Of the project sponsors team . Yes. Okay. Your opportunity to speak was during the project presentation, however, the commissioners may have questions and may call you up later. Sure. Thank you. My name is otter duffy. I live a couple of blocks away from this project. Im kind of ambivalent. Im not sure if i should have got up, but i kind of support this project going forward. I was involved in the redistricting and in 2012, that particular building was the you can go back to actually the files on the redistricting and read this, the Bristol Hotel was the reason that that block was included in district 6. It was scheduled to go into district 3, you know, and its true that its in the the union square Historic District, as well, but you know, i think theres some truth that its kind of a bridging element between the two districts, the union square preservation district and the tenderloin preservation district. That being said, all the people who were living there, we thought belonged in district 6, theyre gone. Theyre gone. The building is empty. The reason it took so long for this window issue to come to you is because in 2012, there were still People Living in that building. They had to evict the people in that building before they could bring it to you, so the other thing i would say is that this building as it comes forward, its going to be much more in the Union Square Area than the tenderloin. Thats the plan for it. Moichb street is going to be the dividing line, so the other thing i would say, these people, as far as conditions, they never brought you any conditions. They never said lets make requiring this to continue to be a bridging element between the Union Square District and the tenderloin district. They never made it. What are their what are their demands . What conditions do they want . Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon to everyone. My name is abel silva. I have been living in a precarious situation here in San Francisco for seven years. Im a member of the faithful fools, and even though this is about windows, i do support the historical regional windows, but at the same time, i would ask that you look at the greater scope of this and not see this as a local business as usual situation. Im here to support that there be a better venue to have time to present all the information about what has happened. If you could do that for us, we would feel that youre part of the Community Supporting us. And the rest of my time, i would just like to read something that i wrote, just some expression forgive me. Well, while its good to keep the character of the building, you are going to destroy the people who have given character to the city if you allow this. There have been rumors at the greater scope about the death of democracy. I am from puerto rico. Historically, the crown of spain called the shots there, so we have been a bit slow to understanding democracy, but from where we stand and in the face of all this gentrification that has been happening here in San Francisco, which i am a personal victim of, businesses here will have some truth to report. I will have some truth to report after my country after this decision. What will i tell them . Presently, it is starting to look like it needs democracy is a way to pose ourselves as prey for capitalism to commit genocide in the long run. If you want to contribute if you want to contribute to proving this idea wrong, locally and abroad in a concrete way, please find a means to integrate the poor population by saving the Word Community from becoming a joke. The alternative would be allowing the less influential and create the makings of a cold civil war. All lives matter, especially ours, that, you know, we make your position possible. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is jessica lehmann. Im the Deputy Director of senior with disability action, and we see seniors every day that are being displaced in myriad ways from all over San Francisco, including sros. People used to say sros are somewhat immune from the housing crisis. Its seen as low Income Housing. People with a lot of money wont want to live there, and obviously, thats not what were seeing. Were seeing people pushed out of sros, people who have lived in sros for decades, units are renovated, and we are looking at people that are moving in with much higher incomes, leaving the low income tenants with nowhere to go, so we have an opportunity to see the situation for what it is, that we make sure we dont move forward on a project that is going to further displace senior and disabled tenants that call San Francisco home. Thank you. Thank you. Are there other speakers . If so, please come forward. Hi. My name is freddy martin, and im a i was born and raised in San Francisco. Ive seen a lot of changes over the years. I currently im speaking as a tenant of a tndc property south of market. Part of my road to getting there into stable, longterm Affordable Housing was staying at the Bristol Hotel. I stayed there as it was an 18 Month Program to help as trasignificanceal housing. The conditions became unbearable for me in about 2010. They werent fixing anything, it was bedbugs. I know many of the people after i left, i chose to couch surf after that because i just i couldnt live there anymore. There were mice, there were all kinds of things, and there were several disabled people in the building. There were people, after i left, that, i guess decided to file a lawsuit, but the things