Make these actions less profitable and to hopefully reduce the number. The Planning Commission is an important line of defense to make sure the city and county of San Francisco is not dereceived and that rules are followed. This subdivider has knowingly misrepresented material facts. The evidence that youve heard is overwhelming that iris canada did live in the unit and was, indeed, evicted from the unit. For the purpose to prepare this building for condo conversion. Please do not reward the subdivider who is attempting to circumvent the condo conversion laws. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. Youve already spoken, sir. Unfortunately, everybody has 3 minutes. Is there any additional Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, well close Public Comment and open it up to commissioner comments and questions. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner thank you. So i would like to start this off by apologizing to the commission, due to a child care issue, i might not be able to stay through the vote on this. Im going to go first to give my situation, my recommendations for what i hope we do, and then ill watch the video after i return home. Ill start off by saying it seems to me were going to end with either a continuance or an intent to deny which is a continuance because we do not have a denial motion in front of us. So hopefully thats where we end up. There will be an opportunity for, you know, me to register a final vote on this at some point in the future. But to help the discussion along, i want to start off by saying normally, i love our planning staff. The city work very hard and normally for all of our cases they do excellent work, but on this one, im disappointed. I am condo conversions have a high bar for a reason. In this city, we normally like condo conversions to be amicable and clean. Generally speaking, condo conversions are done when you have people who are living in a building and you buy the building and youre seeking to convert it to condos and we want to make sure that whenever we can have it, thats its clean, everybody agrees to it. Many they stay or dont stay if thats their choice and everything moves forward. When that is not the case, there is a reason why theres findings we can make to deny a condo conversion. I feel that those facts, if they exist, are saleient to our decision and none of them were presented in our case file. Adds a person who likes to prepare very heavily for these hearings and to really be prepared with information and then also have that added to by Public Comment, im feeling very uncomfortable and unprepared for today. I want to go through what we were presented with in our case file and then what we heard today in Public Comment or what ive interpreted from Public Comment as well as what i have heard in the hallway right outside of our hearing just now before and phone calls earlier in the morning, which to me is not acceptable in terms of a way to present information for a commission to be able to make a determination. In the initial application, they said the initial application to dpw let me back up and say, all our case file had was an intent a motion to approve and, you know, a brief description of the property and a table that said what was the residency status from 2012 on with unit 2, which apparently was iris unit, saying vacant. So if you have not heard of this case before, if you had never heard of iris and her situation and maybe like myself, i actually happened to have been in that cave with whoever else was there, you would have no idea that any of this was happening. I had no idea, and maybe thats my mistake for not getting the news, but i feel like i was very much feeling blindsided by feeling this address was connected with that news story. So thats all we got, you know, and now through conversations outside, phone calls this morning, Public Comment today, weve learned the following, some of the things are contradictory. The initialing application to dpw said there were no evictions from 2005, but yet, apparently, there was an ellis act for everyone in the building and a subsequent lifetime agreement for iris. I dont have the evidence of i mean, i think we have something from dpw, but its partial. So, again, partial evidence for all of these things. We also have no statement from dpw or the rent board to substantiate how they validated the statement on the initial application that there had been no evictions from 2005. The residency table in our Planning Packet i made reference to says that the unit was vacant from 2012, but yet, the eviction that was somehow it gets complicated connected to the findings that are around 2012, iris was not in the apartment, eviction wasnt until 2017. If you say the litigation went on for 2 or 3 years, that still isnt 2012. So i dont understand how the residency table can say there was a vacant unit. But yet we also dont have proof of residency. I mean, we have statements today, and again, im not trying to say anyones not telling the truth. Im just saying, this is what were just getting in the past hours. Theres no proof of residency. We have an article that was passed to us from march 28th, 2017, an article in the guardian, but theres no date stamp on the actual photo. Im not calling journalists saying its not true, but im looking for evidence. There was a statement from iris grandniece she voted. She had a voting