we actually lopped off one that was pasted onto the building on the east side of that building. but the western ones that are kind of midblock that are pretty similar -- not in scale but how they're being treated here i think actually work and lend a dimension to that building that i think is interesting and worth keeping. i mean, it kind of rubs me the wrong way that it's facadism, but i think ultimately in kind of an urban design standpoint, they work, and it's facadism. they kept the facade of that building and reused portions of it -- it's primarily the lobby. one portion is open about the same length back as this one, and there's the cord yard that you can see beyond it. but it clearly is revisibility. that was kind of kept as the facade, and this will, too. i think this set back helps tremendously in kind of making this read more like a building on the street, so i -- although i could probably go either way on the -- kind of the facade aspect of this building, either keeping it or tearing it down in its entirety, i think the design is interesting. i like how the building is

we support the building of a one unit home there. it was interesting to see the photographs from the city, a very unique part of this neighborhood is the fact that we look at a sheer rock wall from 249 states street. the density has nothing to do with this project. the issue is that the street is narrow, and the street is narrow because of the canyons. my house at 40 ord court and 249 states street with a different address happen to be one on top of another. in order to understand the scope of this project and why a single-family home is more desirable in the neighborhood, you have to look at the topography of the neighborhood. i speak in support of a one-family home there because of the sheer rock wall that we face. the house on jenga blocks needs to be changed to a house on a foundation for the safety of the neighborhood. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, mr. poe. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you very much for the opportunity to speak. my name is rick goldman. i've lived at 230 states and live

the building is a huge monolithic square. side from esthetics, architecture rail esthetics that would would like. it is a matter of air, it's a matter of imposition that this huge monolithic will have on the neighbors. i i proposed this and unfortunately the project sponsor was not at all amendable to this. here we are months later back again discussing the same them. i believe sculpting the west side is importance not only because of the privacy issues. not only because of the super imposition of this huge building. because of the architectural integrity, architectural esthetics. i urge the commission to please take d.r. and give the neighbors this 5-foot set back on the esthetic side. even though it is huge, at least it's going to have some esthetic value for the people sitting there and looking at this wall for the rest of your time and that part of san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. as we have no other speakers in support of the d.r. requesters. we'll hear from the project sponsor. >> good evening commission

a window in, you are not really changing the character of the building at all. so i think from that standpoint, the design of this building is fine. i think it works fine and provides again i'm surprised to hear that third baptist church would not want six additional housing units. but i think it does respond to -- i understand, but mostly my concern is i don't agree that you can match that brick and that it's going to be as the woman spoke, it's going to be a patch work. especially if as she said some of it will be done, some of it won't be done. it would be -- like if one person left, then all of a sudden one piece might get done and i think that's going to be a mess. so, i think if it went back and looked at replacing all the brick on the lower floor, you know, below the belt line, that would be one solution. the other would be to create some pattern where the brick is taken either up to the cornice line, i mean the belt line and created some kind of pattern. so, i would like to see maybe a condition to review that and review that with the staff to come up wit

buildings. why don't you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings? stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. when we talk about the soft story, what we're talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other /pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. so we're looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in san francisco look like. and the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. they have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea it's significantly less country /srabl in those stories. now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commer

and one directly from the building. and then these courts are entered from hooper, and you can get into both of these from this area here. so it's pretty much transparent and sort of open all around to the street. this is entirely glazed as well. all activity that is going on inside the space will be very visible to the street. and it is actually sidewalk seating from the cafe that will go all around this area here. >> right. so the mid block alley -- i am just questioning that and thinking, are there other institutions in san francisco where the campus is closed like that for student safety? where nobody can walk in off the street near a dormitory and get inside? is it because the room is open to the alley? >> so commissioner, dan fenton with ruben and rose for c.c.a. one of the exceptions we have requested is the requirement to provide 24/7 public access to those mid block alleyways. just by way of background, these buildings are all in a p.d.r. district which shuts down in the evening, but the student housing building

the attributes are the buildings themselves, the balconies, the windows of those buildings. you see the existing light standard, the existing 25 foot light standard that's already part of that aesthetic fabric in that particular community, so do we significantly degrade the aesthetic attributes that create this? they're the basis for this designation of an eligible historic district? the other finding tonight is finding number nine, which is your zoning protected finding, and that is do we significantly detract from the defining characteristics of this residential neighborhood? go to the next slide. another shot of clay street, or the defining characteristics of this neighborhood. we have a lot of trees. as pointed out, you've got a fire box, you've got some street signs, you have a light standard. they're light standards. they're part of the characteristics of this neighborhood. you've got some cars parked on the street. so what are the characteristics of this neighborhood that are being significantly degraded by our facility? so with that backdrop, i'd like to go to our fac