that i heard from people that i know who were formerly my neighbors was that they were given relocation money and they were told that they would be able to come back after things were fixed or whatnot, so i know that theres the San Francisco general plan priorities which said that the Affordable Housing will be preserved and enhanced. I personally know a couple of people that were relocationed because of their Living Conditions because of their lives, they didnt have that stable housing, and they actually died. One of them was named terry, so with all of the things that are going on in the city, and all of the buildings that are being made and made to house people with hi incomehigh incomes, 8 there are people that are losing their lives. Keep that in mind. The most vulnerable of us need protection and need help from the people and the places that are supposed to support them and help them, and thats all of you. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other speakers who wish to speak on this matter . If so, please come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. I would oh, if theres so please come forward. Well reopen Public Comment. Hello. My name is chanise valencia and im here as a member of the community and i work with Homeless People at hospitality house. At the end of the day, what were talking about is essentially taking out some extremely valuable and needed Affordable Housing from a community thats already under siege and under attack when it comes to the housing crisis. Homelessness is an extremely violent act. Were talking about having a Ripple Effect that can lead to some serious tragedy for people who wont be able to come back into the community and will make it tougher for people to find places to live, to put their kids up in a safe place or wherever, and so i really just think were at a point now in the country, in San Francisco in particular, where when were talking about taking Affordable Housing or low Income Housing off of the market, were talking about committing acts of violence against people who are already under attack every single day in many different facets, so i encourage you to like, look at the the opportunity that you have to impact and intervene in this act of violence that would be possibly happening, to look at that as an opportunity to do the right thing, right . I feel like theres really no other way for me to look at it in its essence cause thats whats happening here. In krcrisis, theres opportuni, and the responsibility you have comes with the opportunity to intervene on the side of the people and not profit, and so i think thats what im asking you to do at this point is to look at it in those terms, as well. And to recognize that theres no neutral position in this. Theres no nut willity in this situation. Thank you. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to comment on this item . If so, please come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. I think, and i would say this for the members of the public, that were the Historic Preservation commission, and we we have before us a review for Window Restoration, and were looking at the merits of the documents before us, and thats all we have before us and thats what were looking at. We dont actually have any jurisdiction related to Affordable Housing and other issues, so i just want to make that clear. I do have some questions for staff, and i think we may have some other questions, so ill just dive in. I would have to say that these documents are probably one of the least legible documents ive ever seen, so the i mean, the drawings were really, really hard to read. And theres a comment in here in your staff report about on page 7, i couldnt see anything about gfrc units in the drawings, and under the scope of work on page a1, they dont mention anything about that, so im just curious, not only for the removal of the Affordable Housing but for the gentryfication of the Tourist Hotel. It would be subject to chapter 341 of the administrative code which i did bring if you want too remove that it requires for hearing comparable housing and the essential rights that the existing permanent residents do have any existing sro units. As i said before, there are 41 legal sro units within the existing building and 16 Tourist Hotel units. All the of the prior residents do have the legal right to return to those units. Thats all additionally spelled out in the legal documents that are in the packet. Thank you. Commissioner johns. Thank you. I just want to go back to what president wolfram said about what were here for today. Its clear from the members of the public who have spoken that there are very, very Serious Problems and they have raised some quite important issues. And as many of the speakers said and miss rhodes was one of them, this was not the commission or the court that can address those things. The limit as i understand it of our functioning this afternoon is the approval or disapproval of windows. When Window Restoration and storefront restoration and although people may have raised or have raised very significant questions. We are limited to dealing with replacement of windows and store fronts. As to that it narrow area, i think that i would be in favor of approving the replacement with the conditions that the staff has stated. Thank you, commissioner pearlman. Thank you. I concur with president wolfram and commissioner johns on this. It seems to me that you as a group havent been advised