or establishment of what would be a van ness avenue at medical special use district. that might be something. i did the research and i have heard a number of facilities are not hospitals have been exempted and the past were given the modification such as the movie theaters, the amc theaters at 1000 van ness had a c.u. that allow that to be converted. there is some housing, but not nearly the three-one ratio. there was the recent conversion of the building at van ness and california to a ford automobile dealership. i think the use for a hospital is one of the highest and best we can have, and certainly what we need housing, we have to look at this and figure out what will work, what makes sense, and can we afford it to work out? that is something we have to consider as we go through the process. because there is no guarantee, quite frankly, that the solder firm and cal pacific -- that the sutter firm and cal pacific have to build a hospital in san francisco. we're very lucky. it could be built outside of the city. you talk about the number of jobs, 3000 full-time equiv

contributes substantially to meeting the housing requirement for van ness ave. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the point of this resolution is fairly simple. there should be a substantial increase in public benefit. this is a good public policy that we would be very cautious wet. when the need for affordable housing is so profound. many years ago, when my uncle lived in the tenderloin, there was an issue of hotels starting to move in. the moment was a crucial moment in city history, where the arrival of those photos could have led to displacement, but instead, it was a moment where things to the tenderloin neighborhood development corp., it became an engine for jobs and housing development, and what we have before us today is really the beginning of a conversation to find out the fate of cathedral hills, to find out if that will be the same type of engine for human betterment or whether it is displacement to be continued. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am also with the good neighbor coalition. we have been working with residents as well as

and across van ness diagonally is a medical office building at van ness and gary. our tenants and residents have a number of concerns, about what it would be like to be surrounded by this construction the next five years, as well as the long-term impacts the hospital and the medical buildings will create for our community. earlier this year we initiated discussions with cpmc. we voiced our reasonable and rationale concerns about specific impacts that the project will have a our residents now and tenants in the future. our dialogue continues. cpmc indicated they are willing to make certain draft conversations, we hope this will result in specific mitigations. our team has reviewed the environmental impact report and has practical solutions to the findings that were significant but were not assigned any mitigations, especially related to noise and traffic. we will be submitting a letter of comment which will describe and support or suggestions. we hope the planning staff adopts these into the project's conditions of approval if not developed in the final eir. we look

i'm here representing the van ness plan. for more than 20 years, it's been the guideline that's directed what's developed on van nes and what cpmc has proposed violates every objective of the van ness plan. i also believe that a win-win solution is possible. probably, even though no hospital is supposed to be built there, no office buildings, nothing but housing with retail beneath, minimal retail, i believe that this is not a bad location for a hospital to replace an office building and a hotel provided that in other respects it follows the van ness plan. if it's going to completely violate the van ness plan with the height limit, with not producing housing, etset -- which is required of every developer at a ratio of 3 to 1 and of course will not be all located within the van ness area but could be located on many sites in the tenderloin or even south of market if they pay for that. otherwise, there is the no project alternative which means they can still build their hospital but they can build it on the campuses where it is

the folks in the community are watching the outcome of the van ness area plan very closely, note and we hope that the 38 -- very close the, and we hope that the three to one is looked at very closely. -- very closely. >> members of the land use community, and i am a council for a community organization, and we join with our allies in the good neighbors coalition in supporting this resolution. three things i think are important to be stressed. one, with any policy in san francisco, large developments should seek to include housing for a portion of its work force in federal possible, and second, then major developers or developers of major projects should seek to mitigate their housing in packs, especially in tax on low and moderate income households in providing affordable housing. i want to stress what the professor made clear. cpmc is proposing a conditional use for the portion of its development plan. it is proposing a totally complete exception. it is proposing a rezoning. so the conversation above them a 50% reduction as a conditional use is something already taken off of the tab

i just wanted to go over the current situation about the van ness corridor.bviously, the intent of this is to encourage high-density housing. that was the intent from the very beginning, and it has been in place now for a number of years. there is a conditional use provision within the current code that allows a reduction that allows the planning commission to have a reduction in the requirement, and as you pointed out, it is required that there be three square feet of housing built for every 1 foot of nonresidential, net new nonresidential space built, so the way that has been administered and the way it reads as any development that is not providing housing, we would subtract out the square footage from that requirement, and they would be required to build up to 3 square feet of housing for every net new occupied square foot of nonresidential space that is proposed to be built. and as you know, -- chair maxwell: just for the public, could you explain that a little bit more? can you kind of give us a better picture of it? >> sure. maybe by way of example. if

