And i also would like to offer my support for the resolution. We do see the evidence that more shelter beds are needed as well as housing, every night we turn people away from our shelters and they come through maybe sometimes midnight, 1 00 in the morning, we dont have the spaces for them and one of the things that is really, really critical about the expansion of shelters is that it goes a long way to helping preserve life and mr. Kazinski spoke about the hepatitis vaccines and most of the work is done at the shelters and its a hub where people get information and its a hub where people get Health Assistance and so many of those people who were vaccinated for the hepatitis as well as this seasons flu, those things happen at a lot of the shelter sites so the expenseing of shelter beds is really crucial. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon my name is shy walldrudge im we run largest single adult homeless shelter on fifth and bryant and we have the only 24 hour Dropin Center which this resolution would definitely help is that we constantly have lines and we are at capacity every night and even with the bad weather we appreciate additional help and support with additional beds or Navigation Centers or tents and anything to keep our clients off the streets. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Seeing none, Public Comments now closed. Mr. Kazisi, question, you mentioned its a go for this year or this winter to open up another thousand beds for temporary shelters and the two you name is about 238. Are we counting those places where some of the changes that opened up it during the winter as part of the thousand or are you thinking that were going to get a few more new places thats never done it before and just build on . This is going to be a combination of efforts including opening up new Navigation Centers, expanding the wilt Shelter Program and those Navigation Centers will be open for years not just the winter. But expanding the winter Shelter Program to get more individuals off the streets and were looking at expanding our master lease Housing Program as well as block leasing housing and our re Housing Programs so this is a multi faceted approach in order to get 1,000 people off the streets as quickly as possible. And then, in a typical, well, with these two examples for instance, in a typical winter, in a year how much do we actually ramp up in regards to again, i guess churches that volunteer to open their doors up in the winter. Yes, so the winter Shelter Program traditionally moves from church to church during the winter and it houses 70 people and during each night and people can stay for seven nights and they can reup their stays if they like to but when we know theres going to be two or three days of severe rainfall we expand and essentially are putting mats on the floors ex and panneding the capacity in of two our larger shelters to serve 50 to 100 people on those nights ok. Thank you, very much. Any questions . Mr. Sheehy. Comments. Yeah, i just wanted to thank mayor lee and the department of housing and the support housing and homelessness and department of public works for their leadership and their commitment to bringing a thousand people off the streets this winter and im honored to cohon or this legislation and we wont house everyone this winter if we dont move quickly so its an important tool to ensure the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and in nitric which includes the mission beer seeing people on the street and the department of homelessness and many others is limited by the lack of places for people to go and and invest in the city and programs our communities need and i am a co sponsor bays the board should declare shelter emergency and call it what it is and solve it so id like to move this, we may have to amend this first. So should we make a motion to amend. Any objection. I would like to move it as committee report. As amended. Thank you. Thank you. Um, is it ok if i Call Department head up front. Before we discussion. Mr. Kazinski. So you said theres a need of about 1,000 shelter beds and imperativeness is shaved off about four to six months in the process to bring these online. What do you think realistically were looking at in terms of how long it will take to get to 1,000 . To be able to get a thousand people off the streets well the goal is essentially talking about shelter beds and Navigation Centers . Were talking about shelter beds and Navigation Centers and additional rapid housing and permanent housing as well so its a combination of interventions as well as expanding the winter shelter system and our goal is to make that happen by march 21st and the end of the winter if were not able to achieve that goal we should be able to soon there after were pursueing a wide variety of sights and programs to achieve this goal. And you said it says in here 58 of the Homeless Population about 40 4 00 400 people were un sheltered and what you are thinking in terms longterm, longer Term Solutions passes a thousand in terms of the number of shelter beds needed in the city. We clearly need shelter breeds but we need tokes panned the shelter system at the same time were expanding to housing because creating a shelter is essentially not providing exits for people in those shelters means when those beds get filled up people arent going to flow through the system so our approach has been multifaceted for example were experimenting at 1515 south and the new Navigation Center with temporary housing subsidiaries for individuals who are in that Navigation Center and are working or looking for work that can get in to the Housing Market