And these are the drawings showing you the context of the buildings. Again, our landscape, as you can see, this end lot is much wider. This is approximately 35 feet and landscaping it, putting in a new fence, which is a willow, wood fence horizontally laid in there. This is a condition, like you see from visitation. This large tree in the center is on park property and that will remain. Heres the church building. Again, i think one of the concerns from the last Planning Commission meeting was a view from the park. This is a new landscape were proposing. Heres the fence, the willow wood fence mounted horizontally that we designed with our landscape architect. Heres leland avenue street. And heres raymond avenue street. Other views we generated this is a quick plan of the house on a triangular lot on leland. This is the culdesac as it is now. The area has been excavated, 598, 596. Again, just the floorplan showing the relationship to the Property Line to the house with landscaping on the side of the house. Again, the rendering. This is what it looks like from the street. We modlate where the buildings are going. The church sits on a 10foothigh terrace. And thats why its you have the steps here and the landscaping. Again, our landscaping, again, on the street, as you can see, and im available to answer any questions that you might have. President hillis all right. Thank you. We may. First, well take Public Comment in support of the project and opposed to the d. R. Mr. Smith . Good afternoon, again, corey smith. Obviously a little bit away from what were typically going for or advocating for on an active basis. Its not park land. And its sipping singlefamily homes. And specifically, the word is, families. It will be an opportunity for families live in San Francisco. We want access to the park to be maintained and continue to be used by the community. Were speaking against the d. R. And want the project to move forward. Thank you. President hillis thank you. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, ms. Martin, 2minute rebuttal. Sorry. I have to get assembled. Several years ago, the Planning Department held the eastern neighborhoods master planning process. Originally vis valley was included, but dropped without notice or reason. We have suffered from piecemeal rulings that have been a problem. In the past, theres been a denial of master plan and allowed our neighborhood to be used for what the rest of the city doesnt want in affluent neighborhood. Our main concern is that the land not be built upon, particularly on the raymond side. If the land were to be sold, there is possible financing with the vis Valley Developers fee, which our organization initiated. Malia cohen supports our efforts to save open space at the 590 leland site. Theres been a slow reduction of the park. In the recent past, housing was build on private property adjacent to mclaren park, creating a fortress around the park. The easy access and visibility has been denied to our community. The city needs to adhere to the general plans. Shadowing, public accessibility, and integrity has to be taken seriously the focus is on housing and muchneeded amenities. Planning should look at the entire vis valley neighborhood and think about creating a Healthy Community in a highneeds neighborhood expecting 5,000 to 10,000 new units of housing in the near future, which, by the way, we promoted from the beginning. This project adds no value. It just diminishes our neighborhood. Allowing it to go forward is shameful treatment of a community that has supported highdensity housing that other neighborhoods reject. President hillis thank you, ms. Martin. Project sponsor . 2minute rebuttal. Commissioners, just pack from my diagram here. As we pointed out, the pathway that many of the public has referred to is still intact right here. This is the pathway. Some of the work has gone in here, but this is the pathway. Sorry. This is the pathway that many of us refer to. There are already tall trees that you saw here thats on the public property that casts shadow. We had discussions with malia cohens office and their aide. And in all of our discussions, we were not aware of any positions taken by the office, but we kept them apprised of public concern. The housing, which is noted here, is when the lot the lots were never divided. The lots were actually combined for billing purposes to one lot and then resplit through a compliance letter so that the intention of urban development for this site is the continuation of singlefamily housing. Its the type of structuresable uses that is predominant in this neighborhood and we feel its compatible and it adds to the neighborhood by adding more housing. In this development, theres an opportunity for this site to be a buffer between the more established housing and the other housing and the park because of the landscaping and buffering that we propose on the site. We would like the opportunity to develop this property. We feel its a good value project for an infill project, particularly for a site where the structure is unutilized and vacant right now. Weve had numerous breakins on the church and Police Reports where weve been asked to get vandals and vagrants out of the property. So its been a problem for us to manage it and would like to develop it into singlefamily homes. President hillis that closes this portion of the hearing. Well open it up for commissioner comments and questions. Commissioner melger ill start. So its been a year since we saw this presentation. And im wondering if i could ask the d. R. Requester if there has been any progress made. I remember a year ago, you had talked about the conversations you had had with the parks folks about can you come up . Thank you. This is, as you know, private property and were limited as to what we can do, but youve had a year to have discussions. Did you make any progress . In terms of rec and park, i have to be careful what i say. We have had discussions, but its im not allowed to reveal. I know it sounds strange, but i cant say. Yes, weve had talks. And theyve been theres been some support in rec and park and i think if you recall there was a vote to support aquisition of the site and one of the Things Holding it up is financing. And we could get the financing quite possibly through developers fees. When we talked to supervisor cohen, i dont know how much it would cost. My concern is that it not be built on. We had to stop home depot. We had to get Community Planning going there. Once you build, its all over. We will never be able to do anything at that space. Its not an enormous amount of money. Ive been on Transportation Authority cac and different groups and 1 million or 2 million. Its a lot of money to me but in terms of the city, its not that much. In terms of the value that will be added by this land to that open space is im measurable. And i dont have an answer. I know that the community does not want it. We have different groups. We work with kids. There as school right there. Theres senior housing. I dont think that as jim mentioned, the land, where it comes in, it narrows down. Theres that theres two paths that are a sidewalk and a pathway, that are proposed to rec and park and dpw and, you know, the powers at be. Commissioner melger okay. Thank you. My question was only about if you made any progress during this year. I have a question for the project sponsor, if thats okay. So when we heard this the last time, there was a lot of concerns from the neighborhood that were raised about the path going from raymond avenue culdesac down to the Community Garden and i understand that theres no impingement from the project, but i remember that you had put up pictures of a very tall fence and, you know, i remember my worry being, well, so the kids are used to going down that concrete path right now a the at sort of left edge of the top of the hill. And now you will make