there is a real dearth of open space within soma and western soma specifically. we already have the concept in use in south of market right now with some of the districts in terms of higher heights given further trade-offs. it is not completely new, but we're trying to take it may be to another level we talked about the red's, residential enclave districts. their typical residential and very small, narrow alleys. those will say -- stayed the same. but it will be extended. there'll be more alloys that become zoned red, but also red mixed. maybe the alleys are a little wider or they already have a little bit more of a commercial or mixed field. some might be appropriate on those alleys to have slightly more permissive code for commercial uses. so that will be an interesting new district. also, for these districts, we will continue to the concept of the first, and that will be for entertainment uses -- the concept of buffers, for entertainment uses end animal services. there could be potential issues with this, so we try to include adequate buffers to help resolve t

special code provisions that western soma wants to apply to all of the districts in western soma. i just want to take a moment to highlight a few of those code issues that will be part of the code update. first of all, there are several what we call large sites in western soma, half acre or larger. some are multiple acres. those are proposed to be split zoned in terms of height. you have your basic planning code requirements, but if you go above that height, you will trigger a conditional use, and there'll be other trade-offs. things that more affordability required, findings having to be made, it to mitigate or reduce land use and sex between different types of land uses within the proposed development and adjacent developments. and preferably a way to have more of the impact fees used on site through in-kind agreements, and especially for open space. there is a real dearth of open space within soma and western soma specifically. we already have the concept in use in south of market right now with some of the districts in terms of higher heights given further trade-offs. it is no

districts are soma mixed use districts.ost of this will become eastern neighbor had mixed use districts. it did not go to the same planning process, but it is part of the neighborhoods. the new districts are kind of blend of the old soma districts and the new eastern neighborhood districts. they do not fit well enough to go to the straight districts. there's already mixed use general right now. but there will also be a western soma mixed use general. it is not the same. we provided a comparison table, which i believe is comprehensive and readable, to show you of the new districts compared with the eastern neighborhood districts and how they lined up. most of the new districts are going to be eastern neighbor had mixed views districts. the western soma muo. there will be a big-time emphasis on cards. that is very much like a pdr district. a couple districts that will be a better neighborhood commercial districts. those would be the olson street ntc. folsom street is envisioned as the main street, so that will be an nct distr

nonetheless, it remains in the neighborhood, especially western soma.o the major annual street fairs maintain their gay and other profile of the neighborhood. a professor of architectural history observed, festivals than parades' helped to define cultural identity in special terms by staking out routes and the urban cultural landscape. their presence is temporary, but they're highly effective in claiming their symbolic importance of place. i can think of no better description of the central committee importance of the fair in july and september. the plan for an lgbtq social heritage district recognize the need -- recognizes the need of gay and other uses, to recognize the importance of the neighborhood to a population necker's people about it, and to memorialize the lgbtq past. much of the discussion is about how best to achieve these goals, which present unusual challenges. most historical preservation efforts have been about how to preserve architecturally significant buildings. however, poor and marginal populations tend to recycle buildings that hav

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in support of businesses in the soma area, spray paint booths are another story. thank you. >> i am a resident and owner of 23 rogers which is the same building. i share property line with the auto body shop and m.a. six-year resident of the area. i like to support local industry. i have noticed them walking by because it is one of the cool worse -- warehouse space is in our neighborhood and i noticed the band's went out -- while out in the backyard watering plants. i do like to support local industries, my mechanic is two blocks away on mission and my honda civic is a pretty good example of a car that does really well with the great mechanic and does not necessarily need of a body or paint. i do park on the street. i did chat a little bit with -- we get a lot of notices from the businesses in the area when permits are posted. i try to read them on the windows, even though i do not understand always what they're talking about. the one air quality thing i talk to a business owner, they posted when they started roasting coffee and i asked them what air quality thing

hard to figure out but there is a lot of what is built and considered to be western soma as a result of the settlement. president olague: commissioner miguel? commissioner miguel: just one additional comment for the heritage district, and the term, and i don't know if i have seen in it there, but preservation might give the wrong impression going along with what we talk about here and if it could be partnered with the term celebration of these histories, it might start to resonate better. >> thank you. and we will be taking a 15-minute recess at this time. secretary avery: okay. the planning commission is back in session. commissioners, we took item 8 out of order and we are going back to number seven, the public outreach and engagement improvement process. it is an informal presentation. force for >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm claudia flores of commission stuff and i am joined by a member of our summer internship program to work on this public outreach engagement improvement process and has an expertise in public engagement and we are excited to be working with her. so today

our department did not require noticing for this change of use in the western soma. commissioner sugaya: i do not know whom to direct this question to. maybe staff will know. currently, the spray booth vents where? >> through the roof. commissioner sugaya: one of the residential buildings is taller, is that correct? >> i have a photograph. i went on the roof and pictures. i can assure you, if that would help. >> dr requestor is are saying 20 feet. i understand is distance but i would like to know the relationship. >> this is from the roof of the subject property. i did measure the distance is to the dr requestor's home is here. these are intake valves in the exhaust system events here. so this is 30 feet. so this i am taking from -- that is west. from the east of the roof. this is taken from standing in front of the dr requestor's window. this is an average distance, 30 feet. and the front of the property at folsom looking back. this is from the back of the property at brush place looking for. commissioner sugaya: thank you. i am thinking that i am not enamored with

