Is Environmental Review. I cant confirm what the Environmental Review might have been for the various components of the building code. Commissioner johnson okay. Thank you. I think the reason i asked that question is particularly as it relates to the handling of livestock and disposal of remains, those activities broadly are covered under our existing codes, so, for example, i believe that halal method is different in the sense that youre not just dumping blood in sewers. I mean, the animals are blessed and theyre processed for slaughter and processing, but where there is effluent or where there are other remains or materials, it seems that thats covered under our plumbing and Green Building code. Specifically, i dont know where the disposal of effluent and blood would happen. The program is going to be required to go through additional review through the Building Department, as well as receive approvals through dph and possibly the state for disposal of the waste, the processing of food as well as the finish of the interior walls because theyre going to be processing food theyll be for sale, so there are multiple steps of final approval that we do not know, i think all of the details, just like we might not know all of the details that the Building Department might review, but they are subject to those further details. As far as the halal slaughter process, i think the project sponsor might know a few more details if we wanted them to possibly discuss that. Commissioner johnson thank you. Yeah, broadly speaking, theres a little bit of gray area here, but i feel its our decision to have the land use decision, and there are other departments, both locally and statewide that cover the operations and making sure that they comply with those regulations. Im familiar with i havent been inside one, but there are halal butchers in other cities that arent necessarily in fully industrial areas, so i think theres an opportunity for something here because here, its a pdr, but its not necessarily out that just because of the area that it is. I would say that debating t bayviewhunters point has other agritype uses. I would not necessarily say that this is an out lier, and this should be out there somewhere if were going to consider ourselves an inclusive and diverse city. The actual operations are covered under other laws and agencies that have, you know, approved their codes under ceqa. Mr. Koppel. Thank you, Vice President , so im going to echo the comments of commissioner johnson, as far as being inclusive and diverse here in San Francisco, seeing as we do not have one of these already. Looking at the location in general, i dont have a problem with this business being in this location, so the land use issue, i dont have a problem there. I do not think this needs an official eir. I do think maybe some more clarification to make the nearby neighbors [ inaudible ] might be in approximate order. I do see theres talks of a liaison or odor removal. Some of this may just go into compost. I dont know and im sure there is a plan in place and all of these issues are addressed and taken care of, but i do think it may be in order to provide that actual plan in writing to the adjacent neighbors. I actually respect the treatment of the animals and so i dont i have support for the project in general. I may be open to just kind of solidifying a more defined disposal and removal plan for the liquids and the solids, just so that the neighboring businesses and people feel better about what is actually happening, but other than that, im supportive. Thank you. Mr. Fenton, can you help us with what all that means, because im thinking what the difference is between this and whole foods. Yeah, id be happy to answer those questions, and with due respect to the commission, knowing youve had a long night, its also difficult to convey the information that wed planned to convey in half the time that we thought we had, so thank you for calling me. Thank you for calling me back up to make a couple of more points because theyre the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission does have a program that regulates industrial uses and what they can put into into the sewage system, and so theres an industrial use permitting requirement in place that requires operations like these to divert solids and to divert biological wastes from the sewer system, and so what thats done, when the chickens are slaughtered, the blood is captured into a tank. The feathers are similar ly put into another container to hold them, as with the meat byproducts. Those are cleaned, theyre put into air tight containers, and theyre stored in an onsite facility for san teitary reaso and theyre collected by darling, located on amador street just up the road, where they take a lot of waste from restaurants, grocery stores, other Food Service Industries around the city, and then, turn those into useful products so theres its obviously not a 100 closed system, but there is absolutely a permitting requirement in place that will deal with all of these issues in a very thorough way. Vice president richards thank you. Commissioner melgar. Commissioner melgar thank you. So just to echo the comments of commissioner johnson, i do think that supporting the diversity in the our city means having the infrastructure to support folks who live here, and worship here and, you know, live in different ways, so i do believe that that is something that we must do. The one thing that i heard that troubled me was about the noticing, and so if you if staff could please comment on that, and you know, clarify what the requirements are and what we did, and if theres any gray areas that we need to take into account. Sure. I was able to review the newspaper postings. They are available on the website online, and the newspaper posting for this project was made on november 8th, 2017, which is 22 days, which far exceeds the minimum requirements for this area, which, i believe is 20 days, so it far exceeds the minimum requirements. Commissioner melgar okay. Thank you. Vice president richards