Via web exthe password is h pc 2023. Raise your hand had Public Comment is called for theium are interested in. Call 4156550001 and access code 2664 775 7889 enter star 3 to raise your hand you will hearted prompt you raised your hand. Wait to speak until the host calls on you. Had you hear your when you hear you are unmuted that is your indication to speak. Call from a quiet location and mute your television and computer. For those in person lineup on the screen side or to your right. Speak clearly and slowly and state your name for the record. I will ask we silence mobile device. Immediate matsuda. Here commissioner nageswaran. Here commissioner vergara. Commissioners first is general Public Comment at this time members may address the commission on items of interest to the public in the subject jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items agenda items your opportunity will be when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member may address the commission for up to 3 minutes if you are here come forward. Remotely press star 3. Seeing no one in the chambers go to remote callers. Jury room good afternoon Historic Preservation commission this is georgia. I want to comment on the commission use authorization at planning tomorrow. For the demolition. Second day [inaudible] by master Architectural Firm of hurts, scott and knolls i was concerned this was not discussed in the staff report in Planning Commission. If you read the e mail i sent this home [inaudible] was fine inside per add. And according to the hr alert by staff, quote retains a high level integrity and he contains the second day traditions defining features. And then writes, it is is not consistent an example or full expression of the style. However, in the 2011 context statement, San Francisco modern land scape design, 1970 wrote on page 183 fewer Single Family homes in San Francisco and wrote it was a conservative estimate hamp this demolition approved tomorrow of this project in 8700 square foot 7 huh human Million Dollars take down there will be fewer. Previously the hca rated home was altered out of existence and redesign under the section 317 demo calculations tandem out to demolition [inaudible]. So. That is 2, second day Tradition Homes by mast are architects not full practitioners but influenced by it that has been lost that needs to be brought to the commissions attention. Thanks, have a good day. Take care. Good afternoon this is richard rothman. Im out here to talk about murals i am here to talk about fair street. I listened to the board of permit appeals and not knowing what was on the agenda, soon realized there was an item about the annex and that building. Without coming to the commission. And allir can say is the border permit appeals 5 hours on the subject and asked to be continued. And to have City Attorney write pregnancy im not going to say what the board of permit appeals. I did look at the sign and i think that this item should be coming to the commission. I was always under the assumption if once a bodiesing the city landmark anything go on the outside of the commission, as a building had to come before your commission. And apparently in 2018, what it was speedup the process. This change and may be this commission needs to have a hearing on this matter. And so that there is moreover site on what goes on the outside of the bodiesing. And these were not small signs they were pretty very noticeable signs that were going on the outside of rincon annex. And they were not. Thank you for upon listening to me. [inaudible]. I wanted to express my support for will the projects from last cola on 18th street. I will interrupt you now because weer general Public Comment. If you want to speak to the item on 18th street you have to wait until it is called. Apologize. Thats quite all right last call for general Public Comment. If you are here come forward if remote press star 3 or raise your hand. Seeing no requests to speak, general Public Comment is closed. We can move on to department matters. Item 1 department announcements. Good afternoon. Commissioners nice to see sxefrn a packed room. I have a couple announcements. First i want us to welcome or introduce you to our planning interns. Our planning deputy class of 2023. We have a total of 40 interns all paid. And for the interns here, stands up so we can awkwardly look at you. [applause] happy to welcome them. We have 16 college and 24 high school students. And so we received close to 900 letters of interests from the College Program and each intern is paired with a plan and assigned a project. Some of them include assist negligent Housing Element and rezoning process. Creating equity library. Developing a new tracking system for Environmental Planning groupful educating the community on transportation elements. Documenting and mapping our capitol project s and areas and assist with our young planner programs. Each week our interns participate with a variety of activities. Learn about planning and learn more about the city and this apr. Has been going on for awhile managed by our prince pep planners and assistant da tina tammy and the main mentor for our young Pleasure Program entering the third year and Continuous Partnership with opportunity for all in San Francisco youth works. We are excited have them here at the Historic Preservation commission. And welcome them here. Staffing updates on our side. I dont know if you heard one of our principle planners marcelle is leaving us shortly. And take her place in the management of the Preservation Program will be our senior planners jonathan who i think just scooted out. But jonathan is a senior plan or d3 team and he will help elizabeth, natalie and alison and i with the preservation work and districts 3 and 6. John is coming in to say hello. So, other news. At the board yesterday the park side Library Landmark is make the way and passed the first read that building is on the way to being the next city landmark in a month. At the board for monday and tuesday. The downtown legislation is making through and supervisor supervisor peskin introduced a resolution to remove the stream lining that will we had worked through regarding administrative certificates of appropriateness. We still have full review or you have all of your full review with regard to the projects in those areas. It was a small edit that we will roll out accordingly. So. That concludes my report of the welcome. Very good. Move on to commission matters item 2 consideration of adoption minutes for june 15 hearing with Planning Commission. Considering the portion applying to the Historic Preservation commission. And the draft minutes june 21 of 23. This is a chance for the public to meant on the minutes. Seeing no requests to speak, commissioners. Public comment on minutes is closed. Motion to approve. I will second. Thank you. On that motion to adopt your minutes commissioner vergara. Yes. Commissioner wright. Yes. Commissioner nageswaran. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. That motion pass unanimously. Item 3 commentses and questions. I had a request for staff. The 2 members of the public who joined us by telephone a few minutes ago, they brought up some points i dont think the commission was aware of the e mail. That she referred to regarding 3555 pacific. And in the concern about rincon annex could you look into that and let us know. I know elizabeth can speak to pacific and rincon we can provide an update. Thank you hello. Planning staff in regard to 3555 pacific. Going to Planning Commission tomorrow. A Historic Resource assessment was reviewed. For pacific. And the site was reclassifyed category see. The determination stated that did property retains from many of the second day it was not an innovative example or full expression of the style. It was not an read resource through seek woo wa nor a part of significant buildings. Within an eligible historic district. A full review was done. This can you tell me how this is weighed against what she referred to mary browns report . I think that if the staff that reviewed the project and did the Historic Resource assessment did look at that report but was not a contributing building. Thank you. Any other questions. Commissioner nageswaran. Referred to a list of a number of buildings that are of the second bay tradition. Do we have a list of those properties and what would be the high examples and you know i think that would be the question there. We do have a list. I cant give the high examples at the moment but can provide it to the commission later. Okay. Thank you commissioner wright. A question to follow up. The description it was not innovative example. I was just curious if what needs to be an innovative example . And i wonder if i dont know if we are get nothing enough discussion about this if we need to suggest that it go on the calendar for the next meeting . Yea. Commissioner, just yea. We are treading a bit on the lines of this a bit. If we want to enter in discussion we are happy to answer add to the agenda for the next meeting. I dont know if that will time well relative to the Planning Commission hearing coming up. Thats the thing. Yea. I offer my comment for consideration. Staff when they are think burglar what else further information to bring to the commission. Okay yoochl and if you can inform the Planning Commission there was increase at our commission about this property, thank you. And will follow up with rincon annex. Thank you. Are there comments or questions from the commission . Any disclosures . On continuance and call that upon next. You the speak to the matter of the continuance not the project itself. Commissioners under consideration of items for continuance 4, case 20210101, 2259 fillmore street. A certificate of appropriateness. Proposed for continuance to december 26 of 23. Members this is publics time to speak to the matter of the items continuance. If you are here come forward. Du want to speak . On the matter of continuance . Very g. Public upon comment. At the hearing. Yea. Okay. Commissioners. With that Public Comment on continuance is closed. And it is before you. Motion to continue. Second. O that motion to continue item 4 commissioner vergara. Yes commissioner wright. Yes commissioner nageswaran. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. This passes 4where are and on the regular calendar 5a through g. Case numbers 202300567. I apologize. Thank you. Commissioners if through the chair go back to continuance calendar. I am remiss in calling out that we are requesting item 7 and 8 to be continued as well for case numbers 23005141 the downtown conversation district design guidelines. And case 202300513crv the delegation agreement. There was amendments presented at the board of supervisors prevent you from adopting them as submitted and staff is requesting the delegation agreement be pushed out. Continue to when . The date would be september 20. I believe is the date. Yes. September 20. Members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on the 2 additional items proposed for continuance. 