well because it seems like to spend your time, i mean everybodys time has value. To spend your time to come here today, you werent advised as to what we have any jurisdiction over being able to do. I mean many of you talked about our responsibility but they didnt advise on what our the scope of our responsibilities are which sadly we cant address any of your concerns it seems to me there are pub milk Comment Periods for the Planning Commission. That there are many as miss kerby said, it sounds like many violations ever the planning code and administrative code. So spinding the time that you just spernt and go to the Planning Commission might spark them because they have the authority to speak about the issues that you brought here today the board of supervisors, there is general comment on the board of supervisors. This seems to be to be a potent issue. Im sorry we cant do anything about it. But there is general comment there. There is newspaper, there are blogs. There are many ways to raise Public Awareness about this to the people who can actually make a difference. So i encourage you to do that. Maybe youve done that, i dont know. Thanthank you public comintds over sir. You have done that. Thats fine. Sir excuse me, Public Comment is not over. Were not having an argument here. Youre occupant of order at this time. Sir you may be respectful in not calling us stupid. Were not having a debate. This is not a debate. So i encourage you do that, maybe youve done that, thats fine. Ire not going to get any help from that balls we cant. If you cant understand that, look at the rules of how this works. Excuse me miss kerby. [inaudible] it is but maybe you should go higher an closer i would like to add that because the project sponsor has not met timelines outlined by the courts. There is a special master receiver who is overseeing the construction timeline to make sure they get occupyable again within a reasonable amount of time. They were operating in limited construction times previously. The Planning Department and dbi both have avenues for reporting violations if this does end up actually becoming a Tourist Hotel, that would be rorpted to us and wed make them go through the typical legal avenues to correct the violations and hopefully get the sro units back on line. Commissioner. I want to echo my concerns on thresponsiveness to your concers which are certainly legitimate. And assess tad, situation is really sad. But its true. We have a permit before us for window alteration. I have no quarrel with that. And i guess what i would, you know, and commissioner pearlman, you recommended there is the Planning Commission and board of supervisors. We mow thatwe know that the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors has in the past rejected or overruled some of our decisions and most immediate one that im thinking of is our approval of the mills act contract. They were looking at whether there had been been abuse of the mills act and we were making decisions on approvals when in fact, the board was questioning whether there were abuse in the past and they were holding up our approval of the contracts. Which to me is we ought to be considering those kinds of things. But you know, and be concerned about that. I guess the only thing i would say at this point is id still be in favor of, you know, improving the Window Restoration but to recommend that these concerns because it appears there are violations that need to be addressed and that the board and Planning Commission would be the arena for that discretion, i dont know whether in the future our Cultural HeritageAssets Committee would think about some kind of policy or some statement that we could be making that looks at the relationship between our authority and how were looking at the historic value. I thought the comments were very eloquent on that issue. Soy want to thank the public for that. Thank you, commissioner matsuda. Thank you, as commissioner wolfram and commissioner johns pointed out, our commission is narrow. We should not ignore the comments that the community has raised and if there is some way that we could officially as a commission tell the Planning Commission that we have a group of people that have come before us and raised serious issues about this issue and maybe receive the proceedings today and to be asked to review them and seriously consider their comments. I dont know how procedural we could do that, but if we can do that as a comoition and show that weve taken them seriously, id like to request that. Thank you, commissioner hnld. I would echo commissioner matmatsudas comments. I would propose i think we can continue this item. The a item before us as writteni would not disapprove. When it comes back, ill support it. The window replacement should be supported. We could ask the Planning Commission to take this up and figure out if from is any other venue. Then it will elevate it instead of puppet in a Public Comment. Mr. Ionin, that a paroled ural possibility . You could seek Additional Information from staff and staff could convey your concerns to the Planning Commission, our staff could convey those concerns to the Planning Commission. I wasnt sure what would be before the Planning Commission as far as the property in p a future hearing. It did sound as though there was something that was going to happen, that it would have to go to the Planning Commission. I dont believe there Application Pending which maybe the difficulty. And are th