in the c.u. process you're reviewing a decision by the planning decision in a quasi determination and so you have to make findings based on the legal standard that applies. here you will be acting in a legislative capacity, reviewing the m.t.a. board or the m.t.a. directors' legislative decision. so basically -- >> in 60 days? >> right. there will be procedural parameters but you'll have legislative discretion. the way that the ordinance is structured, if the board decides to reverse the m.t.a.'s decision the board will make findings about why you have reversed, why you have reached a different conclusion. and the standards that -- that you apply will be determined by the board. >> okay. so it's pretty subjective. based on what i'm hearing in terms of what we like or don't like. okay. and, you know, i would like to -- i would like to at a later time in this meeting ask if we truly are going to try to model off the c.u. process, maybe not the standard, but the process, if we could to increase the p

i would agree with you relative to the c.u. process, i was only referring to the appellate portion of it, the c.u. process had been in place for many, many years. just th the appellate process. and i agree with you five, from how the c.u. appeal from the board itself works. so i would agree with that. i do in addition i'm not a member of the committee to th the -- to the amendments that i recommended before. the deputy city attorney pointed out on page 5, line 8, we would have to make a conforming amendment to conform to the threegz odeletion of the fee toe the words "any filing fee paid shall be returned to the requester." and i did have some questions for the city attorney. and before we hear from the public, i should probably also put on the record that i would also like a committee member to make one other change at page 2, line 11. which is the provision that says that a final sfmta decision shall not include a decision by the m.t.a. that was contemplated as part of the implementation of a prior final m.t.a. decision. which

i'm here on behalf of telegraph hill dwellers to oppose the c.u. eing sought to create a whole foods store on the lombardi site, and with respect to historical issues, i just wanted to mention one thing. according to google aerlth, the drive time between the lombardi site and the franklin site is three minutes. so what public policy is being served by pairing up two related high end food halls located within three minutes of earth other. that certainly does not sound as if it's fulfilling a compelling need, but what is a compelling need is housing, including affordable housing. the lombardi site would be perfect fore a multifamily housing site. the location is convenient to multitransit site, and secondly, within a two or three block radius is a complete and ready built infrastructure of neighborhood shops and services, including groceries, a variable united nations of restaurants and beverages, clothing stores, flower shops, and then, there's bob's doughnuts. further -- pardon me. that is -- to create this housing, there's no need to evict tenants

and i would like to make a motion that we support the small pet community in opposing this c.u. in noe valley. >> second. >> motion by commissioner adams. seconded by commissioner dooley. >> may i just -- i'm sorry, president adams. so we're making a motion to support the pet businesses in noe valley or pet businesses -- >> citywide? i would say citywide. listen, if they will not be in noe, they will try the castro. if it's not the castro, they will good to the marina. and then not the marina, to richmond. i want to give a loud voice to this company that the san francisco small business commission supports its small businesses and our small pet food and grooming businesses in this town. >> i think we should specifically add something to the motion because the folks are going up in front of the planning commission that is saying that in particular -- >> in particular the 24th street. >> and using the criteria for -- >> citywide. >> and under the conditional use criteria that availability of other similar retailers close by, essentially the neighborhood. >> can you read that back?

we just generally from the c.u. before us for demobecause the new project is generally code compliant is generally what happens. generally, the project tends to be code compliant. >> commissioner richards: okay. thank you. page 41, it talks about alterations. for the purpose of this section, an alteration shall be defined of removal of more than 75% of a residential building's existing interior wall framing or the removal of more than 75% of the area of the existing framing. [inaudible] >> it is -- >> president hillis: yeah. >> it talks about increased -- this is all just new to me. i didn't know that because we're talking about demos. first time i ever read this. sorry. couple of other quick things. sorry. oh, on page 15, review process, if you can review urban design guidelines, the ones we passed, effective -- not just general design guidelines, that would go a long way because we spend a lot of time on that. and i also think again, going back to what we talked about, for 100% affordable housing spot on, i think w

currently, you do not send out the plans for if you have a c.u., if there's demolition, and new project, so no one knows what the new plans are. according to the code, that's consider considered duplicative already. you cannot print out 11 by 17 plans, and i also think you should use this opportunity to make the plans better, to make sure that the adjacent neighbors, the adjacent properties are clearly delineated and people understand. and one more thing about the 136, most projects that i've seen in noe valley, they have -- they do the expansions of the yard, and they do the pop out. so does that mean you're not going to put the pop out if you give any kind of notice about that major expansion into the yard, the pop out will just be approved separate? it's not clear to me about that. there's more and i guess we'll talk about it next week or whatever. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. yep. next speaker. >> i'll be using the overhead. eileen boken with speak here on my own behalf. i am strongly urging the commission to continue this item for at least four weeks. the proposed leg

