>> tina tam for the planning department. the subject building is a historic resource. we called the facade on embarcadero and steuart street [inaudible] and based on why it's significant and association with the longshoremen and it's closely related with the headquarters located on the steuart street side. the department didn't find that it's consistent with the standards but we didn't feel that the project would materially impair the resource so the building is no longer a resource under ceqa. >> okay. that was slightly hard for me to follow but just to follow up on that so the building as a whole is considered historic resource. in the plan i have seen presented to plan a the commonwealth club is proposing to preserve the steuart street side which is considered to have -- >> most closely associated with why the building is significant in the first place. >> and why the building is considered historically significant is due to the 1934 events. is that correct. >> correct [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> one criterion and not f

. >> good afternoon president breed and members of the board employed i am tina tam and a senior preservation planner with the department. today with me is shelly from the preservation staff, joy, senior environmental planner and sara jones an environmental review officer. the project is construct a new addition to the two story house existing as well as widen the existing garage door, install new siding and trim and comply with the boarding code and qualifies for an categorical exemption under environmental review under the code which includes additions to existing structures. the appellant and concerned neighbors have raised different issues they will touch upon in my presentation but none of the issues pertain to environmental review. the appeal letters do not represent substantial evidence that a significant impact may occur as part of the project. with that said i will go through briefly some of the concerns of the appellant. one, it will impact a historic resource. two, it's too massive and disrupt the street. three, result in a de facto demolition of the structure and four, result in a

>> tina texas texas -- tam for the planning department. i believe it will change the resource. what we think is the final determination is we don't think it will affect it in such a way where it's no longer going to affect the california register. it still has enough integrity left on the building to still represent the significance that it has with the association with the longshoreman. >> for me to sustain a finding by planning or declaration for planning, i have to be able to articulate it and it seems we are going back at a very circular way and i have yet to really hear a clearly articulated distinction between one facade or the other. i think it goes back to the question that supervisor kim started asking. i'm still not clear. you know, maybe i'm not smart enough to understand it. it doesn't make sense to me. >> there is also one element to the project that hasn't been discussed and it's important to note that an interpretive historical display is included as part of the project. that is something that will need to be provided. taking it as a whole will need involving a n