commissioner wu? >vice-president cindy wu: i want to thank staff for their very thorough report. there have been a lot of proposals here for looking at whether or not the golf course is appropriate or looking at other things brought up, but within the confines of this project as proposed, it seems to me the preliminary mitigated negative declaration is active. move to uphold. >> is there an opinion from the city attorney about what this motion should be. >> deputy city attorney. yes, you would make a motion to uphold and for the department to finalize the preliminary mitigated. if this is what you want to do. >> second. >> commissioners, if there is nothing further i can call the motion. >> commissioner sugaya? >>commissioner hisashi sugaya: i'm not an expert on hydrology and biology, if you presented me with something that had to do with land use and historic preservation, i might have a different opinion. but it doesn't seem there has been a fair argument to over turn the pmd. >> commissioner borden? >>commissioner gwyneth borden: i would add a baseline to that. it would be to

commissioner sugaya and commissioner wu. smoomdz that places unanimously and item 6 will be heard as the first item under our regular calendar >> item 8 consideration of the draft minutes for january 9, 2014. >> is there any public comment on this item? on those drafts minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya >> i move to approve the minutes for january 9th. >> commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commission chair wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes >> i went at the request of some neighborhood folks in the bayview to look at the site where the mother brown special project for the homes structure. there are so many interesting businesses like a chemical will he testing lab it tests toxins in the food and it's where tests are conducted. another place i saw next door had mick tractors and does a lot of work around pets and par suddenly. it's favshg to see this. and their concerns are whether or not the location of the shelter, of course, is

commissioner wu?ith >vice-president cindy wu: move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner moore, sugaya, wu, fong. that passes unanimously 5-0. places you under commission matters item 7 comments and questions. >> doesn't appear to be any. >> very good that will put you under department matters. item 8. >> thank you. we'll be presenting our first on the series of hearings on the budget. two things to report on, last night we had the public meeting on the release of the first phase of the urban forest master plan. we had a very good turnout. we probably had 150 people in the room. supervisor wiener came. it was a very good meeting. the focus was on the street tree issue and how to maintain and grow that over time and along the maintenance of that issue. part of much of the discussion was on the maintenance of street trees which the city has been of late turning over to private property owners and the goal of the plan is to allow that the maintenance responsibility to go back to the city. supervisor wie

. >> commissioner wu and president fong. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes - that motion passes 5 to one commissioners and as it was acknowledged you should i believe establish a date. maybe we can check with 0 staff important that. i think that has to be part of the motion >> yeah. i think on or after january but we proposed february 27th so it maybe poushd anti as well. >> on the resolution? okay change that date >> so that would be the motion to february 22nd and - >> 27 and there was mentioned by one member of the public to extend the comment period i'm awe memorable to that. when was the comment period to end >> january 15th. i think there's certain perimeters but we could extend it to january 25th >> that's fine. >> so commissioner antonini is that a motion to extend the comment period until january 25th. >> initiate with - yeah, that's the date of the hearing and a excuse me. >> the element heard on february 27th. >> yes. >> commissioner borden did you - >> who was the seconder. >> i didn't second but i woul

commissioner wu. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner moore. and commissioner sugaya >> commissioners first on your calendars are items proposed for continuance. for 410 townsend street as proposed for continuance january 16, 2014. for the next two cases at the 1433 bush street request for authorization and surveillance are proposed for indefinite. under your regular calendar item 17 for case requests for planning code contemplate is requested to continue this matter until january 16, 2014. i have one speaker card related to 17, however, i'm not sure it's regarding the continuance >> so let me call the name. richard >> and sir, your comments at this time are limited only to the matter of continuance. >> thank you. i have brought written comments from a letter we consisted electronically i'm with the law firm and thank you president fong. i'm here representing the united service west and their 5 thousand workers and their 40 thousand members throughout the state of san francisco. we

commissioner wu? >vice-president cindy wu: to the dr. requester, i hear your concern but to the scope of the type of project we see, the addition doesn't seem to be extraordinary or exceptional to me. i'm in support of taking dr.. commissioner sugaya? >> >>commissioner hisashi sugaya: yes, i have a concern about the floor flan on the ground level. it looks like it could be converted very easily. i'm going to make a motion to take dr. with a note of special consideration that this is a single family dwelling. >> second. >> commissioner moore? >>commissioner kathrin moore: i think i'm in support of what commissioner sugaya is saying. i want clarification on the first floor of the hall means that it is basically a space and a column and leads to what is described as an office which has all the makings of a bedroom because normally in an office you might have a sink, you could have a toilet but you don't have a bathtub nor a closet. not in that arrangement. i think the restriction would be important and otherwise i don't think the size of th