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the up withes mentioned are the soma mixed use and eastern neighborhood districts and not mentioned but always discussed by staff was the downtown residential and rincon district so if we could put that into the motion would be great. and on page eight allow more flexibility in how the funds are spent and provided that the expenditures are decided through the public process with the arts commission and 2a, instead of providing the option that prescribes the certain on site or the payment to the fund and the department and the commission suggest that the requirement for all residential uses be deivied up in either amount to put on the fund. and if the nonresidential requirement is in place, there is no need for fiscal limits. and the ordinance has a lot of detailses about how it is spent in certain ways and the commission recommendation would be as long as it goes through the public process, that is good enough for us. 2c, remove the proposed 5% discount with on site and pay into the fund. and to remove the art work requirement and four, consider adding alternative sources for public fun

much-needed areas within the city and of the groups working on the related proposals at the western soma task force and i hope to see both itch implemented. and residential larger than 50 units and office development of 50,000 square feet and pedestrian levels design and ability. and follows san francisco planning code and products be applied toward the inclusion of publicly displayed art work. and for new developments, 150 thousands square feet and should be set aside for dedicated arts uses as defined in the zoning code and 1% of total construction costs may be made to the neighborhood benefits project for arts-related spaces or public realm improvement. and just to show you there are other areas and groups considering expansion pangs of related ideas and to move forward on the citywide or eastern neighborhood basis. and i am concerned with the report that public art performance will be best enhanced by returning funding and the hotel fund redirected to the general fund and we have the funding there as the city would spend the money. so please do anything you can to encourage the fundi

we have had some interesting out -- results of the western soma neighborhood transportation plan. there are some comments and solutions beginning to emerge, like providing crosswalks for some of those ballets that are truly real streets with people living on them, but they are not very safe right now. particularly, mina and natoma. we will bring you a final report after the plans that step, which is to generate some refined designs. also, on the by county transportation study, the southeast quadrant of the city, a significant study. we presented a final list of projects and likely cost ranges, which are fairly significant to our counterparts, san the tail county, other parties, and a milestone agreement that these are the right cost of agreements. this is something that has been in the works for decades. as a given milestone. -- a significant milestone. we will be issuing debt in the fall. to conclude my report, i am pleased to let you know that we have filled two transportation planner positions and we have both of the planners are here. colin interned with us a year or so ago. h

we know people coming out of the jail system come back to the same communities like mission, soma, clicking will side, like a sunny day. -- like sunnydale. this is why this kind of meeting tonight is that much more important so that we are ready to see the challenges before us and the ones that are forthcoming. think you. [applause] -- thank you. >> item number one, reports to the commission. and1a 1a, the chief's report, review of recent activities. >> good evening, commissioners. mission community, members of the board, others gathered, we continue to enjoy a respite from city crime city-wide. i will defer my comments to capt. paralysis, because it is substantial, and he has been captain of the effort with his folks and those folks that i've been loaned to him from downtown that had a good effect. there are lots of people out as we were going in on the playground. this is a great night in one of the best weather districts in the city, so it needs to be a safe night. mention was made of community policing. tonight we are back in the mission where we started our community collaboration on t

it is only here in soma. we believe in the marketplace and the people. we believe that is why we're here. it is a great way marketplace. our portfolio expertise is throughout california. this is a place that we see the most amount of growth. when we have pivotal tenants like that that want to grow in our portfolio, and makes guys like us to have our day-to-day jobs pretty easy. the fact a san francisco today is seen the evolution of growth from social media, technology, media entertainment right here in our backyard is really a positive sign for the future growth of employment growth, development growth, and future successful companies coming here. hudson is that it is here for the long haul. we're proud to be the owner of this building and many others in the marketplace. we hope you continue longstanding relationships and bring your friends down here and these more space from us and our properties. the mayor and i would be happy to see that happen. thank you very much. it is a pleasure. welcome to our property. [applause] >> before i entered as the mayo

we will talk about the social heritage districts, which go beyond the borders of western soma. we are fortunate to have representatives from both of those social heritage groups, the first, hopefully we will be able to get the film figured out in terms of where this is that. we do not have any way to show a dvd, do we? thank you. we will try to get this figured out and if not we will do without this. the first speaker i would like to have at the podium today, this is what we thought the film was on, and we are trying to do this so we can take this down for now. we are trying to find the url. the first speaker who wanted to show this film, we may take her out of order if we get the media services appear, go ahead and try to type this in. this is ready to go? not yet. apparently not. the first speaker today will be bernadette, who is the executive director of the filipino american development foundation, working out of the community center at sixth and mission street and she has worked closely with us on the preparation of the background report for the filipino social heritage di