on their own but might need existence and expanding the homeward mound to connect people to friends and family members and other communities and were expanding permanent supporting housing and new units of permanent housing adults and families experiencing homelessness and opening up during the next five years. Was there a time period in San Franciscos history that we had a larger number of shelter beds is this pretty much constant the number that we have now have we shrunk that number, is that the appropriate number for San Francisco . They have been growing overtime if you combined Navigation Centers stabilization units, conventional shelters and family shelters and theyve been transitional housing have been expanding slowly over the time for the past ten years the only shelter that was closed and i could be wrong and i believe there was a shelter at mission rock which was a large shelter open temporarily during el nino that was shut down and other than that the system has been expanding and i think we need to continue expanding that along with expanding Resource Centers and recognizing that while theres people on the streets we need to both meet individuals, meet to try to address on longterm goal getting people out of homelessness in to housing and we need to continue expanding the system to meet the needs of the people on the street and the mayors vision and it talks about balancing those two things in order to again deal with peoples immediate needs but not have them get stuck in to shelter when theyre not able to find exits and their homelessness. You didnt say much about 440 turning street but its your new office . Thats correctioner i believe its the next item on the agenda got it. No more questions on this item. I just would like to say that number one, they could always do better by also want to commend our citys effort as you look at the stats throughout the state that every year its gotten worse. We pretty much remain stable which is really a statement to our efforts and hopefully well in the future years actually reduce that number before we take a vote on this item id like to add my name as a co sponsors is that ok . So theres been a motion. Me too. Add my name as well. Please. I guess if everybodys name on there the motion passes. [laughter] madam, item number 2. Item number 2 resolution declaring an emergency and authorizeing the direct offer public works to construct an access point to front door services, Case Management and Mental Health counseling to individual effected by homelessness at the department of homelessness and support of housing property 440turk street. Ok, we have director kzinski for department of homelessness and edgar lopez to present on this item. Good afternoon, tempt of homelessness and support i have housing to discuss the Emergency Declaration related to the property of 440turke street and wed like to talk first of all about the proposed use of the site at 440 turk street and it will be the Head Quarters of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and office space for 105h. S. H. Staff which is not all but the majority of our staff and thank you so some excellent design work by public works and weve been able to design the site to accommodate everybody we need to and well be active monday through friday 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Roughly and as the first floor to make this in to a Resource Center primarily a services focus site and after getting feedback from the community that we have changed how were going to use the facility and again it will be primarily our main offices however theres an access point on the first floor of the building and meaning anybody who is experiencing homelessness and that wants to get in to our data system and wants to get assessed and enter inside to our coordinated entry system that will direct people towards Shelter Housing and services will come in and make an appointment and speak with a case manager on site. Also, on the first floor as many of you know, h. S. H. Runs the Homeward Bound Program which helps people get reconnected to family and friends and other communities and we have eight or nine staff in that program where they will be officeed on the first floor so we will have clients coming in to the site and we have seats for about 30 to 40 people which is maybe a little bit more than we need but we want to make sure people arent loitering out in front of the building and again the site will be open 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. We have not decided definitely but well likely also be open on saturday and sunday so we can still provide people access to our coordinated entry system and this is not going to be a Resource Center or a drop in center where people can come in and hangout for a few hours and get food its a place where come in and get services and that is our available on the site and leave and i believe that any office that is run by the department of homelessness and support i have Housing Needs to be welcome and to people that are experiencing homelessness and we will try to create that environment at our Head Quarters and as you know the site was currently built in 1984 and it was a Housing Authority report and it has 25,500 square feet on two floors with the basements and an elevator and its attached to 430 turk street and it was a residential Apartment Building owned by a tndc so we will be in a Office Condominium because the building is one been it was approved by the board of supervisors and hud at a cost of 5 million. Currently it has many shared Building Systems and the building of 430 turk with four stair heating and windows and no