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Privately owned public open spaces and investments in the transportation infrastructure. Through the central summer plan we are planning for Additional Office and housing capacity and focusing that growth particularly near transit so we can continue to work towards our transportation and sustainability goals. The full report is available on our website and we will publish data tables as well both on our website. With that that concludes my presentation and im happy to take questions. We will take Public Comments on this item i have another little handout. I have no idea what you are handed by ms. Harris, she may have talked about the changes that are on here, sue hester, i was san franciscans growth and i attended every single hearing on the downtown plan with three engineers that worked with me on dealing with what became the office limits in the housing fee, and the transit fee. They all came from a lot of work. Years of work from the people in the city. I want to point out a couple of things that are just in here, one of the things that jumped out to me was page 3 report on the Office Allocations. I have the Office Allocation report that you were given two months ago, three months ago 10 months ago, by cory teague on the Office Allocations. The pending smallcap projects on the pending largecap projects are not in the c3 at all. I summarized them up there. Four of the small caps are not in the c3. The ones that are in the c3. A lot of 4999 ft. Depending largecap projects, 10 of them are not in the c3. When i say c3 r, ost. They are not in the downtown core. What that means is that the whole Transit System that was talked about in the downtown plan, the fees that were put on their, were not relevant to what is happening right now. One of the things that i am pleading with you to do, is to really take cognizance of the jobs housing imbalance. This comes out on page page 9 of your report. You Start Talking about the jobs in the housing balance. The jobs housing balance is really bad right now. It is because we have an assumption of how much housing was needed in 1985, and its not the same as 2019. You have Office Development at the allocation and sit on it. One of the ways you have to correct it is to impose at the same time you approve the Office Allocation a report back on what they are doing. It should be done automatically, because if it is not done it will not happen. Secondarily, you have to have a serious discussion about the jobs housing balance, really serious. I am willing to work on that, ive already exceeded my time. Can have an extra 30 seconds. I do a lot of work on this. I had a meeting last night, it wasnt set up, between the head of srd, the board had, david jones and myself, we talked about the jobs housing balance. Its not what you normally go to dinner to talk about. We did this because we had been in this battle and it was unanimous on our side, that we really had no idea about the real need for housing, in 19801981 when we got the fee. The fee is undersize. The people making the money are the office developers. We need housing. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Public comment is now closed. Great report glad to see goals are being met for important issues like transportation and Greenhouse Gas emissions. Commissioner johnson. Want to echo that this is a great report. Its touching onto hot button topics whereas, the jobs housing linkage and also the future of transportation. Adding more color as we can figure out how to address both of those things. It has been a long day so i am linking a little bit on how we have worked to calculate that fee. It has come up a few times. Could you just share a little bit about how we have been continuing to think about that fee. Specifically to the jobs housing or transportation . The jobs housing linkage fee has been legislation to increase it supervisor haney increased legislation by about 10 per square foot. Im not sure of the specifics on that. Great. Thank you. A couple of questions for staff. The other c3 districts, can you just briefly explained to me what geographical areas they are . You are asking where the c3 districts are in the additional downtown dress dish districts . Andre if you can pull up the slide that has the map of downtown, to me it looks like an upside down diagonal guitar. I see the overall map and i know the downtown plan its an original stage was different than this map. My question is, on table 1 when they talk about these other districts come i dont know where these are. They are all within that larger district. But we do not have a breakdown. Go ahead. The c3 r is in the downtown area, the artist for retail. The g is for general downtown. The o is for office. There is also the other districts, i guess a little bit selfexplanatory, the dtr is in the south market. There is some dtr which is High Density Residential districts. There is also dtr in the intersection near market and vanness for more downtown residential. The highrises you see near that intersection will be residential, the majority of the rest of the traditional c3 is for office building. Is this the downtown plan, the original one was much smaller than this . The original one is the red. The c3 district has not changed that much since 1985. But for the expansion near the market in vanness area. Recently, with the central summit plan, that is when a little bit of changes also happened in the central subway area. It looks predominantly like the red upside down guitar. My last question would be, in the discussion on transportation, what