record in her polling place. Thats information you can look up. You can look up where someones vote a data, but that wasnt presented to us today. We have no evidence of the material actually gathered from the sheriffs eviction. Normally theres a statement when theres an eviction and the Sheriffs Department goes in, some piece of paper that says there was a couch and bag of garbage or full amount. We dont have any of that today. Im not saying anyone is saying anything untrue. We have verbal statements where some of these things can be substantiated and she should have been in our case report because its saleient to our decision and it wasnt. Ill continue a couple other things. Iris refused to sign a condo conversion agreement a couple Public Comments mentioned that happened in 2015. Again, theres no evidence for that one way or the other other than a statement which, again, there should be some way to substantiate something about that, an email, a draft agreement, something. Finally, there was also a pass up to us, a dr request in 2014 that mentions iris and her apartment, but the date is handwritten and its not the full file. Now, that one hopefully is easy. They are filed with the Planning Department. So we should get that. As of today, i have a typed up normal dr one piece of paper from a packet with a handwritten date on top. So, you know, everything that i just mentioned is a little fuzzy. It makes me uncomfortable. It puts you on the side of if any of it is true, i mean, if any of what i just said can be substantiated, thats really challenging for the owner because, again, this is on the owner to provide accurate information, and the city to verify it because we have this high bar for condo conversions, not only to protect seniors and we have an issue with aging in place but to make sure that condo conversions are clean and amicable when they happen. I feel uncomfortable with this case. I want sub staniation for some of them. If any part of it is true, i would definitely urge the commission to do an intent to deny to reenforce they are clean and amicable. We should be protecting our seniors who should be aging in place. Death is not clean. People arent just alive one day and then not alive the next day, generally speaking, unless theres a tragedy. The fact she was in and out of the hospital is a normal part of the aging process. Like i he had is, ive laid ive said, ive laid out any concerns. Sounds like were going to have to continue this even from the Public Comments i heard today and im hoping some of this will be addressed at the next hearing and i would go as far to say we should do an intent to deny so we have a denial motion in front of us. Ill stay for a few minutes and i apologies that i do have to run out in a little bit. Thank you. Im not going to say it again. Im not going to beat up on staff. You and i spoke this morning. Im not going to go through that, but i share your concerns. To me, aside from everything you just said, its actually pretty clearcut that unit where theres been an eviction in the last five years is not eligible for condo conversion. There was an eviction, and it was filed. Whether or not you think that the unit was vacant because her family took her to oakland whenever it irrelevant. The court case is within those last five years. You checked off the box in the application that says no evictions took place. To me, that is not true. It is clearly not true because there is an eviction filing with the court that is in that fiveyear period. So i will support the intent to deny today. Commissioner richards. Commissioner so let me just start off making a comment i think about whats going on these days. Two hearings ago, we had somebody come up and want to demolish a house they had already actually demolished by lying on the building plans. They said there was a garage there. They pasted a fake garage door on the front and submitted stuff to dbi and then it was thrown our way to have to legalize after the fact because for whatever reason, building didnt want to do it, and we pushed back on it. We had in the paper that i held up at the beginning of this hearing permitting that resulted in the destruction demolition of Historic Resource twice, once it came before us and once before the zoning administrator. Weve had in the news over the past couple of years not only this issue. Weve had 100yearold woman on york street, a woman down in burlingame who was 100 who lived in her place since 1950. We have Senior Citizens being evicted all the time, tenants being harassed. We had carl jensen who is 93 who was stressed out beyond belief because the construction workers were living upstairs. They were pressuring him to move out. I think i have a 94yearold mother. I cant imagine any of this ever happening to her. I remember in 1999, around the same bubble time when you bought the building and ended up doing the ellis act, there was a building at the corner of 30th and church. I was looking for a place to buy, live. My Real Estate Agent took me through the building. I liked unit 4, the one on the corner with the fireplace. Theyre still there and beautiful. Theyre spanish revival. It was a 94yearold woman in it, same age as my mom. I went out to the agent and i said in the hallway, i really like the unit, but theres a 94yearold woman in the unit. He said, well, just ellis act her. I said, youve got to be kidding me. You dont throw anybody