central air and it is a fairly open floor plan with design challenges with public works has done some great work and theres a lot of columns and walls that we cannot remove and this is a design of the first floor and the shadedin area on the werent side is part of the residential building and you will see primarily in the front there are offices for the Homeward Bound Team in that middle area theres some storage and places for homeless folks to sit and we also on site will have restaurant reand shower facilities and this isnt a drop in center and everyone can use them and homeward bound clients getting connected to a family members or friends in other places and need to go on a plane or a bus to get home and they need to greyhound has certain requirements around hygiene and need to make sure people get cleaned up and get their clothes cleaned and theyll be able to do that at this site and we may have other clients who come in crisis get ak stows services if they need to get a shower while theyre waiting with the social workers and you know, well assess that on a case by case bases but want it to be available for people coming in want to go get on a list for shelter and housing and need access to hygiene services. Second floor is primarily all offices i believe about 95 people will be officeed on of our staff will be officeed on the second floor the majority our staff and remaining ten staff will be down on the first floor. Variety of upgrades need to be made to the building and removing interior partisans to create a new layout and ceiling system and pluming upgrades and lighting upgrades and adc upgrades and adding an nhvc system. As you know, this is been discussed quite a bit this summer and we originally held two Large Community meetings in the tender loin neighborhood and heard a lot of concerns from neighbors about opening up another Services Facility in the site and we were looking for this to be 120seat Resource Center with a lot of showers and laundry facilities and bathrooms on sites and neighbors felt like it wasnt an appropriate use of this facility on this particular block and theres a lot of concerns about security and we came up with a different design which weve presented to you today which has been presented out to the community as well and we had a Business Roundtable meeting, several meetings with Community Leaders including the c. B. D. , the alliance for better ter der loin Service Providers and neighborhood and i would say theres not 100 you know union nam tee on how the building should be used it people felt like it should be a Resource Center and some people felt like it should only be offices and not see clients and we think weve come up with is a compromised on something that does a little bit of both mostly serving as our Head Quarters and also being a welcoming place for people coming in to our services at the end of department mayor lee met with a number Community Leaders and business groups and present inside plan to them and explaining this was going to be used as an Access Center not as an assets point not a Research Center and there was general agreement in the room with the one caveat there was a high level of expectations with security around the site and we have security around the building to make sure things remain calm in the lobby as well as security on the outside of the building to make sure that the block remains safe and to contribute to other efforts that are happening in the tender loin to improve security there. And lastly just walking through the budget, the cost of project is 12. 9 million with 5 million for the purchase and the remainder for the rehab coming from three different sources, the 2016 general Obligation Bond and the first issueance picking up 5 million and 2. 22 million in future Obligation Bonds and 5. 8 from the general fund which includes all of the ffnes and it was reallocated from the original proposal that we had submitted to the board of supervisorers to lease the space at a ninth street for offices. Ok, and then what were asking today is an Emergency Declaration that will allow public works to expedite the rehab and code section 6. 60a and the passage of this resolution on december 12th, public works expects to be able to complete the rehab and you know were currently spread in multiple Office Locations and some of which we are using at the were squatting from insights that are controlled by other departments and this is been a challenge in terms of how we coordinate together and how we work as a as well as having the i. T. And other infrastructures we need to operate ace Single Department and so we are hoping that this site will get opened as soon as possible and also i want to say more importantly, this we need the site opened because we need to get moving with our entry system that we have put in to play and one of the issues around homelessness in San Francisco and why mayor lee created the department was to create a more coordinated approach to how we address homelessness to get people quickly in to our programs and help them resolve their homelessness and we need to get this access point so that people can get access and entry system and get services as possible this is a key comb phone ant of our strategic framework without the Emergency Declaration the opening will be delayed by at least six months s so thats the presentation, i dont know if public works has anything to add . Thank you. I have a few questions i want to ask, first of all, can you explain, you have a concept of access point so basically do we have anything like that that exists is this just a new concept for you . This is a new concept in the concept of