them go around . And im wondering if you put a big, tall fence how that will go. So you showed some pictures of a newly designed fence, but i didnt get a sense of it. Can you show them again or if you have a better sure. Im one of the sponsors. Weve met many times with the d. R. Requesters and in one of the earlier ones, they raised the question. We sat there eight hours, four hours one day, four hours another, not holidays. We didnt see a single student. There was a lot of suspect activity at the end of ray monday, if anything. We didnt see anybody in two Different School days walk up and down. There were a couple of people with dogs walking, excuse me, maybe in all that. Theres a distinguish ed panel speaking against the item, but with every item, 293, you will see a lot of pictures that we took that show that almost none of the issues, if not all of them, are invalid. Were not blocking anything. Most of the area, as it is, of our area, is already already has a structure on it. Were not taking anything from the park. I have a lot of pictures here showing you up a the garbage thats all over the place. Commissioner melger i understand. I wasnt questioning that stuff. I was asking about the fence, if its been redesigned or if we can look at it. May i add something . We got an urgent call from rec and park asking us to meet them at the site. We get there, talk to them. They were concerned that we would block the path. We show them everything. We talked. We asked if they had any interest. They said they had none, but maybe they dont know. I cant say. The only concern is that they were going to redevelop or do something with that path that goes sort of along visitation avenue, that were not touching it, not putting anything on it. We have a slide showing 37 to 36 feet from our lot. There is no issues of soil. Its flat. Its full of garbage, but its flat. Thats what rec and park told us over a year ago when we met them there. They had tremendous concerns that were going to destroy the path or do something. Its out of our private property. Were not touching anything. Commissioner melger thank you. My question was about the fence. Nothing else. [laughter] i have this problem with my wife, too. I dont answer her questions right away. Let me pull that up real quickly. This fence. Theres another image, too, let me get to that, right here, that shows a fence to the right of raymond right here. This fence. Its a willow wood fence. Its made so that you can see through it, so its not a solid barrier. Commissioner melger all right. You can see the landscaping. Its more like a filter. Commissioner melger okay. Thank you. Thats better. President hillis commissioner moore . Can i ask a question on that same topic . Behind that and adjacent to 590 between the City Property and 589 raymond where you are showing that fence, what is the use of that land . Thats a side yard for that house. President hillis so it has a large side yard . Correct. Let me get to a site plan. Commissioner moore which one are you referring to . President hillis raymond avenue along the culdesac. This is the 35footwide that you saw with the rendering. This is a side yard to this house. And its landscaped. President hillis has there been any discussion about is that . Its a large side yard. Its nice for the property to have that side yard, but im wondering, is there any is there any way to somehow utilize that in a better way with no fence or remains an open easement between your development and the City Property there . I well, i think whats important to note there is that the site is very steep in this area. It also drops off very quickly. Its not as flat in this area where the as it is out along where the trail is. So this is if you can see it, theres a drop about 40 feet from this curb height to this curb height. President hillis yeah. What is the drop from that curb height at the corner to the to where the building starts at 589 . Probably 4 or 5 feet. I think you see it here on this let me get to this image. You see heres the if you can see the dotted line, thats where the street is in front of the house and heres the high point of the triangular corner, okay . So theres a drop. It goes down from there. [please stand by] the very large building is at the edge of the open space and the building is the maximized single residential in comparison to what is adjoining to the south. And im wondering why you pushed that particular building against the Property Line. If i could have the image up on the screen, we have the site plan here that shows it might appear on the garage level plan where the building and stairs are against the Property Line, but as it goes back, this footprint steps back. This is at grade. Commissioner i am using the overall site plan which is a cumulative image of all pieces together that outlines the building footprint as coming all the way to the property edge. And i dont know if that has changed. The one that we submitted to the staff is this one where it actually steps back, and its not against the Property Line. Commissioner for the commission, i am referring to this drawing. Dated 12162017, so thats for todays packet. Is the lead page and each of the five buildings with the building in question highlighted in yell yellow. That is 598 leland, correct . Correct. That is the only one this sits aggressively on the Property Line. This is what was submitted to staff. Commissioner that is accurate to what is in the drawing set. If you look at the, i guess, its hard because theyre all labelled 590. And the one package for 596 leland, you will see there is more detail provided. Right. And this diagram, i think this is the pdf sent to the staff, it is part of the record. What we do notice sometimes is when we send the pdf to the staff and they go and print it, the clarity of the prints that come from the Printing House arent the same as we get in our office. But if you look at this one here, this is 598 leland that shows the footprint in sort of that orange color and then the landscaping that is against the Property Line and the fence is there. If the building is not intended to be against a triangular Property Line, it is intended to have landscaping and grade. Commissioner and i dont have the one you are referring to. I have a site plan similar to what you are showing, and id be happy to show you the copy here. Sure. Commissioner im concerned that one building makes the project look rather massive. I dont have anything the buildings otherwise are fine. They are large. They fit the neighborhood. It is definitely a kind of like developerdriven housing. And is not spec housing and the building that looks similar architecturally i think they are fine. It is just that they are very large. And because they are large and you have a very sensitive site on which they occur, there is a little bit of crowding at the edges. That would be the best way i would describe it. Is there a way to that 598 lela leland, kind of the last jog of that property, could you eliminate that . I think we could work with staff to, how can i say, remove the love handles that you see on the side of the building. Commissioner right. The last 1 3. The last 1 3. Yes. Commissioner if you look at your design. And kind of emulate the 25food module already been expressed. Commissioner and the bedroom on the main floor and extra room on the top floor. I agree with that comment. I think that would be a good kind of effort. I dont think were at a place, at least im not comfortable in a place to deny this project. Its private land. I get that the folks from the area have worked hard to maximize open space in the neighborhood, and thats a kind of been supportive of development in the neighborhood. And this is not a cityowned site. There doesnt seem to be any Movement Towards i think that suggest would create more massing relief between the City Property and the family house. Yes. Commissioner