you. commissioner wu: i would like to ask a question to understand what this eir would cover compared to what might be covered in the future. in most interested in shadows, but what i think you were saying just now that has not been decided was whether the impact would be looked at cumulatively versus building by building, but if you could describe to me what analysis -- environmental analysis will be done if this eir is passed -- what analysis will be done on each of the individual buildings. >> i can tell you what is the untypically. this is a programmatic eir, so it is looking at what could potentially occur under the proposed zoning changes. it is not looking at individual building proposals. so what we would intend to do is in exploring each individual building, we will do specific shadow studies to identify the changes in shadow square-foot hours that would occur on each part, so that is how we would analyze shadow for any individual buildings. the expectation is that any individual building would result in less shadow than what was analyzed because the eir looking programmatic we did n

you. >> any other public comment? commissioner wu: if i could ask a question. is it correct that you just said there was an actual loss and the absolute number of sros in for-profit buildings? >> yes. we did not have the resources -- we have a list of the sro properties. what we will do is to make an accounting. we were not able to do it in time for this presentation. commissioner wu: it would be great to get that information. in the future, it goes to the student housing legislation items on our agenda later today. i host: -- i also wanted to ask, coming off the hearings about affordable housing, is the plan to include in every single report the quarterly inventory? >> that was mentioned and the hearings. we have been working on this is on, a template that will be included in the reports. >> it is also something that we propose to -- that we proposed last year. we have been working on the template to figure out if it is an easy way christoph to include that information. -- easy way for staff to include the information. >> in 2011, we almost matched the golal. o

you. >> commissioners, i believe the project sponsor's ask for it to be open until 130 a m knack -- 1:30 a.m.? no, 1:00 a.m., ok. commissioner wu: a originally you have proposed the 12:30 p.m. closing time. can you give me a sense of how you came to that time? >> it kind of provides somewhat of a middle ground, seeing that this is a small-scale commercial district. we discuss what our recommendation is and possibly coming back again for the additional hours. commissioner wu: i do not have any problems with the motion as stated. president fong: could you call the question please? >> commissioners, the motion before you is for approval with the hours until 12:30 a.m. sunday to wednesday and 1:00 a.m. thursday through saturday and with the conditions to include a restaurant and bar. on that motion -- commissioner antonini: aye. commisioner miguel: aye. commissioner wu: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner moore: aye. president fong: aye. that motion passed unanimously you are now on 6909 geary boulevard. >> the item before you is a request for a conditional use authorization at 6909 geary boulevard. it is a proposal to conv

vice president wu: thank you. commissioner miguel: i know there is probably a little additional comment, but i would like to move a resolution of intent on 11a to initiate amendments to the general plan, on 11b to initiate amendments to the planning code, and on 11c to initiate amendments to the zoning maps, as purvey materials presented to us. commissioner antonini: i had some other comments. i thought this was a very good hearing. this is hearing to reestablish san francisco as the business center of the western united states. what you have is a combination of dense housing at all income levels, some of it very marketable, many forms of transportation, and close access to recreation, institutions, civic, and medical, which is what we envisioned when we started this concept in the downtown area of san francisco. if this is done correctly, i think it is going to be wonderful. just as we are seeing a movement in the last few years where people choose to live in smaller spaces and want to live in urban areas, becaus

you are asking for new plants. on that motion, commissioner antonini, aye. commissioner borden, aye. commissioner moore, aye. commissioner wu, aye. that motion passes. you are on item 13 a and b. both are at 620 to 27th avenue -- 622 27th avenue. >> good afternoon. this is located in an rh-2 district. this is restoring a single- family residence and construct a new four-story two-unit building. the department has not received any public comment in a position or support of the project. if there during the 30 day public notification or the notification for the discretionary review hearing. the department has reviewed the project against the objectives and policies of section 317 which govern presidential demolition. as the project provides one additional family housing units and does not demolish a historic resource and make the general plan objectives or the policy objectives of the general plan. i would be happy to answer any questions. president fong: d r requestor. project sponsor, please. >> good afternoon. i am the project architect. i'm here to answer your questions. president fong: public comment, then. speakers. >> g