coordinated entry is new for the city and the slide where you see the picture of coordinated entry a few slides back when its up on the screen, you will see it map of how it works and were going through this process or population by population and weve already opened up two Access Points for homeless families and one is in the bay view and the other is in the Central Market area and then we are going to be issuing an r. F. P. And we will open up additional Access Points for adults and then for youth as we continue the implementation of our strategic framework. And in regards to this vision version of the build on versus the Resource Center whats the difference . The access point and the Resource Center . Resource or a Dropin Center is a place and we have a number of them around the city where people can come in and they can sit down and gate sandwich and get off of the streets for a few hours and take a shower and do the restaurant laundry and sometimes theres Case Management there and sometimes theres not and its essentially a place like a day shelter is another term that people use to describe these and that is not what were proposing. In regards to the funding break down of the renovations, i guess, you showed some numbers earlier and can you flash it back up there. Starting with that 5 million on top. There we go. Um so what part of the budget is going towards renovating the office space versus the Supportive Services space or the access space. A third of the funds are being used to support the clients serving parts of the building which is not just the access point its also we have homeward bound staff on site as well as other staff who directly serve clients getting them access and the first will be more client facing. Im trying to get a handle and wrap myself around this concept that is this is an emergency. Mainly because in my mind, the original version of this was to build out as office space so what makes this an emergency again . I believe homelessness in San Francisco in its self emergency with 7500 people on any given night 20,000 people Year Experience homelessness and as we drive to reduce those numbers and get people access to services and theyre in their homelessness we need to have Access Points in this city so that we can better use and expand our existing programs so having our homeward bound staff on site with access to showers for people who need to get on the bus and make it more efficient and make it possible for us to serve even more people and that particular program and having Access Points coordinated entry councillors on site are going to speed up peoples access to permanent supporter but just importantly its going to let people know who are not qualified for permanent Supportive Housing what services are available to them so we can keep people from waiting on our streets hoping theyll get in to housing and rapid rehousing and other programs to get people off of our streets and back indoors. So, you identify or name two Access Points locations are you saying right now those two locations have people lined up around the block or something needed to get in. What is your emergency here . Those two sites are serving families and theyre not serving the single Adult Population we have not yet opened up Access Points for single adults. Ok. Um, any questions . I just wanted to know, i know you talked about this and your community out Reach Program was for this and it came up again and last summer and spring i just wanted to hear what process you went through in terms of moving forward on your revised plan. Im going to ask by my colleague emily cohen who managed this process to speak to this. Great. Thank you. Thank you supervisors emily cohen with homelessness and Supportive Housing and we believed this community out Reach Programs and we held two Large Community meetings with tender loin stakeholders with residents and local businesses and Service Providers in the neighborhood and we heard really mixed input about how what people saw and what they wanted and we heard some concerns about the passage on the sidewalk and front if you spent time at turke and hide that corner needs attention and folks were very concerned about what was happening on that block and we engage in these conversations with the community we convened a working group of enabled leaders and we did a lot of talking about the concerns and the concerns that surfaced for the neighborhood that we heard very clearly they did not want this site to be 24 7 and they did not want people coming in from ousted tenderloin or being brought in from outside the tenderloin use services so we took that to heart and scaled back what we planned for that and we know that any Head Quarters for the department of homelessness needs to be accessible to folks experiencing homelessness but we wanted to listen and be respectful of the community and scale back the Resource Center from there we continue to hold meet meetings and i ran ten meetings throughout the Community Alliance for a better tenderloin and met with stakeholders the mayor led a meeting with Business Leaders in the community and we discussed this framework and this plan and i think that this what we landed on here comes through with a nice compromise we had some folks calling for a big Resource Center at 440 and some folks calling for no Client Services at 440 and we struck a great ball and we found support throughout the neighborhood and activating the site providing security and a place for people to come in and not a magnet bringing people in and not having the people bringing from all over the city and that was one of the biggest concerns that we heard and we wanted