commissioner wu and president fong. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and place you under the draft minutes for december 12, 2013, marry commissioners, i want to point out for the december 19th minutes on page 13 of 15 the resolution number is listed as 19055 for item 18 b. that resolution was incorrectly assigned >> any public utilities any public comment on the draft minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya >> move adaptation of the manipulates of december he 12 and 19. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes as corrected. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner wu. and president fong. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to zero and place you on item 5 commissions comments and questions >> commissioner moore. >> i'd like to ask whether or not the commission rules we approved will come back for us to see the revisions. if i recall correctly director williams as you stated i listened to the replay

as well as the representatives saint bonding if his >> thank you supervisor kim. >> thank you chair wu. doesn't to side you and all our commissioners. actually, i think that planning has gone through the details of the presentation but our office supports this golden gate from r.c. 4 to r.c. depression. just a little bit about boniface one of the reasons we support this the church is an important asset to the neighborhood it houses the academy ate an amazing 4 to 89 program that is larger free to the folks in our foivend attained. they also house a program in the morning where they allow anyone off the streets to come in to sleep or get breakfast when the shelter is closed. they've been doing love things it's an important block st. anthony's is rebuilding their kitchen and one hundred units of affordable housing next door. we have saint anthony's across the street their service our low income population in the neighborhood. i want to appreciate the work coming from the neighborhood this guarantees that the rescoping is in the public interests that i they establish the project given the

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commissioner wu. and president fong >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to gore and places you under the comments and questions. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. the first item is i am scheduled to increase go a surgical procure on the 16 and won't be in attendance and there's a chance i may not be here on the 23rd and it's hard to change the scheduling of that procu procure so to gossiping give you accurate notice for the 23rd and possibly the 16. open another item i'd like to recognize that tomorrow is my fabricates a one hundred that birthday and he served as a commissioner in pleasant town and they did a good job out there if you've had the opportunity to velocity that town. they were one of the first few opportunity towns to keep their main street and enduring takes place out in the main street and it's the site of a lot of parades and another thing they did acquit well, there me made some good improvements over the years and eliminated some buildings that were built in the 50s not

commissioner wu. president fong. >> what say you. >> close the issue. >> we are going to tack ayou. >> welcome pack to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for dumb. i'd like to remind members of public the commission didn't allow disruption and when speaking before the commission if you care to please don't state your name for the record. commissioners we left off in your regular calendar. 15 d request for discretionary review >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm david lindsey from department staff i'm discussing discretionary case 15 filed been an altercation permit application to add a ground floor of a semistory house on the properties open the west side of the street between euclid to the south of laurel village the second would be behind the two car garages. the dr request was filled by peter who resides in a two-story building diagonally cross the street from the subject prop point public position was summarized in the staff report we've since that time, have received many add

and commissioner wu and president fong. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. commissions that places you on 19 a and b. at the 2353 lombardy street and the zone administrator will consider a request for rear yard modification. the project before you is a conditional use for the creation of a lot of size in excess of 10 thousand square feet. the project involves demolishing a single story vacant space longed on the south side of the street to create a 12 thousand plus loot lot it will contain two bases that total 289 hundred i won't tell and 24 dwelling units above. the department rooms approval with conditions. the excited vacant space is 24 hundred i won't tell and was occupied by a recuperate. it's locate on both subject lots and it's uses as uncovered parking. there's an easement on number 26 from a rear awe butt lot this provides assess into lrd

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commissioner borden >> commissioner hillis arrest commissioner moore commissioner sugaya and commissioner wu. >> that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you on item 17. at 1700 my own street. please not excuse me. that on november 7, 2013, the project sponsor asked the project to be continued and it was super is seated to january 2, 0014, with a vote of 3. commissioners the project sponsor is requesting that item be continued indefinitely >> (calling names). >> and this is any public comment? only on the matter of continuance that's only what we're discussing first >> thank you. i'm candice mckenzie you've received a letter from me asking you to reject at&ts project. and requested an approval of the union association representing the cal association and other associations independent community members including from the nearby sherman school. the design element of spur recks the unsuitability as is making could site 2 1/2 years ago now, it's still unsuitable that were it can't be transferred to another site. this commission approved those to deny the application. i ask you what f