as described in the legislation, which starts, the van ness avenue special use district starts at van ness avenue on the -- on the -- on van ness avenue, starts at broadway on the north end and ends at golden gate on the south end. so -- right now there's no conditional use for other entertainment. this legislation would be proposing that any business that is defined as other entertainment is -- would have to go through conditional use to -- to -- to open up their business. is there any other information that you have to add? >> commissions, all i'll add in speaking with bill barnes from pier's office, the main concern they have in proposing the ordinance and this resolution is restaurants that may turn into -- into places of entertainment and lounges, nightclubs, and they felt that since conditional use does not prohibit a use, it just requires an additional level of oversight by the planning commission, they felt this was an appropriate step to make to insure -- to insure that the proper oversight takes place. the -- they noted to me that that nearby streets and neighborhoods such a

as a non-driver, i use buses exclusively and travel van ness almost weekly. traffic congestion is so common that they take a book with me so i have something to do. i work labor and delivery at cpmc california campus. we have 18 labor beds, and usually three-five patients -- three-five guests for each patient. after delivery, the patient goes to post part of for mother and delivery care and we have approximately 50 beds. that is 150 cars coming to visit the patients. itadd to this the cars of doctors, nurses, what a challenge. history and research has educated us to know that the support of family and patients results in a quicker recovery and better outcomes. we want people to get visitors. we want people to stay with them. i am very concerned about patient safety. transporting a patient far away from their community will cause unnecessary stress. we have already had a patient come to us in triage, barely making it to the bathroom to deliver with us, and barely made it because of traffic. that is why i am keeping gloves with me when i travel the buses, and f

and -- specifically we have have discussed van ness. >> right. >> we're going to be working on that idea because you know, i feel -- i feel really strongly that -- when we get into these battles over more -- more change wanting to come in, there's got to be a way to rent the big spaces out and not just to a have to always rent to a chain. so, she was -- she wasn't telling me that there actually are on the books for most of our neighborhoods that you could do a division say of a light manufacturing -- this is a little different than entertainment but a light manufacturing, bread or cheese and then have a retail store and so, i really do want to pursue this idea of making it easier to kind of break up in a sense these bigger spots. so that -- you know, we don't have to rent. >> also talk to the person that works on the idea of this happening before the buildings get built because we saw when height limits were lift lifted on van ness and we saw a lot of construction onvan ness in the 1990's and 2000s which was great but they were creating large footprints and now we're stuck with them and

as well as where we are located is currently on van ness. that is a clinic at st. luke's hospital, and we have another clinic in bay view at the bayview pediatric clinic to serve that community. our work has gone on for approximately 10 years. we have partnered for pediatric services with the academy, st. anthony's foundation, as well as glide. we are now in their preschool, serving three- and 4-year-old. we are currently in discussion and have been the last year, with many of the providers to identify the gaps in pediatric services for children and families. and within this community workgroup we are coming up with a definitive plan to address those gaps. as you commissioners are fully aware, the tenderloin is the largest concentration of children of families in the city and county of san francisco, and as a result of that, this is where the child development center has really focused, within the last 10 years, our efforts to serve that community. in closing, i just want to state that we will continue our commitment to expand our services to the children, not only

the location for the new campus at van ness and. will be in closer proximity to the patients that we surf. this means less bus trips, people taking public transparent and also more access to health care. the proposed campus also locates a full-service pediatric emergency and also an inpatient hospital and the highest density of these patients in the city. additionally, they have developed a referral process for care, for all of the patience. this is roughly 25% of the overall program population. they also announced that they are expanding their commitment to the healthy san francisco program. i who want to thank you for your time and i would urge that you except this request. >> is there anyone else whose name i called? >> could afternoon. -- good afternoon. i indeed second director of the asian american and pacific -- we have two offices in the tenderloin, one that focuses on transgendered help. i am here to support the long- range development plan. i believe that the planning department did a comprehensive job analyzing the projec

and market and grove and van ness, what is your first question? >> [inaudible]. >> the pedestrian scramble, we use that when we have a high volume of pedestrians or turning vehicles. and ellen mentioned the conflict of turning vehicles and pedestrians. and we use the pedestrian scrambles in the financial district and south of market and union square when we have tight intersections and in larger intersections, doing a pedestrian scramble would require more signal time and that could have negative impacts on muny -- muni and those are things that we balance. >> and [inaudible] intersection is always my nightmare, and if we re[inaudible] driver's license and make a tough examination and they have to pass every question and if they don't pass, no license, make it work out. [applause] and instead of spending money, educating, there is no need for more education, they know but they ignore it. and we have to make it very, very, enforce the law very strongly. and in england and hong kong, and you know when you cross the street, you cannot pass [inaudible

and i believe there is an exception on van ness and this is called a mistake by caltran. >> i sorried, i used up all my answer time. i can't comment on a specific project, because i know nothing about it. because we don't have hard guidance in the manual, we allow on an exception basis, and the rule of thumb, you don't want the bulb out to intrude the space for the bicycle, and you don't want the bulb out to go further, you don't want to force the