third, similar projects close to the buildings have left eye sores on street level. applicant has proposed to do it one garage at a time over the period of years, and therefore threatens a mismatched structure facing the square. the detailed brick facade is difficult to match once, let alone over the course of several years. i can say that i as one of the leaseholders of the front facing garages on the fulton street, i have no intention of leashing -- leaving. i have -- >> thank you, your time is up. your time is up. >> it would create an incentive for the landlord to try and get people with rent control out of the building in order to start the next phase of construction. for these reasons and all of those that have been brought forth i would ask that you deny the application. the certification. >> president wolfram: thank you. any other member of the public wish to speak on this matter? >> good afternoon. my name is reverend conte, the member and minister of third baptist church for the last 25 years. when i came to the city in 1993 i came by myself, leaving my fami

the centre space of the building to a more usable layout. e are not really adding anything particularly new as far as services. we are just accommodating the initial need for the volume of customers we have. we will include a new community-based space in the back. the 33 space will be a community room that would be open to the public and local use for events or a conference room type of space. we are open to answer any questions. >> president hillis: thank you. any public comment on this item? seeing none, we will close public comment. commissioners more? >> commissioner moore: i always regret where commissioner banks -- banks and/or frontage are taken up by former retail expanding into a small retail space. and understand that retail has it's problems. changing an active kitchen supply store into a branch bank raises questions for me. i've seen this and other places. it exists at 2800 square feet which is a large space. and adding an additional expanding to 3800 square feet is something i find a little bit troublesome. the shopping centre is

the opening of his building no longer complyies with the san francisco building code then the openingll be closed off and protected by a wall, not a window. that is ab9 condition 7. at the moment i am building a roof deck and in the future i may build a third floor. >> clerk: sir, your time is up. we have already had the full appeal hearing and it three minutes each. >> clerk: is there any public comment on this item? yes? if there are other people please come up so we don't have to pate. wait. you are a representative of a so you can't speak. please approach and identify yourself. >> my name is indiscernible i think i had opportunity to speak at the last hearing. my wife and i are the current occupants in that building and we live there. i just want to speak a point of how much this is impacting us because we have liveed in north beech a beach a long time and continue to live in this particular place. we come to this house because we love the layout and hope to build a future there. we live our life normally and we hope to be good neighbors and we have been. there is a lot of technic

if we do it historically, we should shade the new building, so we can see the difference between the old building. this did that very well. any other things? i think that's it. thank you. >> commissioner fong: thank you. i'm supportive of this project and the path it's on right now. i'm willing to vote and support, but i do want to pick up on commissioner moore's comment. it's exciting. the hub is coming together, right? it's one of the pieces that i'm curious if there are other opportunities where maybe the unified school district site, i'm not sure what will happen there. the plumbers union is coming together. hopefully that whole back alley will abutt this property and it has an opportunity of being charming. i think we look at it now and say, we want to change this, but i want to be sure that we're all on the same page about changing it for the better. and making it charming and have a great street activation, along with just housing, which i know that laura is committed about. i pause for a second to say, we have a cool opportunity here. let's make sure we maximize it. >> vice pr

the subject building is the biggest property already. it occupies the entire lot, and the property is a structure of merit, category b, and as such, it requires preservation -- a detailed preservation report, and no such report has been prepared. i inquired with the planning -- project planner, and the -- so also, i would like to say that i agree with the commissioners, that the project is out of character. take a look at this addition, four-story addition, topped by a fifth story deck almost 8 feet high. it's -- it's not only out of character and it's visible from both sides, including the front, but also, it's built totally against existing building codes, namely, it's building code 134 requires 25% of the open space. then, this property is located, as you are aware, in vanness special district use. and washington street is in the district. it is washington street is a corridor, and special precautions are done by the san francisco building code to protect it. namely, section 253.2 says that every property abutting washington street ne

