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Commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. I believe i have one speaker card didnt specify but. Justin weathers are you here for a nonmentioned agendized item. Oh, an agenda item well call you another that time any Public Comment on an item not on the agenda seeing and hearing none very good commissioners that places us under department matter good afternoon calling your attention tattoos pipeline report in the directors report it covers the goals the read up the regional Needs Housing in 2015 to 2022 the number of units are acquit higher given were one year into this period. Is also of the number of units weve entitled thirty percent are low and moderate income moving in the right direction so we did this report every quarter for the marina goals and the state requirements as well as the requests of the board of supervisors and the mayor to keep them regularly updated so wanted to call your attention thank you. Thank you commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to item 2 review the past fence the Planning Commission staff report and announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners tim Frye Department staff no formal report rartsdz the cases under the review under the Planning Commission review by but i wanted to mention last week, i tenant the National Alliance of Preservation Commission forum in mobile, alabama about 6 hundred attendants many local commissioner and preservation officers and trust all attended a really great conference and the big takeaway for me everyone was interested in our efforts to recognize social and Culture Heritage and many particular the legacy businesses and the media surrounding our efforts has gotten a lot of attention n\ation wide so as published sister from people wanting to know what weve been doing as far as successes so we will likely be presenting at the national Commission Forum in demost iowa and people are excited about San Francisco leading the charge on the initiatives that concluded my report. Thank you that places us in president s report and announcements. No announcements. Item 4 draft minutes for the Historic Preservation Commission July 20th, 2016, regular hearing. Commissioners do we i dont think i got overseeing minutes in any packet. I did not get them. My apologies commissioners. Why not continue that make a motion to continue. Yes. Please. So moved and seconded. Thank you, commissioners on that motion then to continue the minutes to august 17, 2016, commissioner johnck commissioner Johns Commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero commissioners that p us on item 5 commissioners questions or comments. Commissioner johnck commissioner johns. Were about to have the second group of legacy businesses that come before us i understand from mr. Friday the Small Business commission is about to take this up for the first time so what id like to in are month 1, 2, 3 weve gotten enough experience with those things i think it is a good idea for us to get staffs comments and for us to see where question are on these whether were developing a appropriate standards and whether or not this is the best way for those to be handled. Maybe we should explore content calendar or Something Else i wanted to make sure that in light of particularly of the attention were getting that we evaluate things as we go along if he could do that. Good idea any other questioning a question about the september 7th hearing we only have an agenda. One agenda item i permanent will not be here then we want to continue to hold that one open or cancel or send out notices at the likely any items to be added only one item. Everybody is on hold depend on your theres one tim Frye Department staff one potential rc item to the september 17th calendar. Do we have two on the calendar. We have two items on your review committee, however, there is a fairly light regular calendar so maybe it will not pose a problem. Or if it is a light calendar put it after so if we go longer than well not impact the regular meeting. Anything about september 7th commissioners keep it on or cancel now. Do we have something scheduled for the 7. Not at this time. Ii move we cancel that hearing and rearrange our business in a convenient way. I second. Very good on that motion to cancel the september 7th hearing for looking forward commissioner johnck commissioner Johns Commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram thank you that that motion carries unanimously 6 to zero. No further questions i needed i dont know if i told you ill be out on the 19 of october for the hearing ill not be here. Commissioner matsuda. Ill not be here. Just for the 19. Yes. As far as i know. We still we have quorum. Very good commissioners that places under items proposed for continuance item 6 valencia street is proposed for continuance to october 19, 2016. Yes. We take Public Comment right. We do any Public Comment . To the continuance of this item seeing and hearing none Public Comment is closed. Do i have a motion to continue. Motion. Second i had a question but i can second it my question supervisor fry mr. Fry talk about the issues as i recall we were looking to the proposed developer to come up with architectural solution to our actual. Our Historic Resource so. I can jump in the only item whether we should change the code on this item or not i know there is Public Comment about things that are related to the this property that is not what were considering we are considering whether this prop is the a Historic Resource or not and accurate assessment. Thats correct i understand. All sides agree to meet and discuss the eligibility. Thats fine. Do we have a