commissioner fong. Commissioner fong yes. While i respect all diet choices and lifestyle choices and religious choices, i do believe that we are a farm to table city, and you know, when we step into a restaurant, we enjoy that aspect and bringing produce and the processing of produce, whether its vegetables or meats getting closer to the place where were going to eat it and enjoy it. I happen to be a graduate of a cooking school, as well as a certified food handler in sanitation, and to the point, whole foods doesnt get bulk meat wrapped up. They cut it down, and dispose of it in the proper way, using sanitary chemicals and hot water over 215. Im sure this company would stay to the Health Department in all those same codes and aspects, so im in support of it. I think its just one more aspect that keeps San Francisco unique and fresh. Vice president richards commissioner moore. Commissioner moore im in support of comments made by my fellow commissioners, especially the biggest one, inclusivity, and supporting the diversity of our community, which is a haulmark community. I want to clarify the building in question is really not directly adjacent to residential, but its clearly in the midst of like sized warehouses to all sides, and i do believe that given that we do have very strict food handling and environmental regulations on all level of local, state, and federal government, that this particular facility will spend every leave no page unturned, particularly as it limpgs in links into religious practices, so i would move that we approve the project and hope that it will be realized soon so it can be considered for the community which really needs it. Vice president richards one morquestion. Why transport the chickens all the way from pennsylvania, not petaluma . Actually, most of saba facilities are in the new york area, so their website says that their chickens are coming from pennsylvania, and i think thats just an oversight because they have facilities in oakland. Their poultry is actually coming from pitman family farms, which is based in fresno. You know them as the purveyors of marys Free Range Chicken that you get in the grocery stores. We heard this in comment quite a bit, and people were wondering if this was just chicken and this area is zoned for small Livestock Processing so youre not going to see goats and lambs and other livestock in this facility. That is correct. The larger livestock will actually be a different land use category, so that would be a separate request that they would have to come before the Planning Commission to obtain conditional permit use for. Any other comments . No. Please call the motion. Clerk commissioners, theres been a motion to approve the motion with conditions. [ roll call. ] so moved commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 60. Vice president richards excuse me, those persons exiting do so quietly, we have some additional business to attend to. Commissioners weve already heard item 19, so that places us on items 20 a and b for case numbers 2014. 02 cua. In 2906 folsom street, you will consider a conditional use authorization, while the Zoning Department will consider a zoning staff. The project requires conditional use authorization for planning code section 303 and 317. The proposed project addressed at 2904 folsom on the newly formed lot at the corner of 25th and folsom streets. Currently 2906 folsom street possesses four drawing units, the two new residences would each possess a single car garage and a roof deck. Overall, the project would maintain four drawing units on the project site. As part of the citys incollusionary Affordable Housing program. To currently, the subject lot measures 46 feet by 85 feet or about 3,910 square foot. The proposed project would subdivide the lots and the existing residence would be placed on a lot measuring 1,860 square foot. While the other lot would be about 2,050 square feet. Therefore, the project is allowed to construct two dwellings on each of these lots. The project would not be permitted to subdivide the subject lot retain the four existing dwelling units in the existing resident and construct two new dwelling units since this would go over the allotted dwellings allowed on the current lots. New lots are required to be 25 feet wide and possess a lot area of 2500 square feet, and then perplanning code section 134, projects with new dwelling units must maintain a rear yard equivalent to about 25 of the yard area. The proposal would create two new lot widths and would construct two New Buildings without a required within the required rear yard. The Department Recommends approval of the conditional use authorization given the project sponsors commitment to voluntarily designate i will note upon a site visit at those subject residence, we did only observe three dwelling units, although city records do record that there are four on the site, we only actually found three, of which two were occupied by tenants. The project sponsor has noted that the tenants will remain in place, and theyll provide more detail on that. After analyzing all aspects of the project, Department Staff recommends approval with conditions. Specifically, the project will result in two dwelling units being designates as part of the citys Affordable Housing units. It will promote Family Friendly housing, and the project removes a series of existing garages. In general, the project meets the other applicable manning code. The sponsor is present and has prepared a presentation. This concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions. Vice president richards thank you. Project sponsor, you have five minutes. Gr. Good evening, commissioners. This project is unique in many ways, and i want to use my time to highlight a few of the key points. We are dedicated to protecting the existing tenants of 2605 folsom street, and we are dedicated to creating new housing on an under developed site, and this project is located in an ideal urban location adjacent to the thriving culturally rich neighborhood district of calle veinte cuatro. What