about rideshare . When you speak of rideshare do you mean the car pulling itself . Both. San francisco county Transportation Authority has released a number of reports on what is happening with the tmcs. That is not included in the general if you will information about what is going on, transportation wise. Again, the data we are looking at is transit ridership, caltrain, bart, and what the census is estimating the motor to be. We did described in the report what we called rideshare which would be the more traditional carpooling has decreased by 26 . That is one of the main reasons why we are not getting as high vehicle occupancy as we would want in the downtown. There is more Single Person in a car trips because carpooling has been down. This is also a regional trend, if you will, too. Do we have any data how the disruptive construction practices, in downtown, have contributed to making downtown less industry interesting retail environment. Particular streets to be linkable to projects which have been around for a very, very long time including the unattractiveness of what it takes to maneuver around them and how they could potentially do we have any data on that . We do. No, we do not, commissioner. Sorry. Okay. Any other comments or questions, commissioners . Very good, item 7 a and b for case numbers 2014. [reading items] good afternoon pres. And members of the commission. Right now, which is handing out a memo from the review ofc. As well as some revised emotions that clarify some language as well as correct some type of graphic errors area i am linda hoagland, Planning Department staff, and im here to introduce the project at 6554th st. It is characterized as fourth and townsend, its one of the eight key sites identified in the plan. The project is a large project authorization to allow construction of a new Building Greater than 85 feet in height, or for new construction of more than over 50,000 gross square feet in the sentra selma special use district rate as well as authorization for the demolition of 2 existing dwelling units and to allow hotel use in the cmu oh zoning district. Demolishing the existing buildings on surface parking lot on the site and construct two new 400, 300 foot mixeduse i am sorry, residential mixeduse, i apologize, that appears in for separate towers. It includes approximately 18454 ft. Of ground floor retail, 21 eight 40 ft. Of office, 38 room boutique hotel, 18 four 32 ft. Of privately accessible open space. This includes 132 private balconies and rooftop open spaces. 2449 public open space, and 2480 ft. Of combined retail interior space. The project will also include a three level below grade basement including building amenities, eight loading spaces, 263 parking spaces, 12 car share spaces, 540 class i bicycle spaces as well as back of house use required for operation and maintenance of the building. The project will satisfy its inclusionary housing requirements pursuant to planning code section 415 through payment of the inclusionary housing fee at a rate equivalent to an outside requirement of 30 . Projects requesting approval of a large project authorization are permitted to seek exceptions from the planning code. The code allows additional exceptions for projects on identified key sites in the central selma hud that provide amenities in excess of what is required by code. Qualified amenities for the project include a new public plaza at the center of the site and approved Pedestrian Network in and around the site. As such, pursuant to planning code 329, the project is seeking exception exceptions. Setbacks, street wall articulation and tower separation, usable open space for residential units. Dwelling unit exposure, street frontage controls, ground floor commercial street frontage, pedestrian cycling and transit oriented street frontages. Wind. Narrow and mid lock allie controls, and the central selma bulk controls. To date, the department has received four letters and emails in support of the project. Two from current businesses on the site, the creamery and hd buttercup and one from united players. One from the San Francisco building and Construction Trades Council. Six emails in opposition were received, as well. For from tenants of the liver Worth Holding adjacent to the project site on Fourth Street and 2 from residence on king street. Siding impacts to light and air, to adjacent live and work units on environmental concerns. Throughout the application process, the project sponsor has conducted multiple oneonone meetings with individual stakeholders, Community Organizations and nearby homeowners associations. They also participated in three Additional Community outreach forms. Staff finds that the project is on balance consistent with the central selma plan and the relative objectives of the general plan. The project will provide a new mixed use development with 960 new residential units, 38 room hotel, ground floor retail and combined interior retail space i will include qualified amenities per the central selma plan that was substantially approved the surrounding neighborhood. The project sponsor is present and has prepared a presentation for you, as well. This concludes staff presentation and im available to answer any questions. Thank you. Lets do 10 minutes. Good afternoon commissioners, i am carl shannon. Great to be here again. We are here today to talk about 655 fourth, also known as the creamery site. This is directly kitty corner from the train station. Initially when we began assemblage of the site, this was envisioned as a commercial site. Really from working with the department