7 and 8. In forward or press star 3 or raise your hand. No requests to speak. Public ment is closed and the additional items proposed are now buffer, commissioners. Why great. Is there a motion to continue agenda item 4 being, 7 and 8. Thank you, commissioners on this motion to also continue items 7 and 8 to september 20 commissioner vergara. Yes. Commissioner wright yes commissioner nageswaran. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. That motion passes unanimously. Now commissioners we can move on to items 5ag. For case numbers 2023005679. Reading case numbers. For propertyings at 383824th. 2239 market, 686 brannon store 17. 1901 hyde, pier 39 dock j. 709 jackson street and 1160 illinois street. These are legacy Business Applications. Before we begin the presentation i wanted take the time and introduce you to 3 of new starch members presenting the first time in front of the commission and here for the first time in the before Historic Preservation. Maggie young started as plan are one the end of may this year and currently in our district 4 team of prior to joining planning she worked at China Town Community develop and want born and raised in San Francisco a city she loved. And a senior planner and preservation technical specialist on the district 4 team and has been with us since december of twoochl prior to joining the department she was a planner with city of East Palo Alto and before that the Georgia State Historic Preservation office. Studied at university of texas in off the and i know the city. Austin the french and indian governmentos historic projection projects and lizzie working on our d6 team. Prior to joining planning an assistant planning urban planning worked on Housing Elements and policy and implementation and communities out reach for the transbay crossing. Welcome. Hello. Elena moore planning staff we have 7 legacy businesses today. Staff will give their presentations and after business representatives and members of the public will have a chance to speak during Public Comment. I will understand that over to maggie now. Hello maggie, planning staff. The first legacy application we have the dub line are 36 year old sports bar on 24th and vicks burg in noe valley. A popular for local and tourists for live sports games and in the business the classic wood decor and warm lighting kept the same since its founding. Enjoy beer and cocktails served by friend low bar tendsers the few bars in the area the business is important for people hospital to catch up on 74s the accident is committed to creating sexually of community in the neighborhood. And Staff Support this is and recommends resolution to add to the legacy registry. A picture framing shop on Market Street in the castro neighborhood. Under glass custom framing offers custom framing to every resident helping people frame and preserve life events. The businesses honored frame the rairning ms. San francisco. Among others is the first transgender miss San Francisco in history. The business also hires artists from within the community and a yearly framing allowance provided to employees to get personal art framed and ready to exhibit. Gallery space is a platform for artists to host art shows. Business part nerd with Many Organizations to provide custom framing and donations for events and fund raisers. Under glass framing is committed to safe guarding Museum Quality framing, art shows and partnerships with nonprofits. Staff support this is application and recommends to add under glass custom framing to the legacy business registry. And i will pass this on to my colleague lizzie present the next legacy business application. The third is for dellano nursery inc. 101 year old producer of indoor plant this is nursery family owned for 3 generations. The nursery has a wholesale center at San Francisco flower market. A nursery and daly city and online shop. Dellano does not believe in rare plant harvesting in a way that damage or endanger species. They source compostable nonplastics and nurse easier supplies and more conference how they run their business. When possible they buy direct if small makers and established growers whom they worked with for years had vouch for industry practice. Business is committed to maintaining their wholesale plan offerings, selection of rare plants. Rental and eco friendly practice. Staff supports and recommends a resolution to add them to the legacy business registry. My colleague dakota will present next. Good afternoon. Commissioners Dakota Department staff. I will present the next 2 items the fourth legacy business for scotty restaurant. A then year old restaurant located 1901 hyde in the russian hill neighborhood. Found in the 1986 by 2 italian immigrants from the region outside of rome. And testimony is also known a dry or semi sweet white wine thought to have been the bakery in 1928 and used as a market, top of the hill between the 40s and 50s. And in the 70s later changed to pharmaceutical office proceeded by Oak Furniture business. For scottys menu inspired by italian roots and influence from french issue spanish and californian food. Different ownership and men use changed significantly. However they utilize the best and freshest ingredients. They make and takes provide in the house made deserts and ice creams. This trilevel restaurant warm colors, high sealings antique lighting and street views of cable cars up in down hyde. Works in partnership with cable car operators and hotels to encourage patronage from guests around the world. They donate to nonprofits such as swords to plow shares, schools, youth organizations and serves az member of the russian hill neighbors. Staff support this is application and recommends a resolution to add to the legacy registry. This concludes my presentation on this restaurant. Presenting again on the next this legacy business adventure cat sailing sharters 32 year old business the only public catamaran sailing tour. Bay. Found in the 1991. They operate on 2 custom built catamarans. Adventure cat 1 and cat 2. Hosting 40,000 guests per year. Of 40,000 guests per year to visit San Francisco popular attractions like the golden gate privilege hand bltd built by jay gardener and pam simpson and hanz the founders. And after 10,000 person hours and full u. S. Coast guard cert sifkz they kicked off operation out of pier 40. Has moved in 1997 to pier 39. Baz of the winds the catamarans spend 95 of the time sailing under winds power alone. 2015 retired from sailing charters the business is still run and operated by jay and pam to this day. And continues to offer tours of the bay. Commitment to the community is demonstrated through ticket do nigzs to nonprofit schools and individuals. As well as individual community in all 9 bay area counties. Adventure cat hoechtds Community Groups, School Field Trips and camp groundses for discounted rate office private entertainment and educational events. Staff support this is application and recommends resolution to add ventsure cat sail to the legacy registry. Im available for questions. And i will now hand it off. Good afternoon will commissioners. Department staff presenting 2 legacy business cases to you today. The next legacy business is ellie and aftera company was established by spouses. Both immigrants from china in 1970. As a small family ordinance emporium and music store the Company Selling wide range of local and imported chinese goods for over half a sync at the jackson street location and served San Francisco for 53 years. The company is currently the only Musical Instrument store in china town an upon convenient location for families chinese instruments for children and a store musicians access the most traditional schein chinese instruments to continue the musical heritage. Company offers free tuning, stringing and repairs for i have listens used by students. The company is anim grant and minority owned business. They are worn of the original venders of the legend real sf china town chinese new youre flower mart selling on the sidewalk since 1987. Company committed to the Chinese Community and demonstrates this by importing products that help to pass on chinese traditions and culture to the new generations. The department is very supportive of this application. And supports resolution recommending ellie and aftera company to the legacy business registry. The second legacy business is enclosure international corporation. Was established in november of 1977 by current owner bill curtis a [inaudible]ing and creating company focused on handling valuable items. The crating from his father William Lopez encluesure international in 1967. It is housed in american Canned Company building in the center in 2001 and contributor to the industrial district. Show in the annual San Francisco fall show. A leading interinitial art and design fair on the west coast. Founded in 1981 show has a range of fine and Decorative Arts presenting all styles including paintings, furn tufrm metals and a mix of rugs and wall paper and art. International clients list ed hardy interior designer, peter prong. Bernard [inaudible] and publisher of anthropologist and socialite and Football Players for the San Francisco 49ers. Minority owned business and supported art students from holy angels the girls and boys club of San Francisco and glide church. The department is very supportive of this application and supports the resolution recommending enclosure international to the legacy business registry this concludes the staff presentations and red for Public Comment. Thank you. Very good. Open up Public Comment. Member this is is your opportunity to address the commission on any legacy registry application fist you are here come forward. Line up to your right fundament are call nothing remote press star 3. I wanted quickly im sorry im rebecca from the strewn one of the owners with my husband and wanted say thank you to everybody snot only for considering our restaurant but for everybody involved in this program. I think San Francisco needs this right now this is fantastic. We ksdz not use not just our upon restaurant the city, all of the other businesses we need positive advertisement and this is it. Thank you for creating it. Hi. Im here to support upon ellie andefa company i legacy business. I learned thattel and heefa has a history of bringing the Community Together boy providing products and services typically not found. Today. Nay provide musical instrumens and continuous to bring the Community Together local and far. In conclusion i support this business to becoming a legacy business. Thank you. Hello good afternoon im lillian im speaking on behalf of ella and eva company. Thank you for the presentation that cuts off half my sheet here. I want to share that im also born and chinese hospital. Native and transit spent at the shop. I witnessed the happiness and laughter happening at the shop when we were growing up. I saw the worries the struggles and the fear as it come but