we are proposing is to demolish the six parking garages shown here in this image which is not being used for parking for quite sometime. We are proposing to build two new singlefamily residences in their place. Following the rhythm of the building south along folsom, the building proposed matching the front set backs of its neighbors, matching the parapet heights of its neighbors, providing similarly raised entrance stoops, and all of this is done with a slightly more modern style, respecting but not recreating its neighbors. The existing building at 2906 folsom, we are proposing that the ground floor tenants will remain in place with minuimal disturbance in the ground floor unit and once the unit is vacated, we propose that the unit be designates to serve as workforce housing. This will provide much needed Family Friendly three bedroom apartment that will become part of the permanent Affordable Housing stock in the mission. For the second floor for the second floor, weve proposed that the existing tenant to remain in place, and once that tenant vacates, itll transition to another three bedroom unit with 110 ami cap. Both of these units will be subject to all the monitoring and enforcement requirements of the Mayors Office of housing and community development. It is important we keep the existing units and designating the third bedroom unit, how much as mr. Sucre has just mentioned in our discussions with the planning department, there is no way to approve the other apartment given the citys density program. We found that projects like these are too small for the current programs, thus we had to find an alternative means to create desire out come and to protect the Economic Diversity of the mission. However this has less desirable implications by remaining in private hands and that the tax burdens of the insurance costs remain extremely high. In closing, this project team has carefully balanced the needs of the city and the neighborhood, while protecting the existing tenants, ensuring permanent and affordable workforce housing, and improving the pedestrian experience by activating 25th street. I encourage you to applaud the project sponsor por futing forth a project that improves the environment, and im available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Vice president richards thank you. Open it up for public comment, i have several speaker cards. Maria garcia, alicia sandoval, victoria moran, shelley dicalla, edward shall. If your name has been called, feel free to speak. It doesnt matter what order. Thank you. Hi. My name is maria garcia. [ speaking spanish ] [ through the interpreter ] my biggest concern is that theyre either going to evict me or theyre going to raise the rent, and i dont have that much money to pay. [ speaking spanish ] [ through the interpreter ] ive been living there for over 30 years. [ speaking spanish ] [ through the interpreter ] its been over a year that my husband passed away. He had a stroke because all the stress that he went through. Im only i live by myself. Im the only person that lives there. [ speaking spanish ] [ through the interpreter ] thats my biggest concern, not being able to afford the rent, that theyll do a rent increase or that i will be displaced. [ speaking spanish ] [ through the interpreter ] thats all i wanted to say. [ speaking spanish ] [ through the interpreter ] i dont know how you will respond, but just put it in gods hands to make sure you do the right thing. Thank you. Vice president richards thank you. Next speaker, please. As i introduced myself earlier, my name is alisa sandoval, and ive been working with Community Since april. Recently, i found out theres three rent control units there, when i found out that the rent control are going to be turned into bmrs, theres folks that have been living there, longterm tentan longterm tenants that are going to be living there for 30 year years. How do you expect them to all of a sudden abide by the bmi conditions and according to the ami levels. Theyre talking about 90 , theyre talking about 110 , thats unheard of. Especially an elderly senior who lives by themselves, a number of tenants are disabled. They only have a certain amount of income. Theyre elderly, they cant pay rent. They come out here to say it comes to bmr, its an increase. I am more familiar with the small size program, were familiar with the bmr, how is how it is, and its unfair for people whove been there for over 30 years. Its its very unheard of. We dont want folks like, we dont want elderly folks like similar to what happened with carl jensen, who were forced, they were evicted to their homes, and something happened to them. Something similar happened to to mrs. Marias husband because of the stress. We do not want those things to happen to the elderly. Please do not take the rent control. When were living in San Francisco, rent control units is all we have in order to sustain ourselves, maybe sure we hasure make sure we have a place to live and stay in San Francisco. Thank you. Vice president richards thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is raul, and i live in apartment 3 for 27 years, and also im here on behalf of my wife. She could not be here. We have six windows. And all the rooming for that apartment, its by the garages. How does that work . And also, ive been told theyre going to add apartment two to three. Why need two kitchens, why need two bathrooms . Im happy the way they live. They can keep it the way they were. And also, the garages, were using them. He said the garages are empty. Im using the garage with another three people, so the garage has been used. Theyre not empty. Thank you. Vice president richards thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is victoria moran, and ive been living at the house adjacent to the proposed project since i was born. Let me give you reason why my neighbors and iopose the demolition of the proposed garages when i expressed these concerns to the architect, he says we dont need a car and a garage because we live in a place that has accessible transp