survived earthquake and fire because it was on the west side of van ness. we renovated after eight years of development and construction in 1985, serving residences and businesses for the last 25 years. your staff presented you, which i saw for the first time today, an august 27th four-page executive summary. i didn't hear any reference to that. in the executive summary it mentions the significant unmitigated environmental impacts and those are the items which should have been dressed in the d.i.r. is, how those impacts which, from an economic sense are called external costs. external costs mean the simplest example is pollution where you'd have a polluting facility putting dust and pollution in people's houses. and that's an external cost instead of the old days before they had to have filters and cleaning facilities that guild to the other people. it became an internal cost for the person causing the damage once they were required to reduce the plulings. the cathedral hill project is analogous to that that there are external costs being imposed on other p

van ness and 19th and anything we can do to narrow roads and intersections and keep the corner radius small and big safety improvement, curb extensions and bulbing that curb and on street parking, that can be a solution to increase the crossing of across the streets. one of the things or places you've seen improvements in pedestrian safety is having to do with signals and signal timing. i think they're critical. you stole my thunder on that one. in the course i teach we do use san francisco study, the 25% reduction fact. i was looking at the slide that shows that statistic and that's - that i think - san francisco really is the only place that have or has enough countdown signals to get this sort of good study so continuing to put those in will be a huge benefit. other things with signal timing. someone talked about the double left and right turn lane. how can we provide those across locations with heavy flows. you have to deal with heavy flow of traffic. can we do signal timing to provide that the cross walks are not closed at that time. that's challenge. people want to cross whether

there is no mention of the van ness area plan. this is almost forgotten after that. we would like to see this addressed. this project would represent a huge introduction of corporate dollars into our neighborhood and that will significantly alter our community. the impact of the number of jobs that would be brought in to the community on housing, that alone will force a community that is marginal and already at risk of displacement. we are really asking the commission to take a close look at the area plan and we would like this to be drafted. as community organizers and members, we have been doing a lot of outreach and education to see how our community feels. people were curious why this has been ignored. our community is a very closely watching the situation to see what kind of enforcement will be brought to some already existing lines to see if the developer will not have to follow the law. weakening to ask the planning commission to make sure that this area it is in force and that the housing requirement is as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am the director o

will take the van ness to reach the facility and they project a big traffic impact. the reality is that drivers know that the fastest route will go up seventh street or up ninth. most of all, they avoid driving on market and then next. the assumption that the tenderloin will be spent from increased traffic is ignorant of reality. the second is that if --, that i find it disturbing that they would build a facility here. in the meantime, they would create a speedway for those outside of the neighborhood to have the quickest access to the facility. what we are seeing is that we would exclude the tenderloin resident. there are many of us that would try to make this a more livable neighborhood. there are many excellent businesses that are many times for gotten. what we see here in general is that they are following 8 wal- mart strategy to put competitiveness-competitors out of business. what we are really concerned about is that if they build this facility, they will not only be taken away from st. luke's but also st. francis. many of them go to st. francis. one of the be

. >> could you let me know when we get to van ness and sacramento? >> i sure will. >> i have had a number of drivers be really helpful in terms of getting passengers to move down a few seats so i can sit in the front. >> can somebody give this lady a seat? >> the bus driver was say, "please wait a moment. i want to make sure you have a seat." and i hear him or her announced that he needs a seat for a person with a disability. >> as soon as the person gets on the bus, i ask the passengers if we can have a seat for this person. >> anybody help us? thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> sides, federal law requires that the customers give their seats to the elderly and disabled if they should need it. >> buses should stop in zones that can accommodate multiple lines will stop behind one another. i cannot see what bus is behind -- i'm not even sure if there is a bus behind. the second bus does not come up to the front. oftentimes, it has caused me to be passed up by bosses, by trains, and again, it makes me late for appointments. it makes me late for my job. >>

what has happened is because van ness has gotten sleepy, and when something happens, it is a big deal. we are talking about a major thoroughfare in a major city, which is pretty dead. i am remembering in my mind. when i opened up my club in 1997, the street was utterly dead. it was a significant thoroughfare, but it was totally dead. when i tried to open my business, the police objected, and i had to go to the board of permit appeals for a year and a half in order to beat them. five or six years later, what triggered and drove me to help create the small business assistance center is i had gotten so delayed by the sunni in a business that actually helped greatly turn the street around. so what i try to express to people is that if you want to help revitalize an area in this day and age, you're going to have to include liquor licenses. and with liquor licenses come challenges and an occasional problem. but that is part of the give and take of getting an area revitalized. i'm just putting it out there, that this seems like reaction area legislation on behalf of the supervisor, which i c