you wu. - warm up. - warm up, okay? and if it blows this way, what's it hit? begin with a cal f-o-r-n-i-- so california is a much warmer place in the winter than east coast communities of the same latitude. ain't that neat, okay? in fact, any place that's surrounded by water has just about the same temperature all year round. how about the best place in the world, right here? [laughter] that's hawaii, huh? the hawaiian islands, okay? the hawaiian islands about the same temperature all year round, but not only the hawaiian islands. iceland way up here has about the same temperature all year round, yeah. surrounded by water, okay? when it tends to be cold, the cooling water would heat it up. when it tends to be hot, the warming water will cool it down. so water acts as a moderator. aren't you glad that water has a high specific heat? yum, yum, it had to do with the world we live in, yeah? something else about water, kind of neat too. water is the only substance-- the only common substance that will expand when you change it from the liquid state to the solid sta

you. vice president wu: i also have a question for staff. i want to thank them for their presentation today. i was wondering about public outreach on this element or this part of the element. what has happened today and what you anticipate will be going forward. >> this process started in 2007, led by the mayor's directives. there was a lot of work that was done then. we have been working closely with our partner agencies and we released a draft on april 18. it was available for the public. we think that this document is in coordination with a number of other plans and programs at other city agencies are implementing an additional outreach that is happening through those plans and programs. it is a culmination of all of those pieces. commissioner moore: -- commissioner miguel: i am glad to see this is being updated. 15 years is a long time on something like this. the outreach has been going out to the neighborhoods. i have worked with the neighborhood network for some time. it is often emphasized. just an observation on that same chart. the

you. is eric wu here? come on up. today i have the great honor of commanding a great business in district 4. it is an ice cream shop. with us today is eric wu. pollyann's is a local shop in the sunset district. he is the owner. it has been with the district for a very long time in. the family has been in the business and the owners since 1984. on any given day, you'll see a line of people going out the door. something you should know, when his father first took over, it offered about 250 flavors. now they have a collection of 500 flavors. all made by staff. about 50 flavors are offered at any given time. but of the most exotic flavors, -- it is a fritz that you either love or hate, but it is very good -- it is a fruit that you either love or hate, but it is very good, try it. it is a tradition in our community. you will see a lot of kids who have fond memories going to that ice cream shop. if you are unclear about what flavor, you can spend the wheel and arrive at a random flavor. if you are walking your dog, you can

you do and for your support. [applause] and today, we are also celebrating community. folks like peter cohen, doug wu -- you guys are -- where are you, peter? you guys are tenacious. we could not do it without partners. thank you so much. [applause] lastly, and i know the guy i am going to introduce is going to talk a little as well, this is for the benefit of san franciscans' love for parts. this is a partnership, what you see today. it also has your support. this beautiful playground was funded with $160,000, and if you have not noticed, we have a new boss some facility -- awesome facility because of you. thank you. and next we have our 43rd mayor. he is about jobs, but he is also our biggest parks champion, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> very quickly, because i see young citizens here who are thinking in there minds "ok, when are we opening?" i am glad to join supervisor olague and supervisor weiner and matt and phil and others. we were walking up here, and scott and i were thinking, this used to be an edgy place. i was in a comfortable position myself as a city administrator. phil and others were sa

you decertifying plan eir, if i could call it that, and project eir -- you would be certifying. commissioner wu: just to be clear, the transit tower does not come back for a separate eir, but shuttle issues are dealt with at a separate commission? commissioner moore: could you please explain how the shadow issue is not being considered? because as you are looking at the eir for the plan for the project, you cannot talk about it without analyzing the impact of shadow as well as visual, cultural, etc., impact, which come from this tall building. could you please elaborate for me, under section 295 of the planning code, how many parks are within proposition k? is it 14? >> for the general discussion of section 295? i do not have that information. perhaps kevin can answer that question regarding overall the number of parts for which there is a shadow budget. >> thank you, commissioner. i believe there are 14 parks covered by what we refer to as a shadow budget. under section 295, that comes from the 1989 implementation memo, which was jointly about the planning commission and recreation and park co