out into the streets. This is absolutely crazy. You know, i applaud you for doing the life estate. I really do. However, i look back at, you know, your operating in not good faith to buy the building and then within days evicting people. We dont know what happened to them. We know what happened to iris. Part of me likes you. Part of me doesnt like you. Thats not whats before us today, you but i think its a commentary whats going on in the city today. It kind of makes me sick. It really does. Its like, this isnt the city i moved to when i moved here. Its just, everything is so selfish and so money oriented. Its like, who cares if we trounce on people or their rights. That just is really bothering me these days where i talked to my husband about leaving the city. So my reason for not approving this is not on how i feel about the owners or anything else, the state of the city. As i look at the planning code section 101. 1. About, 101. 1b, it does comply with abcdefg and h. As i read down im not going to go through the ones that dont apply. A and b dont apply. C applies. The Affordable Housing be preserved and enhanced and the answer is no housing will be removed from this project. However, tics are more affordable than condos. We know that. I own tic building in corona heights. Im trying to sell a unit. My sights are its like a condo, but its not. Its more affordable. Tics are entry level housing for people. Unfortunately, you know, in the past, people would do ellis acts and then buy them as tics. Now, this building i own is clean. Now you cant convert to condos. Whats the point of buying a tic because youre in it forever. When you folks bought these units, it was fully disclosed that the building was ellis acted. So you went in knowing that this was the case. I mean, if you werent disclosed on that, you should be suing the people that sold the building to you. D doesnt apply. E doesnt apply. If does. The greatest possible preparedness to protect against life. It wouldnt be covered because its more than three units. And then the issue about maintain balance and policy 33 in the housing elements. Protect affordable especially rental units. Maintain balance and affordability of existing by supporting moderate ownership opportunities. Go back to the tics are cheaper. So its a better place for people to start. But the second one is, once its condo, its no longer under rent control. I see some of these units have been rented as recently as last year or the year before. So im looking at this and on balance, it doesnt meet the criteria for me. Thats what im going to be using to decide on this. I guess i picked on number a. Maybe we should have looked at i think weve had one of these in the past year or two, but, you know, i think we need to look fore carefully at a lot of these that we are creating less affordable, non rent controlled housing by approving these. Im going to when the motion is made, im going to support intent to deny. Can i ask the City Attorney a question . On the we were given section 1386. In it, it says so what are we in this process. The Property Owners submit an application for a condo conversion. That goes to dbw. Do they review that to make sure the application is complete and accurate . I mean, it says here were supposed to take that on our were supposed to review the application and deny it if we believe the subdivider has knowingly committed Incorrect Information. Are we the only ones that do that. One issue is, at least in its entirety before us, we have the relevant elements where it may be incorrect. But who else does that review . Im from the City Attorneys office. The department of public works takes in the application information. Section 1396. 2 has pretty detailed definitions and descriptions. I cant tell you much detail about how much extra Research Public works may do on a particular application. The issue of whether there was thats where i think this whole thing hinges on whether there was an eviction or not. To me, its clear, there was an eviction. Right . So i think theres a i think the Property Owner did you were able to convince the court and i think the court ruled that she didnt permanently reside in the unit. You go back to but permanently reside is different than an eviction. I think thats where we get into problems on this. I mean, back in 2002, you know, you exercised your right under state law and did the ellis act. I think it was that was a good outcome that you provided her with a life estate. Whether you did it out of the goodness of your heart or there was a lawsuit or filing by who knows, but so you give ms. Canada a life estate in the property, which i think is good. Unfortunately, it didnt turn out after that, you know, we should have just moved along. She was able to live there and live out that life estate the rest of that Property Owners were able to condo the property because i think they get kind of dragged into this because of the actions. We all go we all go kind of on our way. Shes able to stay in there. But it gets then complicated. The facts get kind of why that happened. You know, she had to sign some document to allow for that condo conversion. She doesnt or she doesnt have to in the rest of this kind of ensues. The courts clearly opine she didnt permanently reside in the unit post 2012. Whether she had the benefit of an attorney on that, but i dont think thats necessarily relevant. Thats a civil