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Welcome back to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee committee. I am scott wiener the chairman of the committee. To my left is supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee and vicechair supervisor jane kim will be joining us momentarily. We did convene at 10 00 a. M. This morning and heard item no. 1, which we continued and then went into recess until now. So madame clerk, would you please call item no. 2. An ordinance amending the planning code ...

So, thats the item before you. As the board president referenced, there have been various concerns by various members of the community, surrounding various aspects about this. I think theres one category of folks who have consistently not supported the general project and theyve raised a number of concerns that we have been able to address in writing and i sent you a copy of that last wednesday night. There are i think some very legitimate concerns of the immediately abutting Property Owners. No...

Theyre essentially his property, his tool or his equipment. And he anticipates retrieving within the contract, he anticipated retrieving the machines, using the machines for his future projects or reselling them on the open market. So, there is a salvage value owe yes. These machines the machines that will be used to build the central subway are essentially new machines. Oh, these machines have a fairly, very they can be reused and refurbished and theyre used throughout the world in other projec...

Discretionary authority that all bodies have in the city and county of San Francisco and that is in the admin code. That is where this commission derives its discretionary review authority powers. So, when you hear a dr and a Building Permit application youre relying on that section. Its the same section that the board of appeals relies upon when they are hearing a Building Permit as well. So, thats saying that you do not have the ability to exercise discretion, that you are authorized otherwise...

The issues, we may have we have drawings in front of us and maybe theyre not color rendering. But substantially everything about this project, the size and the scope, the only difference that we talked about is the size of the use for the restaurant there being whether or not it was commercial use, other commercial use incorporated. But i havent actually heard anyone, members of the public bringing up issues about the substantive factors of the project itself should that space not be a larger re...

Its same situation here. You have a high density neighborhood, it meets the requirements that the board had at the time so you can, its in your power being heard in committee to withdraw this license from the community. They boiled it down to 4 percent of their Square Footage usage but also state in their packet that 4 percent of this income comes from their Liquor License, thats a very small margin for a big store, a big chain. They dont really need this license. So i think its better to say, t...

Of the illumination for signs and an informational presentation to be calendared within two months before the Planning Commission to review the lighting and Signage Program for the formula retail Financial Service facility. I thought it actually was to have when they have their plans. Maybe it will be in two months, but we actually want to see the their plans. I dont know if you want to put two months because i dont know [multiple voices] it could be calendared their signage plan is put together...

That we have our federal environmental clearance. Weve been working with them all through this process. Theyve been at the table from the start. So, we expect to be able to secure that. And then with the final action of the board of supervisors once that special use district goes into law, well be able to move forward with the demolition of the building starting within the next couple of months so that we can keep our original timeline, which youll recall that was to have the shaft built in time...

Take questions either now or after public comment. We can certainly ask members of the public to come forward at this point. Do we have some names . Yes, for item 11 greg gi ber, howard wong [speaker not understood]. Those are the first three. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to speak here. Just now and again at the january Public Meeting on north beach, director reiskin assured us that this boring site, this would only be for the removal of the tunnel Boring Machin...

Times. There are many, many examples of this. Thank you. And finally, as to the approvals themselves that are before us, i think they seem to be fairly formulated for the project owner who would want to move forward at this time, as everybody else is in san francisco, because this is the time to build and hes at a disadvantage in hes had to wait two to three years. So, he he needs to be compensated obviously. And the changes that were approving, for example, the height change only is allowing fo...