motion to continue. We do there is a motion that has been seconded on that motion to continue to october 19th commissioner johnck commissioner Johns Commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and place us in our regular calendar on item 7 mcallister street kotz. Speaking on behalf of the colleague the item before you is a request for a certificate of appropriateness a building constructed in 1904 and 2rsh9d to the alamo square to make the window and door alterations stone the ground floor to create a in any dwelling unit the work is along the mcallister street new window and restoration of the corner window in the torrid portion of structure along the scott street the elevation is enlarging the dwelling unit door and restoring a window along that elevation and installing a door the department reviewed the project in conform with the secretary of interior standard and appendix c of the article 10 and found it in general inclines as well as the policies and guidelines outlined by this commission as you can see our recommendation with approval with no recommendations as proposed the project meets the requirement i believe that someone or the representative of the project is here and im not sure if they have any comments or a brief presentation but that concludes mine im available to answer any questions. Thank you. The project sponsor was to make a presentation. Sure. Come forward. Hi, my name is jerry write harris the representative of the architects that couldnt be here today, the only difference there is a reduction in scope moving forward the owner does not no longer wants to add a unit and neither the windows but still wants to move forward to get approval to do the doors only a future permitted thats the only comment and Everything Else is still in line thank you very much. Thank you mr. Fry can you come back. Yes. So the drawers we have are not what were going to be approving or approving the drawings with the scope of the drawings. Thats my understanding the scope of work as currently articulated by the project sponsor will be just for the door portion, however, it does appear that the owner will in the future add a dwelling unit as a certificate of appropriateness is good for 3 years. Our advise to the project sponsor was to go ahead and seek approval it meets our guidelines and theyre free to pull the permits for the work within the next 3 years as they see fit, however, the commission felt that you only wanted to approve the work that will be happening immediately you could either rise your motion and adhere to the workrelated to the doors or continue it as ask us to come back with another packet to show the drawings to articulate that. Any questions for mr. Fry. Go ahead. Whats driving the door with the endearment of 34 to 36 didnt appear to be net. Im sorry along which elevation. The balancing stare street side closure to the front the 3 foot wide is on 4 north and a 0. Zero two actually a score point zero 2. I believe on the corner yeah on that im clear as to the reason behind that do you have that sheet. Thats the door right here. Must be the one on the right. The reasoning between the changes indoors one the utility door on the bottom part of elevation that one needs compliant code egress for the utilities and pg e and storage and right now it is technically not the code and we would like to make it has a width that the Fire Department and different utilities can assess it and no problem the second door count height is two short it is under 6 foot 8 the minimum code regulation we want to make that both the width and height to abnormal standard door with a threshold that will be in line with the streets it we want to fix that thats the only reasons were changing it. Commissioner pearlman. Yeah. I wanted to agree that having been in the position before that we should go ahead with this you know get this approved and allow the owner 0 come back at a latter time we shouldnt change the pathway at that time. Any Public Comment on this item . My name is silvia johnson. And this item has you know not very make adjustments on the doors in the district has a code name numbers looks in view with the code numbers on mcallister street and how soon you want this project really you know when the measurements that is done in a special way of zone even years of you know training cutting is one of the secrets about you know putting doors on and making it level you know because there are certain ways to do this sawing and drilling as to measure precise you know on the doors and i would you know like to proceed so i this is has been totally bizarre you know wouldnt even matters you know for women that do construction and do procedurally. Is there any additional Public Comment . To this item seeing and hearing none bring it back to the commission do i have a motion. I move to approve the certificate of appropriateness second. No further comment there is a motion that has been seconded to approve the c of a commissioner johnck commissioner Johns Commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 do zero and places us under the legacy business portion of rental unit for items 8 abc d e f g h i and j for case numbers lbr for buchanan street lbr on Mission Street 2016 l. B. On, on tenth street 2016 plus l. B. On, on shot well street and 857, 18th street and 16th street and a noah street 2016 plus lbr on post street and case no. 2016 plus lbr portola drive youll hear together. Thank you good morning stephanie Department Staff the nos. Enumerating are for legacy businesses applications which were submitted to the Planning Department on july 8th and ready for your recommendation the department received those ten applications by the july 8th