to be really responsive and a Good Neighbor and were interested in working with the block the other Business Owners and other providers on the block to activate that space and we look forward to being part of the neighborhood. Thank you. Yeah. In regards to im just curious emily, in regards to those two Large Community meetings i mean, departments come in here all the time saying we had this Large Community meeting with five people and i am just curious how many people were in attendance total for the two . I had 150 signins from those meetings and they werent even 75 75 but it was 150 folks total came to both of those meetings. That constitutes large. Its not large to me. Every department has the defense. Any other questions . Ok. If i could just add to that, you know, the issue that has come up and i have received emails about this today is that there were some folks who felt like we ignored their concerns about having showers and laundry facilities on site and i want to be clear we didnt ignore anybodys concerns and we didnt grow with everybodys concerns so we understand, we made a proposal and it was not accepted by the community and we scaled it back to turn it in to Something Else after listening to folks but where we landed on this its noting going to be a Resource Center and it will be a welcoming department and meet the needs of our clients who come in as someone coming in getting a bus home or to get and go to a housing interview we need to have some very basic Services Available to those folks including showers and building and its to serve one or two people to do that so we heard the community and some people want this to be lots of showers and laundry and places to sit for hundreds of people and some as emily said didnt want, we heard everybodys concerns and we did our best to balance those concerns with the needs of the department and most importantly with the needs of people who are experiencing homelessness. Let me have about the office space for a second here. I guess again, i thought it was going to be office space and then it would accommodate your staff it seems like were cutting it in half using second floor for office space. First and second floor. Ok, primarily second floor. And then is that going to come and accommodate your exist ing staff plus grove. It will accommodate, yes t. Will at this time it will not accommodate all of our staff we had originally presented was you know two 440 turk and ninth street it would have accommodated our staff and growth and it will accommodate our staff all of our staff and plus some growth but not staff not Civil Service staff who are currently working with the hot team and were still arguing to need to find another location in order to place the hot team and we looked at possibly doing that on the first floor of 440 but its not large enough to make that possible and to be able to at least have a welcome welcoming lobby for those who are going to come in and look for services. How many would this accommodate . Where are you now . How many staff do we have . Where are we locked . So were currently located at 50 ivy street facility on Mission Street at 101 grove street at 1360 Mission Street and 1650 Mission Street. And you will vacating these places . Yes. All except for 50 i. V. So when were able to make the move we will be in 50 i. V. And then at 440 turks so well be in two locations. Thats good to know. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comments on this item come on up you have two minutes. Hi. My name is and i work for the housing clinic we oversee three programs i oversee three programs which is a thorough residents in the tender loin and latino families and Code Enforcement and we came to know about this going back on history threw a thats what the department was proposing and there was a lot of community as to there was no community in the process it would not fly in any other neighborhood this way so there was processes but i have to disagree with the department that the final plans the concrete final plans were not put out to the community and i actually gained a lot more information coming to this meeting i would not have known about this meeting if the department wouldnt have emailed me and my supervisor about coming to this meeting and im not sure to be honest with you the communitys little frustrated about the transparency as to what real re is going on we would like to the last communication that we have was october 8th i think or eighth where we got an email from emily basically saying that we are scaling back 80 of the space for office and 20 would be for Clients Services and were still filling out the Client Services and i know about the working group that would come out with a survey to figure out gnaw didnt happen so im asking for continuance because i think the Community Needs to hear about what was presented today and i hear that from the laundry facilities will be for the program but its not what was told to me when i asked so it would be that program and summary the program did not sure yet about difference services so i think what i would appreciate is this particular information was held out to the community before coming here so im asking for continuance, thank you. Thank you, very much. Good afternoon supervisors, jim, chamber of commerce we strongly support this resolution and declaration of emergency to move this project along and every City Department that deals with a constituency has to have a facility which that constituency can access that and thats what were talking about here theres a new department consolidated moving 100 staffers in to a location we need this access and we need Dropin