matter that you had as a result of the life estate, which, again, was a civil matter, not necessarily before us. So then weve got to make this determination, which is weve never really been faced with this before that theres Incorrect Information on the application. I believe there is. I mean, i think its clear she was she resided whether she permanently resided in the unit or was a parttime pennant or what tenant or what the facts werent adjudicated by the court. They took on the civil matter of the life estate, which said she had to permanently reside in the unit. So i think thats where we kind of get into this i think to us, if this is the intent and were supposed to analyze whether the application is correct or theyve submitted false information, i believe you submitted information that was kind of consistent with life estate in your civil agreement with her, but there was an eviction. The sheriff was called in. There was an eviction. I think you should have claimed that on the application and moved forward. Whether that then was then it spins up to the top of that, whether the eviction occurred for the purpose of preparing it for a conversion. It ends at whether there was Incorrect Information in the application. That to me is kind of the deciding factor that there was. We cant necessarily rely on what the court said based on that civil matter. I dont know who typically does this because weve never been faced with that question, whether its dpw on the rent board or who would have advised us, but to me, based on the facts, i would support a motion of intent to deny based on that there was an eviction. Commissioner indicate stacy in the City Attorneys office. My understanding is that the department of public works does check the information pretty carefully. I dont know how much they go outside the record. What seems to be in the record is that in 2005, there was this ownership interest created with a life estate. That in 2012, a court determined after 2012 that the terms of the life estate had not been met. Whats not clear is what happened. But even if the terms of the life estate then to terminate that, it would lead to an eviction. The cause of the eviction was the fact that the life estate wasnt the terms of the life estate, but to me, thats still an eviction, whether the cause was the terms of the life estate werent up held, to me, i think its still an eviction. That should be disclosed. Then the city make its determination whether thats eviction then was occurred for the purposes of preparing the building or these other provisions that were charged. I mean, our focus is limbed, but its limited, but its odd to me in the code. We should correct this at some point because i dont think the Planning Commission is the place to determine they submitted Incorrect Information. It is under the code, and i think they have. Again, this is certainly worth more research. It is possible that given the definitions under 1396. 2, that an eviction is considered to be an eviction of a tenant because of the life estate and the ownership interest, it may be that dpw did not interpret an eviction as defined within that code section to have occurred. It is difficult to sort through everything that may have happened after that life estate was terminated, either physically in 2012 or by the court in 2016 or 2017. Right. I think the courts failing there. It kind of determines the terms of the life estate which requires permanent residency, but, again, its not the city investigating that. There was a civil matter. Yes. It was a Court Determination and an interpretation of the life estate that had been granted. Commissioner moore. Commissioner i agree with the general deliberations. One things i would like to point out is that nine of the most trustworthy alliances from Affordable Housing in chinatown [indiscernible] et cetera, et cetera, have given credible testimony that in the time after 2012, even after 2016, they showed photos with her being in her unit, celebrating her birthday, et cetera, et cetera, including the pictures taken at that event seem to show they dont only come there for a picture session. It looks as though somebody lived there and that was also verified by a number of people. I would agree that the application seems incomplete, if not inaccurate. I would agree with everybody that has spoken that from my perspective, a motion of intent to deny is where i am. Im making that motion. Second. Commissioner melgar. I was going to make a motion. So the findings will have to be made, but i think thats where the commission is kind of pointing to is the fact that the subdivider presented the application wasnt complete and accurate. Commissioner moore, may i suggest february 1st . Commissioner i think this could be next week, even if that is possible. Well, staff would need time to draft it and then put it in the packet. We know better what the time frame is. The soonest would be would be january 25th. You have a calendar. You suggest and i accept what you suggest. I think were going to need time on this. February 1st. Okay. Excuse me. I think commissioner richards mentioned that the project was not consistent with planning code section 101. 