and then they ended up instead moving those stairs over to the garage roof deck, building the garage roof deck. just build as it was proposed in '61. [buzzer] >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners. let's discuss what is before us. commissioner? >> look, i wouldn't mind if i could hear from mr. jacobs just to respond to mr. boskovitch. >> why don't we do rebuttal. >> does staff have rebuttal and then we will have appellant? staff? >> yeah, we don't have any rebuttal on this. >> smart. >> thank you. >> i mean at this point we are talking about a bridge built in 1960. they are trying to do the right thing. if planning wants to do one whole permit, we are fine with it. we will always work with those notice of violations. >> have you had any communications with planning that is their preference? and that is what they are recommending. you confirmed the appellants statement. >> it was the best way to deal with this and i think a full stand alone permit will actually go back to planning again but if we have that same plan that shows to delete the walkway, our inspector will verify the

during the recent reconstruction of this building, all of the exterior walls were removed. from this building, you could see directly to the outside. everything has been restored, constructed and restored to the way it was prior to renovation. one of the interesting things is that during alaska being a district and territory, governors were appointed by the presidents of the united states. prior to statehood, they were elected by constituents. alaska has been fortunate to have distinguished governors. the first governor of the state of alaska served two different ,erms and was from valdez instrumental in helping to draft the state constitution and was an important governor. governor greening was another important governor during territorial days. isska's current governor governor bill walker, independent, who will be seeking a second term this fall. and byron awalker milod --a democrat -- this building is a good representation of alaska, i think. collegial routinely with membes of the other body and the executive branch. it is a very modest representation that fits with alas

we have the cost of building. and of course, yes, we can't afford to do high-rise construction, it never pencils out in the types of projects that we do. we have very constrained sites. our sites are usually challenging in ways others aren't even challenged by, we are on top of b.a.r.t. stations, on top of muni stations, all sorts of crazy things. so to add cost or remove units is a very serious issue for us. so you all understand these issues very well. i'm not telling you anything you don't already know. i appreciate the consideration that the fire department has. we would be happy to work with and talk about this further. talk to our sponsors and our architects about different options and different ways of looking at this. where life safety, of course, is top of our minds, always. and how we can make sure that the life safety issues are addressed, while we are also housing san francisco's lowest income residents. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ms. carson, just to use your expertise, i know you come from

the building is a soft story, has an open front. the interior has no interior transverse walls, so it is a soft story building. the program was setup to be in three phases. phase one, phase two is three of four units, and this building would be in phase three when we get to there, in we do. that would include corner neighborhood serving facilities. the scope of the work includes reinforced concrete, footings, sheer walls and pull downs, any work inside this building of a token nature would satisfy the soft story program. it will -- this work would satisfy it. it just hasn't been required yet because this phase does not come here. we're still working in phase one, which is five units and above. i did talk to the building inspector who's done the plan check. he's talked to the building department. i'll let him speak on that behalf. i have been out to the building, and this building does need seismic, and this is soft story retrofit. if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer them. >> that's in the existing application that's curren

we've set back the lankton street building, 7 feet away from the neighboring live-work building and we did that to provide light on to a number of units that faced that deck. also pulling the building back as far as we could do the commons there. as you go up to the 5th floor, you have a deck facing lanxton street. no development on the 6th floor on the lankton street side and 7th street side and our roof is our common decks. that said, to summarize, 280 7th street is a 6-story building and high--- >> vice president melgar: thank you. we may have more questions. >> the thank you. sorry to go over my time. thanks very much. >> vice president melgar: with that, do we have any public comment on this item? >> any time there's no opposition, it's like, hooray. central soma is coming. please approve this project post-haste. thanks. >> vice president melgar: seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> commissioner moore: i think it's an interesting building in how the two sides are used. on the 7th street side, i'm wondering, the commission's position rega

to come and have stormed the building of the kurdish regional government in a bill in northern iraq one security officer has been wounded the deputy governor said that security forces have now entered the building and are looking for the attackers let's go live out of baghdad at al-jazeera iran con iran what's the latest. well the attack began around seven am local time before office hours two gunman fought their way into the building wounding a security called they then went up to the third floor of the old deal governor a building started shooting out of the window is that that stage the a bill security forces cordoned off the perimeter and in the last two hours have gone inside and what they doing is they going from room to room looking for the silence now the gunman haven't made any demands as of yet certainly we don't know why they attacked this building or bills actually been insulated from the kind of violence we've seen in other parts of the country the last big attack in irbil was in two thousand and fifteen when a bomb exploded outside of the u.s. consulate so questions are al