filing date for the august 3rd hearing date all applications were previously previewed reviewed by office of business and your packet contain a draft resolution for the physical features and traditions associated with the success of the business the first application before you is the brazilian a restaurant and pub located on buchanan established in 1980 the first restaurant in the cal hallow neighborhood for continued food service until one a. M. The next application for the Mission Neighborhood bar on 16th street the bar was established in 1951 originally as the crossbar but changed names to docks clock and best known for host the fundraising and Charity Events the next application for a business that publishes fine art posters located at tenth street the business begun in 1980 and established in 1983 one of the largest swhar poster suppliers the next application is for the Mission Neighborhood Health Center on shot well street this Nonprofit Organization was founded in 1957 and provides medical care to protecting and uninsured resident the next is more moby dick on 18th street the bar was established in 1977 as an openly gay establishment that operates as a welcoming lgbt designation in the castro the next application is for pier 23 cafe a restaurant located adjacent to pier 33 along the embarcadero the restaurant was established in 198 of a popular local and tourists designation because of location the cafe features live music 6 nights a week and pathway were published staff received a letter of support for the legacy business application to be submitted as part of record the letter included Additional Information about the building in which the cafeteria resides this is designated as a 2rsh9 resource report of San Francisco and xhaefshg Historic District listed elisa in the register of the staff reviewed the recommendation and has produced a revised resolution for the outlineed and that is part of the recommendation for your review and recommendation the next application is for the lock theatre on 16th street the site has been an operating movie this matter since 1905 and use as mainly theatres throughout the years it was established at the location in 1934 and currently run as a Nonprofit Organization that hosts film festivals and special events and Educational Programs the next speculation application is for rubys studio on a noah street the art center was established in 1967 a celebrated care ethic artist and classes to promote the appreciation of care administrative parks the next application for sf party located on 939 post street this novelist business was established when they were accepting down the road the business is a more focused Party Supply Store the final application for twin peaks auto repair on importantly tool drive the business established in 1985 one of the last independently owned gas stations in San Francisco and rotated in providing auto care at the review of those staff finds the businesses quality for the legacy business that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. And we have a few representative from the businesses here who would like to speak on behalf of the applications thank you. I think one way or another what well do is take the statement from the businesses who are the applicants and Public Comment at the same time but everyone will have 3 minutes ill call i have 5 speaker cards ill call you in the number of the case number and then open up for general Public Comment the first is eddy for item 8 a. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity for the enclosures of legacy Businesses Commission the restaurant serving the cal hallow area since 1980 serving the locals and tourists for 36 years serving the food until one a. M. Is a full service for the second shift workers in the area hostile and hospital workers they come in at the midnight and continue to work with the Firefighters Program for over 20 years Deputy Director toys for the needy cited and the lock Party Benefit over 10 years raising funds for breakfast research working with the susan coming Man Foundation and at the same location for 36 years and actually like to stay there and hoping you guys see that happens for us in addition any Closing Remarks i want to say thank you for the opportunity the next speaker is speaking for item 8 d the Mission Neighborhood Health Center is brenda. Good afternoon, commissioners im brenda executive director of the Mission Neighborhood Health Center mists Neighborhood Health Center Provides assess for health care for the latino immigrant for the last 50 years the Health Center legacy is multi faceted it started in its roots in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement the center was established as part of office of confirmation opportunity Neighborhood Health centers as part of war against poverty demonstration programs our role was and continues to be both to provide medical and social services to the disenfranchised population but so serve as a mechanism of community xrfrment were governed by the community and our Health Centers board of directors is patients of Health Center decades generation after a generation we served as as Training Ground for young people entering the careers loyal to the Community Members and volunteers and trained and developed their knowledge and skills to further their careers and their aspirations and into the Community Serve as canvas four murals including michael and others of the women mural i thought most recently in 2010 an interior mural that was done and that was a Community Effort to define what is the right to good health means our legacy is the concept of neighborhood based on Community Health and the emerging health and social needs of