throughout the time my parents they really unwaivered dedication. Really persevered and kept the doors open. We lost lewis in 2001 my father kept the doors open of and in 2013 found his new partner my brother allen doing Musical Instruments now and every time i visit it is amazing when someone says can i try the instrument. Once the music guess to the street the crowd forms i like to see this continue. An honor for my dad to be recognized and a great support if my brother receive a [inaudible] and may be he can also work until he is 93. Im here to peek in support offela and eva company. Growing up in 60s and 70s life was simple. My life was sheltered when the ella and eva Company Sponsor movie stars to and to the theatres and perform that was the highlight of our life to see the movie stars and such. Today had i walk by i chat with al tone talk about the great memories of the older movie stars and such like that. The company is a treasure of china town. Thats why i passport it and thank you very much. Im a mixed chinese american can like to support the ellie and eva company for inclusion of registry. I seen this it has a long history. I think it it is important to preservation of the Chinese Community and the area and shown consistent support for Community Events such as Community Opera and concerts in the china town area. I think inclusion of the business in the registry ensure this location and its products will continue to be sold and continue to operate for years to come. Thank you. Im eric one of the ordinance of glass custom framing i like to thank you for considering us to become San Francisco legacy business. I like to thank rick and the team at the Legacy Business Program for their help and guidance. Made it easy for us. That was nice we worked together nicely. My partner and i learned after aquiring under glass 18 years ago, it was not a Retail Business or service business. Or a treads man or art business it was all of those things. And insurely thereafter we learned it was not a business. It is a destination for people to in to commemorate almost every significant events you can imagine and some i had not thought of before. In i persons life. Graduation, wedding, vacation. And people entrust us with processless art or kids art. Family heir looms or things they find in the street upon often times. A great place to work we hear the stories behind the objects and come pouring out of people when they come in. And it is unusual for us to true we reframe the same art for 2 generations my mom gave me this not my taste can you refrip temperature we do have i bit of i legacy thing as well. We other third ordinance of around everunder glass all 3 ordinance lbgtq . We take great prid this that and serving the residents of the castro and wide are san fran residents. A great honor to be the will owner of under glass and look forward to many more to come. Thank you for considering us. Thank you. Good afternoonful im Frank Skillman im an artist, musician and author. And im here to express a few words in support offel and he eva Company Becoming a legacy business. I was introduce toddle and he eva company in the mid 80s. Looking for gifts in china town. Since then, i have been a regular customer for strings, picks and sometimes for conversation. May be play bass. Bend some notes on a [inaudible]. The place is e collectic. It it is a business that express the unique character of San Francisco. Upon when friends come from out of town i take them up there. It is a they love the place. Truly unique. Everything from traditional, chinese, Musical Instruments. To rock stars, signed electric guitars. They other only music store in china town. The only one like it not guilty world. I support ellie and eva becoming a legacy business. Thank you. Last call for Public Comment on th these items. No additional requests commissioners public ment is closed and the legacy Business Applications are before you any of young interns interested in expressing their Public Comment about the legacy businesses we heard today . Commissioners. Commissioner nageswaran. I wanted to ask staff how did these businesses come to us . And how do we do we do out reach to the communities to get them to apply for these . Or does it come directly throughout supervisors . I im so always impressed with the variety and also the back grounds of the businesses. And hearing from you know theel and he eva company, you know supporters and under glass and the other legacy businesses that were presented today. Or an exceptional variety of this. And i think for scotties, owner had said, that it help it is you know put the word out there. And am we enjoy the stories of this. I recommended to some people the other day like, oh , look at the legacy business registry so you see the different place in San Francisco. And i can remember, there is that demiin the sunset or and i think people get excited. Im glad for that. I love to hear where you get these nominations. Good afternoon Richard Carrillo office of Small Business. Thank you for hearing the applications. From my talk about my perspective and i will go bigger to the office of Small Business. I dont do any out reach. Because i had a queue in the 7 years. I will just happy to be looking at applications that come to me. But i than the office of Small Business they do weekly walks through different neighborhoods and talk to Business Owners about the Legacy Business Program. Katie tang is our director and walks and makes sure she is legislate the businesses know about the program. Then we have everybody like the commissioners on the Historic Preservation commission. On the Small Business commission telling businesses about the program. We have a lot of supervisors who are talking to their businesses and their district. And we have Community Groups that do that out roach as well. It is in a lot of places and sometimes from the businesses themselves they will read about it in the news the press has been positive exit want to but know everyone know and the press know that i appreciate all their great articles. I think buildings see that, too. A lot of other people aside from me are talking to businesses about the registries. Thank you for asking. It is great and i can imagine the stories and all the different communities and im thinking, oh , how do we get them to want to apply. There are i see a business that is special to me personally i do let them know about the program. I think a lot do that. The word spreads person to person and gets out there. Glad to see that we have a continued interest in the registry. It is great thank you. Commissioner wright. Yes, maam i want to follow that up by did you elena more planning staff i had one more thing to add to commissioner nageswarans question. As part of sf survey we also have a new flyer we designed that advertise the Legacy Business Program. Information about how to apply to the program and a qr code as we are out in the field doing field work if we are talking to Business Owners and learning they are approaching the 30 year deadline well hand out the noticer to them. Yesterday we were in thein are sunset doing field work. And we are around irving and ninth and stop in the and heard they were around the 25 year mark. We talked to some of the workers and ordinance and gave them the hand out. We stopped at a dont have the name the drug store on the corny of irving and 9. They have been around upon since the 30s. Yes. We handed them the flyer. And yep i wanted add that about our out reach. Thank you. Why good i got a cookie there yesterday. Commissioner write. I think it would be interesting if you can forward the flyer to the commission. May be we can pred it around, too. And im interested in. I want to follow commissioner nageswarans comments. Im always in awe and amazed at the different types of businesses the variety. And the stories. You know we you learn so much about the various communities of and it is clear that these businesses are the backbone of the of the communities and of the neighborhoods they serve. I mean i took a lot of notes. But you know i could go down the list it is just one after the other. Its so clear that these businesses are providing a lot for the communities. Of some are donating tickets. Providing free tuning. And definitely need go in the ellie and eva business now. That i know about it and i have a stack of things that need framed. And i live near you so [laughter]. I have no excuse anymore to defer my framing. The restaurantses just all of the stories it is really amazing. I applaud all of you for going throughout press to apply and showing interests. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner vega. It is wanderful to heart pride you take in your businesses and a reminder of the richness of our city and it is really a lot of fun to hear the stories. Am i allowed ask a question mr. Funk. How do you find out about scott . It is interesting the founder of your business all have you is a first name. So we bought the business from linda kcety and still in contact moved to province down they are called under glass he is still framing. And she just could not remember his last name. And we searched and searched and could not find anything rick was helped us. We could not find tax records from our own tax records before 2010. The staff going to library. Look update phone direct easier we did that. Appreciate that. Thats as far as we gochlt we need from him and the old land lord the first name interesting. Thank you. You did a lot of work to research this application. Sure. Im sure everybody else did. I wanted to say how i learned about it down the street a Clothing Store roleo. And i saw they applied the plaque and i thought. That lead mow to resxaefrp thats how i came about t. Why nice. Thank you. Thank you. We look forward to hearing about legacy businesses in the city and we have a great group and Great Variety of legacy businesses before us today and i think that i just speak for the commission and thanking you for out. Having a Small Business and managing one during covid and surviving covid is the most challenging things we have seen and heard from the legacy buildings. Thank you for being here for us. Being a part of our city and bring that unique thanes San Francisco offers that i think no other city in our country offers. Going from a dry good store to musician magic box that is cool. All of the businesses that we have been informed of today are definitely to be commended. And i want and i think we should always thank our liaison, rick for all of his hard work temperature is not easy being patient and offering the level of assistance he gives to off the applicant who is come before him to apply to be a legacy small accident. It is he makes the process the bureaucratic process the city process a lot easier for anyone and everyone to understands. Thank you, rick, continuing to be there for us. So with this i think we are ready to entertainment a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Thank you. On that motion to adopt recommendation for approval commissioner vergara. Yes commissioner wright yoochlt yes yoochlt commissioner nageswaran. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes congratulations. Indeed. [applause]. That will place us on item 6 for case 2019004772 for 3250 through 3270, 18th street. Good afternoon. Monica, planning staff. Application before you today is a request for certificate of appropriateness for the report at 325070, 18th street. 3250 dez i guess nayed landmark 139 st. Charles school articlen of planning and within an rh3 zone. The property improved with 2 story wood framed School Building from 188 in italian style by charles delvin working as the chief architect of the archdiocese. San francisco. It was used as a church for the st. Charles perish and used as a school in 1895. It is believed to be one of the only remaining wood framed School Building in San Francisco. 2019 school became occupying this and another property at 741 south van ness socialitied with the complex to serve k8 grade and representative to [inaudible] i will allow them to elaborate more on their history and the project and the over all development of the campus 18th and south van ness intersection. The proposal before you would not alter the st. Charles building but merge the 2 lots. Demo 3 portable class rooms on the site and construct a new 4 story, 20, 370 square foot School Building and rehab and expand the existing play yard. New building reserve space for a mural on the west wall and st. Charles improved with now safety lighting but learningly untouched. Portions of the new building and play yard will encroach on the large are lot the wrn that contains st. Charles school and carries the landmark the project requires review. You may be wondering why we are reviewing a project that does not impact the landmark much. And thats why. On february 5, 2020 the review committee arc reviewed. The notes should have been included in your report this week and the project has been revised in the following ways in response to the comments that we are put forward by the arc. In addition to the current scopes of work the proposal included a foot bridge connecting the new building to vein Charles School that eliminated. And new circulation core at the rear of the lands mark building was proposed previously and eliminated. And finally, the felony registration pattern of the east facade of the new building the one that faces st. Charles school, was regularized to be compatible with st. Charles. In addition to the certificate of appropriateness today the project will require a cu authorization of a planned Unit Development from Planning Commission in order to expand the school use in a Residential District and modify planning code requirements forric bicycle ping and rear yards. The department has received 105 letters of support for the project. And no letters in opposition over the 4 years we have been reviewing t. The team conducted community out roach to inform niches and the mission community. And changes over the past years. Hosted meetings within the communities including in february and august of 2019 and march of this year. The sponsor team hosted meetings and maintained communication with representatives from local Community Groups including united save the mission. And well tino cultural district. In addition to meetings the sponsor in regular voluntary communication with the residential neighbors to notify them of School Events maintenance, operations and other events irrelevant voluntary to properties. Given the light touch on the land mark building and Compatible Design staff is determined the work will be in conformance with requirement in article 10 of the planning code and the secretary of intearior standardses and recommending approval with the following conscience. First the school provide to planning staff product information for the out door lighting system. Including but not limited to methods of attachment prior to permit issuance. And this the experience update Planning Department staff regarding the mural artist information. Subject and final location prior to permit issuance may be applied without entitlements from this commission. This concludes my presentation this team is here and happy to make a short presentation and we can answer questions. I will provide a tech support. Never mind. Project response have you five minutes. Good afternoon im danny soleberger the ceo at laschoola international school. Thank you for the opportunity to share about our school. The laschoola founded 20 years ago by italian parents wanted reconnect with heritage and language. Grown to a pre8 program. We are primary approach saturday philosophy a focus bolleding reps, communities and the learning environment. If you are in reggio you hear that they look at the environment as the third teacher well is a connection with architecture, design and the ped gongy we teach our students when the spaces are built for children and their learning. We have over 30 language in our schools. And we offer a Global International education. Reggio accessibility making education available and commit anded invested in our sliding scale tuition 30 of families rely o. Of we are active locally and globalally. Safety issues with many 62ings in the mission though sfusd and other schools. Currently i think the numbers are 8. And we are in active conversations with neighborhood and community organizations. Monica mentioned one of the piece of collaboration was incorporating a prominent mural after conversations at the suggestion of a community group. We look at not only a home for students and resource for the community and open the facilities for evans, lect urs and et cetera. We found our home in the mission in 2018. And we chose our location in mission the vibrant heritage and become fwrund it shares near to our heart especially the i talityians among us. At the time we moved quick with design and planning until the pandemic forced us on freeze. 4 years later very excited be here and moving forward with the project. With that id like to introduce to you emily principal to tell you more about our partners and the project. Thank you. Good afternoon. Commissioners emily principal architects the local architect of recoveried working on the project with laschoola and partners fromit low had bring expertise and the reggio approach. We are all together commitmented building the highest quality in the mission neighborhood. The project will allow the school to expand enrollment with 9 new class rooms larger building capacity and new renovated play yard and teaching spaces on the building. We are proposing no new car parking but 50 ash bike park. Of the project,llows the school to be a safe, welcome and active presence in the mission on shotwelthe active walks there and on 18th as well. So you see in the arial the Saint Charles building on the lower right. Existing play yard from 18 to shotweland the portables at the north will be removed. This is the proposed site plant new woulding ancientorth the lower left beens the saipt charles build and renovated play yard creates a gap and extends up to shotwelthe light zones will be pick up and drop off space the school currently use. And this is an arial to show what monica said it original low proposed changes to st. Charles it no longer does so. A couple highlights from the w this we did with the Planning Department to date. The primary facade with 3 zones of the st. Charles building lower, middle and up and deep are sunshades echoing the st. Charles building and the east this is the felony registration and the windows are from st. Charles windows this. Is the pal at for the new building i will show you new detail and conclude. The light fixture proposing to add or replace the existing security lightoth st. Charles building with surnas if i can urs below the wood trim you see. And the next slide. We are propose to replace the existing steel fence with one that has added security feature the school has experience in security issue this is is a primary concern and address with this project. The building below height limit. And this shows the plan a bit the primary entrance on 18th. There is offices on the second floor and upper 2 levels are class rooms and upper most level the roof the play yard spaces. These are slides to show the way the design relates to urban design guidelines. You seat sun shareds on the south facade on the left side. The detail of the facades on the south and east. Relates to the gospel rendering depth and texture in the building over all. And i think most important low the sense of eyes on the street and activation the design of the building brings to 18th to create that sense of presence on 18th which is important. Thank you for your time and we are free to answer questions. Public comment. Come on up, sir. Good afternoon. Im maurice the organizer for the carpenters local 22 in San Francisco. I was upon dhoen represent the 3,000 members here that work in the city and county as well as the upon 37,000 members representing here in northern california. Although San Francisco faith face housing crisis, we believe love building houseings as much as the next organization and believe that building this new building for the school would be i giant step efficient education of San Francisco youngest and brightest minds. And we support this project. We also believe that all working people have i right to aion with good benefits. A living wage that can support a family. Security and dignity in working retirement. Safe and secure work Place Education and train to reach our potential through aprenticeship. However with rights come responsibility. Being productive efficient work and producing work of high quality, w that we stand behind. Improving our communities. Helping fellow workers unionize and nonunionized achief safety and security in the work flis and active citizens and voters. We had conversation busy getting and the cabinets builted here in our shops the environment is the third teacher weave look forward to that partnership moving forward. Again, we support this project. Thank you. Good upon afternoon im Rebecca Perez assistant preschool teach are. I w at the dog patch campus we have. I am i former family from a student this used to attentive laschoola my young are brother. And the experience we had with laschoola and the middle school team we had good benefits first time sprngs italian culture. My parents were amazed and i come from a latino family. So and they offered mow a job there. And it is interesting to me to learn the different type of education. First time to learn about reggio approach. And most our children love to seat environment as a third teacher. The aesthetic and tomorrows we provide to students develops their growth and you know having the this new building for the school will benefit our children. And you know our staff as limp thank you. Sdwroo thshg for considering im mars an a parent of the school have been there for 9 years. Not me my child has. Im a board