good afternoon, president wolfram. i do want to say just as an drukt opening remark, i think the most important -- we want to make sure we flag that for you. you know, the -- there's a number of reasons why the project is proposing to do so. most importantly, these buildings have been in the -- unused for about 40 years and they're in a state of severe disarray and decay. the roofs were removed from the buildings and they're substantially degraded. i think there's some dispute about the availability of station a as an age resource. i think -- as a significant resource. but the building has lost its integrity because half of it had been demolished. i'll show you images of the buildings as we go through. this is station a, this is a building that is a very long brick building, half of which was demolished quite sometime ago, so you can see what's left is a long wall that i think is quite architecturally interesting, and a lot of people i think look at it and think it's interesting, but it's actually an interior wall of t

>> president wolfram: calling this hearing to order. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation regular hearing for wednesday, august 1st, 2018. we remind members of the public that the commission will not tolerate any obstructions or outbursts of this time. please silencer mobile devices. we will take role at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner hyland to be absent today. on the agenda is general public comment. this time members may address members of the commission. with respect to agenda items, the opportunity to address the commission may be afforded when the meeting is addressed -- the item is addressed in the meeting. you have up to three minutes. i have no speaker cards. >> president wolfram: does any member of the count -- public want to comment on any nonagenda item? seeing then, we will close this. 's benign we are at director's announcement. >> vice-president hyland: -- item two. >> good afternoon commissioners. a few items to share with you. first of all, please join me in welcoming the i

that would be the motion. >> president wolfram: good idea. >> thank you. >> president wolfram: can we have a second? >> second. >> clerk: very good, commissioners. there's a motion that has been seconded to approve the certificate of appropriateness with modifications for substitute materials and for staff review on details. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 6-0, placing us on item ten, case number 2015-13303 ca, this is a certificate of appropriateness. >> good afternoon, commissioners, rebecca salgado, planning department staff. this is located on the east side of battery street between green stratand vallejo street. the property is located within the northeast 10 landmark district. the property was initially constructed as a two story building in 1917 and received a third story in 1938. the proposed scope of work includes exterior and interior alternatations and change from a commercial-industrial space to a museum. it includes the creation of a wider main entrance, the rehabilitation of the remaining historic steel win

>> that concludes our presentation. >> president wolfram: okay. is there any member of the public that wishes to come forward? yes, please come to the microphone. >> hello. i'm peter lindenfall, and i director the potrero hill rehabilitation project. i just want to emphasize the importance of the preserving the brick buildings on this site, particularly station a, the gas house, the gas meter shop, and the gas compressor building. a lot of these buildings are unfamiliar with people principally because you can't see them. they're fenced off at the moment by -- excuse me, by pg&e fencing. i've taken one picture of the north end of station a, and you can only see parts of the gate house, gas meter shop and gas compressor building. there's been a lot of talk about maintaining the industrial feeling of the neighborhood, and because of that, i think it would be crazy to take any of these down. i mean, using industrial materials would be no substitute for saving buildings that actually are part of the historic fabric of the neighborhood and are very beau

wolfram all said. we should be looking at $50 million of support for this, not even $20. the idea that we would be looking at cutting the $20 to $15 is rather appalling. you know, we've had these thing go from the recommendation of 15 to a first estimate of 30 that would be budgeted to 20. and now we're talking about cutting it further. our resources are absolutely critical and it indisputably is the most key historic public resource in the district. we need this for our residents and for tourism. it's not a key tourist zone. i'm reminded that the national trust will be out here. not only is this an endangered resource, but they're meeting here for the first time in 20 years. if we do another cut to this, my message to them is that san francisco really doesn't support its historic resources. please don't let this happen. i would like to present a recommendation that we are standing behind our most important resources. thank you. >> good afternoon. cynthia gomez, local 2. you heard only a few items before and i will keep my remarks brief because i know that i'm still getti

anita diaz, jim warshel, cynthia gomez, anthony vercamp, mike buehler, andrew wolfram, cindy heightsman, jonathan haber, and susan millhouse. >> thank you to the committee. i'm anita denz, d-e-n-z. i'm here to represent the victoria alliance of san francisco. we're the city's oldest, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to historic preservation. founded in 1973, we protested the destruction of the paris dome and went on to see that. we've raised and awarded $400,000 in grant-worthy projects. many went to fine arts, windmills of golden gate park. when it comes to the old mint, we're fashion at about this historical landmark of the city. we've endowed it with $23,000 in grants over the years. most recently in 2014, we were able to repaint the two historic receiving rooms, cashier's room and receiving room. we had some pushback from the office of economic work force development about this because they were taken over stewardship, but we persisted and the rooms are glorious today and the city and their events contractor, nonplus ultra, has benefited greatly from these rooms. the

. >> president wolfram: calling this hearing to order.d welcome to the san francisco historic preservation regular hearing for wednesday, august 1st, 2018. we remind members of the public that the commission will not tolerate any obstructions or outbursts of this time. please silencer mobile devices. we will take role at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner hyland to be absent today. on the agenda is general public comment. this time members may address members of the commission.

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that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that >> president wolfram: calling this hearing to order. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation regular hearing for wednesday, august 1st, 2018.

many of you have be leading us because of the leadership skills you are learning on >> president wolfram: calling this hearing to order. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation regular hearing for wednesday, august 1st, 2018. we remind members of the public that the commission will not tolerate any obstructions or outbursts of this time. please silencer mobile devices. we will take role at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner hyland to be absent today. on the agenda is general public comment. this time members may address members of the commission. with respect to agenda items, the opportunity to address the commission may be afforded when the meeting is addressed -- the item is aes