1 as well. So we would need to include that as one of the findings. I mean, that one i have a harder time justifying. Again, i think that the condo conversion law is in our code. Its in our code. It had to go through a process where it complied with the general plan. I mean, when it passed, it had consistency with the general plan. I had a harder time i would support the argument that this condo conversion i think you have to make the case that every condo conversion was inconsistent with the general plan if the case is like a difference between tic units anr time agreeing to that. I mean, i think that language in 11386 is 1386 is clear and i would support. It would be up to the commission to make that theres a motion that has been seconded to for a motion of intent to deny and continue this matter to february 1st on that motion, commissioners [ all ayed ] item 17. For case numbers 20, 15005788c ua. This is a condition of use authorization. If those persons leaving or exiting these chambers quietly, we could appreciate that. Good afternoon, commissioners, Planning Department staff. This is to legalize a massage 1,860 square foot at a 3 story mixed use building pursuant to 712. The property is within the nc3 Zoning District and is located in the Inner Richmond neighborhood. Its not i retail use. The proposal involves minor tenant improvements including an ada accessible rest room. The establishment was cited in june of 2017 after it was found that she was operating without a valid Health Permit utilizing a room for residential purposes keeping the doors looked during operation and keeping alcohol on the premises. The applicant has paid all fines and fees associated with these violations and the department of Public Health has no record of any unlawful activity at the establishment since these violations were abated. The department of Public Health is present and can expand. The department is received one letter of support from the land lord. 20 letters of support from nearby residents and some from nearby businesses. These are provided by the project sponsor and you have one copy included as a sample in your staff report. The department received one package with 15 id cool letters of opposition and one package of 5 letters of opposition of a separate date. Since it was published, the department received one additional package of 18 identical letters of opposition that can be distributed to you now for review. As the project is bound to satisfy all sections of the planning code and the general plan, the Department Recommends approval with conditions. Im available for any questions you may have. Project sponsor. You have five minutes. Is the project sponsor here . Welcome. Good evening commissioners. This is the applicant. My name is arthur lieu. Im the attorney assisting in this process. [ speaking through interpreter ] thank you for this opportunity to give to my organization. I immigrated here from china, and i want to do everything legally. In the process of applying for this permit, i received a lot of support and help from the departments in the city. Just to summarize, from the officials, ive learned a lot about this country and i love this country and i want to do everything legally. I with like to get the permit as soon as possible so that i can conduct the business lawfully and legally. The business has been closed for about six months, and weve been trying to comply with everything that we need to. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Any Public Comment . Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Commissioners . Commissioner i dont have a problem with this project. I did notice that it is in a location that is totally suitable for medical care near like, say, the geary and 6th french campus of kaiser and whatnot. Im in support of the project. Is that a motion . I would like to make a motion to approve. Theres nothing further commissioners. Theres a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. On that motion, commissioners [ all ayed ] it passes unanimously. Item 18. 1974 union street, conditional use authorization. Is matt here . He is here. Okay. Thank you. Does anybody have any vacation stories . There he is. Good evening, commissioners the item before you is a request for conditional use authorization to establish retail use doing business at north face at 1974 union street. Its okay pied by another formula retail use doing business as lucy activewear. They have approximately 60 stores and north face has 122. This is considered an intensification of an existing retail use and conditional use authorization is required. The proposed project involves traditional retail Clothing Services to the surrounding community allowing the use of the ground floor retail space in a neighborhood at a similar intensity to the existing use while providing similar goods. To date. They have received a petition in support of the project as well as a letter from the Marina Community association commendingment project on their outreach and partnerships. No opposition has been received. The product would not result in an existing tenant as lucy activewear is owned by the same parent company. The lucy is being phase phased the Department Recommends approval with conditions of the request for conditional use authorization. Im available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Project sponsor, welcome. Good evening, commissioners, last but not least. Im monica, the director of Retail Marketing at the north face. Some of you may or may not know, we were discovered or founded in San Francisco in 1966 in north beach. Our first location was at