community b be it lead in children or be that chain smoking or obesity and very vaccinated thousand of people in a couple of days and talking about the emerging accompanying minors from Latino America and this is Community Empowerment and Community Health thank you for your time and consideration. Next is david cowen for the rocky theatre. Good morning. Im david coming down the pike the executive director of relaxationcy theatre especially, since the rocky reindividuals in the mid san jose it is a valuable resource to film makers by host the festivals such as emerging like the film gay that later to reenvironmental impacts the movies who the lounge door or french films we continue is this mission we are the first of many of San Francisco film festivals with the frame line and auditing and dog festive and fairground and many others we also book independent films our audience will not see in the city including Spanish Language films eir ran films and korean films to work with the artists to showcase their work weve had ups and downs with 35 thousand film goes coming through the door at the rockcy weve maintained the facilities and maintained the historic proernlz in the practice of showing real films and 35 millimeter performances in the country a fixture for decades and on the other hand, we show the cinema with bright clean pictures and handle more than film like in the other theatre were one of the areas more vest actually theatres from any era as you may know San Francisco lost a large number of historic and independent movie theatres over the past 3 decades because the rockcy we had a crisis our landlords tried to more than double our rent we renegotiated in association with the city and the Northern Community loan fund our lease lasts for two more years and approval the legacy business registry and assistants to the fund will help us noesht a long term lease as such i ask your approval to audio the rockcy theatre to the legacy business thank you for your time. Thank you next speaker justin weathers item i assess parties. Hi, my name is justin 10 the general manager of sf party over one hundred years old a San Francisco nature the owner owners had one half outlet bids 70 party is located in Lower Nob Hill on post street and has been for 20 years 17 fulltime employees most of them living in San Francisco some have is lived there over 20 years and most over 10 sf party we provide full benefits medical and dental and up to three weeks paid vacation wear a full service we sell concession equipment and supplyside all over california and we have cotton cardinal machines and sell and rents Kids Party Games and play anywhere from 50 to one balloons a day and deliver them all over the place in San Francisco and customers decorating and Engagement Party we turn our store into a hallowing store we have thirty or more people in a line justice to get into the store to find their make up and wigs for customs for the new year over 15 thousand bloodless and deliver 10 thousand to local clubs and businesses for any and every San Francisco event from pride probation officer data breakers we supply everything the fun and the manufactures and the rental equipment we should be a great place for a legacy business we are civicminded and provide a real service and basically the last and certainly the independently owned service thank you for your time. The next speaker on the card is michael for item h a. Good afternoon, commissioners thanks thorough it opportunity to be in front of you and speak on my business on behalf of ive been there since 1985 servicing any community with the fueling station as well as repairs over the years weve become quite entrenched within the community and seeing my customers grow older like myself and in some cases their children and grandchildren one of the handful of remaining independent stations in the city we have become a landmark over the years and not only have used us directional devices to give people direction on what the city theyre going to have tourists stop by on a daily basis to take photos this application and nominee means a lot to me person and my family were a family run business for thirty some years now the actual station been there since early san jose as a form of a fueling station again, i want to thank you for this opportunity and hope you guys accept our application. Thank you dont anyone else in the public wish to speak to the items 8 a through j new. Hello, my name is silvia johnson. Im 8, k do you want to you know because i had houses and they got sold new because i did something that i shouldnt have done and learned a lesson from it and that note ive learned already in this act of yet didnt even concern the Building Construction and us theres a secret to that. Im not exactly what it is so that is where well start in a lot of the areas that we stressed in the basis training strain announce the planning code, of course, and in the Neighborhood Health centers and community Health Centers and this really mark one of the things we are very you know were really in things that need and he will you know share that family thank you. Thank you any Public Comment on this item please come forward. Seeing and hearing none Public Comment is closed. Bring it back to the commission. Commissioner matsuda thank you i wanted to thank all the businesses who came out to share their information with us i just had some general comments i mentioned this in the last set when we were reviewing the last set of businesses that came before us to possibly create a template to use to highlight some of the very important things that was fwlaend from the packet just for example there was a one the rockcy included a or a schedule of what