this was offset the vast majority of inclusionary units that would of been required under the van ness special use district, as i mentioned earlier, and these units will target low and very low-income households in san francisco and will become part of the permanently affordable san francisco housing stock. the second component of the housing payment to the mayor's office on housing will provide at least 135 down payment loans, such as cpmc households seeking to buy a home in san francisco. this will be limited to people in the work force income category. employees cannot buy homes that and subject to an alice act in the last 10 years, -- subject to an ellis act in the last 10 years. there is also a share in appreciation, based on the split formula used by the mayor's office on housing and the current downpayment assistance loan program. these recaptured funds will then be diverted back to the mayor's office affordable housing funds and will help complete destruction of the 190 units i mentioned previously. finally, while cpmc will make payments, they will be subject to a payment escal

i go down to the van ness special use district, and i see , on the part recommendation, reducing the permitted high of projection signs from 24 feet to 20 feet. no, about that. but businesses would be required to turn of illumination when the businesses close. my experience with this, although not in the van ness special used district, but a flower shop in the richmond district, with a projecting sign that was eliminated, -- illuminated, i had that sign on a timer. even if i closed at 6:00 or 7:00, it would go off at 10:00 or 11:00. it was advertising for me within reasonable hours. if that was true, with a very

regarding van ness corridor, night lighting, i am all for using reasonable energy code. but general street lighting on van ness is designed at the level, which if you would turn out current illumination of commercial, it would be below standard. the street is so dark that even the new residential buildings, because the way the lobbies are designed, do not give you the comfortable lighting in barn and in the middle of the night as you have in other parts of the city. there is a standard for illumination, and i would hope that you check that what you are pursuing this code. in the long run, it might work. at the moment, it does not. i am just throwing that out because there are some reality to these changes. generally, i am happy to see the thoroughness and the challenges this particular dialogue is causing, so i hope that you will come back and everything is resolved. commissioner olague: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: i do not get the connection between all the proposed changes, other than the happen to be together. we have nice words upfront about how it will

number one, the van ness special use district requires a roughly 3 to 1 residential sort of production versus commercial production. based on a sort of detailed process that the community advocates engaged them with the mayor's office and the mayor's office on housing and the planning department, we landed on roughly a 1.37 $6 million square foot residential obligation. if you essentially take 20% of the square footage not for circulation, which is roughly stated in the area, that brings it down to about 1.1 million square feet. if you averaged two units per 1000 square feet, that is about 1100 units, and the inclusionary obligation would go between 165 to 220 units, so our target, unit production goal, was based upon that peace. and that is what we are negotiating for. >> so just to try to conclude quickly, and we will then be available for all of your general questions, referring to transportation in the development agreement, the development of the new cathedral hill hospital is expected to impact munis service because of increased traffic as well as additional passengers riding nea

my name is joe fang and i own a business on van ness. as you all know, especially supervisor chu here, the van ness corridor is in dire need of help. we have drug addicts and homeless people wandering the streets at night and it's unsafe to walk. when i first heard about this project four years ago, i applauded it but in over four years that i've been watching this project, my mood has gone from jubilation to impatience to despair. the city already has the dubious distinction of being one of the most difficult cities in the country if not the world to do business and this project is a prime example of what misguided democracy has done to this country of ours and the endless debates to protect a few minority groups will discourage productive projects and investors such as this one. in any other city in the world, a project such as this would be welcome with open arms and city officials would bend over backwards to make it happen. i implore you, city officials, look past the benefits of a few minority interest groups. the city is broke. th

restrictions in the van ness corridor. i think it has ramifications for the other areas too. where we are eliminating the minimum requirements for parking, but what are we replacing it with? restrictions on maximums? >> the maximum for residential, i believe, -- the proposal is to change from one parking space to every four units. the idea is to create the maximum 150%. commissioner antonini: so you could go from on to two by cu?