member for about a year. One of the things that i have noticed as a parent and a board member is the growth and that am the school has done as a Community Within the school but also within the mission. And since 2019, i have seen administration as well as the board meet times with our Architectural Team and with the city. In order to ensure that the acres of the design of the building is met. It amazed me on the board every month to hear how the Board Members the Architect Team as well as the contractors met. Not once a week but 23 times a week and the detail that they go over. As a parent, im thrilled. As a board member im amazed. And so in looking at this just to follow up with all the other design that you heard. The level of detail. Children. Seeing all of the presentations you saw one i seen may be 10. The level of detail we go into with regards to the new building i think will help the mission. Also help the children in their learning. Thank you for the consideration. Im a parent of 2 children and the board member. I have been on the board for a year it takes a lot of time to be on the board and so worth it. People involved and rung the school. The students there i do anything for them temperature say privilege to be here. I the school is 20 years old temperature is a young sdool school im here to see it to the next 20 years and beyond. I think when they do and what we do is so important and so good for the community and the people in the community. The building is designs with the nunt in mind you have seen not just near events and host people and bring people in it is to be like acorn are stone for the community. If to bring students in. This is not a school for a certain part this is open for everybody. We work on the board to raise lots of money from our other parents and other families so we support. I lived in San Francisco for over 20 years i life it here and pent a lot of time trying to convince families not to leave the city and stay this is an important place we love it here. Thank you very much. Good afternoon im Freddie Daniels a worker at local 22. I want to say i support the project because it helps workys like me be able to commute that much more easier. Let of times the job site is far and the community is difficult. For that, i do support. Thank you. Im lewis local 22. I didnt realize the project was on 18th and south van ness now i got a story for you. Okay. The Elementary School was fair mount 2 blocks away from the house my mother was raising 3 kids me and my 2 sisters. It was walking distance and safe. Anyway, after that, we moved to 640 south van ness at 17th. And then we got bused francis drake. Bayview. What a fiasco victim of violence, harassment. Discrimination had to drop out of school. I ended up on central latino. A Freedom School and there making mosaics not an education. I ended up james like a good school they had shop. Mission district mostly. You know. And i ended up at balboa. I this being a union job is an excellent opportunity for the city and the union. Thank you. No additional members of public in the chambers coming forward. Go to remote callers. I have 3 children [inaudible] [inaudible] [muffled] im in support of the project. Im in support of this project. I will atest this all the things they say about the environment and architecture is specialing they talk about often in like in class and when i talk to teachers they care about those things. Someone who live in district 6 as a city we invest a lot in housing. In the southeast part of the city and i believe we should invest more in schools and families to have children stay close to home. I love being able to bring my daughter to school close and go to work. I think like great to invest in a project like this. Thank you. Hi. Im eric and [inaudible] in support new building. Im a paraphernalia of 2 children who attended the school since 2014 and i serve on the board as well since 2019. Exit worked on the facility and Fund Raising Committee im involved in the building and trying to get it built and funded. Also native to San Francisco and architect in the bay area for over 40 years a homeowner in the mission a couple blocks away. This project is near and dear on me on many levels. New building incorporates the elements that show respect to existing neighboring st. Charles building and response to the Greater Mission februaryric temperature is a vibrant facade. It is colorful. But also emily pointed out. Respectful of the existing Historic Building. The new development will continue to revitalize the presence of the school as it grows and when st. Charles closed we had a sxroid this is when we need to support and allow the school to grow as the other supporter said the new building a beacon of progress. And innovation and the school has the other speakers said, is a leader in education combike the international, emersion and the [inaudible] and supporting this project signifies all of our commitment to honoring the past. The st. Charles building and embrags the future which is a vibrant school. Thank you and i appreciate it. Thank you. Last call for Public Comment. Commissioners Public Comment is closed and this merit is before you. Thank you. Commissioners . Commissioner wright . I have one question. In the drawing package dollar is g4. 05, an image showing the pink windows on the east elvision and i pink row on the first elevation the first floor of the st. Charles. Historic building. There is no work to the history, building that is describing the proportion, right . Absolutely, correct. Yes. And thats great. Thank you. And i have a couple other quick comments. Im impressed by the stories that im hearing today. And the voices of support from everyone from parents, Board Members and employees, construction crew, the whole teams. I think it says a lot and in look through the drawing package submission, i it high level leaves. It seemed like a nice, love low contemporary addition tot neighborhood and the street. I dont see any impacts irrelevant to the historic character of the st. Charles school the building so. Also. I think member mentioned there are Community Open houses . Great to attend one. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner nageswaran. Were so i think it has been awhile since the last arc and i dont think the Current Group here was on it. For give me if there are things i asked i dont know about. I appreciate that you aployed in of the responses like the removal the foot bridge. And the circumstantialing lagz at the north landmark and address the east of facade. I wanted ask about the glazing on the front facade. Street facing. And my first immregz was of that being the south face is exposure to the sun is like that in the west side the primary facades to be exposed. And surprised me i expected the east face to be the grazed side to defer to the our see the Historic Building on that side. And i know you have your reasoning. And the other aspect of glazing on the front facade it is so different from the rest of the buildings and i wish i could see the larger scape of that street. To understand scale and that. So will type of glazing and the coloration. Are think distracts from the historical building. I want to understand where that is coming from if you can explain a bit . There is a desire for openness and welcome to the street. Transparency and daylight. So i know person peegs of the reggio curriculum that connection to nature and the out doors special daylight are important. So, too is the element of play. Im not an exert in reggio this is my first exposure. Play and you and fun are important to the ideas the color newscast glazing are meant to display that and incorporate that for the commissioner coming and the public in general. I think all of those elements and if you look at italian architecture the spiff in reggio their work has the same elements. Thats when you see the building those are the things coming through. I think one of the things that is xoit to me about that is the r. And vertical activation. When you pass by on the street look nothing the building i think you will see the life of the school. Sdpi think this will be a lovely addition to the street scape. In terms of the over all where the glazing is. I know there is a sense of manage in the school and moving through it and the daylight passing through in that direction and thats where the inside there is glass in the class there is a fence of light and daylight throughout. And so this is part of how the building was conreceived. And i think the ability of the building in its design to address st. Char in a way that is additional on what east facade the more punched opening that relate to the pattern is an advantage from historic stand point. We put the glazing where we get the sense of transparency and the east it is more deferial. It helps. And i think as far as conditions for staff to you know review materials, i would consider the glazing as you know weather when you are on the south you make it darker or reflective. Want to make sure it does not distract from that street scape that the Historic Building is of so i would be curious whether dark or shiny or reflect 55 that and that the coloration the slats they are. Right . What they are made of and how reflective they are. Those things. Okay you want mow to speak now. Sure. I think in terms of darkness versus lightness as much transparency the energy code governs that in the actual glazing specification. The colors are specific school colors. In terms of the shine knows of the paint i think we default to a matt as we can find it is a paints louver. What is material of the facades the solid facades . Stucco. Stucco with a rekosovoed pattern and the idea is to credit a sense of texture almost as though it is out of tiles or bricks. But the plan is to credit having a sense of texture that is natural. Gi appreciate that t. Is broken down you know where the lands mark is detailed. And has human scale with the break doufrnt size of the window and of course special all of that you are doing it in a modern way i appreciate that. Thank you. I had a question for staff about time. I see the arv review in the 2020 and now 2023. Could you share about the time . Keep know what happened a month after in march of 2020. I say and defer to the folks if they like to speak. I imagine that was the biggest impact on the time line of the project and it was formerly on hold for ahighly in that period but the design did not change from the revised version that we received after arc during the on hold period. Remained the same. Revised the project. That was my question. Anymoring comments or questions from the commission. I do hear a motion . Motion to approve. With conditions. With conditions. I will second. Thank you. Well is a motion seconded approve matter with conscience on this motion commissioner vergara. Commissioner wright yes commissioner nageswaran. Yes commissioner matsuda. Yes that passes 4zero. Places us on item 7 and 8 continued the final item is number 9 the cultural