the existing footprint of the building would not be expanded. this project sponsor did significantly revise the exterior design based on the feedback from the commission and concerns brought up by the neighbors at the prior public hearing regarding the prior contrary design. the newly proposed design reduces glazing from 40% of the exterior shell to 26 with proportions to better relate to the finestrations of the upper site, and it proposes to change the original cast concrete ridge face to a kol too sooned brick finish to soften the pedestrian experience of the building. the residential design advisory team reviewed the revised proposal and found the design to be compatible in design to the surrounding neighborhood. rdat noted that the windows are compatible in size, scale, and proportion with the surrounding buildings. the context exhibits restrained building articulation that is typically focused on window detailing and a delainiation of the entry and base and that this design articulates the base with a compatible material in the entry with a

that includes securing the build project and completing the construction and building documents. we have started the dialogue on the amount of funding we need to achieve this milestone. if we get the money ready in time we could be red in three to four years. the next milestone is funding the project and completing construction. in regards to the status of the environmental document, the office of the federal transit administration is still reviewing the final supplemental environmental impact statement. we should be receiving that sometime this week. we may be able to bring the documents for the board's consideration next month. later on today's agenda, the city and county of san francisco planning director, john ram, will present the results of the study and input from the public meeting held last month. as you will hear, the results of the rap study supports the environmental clear alignment for the gtx. with the transit center nearing completion, the completion of the lab study, our focus is shifting to operating the transit center and bringing the cal and high speed rail to t

i'm courtney pasch, the senior project manager with build. so i'll address, i think, your last question first about the interactions with the banya spa, ownership, and managers. so before i started on this project back in 2014, the project staff from build met from the banya to try to understand, to try to work together to understand what their primary concerns were about future development at the site. we heard from them that they were primarily concerned about their views from the upper deck and privacy. in march of 2015, after i came on board, myself and the s.o.m. staff went out to the banya to take some photographs from their decks so we could do some photo simulations to see what the buildings would look like from their decks. over the next few months, we evaluated several options internally to present to the banya. these options included moving around our buildings in front of them to ensure that they would have a view corridor to the water from their upper deck, relocate the banya spa to a different location within our site, build a ro

after a five hour standoff kurdish security forces killed three gunmen who stormed the government building in at a below plus panic grows and shares in chinese pharmaceutical companies for over make vaccines given to babies. thank you for joining us the un's highest court has issued an order in favor of qatar in the case that it brought against the united arab emirates the u.a.e. is one of the four countries that imposed an air land and sea blockade against catherine more than a year ago the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade amount to racial discrimination and that kathy families should be reunited it has instructed the u.s. to ensure cathy students can complete their education there and be given access to their records if they choose to transfer elsewhere and the court also ruled catherine is affected by the blockade should be allowed access to courts on tribunal's in the u.a.e. need farquhar is at the hague. well the u.s. highest court has sided with qatar in granting something called provisional measures which is an urgent immediate

it's the building blocks that teachers take and adapt into the classroom. >> and the question i would -- or maybe direct staff, at what point do we have flexibility to add in more up-to-date topics? not only commissioner courtney may have an issue, but given this administration, we may want to highlight another component which is a lower level. i want to see what type of flexibility we have, because this is sort of the building block, but there may be an opportunity to take a deeper dive in certain areas. so maybe what we can do is come back as part of this and get some commitment in areas where we want to take a deeper dive and we have that flexibility. >> certainly. i think that's still possible and wouldn't hold up moving forward today. i think we can come back and be specific where the touch points should go deeper and for review and lay it out in a timeline going forward, four years on this agreement. >> commissioner vietor: i concur with what's been said and i appreciate your efforts, because i think it's a very exciting project with a lot of potential. let me add on to whatever

the 24,000 building. the new building is five stories and 135,000 square feet with 520 beds for c.c.a. students in single -- god bless --, double, and quadruple occupancy units primarily for freshmen with some upper level, graduate, and graduate students. and a large sidewalk bulb out which you can see at the top of the slide rationalizes the colliding street grids at 8th and carolina, decreasing the asphalt and providing triangular parklet from the main industry and the interconnected grid and there are 164 class rooms and back parking spaces and no vehicular parking. the project also includes improvements to channel 8 and grouper streets. 23 new street view will be along three frontages. and this is a typical floor plan showing the two bars of units along the corridors connected by bridges, both the triangular corn we are the elevators land and the two bridges which are the areas in yellow. and are shared common spaces for study and leisure of more than 3,000 square foot per level. and this is a top floo