commissioner moore . Commissioner moore since there is no reaction from park and rec, which i would have liked to have had to go through the larger ideas, hear their larger plan, and get a feel for what they think, i feel that what is really in front of us is five residential buildings which come forward as design on a large lot, subdivided into five individual lots. And that is basely cha it is. Theres nothing wrong with the unit. I think the modification that we are talking about here at least aleaves some of my anxiety of the alleviates some of the anxiety on my part and the more flowing nature of the garden next to it. And thats where i am. Commissioner is that a motion . Do you want to adjust the 598 leland portion project to maintain that 25foot, i think, width of the building throughout . And the module. Commissioner so you wouldnt bump it out at the last. Correct, correct. Second that if that is a motion. Commissioner its a motion, yeah. President hillis we have a motion and a second, jonas. If i understood that correctly, its just the motion is to take dr and approve the project with the amendment that the 598 leland project maintain the 25foot module to be consistent with the other properties. On that motion, commissioner fong. Commissioner koppel. Commissioner richards. Commissioner president hillis, excuse me. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously 50. That is it, right. So meeting adjourned. Thank you. 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The Different Stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having Healthy Foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they cant afford it not going to be able to allow it so thats why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, im cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about Healthy Retail in the low Income Community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. Huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and Community Safe way. 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Now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic youre not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my Blood Pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the Business Owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride Business Owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how theyre part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. It is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small Grocery Store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but Healthy Options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have moit. 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Beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is i really appreciate they love this art. From the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you dont have to go far. Small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. You dont have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. San francisco has to a clapping. in San Francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of San Francisco from a variety of circumstances in San Francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually im christopher director for the chief mr. Chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical chairman facility ive Charles Program manager public works should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs well not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. Were in a facility that was designs for a department that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed weve had significant problems with Storage Capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if youre doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz were in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is 65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the im the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so Pile Foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. One of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and were having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and im a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. The building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly were thats a great question to be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. And as you can see weve got a lot of the interior finishes installed. In an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. Not taking into account there was a lot of structural updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout San Francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one Public Comment monday to friday because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. In the current facility Investigative Unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. The planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. Were looking forward to have secured parking to minimize the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. We have a new visitors area were building that is a little bit more friendly to families. One thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no Natural Light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see Natural Lights. Thats one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. We have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. Third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of Small Businesses. Part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building well have a syrup in front of the building and rain guardian. The medical Examiners Office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. Its a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few of the. It is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address San Francisco as a whole. 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By the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. But as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. I only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. I found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. I went, volunteered and my life changed. Suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. Stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. I eventually moved up to San Francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through Los Angeles County and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. One of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, im teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. It was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. The San Francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. We realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. The city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. We have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether its lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and weve had great feedback. We have helped public and private schools in San Francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. Great job. Ive been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and im grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. I try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. Try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. Think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. You can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. Follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. Trust if you want to do good in this world, that good morning. Today is wednesday, january 17, 2018. Regular meeting of the building inspection commission. I would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. First item is roll call. President mccarthy. [roll call taken] we have a quorum, and the next item is president s announcements. Good morning. And welcome,