. >> commissioner wu. >> thanks on this case in particular i do think the project sponsor has followed the rules and regulations. to commissioner moore's thought. we recently changed the criteria again for mergers even under the new mergers this exists. there are a number of working groups to work on the issue of affordability. maybe we should look at if mergers are appropriate or not >> commissioner moore. i like to psyche those people in city government who are entertaining the issues to look at closely with the department at the section of the code. we have a finite number of land pickup truck >> once this merger take place and the lots are annoyed the way the floor plan is laid out it's not going to be going back to two units unless someone spends a lot of money. then you have a house in this area that essentially a ann anonymously. and that's what i'm concerned about. and it's different i think from condo mergers we've had the one where they were worthy a couple of million dollars that got merged south of market it seems different in this case it's on its own piece of land so to s

commissioner wu excuse me. that motion fails 3 to 2. commissioner borden >> i'm going to ask for a continuance. >> february 6th would be the next quorum. thank you commissioner borden there's a motion for february 6th did he hear a second >> second. >> on that motion to continue to february 6th. commissioner borden. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. and commission chair wu so it passes with commissioner moore voting against. and that will place you on item 12 for the informational presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners claudia flores i think you're getting copies of the presentation. i'm with the staff of the other city departments from the mta and the workers development to give you an overview on a new program. this includes participation from as i mention from the puc and the recreation of the parks department and the mayor's office of housing and the san francisco public health department. before we launch into this i'm going to turn it over to to ken rich who is here to address you >> good afternoon ken rich from o e

a big day. >> wu was raised in monte vista high. the first tour for u-kiss. >>> here are students at ingrid b. lacey middle school celebrating 49ers day. the entire student body and teachers wore red and gold yesterday. this little guy is keeping close track of the 49ers. we'd like to see your video or photos. you can post them on our abc 7 news facebook page or tweet them to us @abc7newsatbayarea. >>> they'll be indoors for at least the morning. how is the weather going to hold? >> actually, our weather is pretty good. we had some mist and drizzle, a few sprinkles here and there. that has pushed on towards the south. live doppler 7 hd showing clear patches. that's what you can expect overnight tonight. we will look for fog to develop early tomorrow morning simply because the ground has a little bit of moisture and radiation and cooling, so we will look for a little bit of fog development. in fact, you can see in just the last few frames right here, all wait down towards the golden gate bridge, a little bit of fog developing there.

commissioner wu. >> thanks. so on the issue of the amendments that empowering had submitted i see the ones in the actual rules, you know, have been reflected for for the plan submittal guidelines i'm supportive of it >> commissioners, if you adapt the rules and regulars p that will become part or part of the process and the planning director can include those. i'd like to address a couple of those suggestions in her that you've - okay in any case if you choose to adapt those changes we can modify the plan for the guidelines documents >> would that be a separate process than the item we're taking today or look at the rules and instructions. >> your adapting them by reference the commission would be adapting the submittal guidelines the department uses by reference and the department issues those plans. >> okay. >> i'm sorry go ahead. >> so the plans are for the submittal guidelines i'm trying to understand your process what's our really to making amendments. >> i guess the way it would work we certainl

. >> commissioner wu. >> thanks yesterday the mayor issued a mayoral drive about the direction of affordable housing. i think at some point the staff will tell us how that will be implemented within the planning department >> commissioner moore. >> another bright light we all get an e-mail and this is i'm not sure i'm pronouncing this credible but opening up trains bay housing and we have especially building under the example of what we want to do. you should click through the pictures and i was happy to get that news this morning >> commissioners if there's nothing further we can powerful on to item 11 planning commission rules and regulations. commissioners you first heard this 20 two weeks ago on december 5th with proposed amendments distributed to you at that time. you reviewed those and provided our comments back to me. i've tried to incorporate those into the proposed amendments that were forwarded to you last week. i want to make note those rules and regulations as they are before you and your consideration for adaptation today are challenged. there's a specific citing of earlier 5 of

commissioner wu, moore, commissioner sugaya. commissioners first on your calendar items proposed for continuance point 14.27 improvement and habitat continuance to january 9, 2014. >> >> zoning map amendments. those are all the continueances i have >> any public speakers on items proposed for continuance. >> this is on dolores and 17th? >> no. we are on items for continuance. >> yeah. this was a notice. >> right now we are talk ing about the items. 333 dolores is on item 13. you can speak on that item when it's called up. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners antonini? >> move to continue the items. >> second. >> on that motion, commissioners to continue the matters and proposed. commissioner antonini, moore, sugaya, wu. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. places you in consent calendar. it may be voted on by roll call vote. it shall be moved from the calendar and considered at a future hearing. item 3. 1650 mission street. item 4, 1423, lily street. request for condom