we have met with the soma leadership council. we met with cmac, we had ou treach meetings with the neighbors. radius put out a great spread and half the people signed on. some of the comments langdon residents put out, some of the older residents, the rawhide used to exit sometimes out of the back on langdon, which, as you can imagine, it is a narrow alley, a 24-foot alley. this has a capacity of 514. if you put them out into the alley, you have a problem. the reason they were happy is they are going to be in keeping, good-looking buildings. we have pictures -- this is what the residence will look like. it will be in keeping with the size of the adjoining buildings. it will be -- i think it says so in the invitations, it will be all green materials. this will have would on the front of the building. the neighborhood meetings, we have met and talked to urban solutions about this. on the sound attenuation, i mentioned to charles salter. he has been doing this for about 20 years. i know that dave was requesting a continuance. due to

two of the spots are in russian hill and the other in the soma, mission and pacific heights neighborhoods. more will be added in november to promote car sharing. that is our report for now. our coverage continues online at ktvu.com. and with tonight's 10:00 news on channel 2. tmz next. [ female announcer ] starbucks via® is planted the same... ♪ ...harvested the same... ♪ ...and roasted the same as our other premium coffees. ♪ it only makes sense it would taste the same. so, try it for yourself. buy a pack of 100% natural starbucks via® ready brew. we promise you'll love it or we'll send you a bag of starbucks coffee. it's the starbucks via® taste promise. look for it at starbucks stores and where you buy groceries. it's all about jobs. it's all about respect. security. the american dream. [ jamaul ] good jobs in tough times. a chance to move up and do better. [ delaunta ] excellent healthcare. [ caletha ] beautiful benefits. what they used to call the american way. it still works here. [ jennifer ] not a single layoff of a u.s. manufacturing worker. [ glen ] not one. not one. doing thing

but this is a different subject about infrastructure for soma. supervisor campos: thank you.t speaker. it there is any member of the public who has not spoken on this item would like to speak, please come forward. >> thank you. i rely solely on muni, and i am concern about the project's impact on service across the entire system. perhaps supervisor farrell has misplace the location of where mission bay is located. gao was required to hold the hearing today in response to the grand jury. they would be doing a great disservice if it does not audit and hold a separate hearing on the cost overruns for the central subway project. since the cost overruns will come from the general fund. gao should order an independent agency, not the controller cfa audit function. to audit this project focusing on change orders that have occurred today. as i narrow some design omissions on the rebuild, resulted -- design errors and some design omissions on the rebuild resulted in more money spent on the project. as mr. reiskin, then director of dpw must have known, since they track of change orders

have coordinated with land use, plant in coordination with the city plan, the downtown plan, the east soma area plan. there has been extended coordination with all of these plans. the project has been fiscally reviewed four years, as has been discussed under the new program. it has a fully committed plan. once opened, the line is projected to be the highest ridership line in the city. the first two construction projects -- excuse me, contracts, are nearly complete. we feel now is the time to support the city opposing goals of enhancing our transit infrastructure system, encouraging people to get out of their cars, and building the needed capacity for this in the future. the mta submitted its final full funding grant request to the government in september and will be working diligently to finalize the details throughout the last months of 2011. while we appreciate the civil grand jury [applause] interest in the project for the reasons that -- the civil grand jury's interest in the project for the reasons that were outlined, we did not believe it should alter or halt the construction of this

novelist albert huxley envisioned a future where everyone was kept happy and tranquil with a drug called soma. mr. huxley's brave new world is here, from ritalin to paxil to zoloft, people are taking mind-altering drugs in record volumes. not since the '60's have americans popped so many pills. have psycho pharmaceuticals turned us into a zombie nation? or should we just go with the flow and embrace the brave new world of mood control? we'll ask new york magazine journalist ariel levy and washington psychiatrist dr. brian doyle. >> >> ll if i live to a hundred. pac. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. a.d.m. the nature of what's to come. >> welcome. ariel levy, you authored a cover story for "new york magazine" which we see here "what are

soma is also home to the convention center, which is a centerpiece of our city's tourism. dream force -- as the beginning of the month, september 1, we held the ninth annual dream force in san francisco. it brought over 40,000 visitors to san francisco on just a four- day convention. $42.9 million of economic activity went on in our city as a result. it was such a large event that, yes, we gave them howard treat -- street. no problem with that. we will be doing the same thing with oracle as well. mosconi. for san francisco to keep posting conventions, it is critical that we expand the mosconi center's existing footprint. so through exceedingly careful planning, which includes the establishment of a tid, a revenue source for a planned expansion has been created. working with the city and private partners, sf travel is set to begin an ambitious expansion into mosconi east, which will insure vitality of our tourism and convention sector. the tourism industry supports 67,000 jobs and generates over $8 billion a year in our economic activity to the city on an annual basis. ok,