just so we're clear, if this building were demolished, and a mixed use building -- it's not with the c.u., you can't do a -- >> no, poling street as an absolute cap of 4,000 square feet. >> article seven was just updated a few weeks ago. in the polk street neighborhood commercial district, you could go principlely permitted up to 4,000 square feet, and over that triggers a c.u. it's a pretty large amount of change for the control table. if the building were taken down by fire, calamity of god, so on and so forth, the project could be rebuild, but if it was voluntarily razed, it could not be rebuilt. >> president hillis: i'm just going to vote against the motion. i want to kind of be consistent in how i've treated formula retail and defer to those who have lived there over the years. there's problems with the code that maybe we can't get that, but i think the support in the neighborhood is fairly overwhelming that people want a grocery store here. again, i think whole foods has not been detrimental. it's been positive in other neighborhoods it's gone into. i would definitely like to explo

and director rahaim, in getting back to the question about a c.u. for a large for mmat reta, you would normally need a c.u. to have a large retail format of this size. this has been vacant for a while. why don't they need a c.u. for that. >> nick, i think you can answer this probably better than i do, but because it was an existing retailer and it's simply converting. the only reason it's in front of you is because it's the formula retail. if this was a grocery store that did not have ten stores, you would not have even seen this project. >> president hillis: okay. and they didn't vacate their -- you know, that c.u. or that allowable retail use has not been vacated? >> exactly. so one of the authors of the opposition wrote in about the vari point. bear with me. this is heavy planning jargon. the existing last legal use was a retail self-service use. it's principally permitted in the zoning district. it's not nonconform ng. it's absolutely conforming to the planning code, so the provisions in the planning code do not pertain to legal uses that were p

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the zoning criteria. it would have needed to apply for a c.u. for a demolition perthe planning code. given the soundness of 653 hate 28th, and the affordability perthe city's own guidelines, a demolition would not and should not have been warranted. i got these from the internet when it was for sale -- actually, it was rented. here's one. that's the living room. here's another living room and dining room view. there's the dining room. sorry. there's one bedroom. you can see the hallway there, and i'll talk about that later. there's one bedroom. there's another bedroom. here's the bath. everybody loves a stall shower. here's the back yard, and here's the stairway into the unit from the street. i'll talk about that later. so it's sound. it's not dilapidated. it it's not decrepit. it's a house that we grew up in or maybe you grew up in or some of us would like to grow up in now. back to the adu in a nonexisting building. the planning commission erred when it required an adu in the proposed project. this was in part because the commission was troubled by the massive size of the new buildi

at this point, i'm really unclear about what the neighborhood and the city gains from approving this c.u. thank you for your time. >> president hillis: thank you, miss fanext speaker, plea >> good evening, commissioners. i just want to start out by saying i'm a little offended by people saying middle pope being isn't thriving. i'm a small business owner, and we've been there for six and have a lease for another seven. just because miding polk doesn't look like upper polk, that doesn't mean that it's not thriving. i also live in the neighborhood, four blocks fl the proposed site, and i've watched a lot of my friends have to leave the city due to higher rent, and obviously there's no silver bullet that's going toful solve our housing solution, but i do think we have a great opportunity to build a house in an ncd on a site like this, and it's absolutely necessary for the future of san francisco. it's not going to happen overnight. this is a -- you know, i don't envy anybody involved in the building of these types of developments, but it's important, and i think it's for the long-term viabil

were talking about what's on the agenda so much as protocol security those sorts of things they are if not in singapore very close to arriving in singapore. and then we hear a c.u north korean official seen in beijing on his way from pyongyang to singapore to the north koreans are on their way it looks like it's full steam ahead a lot of moving parts has thank andrew thomas for now and let's go over to see one coup is the managing editor of korea exposé that's a news magazine joins us now live from seoul and looking at all the moving parts that are happening here do you see that this is going to turn into a trilateral meeting well so i mean we're seeing a lot of reports coming out here in the last media suggesting that the blue houses are preparing for their possibility and president losing seems are perhaps even enthusiastic that he might even be flying to singapore i think especially after the kind of performance moment when over the weekend having this prize second summit begin jungleland and being critically sell getting this peace or dialogue process people do think it wouldn't be ultimately if you were to actually join these two leaders of the countries h