in the design phase at this point. and 24th street had some minor streetscape improvement for pedestrian lighting and sidewalk replacement which was completed this past fall. that concludes my overview of the projects that we have in the eastern neighborhoods. i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. >> i have a question. are these maps different? >> it's the same map but i cut it to make it larger on the powerpoint. >> that's perfect, thank you. supervisor campos, did you

potrero hill. the city has soil which holds itself up pretty well. [laughter] >> and in many cases (speaker not understood). here is a case where this rock is not going to move most likely. it may spill a little bit over the years. as you can see at the top of the slide, people have prevented from blocking off the edge, it's a large fence properly embedded and it has a van here and it says happy 2000 anniversary year, 7bc to 1994. here is another building built up on top. no retaining rail necessary. as i walked along the wall. i kicked it away, nothing is forever. it's gradually degrading, everything is gradually settingdown and flattening out. how quickly does that happen. as we look at retaining walls you see things a short term solution, how long are you trying to preserve this? how long would it last? >> probably 30, 40 years. one thing to be careful about, wood retaining walls after being made out of pressure treated wood or dry rot resistant wood which is generally clear hard and redwood. all pressure treated wood were copper arsenic suetion s

this is up in potrero hill somewhere. do you have anything to say about this? >> one thing people should be aware of, san francisco, the streets used to be sloped. and around the turn of the century they leveled out all the streets. so from one side to the other, the curbs should be at the same height. you can be going up, you can be going down. at one time in san francisco, you could be driving down the street at a slope. so a lot of san francisco, when you go why is that house settled into the hill? it's because they changed the street elevations and built retaining walls in front of the property so they could level out the street. so i would be -- wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened here. >> we're going to see a few of those in a moment. but yeah, that's what likely happened here. my neighborhood, i live in the inner sunset. if you drive up fifth avenue, everyone drives down on my side of the street, drives down into their garage. that's because they came along, leveled the street so they would meet the city standards and they would be acceptable,

potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver the

that's bayview, that's potrero hill, visitacion valley, it's a little hollywood, it's dogpatch. it used to be the portola, half of it. my heart is still with you, but i'm glad like the speaker said, it is whole. and that is what's important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. you agree? [cheering and applauding] cheers >> so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. and it actually started, ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. and it's the thought child and the physical manifestation of hard work, of a few community leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. and tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the co-founders, his name is jeffery betcher. where are you? get up here. and jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. annette young smith to the stage. this lady, ladies and gentlemen, is a lifetime achievement awar

supervisor campos, on potrero avenue. it's a little wags -- ways from this project and nonetheless we deal with challenges that we are waiting for mta to help us to address. a no parking solution, i don't know, it just seems too finite and should be a little bit more flexibility. thank you. >> colleagues any further discussion? let's take a roll call vote. >> supervisor yee, aye, supervisor avalos, no, supervisor breed, aye, campos, no, supervisor chiu, aye, supervisor cohen, no. supervisor ferrel, aye, supervisor kim, no, supervisor mar, no, supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye. there are 6 ayes and 5 was nos. >> the mitigation is affirmed. we have a lot of items in front of us. i suggest we go briefly to columns. there are a lot of people waiting to hear our discussion. please call item 14. >> 130799. >> [roll call vote taken] supervisor breed, aye, campos, aye, supervisor chiu, aye, supervisor cohen, aye, ferrel aye, kim aye, supervisor mar, aye, tang aye, supervisor wiener. ordinance is passed. item 15: 130937

potrero responsible advocate to bring appropriate scale, balance and community benefits to new developments emerging on portrero hill. we are concerned about the impact of thousands of new residents already in our crowded parks and infrastructure. the open space well below the average for san francisco. we are acutely aware of the deficiencies in the area around jackson parks and north of mariposa. this will put a substantial strain on the park which is already heavily used and suffering from maintenance issues and suffering a net loss in the neighborhood of recreational facilities. jackson parks consist of softball parks and places for families and picnics. the clubhouse is in poor repair, often closed and inadequate as a community center. but yet with thousands of units targeted inform their area, there is only one area as yet undeveloped. this is entirely contrary to the portrero hill plan and one neighborhood that several needs assessment. many residents have complained about poor and in frequent munis service and i have gop -- gone to the website and planning department to ensure the d

example the $14 million for the escalator, the 2 bay area grant and the potrero avenue, no, that's federal money. a lot of good work leveraging money and making major improvements in many nabz. -- neighborhoods. thank you for bringing this forward. >> thank you, i just want to know who the contract was awarded to? >> i would let sf mta cover that. >> does that include funds or does that come from another source. >> that's in a request for prop k funds. barbary was awarded the contract. >> shawn kennedy with the mta. >> thank you. >> i also see a note that, mr. k, it looks like a request from colleague commissioners that the mta think about a maintenance plan for the escalators as was brought up by commissioner kim. i'm just wondering if you are comment on that? miss lombardyo is here as well. >> thank you for your very good comments and commissioner king as well. we can incorporate that into board's packet. my understanding is that the new federal guidelines when you put in a new escalator you have to build a new canopy for the very reasons you cited and the rules for replacing a rehabilit