thank you, commissioners jim follower chair of the western selma task force the departments decisiono dump 70 or 80 more cars into ralph represents another broken promise to the accept it after assurance by the planning department that additional protection would be put in place to moderate new development jimmy john john ram was represent we were pitting policies in place to enhance the quality of life the board of supervisors told us to ironically this department will destroy the intimacy that makes those neighbors popular yesterday was the first time planning staff was willing to sit down and talk with us it immediately became apparent that staff p had no idea of the comprehensive conditions and their location of the driveway would make it worse we're asking for a continuance we think you should explorer easiest locations that's completely lacking in their analysis the driveway in its current location creates for problems than it solves we also think you should take a look at the directors driveway location for new depression e extremity i thought that would be a internal document

. >> members of the commission i'm a resident in western selma i do a lot of my work in the brainwash learned the big empty building was being torn do you think i'm speaking in support of this to commercial corridor this is desperately given the death of bikers open fillmore it is clear that putting the ramps american people fulsome street brings hundreds of commuters on bike there's a garage on ralph i urge you to support this project. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon commissioners thank you for your time and for our patience most of all i'm susan and i own the building next door to the project in question the building that has become known as brainwash i basketball that building in 1987 to make brainwash a cafe laundromat and continues to this day identify been impressed and like looking at the architecture project that's been done as opposed to a blank concrete wall that takes up 3 kwaerts of this building i oppose, however, strongly any rapping on fulsome street i do so for multiple reasons as a small business owners and an owner of that building i pay the city for ta

downtown plan, mission bay south of market rezoning realistically, eastern neighborhoods area plans, western selma, central selma, transit center how close and what overlap on this plan the second thing i want you to pay attention to transit and traffic what mechanisms happened last night there was a major ball park in the entire south of market and in the financial district on transit going to the bridge blocking all the intersections all the way around wherever those covets backs up happen the first one is the victim is transit circulation is there any proposal or any mechanism roadway there's a debriefly of what happens when traffic comes to a grinding halt muni lost runs that's i don't understand that the area around this project has been totally bunker because of the combination of the salesforce and the oracle stopping of traffic open howard street as well as fourth street what mechanisms do we have and should we have to correct traffic studies and projections all the traffic things in the eir and every other eir have infancies because they're not real the real world of fifbt of market they'

at different alternatives from fulsome street the length and turning it into a two-lane and the western selma and the supervisor many of us that that ultimate it could be a great thing we're looking at other solutions one of them has things on both sides of the street we want to mayor we understand if it works we all i think there's a lot of support for turning it 20/20 way. >> commissioner richards. >> just a couple more things i'm sure we won't have moisten solid for the streetscape enhancements for student safety working with the office getting fund to the power that be from the city to make things happen and the other things with the gentleman we did some things last night based on integrity and we - he did a project in upper market and we did looking at the landmarking so you say you're going to do something you do it thank you. >> commissioner fong. >> i'm in support of the driveway on ralph but vote for a continuance. >> please call the question. >> wait staff has a question. >> only real quick to address sometimes from commissioner johnson and commissioner moore if a continuance is co

intention of fulsome street as grand boulevard there's a tension between grand boulevard and our western selma plan that preserving the small streets they're part of town with if i parks and provide respite for residential neighborhoods and bicyclists and our preservation of residential enclaves preserves all the things we have walkability and vicinitycy and pedestrian safety but we need time to work this out democratically and ralph street is not a service corridor and shouldn't be treated as one thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hi, i'm jerry jessica a homeownership on ralph street and thank you for hearing our comments i'm in favor of this development and i and i appreciate how the developers have worked with the community and i'm asking for a continuance because of the concerns about the driveway location i feel there are conditions of ralph street are poor for the amount of traffic and i don't feel that the planning commission has had a chance to hear all the issues surrounding that i want a continuance to understand the full issue. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. my n

bay lighting steer with a large parking lot is split zoning between the eastern neighborhood and western selmaand the building fingertip is very simple l-shaped building focused towards fulsome street underground floor and residential and the garage entry ramp the last meeting was verbose we'll talk about the architecture this is an elevation prospective at the corner of ralph and fulsome street we begin to look at the architecture we've thought about ralph street and fulsome we think about them having a different altitude fulsome is a larger scale and larger building components trying to pick views from the portion of embarcadero after retail uses other than the ground floor the brick material is supported with a care medic tile element it sits next to the windows and the ceramic tile moved back and forth and the on the corner we have a large metal aluminum grid frame and large windows and as mentions we're proposing an extension of that frame-up to 9 top floor there's a series of private terrace with the set back of 15 feet known as to commissioner moore's questions and suggestions about pot

60 or 45 or courage the department to bring it forward we'll have the same thing with western - with central selma. >> deputy city attorney marilyn burn if i could jump in i want to note ms. jones notes it is the prerogative of the commission to extend the comment period as with 5 m it gets the commission in their judgment the comment period should be extended the commission takes a vote simply because the ero went through her analysis not to exceed didn't mean the commission can't do so. >> thank you commissioner richards and i think hester mentioned something about the mayor's office with the mo d would you that that is extraordinary circumstances with multiple files and places hard to get to them. >> that's really a case by case question you know the draft eir is intended to contain the information this is the review period of the draft eir specifically. >> i think the access to file you know an important issue in its own right may or may not have any bearing on whether the review period for the draft eir is sufficient okay. thank you. >> commissioners that place you under general public commen