and with the community, and looking at the specific massing of this site, it made more sense to shift this to a residential site which is part of the evolution of the central selma plan. And to see at least one of the major sites come forward as a residential site. We are very glad to be here to present this today. The site is directly across from the train station where the train is being electrified which will provide great transit down the peninsula. It is immediately adjacent to the brandnew central subway providing good conductivity up to the muni backbone and good north sound transit immediately across the street from a grocery store, within walking distance to preschools. Near a library in elementary school. Equal distance between southpark and the park that we plan to build in the new part block. Two weeks ago you heard, in this room, about the plans in terms of Affordable Housing to be part of the central selma plan. In the city put forward, several sites that they want to see be permanent housing for a total of 820 units. That requires 211 million of fees to help support those 830 units. This project alone, the creamery project would provide approximately 1 3 of that. As much as 300 units coming forward. This is an exceptionally dense site from a pedestrian traffic standpoint. 3000 People Per Hour across the intersection at fourth and townsend at the train station. We wanted to do a groundfloor plan that has very vibrant retail and really plays off of the energy that is here. Also provides a central courtyard and hobos spaces that allow one to get away from the frantic environment on the street. We turned the lobbies of the building to the interior so that there is a mix and a permeability through the site of both quiet public spaces. And very active in sidewalks. We also pulled the back Building Back intentionally away from Fourth Street to provide a plaza there at the Northeast Corner of the site adjacent to the liver worth building. 960 units, 20,000 ft. Of retail, 38 room hotel we are thrilled to bring this forward. I have a letter of endorsement from the San Francisco Building Trades council. I will also ask, we have a number of supporters here. Given the hour i will ask them to talk briefly. Without i will turn it over to daniel from the ark angels designed to walk you through the project. Good afternoon. Somehow it is not switching. So, as we look at the new central trend 32 districts, typical downtown cedar blocks. They are split up by mid lock alleyways providing shortcuts and activation at the neighborhood scale. We see a tremendous potential to continue this strong San Francisco culture of activating alleyways connecting connections on life within the block. So, instead of building up the towers on a typical podium, we propose a ground plane that spits up the podium into alleyways and plazas. We essentially blend them together offering a wide variety of moments in a unified expression. All while incorporating various setbacks to provide extra space to neighbors on all side. Essentially with the main focus of activating the site and inviting the neighborhood and everybody into the site. For the tower facades we are referencing both San Franciscos timeless skyline and capturing so much Industrial Heritage rate essentially the idea is that we are bringing the selma heritage into the skyline, marking the new central selma district. You can see, this scheme is really offering an incredible variation of expressions in the skyline. The intention is really to create this incredible dynamic project that looks different from different angles. And then the sign comes together and creates a Great Variety of open spaces both public and private. Enhancing the aim at creating neighborhood walks. We are basically using the architecture to frame, define and invite people into the open spaces. These are a few diagram examples. You can see here from Fourth Street, you have the 4th st. Plaza at the corner of the site. Really pulling the project back and creating this invitation into the central oasis. Once again, a more closeup look at what that would look like, and then inside some of these moments you can see we have opportunities for art, and landscape to really occupy the building and the surroundings. And then having the retail spelling out onto the street, this is from Fourth Street. In some of these alleyways you really have the retail, so making sure that their life, throughout this district. This is just coming into the middle. You see the central oasis, this wont be program together with the community. We are thinking that you have restaurants spelling outs, opportunities for different art projects, nature and so on. At the heart of this project you have this ecosystem of different activities generated by the community and for the community. And then just some examples, of course murals, sculptures, inhabiting the overall project. Once again this is a diagram showing the intention of creating a variety of spaces, and really creating different characters throughout the project and working together to make sure that it becomes a diverse, and interesting experience. So here you can see a new metric view of how everything comes together. An activated indoor outdoor environment. 