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 and all of the things that will happen if we do not change the way weve been livinging in our society for the last 50 to 100 years and one of the things that has to change is our overreliance on automobile usage. I do get that there is enough parking. I live on the westernmost point of the richmond district. I understand it is as bad there as it is where this project site is. But it is not going to get any better if we create more spaces for cars to exist. We have to work to get more of our residents to take muni. We have to work to not only get the b. R. T. To be in a place where its a treasured element of the city and the geary core doe corridor, but we have to get light rail and maybe bart. I know that is a thing supervisor fewer has talked about a lot. I just wanted to come up here and just say that i like this project. I hope that you will approve it and i understand the concerns that have been raised about parking. But i think we need to look a little further down field and worry about what the city will be like, not just fiveyears from now, but 20, 30, 50 years from now and then ideally a universe where we dont have nearly as much car usage as we do now. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Good afternoon, commissioners. And thank you for the chance to speak today. My name jay. Im also here with grow the richmond and i wanted to implore you to support this project as it is. Its a great opportunity. It is 95 units in a location that we could really use it and obviously has echoed this. We need more housing and Everybody Knows that. I hear the concerns on parking and definitely wanted to echo what bob said. I think its something that is a great opportunity to start doing that. This is a project in a location that is walkable. Its transit accessible. And it can help shift that. We need to move away from automobiles and this prioritizes people over housing cars, which is something that i would love to see us move towards. I know this has been through a lot of process. This is agreeable. I think a lot of people have had their say. I do think that this is somethinging that we can move forward with and be happy. It will continue to serve the neighborhood and this is 95 new homes for people in a location that we dont see on the west side frequently. This is a rare opportunity. Maximizing housing for people is a great thing and that is all i wanted to share. Great. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [please stand by] we are urban dwellers and we need to run into people and theres something fun in our community and lives inherent to Public Transit and walking and biking and making biking less dangerous on the west side and making the cars not go so fast. In fact we need it make our streets safer. This is a great project but i also think we should to take a minute to reflect on what we lost in the project. This could have been taller and could have had more People Living in. The fact it was scaled down to accommodate concerns is not great we in fact need to go the other direction. I appreciate it will be a density bonus and thats something but we should think bigger. I want everybody in the room to be less intimidated of humans joining the west side. We can have more people walking, biking, taking the bus. We can beef up the transit infrastructure but we cant have so many Parking Spaces anymore. Thats a dead end for our society. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I live on pine of over 30 years there. We definitely as neighbors of this project we definitely support the team who worked so diligently with this with supervisor farrell and i worked at sf general and half my medical patients drive cars. They drive cars still. Theyre not electric theyre maybe 10, 15yearold cars and show the pictures in the clinic and they drive throughout the city. I think its a lofty goal to get rid of cars in the city but everybody has a reason to use them. The disabled. You wont see a family of five going to the Doctors Office on a muni bus that takes five hours to crosstown. Keep that in the back of your mind when you are planning on the projects i implore you that cars are necessity in our Society Still leaving out those with seizures i agree, you cant drive a car. Going back to the project, we support the eight story. The tenstory unit we had a study and it conducts shadows over where residents get the only sunshine in the courtyard so we appreciate the eight stories the project has come down to. We have traffic concerns especially by the trader joes area. So many accidents and people get hit jay walking too. To implore for safety zones around the area especially for lyft and uber drivers. Youd see more neighbors out today but theyre workingclass neighbors and theyre at their stores and shops and business and working at hospitals across town too. We have a lot of health care providers. Thank you for your time. Thank you, ms. Mcgee. Next speaker, please. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you. First i want to thank the developer for working with our Neighborhood Organization and echoing the same as the height of the public Storage Building next to the project. I want to ask the competitioners as well as the room who commissioners who here drove today. Just a show of hands. So maybe 50 , maybe a little less. Just to point out i know we want to ride bikes, take busses, walk car share, uber, lyft, the modes of transportation but the reality is were not there yet. So our little neighborhood and that tight area that one little road that takes you from geary and masonic and loop pine is tight. We have busses there and bike traffic and pedestrian traffic. I would like you to look in the plans to see if theres some way you can maybe give a few more parking spots, im echoing everything the neighborhood said but please give it some consideration. Have you very much. Next speaker, please. President hills and commissioners, im a longterm resident of the neighborhood and happy to support the project before you today and i appreciate the professionalism of the developers and their willingness to work with us as you know is not always the case, unfortunately. So i think density increase is good and serve the citys goal for Housing Units. And this accommodation is reasonable because the building would conform with the height limit and match the adjacent public Storage Building height and this would strike a reasonable balance and having 95 Housing Units woul be better than commercial use in the majority of the building. A taller building would have shaded the windows and gardens of the homes behind emmerson and hurt the longterm residents on emerson who have commissioned a shadow study we held in advance and havent finished because, as you fknow, theres been a revision and appreciate they worked with the neighbors on the height and roof screening. They agreed to our request for a condition of approval that everything above the solid parapet would be transparent to the extent allowed by law and i have that language for you also along with ten letters of support from neighbors. I want to make sure you have all the language of that condition. And the developers here responded to our request for information. As a result where we could find common ground, we have only forked an alliance with them. Of course, we wo