the corner of columbus and broadway, and since then, we have two other San Francisco locations, one in union square and one in jackson square. Were proposing this new location to be a new concept for us. Really rooted in running and training which is probably different than most of what youre used to knowing in terms of mountaineering in skiing and know. If you refer to your packet, the exterior of the store is pretty different. Its a different look and feel for us using a white logo as well as calling out union street. This concept by footprint is a lot smaller than our typical north face stores, and were really excited to get in and start localizing and really interacting and engaging with the community, which is a really a huge portion of what this store is based on. Just to give you a little bit of the skin intent of the store design intent of the store, weve been calling it chalk. We designed it to be an all white concept to nod back to our heritage in rock claiming and the use of chalk as people climb big walls and as well as indoor climbing which is really relevant right now and really important to the committee with the presidio nearby as well as planet granite and lots of opportunities to be outside and active in this community. So i think thats all i have. If i can answer any questions, please let me know. Okay. We may have some. Lets first open this up for Public Comment. Any Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, well close it. Commissioner richards. I think its a great addition. I move to approve. Second. Commissioner moore. The former retail space is being filled with retail, smaller scale. Union street needs that on going number of stores being there. I support that. Theres a motion thats been seconded to approve this matter with commissions. [ all ayes ] motion passes unanimously. Case number 16. 575 belvedere place. Note that on december 14th, 2017, after hearing and closing Public Comment, you continued this matter to january 11th, 2018, by the 42 commissioners johnson and hillis were against. Fong, you need to acknowledge youve reviewed the previous hearing and materials. Commissioner i have reviewed. Thank you very much. Good evening, david lindsay, department staff. So i was it was four weeks ago tonight that the commission heard the item initially, heard the staff presentation and Public Comment. At the end of the hearing, the commission indicated its view that the some of the materials were inadequate and requested that we come back with the additional materials including some existing Building Conditions as well as some photographs. So we have provided that to the commission. Im happy to go through and present my do the presentation over again, if the commission wishes. But otherwise, our recommendation remains the same to not take dr and approve the project as revised. Okay. Thank you, mr. Lindsay. Project dr request, you have three minutes. Well give you 3 minutes and then a 1minute rebuttable since weve heard this item already. Thank you. Thank you for continuing this. Fog has changed as far as nothing has changed as far as were concerned. Our fear is that its going to be a mansion. It opens up the possibility to an airbnb. Also, were still in a tunnel. If you look at the pictures, youll see that our north side, we already have a building that extends out about 14 feet from the back of our house. Theyre going to be having an equal, if not larger extension to our south. It will be placed on a little tunnel cutting off the air and light, cutting it down. A comment was made last time about the foliage. What was not brought out is that the foal age acts as a filter. It doesnt block light and air. The same with our shades. Theyre filtering shades, not darkout shades. With the two solid walls, it will be darker and less air. Its still our fear that its going to be so large that it will be an airbnb before its anything else. Thats all i really have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Project sponsor. Good evening president hillis and commissioners. My name is daniel. Im the owner of 575 belvedere. This is my partner. During the hearing in december, we presented the project, the changes we made to accommodate our neighbors concerns. A positive response from most of our neighbors. Now i want to address the question that was raised about potential [indiscernible] and why we feel that this is not the most suitable solution. Both calvin and i are the single child of our respecting aging parents. Our parents rely on us to take care of them. We designed our home in such a way as to integrate our parents and make them feel at home together with all of us. With my parents coming from poland and calvins parents coming from china and none of them speaking english, there is enough cultural linguistic and other barriers that make it challenging to unite our family under one roof. It barack obama only become harder if we were to create additional physical and psychological barriers by breaking our Single Family home into two separate dwelling units. Although we are an immigrant family coming from different parts of the world with different cultures and religiouses, we dont want to live separately, cook separate cuisines, quite the opposite. We look forward to cooking dishes in the same kitchen, sitting and eating together under one roof and at one dining table. While everyone would agree that additional housing is