were able to achieve together, such as the completion of the environmental impact report for the van ness bus a rapid transit line. i project this is poised to move into implementation, and one that i believe will change for the better, the way people see public transportation in san francisco. on high-speed rail, we spent a very productive year forging a unified san francisco position in the face of rapid change them in the policy environment both in washington, d.c., and in san francisco. i believe we will see caltrain electrification in high-speed rail kunduz san francisco at center than most people predict. we only realize the dream, the downtown high-speed rail terminal, but we're also known to show the way for the rest of the state. our coalition building worked in this area, and it will be a major legacy. i am proud of the work we have done on the presidio parkway. we're poised to open the first phase to traffic in early february, and our work on the public-private partnership has said legal challenges all the way back to the state supreme court. again, we are blazing new trails in

actually, there's one on 245 van ness, too. anyway, i think that, you know, if people really want to get the paint, there adequately able to do so. president olague: this is a really difficult one for me. we heard a chase on california a few weeks ago, too, and i was torn on that one. i think some of the formula retail discussions we have are pretty complex, and i look forward to them becoming a little bit more in depth when we start meeting, hopefully, with the small business commission and have more public vetting of these things. there are areas of the city were these discussions to not even occur, which is maybe why when you walk down market street, you see about three walgreen's and two cvs' every other block or something. there are things like that that eventually might become part of a larger discussion in the city. but on this one, i am actually leaning more towards, i guess, the kind of quandary that was raised by the middle polk association, which is to have a vacant storefront that has been vacant for a few years. an

i am sorry, like the tenderloin or along van ness. it removes the 1 to 1 requirements, making this consistent and removes the minimum parking requirement in broadway and the north beach commercial districts and the chinatown mixed use districts, and also increases the authority of the zoning administrator to waive parking requirements under section 161. the proposed legislation also proposes changes that will help preserve historic buildings and expands the tdr program to allow development rights to be transferred route the c3. currently, they are only allowed to be transferred in the individual c3's. and there is something to facilitate adaptive re-use, and this is also currently allowed for article 10 buildings, which are landmark buildings. it gives the authority to credit off-site publicly accessible open space towards open space requirements in article 10 and 11 buildings and allows them to waive certain code requirements when dealing with residential use. currently, many of these come in for variances, and these are often grante

luke's, two at van ness and geary also referred to the new cathedral hill campus and one new building at the davy campus. on the west side of van ness between geary and post at the site of the closed cathedral hill hotel, cpmc proposes construction of a new 555-bed acute care hospital. it will be 15 stories and approximately 265 feet tall. across the street on the east side of van ness between geary and cedar, cpmc proposes construction of a new nine-story approximately 130 foot tall medical office building. the two buildings will be connected underground by a tunnel at the garage level. once the hospital construction is complete, cpmc plans to transfer the acute care services of their california and pacific campuses to this new cathedral hill hospital. at the st. luke's campus, cpmc proposes to construct a new five-story, 80-bed accuse care hospital. the new hospital would be located to the west of the existing hospital tower, over the

the van ness windy environmental impact statement and report, the draft, as you know, is circulating. i want to remind people that the close of public comment is in december 19, just next monday, and that the public can obtain information about the project in the eir at our website. i encourage everybody to heed that comment deadline. we have reached out to over 20 state groups in the last month since the eir draft was published. i anticipate that we will have the final ready for you to adopt in the fall. we have also been working diligently on the update of the countywide plan. i will not say a lot about that, but we're now at the stage where we have developed a framework for evaluation of projects and have over 100 projects submitted by the public and public agencies over the past couple of months. and we're now beginning to go through the evaluation of those projects for performance. the public is invited to go to our website on the transportation plan, which is www.movesmartsf.com, to look at the details on what we're doing on that. i am very pleased to report that the jfk bikeway

i go down to the van ness special use district, and i see , on the part recommendation, reducing the permitted high of projection signs from 24 feet to 20 feet. no, about that. but businesses would be required to turn of illumination when the businesses close. my experience with this, although not in the van ness special used district, but a flower shop in the richmond district, with a projecting sign that was eliminated, -- illuminated, i had that sign on a timer. even if i closed at 6:00 or 7:00, it would go off at 10:00 or 11:00. it was advertising for me within reasonable hours. if that was true, with a very small neighborhood business, it is going to be even more necessary for larger businesses. so i would question that. however, i think the department has done an unbelievable job with this massive piece of legislation in their recommendations. on the whole, with these few questions, i think they are great and i look forward to february. commissioner olague: commissioner fong? commissioner fong: i am glad we are continuing the item and giving it more time to mature. there are so

muchos que no sabian, el primer ataque se dio el pasado 18 de noviembre aqui en las calles 24 y south van nesslos dos casos ocurrieron temprano en la manana entre las tres y las seis. las dos victimas eran mujeres que iban caminando solas en la calle 24... luis que vive en el area, ya no esta llevando a sus ninos a la escuela a pie....