Do you know if i can turn on oh, perfect. Thank you. First off, i want to thank all of you for your time this afternoon. And thank the supervisor and his staff along with the Planning Department. This is certainly a long and arduous process to get here. But one that weve been very excited about. I wanted to start off by giving you a little bit of context about the site itself. It is the site formerly of the lucky penny founded by geary and masonic. Immediately adjacent to trader joes. Its heavily serviced site of Public Transit and the future site of the geary Rapid Transit line as well, which is currently under construction there. Will actually be a stop for that right at masonic, immediately adjacent to the proposed development. I wanted to spend a few minutes, although the supervisor did do a great job of outlining the evolution of this project. Just outlining the various iterations that have come forth and that planning have considered and preface all of this by saying that, as with all of our projects, weve been extremely committed to working with the neighborhood. Both individuals and the formal associations if respondinging to their various concerns, their feedback and so on. And that is really whats helped shape the project itself. As was mentioned earlier by planning staff, weve received unanimous from all the organizations in the neighborhood, along with labor as well as the supervisor touched on. So the initial project itself was working within the limits of the existing zoning, which restricted us to 21 units. Given the location of the site, office use would not make sense, would not be financially feasible and so medical office was explored. That was initially proposed, but with the existing geological conditions at the site, which is bedrock with a tremendous amount of serpentine, any excavation that would have been required to satisfy the parking requirements and to make an m. O. B. Feasible were unfortunately financially infeasible so despite us initially submiting the proposed project that consisted truly of retail, medical office and 21 units, we had to evolve that project and that is where the conversations with the Supervisors Office began as it related to taking advantage of the opportunity that was presented to us by this transitrich site to work within the existing height and volt precision but to address the fact that due to this one in 600 density limit, we could only have 21 units and to see if we can actually introduce with significant increase here in dwelling units to help with various housing well, the housing crisis and affordability issues that the city is currently plagued by. So, the original s. U. D. Itself, which was introduced in october of 2016, was a work in progress. Concurrent to that, the home s. F. Discussion was ongoing and a few weeks prior to us actually coming to present to the commission, home s. F. Was formally approved and the Planning Department directed us to revise the project once again. Ill fast forward as the implication of home s. F. Because i believe the supervisor addressed those pointedly. But we were ready to come to commission with the revised project and, unfortunately, the conditions and the feedback from the neighborhood was extremely consistent and loud and which was at the height limit, was really not . Ing that fit the neighborhood character or one that they would support and, quite frankly, would have resulted in us being tied up in litigation and having zero units built with a lucky penny shuttered on the site. We subsequently were able to work with the Supervisors Office and planning staff to revise the project once again back to the s. U. D. , which is a project being prejudiced here to you. We have no change in the height limit. We managed to secure 95 unit tons site along with retail and 16parking space allocation which were able to accomplish due to the great change without having to do any sort of expensive excavation, which was the initial problem we had with the m. O. B. Design. Unanimous support, as was already indicated for this project, i just want to make one comment that ties in with our responsiveness to the neighborhood. There was a minor, lastminute change that was made to the design and i believe the package was just handed out to you, which pertains just to to the [inaudible] treatment. But in essence, we removed the cranialations and that was completed last night. In response again to neighborhood requests. Ill skip over this. I wanted to pass this on to our architect who can walk you through the floor plans and elevations and the renderings as well. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about this project on geary. As cyrus mentioned, ill walk you through the details of the design. We had initial goals and some constraints and some challenges. The goals that we wanted to adhere to were to provide as many highquality dwelling Units Available to the residents, of variant incomes and living needs, provide the residents with abundant open space and amenity, mitigate the bulk of the building by creating two towers, respond to the natural grade of the site by stepping each building block,anchor the corner of what we think is somewhat chaotic intersection architecture. Liven the street scape with active uses and interspace open greenery in a variety of locations throughout building in. This view, which is looking at the view at the corner of masonic and geary, you can see the elements that i just described. The vertical can orientation of the skin of the building, that is part of the ordered and more rigorous design approach that we took for this corner. The verdictcality paid some homage to our neighboring building to the west. And the building basically is clearly segmented such that there is a base of a commercial level and then the residential levels are a consistent pattern and then see the opening up of the courtyard. This view looking from masonic shows a different side of the building, literally and figuratively,. Another design approach was that in responding to the site, we have one of the challenges is that this was a curved street and that always presents certain design challenges and we wanted to enliven that a libby creating using our vertical patterning on the facade and