happened in so 79 and then the Mission Neighborhood Health Center talked about the candy store before them i dont know if it makes us commissioners no, sir. I didnt i dont know how this is gleaned from the blanket template but some you kinds of pointers over and over examples of what can highlight the features of each business that would be helpful many of us are knowledgeable about many of the applications that come before us but one of the purposes of the legacy businesses so to engage the general puc public to go to the businesses and take pride you know theyve been around for a while 23 we start to been that and commissioner johns mentioned about possibly reviewing the packet we receive to review and i think initially we were thinking ofing the mraktsdz come before the Culture Heritage assets and then we decided against the first round with the general hpc so maybe rereview and have the plant come from the Culture Heritage assets and spend a lot of time with each applicant and get to know the applicant to help further define what may be the highlights for each business and then one last comment i remember reading about rudys studio before was that that was an, an example looking at what the applications will look like as an example oar great, thank you. Commissioner johnck. I was listening to the testimony last time 83 and this time thought about the value and the process for the cross pollination with the Culture Heritage aspect and i wonder about the category the Public Health department the Culture Heritage for the city i think that im trying to remember i attended one or two economy meetings i heard did you hear the Public Health Department Community not specifically i thought. The Culture Centers. For the Culture Centers thats right. This one is one. Exactly one so this is just taudz taudz so out and leads its way into the committee commissioner matsuda you were mentioned something along those lines thats a suggestion im happy to contribute to more if we go forward so commissioner hyland. A few things im in complete concurrence with commissioner matsuda maybe if we came before the Culture Heritage Committee Help to identify and further the scripers the significance of each business it would be good to know from other commissioners to make that commission easier i mean sums on the content agenda and probably may have more than 10 thats a lot of reading so we dont want to delay the process and burden everyone that was one comment and others can jump in after im done i wanted to point out the rockcy theatre is one business i immediately thought of that was significant to me and lastly a question on pier 23 thats a port property how does port property in the city businesses how had over laptops. Commissioners tim frye mark is working with the City Attorneys Office to confirm that question we dont have an answer yet but brought up. Commissioner pearlman. I agree with everything this is said so far and thank you to the community all the businesses ive been to many of them and ive gotten gas at the top of the hill and been to the rocky theatre and i wouldnt want this to be removed at the beginning i that is true maybe on the consent calendar say yes, but i hear about each story this is part of fun of being who we are on the commission this is the you know the charm and the story of San Francisco and the whole reason this exists because of all of you who came forward one of things commissioner matsuda said they come down and glean Something Else the text of what comes to us is much more concise and coming in planning easy in format but a cover letter that puts together the real spirit that have that and maybe it isnt removed from here again from the full commission because again you know our hearing is not long we certainly could have spent more time talking about this and other things so thats my 0. 02 about thank you. Any other comments ill add this is very exciting partially because of the variety of types of businesses were seeing today and so it is very inspiring so see a swath of san franciscans and hope had liens registry helps you stay in business and thats the point of this process to give you tools to make businesses youve had to also known as long were hopefully that passes and i think id like commissioner Johns Commission come in a couple of months and revisit the sort of process how we are progressing this with the discussion with the Small Business commission as well so i think i move to approve. Thank you commissioner hyland. This is the first legacy business registry in the country so this is a first for our country. Yeah. There was some examples from abroad we saw other places we know so were definitely entering let the cat out of the bag. Yeah. I think i heard a motion. I did laughter very good then that was collectively for all of us very good commissioners on that motion then to adopt the recommendations for approval for items 8 a through j commissioner johnck commissioner Johns Commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman and commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. I think that concludes our hearings is that the last item. The hearing is adjourneds to vote for candidates or party and it is a significant way to have our voice heard. Exactly 100 years ago, women were given the vote in california. The battle for womens suffrage was not an easy one. It took more than 70 years. A woman could run for president in new york. Organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. It marked the beginning of the womens Equality Movement in the united states. At that time, women were banned from Holding Property and voting in elections. Susan b. 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