24 hours, in the evenings, as well as daytime. Thank you. We are opening up to Public Comments. Thank you so much. We will now take Public Comments on this item. I do have a few speaker cards. Michelle, i cannot read the last name, kevin, noel, katrina, elizabeth, and michael. Anyone else who wishes to speak on this item . Please come on up. Dont be shy. Hello. Michael guthrie, i am resident next door at 6014th st. 30 years ago, i moved into this building that was originally the hue blank building on the first project that the Planning Commission approved as a live work loft project and south of the market area. We found a very interesting and exciting. Subsequently i bought a unit i moved my Architectural Design practice into one of the groundfloor spaces. This is a pretty exciting project. I dont have anything other than praise for a lot of the design that has been done. It is an exciting addition to San Francisco. Knowing that one of our biggest problems is housing, and rental housing. Myself, and those of us that are going to speak, we are not here to oppose the project. We find that there are certain aspects to it that with some mitigation, we think that we could live in harmony with this project. I am not suggesting any major modifications. We would like to be able to voice our concerns about some of the issues that we feel impact us in a significant way. You can imagine having been a neighbor to this project for 30 years, suddenly we have this enormous project, thats going to be built. We would like to encourage it, but we would also like to request some mitigation measures. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is kevin, i am a homeowner at the project was just talked about, 6014th st. To reiterate again, as a member of a group, i have to note there were a lot more people are here earlier, they cannot stay. We got here at 1 pm, they had to leave. This is a small amount of people that were here earlier. We are not here wanting to stop the project. It is a good project. We understand that San Francisco is in great need of housing and this will provide it. We are looking for some input in terms of the impact. You can see some of the maps that have been shown to you, as to the massive notice of the projects, the building, the homeowners live is a four story condominium building. You can imagine the massive notice of this project coming up in the 40 story building. As mentioned, what we are looking for is some input we have been trying to follow the project. Sometimes we have gone online to see what has been done, we noticed that there have been things that have been changed in the plans. I know maybe there is some argument that there has been some community input. I can tell you there is a large number of people here that have not had the impotent that is what we are looking for. What were asking from you is a postponement in this Decision Just so we can meet and talk with the developer so that we can have some say in terms of the small impacts whether it be setbacks, that is kind of what we are looking for. At this point, you can look at the plans and notice again, for some instants, some of the members here architects and they mentioned there is a possibility of a setback. Small things that could possibly be incorporated into the projects. That is what we are asking for. In ending, the staff, in terms of objectives, indicated that i think its on page 32 of the report, section 8. 4, ensuring that the streets and alleyways maintain their intimacy and openness to this guy. I submit to you with this building, it doesnt really follow that objective. All we are asking for is again some input so that we could come up with some plants, at least to give us a little bit more air, and light to make again our lives a little bit easier living in this condominium. Understanding it is good for the city of San Francisco. Also understanding we are going to have to live through the construction, Everything Else that will go on as part of this project. I would just ask the commission to postpone their decision. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. My name is michael cruz. I have been a resident and owner of a unit at 6014th st. For over 30 years. The people who live at 601, we have been residents there, we are business owners. We support, as everyone has said, this building. However, there are things that we cant support simply because we have not had adequate input into a conversation as far as making some decisions that have been approved or have been in the final plan. My goal is here to share some reasons why we would ask for a delay of this decision. First off, can we have there, thank you. This is 6014th st. Right here. That is where the southeast facing lofts are that are effective. The first reason why we want to have this delay, is because the plans that were posted last night, or the plans that have been posted are incorrect. It drove the public to the wrong information. It was only updated last night. The link provided on the Planning Commission website directed the public to outdated package implants. They updated the evening of june 19, that was last night and it was updated for the final plans. Residents and neighbors have not been properly notified of the final plans. Weve only had one day to really look at this 401 page package. Our second reason is that the project does not meet the planning code. It does not meet the requirements of the planning code section 1324. Code section outline set bakes, and tower separation controls in the central somo as you d. For example, this area right here, there is no real setback on this area for here. Yes there is a plaza here that brings in light, and there is these towers that are tapered. As you know, the tower right here that juts up right against this building on the east lofts are directly against it. They are only 30 feet away from the area. What i am looking for the last reason is air. Air and light. Specifically the light. This is what it looks like today, on unit 210. That is with the light coming through. This is on the second floor. This is what would happen if the tower went up, that would be it. That would be the light coming in. It is very different than what it is. Thank you, sir. Your time is up. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, members of the public and the commission. I am also a owner, with my partner, two of the units facing the site. When we moved here, from our offices in union square. We are a design firm. We were very excited and we have been in this building for more than 25 years now. We have seen the area evolve. We have been well aware of this project, generally very supportive of this project for all of the reasons i will not elaborate. Here is the problem. As somebody who is very supportive of the project, i spent 1012 hours per day at my office here, in this building. I think i must have noticed the notices, they were amazingly large, by the way, ive never seen notices that large, six of them pasted all across. I could stand 10 feet away and see the link that was provided. I have a picture of it. I went there right away. We spent 10 days evaluating. Only to be told last night, at my home, that that was incorrect information. I see no reason, very unfortunate how this project can legally be even approved. The notice was so erroneous. When i say erroneous, it sent us two sketches that we were told later, were done in 2018 on the project. That aside, postponement seems to me to be the obvious solution, otherwise there would be legal jeopardy, this whole thing. In the sketches i do support some of the earlier speakers. It just seems a little unfortunate that for such an interesting, articulated project, the one side that did not articulate, at all, is the side that faces our building. It is the only site that has no setback. Its the only side the building is not articulated. It doesnt even step back after 85 feet which is what the zoning requires. It gives a bad taste, because it feels like we have been treated like a municipal yard. We are school buses parked at night, that is it. I really think the designers are certainly capable of designing all sides in away the building, our side as well as the other sites have been treated. I conclude. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for hearing us this late in the afternoon. My name is noel, i have owned a unit for the last 30 years at 6014th st. I agree with what a lot of the previous homeowners have said, as well. I think a postponement would be ideal of what is happening with the situation and the fact we did not get this information until last night. I am here to read a letter from a fellow homeowner, eric bultman who was unable to be here because of how late this meeting ended up going. Im just going to read what his statements were. Eric is a registered architect. I wanted to add that weight to his written words. Dear commissioners, i emailed you all yesterday after conversation with the planner. The web link for the documents you are being asked to vote on today was not added to the Planning Department notice website, until last night. Therefore, proper notification was not given and neighbors have not had time to review the updated documents. We are asking for a delay in the proceedings to review the package, and properly be prepared to review these documents before they are voted on. Also, of the greatest concern is that the project does not meet the setback requirements of the planning code. There is no justification for such gross exception. In particular, the Northwest Side of the proposed vertical 400 foot articulated wall is in my opinion, is better informed. The outward facing size of this project should all be treated similarly. We are asking you to please instruct the developer to meet all of the setback requirements, per the planning code. The planning code that outline setbacks and street documentation is a well studied document. 655, Fourth Street is a very large parcel project and gross exceptions to the setback requirements are not warranted here. Without the proper setbacks, the project will have a detrimental effect on our neighbors and property. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. He owned a unit in this building, since 1990. We are renting it out since 2003. That is almost 20 years. We have had Great Success with renting it out. The last four years, it was a little more problematic because of the light Rail Construction going on. Potential renters said, this does not look so pretty, we might have traffic issues here. We had to rent it out for the last four years with lower than market rent. The light rail project has not been done yet. There is still dust and noise. Now were going to add, next door, huge three years construction site without any real proper notice as my former speakers said. We had the information only last year, last night, 400 pages, you just cannot leave through them. I think we teed need to look properly at everything before we can something. Our loft is on the ground floor in the yard, we do not have any direct sunlight already. With 40 stories next to ours it is going to be a dark cave which will be very the set backs for neighbors on all sides and creating an ecosystem and this sort of new way of living and being communal. I desire the same. Ive committed to this building and ive loved to have it as my neighbor. In some ways im asking for the same. To also consider that the importance of light, the importance of having the same essence is what i desire. Again, im not opposed to this but