Centers and other Access Points for other populations and this department serves and this is one small step towards putting this department together giving some access to its population that seeks its services at that location and strongly urge you to approve this and move it on tomorrow to the full board, thank you. Hello im kelly cutler with the coalition on homelessness and were located right next door and we are in support of this and we would like to see more access to other services because folks needed a shower and a place to sit down and also to connect 20 services and i did attend the multiple Community Meetings, a lot of Community Meetings there and honestly just like every Community Meeting you have in each of your districts and every district all around, theres always push back. Thats just something that were constantly dealing with. But theres a huge need in our community and in the tenderloin in that area. My concern is around what is going on with policing around there but. Any other Public Comments on this item. See none. Any comments. Supervisor safai. Thank you, chair. I just want to say it sounds like theres almost unanimous support for this but theres still confusion as to exactly how the 20 of the building thats going to be used as showers, laundry, i heard the presentation today about outward Homeward Bound Program that makes sense to me it sounds like youve heard consistently that some people dont want it as a Dropin Center and some people want it as expanded services but i guess, i would feel more comfortable support north item today if there was someway that we could then have your agency come back and give us a clear detailed plan maybe with some additional conversations on the communities so theres more support or theres more input and there might not be union nam tee on the issue but it sounds like the plan is not still 100 concrete and i am very happy having started my career in San Francisco that you will have your office there at that location and i think its a great location to have office space it will do wonders to bring more bodies and interested parties to that area and i spent almost more than half of my career in San Francisco almost 20 years eight plus more than half of my career at that corner at the corner of turke and hide within one block so i know it better than any other block in San Francisco other than the one that i live on personally and so i think that its great um be located there and i would appreciate the opportunity for your department to come back with a very detailed plan exactly how that space is going to be used and the Homeward Bound Program sounds like a great start but sounds like theres confusion of how it will be utilized. That would be my only comment. Thank you. I am not sure if this general consensus yet on this and im not sure exactly about what the plan is and i appreciate that youve had community out reach and what is really strange about this hearing today is for all the people that are so passionate i dont see anybody here that is almost telling me something in fact this was supposedly an emergency meeting to talk about emergency items for emergency issues so there was just wondering how broadly this is put out to the public. Im uncomfortable and im willing to do a continuance on this and which may then delay it a week or two or actually it doesnt matter it would be delayed until next year. Im willing i havent heard, this happened so quickly as you know this was like it was called for emergency on friday afternoon and id like to reared than continue tractortrailer item id like to send it out of committee with no recommendation so we can move forward and as of tomorrow we can look at for the rest of the colleagues to weigh in on this and maybe i would feel more comfortable giving 24 hours to give feedback from the community and stay her motion. I move to send this to the full board without recommendation. As committee report. Yes for tomorrow. Ok. Motion passes. Thank you. Mad amount clerk anything else. Clerk nothing further. Meeting adjourned. The Planning Commission regular hearing for thursday. Detion 21, 2017. Our final hearing of the year. Id like to remind members of public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. Please silence your mobil devices that may sound off during these proceedings and when speaking before the commission, if you do care to, state your name for the record. Ill take roll. [roll call] we do expect commissioners to arrive shortly. Item one, case number 2017005617drp at 1339 through 1341 south van ness avenue. Discretionary review is proposed for continuance to january 18, 2018. Items 2a and b for case numbers 2018. At 114 lion street. Are proposed for continuance to february 8, 2018. Item three, case number 2016oo578 at 88 broadway and 735 davis street. An appeal of the preliminary negative declaration as proposed for continuance to february 22, 2018. Further commissioners under your regular calendar, we received a request from the project sponsor for item 15, 2227 fullsome street. They are requesting a threemonth continuance to march 22, 2018. I do have one with speaker card for lions. Ok. Any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . Tess . Tess welborn, speaking in opposition for a continuance for 114 lion street. The planning domestic has the preliminary recommendation of this approval. I suggest that you go ahead and disapprove it now. The building has been a fourunit building. Its converted to one unit now and that is against San Francisco housing policy. So please disapprove the continuance and disapprove the project. Thank you. Thank you. Next eke spaoer, plea. My name is sean westbrook. I would also request that we do not issue a continuance. There was a preliminary declaration of disapproval and i would appreciate if that was held up at the hearing because it would place one or both sets of tenants in those units. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . My name is eddie. Im here if solidarity with the te thans of 2227 fullsome street. I just want to agree with sean that you shouldnt continue that item and you just disapprove the merger right now. The issues arent going to change in three months so lets go ahead and finish the case. Thank you. Thank you. Additional Public Comments . Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Commissioner fong. Move to continue items one through three. 1 , 2a and 3. Second that . Second. Commissioner moore . Id like to ask that the continuance of the item 15 be explained by staff more fully. Looks like the motion on the table right now is the not the continuance. I did not hear that. And the request is from the sponsor, not from staff. Oh, ok. Yeah. In fact, i think staff does not support the continuance on the folsom. Sorry, i should explain that. Thank you. Commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to continue items one through three as proposed. [roll call] that motion passes unanimously 50. And im continue that item to february 8 as well. Thank you. Acting zoning administrator. Commissioners, ill place it under your consent calendar. All matters listed here are considered to be routine by the Planning Commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of commission of staff or the public so requests in which the matter will be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this future hearing. Item four, case number 2016. 519 ellis street. Conditional use. Conditional use authorization. I have no eke spaoer cards. Any Public Comment on the items being or the consent calendar . Seeing none, commissioner . Commissioner koppel. Move to approve [inaudible]. [coughing [ second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve all items under your consent calendar. [roll call] so move, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 50. And places us under commission matters. Commissioner johnson. Hi, everybody. I wanted to say that today will be my last hearing as a Planning Commissioner for San Francisco. I have been a proud Public Servant in volunteer capacity for around 14 years now. Ive served on citizen advisory companies. I was on the ocii commission when it was for the purposed and served the last 3 1 2 years as Planning Commissioner. Im leaving to hopefully continue my Public Service if other capacities, but i wanted to give a statement here to the commission, to the staff and to the rest of the city that ive been honoured to serve beside you and honoured to serve the city and just leave with a couple of words on this day. I was really sad coming into the building. So, i wrote some things down to make sure i didnt forget anything. So, ahem. My time at the commission, weve deliberated affordability, availability housing, shared use models for home and transit, and how s. F. Should respond to our economic engine from the changing nature of retail and what our streets should look like to the coming role of cannabis which well see play out over the coming years. This commission has also delved beyond our borders to look at the citys workings. I kind of started it off. But weve had a number of joint hearings with other our sister agencies and weve really begun pushing to have all of us Work Together and work better. And i really appreciate the work of the staff and the Planning Commission on doing that. I want to leave with just a couple of pet items and a few words for hopefully my successor who will be coming in the next few weeks. So the first one is i still want to push to continue a real discussion narrow view. The commission needs more time in the future. Not less. Because this is the direction of the city. We we need to be spending our time on citywide policy and what our thoughts on how we should shape this city so that its for everybody. And adjudicating private disputes between neighbours takes away from that time. I think we should be the tail that wags the dog in envisioning how societal shifts will impact what our physical environment needs to look like. Weve spend a lot of time talking about the changing nature of retail and i really think it is going to require a reshaping of what we think about the ground floor as we look at our city and we need to look at ouren planning code to make some changes so our city reflects what our society looks like. The coming revolution in personal automotive transit. I truly believe, sooner than we think, owning cars, people having personal vehicles is going to be as strange as someone saying i own a horse and buggy. And when that happens, we need to be thinking about how we physically change our city to accommodate what our city will look like at that point. And timely, continue to push the dps agencies to come up with collective solutions. Too many times people think of the Planning Commission and the planning domestic as the first stop so we get a lot of comments that really dont belong us to. But it is incumbent upon us to figure out where they go and make everyone Work Together. It may not be part of our mandate, but we should find out whose it is and encourage them to work with us. If those three things could move forward, i will feel like my three and a half years here was time wellspent. Im going to miss my fellow commissioners. You guys are some of the best coworkers ive ever had. I watched commission for