commissioner sugaya: i have a side question. could you explain -- 3d owns the buildings further to the east, across the bridge? >> yes -- commissioner sugaya: are you involved in management- ownership? >> just 1881, which consists of sundance and on the spot -- and the spa. it affects both of them, especially the spa. commissioner sugaya: the lessee of the restaurant leases the property from the other owners. >> yes. >> what percentage of the spa has shared walls with the proposed subject? >> i do not know the exact -- they are the ones who have been getting several complaints. people asking for their money back, saying that it is not relaxing. it is not relaxing whatsoever with the noise. >> thank you. commissioner antonini: thank you, i can appreciate the fact that the activation of live entertainment is important. i would be inclined to support a continuance. i do not know whether a month is adequate or how much time it would take to get some sort of a sound steady. if that was found that if we are unable to attenuate the new

commissioner sugaya: thank you. commissioner moore: with reading every day that dispensaries have been approved have been closed, i think is extremely important for this commission to consider of holding what california and the city supports with a large population that depends on this -- the services. this project is well located. 1 mile radius is quite far for others and what i like about this project is that we're talking about a group of institutions partnering for the case management system by which there interlink and depend on each other. indeed having the proper way and interactions that increase community. i am in strong support of this and would move to vote. there are other commissioners. >> second. commissioner antonini: i have a question for the project sponsor. i am impressed as commissioner moore was. the fact that this will go to charitable organizations. will they have oversight over the management of the operation? will they have a resident manager who is responsive to them as far as complaints or

commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> the motion passed unanimously. president fong: we will take a 5 >> item 14, amending the san francisco planning code by repealing existing bicycle parking requirements, adding new sections. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the item before you today is initiation of the bike parking legislation. for the public benefit, the hearing does not include substantive discussions, but seeks approval for an adoption at a later date. we request to consider this item for adoption on september 28. this legislation is coming after the adoption of the bike plan in 2009. it is an implementation arm of our general plan. the major components of this legislation are increasing and expanding bike parking requirements for multiple use categories, requiring class one and class to parking. class 1 is secure and whether -- secure and weatherproof. class two is highly visible. there are other requirements for placement and design of bike racks. lastly, it will organize existing bike pa

commissioner sugaya: i would like to welcome mr. hillis. we have had some previous encounters and i have always found him to be bright and generous and will serve the community very well. so welcome. welcome to the other two commissioners to have been reappointed. >> commissioner hillis was sworn in this morning and is legally able to sit and take action today. commissioner wu: i believe for the record i will not be at the swearing in ceremony. i also want to congratulate commissioner antonini and commissioner hillis. i got to have lunch with him and it was very nice. this friday is the 35th anniversary of the i hotel. 35 years ago, that was the night of the eviction and there will be a program starting at 6:00 tomorrow and it will go until 2:00 mimicking what happened that night when activists and tenants' rights, folks are from the city and region. that will go until 2:00 when there will be a march and a ceremony. commissioner sugaya: there is an excellent novel by a japanese professor which -- it is a novel, not a historical account, but

commissioner sugaya: didn't we restrict the assignment in some way? -- the signage is some way. the issue is signage, only part that is not discretionary and no pcontrol over this. if they meet the numerical measurements of the code, we have to approve it. that is the reason that particular item was not able to be a condition of your approval, because signs are one part of the code better not discretionary. commissioner sugaya: i understand that, but did they agree to limit the upper part to some size? we had a discussion about it. i do not know if the signs shown meets the requirements are goes beyond what we were talking about, but in the upper transit.

commissioner sugaya: we have talked about this about this before. the majority of stuff that goes on in the stores is the selling a product. increasingly now food and drinks and that sort of thing. walgreen's in my neighborhood has bananas and apples. you might as well not go to the supermarket any more. i am fine with it because -- i may not be fine with it, even though there was a walgreen's there before. if we could concentrate the use or limit the use to pharmaceuticals and drugs and that kind of thing, then maybe i would be more sympathetic to it, but the fact that we have discussed this before -- especially commissioner miguel was interested in seeing if the department could come up with a way to control this type of use. commissioner antonini: on the other side of the colon, pharmacies like this to provide a lot of services in many neighborhoods that are lacking. there may be a situation where you do need and apple later at night and you could go into the walgreen's where they're either is no grocery store or the grocery store that is their i