im quite excited. Currently, in the space i live in, i will have obstructed, ill look directly into peoples faces and ill lose light and air. Thank you. Thank you. Members of the Planning Commission, for allowing me to speak today. My name is victor har get and i am a member of the carpenters of local 22. I live in San Francisco here and i am in favor of the 655 Fourth Street project. The project will allow a carpenter like me to continue living here in San Francisco. The project will help me continue my career as a carpenter working towards retirement. The project will provide me with the necessary benefits and income to provide for myself and my family. The project i am in full support of 655 Fourth Street project. And ask that you would pass this project and allow them the opportunity to have a responsible general contractor build this project. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, president melgar. Fellow commissioner members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is timothy and im a field carpenter where i represent 4,000 Union Carpenters. Im also a re dent of san recein francisco. Im here to speak in favor of the project that will create hundreds of Union Carpenter jobs that will provide apprenticeship opportunities to members of our local communities. These opportunities will provide Health Benefits and retirement for these individuals. This project will provide over 960 units of desperately needed housing for San Francisco. They have been a great partner and has done a great job putting this development together. We are in complete support of this development and ask you move forward with this project and thank you for your time. Good evening, commissioners. My name is ryan hung. Im with h. D. Butter cup and were actually a tenant of tishman and we have a positive working relationship with them and with the past few years and they have been very easy to work with and transparent and very capable. We are in full support of this development. Its absolutely very exciting. Its definitely going to add more housing to help offset some of the growing demand inhousing and as well as adding official special space for mid sized businesses and ultimately it will be a positive impact for the central coma area. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I want to express my strong support of the Housing Project at 655 Fourth Street. I am the owner and the manager of two establishments at the project site. The iron cactus and the creamery. Weve been a part of this neighborhood for a decade and weve seen the community we serve grow and expand from commuters and giants fans to start up and tech employees and lots of residents. S has the community has expanded, so have my businesses and other merchants in the area. Projects which brings more day and nighttime residents to the area have businesses like the iron cactus thrive. As a business owner, i believe strongly that we have a responsibility as a member of the community. We volunteer, we Welcome Community groups to use our back patio at no charge and we try to be good partners to our neighbors. Im confident this will be a good partner to its neighbors. The project itself provides new plazas and open spaces that we would all be able to use. It provides new retail that will meet neighborhood needs and activate the street cape and the interior of the site. As the operator of this site. They have management and aroundtheclock security that will ensure the spaces safe, especially in the evening hours. I worked with them and they have lands for this project and we have established a Strong Partnership that will allow the creamery to continue to live on in this vibrant neighborhood. We have both signed a letter of intent to allow the cream reto lease space on the ground floor of the new project and i believe it will be better than ever in its new home. This project will have address our dire need of a rental housing at a neighborhood level, it will support existing businesses like the creamery. I urge you to approve this project today. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, todd david on behalf of the Housing Action coalition. Very excited to support this project. Its not often that we get to come here and talk about 960 new units of housing in San Francisco. As weve discussed the central coma plan the last number of years, we were certainly, there were a lot of concerns about so much commercial property gowing into central soma and where is the housing so here is the housing so i think that as we look at commercial properties we can point to this project and its exciting that the mayor office of housing will receive 65 million from this project and we were recently at an announcement for a 100 Affordable Housing project thatt purchased by the city and funds like this are used to purchase those 100 Affordable Housing sites so its great to see that come along with 960 units of rental housing on top of that. Its my understanding the design of this project has not changed in many years so that it sounds like maybe there was a little flip in something around the noticing but the design has not changed so i dont see it as a reason to not approve this project today. So, thank you very much. Bye. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Sue hester. This project has had two week advance staff report requirement posting plans last night on the site doesnt meet the requirement that you expect or of the code. There is some concern about the changes being made as well as plans being available. That is a valid concern. One of the issues you have on this project is the building to the north is technically commercial, not the residential. And so, the Planning Department doesnt look at this as though there are people there. Thats one of the issues around the work. Im very well aware of the work. Theyre all approved as commercial developments and if the Planning Department is treating them like quasi residential, but not really looking at them as quasi residential when a building next door cuts off their light, this issue has come up before and this is not the first time. I think its a reasonable request for the people that live next door to have some time to meet because cutting off their light is a big thing to people who live in live and work and are very often used as places that people dont work. Youve heard a lot of people here talking about how they live and work in their studios. Architects and artists specifically need Southern Light or need northern light. They really need light. I think its a reasonable request that theyre making to have a little bit more time for in put, especially if the plans just came through last night that shouldnt have been available two weeks ago. My other point is two other points. This is really going to be high in rental housing because its convenient to Silicon Valley trains and if we have a price point for income of 200,000, which is kind of usual, were going to have that level of housing. My last point is this morning i read an article on in the Business Times and this is one of them. And the article on popeos in the Business Time was all about how you need access, credential you need to access. That is a continuing issue around theyre not real accessible spaces for low income people at all. And so, the fact it takes a Business Times article, they didnt even intentionally call it out. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hell oh my name is roman. Im a resident at 601 Fourth Street. Being a more recent resident, i was aware of the project when we moved in and excited about the project and the prospect for all the retail and park space it adds. However, being a resident and not just someone there that is there during business hours, i have concerns around the proximity of the building that will go up on the Property Line and would like those to be considered and by the Planning Commission. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Public comment is now closed. I just wanted to address a lot of the concerns regarding the notice and the access to the plans. We did affirm and checking to the issues and our standard notice includes a link to a external website that brings you to adopt plans that basically you can pull up the plans specifically. That document did have the incorrect noticing however, the agenda posted with the hearing as well as the other items that were required to post according to the code, were all posted appropriately so, there was a kind of mix up between the commission, the notice, the length, the westbound lin web ll notice and what it was linking to. A lot of our information is posted and disclosed to the public. We have all of our information if you go to our Property Information map shows all the times that are publicly accessible and so, it was linking to one of the old plans but you go to another part of the website, it basically posts the correct plan. I just want to affirm we did check with the Zoning Administrator and the project was noticed appropriately. The correct information was posted on time and as accurate as required by the planning code. Thank you. Im not necessarily in favor of a postponement or continuance. I remember having an informational hearing on this very item a couple weeks or a month ago. So there was time. This maybe a little out of the box looking at these buildings but im starting to look them more and more. I like the way 160 folsom is coming together and it looks a lot nicer than i thought it would. Im really appreciative of the designs were seeing in our downtown skyline. At first i even looked at this and wondered what the curves were for but upon looking a little closer, theyre a lot more functional than i thought they would be. Theyre creating walkways and open space and balconies in a way i havent seen before. Props to the design of this building. Its got office, its got hotels and residential and retales and popo is and a high amount of car share and bicycles while still being right next to cal trans and muni. This is what this area needs. This is what Fourth Street subway is for. This is going to just kind of solidify that thorough fair. There were letters in the packet that hit home for me. One is from the building and Construction Trades Council and the other one from united players. What im trying to do is bridge the gap between these two parties. I go to city build. I go to the united players. I talk to those kids. I tell them to get interested in the trade. I tell them to apply. I tell them to study and honestly a lot of times they call me back and they say i didnt make it. I say try again. It took me three years to get into my apprenticeship program. When i did, the rest of it is taken care of. Projects like this arent just paying a wage. Theyre paying a living wage. A lot of items came up about cost of living, expensive housing and displacement and its jobs like these that are anti displacement tools for the middle, like myself, that are seeing displacement as real as any other class. If you look closely at the letter, theres 26 trades in the council so its not one or two or three, theres 26 trades at this develops

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