the idea was it was also. had to do a such building yeah we destroy an image and a strong good relation with with the context of the of the days that. soon people can compare the national museum in doha with the louvre in apodaca which one is the better of the two. the national day parade is due to begin but you can feel the tension. will it even take place. in two thousand and sixteen aleppo was under siege. cutter was on the side of the rebels who didn't want to send out the wrong signals with the parade so it was cancelled. but this time. everything goes according to plan. despite opposing positions counter unlike the saudis is seeking an understanding with iran this is also due to the fact that both countries share the largest natural gas field in the world and are therefore dependent on each other for the saudis iran is their arch enemy they want to maintain the status quo in their own country while a counter is counting on gradual development. before the national museum genre verrall had already designed a building for a counter

limit the fourth story of the building to the third rail wall of the adjacent building at 236 clipper street. reduce the architectural parapet by half the proposed height. this concludes my presentation. i am available for questions. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. project sponsor? >> good evening, commissioners. my name's lucas eastwood. i am project sponsor here. i bought this inhabitable home on an rh-2 lot about a year ago, applied for two four story buildings. it became clear that this wasn't something that my immediately adjacent neighbors supported. i offered a three unit scheme, you know, i'm -- i wouldn't say i'm stuck in the middle, but on one hand, i think the maximizing the rh-2 is more of a -- where the policy drives me and the neighbors are sort of driving me a little bit more towards a smaller, scaled back version of this 'cause i think they prefer the single-family home nature of the block. thanks. >> hi. i'm brett gladstone and project architect is behind me. just a couple statements about the project staff report. there's two places only i understand that

from the forest starts. w. . they build the most beautiful museums and they buy the most expensive art almost like a competition the united arab emirates and qatar. they invest huge sums of money on expanding their collections in universities and libraries the best architects in the world work for the desert states but the countries are in dispute with one another. what is the purpose behind the gulf nations run architecture and on. closer museums we do actually have a very open and diverse look into the audience the culture what we need to bring we do bring things into the country from different cultures but we also take things to different cultures like this to actually see what we are and who we are actually the our plan is to continue making museums and continue showing our collections and showing and i do katie the public about the different times different histories different cultures that we've all been through. here in doha many people collect art including the ruling family attorney in terms of cultural investment.

security forces have killed three suspected fighters who attacked the governor's building and. the gunman guards before entering the building and taking hostages later security forces around the building were targeted by a suicide bomber a government employee was killed during the clashes and. irbil which is the seat of the kurdish regional government has largely been spared. a state of emergency has been declared. and residents have been told to. the capital and smoke strong winds that keep changing direction are hampering the efforts to fight the. well those are the headlines but do stay with us plenty more news still ahead but right the coming right up. next. incision says pull the month. out of it. to mistrust. the ship. instead and then you're on the atomic and you must not be mission space. but this could have been if but. then you didn't then you. go to the fair to try to had she put in a bid for the.

. >> not for the entire building. again, with our fs 05, i welcome anybody on-line watching this to go look up fs 05, and it outlines the requirements to what extent you sprinkler a whole building. >> supervisor safai: well, if you had to springler the whole building, you'd be talking about displacing residents, while you do the whole building. you have decks and the cantilevered portion of a property. in that instance, you have to have two forms of egress if you just have -- i'm sorry. >> what we're seeing, and again, this is prescribed in the code, i'd like to make a quite point here. earlier, i was sitting here and taking this all in with -- we're amending the planning code, and you have that authority to do that as this board, this body. the fire code, the state code, and so does the building code. and as the local jurisdiction, we do not have the authority to waive state requirements on building and fire code requirements, so i think that's very important for all of us to understand that. and the other thing to un

this apartment in the building, i believe it's the same apartment building that london breed lived in when she was a kid, and an income at $900 a month, and those are the people that are in -- that are not feeling housing and need to be taken care of. >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association. congratulations to the new supervisors. our city prides itself on being humane, progressive, welcoming, and a sanctuary, but there are city agencies that through their actions are reversing those values, are doing things that are not so humane, not progressive, not safe, and not welcoming. as an example, san francisco public library, by its planned introduction of radio frequently identification tags will be making people -- what they read less private. it will make anyone trackable with access to the technology without the knowledge or consent of those people. the american civil liberties union of northern california and the electronic frontier foundation and sent joint letters to the city lib