years before ending up being appointed by recently passed mayor ed lee. Ive never seen a commission with as much collegialty and as much commonality as this one in terms of working to solutions and being able to deliberate in a really great way. So, i hope you guys keep that going. I think you know the success successor, whoever that is, will fit in just fine. They wont be as fufnny as me. But everyone will get by. [laughter] ill miss all of you and congratulationses on a year well spent. Thank you to the city attorney. I really appreciated every time you raise your eyebrows at me and give me pretty looks. [laughter] and with that, thank you. Lets continue on with our last meeting of the year. Great. Thank you, commissioner johnson. [applause] and ill just add, we will miss you. You were only in your first term here, but we often look to you for guidance. You act as if youve been here for years and you take it on with a broad policy perspective and help us do that. And focus on the bigger policies. We face in the city and perhaps not decks next to everybodys houses that we can get mired in and spend a lot of time in. So thank you for everything youve done here. It certainly wasnt time, you know, it was time well spent and i think were impacted by it so good luck and hopefully your policy perspective will continue on in bigger areas. So, thank you. Thank you, commissioner johnson. For telling us sad news and leaving us with an upbeat challenge. You definitely kept us on our toes. Thank you. On Public Matters comment, today we, just a few minutes ago, approved in con sent service station demolishing at 3601 largent street. I urge the department, i urge the director, i urge you that we get on to having our overview of where stations are and how we need to look at this. This is an outlying district. Im not sure how many stations there are. By think it is an urgent matter. The second part this morning two important letters came in from the public and because they came if so late, i did fot have any time to read them. They are letters contributing to conversations we have later today. I urge the public to send any letters that comes through earlier than the day before. It is impossible for us to get these letters in time to read them, these letters were very important. And i just like to positively under all of you to send those out no later than the sunday before so the secretary will see them on monday and we get them on tuesday. Id appreciate if all of you could think about that. You have lots of important things to say, in particular the ones we got this morning really matter. Thank you. Commissioner richards. Thank you to commissioner johnson. We started about the same time, probably about a month or six weeks apart. I recall the first time we got together and went out to lunch. We were out looking at an m. C. D. In the outter mission. And she turned to me and i turned my head and i said what the hell are we doing on this commission . We feel like the crazy auns and uncles up here and what do we want to accomplish and i got the action light going and all these policy things that weve been tackling. Some successfully like section 317 reform, which we put on the side and then the u. D. G. , all these Different Things that percolated the past couple of years and really have been a genesis from having this commission actually be able to start setting some good policy work and with the department and i want to thank commissioner johnson for the help that she gave the commission on that. I wish you the best of luck. And dont forget about us. [laughter] you guys dont forget about me. I wont. And commissioner moores point, i echo what she said about getting some really substantial comments and feedback from the public, all very good. Unfortunately a lot of them come in between 11 00 and noon on the day of the hearing. And this is crazy. We cant read everything. Some commissioners may or pay not but then we rely on public testimony or Public Feedback here at the podium. And that is really unfortunate of the person that wrote the feedback of the people that we should be taking a look at doesnt make it and we cant read it. So, anyways, please try to send those in earlier. Thanks. Commissioner fong . Commissioner johnson, im sad that you are leaving but im happy for you. Personally. You have so much dedication and have so many big ideas. Maybe ideas that are too big for the commission. Wherever you go, i hope that you are able to implement and push forward those big ideas of yours. Commissioner milgar . Thank you. I will also really miss you, christine. I think you are one of smartest people ive ever met and we sometimes disagree and you always make me think. And i think that that is such a fantastic quality in policy government discourses to be able to add something with heft to the discussion and you never failed to do that and you also do it with grace. I have really appreciated sitting next to you as a human. You are warm and wonderful and wish you the best of luck in what you do next. Im looking forward to your success. Commissioner koppel . Thank you, mr. President. I as well will be sad not having you next to me. As sad as i am, i am that more excited for you and your opportunities to come and this is a small city and im sure we wont not run into you. Well probably be seeing more of you than we think. [laughter] so best of luck to you in the new year and congratulations again. Commissioners, if there is nothing further, sad to you see you. See you go. Directors announcements. Thank you. Commissioner, i guess just on behalf of the department, thank you for all your great work. We will miss your energy