commissioner sugaya: move to continue items 1, 3 and 11. >> second. >> thank you. commissioners, the motion on the floor is for continuance of items one and three as their proposed, and item 11 until september 6, 2012. on the motion -- [calling roll] thank you, commissioners. those items are continued as we have discussed. for item number two. commissioner sugaya: i will have to ask for recusal because we have done work on a certain part of this project. >> i would also like to ask for recusal as my employer has a sub-contract on this project. >> a motion for refusal of commissioner -- >> i have a question. only three of us can pass a continuance. i do not think we have enough people to do so. you need four. >> we cannot continue the item? >> commissioners, if you do not mind, the city attorney and i are looking at making sure we can take us to reject action for continuance. commissioners, the city attorney and i have discussed, and we would like more time, so we will ask that we just did this item for right now and move on and give us time to research. commissione

commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> the motion passed unanimously. president fong: we will take a 5

commissioner sugaya: direct this to stuff. -- staff. over the last couple of years, we have seen quite a number of applications for cell phone antennas, particularly from at&t. we have seen less from horizon. almost none from sprint or metro pcs. is that because of differences in technology different companies are using for that cell phone -- for their cell phone towers? >> to the best of my knowledge, there are two factors. they come into play for the at&t expansion. the radio frequency, the band with the use, requires additional sites. verizon operates on a different band with that requires less sites. it also has to do with existing infrastructure. it was previously primarily based on microsoft's -- micro sites, which does not allow the amount of data transfer that current mobile devices require. they are moving to macro sites, which requires an increase in the number of antennas. those are the factors, to the best of my knowledge. commissioner sugaya: do they take the micro sites down? >>

commissioner sugaya: move to approve with conditions. commissioner antonini: second. >> the motion on the floor is for approval with conditions, as proposed. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> the motion passed unanimously. president fong: we will take a 5 minute, 10 minute break here. >> the commission is taking a 10 minute recess. thank you.

commissioner sugaya: i would like to welcome mr. hillis. we have had some previous encounters and i have always found him to be bright and generous and will serve the community very well. so welcome. welcome to the other two commissioners to have been

commissioner sugaya: well, i agree. maybe we can get a supervisor interested. commissioner moore: i would like to get the commissioners interested in the c3 district where we have a lot of historic buildings. i think this warrants are broader discussion. to thepresident fong: further pc comment? next item, please. >> thank you. commissioners, you are now ready to move on to item 12 on your calendar. which is a case number 2011.1396 c for 901 cole street. >> before you today is a request for a conditional use authorization by at&t to install wireless facility on the top of an existing building. this would have up to nine antennas located on the top of the residential and commercial building with equipment located on the ground. the facility is proposed on location preference 6 within the nc-1 zoning district. this is a location preference six limited preference site that requires an alternative analysis that has been included in your packet. according to the wire the setting guidelines, a limited preference site needs to show what higher preference sites are loc

commissioner sugaya: direct this to stuff. -- staff. over the last couple of years, we have seen quite a number of applications for cell phone antennas, particularly from at&t. we have seen less from horizon. almost none from sprint or metro pcs. is that because of differences in technology different companies are using for that cell phone

commissioner sugaya: direct this to stuff. -- staff. over the last couple of years, we have seen quite a number of applications for cell phone antennas, particularly from at&t. we have seen less from horizon. almost none from sprint or metro pcs. is that because of differences in technology different companies are using for that cell phone -- for their cell phone towers? >> to the best of my knowledge, there are two factors. they come into play for the at&t expansion. the radio frequency, the band with the use, requires additional sites. verizon operates on a different band with that requires less sites.

commissioner sugaya: did we know that? commissioner miguel: yes. president fong: any additional comments? call the question. >> the motion on the floor is for approval. condition that the project sponsor continue working with the stuff on design. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner hillis: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> thank you, commissioners. that motion passed unanimously on the variance. scott sanchez: i close the public hearing, noting it is an adaptive reuse of an existing non-complying structure. >> thank you. commissioners, you are now on item 9, 706 mission st., the mexican museum and residential tower project. this is a public hearing on the draft environmental impact report. >> good afternoon. i am debra dwyer, planning department's staff. this is the public hearing on the draft eir for case number 2008.1084e, the mexican museum and residential tower project. i am joined by the preservation technical staff and the senior environmental planner. in addition, the

. >> commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: yes. i know staff is not here to answer questions, but maybe this question can be answered. can i have some idea of what the schedule is for the comments and responses document to be completed? and that brings up the other question of we will be hearing the final e.i.r., which would be the comment and responses document together with the draft at the same time that we are going to be considering project approval, thus, the usual format. so i assume that's still in effect for this. but if we could hear what the projected -- if you have an estimated time for -- >> i don't have a specific time frame at this moment. i've only received a handful of moments, because typically the comments come in at the end. so based on whether we have to do -- based on the work that the c & r would require, that's when we would set the schedule up. >> i ask that question because -- this is a comment on the project, by the way, which has nothing to do with the e.i.r., but i'm going to make it anyway. given the t