commissioner wu: thank you. i will speak is busily to the proposal from supervisor kim's office. i'm happy to see the stakeholders here today having the conversation. i think this is the group that will help us find what the solution will be. i am very wary of providing, or creating an incentive to either yvette tenants fofrom buildingsr to hold units vacant for so long that they become blighted. i do not think that is the intent of the amendments as they are. i hope to seek ways to carve out, possibly, situations where conversion is appropriate, or if it is specifically concerns about a number of buildings in the tenderloin, maybe there are solutions outside of this legislation that can help fill those units in particular in those buildings. i look forward to seeing what the conversation is and i thank the department and a low wage for pulling that conversation together. -- and moh for pulling that conversation together. commissioner sugaya: we did have some statistical evidence that said this is not about statistical evidence, and that is, they have sent in a letter to the buil

commissioner wu: is this the right time to ask about the broadway district? can you just explain -- >> it is in the next item. commissioner wu: i can hold my question. commissioner moore: when you are suggesting combining washington and broadway, that means you are leaving chinatown out, correct? the reason i am asking, by combining, you are deleting one comment -- one, they are not identical. they are -- that is the reason why they are two districts. by leaving out the north side west of columbus, it becomes an altogether different thing. just for disclosure, it needs to be explained for exactly how we are combining, what is common to both, what is different. >> if you look at page 4, the chart, that shows what the washington-broadway sud does. item a >> sense of street parking requirements -- exempts of street parking requirements. the one exception is development on lots that are larger than 20,000 square feet in the chinatown community business district. removing it would have little impact on eds. in addition to that, phase three would eliminate minimum parking

commissioner wu: aye. you are now on item number 11. the transit center district plan. these are for initiation. initiation of amendment to the general plan. initiation of the amendment to the planning code. initiation of amendment to the zoning map. commissioner sugaya: i have to ask the board for accuse so. i did -- recusant. i did discuss this with the city attorney's office. because the firm i worked on and worked on the survey, which resulted in information being used any environmental impact report, back in that same situation i was with the eastern neighborhoods plan and market october yet -- market octavia. that was because of the participation, i am conflicted on the eir. until the eir is certified, i cannot participate in the discussion on the zoning aspects of the transit center plan. once it has been certified, without my participation, i am free to participate in this aspect of the deliberations. >> motion for accusal. >> motion to recuse commissioner sugaya. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> good afternoon, commissioner

wu: aye. president fong: did you want to time index -- chime in? aye. >> that motion was passed unanimously. commissioner sugaya: next item. >> item 14, case 2012.135ddddd. commissioner sugaya: i asked the department to reduce. -- recuse. we have a direct financial connection. >> the motion to recuse commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner moore: ay -- commissioner miguel: aye. vice president wu: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner moore: aye. >> thank you. you are recused. >> good evening, commissioners. department staff. the project is located at 2705 larkin street. this project proposes a four story over basement rear horizontal addition. originally, six requests for discretionary review were filed. however, one of the request was withdrawn prior to publication of the agenda. most of the requests for discretionary review have been filed due to concerns regarding the scale of the rear addition and its appropriateness, its impact to the mid-block open space, light and privacy to adjacent neighbors, and although not under the purview of

wu, aye. the motion passes unanimously. >> think you for your work and patience. -- thank you for your work and your patience. >> you are now on item 13. case no. 2011.1439dd for 2539 vallejo street. >> the case before you is a staff initiated discretionary review as well as a neighborhood initiated discretionary review. this is a late submission from the d.r. requestor which is the alternative proposal. it was submitted after that deadline. i am passing it out now. the subject property is on the south side of alito -- vallejo street. there is a single family residence. it is 40% of a lot. the existing building has no set aside. it slopes