districts informational presentation. Good afternoon. Planning staff. Pleasure to be here. Per your request we are bring you a broefoth cultural districts. You know this is has been an essential component of our efforts to address racial and social equity. A vehicle to get close to our communities to understand the contribution to the city more. And a way to understand their visions and expectations. Lead by the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. We work closely with them. So we are present to youing today an over view of the program. Some of you modify not been familiar with the Cultural District Program this is in place in the city. We have [inaudible] from ocd. She is the Cultural District Program manager and on planning we are julia, who is the manager for will Community Development and engagement. Hope this is an informtive session and we can follow up with anymore in depth conversation as needed. Can you put the motorcycle row phone closer in thank you. Good afternoon im grace along with my colleague who is in the pink we are the Cultural District Program out of Mayors Office of house and commune development. We will provide you a brief over view of program. And share how the city supports the cultural districts to preserve their heritages. The program was established by board of supervisors in 2018 as a direct response to the gentification house nothing San Francisco and the recognition that the citys rich diversity is i part behalf makes San Francisco special. The program formalizes a partnership with the city and communities and brings resources to stabilize groups at risk of displacement. A place making and keeping initialive with a vision to preserve and prosecute mote community by supporting residents, legacy businesses, nun prefers. Community arts issue social practices and traditions. We are lucky this in november 2018, San Francisco voters passed prop e by 75 which provides a funning source for the districts program. A portion of the hotel tax revenue. The Program Legislation defines a district as a designated your embodies i uniquecum ral heritage. The areas contain a concentration of cultural and assets significant. Arts, services and businesses. And a significant portion of people who reside there or people who spend time are members of a Cultural Community or ethnic grouch there is a focus on communities. And ethnic groups that have been discriminated against. Displaced and oppressed. We have 10 formerly recognized cultural district in San Francisco, they are jap pan tan; latino in the mission and soma filipino, the transgender cultural district in the tenderloin. Lbgtq cultural district in soma. Africanamerican in the bayview. Lbgtq cultural district and American Indian in the mission. Sunset schein chinese and Pacific Islander cultural district in visitation valley. The program was establish in the 2018 we want to acknowledge that meant groups have been doing important Heritage Preservation and stabilization work before the start of the program. Cultural districts are supported in efforts because of how the program was designed and legislated. Each district has a board made up of members of the upon community who provides leadership and sets the vision for the district. A huge part of the cultural district and input and feedback on needs and solutions. Activities and progress on the Community Vision is carried out by dedicated staff. Below is a Steering Committee that works to achieve the share the vision. Court evercord nayed by Mayors Office and work with the office of economic and workforce development. Art commission and San Francisco planning. Each department sharing resources and expertise in the respective fields to support the realization of communities priorities. This program aims to empower the community to determine their economic and cultural and preservation priorities. It is a communities vision we are supporting and not a top down directive. O. Left i noticer for a program put on by the American Indian district. The corridor in the mission. The key part of the effort is to legitimize Street Vendors and the pregnant way to Small Business ownership of the africanamerican arts and culture to activate public spaces to celebrate their neighborhood, culture, community and highlight local artists the mural there is from the unvilling a now mural in the bay video you in october of 22. By artists malik bayview native. And the bottom of the Cultural Heritage work is a prior for many districts jeopardy an town cultural collaborating with spaek holders for redevelopment of the peace plaza to make it functional and flexible garthing space. One way what they increase cultural competency through filipino work of increasing appropriate service for filipino residents in soma. They work at lead exerts convene and ares collaborators to strengthen community. Part of their work each district is required complete a cultural History House and Economic Sustainability report. A Strategic Plan that provides a road map to commune stabilization. The report consists of 2 piece. One is a history and cultural legacy statement provides history and context of the community in San Francisco. And the other is a set of strategies for community stabilization. The stabilization strategies focus on 6 key policy areas. Im going to read them im going looning long. Cultural competency. Artings. Housing and tenant protections. Economic and workforce development. Land use and cultural Heritage Preservation. These strategies are developed through a robust press and coordination from the city to ensure feesability and alignment. This process requires review and sign off on strategies by each departments. And as of today im happy to report 2 of the cultural districts jeopardy an town have completed report and they have been approved by the board of supervisors and now those 2 districts are working to implement many and strategies in the reports and we continue to work with the other districts to get to that mile stone. And now im going to pass it to julia. Good afternoon. Im jowlia. Community engage am manager at Planning Department of and have the honor of working in coordinating with the program. Upon planning one of the 4 members of the city Steering Committee. We focus on stream lining resource communication. Policy support and making sure this place making prop that lifts up cultural presence and heritage is a shared language and visionary goal for all of the departments. We work on the chess report all i legislative mandate. We provide data and content to ocd and work on the city sections focusing on the Planning Department section. Highlight and author the major projects, area plan and other things that intersect with each district. Before participate with the Steering Committee in a lengthy press we review the strategies created out of a year and a half process. Facilitated by the district and the 4 departments work with the cultural district to address the ability of the Community Identified strategies and aline am with the department so we all work hand in hand to bring them to fruition. Since stranzificationing myself from ocd as the district manager and landing sf planning allowed mow the opportunity to further understand the first racial and social equity resolution this was passed by planning and understand how the district can synchronize and complement that effort. When we are done is created cultural district liaison. And we have a Planning Department staff person for each the districts so they have member to call and ask questions to. Created intern planning cultural district electronicer. Any staff member can log on. And twhn cultural district they log a project or a program or longterm Planning Press that the intersect and impact that district. That liaison checks the electronic exert information is shared with their contacts. This is a list of the cultural districts and the Planning Department liaison. And i serve as the coordinator of this work. And i want to briefly go over the updates if each cultural district and this ask really the highlight of the presentation because it is their words and photos directly to you. They could not be here today we wrapped up a partnership with the American Indian district on a housing town hall. That information in content with 100 Community Member present will inform their trust and the Friendship House village project and our work at Planning Department around Housing Element. Economy vitality in the bayview. Active although not all on this slide. They do one on one mall business support. They have been activate with mural and art. And they have an even coming up on september 16th. Each cultural district maintains a website and events calendar. And i would encourage to you check out all of their websites. The sunset chinese district, fairly new, working on toup lift the Chinese Community voice through the Housing Element. And they are in the middle of mapping project and developing a sunset resource guide. The latina is per inship with plan and ocd on implementation. And 12 this is aline where the Housing Element this. Is lbgtq castro new logo. They received multiple grants from oewd to do mall business upon support had the pandemic hit and a lot of the districts could not gather or do events, they shifted direct resource and aid to the mounl. Not just in rental assistance but even entrepreneurial. The cultural district is close to if any the chess. And host monthly second saturdays art fairs. Item an town is one of the 2 cultural districts that has an approved chess they are working on implementing the strategies and our department is deep in partnership on the upgrades and improving accessibility. The transgender district, 7 initiatives that they are working on. The Accelerator Program and Income Program taken flight. And they have done amazing work. Focused and getting red. Than i secured the funding ocd and they are building the infrastructure with their community to further their work. I like to thank you for your time and attention. And we are here for question and contacts on the power point. Thank you. Thank you. Great if this concludes we should open up Public Comment. Members this is your opportunity to address the commission on this presentation. Press star 3 to raise your hands. No requests to peek. Public comment is closed. And this informational presentation is before you. Thank you. Commissioners . Commissioner nothing nag. I wanted ask. What how if a group is a group outside of their geographic cultural district do they have representation in the that . I think when you are asking the American Life lind yen district there is a geographic area. That is in the legislation. And the w this they do and that area was in the mission there is Cultural Heritage that is in the mission. The w they do they are located there work across San Francisco and ensuring that the native voices instead process. When than i do community engagement, and that is when i was talking about. I think the Chinese Community. There is pockets and. And they think the the work hi are doing and there will be a lot of you have been crossing the boarders. Okay. Just to add for example in the case of the Housing Element. And the cultural district American Indian Community Issues are citywide. They were saying having fizzal anchor helps identify where the target investments. Specific as grace described and i platform to understand the communities throughout. Right. And then another question is i think there was some information on this but i wanted understand it better. How does a cultural district enengaged in religion to project in that district . Thats when jewelia has been building i liaison in plan for example each cultural district will help the planner dealing with any projects you might be getting the Planning Commission might be getting to coordinate with the district. So there is a vehicle of information this goes both ways if anybody in the districtments to know if there is a project or not, then the information goes directly to the planner who can scan the properties to see or the parties. Why are they notified of the projects this are coming to the department . And then going to the cultural district . Il hymen in a bit. I think a lot of the work in my former role. We did a lot of out roach. Development project and yes, julia and the team are building out a large are network for planning. 