clearly needed in our city, we feel that in our circumstances, its important to allow for the existing outdated Single Family house to be upgraded to the current standards without splitting it into separate units. We are not developers. Nor are we landlords. We are just the regular hardworking San Francisco family who is spending our life savings to upgrade our Single Family home so that it is suitable to house a big family of ours. Out of this reason, we seek and ask your support to allow the current Single Family home design example. Thank you. We i have something to show. I wanted to show the design which overhead, please with the staircase that is very central in our design. It extends from the bottom of the house to the top floor, and it allows its not only for the light but also for the openness on the very lowest level. If we were to create a separate adu, it would close now your time is up. The commissioners may have questions. Thank you. A dr request, youve got a one minute rebuttal, if you choose. I would mention as before, were in favor of remodeling and improving the property. We just feel that the scope and size of the property that they the project they want to do is far greater than what needs to be done. Thank you. Thank you. Dr request, you have one minute rebuttal, if you need it. Maybe well start with the mid block diagram we wanted to show that our house is one of the smallest houses on the block. This house here. Even with the addition, its going to stay as one of the, you know, smaller houses. We are not extending anywhere further than most of the houses have extended so far. I justed wanted to show also a 3d rendition that we created that show the extension of the addition hopefully commissioners you will realize that its very, very modest extension, and it shouldnt really block any significant amount of air or light to any of our neighbors. Thank you. Thank you. Well open it up to commissioner comments and questions. The package submitted answers all of the questions, which were not answered in the previous one. I appreciate the personal comments and description of the family situation, which i fully support. I am not interested in asking for [indiscernible] when the family is larger and complex situation than we normally hear. Im in full support. Its a thoughtfully prepared drawings and move to approve. Second. With the revisions, yes. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, theres a motion that has been seconded to not take dr and approve the manner as has been revised. On that motion, commissioners. [ all ayes ] so moved. Commissioners, the motion passes 60. Thank you. I would like to adjourn the meeting in memory of joe who passed away in december. It was a long time dog patch neighbor and advocate and just an all around fun guy. So in oner in honor of joe. 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The upcoming visit the plans and programs package of our we are talking about with our feedback and participation that is important to us not everyone takes this so be proud of taking ann if you frequently travel before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the First Transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of San Francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. The new mr. Secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle the far legal unit and a broadly prom one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf rightofway a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. To move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that portion the corridor up to 22 thousand and well have those beautiful new one like this one. With the dedication of the signal and lighter saying that between stops we were able to estimate a. 32 improvement in travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result. Were pitting u putting in a up to date modern system of new thirty foot high light fixtures and pedestrian lights on the same pole again inviting a comfortable environment for pedestrians. It has become a 3 dimensional street project. The water that is my understanding under the ground and the emergency firefighting water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees both in the medium and on the side. The main core of the project goes from market it lombard thats where well be replying the sidewalks. There are a number of trees that need to be replaced and they will be additional new planting. Were planting a lemon gum that gets to be 50 or 60 feet tall that comes over the offer head wires that wee when we get done van ness it will look like a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand boulevard again. Were going eliminating left turns off of van ness into the side streets and places the left turning traffic backs up the traffic and upgrading the signals to the mini traffic will flow more smoothly and traffic impacts as we execute the construction signed were working to minimize these but impacts that will likely shift the traffic up franklin and well pick up the traffic. Right now that looks like were skeleton to start in march ever 2016 are of our construction. In the past people prospective of bus traffic that go unreliable and noisy and very fluting were here to remake the vehicles are on the streets and with the combination of the brt improvements much more rail Like Services with the technology. The public is in for a