if you see it, take a picture ascended to wus and we will show the best photographs on our website. you will notice a pretty spectacular moon this morning as well. >> almost super. >> it is pretty good this morning, just setting right now on the western horizon. it will be up again a couple hours before sunset later on. let's look at temperatures right now. 67 in the district, 70 in quantico 65 in annapolis. some areas of patchy fog and low clouds to start the day east of 95, and a back door cold front working in close to the bay. some storms this afternoon could be strong to severe with gusty wind and large hail. high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. anywhere from 85 to 90 this afternoon. feels like summertime. we will cooldown especially by sunday and pretty much through all of next week, low to mid 70's, close to average for this time of year. as for the weekend, slight chance of a late-day storm tomorrow. otherwise partly cloudy. 80 tomorrow, 70 by sunday. >> we have a thrilling ride around town, overnight construction crews getting ready to call it a night. moving nicely as

wu: aye. president fong: aye. thank you, commissioners. the draft is adopted as corrected. are there any other commission matters? president fong: commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i want to thank commissioner wu for requesting never get zoning maps for first meetings. it has been very helpful and i have enough space in my office to actually put it out. i have asked to talk to secretary avery and by the she has talked to director ram about it, i hearing in the future where we could have -- about a hearing in the future where we could have a discussion about the zoning categories for the benefit of the commissioners and for the public. i think there are questions that would come up and it would make it easier for people to understand what is going on what we are discussing these differences of what is an nc and what isa ct and there are also a lot of special use districts. i think it would be helpful during one of our sessions to go over that. that is what i would suggest calendaring and i would like to see if we have agreement with the other commissioners along t

vice president wu: thank you. i will try not to repeat comments as it is quite late in the night now. so by my reading of the e.i.r., there is no spillover of the light on to the beach so when standing on the beach, there's no perceptible light. as i understand, the light poles are slated to have caps on them that may make it so that -- i'm no bird expert, but from what i understand, birds fly toward a point of light and that the cap over the light alleviates that point. it's not to say that's not an issue to be concerned about but i think that helps lessen that problem. i appreciate that the project has changed, that the lights have come off of the edge of the fields and that they've come to the middle and that they've been lowered and that there's -- i think there's two settings, 50 and 30, with candles is the measurement. with regards to the field or the astro turf, like commissioner borden said, it's sort of to be learned at a later date, but i recognize that there was substantial effort put into the task forc

you, commissioners. on the motion for approval of items one, three, and six as they are on your calendars. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. commissioner wu: aye. president fong: aye. thank you, those are approved as proposed. if i may, we will consider items 2, 4, and five at the beginning of the regular calendar. thank you. with that, are there any commission matters? >> commissioner antonini. commissioner antonini: thank you. once again, we saw some tragic events with the fire in dubos this week. i have made some suggestions in the past, and i probably should take this up with some of the supervisors, and perhaps at least with the planning staff in more detail about some sort of incentives with people with older, seismically structured lee -- seismically, structurally, allegedly compromised units to be able to renovate these to bring them up to taper standards. i have suggested in the past looking at some kind of situation where some sort of trade may be possible with newer units that have fewer of these challenges, and are probably less expensive to maintain and, certainly, do not need the amount of maintenance that the older units do

wu, aye. the motion passes unanimously. >> think you for your work and patience. -- thank you for your work and your patience. >> you are now on item 13. case no. 2011.1439dd for 2539 vallejo street. >> the case before you is a staff initiated discretionary review as well as a neighborhood initiated discretionary review. this is a late submission from the d.r. requestor which is the alternative proposal. it was submitted after that deadline. i am passing it out now. the subject property is on the south side of alito -- vallejo street. there is a single family residence. it is 40% of a lot. the existing building has no set aside. it slopes laterally out poured from east to west. the proposal is to extend the first and second floors 13.5 into the rear yard and construct a vertical addition. the subject project includes a roof and interior alterations. since the notification went out and the staff initiated d.r. was filed and the neighbors d.r. was filed, the project has been modified to include a matching light will and a 3 foot setback on the west side of the property on the upper floors for the

you are asking for new plants. on that motion, commissioner antonini, aye. commissioner borden, aye. commissioner moore, aye. commissioner wu, aye. that motion passes. you are on item 13 a and b. both are at 620 to 27th avenue -- 622 27th avenue. >> good afternoon. this is located in an rh-2 district. this is restoring a single- family residence and construct a new four-story two-unit building.