200 plus people with 90 projects across the city. We do recognize that one of them. Our staff are intuned with regular low going out and out roach with those groups and making sure nay both understand the project that is occur nothing their districts and have an opportunity to voice it. Part of i gloupa get notified. And then my last question suknow you had described crull ral districts areas with vulnerable populations susceptible to gentification. Is there one in the tenderloin and what are may be multiple . The transgender cultural district is in the tenderloin. And while each of the cultural districts has a focus on a Cultural Group or Ethnic Community the work they do helps lift up the vulnerable population in this area. If they are offering like covid Health Services not just for a population. Although that will is the general focus. It very well to lift up and empower those marginalized who could use xr supportful they were offering fentanyl testing . In was lbgtq . The castro and lbgtq cultural district throughout covid offering covid tests. Tenderloin has also a lot of drug activity. And vulnerable populations as well. Curious about that. I want to add i think all of overhaul departments approach is to attends per inship model fashion allow the community to lead. And so on the one hand we have a lot of work what we want to share with the district and also have to be an acknowledge that they are developing the agenda for when their Community Needs they may not want to know about the deck built or expansions and things. When we are doing now in building out internal mechanism identifying the top policy focus areas are. Then we have respond and give them the information this they want. It it is a bit of a mote in the middle strategy. I think this will work well. We dont want to overwhelm them and give them information this does not aline with their efforts. Why and all of this discussion is going to help the public to understand you know, when this is about as well. Thank you. Where one more thing on the tenderloin a number of healing,s. And that is i good example of how there is an intersection of multiple efforts the transgender cultural district is in the tenderloin in the tenderloin we have an effort and as you know planning has taken the lead on trying to address the challenges in the tenderloin the Emergency Response we had. So we have a coordination of the rares Community Upon group and networks and the cultural district is one of those player miss this over all process. They have been involve instead health, planning, housing and business strategies. Plain as julia said pacific role to support the community. Good to know. Thank you. Why commissioner wright, i just to stay on the area of the tenderloin. Is it possible for cultural districts to over lap . So if there is like a little sigh gone creating theiron district in the tenderloin. Now we have 2. I dont know how the program. Not presented but written in legislation it is in the encouraged. Does not say shall not over lap. It can over lap. But we dont encourage that. What happens if the need of a community are not met by the krult cultural district there now . It is feasible. Not precluded. They could decide to create their own district . Yes. Work with their supervisor and begin that process with the, yes. Thank you. Commissioner wright. I had a couple of questions just it seems like there is, let of over lap. With different efforts, departments and cultural district. Im curious with regard to the cultural districts what are like the h pc respondents or involve am. Seems like it is clear there are several indirect responsibilities this might come throughout Housing Element. Project reviews and context statements. Other things through the Planning Department. But are there direct upon responsibilities or other direct responsibilities this we should be thinking of in terms of reviews or other engagement . Sure i can address that and julia can help bolster. In general for most of the cultural districts you will see their mission over limited partners heavy low with a lot of the work the Preservation Team does on s footwork survey and the our work on Cultural Resource identification. Like the africanamerican context statement we are working closely with the alpha~ manamerican Arts District on the well tino statement we work with other groups coming out of the mission and Filipino Community to make sure we get you know good representation and as well as hear the Community Voice that needs to be heard in the documents. And i think a lot of what our approach isletly on our survey work and our Historic Context statements we want to capture Community Voice and the districts become a venue and avenue for centralizing that voice. Thats a bit on how the h pc involvement over laps with the district. Dm in general i will say than i dont have a regular role. As involved with the cultural districts. They work through the press reports and other documents that the city is requiring them to produce, the commission does not have a formal role in that process. But obviously a lot of our work if you look at a vin diagram over lap and it is helpful that one effort bowl sters the other. Thank you. And you know im just curious if it does make a lot of sense with with regard to the sf survey effort, too. I dont know, are is there an opportunity for that effort to advertise in their out roach to the communities that cultural districts are a thing not set in stone. There is room for now ones or creation of other ones. May be this is another one of the flyers or information passed to the mirkeds when the survey is happening . You know . Making more work for our great staff. It is a great opportunity to engage the residents especially where there is a lot of you know, Cultural Heritage. The great way it ws now is providing a stroll lined access point for all of the opportunity the city has. We have a lot of programs that are out there like so many. And it is a little daunting from the communities end to realize what it is this you know i or our community can get access to. And the District Program helps to facilitate that access and partly yet majors office makes the connections with the group and it is departments and agencies and will policies and regulations that might impact them and help them move their agendas forward. Appropriate low. Seems like there is know opportunity for other districts outside of the ones that exist to tap into this. To add. The cultural districts are an important plat furthermore allow us understand had the japanese and americanindian upon communities go through that is in the the only platform. In other areas we have Community Development strategies in the fillmore now or in china town. Or soma. So the there are many vehicles for the Planning Department. Fop address the needs of each community and rich said than i are also vehicles to recognize whether through the legacy business or survey to recognize the component this is anchor us as San Francisco. In our history and our resources. I. Ed follow up on what commissioner wright going to, i think. And when mr. [inaudible] responded about the direct response the h pc how can we be involved and informed about things that are happening in the cultural districts and then woman you telling us if we dont have a commission does not have a formal role in the process. I asked for this meeting to happen because i had a big concern. My concern was when we heard the castro theatre. And i felt this there was not a clear connection. Or they did not feel they had the ability to come talk to us at the h pc. They the representatives of the castro lbgtq cultural district. Did not there was not a direct or may be not an automatic or not in any way assumed connection that they could have this connection with us directly. And that was a big concern to me because i want to make sure all cultural districts feel they have theed direct ability to talk to us at the h pc had it miss to really person buildings of historic integ rity. I would like to see how we strengthen the role or strengthen the communication between what happens in cultural districts when it involves a building of historic integrity to the h pc this. Is one question i have. I dont know if that was when you were getting at. That is what im really interested in seeing. I have other questions about and you know the way the budget is. Per cultural district. Where the expansions happen next. Whether they have the opportunity to talk to one another. I will address the first and let grace and julia address the others. As we explained they were created by the board of supervisors have the obligation to report on the completion of the chess reports to the board of supervisors. But that does not preclude from them knowing about your interests and the role that you can play. And springning their work. I think that as the cultural districts proceed with the projects we keep i updated. And keep you informed on what is the status of each cultural district. And the same time i will mention that each cultural district the infengz thengz is nunt bases. Woes a city have little interference in how they get organized and come together. So there is a tender pace for them to come together and figure out how they want to define themselves. How they want to defind their visions and process. So sometimes they have the stronger administrative resource or clarity. Sometimes they will meet among themselves. We will like to be available for them and known about when we do. And keep them informed about you should interests and desire to report. That is where julias work is helping out. Star engage with them and