angling it with the curvature on the street and it creates a thin system that allows us to use one face of it, of a northerly face with the different material, different color and the building has almost a different appearance from this side, being that it changes color as you walk around it. This view lookinging from geary boulevard shows you that they maintained this pattern of the vertical vieations on the building. However, where the facade is flat, the elements are pronounced but not angled as they are on the curved side. Coming in closer looking at the intersection, also if youve ever been to the street corners it is a tight corner and we wanted to open up the corner and donate a certain amount of space at the center to the commercial space. That gives you a little more breathing room and comfortable navigation around that busy intersection. Here you can also see theres an approach to doesnt tiez the columns at the base of the building with the vertical columns up at the residential floors and i might also point out that there are small balconies. Theyre really decorative elements. It was part of a design evolution that we worked on with planning staff and with the urban design team. To also create a little more visual interest of the facade. We put the lobby in the center of the courtyard. As you come into the lobby, you can see through to one of the open spaces that ill show in a moment. And the two towers basically focus can around this organization. Behind the lobby and within the main court, we have this open space and this provides lighten and views to the fitness area. And similarly, we have another open space that is in modified rear yard with a flowthrough planter thats at the rear of the building. As im running short on time, ill point out quickly on the elevations you can, again, see the interdigitation of the facade and pronounced entriway and court yard and ill skip quickly to the roof where we also have our open space. Thank you. Im available for questions, of course. Ok. Thank you. President , my apologies. Theres one important condition that was in response to the neighborhood feedback that id like your permission to introduce. If thats ok. Ok. Can you give us a can you do it in a minute . Sure. Absolutely. The condition of approval has to do with the parapin traoe. Itself and we agreed with the Neighborhood Groups to utilize transparent glazing or translucent glazing for anything that would be installed above the 42inch parapin itself. I think we have it. Thank you so much. Thank you. So, well open this item up for Public Comment. I have a number of speaker cards. If i call your name, line up on the screen side of the room and approach in any order. Barbara, tim, scott, and ryan. Good afternoon. Todd david on behalf of the San Francisco housing coalition. I just want to say that this is not a project that weve reviewed so we dont opinions on the project per se. I just want to comment on the number of units. Certainly obviously we would love to have the most units possible. But as supervisor farrell said, we certainly dont want the perfect to be the enemy of the good and i think that the number of units a really nice number. Obviously it would be better if it were more. But it is much better than 19. The one thing they do kind of want to bring attention to, this is something that im starting to hear a lot from people who build housing. Is projects are not penciling out with home s. F. And with the inclusionary numbers. And im talking to a lot of people who are building housing right now or trying to build housing, that theyre passing on projects. The fact that we heard that the home s. F. Did not pencil for this particular project is very consistent with the p esingaging that im hearing from a lot of people. So just something to keep in mind as we move forward to the new year. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im richard frisbee. I live near the project. First of all, theres been a very active neighborhood effort on this and weve had a good dialogue with the developer and supervisor, which is not always the case, which has led to the changes that i think supervisor farrell and the developer pointed out. I think the place that we still have a concern is the parking. 16 for 95 is 1 to 6. And i would argue that that probably comes near the lower end of what else has been approved in the city today. We really believe that a one to three would be more appropriate which would be about 30, 31 units. And there is nowhere that those cars, which people are going to park, except on the street. And that is an a incredibly come plex intersection so the neighbors that live on emmerson woods will be burdened significantly by these cars and equally importantly as muni comes through there, the Fire Department comes through there and there are going to be cars where there arent cars today and it is already a difficult place. So, i would ask that it be looked and i think kathy will point out that we believe there is some opportunity and that is one area that we still feel could use some looking at. But we have been pleased by the response weve got both from the supervisor and from the developer on this. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Hello, commissioners. Im a longterm resident and Property Owner just a block or two away from the project. And im here in to speak in support of it. I really appreciate the developer and their transparency. We had a couple hour meeting just down the hall several weeks ago. They have been very forthcoming in trying to meet our needs and where the project now stands as an eightstory building matching the Storage Building and other speakers have said and the supervisor. Its wonderful that there is a collaboration where i think with your approval we can get a building built there. And add not only the 95units but the 17 the 17 units of affordable housing. As the prior speaker, rich frisbee, did mention there is a concern about parking. You may be aware that there is a very Large Development going in to the neighborhood as well at 3333 california street. Some 555 odd units which, you know, we want to support the housing in the neighborhood. We understand that. But there is going to be a whole lot more traffic. So, we ask you to consider that. I also wanted to finally just speak to the planning staff, specifically christopher may, who i think has been really responsive to the neighborhood. And to our concerns and helping these neighborhoods get better housing. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Jim ryan. I live right around the corner from the project. Im here in support of the project. I think 95 units is going to be a lot. It is going to be it is goinging to take a lot of deep thought to make the logistics of the whole situation work. Where you have that many people coming and going from the project. In not only this, but i think the commission could look at not only uber and lyft, but the logistics of Package Delivery happening on a very congested corner that is on the b. R. T. And we twanlt b. R. T. To work because geary street is a valuable resource. If the b. R. T. Doesnt work because uber and lyft block it at the intersection or u. P. S. Or whatever is there, then it is going to hold everybody up all down the line. We think it deserves some deep thought on the matter. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im scott fong. Im a resident just one block behind on emmerson street. And i support the project. One thing i would like the request is for more Parking Spaces in the project. As we mentioned, theres 95 residents and only 16 spaces. Our street on emmerson is directly impacked during the work hours with overflow already from the trader joes [coughing] and very little park on the street already so if we can have more spaces, i think the one to three ratio or even somewhere in between there, one to four ratio of Parking Spaces to actual residences would be great. This s a it. Thank you. [coughing] thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is calla winkler. Im a resident about a block away from the project. I also wanted to express my thanks to the supervisor and to the planners and developers of the project. We do very much support more housing. We know that the city is in a housing crisis. We do were very happy that they are going to have the just the eightstory limit which we had wanted in the first place. Were glad that they have agreed to that and we we do again, i want to express also the parking space is extremely bad already with ucsf 3333 california. Theyre going in right now as theyre there, even though it is only being used probably 50 of the capacity of the building is being used currently with the muni bus barn rides across the street. Also theres already a lack of parking and there are drivers circling constantly from 5 00 in the morning until 8 00 for work and then it is so hard to find parking everywhere. A few spaces if there is any what thayaruban any way that they could accommodate more on the site, it would be appreciated by neighbors. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im barbara ray and i lived on emmerson street since 1949. And im not opposed to the housing. Im opposed to the parking. Maam, im sorry. Could you put the microphone so you can speak into the microphone. There you go. Perfect. Sorry. Where was i . Im not opposed to anything except for the parking. Our street is a mess. And parking is just really, i think you can sell it. Its so valuable. But anyway. Good luck. [laughter] thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [whispering] my name is colleen. I live on emmerson street around the corner from the project. And we wanted to thank the developers. They did spend time listening to us and addressed our concerns, keeping this at an 80foot height limit, which is big for us. Also theyre agreing to keep the roof screen and wind control components, transparents or translucent and will allow light over the neighborhood and the framing support for screening would be dont a minimum. That is a big impact on us because currently there is only a onestorey building there. And that is really small. Its actually, according to your city assessors, its not 12730 but 12634 and we feel you have made it 95 units. That is a big change from 21. So, were supporting that. We understand theres a housing crunch. I grew up in this city. Ive lived on emmerson street for 24 years and we congratulate you and the developers for crafting this project. The big concern is the park. 16 spots for 95 units . I mean, commissioner richards was just talking about the lawn laundromats disappeared. And anyone can acknowledge that the traffic is unbelievable. That is our big concern. We appreciate everybody trying to create more housing. I have three kids. They need housing. But we also appreciate our neighborhood being considered, too, with the parking issue because 16 spots is just not enough. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker and ill call additional names. Catherine mcgee, zarine, teresa cole, kathy, laura clark and jane natalie. Welcome. Thank you. Good afternoon. Short of sounding like a broken record, i live at 43 emmerson street. We have lived there, the house has been in our family for 65 years. And our biggest concern, my biggest concern, of course, is parking. The congestion at that corner, i think it is one of the most treacherous in the city. And besides the city center, and the muni bus barn, a dialysis on one side of the corner of emmerson street and a wine bar across the street, you can see that parking is at a minimum. That is my greatest concern. I do appreciate the commission here and also the developer for working with us. I appreciate that. Very much. Because at least i feel my voice has been heard and i do hope that something can be done about the parking situation. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, commissioners. My name is bob and im a member of the Neighborhood Group called grow the richmond. My friends and i in grow the richmond all live in the richmond and support more housing and, in particular, we support this project. I guess i didnt really come with any really prepared remarks, but the one thing i wanted to highlight is that i understand the parking concerns of a lot of the neighbors both in and around the project. I really do. But we know that we have macrochallenges in the city and frankly in the country and globe around Climate Change and Global Warming