commissioner wu. and president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously have to zero. now that you've done that you can tape our 2014 consent calendar. the hearings scheduled for the 2014 proposed meeting dates. commissioners i've provide you with a draft hearing schedule for 2014. january 2nd has been cancelled as a result of this hearing schedule but it will appear here. january 30th is a fifth thursday of the month and you generally cancel those hearings. on thursday may 29 is a fifth thursday. july 3rd is cancelled for the jout. july 31st is a fifth thursday and you generally tack a hi, ate in the last two weeks of august. and then there's the holiday for thursday september 25th i believe it's rancho an that's being recked and october 30th is scheduling cancelled it's a fifth meeting. and thursday, november 30th is thanksgiving and christmas is cancelled and january 1st for new years eve. i would recommend you cancelled an additional meeting between january 30th and may 29 you'

commissioner wu? >vice-president cindy wu: ju a couple comments. so it's really great to see increased staffing for development coordination of housing policy, that is clearly one of the major issues the department is dealing with. i thought it was appropriate to take leadership on that. in looking at the planning program, i see there is these larger projects and what's captured under neighborhoods like a deeper investment into needs assessment of community. i just want to sort of emphasize that part and i ask that that gets equal time as the larger development projects. lastly seeing the plan around the implementation, a reminder that we had talked about getting updates on some of the plans especially around the eastern neighborhoods plans. >> commissioner borden? >>commissioner gwyneth borden: i want to thank you. i just had a question about the permit tracking system when we might see a live demo of that system again. i know we saw an earlier vision of it. it would be great to have it here for the public to see how it works and the other improve

on that motion commissioner antonini, borden, hillis, moore, sugaya, chair wu. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. places you on item 12. hyde street 1040 hyde street. >> good afternoon, vice-president wu and members of the commission and department members staff. the item before you is a request for conditional use authorization to establish a bar doing business as liquid gold located within the polk street. the applicant wants to sell a wine. the definition of a bar allows abc license to sell beer and wine and on sale beer. the project sponsor has agreed to only pursue a license 42 an allowing the sale of beer and wine on or off the premises. it would occupy a 140 skwaeft -- square feet. three letters of opposition from the neighborhood of concentration of bars and alcohol establishments in the neighborhood and eight letters in support and concerned about the concentration of bars in the neighborhood and the impact on their business and 60 signatures opposed to the project. many were received after your packets were delivered. i have them here. the department

. >> on that motion, [roll call vote taken], antonini, hillis, moore, sugaya, wu. that passes unanimously 6-0. >> all right. welcome back to san francisco planning commission meeting for december 12, 2013, >> please turn off all cellphones and electronic devices. >> commissioners you left off on item 13. 13. 2013.0663c m. smith; 4155 558-63222 333 dolores street - east side between 16th and 17th streets; lot 057 in assessor's block 3567 - request for conditional use authorization, pursuant to planning code sections 303, to amend motion no. 16683 which authorized children's day school to install three temporary classroom structures on the property. the conditions of approval contained in the motion stated that the structures must be removed within 10 years from the date of occupancy 20144. children's day school is requesting to retain the structures on the site for an additional 10.5 years 20244. the property is located within a rm-1 residential, mixed, low-densityy district, and 40-x height and bulk district. this action constitutes the approval action for the proj

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for wu, it's a dream come true. >> i was younger i passed by warfield theater all the time.o i dreamed of coming here to perform. >> wow. pretty good. >> still to come on abc7 news at 4:00 death of hundreds of birds and why measures to prevent them may cause problems >> new jersey governor christy's response to a set of allegations. >> with plaque in arteries is a good thing some scans >> update on breaking news, this is kimble island. most of the smoke is a home now engulfed and that area behind it is burning, too. we saw what appeared to be a water tower just now fall to the ground. an issue here firefighters are trying to respond tochlt because of the location it's difficult for crews to get there. we do understand firefighters have been trying to make their way day. the only water they've seen is coming from the fire boat right now. spencer christian is here. are the winds a factor? >> latest reading is winds at 8 to 10 miles per hour in that area. it's light this, is not one of the higher elevations. you do see smoke across the area that happens when you have a fire lik

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