understanding what their needs are and also second them back with the rest of like plannings work. You probably saw cost row and leth and my work now is to like help flush out and understand planning has to offer. And or make them, wear of things that are happening across the city that they might have interests in. The work they do now is getting a better understanding of the city land same. And which departments to turn to. One thing we do monthly is a meeting. Where we garth representatives from the cultural districts. We have guest speakerers talking about dahlia how the districts can access rental assistance. Legal assistance and so00ue know we are trying to build up their knowledge because their connectors for the community. In the future we can speak at a meeting. Have the line of communication and i want to stress that like everyone saying the cultural districts are designed to be community driven. We rely on them to set the agenda for when than i want to prioritize and in the dictate what they should focus on and of course, with such Diverse Communities they really have a lot on their play. I think you asked about the budget so. And i think might have more around this she was involved in the founding legislation. We get 3 Million Dollars a year from the Hotel Tax Funds and we are in the process of base funding of 230 thousand dollars for each district. We give them the same base amount of funds and they focus on how theyize the funds. For staffing and baseline operations there was a question about expanding the program. That does not get bigger that he would be more sloiss of the pie. But well are limited resources i want to recognize. You said it, there is a very complicated structure on how it is funded from the Hotel Tax Fund and how it is able to nkdz or decrease by 10 percent on the revenue. And how this lays out. It was never hit the 3 million it hen at 21 2 around that and william pandemic it was low. 4 of the hotel in use. The bottom fell out of our funding. So it is not an automatic funding allocation. One pot of pie that is the resources are limited. The resource are then reduced for others. We have a framework each sends the same base amount for operation fundses that is the hardest type of fund to get as a nonprofit pay for rent and director with sponsored and 10 it 15 going to the experience, that 200 thousand dollars gets spent quickly. Thank you. I thank you helps and your information about holding the month low district meated meetings important. If we can be a part of that month low meeting to listen and bench that will be helpful. And getting back i think it is grit to have 10 cultural districts there is need for more. Een though may reduce the budget for the districts now it does not limited to them that is my opinion. Commissioner wright did you have. I thought of Something Else who i we were listening to the great explanations. You were the funds fell out when the hotels were down during the pandemic. Im curious how that resolved was there funding to emergency funding separate that came in. Seeps likeef getting fund from this hotel source makes sense but in a river situation like then this is when the cultural districts might need it most and the least amount of resource available. What was the resolution and it does make sense that on a separate note you are walking the line. It was when the form well structure was put in place we never guessed on many layers nobody would have guessed the pandemic would have happened. When we did was worked i was at Mayors Office of how doing community develop and want worked with the mayor london breeds office and she partnered with the cultural district and it is Steering Committee and back filled funding we made to the cultural districts. It was an important decision the commitment San Francisco had and continues to have to the work product and out come the cultural districts provide not just on Community Development and Community Building but actual giving of resource s and immediate cites they sprung up and accysts than i provided. Thats how we resolved that. Yndz the monthly meetings many Work Together and many share resources and chess ideas. Different opportunitiful curriculums. Subcommittees. They are engageod the city budget and shared learnings across them without us at the table and we also come to the table with them. A very strong net w and web of communities and i do want to add that the Cultural District Program is 4 years old but there is a pluthera of community brilliance in all of San Francisco. And it is important we dont over rely on them as the only stake hold theyre creates tensions in our neighborhoods. And if there are ways of kafrngors and commune organizations can be a resource because they are not a district does not mean they should not be a part of the conversation. Why this is important they dont come to the table with money only cultural districts get money i see that would be a friction with some neighborhoods. Any other questions or comments from the commission . Thk thank you very much for your presentation it helped, lot to inform us about manufacture of the details and the process and procedures. We would look forward to having more information regularly about among low meetings the cultural district and about issue this is may in up in the district this is affect what we do at the h pc. Thank you. With this concludes your agenda. Commissioners. Why thank you, we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. You are watching San Francisco rising with chris manner. Todays special guest is carla short. Hi, im chris manner and you are watching San Francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. Our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Great to have you. Lets start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. There fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. Can you talk about what your team did . Sure. The 17 inches of rain we got starting on new years eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for San Francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. We gave out more then 31 thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new years eve to San Francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. We had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. Responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. Our team trying to address that. We clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. If we are able to respond we call in the San Francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the catch basin. We also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. I think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. We did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. We had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. A lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. We are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. Also had Land Movement too. The great highway comes to mind. What is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides . That is a great question. We had 28 different slides over the course of that period. It is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or Structural Engineers take a look to see is the hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup . Once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. Often times to protect Public Safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesnt get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. Some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. Right now there is nothing thats unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. Right, right. Well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings us to Southeast Community scepter when there is rain remediation projects going on. Can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. A Beautiful New Community facility. We were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. They were a client. We Design Project management and Construction Management and the Landscape Design for that project. And one thing that we included was storm Water Management throughout the entire project site. So, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. When we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. Anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. I encourage everybody to see it. It is special place. Thats great. There was recently news about how city indiscernible powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. I understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. Can you just talk about that a bit . Sure. That is a unusual situation. That steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906 earthquake. It only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. The steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. It is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. We spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because its a old system. It is managed by the Real Estate Department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. We did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. It is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. Excellent. Lets discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. There fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. Now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. Can you talk through the process . Sure. Yeah. The original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. It basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. When we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. We have so many areas of overlap. There was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. Technically we split october one and did split in some ways. We did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new email address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. We making 2c3w50d use of the research. Preparing for the split. Looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. One of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. We retained two commissions, the Public Works Commission which oversee the Overall Department and approve the budget and contracts. And sanitation and Street Commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. Reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. That sounds great. Thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. Thank you so much for having me. It was a pleasure. That is it for this episode. You are watching San Francisco rising. Hello and welcome to tuesday august 1, 2023 hybrid inperson Virtual Meeting of the San Francisco entertainment commission. My name is ben bleiman, the Commission Vice president. Well start with announcements. We would like to start the meeting with a land acknowledgment. We the San Francisco entertainment we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the
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